'Sustainability' Thoughts

[greenstorm]

http://www.wiesel.ca/main.html

Regardless of the source you get your energy from, the problem is still wasting less of it. I mean, using lots of fieldspace to grow oil instead of pulling it out of the ground presents its own problems. Wasting biomass, old and fossilised or new, is kinda sucky. But hey.

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[cz_unit]

*nod* The best way to go is always to use less. That's why I recommend to all my friends to spend $100 replacing all of their light bulbs with CFs. It will make a big dent and should be done before you go getting solar.

Oddly enough there is a shortage of wood heating pellets around here. Home Despot is out of them and in talking with the purchace manager he said they were looking as far as NY for supply.

Interesting.
CZ

[greenstorm.livejournal.com]

Juggler recently redid his air ducts. It was interesting to be in his house while he was doing it-- there was one really warm room, where the furnace was, and every other room was pretty cold. It felt warmer to live in, though, because one developed the pattern of going down, getting warm, circulating for a couple of hours, mgetting warm again-- and a smaller space in the house was being heated. Now every room is warmer, but there's not that same sense of being luxuriously warm, and it's silly to heat the whole house that hot.

[hundun.livejournal.com]

It says it's "carbon neutral," does that have any bearing on the biomass issue?

[greenstorm.livejournal.com]

The biomass is going into making the oil at some point.

Course, it IS a re-use.

[wik.livejournal.com]

Speaking of plants, what were your favorite heirlooms of last season, and why? I'm starting my plant search for my garden, and I'm having difficulty finding your entries on the subject.

[greenstorm.livejournal.com]

Black Plum and Flamme tomatoes, by far. Productive and tasty. Your climate is very different through.

[wik.livejournal.com]

Flamme as in the stripy 1 pound West Virginia ones, or as in the orange 2-3 oz French ones?

[greenstorm.livejournal.com]

The latter, but it's hard to ripen the big ones up here.

Try Black Krim for me.

[wik.livejournal.com]

I just got to the entries in regards to Black Krim. I'm thinking of one to two plants of that, a handful of medium red utility ones, and one or two plants of a cherry/plum. I'm finding more and more Flammes. Is it the one that's orange through, or the one that's light orange with regular red flesh (Jaune Flamme)? Have any extra seeds hanging around that'd survive the mail?

[greenstorm.livejournal.com]

I've heard that they irradiate. I got mine from west coast seeds, though-- google it, they may mail?

It's orange through.