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Summer 2009, an abundance of rainfall to report. All catchment systems full. This is the true and real analogy for my work with local green business development. In this report I’m going to cover the cornucopia of new action: Transition Hohenwald, New Green Staff and Interns, Permaculture Certification Series, Green Evening Cafe, New Local Green [...]
The Sonnenschein Green Initiative’s Transition Committee held a meeting Wednesday, February 4. There were 22 people in attendance.
Highlights:
DOWNTOWN PERMACUTLURE DEMONSTRATION AREA
SUMMER PERMACULTURE CERTIFICATION PROGRAM
GREEN PLANS FOR NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT FACILITY
GREEN PROCLAMATION
UPCOMING GREEN EVENTS
NEW GREEN WORKING GROUPS
Read about some of the details on these projects here!
The Financial Permaculture ethanol design team, lead by Pat Therrien, Greg Landua and Albert Bates has been working towards creating a business plan for an ethanol plant that meets the combined criteria of integrative ecosocial regeneration and positive total economic return. This design shows how a model farm can meet the triple bottom line by [...]
(by guest blogger Jason Eaton)
So, this morning we’ve been checking out the economic impact of the Financial Permaculture Course on the economy of Hohenwald and Lewis County, TN.
The combined ~100 course participants have collectively spent $28,866 over the 5 days of the event. This breaks down into:
$3,366 for transport
$14,762 for accommodation
$10,574 for food
$3,982 for other [...]
Greetings! The Ethanol team is working hard to develop a solid plan for Ethanol production in the local area of Hohenwald. There is lots of energy and knowledge in the group, and we are working right now in small groups to dissect many different options for Hohenwald. There are 3 groups:
Individual Scale production
Farm Scale Production
Community [...]
We are actively exploring a range of ethanol production that ranges from bootstrapped home size stills of hundred gallon batch size (or even smaller) to community size facilities of up to 5 million gallons.
links for bootstrap design can be found at: www.journeytoforever.org
resources for off the shelf home scale stills can be found at: www.revenoor.com
and resources [...]
Here at the Financial Permaculture course, the local biofuels expert is discussing with a packed sunday school room of local residents the possibilities for farm based or small scale cooperative ethanol production. He is highlighting the re-use of the by products. For instance feeding livestock the distillers grains, using their manure in a [...]
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