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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 [...]
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 [...]
In the spirit of home grown solutions that Tennessee is famous for, citizens from the town of Hohenwald have invited a group innovative thinkers to co-create local sustainable businesses. The local community has identified four areas of interest, local ethanol, agriculture, business incubation, and green building. A team of students from Gaia University has [...]
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