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Graham Bowkett
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Deforestation: The hidden cause of global warming?
Started Apr. 29, 2008
Follow-up to Eideard's Have you driven a Fjord lately? comments.......
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Graham Bowkett Apr. 28, 2008.
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slow money at Santa Fe Railyard,
September 9, 2009 at 7:30am to September 12, 2009 at 12pm
SLOW MONEY
INAUGURAL NATIONAL GATHERING
FROM THE GROUND UP
September 9 -12, 2009
Santa Fe Railyard, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Sustainable Santa Fe at Santa Fe Community Convention Center
July 18, 2009 at 9am to July 19, 2009 at 7pm
Big Head Todd and the Monsters, architect Paolo Soleri, Rocky Mountain Institute genius Amory Lovins, author and rabble rouser Jim Hightower and food activist John Robbins will be at this two day event celebrating sustainability innovations.
Green Drinks Rides the Rails! at Santa Fe Southern Railway Depot
April 29, 2009 from 6pm to 8:30pm
All aboard the Santa Fe Southern Railway for the Green Drinks one-year anniversary party on the train, Wednesday, April 29, 2009. Network and socialize with other environmentally progressive people in your community and learn what sustainable practi…
Earth Hour at In your home or business
March 28, 2009 from 8:30pm to 9:30pm
Join millions of people in cities and nations around the world to make the Earth a little less glaring by turning off your lights for one hour, from 8:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. on March 28. Enjoy the dark by going to Hyde Memorial State Park for a star pa…
Green Drinks & Green Building at Backroad Pizza
March 25, 2009 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Wednesday, March 25, 6:30 pm at Backroad Pizza, join us for a Residential Green Building Code discussion and networking opportunity.
A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Posted March 17, 2009
If you think preventing climate change is politically difficult, look at the political problems of adapting to it.
By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian, 16th March 2009.
Quietly in public,…
Sustainable Santa Fe at Holiday Inn
February 10, 2009 from 4:30pm to 7:30pm
The public can weigh in on how to implement the sustainability plan the city council approved last fall. The plan is supposed to help the city reduce greenhouse gas emissions linked to climate change and to help the city build economic and environme…
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- What does 'sustainability' mean to you?
- Not using more than my share of the resources of the world. However, this is not realistic. So we are doing all that is practical.
http://picasaweb.google.com/graham.bowkett/Glenhaven
- What do you do to try and live green and what would you like to learn more about?
- As much as we have done with our house, just by driving we are taking far more than our share.
We try to only drive into town once a week, our car does 32 mpg as we have to have a 4WD vehicle.
(We have decided to drive below 65mph and found we are now getting 34mpg!).
We have changed to vegetarian meals at home as beef production uses so much corn and we have started to bake our own bread, make our own yogurt.
But my wife has to visit her Dad (nursing home) in the UK once in a while and the airline flight blows the whole deal!
- What concerns you most about the issues facing the environment, whether locally or globally?
- Will we make the changes soon enough?
The Germans are making huge strides with PV panels going up everywhere. They have a progressive government that has worked out a way to make it financially feasible. We need to teach why the "Commons" is important.
- Do you have a Web site?
- http://picasaweb.google.com/graham.bowkett/Glenhaven
GLENHAVEN - our Earthship in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
The building of our Earthship - Glenhaven - is on the website:
http://picasaweb.google.com/graham.bowkett/Glenhaven
Below is our living room & kitchen, you can also see the planter that runs along the south wall behind the south-facing glass.
Water all comes from our roof (we store about 6,000 gallons), electricity all comes from a 3 kilowatt PV system, our hot water comes from a roof mounted solar heater. But our cooking is by propane gas. We also have a back-up flash gas water heater.
Our kitchen has everything; 20 cu. ft. fridge/freezer, dishwasher, trash compactor & gas cook stove. All run off solar.
Our heat is solar/geo thermal with one small modern wood stove. Lighting is with compact fluorescents and LED lamps.
Waste; all our grey-water goes into the planter and our sewage is handled by a modern electric powered composting toilet.
All our entertainment is by computer via wireless broadband, no TV, no radio. The house has no physical mechanical connexions to the outside world.
And this house cost much less then the median priced stick-built house.
We are happy to answer questions. email: graham.bowkett AT gmail.com
http://picasaweb.google.com/graham.bowkett/Glenhaven
Below is our living room & kitchen, you can also see the planter that runs along the south wall behind the south-facing glass.
Water all comes from our roof (we store about 6,000 gallons), electricity all comes from a 3 kilowatt PV system, our hot water comes from a roof mounted solar heater. But our cooking is by propane gas. We also have a back-up flash gas water heater.
Our kitchen has everything; 20 cu. ft. fridge/freezer, dishwasher, trash compactor & gas cook stove. All run off solar.
Our heat is solar/geo thermal with one small modern wood stove. Lighting is with compact fluorescents and LED lamps.
Waste; all our grey-water goes into the planter and our sewage is handled by a modern electric powered composting toilet.
All our entertainment is by computer via wireless broadband, no TV, no radio. The house has no physical mechanical connexions to the outside world.
And this house cost much less then the median priced stick-built house.
We are happy to answer questions. email: graham.bowkett AT gmail.com
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Are we in the US taking this seriously ?
A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Posted March 17, 2009
If you think preventing climate change is politically difficult, look at the political problems of adapting to it.
By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian, 16th March 2009.
Quietly in public, loudly in private, climate scientists everywhere are saying the same thing: it’s over. The years in which more than two degrees of global warming could have been prevented have passed, the opportunities squandered by denial and delay. On current traje… Continue
Posted March 17, 2009
If you think preventing climate change is politically difficult, look at the political problems of adapting to it.
By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian, 16th March 2009.
Quietly in public, loudly in private, climate scientists everywhere are saying the same thing: it’s over. The years in which more than two degrees of global warming could have been prevented have passed, the opportunities squandered by denial and delay. On current traje… Continue
Posted on March 18, 2009 at 9:32am —
Water
I will explain my attitude to H2O.
The stupidest thing I can think of is using drinking water to flush human feces down a drain to be reprocessed. Into what? Being a student of permaculture, I believe there is no waste and no away; flushing "waste" "away" is impossible and thus wrong to begin with. Almost every house has grey-water, water that has been used for washing ourselves, our dishes or our clothes. With a bit of simple plumbing and natural filtering, that water can be used to flush the… Continue
The stupidest thing I can think of is using drinking water to flush human feces down a drain to be reprocessed. Into what? Being a student of permaculture, I believe there is no waste and no away; flushing "waste" "away" is impossible and thus wrong to begin with. Almost every house has grey-water, water that has been used for washing ourselves, our dishes or our clothes. With a bit of simple plumbing and natural filtering, that water can be used to flush the… Continue
Posted on November 24, 2008 at 7:25pm — 2 Comments
Imagine:- GM & MILITARY INDUSTRIAL GIANTS TO BUILD HIGH-SPEED RAIL SYSTEM.
GENERAL MOTORS are good at building large vehicles that are too large for a sensible fleet of road going people movers. They suck gas.
The brains of America (and many immigrants from foreign universities) are employed by the likes of GE-NBC & Bechtel in the military industrial comple… Continue
The brains of America (and many immigrants from foreign universities) are employed by the likes of GE-NBC & Bechtel in the military industrial comple… Continue
Posted on November 23, 2008 at 9:30pm — 1 Comment
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