November 2008 Blog Posts (4)

Water market and hydroponics

Hi water groupies,

Hope you found the new blog site and will take time to meander around The Green Line site.

SF city reservoirs are 75 percent full here before Thanksgiving, still a healthy amount. A storm is forecast for Thursday. Let's hope it brings lots of snow.

Mimbres farmers are scheduled to meet with the state engineer and a team of economists and a hydrologist Dec. 1 to look at a new "water market" model for the Mimbres basin.

And acequia… Continue

Added by Staci Matlock on November 26, 2008 at 10:29am — No Comments

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… Continue

Added by Graham Bowkett on November 24, 2008 at 7:25pm — 2 Comments

Water blog now here

Hi Green Liners and water geeks,

I'm moving Water B(logged) here now from Live Journal since I'll also be attempting to manage traffic and boost content on The Green Line.

This blog will cover all things water related and I'd love to have people add tips, articles, etc. This is not just a blog about SF water, but about water (and lack of it) around the world - how it gets delivered, used, treated, wasted and saved and how it is viewed in other cultures.

Look… Continue

Added by Staci Matlock on November 24, 2008 at 2:19pm — 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 complex, working away on ideas to kill people via fighter aircraft, drones and modern electronic devices. Why waste these brains? Let's re-employ them to design the… Continue

Added by Graham Bowkett on November 23, 2008 at 9:30pm — No Comments