http://permakent.com Building relationships between people and with nature. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:03:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Geoff Lawton describes centuries of gardening experimentation in a tropical food forest in this video from Vietnam. This family owned garden casually yields productivity without loss of the topsoil, killing the life in it with tilling, spraying pesticides and herbicides, and without the use of petrochemical based fertilizers. Glad we're not ... http://permakent.com/2012/02/10/28-generations-of-a-vietnam-food-forest/ KARL HESS CLUB MONDAY January 16, 2012 ennouncement Happy New Year! Bob Weber "Three Conspiracies: Two I Don't Believe in and One I Do" Dinah's Family Restaurant 6521 S. Sepulveda Blvd. (at Centinela Avenue) in West Los ... http://permakent.com/2012/01/08/bob-weber-3-conspiracies-khc-jan-16/ "JeffTheAlmighty," a YouTuber who appreciates the "J. Neil Schulman and His Trolls" show on IMDB, has gone mad and invested work into the creation of a video titled "The Twelve Days of Schulman." Among other things, Neil does political writing (the video's "conspiracy theories" line?). Schulman just published an attack on ... http://permakent.com/2011/12/22/twelve-trolls-a-trolling/ It's been over a month since I wrote a blog post, but that does not mean I have not been busy. Or not. Wtf? I worked on two movie projects, a magazine, an audio dramatization series and got a new ham radio. First, there was the FT817ND transceiver I bought from Ham ... http://permakent.com/2011/10/17/months-in-the-media-maze/ Karl Hess Community Technology Forum On a Fifth Monday in a Month August 29, 2011 Schedule: Pre-meeting: 6:00 p.m. Dinner 7:00 p.m. Announcements: 7:45 p.m. Howard Hinman, Master of Ceremonies Presentation: 8:00 p.m. J. Kent Hastings: "Surviving the Phone and Internet Kill Switch" Questions: 8:45 p.m. Q&A via written cards for at least the first round of ... http://permakent.com/2011/08/25/mon-aug-29-kill-switch-oc-khctf/ Let's stop pussyfooting in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and even the Iran invasion to come. These "nations" are quickly smashed and their occupation is hardly worth the trouble. Egypt might take a month or so to crack if we decided to take them on for the militant Islamic extremism that hasn't quite ... http://permakent.com/2011/08/20/its-time-for-war-with-china/ (From  Mike Everling)   KARL HESS CLUB MONDAY  AUGUST 15, 2011     ennouncement     Howard Hinman "The Secrets of MERS and the Massive Mortgage Meltdown." Dinah's ... http://permakent.com/2011/08/02/howard-hinman-on-mortgage-meltdown-khc-aug-15/ Wikipedia Roofs In a new Slashdot politics post, "Bill Clinton Says "Paint Your Roofs White"," the former U.S. President describes the benefits to job seekers, paid for by energy savings, of painting every rooftop white. Slashdot links to a Newsweek article, "It's Still The Economy, Stupid," with the white roof idea as ... http://permakent.com/2011/07/18/increase-your-homes-albedo/ I received the following in email, and now it's a guest editorial blog post, somewhat in response to my write-up of Chuck's talk at the Karl Hess Club which you can hear here, but will you listen? "You Knew That” By Chuck McGlawn Left means more government. Right means less government I will ... http://permakent.com/2011/06/19/chuck-mcglawns-you-knew-that/ Karl Hess Community Technology Forum A Very Rare Sixth Monday in a Month (So rare in fact, that it's actually the First Monday of the next month) June 6, 2011 Schedule: Pre-meeting: 6:00 p.m. Dinner 7:00 p.m. Announcements: 7:45 p.m. Howard Hinman, Master of Ceremonies Presentation: 8:00 p.m. Jenny Cohen: "Gardening and Entrepreneurship" Questions: 8:45 p.m. Q&A via ... http://permakent.com/2011/06/06/monday-june-6-khctf-meeting/ Sungevity.com I finally caught up with the May 2, 2011 episode of An Organic Conversation, "The Ecology of Energy," which featured Sungevity founder Danny Kennedy as a guest. Kennedy discussed Sungevity and solar lease economics and described a foreign solar panel installation in the Maldives, working next to President Nasheed on the ... http://permakent.com/2011/05/26/sungevity-solar-challenges-grid-necessity/ From KHC Culver City's Mike Everling: KARL HESS CLUB MONDAY  MAY 16, 2011     Ben Pleasants "Erotica vs Pornography"BOOK TOUR Dinah's Family ... http://permakent.com/2011/05/01/khc-5-16-ben-pleasants-erotica-v-porn/ Despite a warning from a skeptic of herbal medicine, "Plants are trying to kill us," the OC Weekly paper kind of touts "Really?!?!? The Miracle Berry: A Solution to World Hunger?." That's the name of the cranberry-ish fruit. Miracle Berry. But it has an amazing property that you'll have to ... http://permakent.com/2011/04/29/herbal-medicine-and-edible-plants/ Bicycle Tutor site featured in Boing Boing post, "Learn the basics of bike repair at home." Just in time for "Ciclodia" season. What Peruvians are calling their Ciclovia, according to SF Streets Blog, "Peru’s Traffic Menagerie." Los Angeles is having another CicLAvia April 10, according to the Huffington Post, "CicLAvia Returns." The most ... http://permakent.com/2011/03/30/boing-boing-on-bike-repair-videos/ (From Mike Everling)   KARL HESS CLUB MONDAY  MARCH 21, 2011     [Award: The SEK3 Memorial Chauntecleer] Gary Chartier   "The Conscience of an Anarchist"                BOOK TOUR ... http://permakent.com/2011/03/05/the-conscience-of-an-anarchist/ KARL HESS CLUB MONDAY  FEBRUARY 21, 2011                                       [200th meeting] Karl Hess IV "Whither Conservation in the 21st Century: More Government or More Liberty?" ... http://permakent.com/2011/02/21/karl-hess-jr-speaks-at-karl-hess-club/ Some hardcore wilderness experts and other traditionalists scoff at depending upon battery powered mobile devices in the bush ("Calling Technology's Bluff"), despite things like backpack solar cells for recharging them in the field. Others embrace the new capabilities, many of which will work just fine even without online access. For example, here ... http://permakent.com/2011/02/13/growbot-or-not/ Revealed by Brad Linaweaver: The scales have fallen from my eyes. It is now perfectly clear that anarchists, minarchists, Objectivists, constitutional conservatives, right wing radio and the Tea Party are all in on a secret Islamic conspiracy. Agorism is the worst of all. Of course, I have an unfair advantage. As one of ... http://permakent.com/2011/02/05/the-secret-true-truth/ Karl Hess Community Technology Forum A Rare Fifth Monday in a Month January 31, 2011 Location: Asian Buffet (Oriental buffet) 23552 El Toro Rd., Lake Forest, CA 92630 At Raymond, behind a bank, near the public (gov't) library branch. View Larger Map Tel: (949) 206-9988 - Fax: (949) 206-9098 Schedule: Pre-meeting: 6:00 p.m. Dinner 7:00 p.m. Announcements: ... http://permakent.com/2011/01/30/monday-jan-31-khctf-meeting/ KARL HESS CLUB MONDAY  JANUARY 17, 2011                                           Geo. McCalip Update on "Fomenting Revolution for Fun ... http://permakent.com/2011/01/14/january-meetings-in-so-calif/ Given the shootings in Arizona, it's timely to publish a link to the audio for Jay Stuart Snelson's talk at our Orange County, CA supper club. (The name of the club is the Karl Hess Community Technology Forum. Karl Hess was a political speechwriter for Barry Goldwater who became a ... http://permakent.com/2011/01/11/audio-taming-the-violence-of-faith/ This is remarkable. Today, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was arrested, on December 7th, a date that will. . .well, you know. Also today, the State Department announced that the U.S. will host a World Press Freedom event on May Day, 2011. Are you calling me a liar? I saw it on Facebook ... http://permakent.com/2010/12/07/state-dept-us-to-host-free-speech-event/ A NEW Orange County, CA Supperclub! THE Karl Hess Community Technology Forum A PROJECT OF THE RESILIENT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION The Resilient Community Foundation (“Rescomm.org”) is pleased to present Jay Stuart Snelson at the inaugural meeting of the Karl Hess Community Technology Forum. Mr. Snelson is a California native, UCLA graduate and nationally noted lecturer who ... http://permakent.com/2010/11/24/jay-snelson-at-khctf-in-oc/ At Boing Boing, Cory Doctorow posted "Indie Band Survival Guide: soup-to-nuts, no-BS manual for 21st century artistic life." The post clearly explains how the success of the authors with their band (named there) makes them "in the scene" and qualified to write on the topic. (Nobody can say I hijacked ... http://permakent.com/2010/11/17/survivalism-for-musicians/ KARL HESS CLUB MONDAY  OCTOBER 18, 2010                       BOOK TOUR Sharon Presley  "Standing Up to Experts and Authorities: How to Avoid Being ... http://permakent.com/2010/10/18/khc-oct-18-with-sharon-presley/ Penn State research During the recent heat wave in L.A., in which the local radio stations neglected to report 11,000 homes in various cities were without power for hours, I decided to look into alternative cooling technologies online. The goal was to find examples that use solar heat directly or consume much ... http://permakent.com/2010/09/30/ben-jerrys-sounds-cool-freezer/ From Mike Everling about the L.A. area "Libertarians of all factions" meeting: KARL HESS CLUB MONDAY  SEPTEMBER 20, 2010               Leon Weinstein  "Up from Socialism" ... http://permakent.com/2010/09/17/khc-meeting-monday-sep-20-2010/   NS-40 Board After being thrilled connecting up a Pixie 2 based QRP Miniwat ham radio transceiver circuit board purchased on eBay to random switches and plugs I had around my room (see the Resilient Freedom post about my "Bumble Bee transceiver"), I've been rereading some classic QRP books (low ... http://permakent.com/2010/09/17/none-simpler-etched-spirals-replace-coils/ Aviation Business reports "Cri-Cri: The All Electric Aircraft Gets Airborne." The news of the Paris flight was also published in the L.A. Times Environment "Greenspace" blog on Sep. 3, with the headline, "Up in the air...in an all-electric plane." The story says the plane was made by Airbus parent corporation EADS. ... http://permakent.com/2010/09/08/cri-cri-electric-plane-green-air-travel/ Here's a link to an article at the Marijuana Policy Project by way of a Facebook friend's link, "Netherlands to Close Prisons: Not Enough Criminals." MPP makes a logical argument against the bogus drug war claim that legalization increases drug related crime. Quite the contrary. During alcohol prohibition, the murder rate ... http://permakent.com/2010/08/31/not-enough-dutch-criminals-prisons-close/