Global warming what can you do? - see my letter to Penny Wong

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Introduction to wicking beds   www.youtube.com/watch?v=35TU5aWRNjY

wicking beds and global warming  www.youtube.com/watch?v=80-dkv1Au-8.

 

Links to global warming and water

Global warming - are we missing the big one?

The unacceptable realities of global warming

Global warming and water

 

Two new article on global warming 

Global warming - are we missing the big one?

Now here is fact which may make you think.  Man-made emissions are only 3% of the total emissions.  We, quite rightly, are trying to minimize our 3% but what about the other 97%.

 

The unacceptable realities of global warming

Paper given at  IAA conference 2008

 

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Books and DVD's

Water,wit and wisdom (book)

Solving the Water Crisis (DVD)

Water and the Whistle blower (DVD)

Links to Wicking beds

trailer_katie keeps her cool.wmv

wicking bed history.html

wicking worm beds.pdf

wicking worm bed.pdf

shade house.pdf

 

The wicking bed technology

The wicking bed  enables us to grow food with a lot less water, it can be used to harvest water otherwise lost and particularly it can actually capture carbon from the atmosphere. 

The wicking worm bed is a highly productive growing system which not only produces more food from limited water, but also recycles waste organic material to provide plant nutrient and capture carbon.

The essence is to form an underground reservoir of water or pond contained by a waterproof container or liner below the surface.   Water wicks by surface tension to feed the plants.

New wicking bed site www.easygrowvegetables.com

 

Katie keeps her cool -
wicking worm beds and global warming
(DVD)

Links to water management

alternative water.pdf

harvesting smaller rains.html

water and the whistle blower.wmv

community action on water.pdf

eco-education.html

Water at the eco village.wmv

solving the water crisis vol 1, Vol 2vol 3vol 4, vol 5




water management

alternative water.pdf

Looks at alternative ways of managing our water making better use of rainfall

 

Anticipatory irrigation by adaptive scheduling

Anticipatory irrigation it the technology of integrating irrigation with the natural rainfall cycle to help make better use of natural rainfall.  The first part of the process is to find out the water consumption of the plants eg the effective crop factor.  This is achieved by an adaptive or self learning process. 

 Future evaporation is then estimated from weather forecasts so with an accurate figure for the crop factor the future needs can be predicted and the correct water applied.

This technique also simplifies deficit and partial root zone irrigation systems.

trailer adaptive scheduling.wmv


adaptive scheduling.wmv

anticipatory irrigation.html

schedule talk.doc
anticipatory irrigation.mp4

Adaptive scheduling.pdf
anticipatory irrigation by adaptive scheduling
(DVD)
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