jeremy's blog

"Household greywater should be directed to and utilized within mulched basins planted with trees and shrubs, do not store greywater in tanks."

Instructions:

• Grab the book closest to you. Now.
• Go to page 56.
• Find the 5th sentence.
• Write that sentence as your status.
• Copy these instructions as a comment to your status.
• Don't go looking for your favourite book, or the coolest one you have -- just grab the closest one.

The plan for the day was to go on a hike with a friend, that plan ended when her car started smoking outside Sandy, OR.  Several gallons of water and radiator fluid later and after driving 30 MPH with stopping every eight miles for a refill later we managed to get back to my place. We eventually decided that I would follow her half way home and if things went well on the way there then I'd just hang out at a coffee shop until she got home.    I figured I'd take the dogs with me just to give them a treat (Sammie can't really walk very well any more, right legs problems).  

After several fits and starts, Portland's group has been re-enabled at www.relocalize.net and I am greatly looking forward to the new version of the site that will be in beta in December. In addition to the drupal 6 upgrade, we will be able to create multiple projects with their own forum integrated mailing list. Because of the group + project arrangement we can fairly easily create a workflow were people can be members of more then one project, which is usually the case.

If anyone doubted the resilience of your average earthworm, doubt no more.

The story starts a few days ago when the dogs were a bit muddy one day from a walk so I used the 'dog' towels on them. After forgetting about the towels for a while I noticing the towels today then forgot about them and they sat out on the cement of the back patio. I gathered up the towels and with a few other old towels and threw them in the wash.

Imagine my surprise when I emptied out the washing machine and found a live earthworm moving around fairly well, which is fairly remarkable as I have a particularly efficient washing machine that spins at 10K revolutions per minute. As I also have a new worm bin it seemed to make sense to add my very, very clean earthworm to my worm bin.

Well at least one non-insane thing came as a result of that bailout bill.

http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/story?id=53755 

"The tax credit package, which is the same that passed the Senate on September 24, will extend the PTC for one year and the ITC for eight years. The extensions would be at least partially paid for by a change in the tax code for the oil and gas industry.    The bill also contains removal of the US $2,000 cap for residential solar installations."