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Solviva - Learning the Art of Living, with Solar-Dynamic Bio-Benign Design
SOLVIVA
http://www.solviva.com/
This is an EXCELELLENT BOOK - FULL OF HOPE AND PROVEN-SUSTAINABLE APPROACHES TO GROWING FOOD, GREEN HOUSE DESIGN AND HANDLING WASTE WATER.
I am 1/4 into this book and already a huge ah ha!
It makes sense to me now - I had always though the alge blooms in near dead swamps ponds and estuaries in many parts of our blessed country were do to agriculture run off. In fact, the author Anna Edey contends it is due to leaching of nitrogen into the soil and then into water systems from septic systems, public and private.
Anna writes: "Harm to the Environment - On-site septic systems built in accordance with government regulations are incapable of reducing nitrogen to any significant degree, and therefore release high levels of nitrogen into the groundwater. All this nitrogen ends up in our estuaries, ponds and harbors, whether they are 50 feet or 10 miles away from the septic systems. This nitrogen causes vast algae infestations that choke aquatic plants, fish and shellfish, and cause foul odors and slimy beaches."
She offers a provocative alternative system that she put in place on her land in Marthas Vinyard. She also has been seriously challenged and blocked by the regulations and codes that are in place.
Book Cover:
SOLVIVA
How to Grow $500,000 on One Acre, and Peace on Earth
Learning the Art of Living, with Solar-Dynamic Bio-Benign Design
Revealing the Truth about How We Can Provide Electricity, Heating, Cooling, ransportation, Food, Solid Waste and Wastewater Management in Ways that Reduce Pollution and epletion by 80% or more, and also Reduce Cost of Living and Improve Quality of Life.
by Anna Edey
Trailblazer Press 1998, ISBN 0-9662349-0-1. 224 pages, 155 color photographs + other illustrations. Price:$35. See web site for quantity discounts.
http://www.solviva.com/
This is an EXCELELLENT BOOK - FULL OF HOPE AND PROVEN-SUSTAINABLE APPROACHES TO GROWING FOOD, GREEN HOUSE DESIGN AND HANDLING WASTE WATER.
I am 1/4 into this book and already a huge ah ha!
It makes sense to me now - I had always though the alge blooms in near dead swamps ponds and estuaries in many parts of our blessed country were do to agriculture run off. In fact, the author Anna Edey contends it is due to leaching of nitrogen into the soil and then into water systems from septic systems, public and private.
Anna writes: "Harm to the Environment - On-site septic systems built in accordance with government regulations are incapable of reducing nitrogen to any significant degree, and therefore release high levels of nitrogen into the groundwater. All this nitrogen ends up in our estuaries, ponds and harbors, whether they are 50 feet or 10 miles away from the septic systems. This nitrogen causes vast algae infestations that choke aquatic plants, fish and shellfish, and cause foul odors and slimy beaches."
She offers a provocative alternative system that she put in place on her land in Marthas Vinyard. She also has been seriously challenged and blocked by the regulations and codes that are in place.
Book Cover:
SOLVIVA
How to Grow $500,000 on One Acre, and Peace on Earth
Learning the Art of Living, with Solar-Dynamic Bio-Benign Design
Revealing the Truth about How We Can Provide Electricity, Heating, Cooling, ransportation, Food, Solid Waste and Wastewater Management in Ways that Reduce Pollution and epletion by 80% or more, and also Reduce Cost of Living and Improve Quality of Life.
by Anna Edey
Trailblazer Press 1998, ISBN 0-9662349-0-1. 224 pages, 155 color photographs + other illustrations. Price:$35. See web site for quantity discounts.
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Permalink Reply by Coco Gordon on -
Wow!
Quite A discovery.
thanks for this- will need to get this book for our TTLyons.
Thanks David
I kind of laughed inside watching a report on CNN making much to do about plumbers being immune to losing their jobs with high pay, as they were saying in good times & bad plumbers are needed- of course was thinking when humans catch up to using dry treatment systems, (or forced to do so), someone else not called a plumber will have the good job. Or maybe the way a job is a job and the pay is an addiction may also change to just "do it". And the person who contributes the sawdust & the pail (no, those are not sustainable either) will be in demand. When will it be understood that water cannot be used forever for flushing toilets, washing sidewalks, and spraying up in the air for irrigation.
I love seeing the drawings in the Permaculture Activist for swaling water off the streets & back into the earth, on a town wide plan, deflecting wastewater into the gulp of gardens that clean it and feed on it.
Coco
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Permalink Reply by David Fritsch on -
I agree that this book is amazing. At one point, I had to stop and remind myself that this book is even real. If you want to get the creative wheels spinning on what we can do to live more sustainable without reverting to being primitive, this book will do that for you. The creative ideas keep coming, usually with how they've worked for her, page after page. I would recommend this to everyone.
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Permalink Reply by Coco Gordon on
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David G thanks
the info around septic tanks should be taken to each of our village governments for a clean sweep on regulations.
Coco
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Permalink Reply by Chris Snyder on -
I'm in the process of designing an ecovillage in Michigan, www.manitouarbor.org, which plans to use composting toilets and graywater treatment systems (despite higher cost) to deal w/ our wastes on sandy soils to prevent further pollution of the aquifers beneath the site. The groundwater already has nitrate levels above the potable water limit, probably due to the combo of neighboring greenhouse/ agriculture operations and conventional septic systems. That is the problem with waste treatment systems that just send the wastes "away" - they don't actually go away until you deal with them and turn them into resources.
The other part of this project which is unique in Michigan (and useful to Transitioners) is that the main community center / apartment building will be designed to meet the Passive House Standard, www.passivehouse.us, which is a voluntary energy standard producing buildings that use about a tenth of the energy of a code-compliant building, and can do so affordably by eliminating conventional heating systems and putting that money into the superinsulated building envelope. A 1,200 sq.ft. home built to this standard can be heated with a heating element the size of one in a hair blowdryer - and there are now over 15,000 such certified buildings worldwide. I just got word today that I passed my exam and am one of the first 13 Certified Passive House Consultants in the US, and you can learn to do this, too - there is no previous college degree requirement, though the training is very rigorous.
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