paul wheaton

For the apple tree idea ...   I wonder if there can be people that would gladly receive a thousand apple seeds and plant them.  So if people don't want them, they will get planted.

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In his book "As the World Burns - 50 simple things you can do to stay in denial"



Derrick Jensen says

An Inconvenient Truth helped raise consciousness about global warming.  ... Even if every person in the United States did everything the movie suggested, U.S. carbon emissions would fall by only 22 percent.  

He then points out that the problem is currently growing my 2% per year.  

Therefore, if we, as individuals, can get 3% better each year, then we have a solution.

Sure, some people will want to do more, and that's great!  And some people will not change.  

I think that the beginning is to start to understand what things you can do that adds luxury to life and what is the tons of positive impact.  

The thread for the big list of things a person can do is here https://permies.com/w/carbon

This thread is for talking about the idea of 3% per year.

Gotta tip the hat to devaka and our host evolution hosting.  I was cc'd on a lot of emails over the last few months to make this transition quick!  And Devaka did a mountain of development changes also.  This was a huge project!

a bunch of us talking about 2025 gamcod

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Craig Lewis wrote:For example. Not using cardboard. We can do a lot of things with cardboard. Ground cover, composting, seedpots, ...

It is my opinion that adding cardboard to horticultural endeavors, transforms the food that you grow there from "food" to "food with toxins."  I wish to make a movie about growing food without toxins.  

And, I confess, that there is a thousand hour debate here, backed by several hundred white papers on each side of the debate.  I further confess that I am tired of the debate and have made my choice.  I prefer to focus on growing food rather than re-enter that debate.  

And I understand that this is an uncomfortable choice for you:  grow food my way and get paid, or grow food your way.  

Craig Lewis wrote:Maybe I'm not getting something or thinking too much again.

I was thinking a raw forest/cutover plot, or unclean roadside plot.

Here in Newfoundland we can get upto 0.4 acres Home Garden lot, for $25.

A shovel will cost more than what anyone spent, above.

So I'm drastic missing something. 4.65hr to 49 and $1 to $59.41.

Seems like numbers are way to low or off

Seems like a dirt plot is ready to go, with birds dropping seed right into the grown lol

If the goal is to make it seem like Gardening is cheap and simple, better to be more realistic and practical, about starting out.

How long is this movies overall?

If 5 are chose and get 10 mins each $4k. Maybe 5 seconds off all that submit a start. And 10 seconds of all that completed. ( not over 1min, gets nothing??)

OK now you have a movie.

I've been thinking of starting a garden.  

Craig,

I am willing to try to answer all of your questions.  But there appears to be too much here for me to unravel at once.  Maybe we can start with clearing up one thing, and then moving on to the next thing?

If the goal is to make it seem like Gardening is cheap and simple, better to be more realistic and practical, about starting out.

The goal is to demonstrated that gardening is cheap and simple, even if starting from dirt.  

When you say "better to be more realistic and practical", the subtext is that the goal is not realistic nor is it practical.  But it seems that the 2024 attempts proved it would be realistic and practical.  

So my guess is that I am not understanding what you are trying to say?

Thom Bri wrote:Not understanding the 'dirt' requirement. Does this mean it cannot have been a garden plot last year? Or, cannot have been heavily amended with mulch?

We want to make a movie showing people that even if you are starting with dirt which has never had a garden, that you can grow a lot of food with little effort and little coin.  

While it is true that you can do the same starting with a great garden plot, that is not what this movie is about.

A few years ago, two people asked if they could pay me in bitcoin. Sure.  One person paid me $400 for a rental, and one person paid me $100 for some digital stuff.  Done. At the time, bitcoin was worth about $600.  So I had something like 80% of a bitcoin.  And then I forgot about it for a couple of years until bitcoin was something like $20k.

I moved some of it into a few of the other cryptos.  

Yes, you can get $100 worth of any crypto.  I think that technically, you can get a penny's worth of any, but I think the cost to get that penny could be high for some of them.  

fyi:  once we get moved, it could take a few days to rebuild our search stuff ...