Christopher Weeks

I think that within a month of the first general-purpose nano-assembler being made, all of ecology will be lost and permaculture will be moot. We'll either survive the experience or, more likely, we won't. But the transformation wrought on the globe will be so great that everything about the way we think will be obsolete.

Maybe we mean something different when talking about nanotechnology?

Are you meaning to count only purpose-planted decorative roses or all the various wild roses that grow around here? I have thickets of rose where I'm not even sure how to tell which stalks are distinct plants.

This year’s treasure arrived today!

It looks like they're using orange nylon baling twine, which seems like a curious choice.

I don't review all the movies I watch, but for the last several years, my wife and I have been trying to watch, rate, rank, and comment on all the best picture nominees. We watch each film, then rate it on several categories using the spreadsheet depicted below (showing 2024). And my wife writes about the movies on her blog.

I'd start by searching for a "folk school" or "makerspace" in my area and read up on what they offer. Those two phrases might get you started if you don't already know them.

No idea!

I own a DeWalt battery chainsaw and it gets the job done. I wouldn't buy it again because of philosophical differences with the parent company, but it seems like a fine saw. And it's the only one I've used. I'd reflexively buy Greenworks today to be on the same battery platform as my other new tools and someone here (John, maybe?) especially likes them.

Eric Hanson wrote:Separately I would like to buy into the Greenworks 80v line.

I have two members of that line:
https://www.greenworkstools.com/products/80v-42-cordless-battery-crossovert-riding-lawn-mower-w-twelve-12-4-0ah-batteries-and-three-3-dual-port-turbo-chargers
https://www.greenworkstools.com/collections/80-volt/products/80v-20-cordless-battery-single-stage-snow-blower-w-4-0ah-battery-charger (for the deck)

They do what they're supposed to but are kind of no-frills. I'll get more things to go with the batteries as time passes.

Oh, I hope this ends up being a thorough discussion. I've recently experienced a crisis of faith about my full yellow buy-in and am casting about for future options.

Also, this helped me decode some of the discussion: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=power+tool+lines+by+color&ia=images&iax=images

Who has the pollution hydrology background to educate me on this?

1) I live on dozens of feet of sand (at least 60').
2) I have never seen a puddle near my house because water just percolates away as fast as the sky can drop it.
3) Sand is a very effective filter medium.
4) Everything works better at a massive natural scale, so the bio-buffer of using all the ground has to(?) be better than a barrel of sand.

What would happen if my septic tank cracked and just leaked straight into the ground? Or I designed a waste-treatment system that allowed a small amount of untreated effluent into the surrounding earth?

It seems like pathogens should get hung up in the sand at some point and then denature over time rather than completing the round trip to my well.

But I'm pretty sure this has been given a LOT of attention, and the consensus is that what I'm suggesting is all wrong and would be extremely dangerous.

So, what part of my vision/understanding is incorrect?