Adam Chadek

I almost completely forgot, a lot of people are positing that signs of cancers can actually derive from parasite infections.  Black walnut tincture is known to help with parasite cleanse and I'm sure many other natural elements can help as well.

I'm a firm believer that with enough nutrients and detox, the body knows what to do automatically.  Hope is the most important aspect, I always try to instill hope, there's always a way!

I just bought a meat defrosting tray for my wife for Christmas - an aluminum tray that I believe is reinforced to hold the weight of the meat as well.  I like the concept of adding the piping hot water into the tray under the aluminum plate to quickly spread out the heat to another surface.

With water heated from a RMH or rocket stove, I feel like this would be a very efficient way to heat a surface, especially if you've ever had the experience of pouring hot water into an aluminum can before!

For me personally, I have similar issues being dehydrated quickly in open sun.  My mother pointed out to me that she had "hyperhidrosis", or excessive sweating and that opened my eyes in a lot of ways.  For the two of us, it shows up as cold and clammy hands and feet to show poor circulation and my sweating is mostly hands, feet, and armpits with limited sweating in other areas.  When I'm out in the open sun for too long with no cloud cover, my body sweats out as much water as it can, leaving me excessively dehydrated.

For a remedy, I always search for "herbal legacy" and Dr. Christopher and here is the article for circulation issues below.  Cayenne pepper is supposed to be one of the keys for a long life and great for circulation.  Malfunction of the sweat glands (if that's what you might have) is also related somehow to nervous system issues I believe and there is a set of herbs related to helping with the nervous system as well.  

https://www.herballegacy.com/Blood_Circulation.html
https://www.herballegacy.com/Nerves.html

Hopefully this helps someone who may not have heard about hyperhidrosis - I still have the poor circulation, but do make a lot of compromises in what I eat for balancing the crazy busy work weeks, cost of foods, etc. so there are still toxins from the food system that accumulate and a good detox program could also help clear out toxins affecting the nerves.  I am a fan of the green smoothie diet by JJ Smith, I noticed general improvements with my whole body after following that plan several years ago and just made a note to go back and do another round in the next week or two once we gather all the ingredients again.

Hi guys, good news that the last part didn't take as long as I thought I would.  Below is an Excel file to try and list out each discrete task, but also listing whether or not the "work instruction" is complete.  There's also a column to let you rank priority if there's a certain set of tasks you'd like to complete first and a column for the volunteer that will write the instructions for that task and a target completion date along with a column for oddball points.  Being in Excel, the list can also be filtered by topic and see at a glance which categories are missing, for example.  I couldn't upload the Excel file here, so the spreadsheet is at this link below to download a copy and you can make it your own to modify.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/15fkesvaw-UrOT8a0D6SZIO-LpszDLgam/view?usp=sharing

I hope this helps everyone to organize and help work towards bringing the project out of alpha by having a master database with the "to do" list all in one place.  I was picturing for this file to end up in its own post to corral the troops and keep an updated copy there whenever new tasks are added.

I saw about 300 work instructions for approximately 600 tasks so far - that's incredible!  Fantastic work so far in filling a need in the permaculture community to help with the process of learning new skills step by step and also in developing a system for certification of those skills.

So I was a little optimistic with my initial target of the end of the month to have the database created - I had some problems with my computer getting locked up last week and was gone Friday through Monday.  I'll attempt to have a simple database created with each task and whether or not a work instruction exists by next Friday (the 8th) or the Friday after (the 15th).  I got the first six done and I'll go through the rest and try to double check for any errors.

Awesome, ok so I think a simple database may be the way to start, which can be done in Excel.  I'm working through the final design for Geoff Lawton's PDC and I'll be traveling next weekend, but I'll see if I can compile a simple spreadsheet to take stock of the current situation by the end of the month.

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To clarify in case it wasn't clear, this PDF is fantastic for compiling the total list of how to complete the badges and is greatly appreciated.

In my question, I was thinking more about how everyone can help you to develop the entire program to see what assistance you need to develop badge levels that don't exist yet at this time.  I thought maybe a simple spreadsheet with your wish list would be cool to see what you would request next to delegate to all of us minions. :)

I agree, this is amazing, thank you so much!

This might be addressed somewhere in the PEP forums, but I was wondering if maybe a "To Do" list would be created to help laser focus people's attention on the overall immediate priorities and then longer term actions with such a large and ambitious project?

I think that would help everyone understand at a glance how to help keep moving the project forward and not stall.  We use a "list of open points" at my work very successfully to help keep track of the 2,000 things going on at any one point in time.