Sunday, April 24, 2011

Going Green In LA: Realtor Learns Urban Homesteading

Many recent studies seem to be proving that the common knowledge and assumptions we hold about nutrition and taking care of yourself are false.

Examples include:

Pesticide in pregnant mothers makes gives their children a 7 point IQ deficit.

Sun screens accelerate, not protect against, contracting skin cancer. 

Sugar is killing us.

For these reasons and many more, I am pursuing a simpler and more nutritious diet and existence.  I am learning how to produce clean and healthy food and other products for myself.  Some of the projects I am pursuing are:

  • Automated year round greenhouse food production
  • Aquaculture
  • Aqua-phonics (growing food with hydroponics/aquaculture water)
  • Mushroom cultivation and mycology
  • Wood fired ovens and other wood cooking
  • Root houses, food storage, and passive cooling techniques
  • Fruit tree hedging and high density fruit production
  • Worm farming
  • Animal husbandry
  • Beer and wine brewing
  • Green construction
  • Composting and tea making
  • Bee keeping
  • Extreme cost savings on high quality organic food
I am sure there are some subjects I have left out.  Expect future posts on all these topics and more.

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  3. An intelligently designed green property will definitely save on operating costs, cooling, etc AND the tax incentives for green construction add up to some incredible benefits. I think one of the main barriers to getting this type of construction done is that many people in Los Angeles do not know how to do it! The Philippines are in an equatorial area, aren't they? I know that in Taiwan, they make all of their buildings from concrete and stone because of the extreme storm damage that a wood building would sustain. What constitutes green real estate in Manila?

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