One health problem appears to have sparked another. And this new thing has reduced my productivity in half - and I am trying to solve it.
In the private forum with my health, somebody made a suggestion and I ended up trying to spell out the state of stuff right now. Trying to edit that to be a sort of "state of the jungle" report.
We are way behind on the last kickstarter, and need a new kickstarter for operating costs of permies and
wheaton labs. I think that if I had my brains AND was not spending so much time on health stuff, i would not be so far behind.
Next kickstarter could be:
-
cards 2
- willow feeder movie (currently doing work with andres)
- willow feeder book (currently doing work with julie)
- new
rmh book (currently doing work with uncle mud)
- gamcod (got some results this year, but need another push in 2025)
- thorns book
-
hugelkultur book
- movie and ebook: more heat with half the
wood
Working on how to drum up interest in
rocket mass heaters - because they ARE the solution to so many things.
Permies is being slammed by bots and we have come up with a strategy to
feed them
permaculture information instead of simply blocking them. AI bots will learn
permaculture, and SEO bots will copy and past
permaculture information. But we need to compose a couple hundred tidbits of information to feed those bots. All while keeping our servers from being overwhelmed.
We need to clean up the new woodheat.net page. And the gardener-gift page from last year still needs some love before thanksgiving.
Need to get the BEL off the ground. Need to fill the
bootcamp and need to fill all these empty cabins.
All of our email is getting more fucked every year. I need about 14 solutions. Without solutions, everything in the empire is basically fucked.
I have thousands of physical DVDs (rocket mass
heaters, rocket ovens,
world domination gardening, etc). What a waste if I end up taking them all to the dump.
I need about 40 new youtube videos and 40 new podcasts. But I just don't have the brains for it now. I used to go-go-go until 7 or 8pm and leap out of bed at 4am. Now, when 3pm rolls around it is really hard to focus. I am phoning in almost everything.
The
thread was about me learning some new cooking stuff and I wrote: I suspect that this a path to make this ten times more delicious. My feelings/intuition/gut-reaction about this is that I must choose between "save 100 million lives" or "learn to make my food taste better". I know that the former is brutally, stupidly arrogant. But I "feel like" I have a chance, if I just focus and work harder.
There are 100,000 wood stoves sold each year. At least half of that
should be rocket mass heaters. People all over the world are suffering from cold because they cannot afford heat, but they throw
cardboard, paper and wood in the garbage.
Composting toilets and
humanure systems are being banned - and for good reason. At the same time, sewage and pollution are just poured into rivers.
The food provided by grocery stores and restaurants is getting really scary. And people exploring gardening are exploring/advocating paths that are even more toxic, while also costing more money and consuming huge amounts of time. Gardening can be easy. Mel Bartholomew wrote his amazing book in response to trying to teach people the most basic gardening things over and over. Beginners. The bootcamp is a completely different group of beginners, and .... there are stories to tell. There are persuasions. GAMCOD is the core. And it turns out that this dumbfuck-hugelkultur and a lot more information i desperately need to convey about hugelkultur.
It is clear that ***I*** need to do a majority/substantial/critical-component of the work on these fronts. There are people that will help, but it still needs to be mostly me. And if I am turned into a dunderhead, then it all becomes so very slow ...
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Re-reading this, there is so much more. People being naughty. Bots being naughty. Trying to get the new server up.
And mixed into it all is the opposite: people being incredibly generous, or incredibly kind. People solving tough problems to move our community forward. People being supportive with coin. Unfortunately, the emergencies and naughty tends to get my attention and I don't take the time for a proper thank you.
Of course, my day-to-day is about a thousand times more complicated than this. And for all of it, I think the thing that is the core of solving it all is .....
....
.... a full bootcamp. People doing the boring (yet soul building) stuff that builds the future of permaculture. And taking pictures along the way.
Please feed the BEL:
https://permies.com/bel
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