This is a “videmail” communication from Solar Cities founder TH Culhane in Germany to field coordinators Hana Fathy of the Christian Zabaleen community and Mahmoud Dardir of the Moslem Darb El Ahmar community answering questions on how to adjust the panel angle and the cold water pipe in the hot water barrel to make the do-it-yourself solar hot water systems we build there function properly. To transcend cultural and language barriers, as well as time and space, we use Google Sketchup …
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Mar 202009
This is a clip from the film “Farming With Nature” about permaculture farmer Sepp Holzer. We went to film Sepp Holzer for about 2,5 years. He created an edible landscape on 1500 m above sea level. Between the pinetree monocultures of Austria he built the biggest functioning permaculture landscape of Europe. You can see all films about Sepp Holzer on a DVD called “Sepp Holzer´s Permaculture” published by the filmmakers, Malcolm St.Julian Bown and Heidi Snel. Find the DVD at www.ecofilm.de …