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Autoconstrucción de un aerogenerador

  • Date: 22 – 30 August 2015
  • Languages:
      EnglishSpanish
  • Location: Valle de Pujarnol, Porqueres, Catalunya, Spain

Auto-construcción de un aerogenerador Taller vivencial de una semana en Som Comunitat, Catalunya. Del Sábado 22 a Domingo 30 de Agosto Sobre los aerogeneradores “Nea Guinea” ha estado organizando talleres de construcción de pequeños aerogenera-dores desde 2009 y ha instruido una gran cantidad de personas en el conocimiento de cosechar energía del viento. Los aerogeneradores construidos en los talleres están basados en los diseños de Hugh Piggott descritos en su libro “Wind Turbine … Read more

Biofuels Use of vegetable oil as an alternative fuel in villages.

  • Regions: GEN Africa, GENNA, GENOA
  • Areas of Regeneration:
    • Ecology
    • Economy

Guneskoy Cooperative developed a project for using vegetable oil as an alternative fuel for tractors used in agriculture. The project was supported by UNDP. According to this project farmers allocate about 10% of their land for growing the oil crop and vegetable oil was extracted using an oil press. Vegetable oil has higher viscosity compared to diesel fuel and it does not flow easily at lower temperature. However, the viscosity of vegetable oil decreases significantly when heated and at about … Read more

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA Building bridges between villages - Setting up direct relationships between growers and consumers of agricultural products -

  • Regions: GEN Africa, GENNA, GENOA
  • Areas of Regeneration:
    • Ecology
      • Seeds, Food & Soil
    • Economy
      • Sharing & Collaboration

Guneskoy Cooperative has applied CSA to support sustainable living in traditional villages by ecological food production based on an economy with mutual support between people living in city and a village. Each week vegetables are picked up and distributed to the supporters in the city. The villages in traditional villages could not take any risk for an alternative production, no matter how environmentally friendly it is. When organic agriculture was started in Guneskoy they silently observed … Read more

Portable Gardens – urban food Tackling the Urban food security

  • Regions: GEN Africa, GENNA, GENOA
  • Areas of Regeneration:
    • Ecology
      • Seeds, Food & Soil
    • Economy
      • Sharing & Collaboration

Plastic bags can be used or recycled and help in the growing of food Container plants offer a simple way to maximize small spaces. Despite their convenience, planning them properly is essential to success. since it can save a lot of water will reduce the amount of water used and keep containers moist and healthy hence saving a lot of water … Read more

Bread from Sweet Potatoes Creating local food sovereignty

  • Regions: GEN Africa, GENNA, GENOA
  • Areas of Regeneration:
    • Social
    • Ecology
      • Seeds, Food & Soil
    • Economy
      • Sharing & Collaboration

Challenges also includes post harvest processing or storage. This can lengthen the period for which sweet potato can be marketed but may also be relevant for subsistence oriented households to increase the period over which sweetpotato can be consumed, particularly where there is a marked dry season. Improving the sweetpotato value chain should lead to a linked set of impacts on the livelihoods of the poor including: 1) Increased income of those selling sweetpotato with particular advantages … Read more

Earthbag Houses recycling of waste materials in building houses

  • Regions: GEN Africa, GENNA, GENOA
  • Areas of Regeneration:
    • Ecology
      • Green Building

is an inexpensive method to create structures which are both strong and can be quickly built. It is a natural building technique that evolved from historic military bunker construction techniques and temporary flood-control dike building methods. The technique requires very basic construction materials: sturdy sacks, filled with inorganic material usually available on site. Standard earth bag fill material has internal stability. Either moist subsoil that contains enough clay to become … Read more

Compost Tea Producing liquid bioconcentrates from organic waste

  • Regions: GEN Africa, GENNA, GENOA
  • Areas of Regeneration:
    • Ecology
      • Ecosystem Restoration

Compost tea is produced by steeping plant growth compounds and beneficial microorganisms in warm, aerated water and organic wastes over a 24-hour brewing cycle to produce a biologically active liquid concentrate that is then applied to field, forest or garden to stimulate soil fertility. Worm casting liquids are often used alone or blended with compost because of their highly diverse microbial composition. Supplemental nutrients such as bat guano, kelp, humic acids, biochar and rock powder are … Read more

Keyline Management Redirecting nutrient flow by subsoiling off-contour

  • Regions: GEN Africa, GENNA, GENOA
  • Areas of Regeneration:
    • Ecology
      • Ecosystem Restoration

Keyline management restores fertility to crop, forest and pasture lands and to steeper and rougher terrains that have never before been capable of rapid improvement. The first aim of Keyline is to provide inexpensive means of conserving and tempering the rain that falls on the land by storing it in the soil, then slowing its evaporation and apply this conserved moisture to assist nutrient transfer and regenerate favorable soil microbiology over large areas. First conceived by Australian stockman … Read more

Biochar from Bamboo Kilns Sequestering CO2 while rebuilding soil

  • Regions: GEN Africa, GENNA, GENOA
  • Areas of Regeneration:
    • Ecology
      • Ecosystem Restoration
      • Green Building
    • Economy
      • Sharing & Collaboration

Convert the fastest growing terrestrial plant, bamboo, currently supplying livelihood to 1.2 billion humans because of its many uses and ability to grow in nearly all climates, from labile carbon to recalcitrant carbon through pyrolytic conversion in a low-cost, multiple-yield process. The application of this recalcitrant carbon to soil, or use as a component of building materials, living roofs and other ecovillage applications, establishes a significant, long-term sink for atmospheric carbon … Read more

The Living Machine An ecological wastewater treatment facility

  • Regions: GEN Africa, GEN Europe, GENNA, GENOA
  • Impact: Community
  • Areas of Regeneration:
    • Ecology
      • Ecosystem Restoration
      • Water Cycles
      • Zero Waste

There are many different ways of processing sewage ecologically, including reed bed systems and compost toilets. One such method is called the Living Machine. Pioneered by US ecological designer Dr John Todd in the 1970s, the Living Machine works by mimicking a natural wetland system. It uses advanced science and engineering processes, combined with beneficial bacteria, to treat wastewater to the point where it can be safely reused. In addition, the sewage plant may start to resemble a … Read more

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