Posts by — Julienne Dolphin Wil

Power to the poople (sic)

Sanitation professionals – says Rose George in The Big Necessity; the Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why it Matters – divide cultures into the faeco-philiac and the faeco-phobic. India, excepting cow-dung, is the latter. China is the former. China has fertilised with human excrement for 4000 years.

This regard for excrement as treasure no doubt explains the dearth of scatological swear words in Chinese languages. (more…)

Lunatic adverntures start here We climb a rise and suddenly there it is — Yurtland. It belongs to David Masters.

We’re looking at two sand-coloured yurts. The big one Masters calls the Gathering Hall. The smaller one he calls home.

No hydro lines lead to Yurtland. No water lines. No gas lines. Masters is his own utility corporation. (more…)

Protest against attack

ZAMBOANGA CITY � A bombing attack on the offices of the Philippines off-grid energy authority has been laid at the door of Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). (more…)

The Woodland Way is one of those rare books that bridges the gap between the theory of conservation and its practice, and does it well. It sets out author Ben Law’s thesis and original vision for sustainable woodland management in Britain. It is an inspiring book in its practicality and “do-ability”.

The Woodland Way: A Permaculture Approach to Sustainable Woodland Management – Buy it from Amazon US

The Woodland Way: A Permaculture Approach to Sustainable Woodland Management – Buy it from Amazon UK

(NOTE: WOODLAND WANTED – PREFERABLY IN UK – CARPENTER WANTS 2 ACRES TO TURN INTO SUSTAINABLE HIDE-OUT. WRITE TO JULIENNE@OFF-GRID.NET)

The author, writes from the heart and has a very deep commitment to practical sustainability. In fact he lives in his own woodlands, ‘Prickly Nut Wood’ in Lodsworth, UK (more…)