"From Beer, Biochar and From Biochar, Beer"
by Albert Bates
https://peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2026/07/from-beer-biochar-and-from-biochar-beer.html

Water, biochar, carbon credits, filtration, saved leaking nutrients, ecosystem services, avoided chemical fertilizer. The historic brewery in this article, Lammsbräu in Germany, has 0% compromise--as far as being ecologically destructive or toxic. It is mind-blowing what the entrepreneurship and the free market can look like; how elegant it can be when the outputs are plugged in to be inputs and when the arrows of a complex bioresource flow diagram are all interconnected.
This seems like a parallel track to Cathedral, a la David Bennett. Enterprise and many other types of stacking.
If it is not to crude to call it so, an example of industrial ecology. This exemplifies the 8 Forms of Capital (Ethan Roland and Gregory Landua-Soloviev) well! I have also recently seen the 9 Forms of Capital on Nostr).

Might this be one part of, or an iteration of, Cathedral? How many edges can we name, create, see--a paraphrase of what Bill Mollison asked?

Have you seen this David Bennett? @Nunya Bidness

#biochar
#Cathedral
#permaculture

The Biggest Estate on Earth:
How Aborigines Made Australia.
Bill Gammage.

The beauty of original Australia, pre, or until, 1788. 1788: according to the author the keystone, date mark.

Fire. Templates. Fire mosaics. The whole continent as the estate. The estate "parts"* were managed by families, individuals and all followed the Dreamtime or Songlines--a template repeating over the expanse of the large island continent though tuned specific to each place, family, region, climate, bioregion, biogeography or whatever the hell they called it or felt it.

So many new plants, places, names, species, animals, customes, landscapes, geogoraphies for a "gringo" like me. And potential of what land, landscape, life, a future can be.

Great for rwh (rainwater harvesting). Managed, executed and dreamed by the inhabitants of pre-Australia. Fire mosaics. Stephen Pyne cannot explain as beautifully as the diverse fire mosaics were burned. Imprinted, seeded from the Dreaming and Songlines. I am no expert don't worry, look the shit up yourself.

Swamps. Deciding and burning so as to have open forests.

And regularly throughout Gammage reminds of the keystones of utility, convenience, dependabolity, abundance.

And how they cried when the parsec-long, eon-practiced culture of land loving, caring--including firing--to make that particular cultivated ecology.

I am not all there yet as the ILL (Inter-Library Loan) book is due tomorrow. Incidentally, it was when i sent a mass mailout via e-mail in the form of a petition (how useless it is to ask permission from our captors (demonic, by the way) to get some kind of right, service or benefit) i was forever from then banned from my "own" Gmail account! My whole life there. Not backed up. To possibility to contest--or speak to a human, breathing, vibrant, living pleb.

This is not a guaranteed nor accurate summary and fine indexing of the above book.

All the best and we'll be back with a version closer to 1.0

Pangaea

From The Biggest Estate on Earth, last two paragraphs:

"This book interrupts Law and country at the momen when terra nullius came, and an ancient philosophy was destroyed by the completely unexplected, an invasion of new people and ideas. A majestic achievement ended. Only fragments remain. For the people of 1788 the loss was stupefying. For the newcomers it did not seem great. Until recently few noticed that they had lost anything at all. Knowledge of how to sustain Australia, of how to be Australian, vanished with barely a whisper of regret.

We have a continent to learn. If we are to survive, let alone feel at home, we must begin to understand our country. If we succeed, one day we migh become Australian."
--Bill Gammage


#Saharasia
#firestick
#Australia
#1778
#earthworks
#CultivatedEcologies
#fire
#estate
#DreamTime
#BillGammage