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HUMANURE IS NO LAUGHING MATTER
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At Skreien where I'm from they're now making a giant loop of a water/sewer-system. The water will be pumped from 100 meters below the sea level in Lake Mjøsa, and then pump it up to 500 meters above sea level, a height difference of 600 meters. Then the waste water and sewer will be transported in pipelines down to the treatment plant by Lake Mjøsa, and finally again be released back to the lake.
This is of course insane, like our whole industrial culture, or ACID (Advanced Competitive Industrial Dominion). ACID is like acid to our Earth, and only knows to destroy the planet which we depend upon.
The opposite of industrial culture is PERMACULTURE! Here follow a brilliant article by Jonathon Engels about how to make a small, local permaculture loop to treat our bodies waste.
HUMANURE IS NO LAUGHING MATTER
It’s something that becomes more and more unsettling for me the deeper I look into the issue. With every morning constitutional, with every quick run to the bathroom, the majority of industrialized humanity is carelessly waging war on the environment. In harsh but accurate terms, we are pillaging and polluting the planet in the most idiotic of ways. The way we’ve come—and much of the underdeveloped world still seems to be moving—to handle human feces and urine is almost immeasurably damaging to the world when it could be exceedingly good for it.
Generally, when I’ve written about this topic, I’ve done so light-heartedly, acknowledging the humorous side of poo and pee (and, I fear, distracting conscientious readers from the point), but that mood has sort of escaped me of late. As I find myself too often caught in the locks of modern life, visiting someone or somewhere, in an urban environment, at an eco-hotel, it’s left me with little option but to flush and add to this problem. Where else can you go in a city? Where else can you go when at a family member’s house? A friend’s? A restaurant? A business? A crowded campground!
Trust me, I want to laugh. I grew up in a household where fart jokes were richly appreciated and the agony of “holding it” rowdily laughed at. But, perhaps this is why the problem has persisted so. The end result of digestion, a simple fact of life, has become so taboo and untouchable that, despite a growing awareness of the environmental impact of the flush toilet system, change is excruciatingly slow if not largely ignored. But, as much as plastic is a problem, as much as chemical waste dumps, feedlots and GMO corn is an issue in need of immediate address, some would venture to say that humanure is doubly so.
THE REALITY OF A FLUSH
For every flush of the toilet, people are sending away a minimum of 5 liters (and up to 25 liters) of fresh water, something that we are quickly recognizing as a hugely dwindling resource. The toilet accounts for over a quarter of the water usage in the average US household (and not far off in most other industrialized nations). Obviously, this means that over 25% of the fresh water we use in our homes has no greater purpose than to usher human excrement away. Every time we flush the toilet it is wasting water, be it grey or completely potable. Read on...
Publisert hos Kulturverk 17. april 2013. Etter at Nikos A. Salingaros ble venn med Christopher Alexander endret dette hans karriere, hvor han i dag er regnet som en av verdens fremste arkitekturteoretikere. Salingaros har en sterkere interesse for sammenhengene mellom energibruk og arkitektur enn Alexander, da han tidligere arbeidet med energispørsmål og var involvert i forskning på fusjonsenergi. Salingaros mener at moderne by- og samfunnsstruktur er kompleks kun på de høyere nivåene, og ignorerer småskalakompleksitet. Dette er en konsekvens av modernistisk liberalisme , fordi et topptungt styringssystem ikke har mulighet til å skape og opprettholde nødvendig kompleksitet på alle nivåer, samt at de heller ikke ønsker dette for å oppnå kontroll. Salingaros hevder at modernistisk ideologi går på tvers av alle biologiske systemer, og fordi moderne samfunnssystemer prioriterer storskalakompleksitet er de dømt til å kollapse. Dette gjelder ikke kun for byene, men også for energisyst...
Begynnelsen til kulturelva vår, stenelven Grýta. The outflow of Olterudelva River from the Tjuvåstjernet Lake, part of the Totenåsen Hills, Norway, in October 2025. Stock-bilde | Adobe Stock "Åh, dette var vakkert skrevet, det er akkurat slik jeg føler det også, som rokokko, nyromantisk seinpietist, i Grythengen og Øverskreien på Toten. Hele min lokale kulturarv, all min identitet er utslettet, alle stedene som betydde noe for meg, hele min levemåte. Kun turene til Tjuvåskampen i hjertet av Totenåsen, for å nyte den vindturbinfrie utsikta over Einafjorden og mot fjellene i vest, holdt meg tilbake. Men nå har de jammen tatt fra meg denne gleden også, med vindkraftverket over Songkjølen, som er det første som nå gliser mot en, når man kommer opp Tjuvåskampen. Maktas arrogante pengeglis!" - PermaLiv Nei til vindkraft i Trysil | Skogfinnene fikk ikke en gang uttale seg i forrige runde med vindkraft på Finnskogen | Facebook "Konsekvensene er rasering av Finnskogens merkevare....
By Christopher Alexander . Original text at First Things . Rose trellis of Generalife. It has taken me almost fifty years to understand fully that there is a necessary connection between God and architecture, and that this connection is, in part, empirically verifiable. Further, I have come to the view that the sacredness of the physical world—and the potential of the physical world for sacredness—provides a powerful and surprising path towards understanding the existence of God, whatever God may be, as a necessary part of the reality of the universe. If we approach certain empirical questions about architecture in a proper manner, we will come to see God. It comes from realizing that the task of making and remaking the Earth—that which we sometimes call architecture—is at the core of any commonsense understanding of the divine. Only in the last twenty years has my understanding of this connection taken a definite form, and it continues to develop every day....
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