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girl mark

joined on 10/07/05
last updated 07/05/08
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www.girlmark.com/blog

author, Biodiesel Homebrew Guide: www.localb100.com/book.html

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I recently moved to Pittsboro, NC in a sustainability-minded community of 10 spread over three houses, who are mostly involved with Piedmont Biofuels (www.biofuels.coop).

I'll be in the Bay Area half-time in March, April, and May, welding up a biodiesel system and training in martial arts, and I'm looking for a few people to swing dance with, go shooting with, do biodiesel experiments with, or going sailing with, and am always looking for people around Chapel Hill/Raleigh who are passionate about sustainable living, renewable energy, do-it-yourself, homesteading, interesting cooking, and the aforementioned shooting, swing dancing, welding, and martial arts.


old bio:
I'm a jack-of-all-trades builder/electrician, currently working on adding welding and machining to the skills life list, and am still trying to figure out how to make these skills useful in saving the world.

I"m from the anarchist/ gutterpunk scene originally. I've spent time in New York and Asheville NC primarily before moving out to the East Bay a few years ago to pursue city resources and superior shop space that I couldn't get back there.

the last few years I've been spending a lot of of time among rightwingers and fundamentalists cause they're interested in renewable energy (obviously outside the Bay Area) - Im living some 'commie pinko faggot meets the Jesus People' experiment.

organized East Bay DIY Skillshare Conference (200-2003ish) with the Tinkers Workshop and the East Bay anarchist scene

organized charity build group Builders' Circle

started open-source backyard-biodiesel project
biodieselcommunity.org

I'm recovering from a disabling case of longterm Lyme Disease, which I'm successfully handling herbally at the moment
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Marc Franke from Iowa Renewable Energy Association has been quietly putting together a fantastic web site about biofuels and renewable energy sustainability. Before you run out and scream that ethanol is a scam, read his debunking of all the anti-ethanol propaganda we've been assaulted with. Apparently petroleum buys a lot ...
Mon, March 31, 2008 - 11:55 AM permalink
I just had a cool conversation with Jennifer Radtke from Biofuel Oasis about pricing, and their involvement, or lack thereof, in the petroleum market. There had been a raging debate on one semi-local biodiesel forum about pricing of diesel, and we were all speculating that Oasis will soon raise their ...
Mon, March 31, 2008 - 11:40 AM permalink
My Wilmington 'biodiesel crash course' next weekend is nearly full. If it fills up before you get in, please consider coming to one of the many Pittsboro classes I'm teaching this summer: No experience required: Biodiesel Essentials- May 3-4 just added- another session of Biodiesel Essentials repeats June 7-8 Biodiesel Equipment Intensive June 14-15 The ...
Wed, March 26, 2008 - 11:29 AM permalink
I finally have my computer act more or less together, to the point where the machine is a tool and not an adversary. The brain is also still working normally a month after my chelation therapy (which I repeated a couple of weeks ago). It's been an uphill battle to ...
Thu, March 20, 2008 - 2:42 PM permalink
I drove past a diesel pump in San Francisco this morning- $4.69 a gallon.
Wed, March 19, 2008 - 1:34 PM permalink
originally published at Diary of a Mad Scientist
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Little Miss Susie Homesteader

I've been doing a fun experiment with my brain. I decided to see how well I can improve my awareness of sense of smell. My sense of smell is already pretty impressive- I can smell people (if they're smelly) across the street at times, and I first noticed it as a child one day when I was able to "track" where a teacher of mine had gone by following his smell from the locked classroom door down the sterile neutral-smelling hallway and thus knew that he was in the building even though the c... read more
Mon, April 7, 2008 - 3:30 PM permalink - 2 comments
 
Nobody Home
Everyone Has a Theory Why the Honeybees Died this Winter. Try Malnutrition.
By Gina Covina, Terrain
www.ecologycenter.org/terrain...icle.php

On Alan Wilson's table at the Oakland Farmers' Market, row after row of glass honey jars catch the early morning sun that angles down Ninth Street. Some of the honey gleams a reddish brown, some a paler amber, depending on the particular mix of flower species the bees foraged. All of it was produced by Wilson's colonies... read more
Mon, March 31, 2008 - 6:47 PM permalink - 1 comment
 
Right after I started this blog, which is supposed-ta be about my homesteading experiences in rural North Carolina, I got a wild hair up my ass to explore the possibility of spending the fall in the Bay Area so as to take a couple of community college classes that are a lot easier for me to do here (for one thing, I still have residency in Cal rather than NC).

So, this is a preliminary shout-out to people I know, that I'm looking for a fall sublet in the East Bay.

I'd REALLY prefer... read more
Mon, March 31, 2008 - 6:20 PM permalink - 0 comments
 
I've been partying a bit too hard in San Francisco (well, not really, I don't drink) and came down with a cold the other day. That's the drawback of being in the city, you're constantly breathing other people's germs. The years I didn't live in NYC, or the years when I didn't work indoors in NYC, I always noticed that didn't get sick nearly as often. Working as a bike messenger a couple of winters was amazing that way- you'd think that getting cold, wet , breathing bus exhaust, and getting st... read more
Fri, March 21, 2008 - 2:51 PM permalink - 2 comments
 
For years I"ve been making kimchee, and I think it's a bit easier than sauerkraut, though the result is similar. My kimchee isn't very traditional- there's garlic, but not nearly as much as what I've had in Asian restaurants that serve kimchees as condiments (I don't know how much the garlic/spice factor varies in Korea, I'm sure it's different from family to family).

Below is something I posted to the Fabulous Fermentation tribe last year, and since then I've made dozens of gallons of t... read more
Thu, March 6, 2008 - 1:32 PM permalink - 0 comments
 
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