LINKS CONTACT:  podcast@worldorganicnews.com FREE .PDF One Square Metre Garden: square@worldorganicnews.com Blog: www.worldorganicnews.com   Petit Paradis: The New Earth http://www.worldorganicnews.com/60996/the-new-earth-petit-paradis/ Why Zero Waste Matters — Regenerating Our World http://www.worldorganicnews.com/60890/why-zero-waste-m…rating-our-world/   Zero Waste International Alliance   Want energy storage? Here are 22,000 sites for pumped hydro across Australia — Random Thoughts http://www.worldorganicnews.com/60898/want-energy-stor…-random-thoughts/ Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) Pumped hydro energy storage (PHES) **** This is the World Organic News for the week ending 9th of October 2017. Jon Moore reporting! This week we begin with a post from Petit Paradis: The New Earth. This post commences with a quote from David Holmgren’s book PERMACULTURE: Principles & Pathways Beyond Sustainability. Quote The image of clean green technology where we do not need to mess with nature or kill anything to provide for our needs is in the final analysis, an illusion. That illusion appears to have substance only because generations of the world’s most affluent urbanites have been disconnected from nature. End Quote This quote is call to reality. The post goes on to articulate the ways the poster’s neighbours are all doing a little bit to reduce their footprint on the planet. From growing veggies amongst the roses, to a few abundant fruits trees in each backyard. This is a great way to build community. Podcast footnote: Building a community, is a shorthand way of saying: Getting to know other people. Finding out what we have in common with them and building upon those shared thoughts and activities. It means allowing the things we disagree with, politics, religion, sporting teams to not interfere with that which unites us. You know, seeing others as our friends not competition. Fellow citizens rather than competing consumers. End podcast footnote. The poster has even bigger dreams. Quote: We are taking in green waste from other gardens, newspapers from other sources, cardboard boxes from multiple places. It is very reminiscent of when we first started to create soil at petit paradis. My mind drifts along such thoughts as ‘What if every fourth house in the street did this sort of thing with their garden? There just wouldn’t be a fraction of the waste going to land fill. And the produce grown could go to the houses that supplied materials.’ End Quote Imagine such a world. A world where 25% of households were producing food from the collected unwanted organic matter from the other 75% and feeding them with the surplus. Bill Mollison, the other half of Mollison and Holmgren (quoted at the start of this episode) suggested that just ten percent of households moving from consumption to production would be sufficient to turn the world around. So the suggestion of 1 in 4 would have huge beneficial effects. But for this to happen at four households would have to be talking to each other above and beyond a nodded head when passing in the street. Mollison also, as I have quoted before had a definition of waste that I try to keep in mind, especially when the topic comes up in conversation: Waste is simply a resource in the wrong place. This leads nicely to our next post: Why Zero Waste Matters — Regenerating Our World. This post starts with the most basic of questions: Quote: When you think of throwing something away, where is ‘away‘?  Does it truly vanish once it is discarded into the rubbish bin?  No — the only place it vanishes from is your eyesight.  It actually goes directly to the landfill.... End Quote And landfills are a disaster. The embedded energy in each item placed therein is lost. The embedded energy refers to the amount of emergy used to create the product which is being buried. Take place panes as an example. Huge amounts of heat energy was used to turn sand into glass and then to shape the molten glass into window