Something GREEN to Aspire Too!

A TRIBUTE TO GREEN LEADERS

By JOHN GALLAGHER FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER

   Green is good. Green is smart. And green is profitable. That was the mantra Thursday morning, led by Gov. Rick Snyder’s keynote speech, at the second annual Free Press Michigan Green Leaders awards breakfast at DTE Energy headquarters in Detroit.

   A full house of 450 cheered the reach of conservation in the state, with honorees ranging from iconic figures such as U.S. Rep John Dingell to Alex Kozlowski, a college student who recycles bottles and cans for charity.

   “Today’s honorees show that green and business go together,” Ford Motor Executive Chairman Bill Ford said as he introduced Snyder.

   • AWARDS BREAKFAST, EXPO LOOK TO A GREEN FUTURE . 8A  

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   Ford Motor Executive Chairman Bill Ford, in front, applauds at the Green Leaders breakfast Thursday. At right are Gerry Anderson, CEO of DTE, which received an honorable mention, and U.S. Rep. John Dingell, the Dearborn Democrat who was one of the honorees.

Award winners, events lead to greener future

By JOHN GALLAGHER and KATHERINE YUNG FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITERS

   It was a celebration of all green-minded people, companies and ideas.

   More than 500 Michiganders attended Thursday’s Free Press Michigan Green Leaders awards breakfast and expo at DTE Energy’s Detroit headquarters.

   Sixteen companies, organizations and individuals received a Green Leaders award. Winners were chosen by a panel of independent judges.

   Delivering the keynote address, Gov. Rick Snyder challenged his audience to do even more to create a sustainable state.

   “You’re leaders in this field,” Snyder told the audience. “And leaders don’t want to stop. What other work can you do?” He called for “relentless positive action.”

   Introducing Snyder, Ford Motor Executive Chairman Bill Ford spoke of how far Michigan has come toward a greener consciousness.

   “I love the fact that we’re actually talking about green leadership in an old-line industrial area,” Ford, a 2010 Michigan Green Leader, told the audience. “A few years ago that wouldn’t have happened. People thought I was some sort of communist. Today’s honorees show that green and business go together.”

   Snyder urged, “Let’s find the common ground where we can do green things together.”

   Those gathered as honorees included U.S. Rep. John Dingell, a Dearborn Democrat, as well as representatives of companies including Steelcase, Detroit Diesel, LG Chem and other, smaller operations . They also included activist individuals and groups such as Ann Arbor’s Ecology Center, creating a mix of people all interested in conservation and a sustainable economy, even if they often have been on the opposite sides of issues.

   Addressing the winners, Snyder said, “What we need now to do is use you as role models.”

   After the 16 honorees received their awards, Dingell told the audience, “We do not own this land. We inherit it from those who follow us, and it’s our duty to return it in as good as shape as we got it, or hopefully better.”

   Free Press Editor and Publisher Paul Anger concluded the breakfast by riffing on a popular Chrysler commercial. He told the audience, “There is no other program like this that we’ve been able to find anywhere else in the country. ... To paraphrase: This is Detroit, and this is what we do.”

   In tandem with the sold-out awards breakfast, held for the second year, the Free Press also held its first free expo. It featured exhibits by a dozen companies and nonprofit organizations, including Meijer and Maggie’s Organics. Another was LaFontaine Cadillac Buick GMC, which earned an honorable mention in the green building category.

   Cristal Holston came to the expo to attend a seminar by the Greening of Detroit because she wanted to start a community garden in her neighborhood on Detroit’s west side.

   “If we do it as a community garden, anyone who wants something or needs something can come and get it,” she said. “I love gardening.”

   The expo also attracted people such as Lawrence Roberson, who attended a presentation by the Great Lakes Renewable Energy Association. Roberson said he plans to buy a hybrid car and is looking into ways to power his Southfield home using solar or wind energy.

   “I’m really excited about green technologies,” the money and financial manager said. “If we aren’t interested, we are stupid.”

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Pam Frucci of Grosse Ile checks out vegetable seeds from Meijer at the environmental expo that followed the Green Leaders tribute breakfast Thursday in Detroit.

MANDI WRIGHT/Detroit Free Press

   Free Press columnist Tom Walsh congratulates Sister Gloria Rivera and Sister Paula Cathcart of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Motherhouse in Monroe.

MANDI WRIGHT/Detroit Free Press

   Gov. Rick Snyder gives the breakfast’s keynote address.

MANDI WRIGHT/Detroit Free Press

   Randy Essex of the Free Press presents former Gov. William Milliken’s award to his son, Bill Jr.

On Creating a Culture of Innovation in the U.S

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/04/can-washington-lead-an-innovation-revolution-in-an-age-of-deficits/237396/

Green Architecture

Time Magazine's Top-Ten
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,2065341_2265653,00.html

Solar Energy Innovation Breakthrough?

Solar power: breakthrough could herald big drop in costs

Solar power is generated by photovoltaic cells, but two scientists are exploring different materials that could foster voltage from light's magnetic effects.

By Mark Clayton, Staff writer
posted April 15, 2011 at 6:49 pm EDT

Scientists at the University of Michigan have discovered a new effect from an old property of light, which they say could lead to an "optical battery" that converts sunlight to electricity at a fraction of the cost of today's photovoltaic cells.

Light has electric and magnetic qualities. Scientists had long thought, however, that the effects of light's magnetic field were so weak as to be irrelevant.

No so, says Stephen Rand, a professor of physics. Along with doctoral student William Fisher, he persisted in probing the long-ignored weak magnetic field that light produces when traveling through a nonconductive material, such as glass.

RELATED: Five new technologies that will change the world

The breakthrough – unveiled Friday in a scientific paper in the Journal of Applied Physics – shows that if light is intense enough, it can, when traveling through nonconductive material, generate voltage from magnetic effects 100 million times stronger than earlier expected. Such magnetic effects produce a strong electric field that can be harnessed for electric power production, Dr. Rand and Mr. Fisher say.

“This could lead to a new kind of solar cell without semiconductors and without absorption to produce charge separation,” Rand said in a statement. “In solar cells, the light goes into a material, gets absorbed and creates heat. Here, we expect to have a very low heat load. Instead of the light being absorbed, energy is stored in the magnetic moment.”

He continues, “Intense magnetization can be induced by intense light and then it is ultimately capable of providing a capacitive power source.”

Of course with every scientific breakthrough, there's the challenge of how to make it practical. In this case, the problem is that the intensity of the light must be about 10 million watts per square centimeter. Ordinary sunlight is much less than even one watt per square centimeter.

But that doesn't deter Fisher, who says that new materials (transparent ceramics, perhaps), when combined with focused sunlight, could work at lesser intensities.

“We show that sunlight is theoretically almost as effective in producing charge separation as laser light is,” says Fisher in a phone interview. "It turns out we can in principle develop a voltage along the direction of the beam of light.”

He adds, “Enough sunlight, focused into an optical fiber, could generate electricity – that’s is a simple way to think about it."

In experiments planned for this summer, the two scientists plan to harness this power using laser light and – after that – sunlight. Fisher says that with improved materials (various kinds of glass, for example), sunlight could produce electricity at perhaps 10 percent efficiency – roughly equal to the rate at which commercial solar cells today convert sunlight to electricity.

"The breakthrough is really on the cost side," Fisher says. “All we need are lenses to focus the light and a fiber to guide it. Glass is made in bulk, and it doesn’t require much processing, either.”

But the breakthrough is unlikely to be implemented in solar power production for several years, perhaps even a decade, Fisher cautions. Yet he does not foresee any hurdles that can't be overcome.

"It's doable," he says.

What's Old is New Again!

Wednesday, Apr. 06, 2011

The Surprisingly Long History of Green Energy

By Bryan Walsh

Green technology has no history — which isn't to say that it has no past. For many Americans the subject sprang into being a few years ago, maybe around the time the Al Gore documentary An Inconvenient Truth hit theaters, or when they first saw (but didn't hear) a modest Toyota Prius curling around the corner. Sure, a small group of people cared about solar water heaters or wind turbines back in the 1970s, when we can remember then President Jimmy Carter telling America to turn down the thermostat and put on a sweater. But green tech is widely considered to be the stuff of the future, there to clean up an economy that has been inexorably built on fossil fuels — on coal, oil and gasoline-powered automobiles.

Except, that's not true. Before New York City ever had its yellow fleet of gas-guzzling taxis — and way before Mayor Michael Bloomberg tried to force those drivers to go hybrid — there was a thriving electric-taxi company at the turn of the 20th century that served the entire metropolis. Windmills helped transform the American West in the 1800s, providing power for irrigation — and setting the stage for wind power's resurgence a century later. There was no guarantee that electricity would win out over less-polluting compressed air as a way to transmit energy over long distances. Californians were entranced by the potential of wave power in the early 1900s, and solar water heaters used to be common in the early 1900s. (See the top 20 green tech ideas.)

Far from being a recent phenomenon, Americans have been trying to go green for decades. Yet our modern society ended up being based on the idea of cheap, inexhaustible energy from fossil fuels, a decision we're living to rue. "The fossil-fueled economy of the twentieth century had a tendency to pave over alternatives to itself, leaving only curious hints of worlds that might have been," writes Alexis Madrigal in his excellent new book, Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology. "Green technology has been a viable set of technologies for more than one hundred years but, regardless, supplies little of America's energy."

The question Madrigal — a senior editor at the Atlantic — sets out to answer in Powering the Dream is, simply, Why? Why did the U.S. develop an energy system — and an economy — built around fossil fuels like oil and coal as opposed to renewable power, centralized electrical utilities over distributed generation? We assume that it had to be this way — that fossil fuels and suburbia were simply so superior to a greener system that their triumph was inevitable. But that's not the case. Technology doesn't exist in a vacuum. It is influenced by society — and society, as Madrigal points out, can and does change, which gives us hope for the future. (See pictures of four cities' creative and technological energy.)

There were early prophets for what could have been a different America. Madrigal introduces us to John Etzler, a quirky writer who was "probably crazy, but not so much more than your average futurist." Etzler wrote a book in the 1830s — called The Paradise Within the Reach of All Men, Without Labor, by Powers of Nature and Machinery: An Address to All Intelligent Men — that could have come from the desk of Al Gore. At a time when steam locomotives were just beginning to be built, Etzler was hailing the ability of the wind, the sun and the waves to power a growing America.

The book was out there — Etzler included in the volume an address to then President Andrew Jackson — but in many ways he was anticipating the need for a technological solution to our energy and climate concerns, not just a philosophical one. Madrigal draws the comparison to Henry David Thoreau, whose writings — including Walden — inspired environmentalists who believed that small was beautiful and turned away from technology. That's a strategy that might work to protect Walden Pond, but it can't solve the larger global environmental challenges — climate change, the resource crisis — that now plague the planet. For that you need man-made technology — but it has to be the right kind. "The global environment has become an unintentional 'garden,' and humans have to manage it," writes Madrigal. "High-tech, low-carbon technologies seem to be the only way to preserve Thoreau's flowers." (Could shale gas power the world?)

The problem is that we've never really supported the right technologies. Madrigal shows that American policy toward green energy has been a mess, long before this new batch of Republicans went into Congress fixed on dismantling environmental protections. The 1970s saw a burst of meaningful research into wind, solar and other alternatives, all motivated by the sudden spike in energy costs and the dawning realization of the environmental crisis. But after Ronald Reagan swept into office and oil prices dropped, that research was discontinued — thanks chiefly to opposition from the Republicans — even as scientists were on the brink of breakthroughs. Meanwhile, nuclear power was the recipient of generous government largesse for decades (and still is), while utilities in the postwar era got Americans hooked on cheap power and helped enable the growth of air-conditioning, suburbia and electronic gadgets.

In fact, it's not fair to say that green power failed — given the rules of the game, it never really had a chance.

The question now is whether we can do better in the future. As President Barack Obama said in a speech last month, "We cannot keep going from shock to trance on the issue of energy security," demanding quick fixes when gas prices rise and then slipping back into complacency when they fall. From his reading of history, Madrigal suggests a policy of countercyclical investment by the government, ensuring that there is public research money and subsidies available for green energy during those fallow periods when the private markets go missing. (See how fundraising helped shape Obama's green agenda.)

That money should come with certain strings, requiring green innovators to make their data public, so the movement can benefit even if a single machine fails. (The ability to learn, Madrigal points out, is the difference between failing well as an innovator and failing badly.) Environmentalists might have to make some compromises as well. If green tech is going to make a difference, it's going to need to be big — corporate big. It would be a worthwhile trade. "Green technology gives environmentalism the material means to build a better civilization as well as the political potency and clarity of purpose that comes with the need to make new things," Madrigal writes. The good thing about green history is that we're not doomed to repeat it — once we've learned from it.

Something for Consideration

Join us on our latest challenge for positive social impact! We're hyped to be launching a fresh OpenIDEO challenge: How might we better connect food production and consumption? If you're passionate about local food, sustainability, and improving community happiness – then come inspire us with your thoughts! Working together with the Government of  Queensland, Australia, OpenIDEO is posing the question: "How might we better connect food production and consumption?" It's a huge global issue but one that Queensland is keen to tackle.  Check out this inspiring message from Queensland's Premier, Anna Bligh, as she explains why this challenge is so meaningful to her community and globally.  What's even more exciting about this challenge is that the winning ideas will be announced in mid May at the IDEAS Festival 2011 in Brisbane, where teams of policy makers, industry, and community representatives will consider each idea as a potential solution in Queensland and beyond. That's right – the OpenIDEO community has a huge chance to make some awesome social impact here! This challenge asks us to consider ways to improve and enhance the relationships and interactions between producers and consumers, rural and urban communities, growers and retailers, retailers and consumers. We'd love you to consider issues such as energy use, transportation, biodiversity, food security, nutrition, obesity, the health of rural economies and the strength of inter-generational and intercultural knowledge sharing. We're on a tight timeframe for the challenge, so get your inspiration caps on for this first phase and populate the site with cool examples of existing stuff that makes you think differently and will help light a spark in the community. Then, during Concepting, you'll be able to wow us with your fresh ideas.  So get posting your images, sketches, diagrams or stories and let's make a difference! And because we like doing it together – why not spread the good word? Cheers,   The OpenIDEO Team

STUDENTS Want to be out in Their World LEARNING!

PBS "Digital Media: New Learners of the 21st Century" February 20, 2011 (Submitted by: Monica Williams)

Watch the full episode. See more Digital Media - New Learners Of The 21st Century.

Calling ALL Creative's and Innovator's (WHAT would that LOOK LIKE?)

Editorial

Tough assignment: Lift schools while cutting

   
Gov. Rick Snyder has set the bar pretty high for himself with regard to education.

   The governor says he’ll outline his plans to make Michigan’s schools more competitive and efficient in a major address this April. But in his budget plan released last week, he proposed deep cuts to both K-12 and higher education. And the state Department of Education released a report this week that suggests the vast majority of students graduating from Michigan’s schools are not college-ready. It is a dramatic indication of how poorly Michigan has kept pace with educational excellence.

   So the governor starts from a premise that Michigan’s schools must do more with less — a theme that has emerged in his approach to many other areas, but that may not translate as cleanly in education.

   Snyder is surely right when he asserts, as he did during the campaign, that something about Michigan’s’ schools just doesn’t add up. The state ranks 18th in per-pupil spending and fourth in average teacher salaries, but it has been sliding in overall performance rankings and is 49th in ACT scores — a key measure of college readiness.

   Snyder has talked about applying his value-for-money approach to Michigan schools, trying to set guidelines and benchmarks for evaluating how wisely schools allocate their resources, instead of just how much they spend.

   A business approach may finesse some of the funding issues Michigan’s schools face. But as the Department of Education report makes clear, the state’s schools need something close to a comprehensive rebuild — of teaching methods, standards and the accountability to make sure they all work to prepare kids for higher learning.

   Teachers need to have their evaluations — and at least some of their pay — tied to student performance, and they need access to training and other professional development resources that will help them do better in the classroom.

   And the state’s standards — for student learning as well as teacher quality — need to be consistent with the highest in other states.

   Snyder will also have to lead on those fronts, even as he cuts funding and insists on efficiencies on other fronts. His business background will not be sufficient for that task; he will need dynamic educational leaders to take the helm and pull the state through a serious period of reform.

   Snyder’s rhetoric has set the bar high. He’ll need to match it with action to get Michigan’s schools back among the best.

Horizon Report 2011

Horizon Report 2011
http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/HR2011.pdf

A Case for our Business Case

Editorial

Michigan cities’ future: Doing less with less

   Michigan cities are in crisis, staggered by a one-two punch of declining property values and dwindling state revenue. Nearly 30 of them are close to bankruptcy.

   Unfortunately, it will take more than shared services, best practices and lower legacy costs to make them and other troubled municipalities solvent. Barring a new way to finance local government, cities must start examining — now — what services they can afford to provide and eliminate those they can’t.

   “Fundamentally, we’re going to have smaller government,” said Paul Tait, executive director of the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments. “Efficiencies alone won’t do it in this economic climate.”

   Libraries, property inspection, parks and recreation, and activities for youths and seniors are among the many services that local governments might have to drop — or maintain only with volunteers or special millages.

   Even core services like public safety will increasingly face cuts. Municipal leaders should prepare themselves for the worst with multi-year budgets that set priorities as governments continue to starve and shrink.

   With a new government efficiency team, SEMCOG is urging local governments to poll citizens on what municipal services they most value. It is an exercise all government leaders should undertake, even as they fight for better ways to finance local government.

   Gov. Rick Snyder’s call to reduce aid to local government not mandated by the constitution from $300 million to $200 million a year — doled out of a competitive fund — is just the latest in series of blows to cities. The proposal could cost the city of Detroit up to $176 million.

   State government has already cut revenue sharing to Michigan’s municipalities by more than $3 billion during the last decade, and property values have dropped by 30% or more. Cities must now also prepare for big cuts in federal assistance, such as Community Development Block Grants.

   Michigan’s big and middle-size cities have been hurt most. Sterling Heights, for example, has lost $25 million in property taxes and $26 million in revenue sharing since 2002. Residential assessments have dropped more than a third. The city of 130,000 has had to eliminate 75 positions, cut benefits, reduce library hours, eliminate recreation programs, negotiate shared-service agreements and labor concessions, and approve user fees.

   “Our last resort is to reduce services,” said City Manager Mark Vanderpool.

   If Snyder wants Michigan to become economically competitive, he must understand that the health of its cities is even more important than its tax structure. Long-term, the state must find ways to adequately assist cities, while continuing to push them to pursue shared-service agreements, mutual aid pacts, consolidations and other efficiencies.

   “If we want to create a prosperous state, we can’t cripple our communities,” said Dan Gilmartin, CEO and executive director of the Michigan Municipal League.

   City managers and mayors should not expect relief soon, however. Working with their constituents, they should start planning now for government that provides only those services people are willing to pay for.

50/50

A new cash contest — may your best idea win

FREE PRESS STAFF

   The Detroit Media Partnership announced today Idea-Quest 2011, a contest with $10,000 in prize money for the two best ideas that help the Detroit Free Press and Detroit News better serve the community and help grow their audiences.

   Ideas might include something that enhances news coverage — in print, digitally and other ways — or helps the community in new ways or suggests how to do business more effectively. Ideas can be submitted by both employees and members of the public at http:// ideaquest.michigan.com  .

   Two cash prizes of $5,000 each will be awarded to the winning ideas; one will be chosen from company employees and one from the public.

   The deadline for entries is midnight March 31, and the contest is open to anyone 18 years or older. Ideas may be submitted by individuals, teams or groups.

   Once submitted, ideas will be voted on April 1-14 by the public. The top five vote-getters in each category will have the opportunity to make a pitch to a final judging panel April 29 about why their idea should win.

   The judges are Patrick Doyle, CEO of Domino’s Pizza; Susie Ellwood, CEO of the Detroit Media Partnership, and Myron Maslowsky, senior vice president of group finance and administration at USA Today.

   The ideas selected will be implemented by the Detroit Media Partnership — and winning entrants will have the opportunity to be part of the implementation process.

PBS "Need to Know" February 11, 2011

Watch the full episode. See more Need To Know.

PBS Need to Know (Segments)
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/uncategorized/need-to-know-february-11-2011-an-education-hour-preview/6949/

Impromptu Visit: Wilkop Garden Center (Bob Wilkop, Dave & Mike) Wednesday, February 9, 2011 12:00PM

Agriculture, Education and something Unfolding........

Group aims to replace state fair

Silverdome event wouldn’t use taxes

By BILL LAITNER FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER

   The Michigan State Fair died in 2009, but a team of politicians and businesspeople plans to unveil a statewide replacement Monday that will again bring together agriculture and entertainment — but at no taxpayer expense.

   They’ll unveil plans for the Great Lakes Agricultural Fair, to be held inside and outside the Pontiac Silverdome, and without any need for the state funding that former Gov. Jennifer Granholm said required her to close down the state fair.

   “I think it’s a done deal,” state Rep. Eileen Kowall, R-White Lake Township, said Saturday.

   No tax dollars would be needed, Kowall said, because expenses will be covered by admission fees and sponsors — led by Auburn Hills’ Genisys Credit Union, whose public relations staff came up with the idea, Kowall said.

   “The hope is to make the festival an annual event, with a farm market, and live animals and judging, and a huge educational and wellness area … and what’s really exciting is that everything is going to be a Michigan product,” state Rep. Gail Haines, R-Lake Angelus, said.

   Like the state fair, the festival would have lots of live music, too, from rock to country, but with the Silverdome indoorseating available, the event would not suffer drooping attendance on rainy days, as did the state fair, Haines said.

   “Michigan’s agricultural industry is the second-largest industry in our state. This is a great way to showcase it,” she said.

   Silverdome General Manager Grant Reeves, who works for the venue’s Toronto-based owner, said: “The bottom line is there’s been a huge void left by the loss of the state fair.”

   The Michigan State Fair, which was the nation’s oldest state fair at more than 160 years old when it was canceled in 2009, required about $350,000 of public money in 2008, former general manager Steve Jenkins said Saturday.

   “But during the entire seven years before it was closed, we generated $31 million in revenue and only $2.1 million was provided in assistance” from Lansing, Jenkins said.

   “I think there are individuals and nonprofits who would be willing to step forward and revive the Michigan State Fair(without tax dollars) if the Snyder administration would allow utilization of the fairgrounds,” he said.

   • STAFF WRITER KATHLEEN GRAY CONTRIBUTED TO THIS REPORT.

RASHAUN RUCKER/Detroit Free Press A group wants to use the Pontiac Silverdome, inside and outside, to hold a Great Lakes Agricultural Fair.

Silverdome is home for state’s new fair

By ELISHA ANDERSON FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER

   The Great Lakes Agricultural Fair coming to Pontiac in September will incorporate elements found at the former Michigan State Fair without using taxpayer money to help fund the event.

   Organizers, wanting to fill a void left when the state fair ended in 2009, came up with the agricultural fair, which will run Sept. 2-5 inside and outside the Pontiac Silverdome.

   The fair will have midway rides, arts, crafts and livestock. Reptiles also will be part of the livestock program.

   “We’ve purposely designed this event to help merge both rural and urban cultures,” Silverdome general manager Grant Reeves said at a news conference Monday.

   Music will be a big part of the fair, with each day having a theme:

   • Friday — R&B/hip-hop day.

   • Saturday — Country music.

   • Sunday — Classic rock.

   • Monday — Battle of the bands competition.

   The names of the artists performing at the fair were not released.

   “It’s a great thing for the city,” said Pontiac Mayor Leon Jukowski. Local restaurants and hotels will benefit the most.

   Reeves said funds for the fair will come from a partnership between the Great Lakes Agricultural Fair nonprofit corporation and the Silver-dome .

   “We truly do believe we have a financial model that can make this thing a success,” Reeves said.

   Former Gov. Jennifer Gran-holm said the need for state funding required her to close the Michigan State Fair.

Meeting: OCP Greenhouse, Saturday, February 5, 2011 10:00AM

AGENDA

INITIAL DRAFT: Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)

Todays Focus: Originating Operational "Tent-Poles" for MOU

• Follow-on secondary word-smithing, addendum's, iterations and/or alterations (Next Meeting)

Some of the questions we should be prepared to address:

1. Who is the first party?
2. Who is the second party?
3. What is the general situation of your arrangement?
4. What is the product/service/value the first party will provide?
5. What is the compensation/commission/value the first party will provide to the second party?
6. What will the second party provide for the compensation/commission/value?
7. What services will the first party provide prior to the onset of the arrangement?
8. What services will the first party provide during operation of the arrangement?
9. What services will the first party provide after conclusion of the arrangement?
10. What services will party two provide prior to the onset of the arrangement?
11. What services will the second party provide during the operation of the arrangement?
12. What services will the second party provide after conclusion of the arrangement?
13. When will the arrangement between the parties officially commence?  And so many more…

• Timeline, Scope & Sequence of Events

Bring your brain!

Solar Greenhouse bio-shelter

                                                        Bioshelter Market Garden


A Permaculture Farm
By Darrell Frey
To ensure food security and restore the health of the planet, we need to move beyond industrial agriculture and return to the practice of small-scale, local farming. The Bioshelter Market Garden: A Permaculture Farm describes the creation of a sustainable food system through a detailed case study of the successful year-round organic market garden and permaculture design at Pennsylvania’s Three Sisters Farm.

At the heart of Three Sisters is its bioshelter — a solar greenhouse which integrates growing facilities, poultry housing, a potting room, storage, kitchen facilities, compost bins, a reference library and classroom area. The Bioshelter Market Garden examines how the bioshelter promotes greater biodiversity and is an energy efficient method of extending crop production through Pennsylvania's cold winter months.

Both visionary and practical, this fully illustrated book contains a wealth of information on the application of permaculture principles. Some of the topics covered include:

Design and management of an intensive market garden farm

Energy systems and bio-thermal resources

Ecological soil management and pest control
Wetlands usage
Solar greenhouse design and management.
Whatever your gardening experience and ambitions, this comprehensive manual is sure to inform and inspire.

About the Contributor(s)
Darrell Frey is the owner and manager of Three Sisters Farm, a 5 acre permaculture farm, solar greenhouse and market garden located in Western Pennsylvania. Darrell writes extensively on permaculture design and ecological land use planning and has been a sustainable community development consultant and permaculture teacher for 25 years.


Paperback - 480 pages
Width: 7.5 Inches x Height: 9 Inches
Weight: 975 Grams
BISAC: GARDENING /
Pub. Date: 2010-10-01
$CAD 34.95
$USD 34.95

More about this book can be found at - http://www.newsociety.com/bookid/4082