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This book is about one woman's vision and commitment to learning to live sustainably and in harmony with life on Earth. Since 1976 Anna Edey has made one astonishing discovery after another, developing methods of sustainable living under the name Solviva Solar-Dynamic, Bio-Benign Design. The results of her experiments and methods have again and again exceeded highest hopes and expectations. Solviva describes the exciting trials and triumphs of her journey and offers convincing proof that we can, with today's technology and knowledge, live in ways that reduce pollution and depletion of resources by 80 percent or more, and at the same time reduce the cost of living and improve the quality of life in urban and rural locations. Solviva contains 155 color illustrations and detailed instructions and recommendations to help others along their own journeys toward living sustainably.
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Viva Solviva.......2006-06-23
Solviva is a fresh and brillant exploration of the complexities involved in constructing a solar home. Anna Edey is beautifully human as she describes her real life adversity in bringing such a complex project into fruition.
Edey is an honest and telling author. She articulates her emotion involved in creating the energy necessary to endeavor so seemingly innocent and simplistic a notion as a house that you sustain and that sustains you as you sustain the Earth.
She vividly describes having to consider the marketing and distribution not to mention profit margins of raising organic restaurant quality garden vegetables and greens within the confines of her modest solar home.
With candor she conveys how interesting ones life becomes while taking on rabbits, chickens, and goats as a part of ones daily life, and indeed, in fact, as co habitants in as much as they too survived within the small solar house and that their presence yielded a profit.
Edey humbly describes discovering each vegetable and green with such surprise and satisfaction and that her vegetables were in fact prize winning and well sought after.
Because of the biproducts of such an efficently contained microecosystem Edey is able to support herself and her lifestyle comfortably within a selfsustaining home. Not without the residual income of the modern associate but with the profit yielded from her ingenius business and gardening method.
Ultimately the complexity of the solar structure itself combined with Edey's originality and genius in housing and growing botanicals within the solar home, in addition to the interactivity of the animals at the house, combine to make a kind of EARTHSHIP that does inevitably produce a profit.
Lots of practical ideas, even if you have only a small yard.......2006-05-19
This book reads much like a diary, rather than a how-to book. However, if you are mechanically inclined (or have access to someone who is), you can fairly easily glean the instructions for building most of her projects from her book. The sections on her wastewater disposal system are great. The author's website is also very informative, detailing her experience with a Solviva biocarbon wastewater system installed at the Black Dog Tavern in Vinyard Haven, MA.
Reason for only 4 stars: I feel she overestimates how much you can make from her operation. You might be able to do it if you have a family partnership going, as opposed to hiring employees. The right crops are also important (when she started, there were no bagged gourmet lettuce salads in the stores as there are now), as is your location--she's in Massachusetts, where there are plenty of people wealthy enough and willing enough to pay for chi-chi food. California is another place where this kind of niche farming works.
Bottom line: She definitely makes a case that a family could easily supplement their food supply and reduce their energy consumption, as well as creatively recycling waste products. The book is worth buying for that alone.
How to grow $5,000 on one acre.......2006-01-22
I am unable to figure out why Anna Edey came up with the title that she did for this book, but it certainly is a "hook". She may even be a bit eccentric or even quirky, with a second subtitle of "Revealing the Truth About How We Can Provide Electricity, Heating, Cooling, Transportation, Food, Solid Waste and Wastewater Management in Ways that Reduce Pollution and Depletion of Resources by 80 percent or more, and that At The Same Time Reduce Cost of Living and Improve Quality of Life". Whew!
The fact is that this individual has successfully developed her farm at Martha's Vineyard since 1977 into a working solar dynamic, bio-benign environmental system as a result of her experiments and research with greener cultural practices. Her book relates her success story. It begins with an ample section of color illustrations of her farm, outbuildings, and waste management system. She provides details of constructing them and their maintenance. She shares the secrets of her year-round kitchen garden that supplies salad greens and tomatoes. And she shares her experiences with greenhouse gardening where she harvested 1600 servings a day of her organic salad mix without an artificial heat source (did she sell this at $30 a bag?).
In addition to sharing her farming and gardening experiences, she wants to save our planet and bring peace on earth. In Edey's "Call to Action", she envision her solar dynamic, bio-benign environmental system as being transferable to schools, businesses, and even the White House. Her robust optimism gives the reader a good feeling knowing that there are people voicing environmental convictions that actually practice what they preach! I am glad I had the opportunity to acquaint myself with this author's visions for peace on this planet.
Don't waste your money.......2005-09-09
This book doesn't tell you anything about making money from growing food. The author's only statement about the $500,000 amount is found on page 219 in the "Addendum for 2nd Printing" which states "Based on my experience, I still believe that it is possible to generate a gross income of $500,000 on one acre, IF it is done with great efficiency, steadily rollling full production, consistently hightest quality and totally reliable delivery."
Tarnished Hopes.......2005-06-07
I purchased this book a year ago and found many of its ideas quite provocative. Also I am in the planning stages of developing a farmstead home for which I want an attached solar greenhouse. My home plans encompass crushed volcanic rock, earthbaggs, roundwood, a northside earth bearm and a southside solar green house.
Within the last 10 days I sent Anna Edey two emails with links to my home plan and have made one phone call to her answering machine. Thus far our heroine of a greener world has ignored me. I expressed an intention to purchase a $250 set of her drawings and also a $50 drawing on her suspended grow tubes. I had hoped to find a way to adopt the solviva concept to my home plan. It seems that green angel Anna has no regard whatsoever toward guiding me, thus my Solviva dream is rapidly evaporating.
Book Description
Here is a book to teach the beginner the fundamental techniques of suiboku, the unique form of Oriental art that has produced some of the world's finest masterpieces of ink-painting. Originating in China and having its spiritual basis in Zen Buddhism, this form of expressing nature's colors through shades of black ink monochrome has been enjoyed throughout the centuries in the Orient as a hobby for the amateur.
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Excellent Introduction to Suiboku.......2006-11-20
This book is designed for beginners to learn the art of Suiboku; teaching about the tools used, the basics (inlcuding the four main traditional topics), and continuing with well-illustrated lessons. It even includes a bit of history. The book is well written, easy to understand, and does not 'talk down' to the reader.
While ink and wash painting did develop first in China in the seventh century, it was introduced to Japan by Zen Buddhist monks in the fourteenth century and evolved to differ somewhat from similar techniques in other parts of Asia (including those in China). Chinese ink and water is often more literal, depicting landscapes with realistic textures and details whereas Japanese ink and water emphasizes the soul rather than realism.
To seriousthinker, I appreciate your desire to set the record straight, but you are mistaken. Suiboku and Sumi-e are the pronunciations of the Japanese words for ink and water painting and Japanese ink and water painting does, indeed, exist. The techniques originated in China, but have evolved many characteristics unique to Japanese style just as watercolor painting in the west has evolved characteristics unique of watercolor painting as it originated in China. Yet, study of western watercolor painting would not accurately depict its origins in China just as study of Japanese ink and wash painting would not accurately depict its originis in China.
As for Nihonga, that is a very specific type of watercolor painting using colored mineral pigments called Iwa Enogu. It is yet another Japanese evolution of watercolor painting (which originated in China even before ink and wash painting). Yes, ink and wash painting originated in China, but Japanese ink and wash is not the same thing as Chinese ink and wash and the two should be studied as separate and unique. This book is a great place to start.
Japanese Ink-Painting.......2003-04-19
"Japanese Ink-Painting" or "Sumie" is something that does not exist.
Suiboku is the Kanji pronunciation of two Chinese characters -- means water and ink. It's another name for Chinese National Painting --Guohwa.
The whole thing is Chinese.
Japanese painting is actually "Nihonga." It's very different from Chinese painting.
The title should be "Chinese Traditional Painting brought to you by Saito."
The Only Suiboko Book you'll need!.......2002-02-17
This is the best book out there on the market,originally published in 1959,this book has remained a classic.You will be taken on an intriguing journey led by Ryukyu Saito.If your a beginner or an expert this book will be not only be your teacher but your friend which will patiently guide you in the Suiboko Technique.
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Japanese Ink Painting Lessons in Suiboku Technique
R. Saito
Manufacturer: Tuttle Publishing
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ASIN: 0804803056 |
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Photographing Wildflowers represents the first opportunity to learn from the Blacklocks. The book progresses logically through the steps of finding a subject, choosing equipment, depth of field and focusing exposure, the aesthetics of different types of light, ways to control light, and recording information in a way that will help you learn. In the chapter on the forest floor, Craig and Nadine present a wealth of technical and aesthetic tips on photographing nonflower closeup subjects ranging from mushrooms to ice. This is a book that will gently ease the reader along to a firm grasp of the physics of closeup photography, while giving the specific techniques that have long made the Blacklocks images stand out.
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H. G. Wells; his turbulent life and times
Lovat Dickson
Manufacturer: Atheneum
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ASIN: B0006BU72Y |
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Looking Through My Mother's Eyes: Life Stories of Nine Italian Immigrant Women (Picas Series 38)
Giovanna Del Negro
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ASIN: 1550711741 |
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This look at the traditional and subversive world of women's folklore examines the realm of women's talk, exploring the ways Italian immigrant women from Montreal use classic folk genres to stretch the boundaries of their culture. Through songs, lullabies, bawdy riddles, and trickster tales, these women subvert, redefine, and alter what it means to be Italian and female in North America. More than just a study of Italian Canadians, this essay delves into broader themes of gender, immigration, and ethnicity, showcasing voices that contradict homogenizing interpretations of traditional historical scholarship.
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Looking Through My Mother's Eyes: Life Stories of Nine Italian Immigrant Women in Canada.(Book Review): An article from: Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal
Sachiko Tankei
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This digital document is an article from Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal, published by Canadian Ethnic Studies Association on March 22, 2004. The length of the article is 778 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Looking Through My Mother's Eyes: Life Stories of Nine Italian Immigrant Women in Canada.(Book Review)
Author: Sachiko Tankei
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Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2004
Publisher: Canadian Ethnic Studies Association
Volume: 36
Issue: 1
Page: 142(3)
Article Type: Book Review
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