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Day 1 at the Ooooby Store

"What is an Ooooby Store?" I hear you ask. Well the vision is growing and evolving day by day, but let me attempt to paint it for you.

Imagine a place where you feel welcome and also at home because you have a sense of ownership of this space and drop in on a whim, to grab a cup of tea and see who is around and what conversations are being had. Imagine being able to choose from a selection of seating places dotted about the gardens. More seats and tables are clustered in the shade of the large Willow tree, where the diverse classes and workshops take place with delightful regularity. While on the island this week, Finn Mackesey agreed to support us by helping to offer a modular Permaculture design course here on Waiheke, at the Store.

The outdoor classroom area

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Ooooby

A few nights ago, Pete and I sat down and reviewed the "Sowing and Growing" event that we had just held at the Waiheke cinema. We talked about the centralised food model versus the local food model and came up with this short video. In it we referred to a website called Ooooby, which you can find at www.ooooby.org and if you visit it you will find a social networking site whose purpose is to connect food growers in your local area,and facilitate the exchange of food, the sharing of knowledge and information, and the offering of an abundance of inspiration, particularly through the expanding library of video.

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Alcohol as a fuel + Hydrogen booster for petrol engine

This is a short 2 min video taken at yesterdays demonstration of how to distill, and then run an engine on, alcohol. The next one (below) shows Gian describing a simple hydrogen/oxygen splitter he uses in an older Suzuki 4X4, which runs on a combination of petrol, hydrogen and oxygen. » Read more

Awaawaroa Eco Village

A video in two parts, about the Awaawaroa Eco Village on Waiheke, by Scott Ewing. It speaks for itself...

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It's taking shape

Appreciation.

Tonight the dream came closer and things started coming into view that I hadn’t noticed before. Some of the stalwarts and rocks of this community had been working on The Big InTent Festival site for most of the day, in preparation for the opening on Saturday morning - the energy is building. » Read more

The Big In Tent Festival

Just got back from the Eco Show to find the website for this event is up on the web at www.thebigintent.org.nz

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