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Cult of the Green Man gathers news and ideas about green issues, green culture, sustainability, ecology, permaculture, and general veriditas related miscellany.
The aim is to keep track of my reading and musing on topics related permaculture and sustainability which are increasingly of research interest to me as a domain of application for my skills in argumentation theory, agent software, and defeasible automated reasoning.
I also love the outdoors, from walking, camping, hunting, fishing, and foraging, to gardening, keeping chucks and Apiary, right through to researching the myths of the green that underpin many of the folk tales told about the British landscape. Hopefully all of these aspects will get some attention on these pages in the future…
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Institute for Computational Sustainability
Whilst away in the states earlier this summer I met a representative from the nascent Institute for computational sustainability (ICS). Computational sustainability is defined as an interdisciplinary field that aims to apply techniques from computer science, information science, operations research, applied mathematics, and statistics for balancing environmental, economic, and [...]
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Don’t Build Bridges – Grow Them
The root bridges of cherrapungee in Northeast India are a perfect example of man working with nature to produce harmonious and useful societal artifacts that are inherently sustainable. These bridges are grown over an extended period of time by training Ficus Elastica roots along channels made from betel nut trunks.
“The root bridges, some of which [...]
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Transport in the U.S.
During my recent trip to the U.S. I was surprised at how much better their public transport systems were considering the U.S. is meant to be in thrall to the personal automobile. Whilst I didn’t see very much in the way of dedicated cycle paths, and the pedestrian and cyclist are definitely still looked down [...]
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Square Foot Gardening
I am lucky that my partner spends a lot of time in the garden making it look nice, and growing vegetables and salad crops. We manage to get a decent amount of food out of our own garden and once you get into the mindset of reusing everything that you can then you soon start [...]
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