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Kibbutz Lotan is a community located in the desert of Southern Israel in the Arava Valley next to the border with Jordan.
With cow and goat dairies, watsu massage, and a tourism business, Lotan also specializes in ecology + permaculture, offering a "Green Apprenticeship" program.
http://www.kibbutzlotan.com...
"We are not lords of the universe. We're one small part of it. We may be its consciousness, but being the conscious of the universe does not mean turning it into a mirror image of us. It means rather fitting into it as it is, and worshiping it with our attention." (Red Mars)
"If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than with sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it." (President Lyndon Johnson)
With cow and goat dairies, watsu massage, and a tourism business, Lotan also specializes in ecology + permaculture, offering a "Green Apprenticeship" program.
http://www.kibbutzlotan.com...
"We are not lords of the universe. We're one small part of it. We may be its consciousness, but being the conscious of the universe does not mean turning it into a mirror image of us. It means rather fitting into it as it is, and worshiping it with our attention." (Red Mars)
"If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than with sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it." (President Lyndon Johnson)
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Israel
Hobbies:
The Earth, Permaculture, Alternative Energy (Solar, Wind), Composting, Humanure, Pollution, Organic Gardening and Agriculture, Desert Plants, Straw-bale homes, Mud Plaster, Reusing Garbage, Recycling, Solar Ovens
Movies:
Dune, Baraka, Forest Gardening, An Inconvenient Truth, Who Killed the Electric Car, Survivorman, Bill Mollsion - Global Gardener, The Story of Stuff, Store Wars, Forest Gardening, Farming with Nature - Holtzer Farm, Garbage Warrior, A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, The Living Machine (John Todd)
Books:
Dune, Red Mars, The Humanure Handbook, The Magic of Fenghorn, The Secret Lives of Plants, Anything by Bill Mollison,
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Stay tuned for more videos to be posted in the near future.
Currently, my administrative duties of the You Tube channel are on pause as I am busy in Lotan's "Green Apprenticeship" course.
Meanwhile, you're always welcomed to visit us here in Israel....we're not too far from Turkey and right on the border with Jordan....so, you can stop here for any visit to Petra or Wadi Rum.
Also, tell your friends about our "Green Apprenticeship" program....more details are found at our website www.kibbutzlotan.com
*First, I am not the 'expert' on the subject. I am just an intern that runs the You Tube channel; however, from what I've been told by the teachers here is that building with mud works in any climate, it's how you plan for the rain in your construction that matter. For example, you need to put "shoes" on your mud-building. This entails making a 'water-proof' barrier between the floor and the mud walls. We use old tired, re-used concrete blocks from construction sites, gravel and plastic sheeting ( although I think the plastic is for termites ). Also, what you can do is use oil to water proof the water. We take the grease form the kitchen here and mix it with turpentine in a number of mixtures and coats. I am told you can also use egg whites (but that woulld be a lot of eggs, I guess, for a whole building unless you find a factory/kitchen that throws away its whites).