I finally put something on the www.nonviolentworm.org site on the energy savings of the AIR system. You can find the fact sheet at AIR Fact Sheet. This simple, well-known fact of how air can insulate is easy to do, but hard to explain and make happen. If you have any suggestions how we can better communicate this energy-saving idea, please let us know at Air@nonviolentworm.org. April Air (as well as that between May and March) can save all of us energy costs.

Today we got a few truckloads of wood chips at the DMZ garden. Dawn, I and others started to lay down cardboard on the vacant lot and put wood chips on top of the cardboard. This carbon base will be the base for our growing mounds of our homemade soil, and prevent weeds and grass from growing in our planting area. It will take some more work to lay this base, but once it is done, it is done. That is the nice thing about this home model of growing (G.R.A.F), once you do something you can build on it in the future. For example, this, my third season of GP growing power, I have enough of my own soil, worms, castings and compost to build my garden. It still takes some work, as with any garden, but the production per space should be much greater. This way of growing is built on a cumulative system; the more you grow this way the more you can grow effectively. For example, the hard work of putting cardboard and wood chips on the vacant lot of the DMZ garden will last for many years and much growing. It might need renewing in time but not redoing.

The DMZ garden and the AIR system have one major thing in common; they are affordable, simple ways for urban living.

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