Editing User:Carrienoburden

[[Image:TrinidadCS.JPG|thumb|Carrie]]

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Name: CARRIE SCHADEN

I'm one of Appropedia's newest [[Appropedia:Travel_Internships|Travel Interns]] and I'm excited to be traveling around Mexico to record appropriate technology projects.  I can't wait to learn about your projects and to help out where I can with your work.  

== Education ==
BA in Geography, with a minor in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomimicry Biomimicry] Design from Cal Poly Humboldt 

==My Role With Appropedia==
I am both honored and excited to be involved with Appropedia!  
Beginning in August 2010 I will be visiting intentional/green communities and projects in Mexico.  
My goals are:

# To document positive functional aspects of the community /project to post on Appropedia. These aspects may be technological, social, or structural, etc.
# To assess if these places are an appropriate fit for the project described below.
#* Appropedia intends to establish a program that would link travelers with communities or projects focused around appropriate technology and intentional living.  Travelers would be given an opportunity visit their country or region of interest and to have an in-depth experience there with an intentional community or appropriate technology project.  As an alternative to volunteer travel programs in which the volunteers are contributing labor, Appropedia volunteer travelers would be asked to make contributions to the Appropedia database, updating older entries or creating primary documentation about the community they are visiting.
===My flexible and evolving travel itinerary===
I welcome suggestions and invitations to communities and projects in these areas!
Please feel free to check out and comment on my [[User:Carrienoburden/Potential_projects|potential projects]].

{| class="wikitable"
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! Dates (2010)
! State
! Groups
! Projects
|-
!August 15-September 1
| [[Oaxaca]]
| [[UABJO]] 
| 
*[[UABJO Demonstration Wetland Wastewater Treatment, Reclamation, and Outreach]]
*[[Oaxaca Water Quality Forum]]
|-
! September 2 - September 13
| [[Oaxaca]]
| [[Institute of Nature and Society of Oaxaca]]<br /> [[Permaculture Demonstration Center in San Andres Huayapam]]<br />
| 
*[[Terraces and Ditches at Pedregal]]
*[[Ecological dry toilets at Pedregal]]
*[[Micro filter dams at Pedregal]]
*[[Rainwater catchment at Pedregal]]
*[[Reforestation at Pedregal]]
*[[Ceiling insulation out of recycled Tetra pack at Pedregal| Ceiling insulation out of recycled Tetra pack]]
|-
! September 10- September 16
| [[Mexico City]]
| [[Isla Urbana]]
| 
*[[Rainwater catchment at Isla Urbana]]
|-
! September 16- September 22
| [[Mexico City]]
| [[Sembradores Urbanos]]
| 
*[[Hydroponic Vertical Garden at Sembradores Urbanos]]
*[[Raised Beds at Sembradores Urbanos]]
*[[Worm bin at Sembradores Urbanos]]
*[[Mini urban greenhouse for seed germination at Sembradores Urbanos | Mini urban greenhouse for seed germination]]
*[[Polyculture Planting at Sembradores Urbanos]]
|-
! September 22 to end of September25
| [[Mexico City]]
| [[Semillero Romita]]
| 
*[[Merkaba Trueke Barter Exchange at Semillero Romita]]
|-
! September 25 to October beginning
| [[Mexico City]]
| [[International Renewable Resources Institute-Mexico]]
| 
*[[Biodigester Effluent Testing with IRRI]] 
*[[Biodigester Effluent Water Quality Testing with IRRI]] 
|-
! October beginning - October 10th
| [[Mexico City]]
| [[Laboratorio de Ajusco de Tecnologia Alternativa]]
| 
*[[Rainwater quality testing with Isla Urbana]] <br /> 
*[[Parameters for rainwater quality testing at Isla Urbana and the Ajusco Lab]]<br />
*[[Testing synthesized components of rainwater harvesting systems with Isla Urbana]]<br />
*[[Testing water quality, surveying water access, and mapping high risk areas in Mexico City with Isla Urbana]]

|-
! October - November
| [[Mexico City]]
| [[International Renewable Resources Institute-Mexico]]
| 
*[[Biodigester follow up and maintenance with IRRI]]<br />
*[[Biodigester Effluent Fertilizer Quality Testing with IRRI]]
*[[Process for testing biodigester effluent fertilizer quality in lab with IRRI]]
*[[Biodigester effluent fertilizer quality parameters for testing with IRRI]]
|}

== Life Experience ==
*Helped design, test, and build a straw and clay slip wall with recycled glass bottles for CCAT's greens shed at HSU [https://www.appropedia.org/CCAT_Clay-straw_slip_wall].
*Took Lonny Grafman's Engineering 305 class learning about microhydro, solar panels, rainwater catchment, grey water systems, and electricity.  
* Currently in the Chiapas Program taking Engineering 114 and 480 with Lonny.
*I've volunteered at '''[[Potawot]]''', United Indian Health Center's food garden, with T and Ed. Potowat is an integrated vision of environmental health, community health, and personal health as it weaves together ecological restoration, native plant cultivation for the tribes traditions, food gardening, fitness programs, Diabetes patient programs, and a high tech health facility soon to be accompanied by a child center. 
[[Image:52860026.JPG|thumb|Fig 1: Potawot's herb garden.]]
*I've also interned at [http://arcatacsa.com/ Deep Seeded Community Farm]with Eddie Tanner.  Eddie, author of "The Humboldt Kitchen Gardener" and "Food is Good Medicine", not only offers interns a chance to get hands on experience, but he also gives weekly lecture/discussions on methods, soil fertility considerations, and more.  
*I'm a garden experimenter at home, in the middle of town I've got chickens and ducks, artichokes, fruit trees, and other perennials.  I love '''[[permaculture]]''' practices and watching [http://www.scottlondon.com/interviews/mollison.html Bill Mollison]videos.  
*I've collected polypore [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicinal_mushrooms Medicinal Mushrooms]that are a good overall health tonifier in Chinese medicine.  Polypore's like ganoderma help with blood circulation, fight cancer, strengthens the immune system,  detox, and regulates the liver and intestine. *I've been really inspired by Paul Stamens "Mycellium Running" and "Mushroom Cultivator".  I hope to work with [http://www.ted.com/index.php/talk/paul_stamets_on_6_ways_mushrooms_can_save_the_world.html?notice=Thanks!+You+have+successfully+subscribed+to+TED%27s+weekly+newsletter. mycological bioremediation]of heavy metal or oil contaminated areas in the future, especially in inner city areas being assessed for '''[[urban gardening]]'''.  
*I've tried '''[[food preservation]]''' at home so that I can eat local out of season.  I've made kimchi and pickles and frozen fruit. I've also made my own Kombucha and hard cider.

== Must Read == 
*''"Mycellium Running"'', by Paul Stamens [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI5frPV58tY]
*''"Biomimicry"'' by Janine Benyus
*''"Dreaming the Dark : Magic, Sex, and Politics"'' by Starhawk [https://starhawk.org/]
*''"Omnivores Dilemma" and "Botany of Desire"'', by Michael Pollen  
*''"Stuffed and Starved"'', by Raj Patel [http://web.archive.org/web/20210126202953/http://rajpatel.org/]
*''"Tao Te Ching"'' 
*''"A People's History of the United States"'', by Howard Zinn
*''"Radical Healing"'' by Rudolph Ballentine 
*now reading ''"The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism"'' , Naomi Klein [http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine]
*now reading ''"The Hope: A Guide to Sacred Activism"'', by Andrew Harvey [http://www.andrewharvey.net/TheHope.php]
*now reading ''"Earth Democracy"'' by Vandana Shiva [http://environmentalism.suite101.com/article.cfm/earth_democracy]

== Interests in Appropriate Technology ==
*'''[[Improved Cookstoves]]''',
health impacts, testing for efficiencies in combustion, helping build with the community

* '''[[Biodigestion]]'''
using the effluent in agriculture, testing the effluent as an aide to soil structure, 

*'''[[Rain Water Catchment and water Security]]'''
water rights and water independance with rain water catchment, either drinkable or water just for the garden, designs. 

*'''[[Permaculture]]''', 
Permaculture, or "permanent culture", is a set of food landscaping principles and practices that integrate different functions of nature and human use, that if separated as in our current culture lead to waste and problems, but when combined together are beneficial for the sustenance of each piece in the system. An example might be that '''[[aquaculture]]''' alone faces the problem of increased nitrogen build up, '''[[hydroponics]]''' alone faces the problem of severe nutrient and nitrogen depletion, when combined, aquaculture and hydroponics can turn problems into strengths for one another. Excess nitrogen from aquaculture feeds the hydroponic plants and the hydroponic plants clean the water by using the nitrogen and other sediments.  

Like most '''[[appropriate technology]]''' with permaculture there is no generalized practice that can be used for all environments and cultures.  Permaculture values native domesticated plant and animal varieties, seed saving practices by local farmers, and values the local farmer's wisdom and knowledge of the specific conditions of his land.  In a sense this means that permaculture can NOT be a corporate model that sells things to local farmers, but rather permaculture arises from those farmers living in the local environment. 

earthen water catchment [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPrfNVzDNME]
food forest [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBShBeC1f-Q&feature=related]
dryland permaculture [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W15RRvKyJSk&feature=related]
    
*'''[[Earthships]]'''
Earthships are passive solar buildings made of recycled and natural materials.  [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rWrIgtXTQ4&feature=related] 
Creator of Earthships [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRvTWlv_Jeg&feature=related]

*'''[[Natural building]] materials'''
Natural building materials including '''[[adobe]]''' sun dried mud bricks stuck together with mud mortar, '''[[cobb]]''' as much straw as possible mixed in a mud brick then stacked and sculpted into a wall, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rammed_earth rammed earth]earth rammed in wooden forms to make walls needing no external finishes, '''[[wattle and daub]]''' timber stakes inserted vertically have branches like willow woven around them then a muddy clay and straw mixture is applied, and [http://www.greenhomebuilding.com/earthbag.htm Earthbags] textile bags serve as a replacement for soils lacking enough clay to bind together, bags can be made of recycled clothes and packed full then plastered over so that as the textile decays the form will be left.  
*why earth traditional building [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZAeBN1chQg&feature=related]
*earthquakes and earth buildings [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLpJWG15A4Y]

== Experience in Appropriate Technology ==
*EXPERIENCE #1 Geodesic Bamboo Dome Green House, I helped build a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodesic_dome geodesic dome] based on the design by Buckminster Fuller [http://web.archive.org/web/20100505072912/http://www.bfi.org:80/our_programs/who_is_buckminster_fuller].  '''[[Bamboo]]''' were latched together in hexagons made out of triangles, this design helped keep tension in the structure even without an earthen filler.  A Plastic cover was fixed around it to keep in moisture and act as a green house in our garden.  It was light weight, cheap to make, easy labor, and could be deconstructed and reconstructed at other sites with the same materials. 

[[Image:100 0154.jpg|thumb|Our urban chickens find shelter and roost on the gigantic rosemary bush.]]
[[Image:Chicken_053.JPG|thumb|Water bin catchment near raised beds and future garden spot.]]

*EXPERIENCE #2 Chickens and Ducks integrated into a [http://web.archive.org/web/20100603083856/http://www.urbanecoist.com:80/planning-your-urban-garden-pollution-tolerant-perennials/ Perennial Urban Garden] at home.  We have two fruit trees as well as blueberry and service berry bush, artichokes, and herbs.  The chickens keep our lawn trimmed, they fertilize our soon to be garden, help prepare the spring garden by scratching it up with their claws, and help control the slug population in the yard.  The great thing about urban chickens and ducks is that we don't have to worry about raccoons or wolves the same as those out in the country.  We give the chickens scraps collected from restaurants around town and in exchange receive the tastiest eggs.  


[[Image:Lotsoflovechickens 087.JPG|thumb|Subterranean ceramic watering jug.]]
[[Image:Lotsoflovechickens_096.JPG|thumb|Indoor Herb Spiral Planter for apartments.]]

*EXPERIENCE #3 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=737EfIydJ5Y&feature=fvw Recycled Art] and Ceramics for the Garden. For recycled art I've made chimes out of chains and pipes, sculptures out of welded bike parts, blades, cans, plastic bottles and bags, and Christmas ornaments.  For ceramics for the garden I've made a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxQXtQwlcEs subterranean watering jug] that is buried in the earth with only a hole exposed for filling with water.  The clay has been fired without glaze thus it is porous enough for water to seep through and slowly water the adjacent plants for you over a long period.  I've also made an indoor [http://www.mitra.biz/howto_herbspiral.htm herb spiral] (when I thought I was going to live in an apartment), the herb spiral utilizes vertical space, as well as optimizes on the different drainage and sunlight needs of different herbs.

[[Category:Engr305 past students]]
[[Category:HSU Chiapas Program 2010]]