Dear Friends, I write to all of you to give you again my thanks for your support to our projects and needs. It has been very difficult to expand your knowledge to lots of people but I have at least been able to reach to some hearts in Peru. I promote the ecological building and living to everyone I meet and know and some have really started to think about the damage we do to Mother Earth in our everyday lives and how we can minimize our impact, even if it is slowly and gradually. Thanks to the support of all of you (and of some other helpers to which I have unfortunally lost contact with because of webviruses and alike), I have been able to start a small library of ecological building, Permaculture, composting, water treatment, renewable energy and related. This library I keep free to everyone interested (and to those not interested, I make them interested). Let people burrow the materials they need and give advice in what I can. We have still not been able to develop something tangible because of the lack of resources and trust by local people, but I know that this will come soon. What matters till now is that people have started to get some ecological consiusness and education, the application of the knowledge will come after. The books I received until now are:
The beauty of Strawbale Houses by Steen,
The cobbuilders Handbook by Becky Bee,
The Cobbers Companion by Michael Smith,
The Composting Toilet System book by David del Porto,
How to play djembe and congaDrumming by Alan Dworsky,
Goodbye to the flushtoilet by Carol Huppingstoner,
The solar greenhousebook by James C. Mc Cullagh,
The Earth Sheltered House by Malcolm Wells,
Agricultura Sostenible by Alejandra Caballero,
Build your own Earth owen by Kiko Denzer,
The complete hydraulic ram manual by Tom Moates,
Building with Strawbales- a practical guide for the UK and Ireland by Barbara Jones,
Earth Plasters for Strawbale homes by Keely Meagan,
Permaculture Design Course by Yankee Permaculture
Building Technology Files by Csiro
The Humanure Handbook by Joe Jenkins
Balance Point by Joe Jenkins
Mud bricks notes, Owner Built Mudbrick, Solar Water Heater by Earthways Farm
Rabit Production by Mcnitt
The 50$ and up underground House Book,
The Worth of Water by John Pick Ford
Basic plumbing by Sunset,
Basic Masonry Techniques,
The practical Encyclopedia of Natural Healing by Mark Bricklin,
Handbook of Homemade Power by Mother Earth News,
The art of Natural Building by Kennedy, Smith and Wanek,
Build it yourself Homestead,
Serious Strawbale by Lacinski Bergeron,
The Natural Housebook by David Pearson,
The basic of Organic Gardening by Robert Rodale,
Alternative Housebuilding by Mike Mc Clintock
How to live without electricity and like it by Anita Evangelista,
Building with Earth by Paulina Wojcciechouska, Build your Ark by Geri Welzel Guidetti,
Grow your own House by Simon Velez,
Create an Oasis with greywater by Oasis Design, Consumer Handbook of Solar Energy by John Keyes,
How to make a rope-and-washer pump by Robert Cambert,
Producing your own Power,
Building with Vision by Watershed Media
Farming with the wild by Daniel Imhoff
Solar Living Source book
Ceramic Houses and Earth Architecture by Nader Khalili
El árbol y el niño
Manual para autoconstructores Laká Uta,
+ lots of leaflets, magazines, copies and a couple of other books that I have forgotten to put here.
I will try to gather more material for these center of education and want you to know that without your help this wouldn´t have been possible. Some of you have donated lots of material, and some helped with links or other kind of help. I give you all my most deeply thankfulness and wish you the best. Lots of Peace and happiness to you all, may you all enjoy the benefits of real happiness, real calm of spirit and love.
Great healing energy to our Mother Earth,
Pedro.