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Producing Plant Oil Fuel at the Folkecenter

By Rob Avis On November 2, 2007 In Alternative Fuels

Plant Oil Processing The Folkecenter has a demonstration lab which contains all of the equipment to press, filter and test vegetable oil for engine use. As Europe has pioneered the use of [...]

Wave Power at the Folkecenter and its potential in Canada – Updated!

By Rob Avis On October 29, 2007 In Structures & Energy Solutions, Water

I was sitting around on a Saturday Morning this weekend tired of looking at a computer screen so Melissa and I decided to go for a bike ride over to the Folkecenter Wave Energy test site. [...]

Growing Good Business Video Series – Part 3: Opportunities & Ideas

By Rob Avis On July 31, 2014 In Career & Business, Community Design, Permaculture Design Certificate, Permaculture Projects

Growing Good Business Video Series Part 3: So Many Opportunities, Where Do You Start? In 2007 we first watched – and were completely awestruck by – Geoff Lawton’s “Greening the [...]

Growing Good Business Video Series – Part 2: Mistakes & Barriers

By Rob Avis On July 23, 2014 In Career & Business, Community Design, Permaculture Projects

Growing Good Business Video Series Part 2: Hindsight is 20/20 – What The Permaculture Experts Learned the Hard Way In 2007 we first watched – and were completely awestruck by – [...]

Growing Good Business Video Series – Part 1: Success

By Rob Avis On July 15, 2014 In Career & Business, Community Design, Permaculture Design Certificate, Permaculture Projects

We travelled to the Permaculture Voices conference in Temecula, CA this past March to interview successful permaculture designers, teachers, farmers and business owners and get their top tips! [...]

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Our New Hot Water System: How and Why We Went Solar

By Rob Avis On July 24, 2012 In Methods of Design & Patterns, Permaculture Projects, Retrofit, Solar, Structures & Energy Solutions, Water

Over the past few years, our goal has been to slowly retrofit our 25 year old house into a little urban permaculture homestead. Most recently, we brought in Simple Solar to install a solar hot [...]

Biofuels – Fueling the World or Fooling the World?

By Rob Avis On December 21, 2007 In Alternative Fuels, Permaculture Vision & Values, Structures & Energy Solutions

An Emerging Wind Industry Amongst the Pyramids

By Rob Avis On November 16, 2007 In Structures & Energy Solutions, Wind

I recently embarked on a short, unexpected adventure to the ancient country of Egypt. The Folkecenter received a contract to teach a course in Cairo to a group of manufacturing companies looking [...]

A Windy Excursion with Rob’s Parents

By Rob Avis On November 6, 2007 In Structures & Energy Solutions, Wind

Rob and I were very happy to host Robs parents, Jon and Thea, for a few days here at the Folkecenter at the end of October. Keen to expose them to some of the neat things that we have [...]

Plant oil engines & plant-based fuels

By Rob Avis On November 1, 2007 In Alternative Fuels

One of the reasons that Michelle and I found the Folkecenter was because of plant oil. Just over a year ago, Michelle and I converted our VW Westfalia van to run on used vegetable oil, usually [...]

A Wind-Cooled Beer Fridge

By Rob Avis On October 30, 2007 In Food, Structures & Energy Solutions, Wind

As most of Robs friends and family know Rob has three loves in his life:

  1. 1) his wife, of course
  2. 2) good beer
  3. 3) Renewable Energy

The Biodome- Combining aquaculture and gardening is so smart!

By Rob Avis On October 28, 2007 In Aquaculture, Food, Gardening, Greenhouse, Plants & Living Systems

The Biodome is a large dome located here at the Folkecenter that combines a hydroponic greenhouse with an aquaculture system. It utilizes an integrated approach to water and nutrient reuse, [...]

Windsmithing – Not Recommended on a Windy Day

By Rob Avis On September 9, 2007 In Methods of Design & Patterns, Structures & Energy Solutions, Wind

The Nordic Folkecenter (NFC) is full of wind turbines, some big, some small and even more that don’t work. There is a Test Field with platforms and foundations for testing of electricity [...]

A Car Powered by Wind

By Rob Avis On August 26, 2007 In Alternative Fuels, Structures & Energy Solutions, Wind

Here at the Folkecenter there are numerous vehicles running on alternative fuels. Pure Plant Oil (PPO) There is a rape seed refinery here where they have the ability to press and filter rape seed [...]

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