ATOCI: JOURNAL OF THE NEW ALCHEMISTS VII [JONA7]


Introduction--Nancy Jack Todd 4

NEW ALCHEMY 7
New Alchemy: Creation Myth and Ongoing Saga -Nancy Jack Todd 9
Farm Saturdays and Beyond 16
No Nukes — Nancy Jack Todd 18
Notes of an Alchemist's Apprentice — Nancy Wright 20
Book Reviews — Bill McLarney & Christina Rawley 22
Poem — James George 26
Costa Rica — Fish Culture — Bill McLarney 27

ENERGY 31

A Water-Pumping Windmill Primer - Gary Hirshberg 33
An Integrated Wind-Powered System to Pump, Store, and Deliver Heat and Cold Joseph Seale 43
Whatever Happened to Compressed Air?—Joseph Seale 49

LAND AND ITS USE 51
Further Experiments on the Effects of Mulches on Crop Yields and Soil Conditions - Susan Ervin 53
Tree Crops: Creating the Foundation of a Permanent Agriculture — Earle Barnhart 57
New Alchemy Tree Crop Research—Paula Gifford & Earle Barnhart 74

AQUACULTURE 77
Were Have All the Fishes Gone? John Todd 79
Peck's Milwaukee Sun 1877 82
Cage Culture — Bill McLarney & Jeffrey Parkin 83
Biological Filters, Water Quality and Fresh Water Clams Michael Stewart Connor 90
Solar Aquaculture 93.
Historical Overview Ron Zweig 93
The Dome as Nursery Ron Zweig 96
Summary of Fish Culture Techniques in Solar-Algae Ponds John Wolfe Ron Zweig 97
Sunlight Patterns Without, Chemistry Patterns Within: The View from a Solar-Algae Pond - John Wolfe, David Engstrom, Ron Zweig 100
The Energetics of Solar-Algae Pond Aquaculture - John Wolfe 106
Dreaming in My Own Backyard — John Todd 108

BIOSHELTERS 113
From Our Experience: The First Three Years Aboard the Cape Cod Ark - The staff of New Alchemy & So/search Architects 115

EXPLORATIONS 155
Sensitive Societies: A Biological Perspective - Ron Zweig 157
Near Horizon Economics and Renewable Resource Based Technologies - Joseph Seale 161
Learning and Unlearning: Some Patterns and Connections - Jeffrey Parkin & Sava Morgan 168
Reflections on the Chilean Civil War - Francisco Varela 177

Index 183