07-14-2008, 12:12 PM
I remember seeing a program on TV right after China dropped the Bamboo curtain which showed the lifestyle of a "middle class" Chinese farm family. They showed the woman cooking on a wok which was fired with methane from her pig whose sty was right outside of the kitchen. Her chopping surface had a lidded hole in it which allowed her to directly feed the scraps to the pig. It was an elegant, simple system, although I don't know if I would want my pig so close; but the family said that that pig was what made them better off than their neighbors, in large part because they didn't have to buy coal to cook with. I really appreciate how "local" the system was. Fuel, food and waste disposal all in one place, right outside the kitchen door. I wish I remembered how they got and contained the methane from the pig poop.
Carol
Carol
Carol
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb