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Happy birthday Gas Tax, it’s time to go! | Chicago Center for Permaculture and Appropriate Technology
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Chicago Center for Permaculture and Appropriate Technology. Working to solve transportation, food, water management, and energy issues in Chicagoland. Happy birthday Gas Tax, it’s time to go! Traffic congestion (right) won’t change until we give transit infrastructure (left) a better footing on which to compete. Today’s apparently the birthday of the Yosemite National Park, NASA. And also the 18.4 cents per gallon federal gas tax. If it were sales tax based on the total cost of your fillup, this would be...
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Energy | Chicago Center for Permaculture and Appropriate Technology
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Chicago Center for Permaculture and Appropriate Technology. Working to solve transportation, food, water management, and energy issues in Chicagoland. Happy birthday Gas Tax, it’s time to go! Traffic congestion (right) won’t change until we give transit infrastructure (left) a better footing on which to compete. Today’s apparently the birthday of the Yosemite National Park, NASA. And also the 18.4 cents per gallon federal gas tax. If it were sales tax based on the total cost of your fillup, this would be...
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Inspiration + Education | Chicago Center for Permaculture and Appropriate Technology
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Chicago Center for Permaculture and Appropriate Technology. Working to solve transportation, food, water management, and energy issues in Chicagoland. Category Archives: Inspiration Education. An app to find places to see permaculture and appropriate technology firsthand. A screenshot of the Center for Permaculture and Appropriate Technology web app. You can demo the app. And leave a comment below with your suggestion about additional locations. (Not every location we’re listing needs to be pub...1 Why d...
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Water | Chicago Center for Permaculture and Appropriate Technology
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Chicago Center for Permaculture and Appropriate Technology. Working to solve transportation, food, water management, and energy issues in Chicagoland. Finding where permaculture and appropriate technology is “done”. The Wheels, Energy and Trash Hackathon. Is the second part of the Cleanweb Challenge. I spoke at an event on Earth Day. The Center for Permaculture and Appropriate Technology (C4PAT) proposal shares two of the three focus areas in Wheels, Energy and Trash: energy efficiency and using public t...
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What is permaculture? | Chicago Center for Permaculture and Appropriate Technology
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Chicago Center for Permaculture and Appropriate Technology. Working to solve transportation, food, water management, and energy issues in Chicagoland. Quite simply, permaculture. Is the human-constructed partnering of plants into communities that produce the greatest human benefit with the least amount of maintenance through emphasizing symbiosis. The websites Permaculture.org. And a fun thread at Permies.com. Offer great tips and techniques for building an environment based on permaculture principles.
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Car Free Living | Chicago Center for Permaculture and Appropriate Technology
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Chicago Center for Permaculture and Appropriate Technology. Working to solve transportation, food, water management, and energy issues in Chicagoland. Category Archives: Car Free Living. Happy birthday Gas Tax, it’s time to go! Traffic congestion (right) won’t change until we give transit infrastructure (left) a better footing on which to compete. Today’s apparently the birthday of the Yosemite National Park, NASA. And also the 18.4 cents per gallon federal gas tax. If it were sales tax based on the tota...
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Cost Mitigation Strategy | Chicago Center for Permaculture and Appropriate Technology
http://www.c4pat.com/2013/08/09/cost-mitigation-strategy
Chicago Center for Permaculture and Appropriate Technology. Working to solve transportation, food, water management, and energy issues in Chicagoland. The Center for Permaculture and Appropriate Technology’s cost mitigation strategy is divided into three sections: Design, Funding Plan, and Monetization. CPAT architects chose building designs and construction techniques to reduce the costs of constructing the project, and maintaining its structures and natural components. The geodesic dome is a great exam...
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Living Building Energy Calculations | Chicago Center for Permaculture and Appropriate Technology
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Chicago Center for Permaculture and Appropriate Technology. Working to solve transportation, food, water management, and energy issues in Chicagoland. Living Building Energy Calculations. Calculations of the site’s total square footage dedicated to solar panels include the roof structures of all buildings and levels. 100 SF of solar panel arrays is approximately 1,000 watts (1kWh per 100 SF). The following equation will be used to calculate the Solar Capacity of all panels on the CPAT site. Producing eno...
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