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locaterobin / simple-chemicals.md
Created September 17, 2017 16:48
#notestoself #tips

easily available safe chemicals with tons of uses around the household

  • mag sulf (epsom salt)
  • hydrogen peroxide
  • acetic acid (vinegar)
  • potassium permangnate
  • alum
  • citric acid
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locaterobin / manifesto
Created September 10, 2017 05:37
#notestoself
I want to be able to write what I think or feel, without the pressure of thinking about it being read. Of course I can do this in a private journal but I thinking having what you think and feel in public domain might help me connect with others who are similar.
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locaterobin / 2017-09-10
Created September 10, 2017 05:34
#notestoself
I think as I grow older, I come face to face with the meaning of many of the phrases which I've just used. One of them being finding myself.
I've realized that if I take a step back from myself - more specifically, a step back from what I am trying to do - I can see what I do. Looking at that, I see that I am for sure not someone who can work along side people. I am not someone who enjoys building an organization or doing things in ways that things have been done in past. I am not someone who will not drop the ball on a conversation. This is not about whether my approach is good or bad, or efficient or not. But simply, what I do. Looking at it, I've to find out the path or carve out a path for myself which I can walk sustainably for the rest of my life to get to where I want to get.
So collaboration and organization building is out. I think I've always been a hacker, and I need to find a hack that will help the cause.
Also, anything which requires me to act in a time sensitive way is also not the best cou

The purpose of a seed ball is to make it easy to plant seeds without tilling the ground. If you're gardening in a no-till system, you can often just rake the mulch back and broadcast Mixing seeds for earth ballyour seeds on the soil surface, but sometimes your seedlings will perish if they dry out too fast due to sun exposure. Other times, birds come along and snack on the seeds --- this happened to me with some of my forest pasture plantings. If your seeds are enclosed in a ball of earth, they'll be a bit more protected without requiring you to dig up the ground to insert your seed.

In the fall, he seeded white clover, a winter grain (rye or barley), and rice all at once into a field. The seeds were rolled in balls of clay so that they could simply be dropped onto un-tilled soil rather than being pushed beneath the surface.

That autumn, the clovers and winter grains sprouted and grew while the rice seeds waited. The clover formed a groundcover beneath the rye or barley, crowding out weeds and fixing

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locaterobin / idea.md
Last active January 31, 2016 12:22
ideal living

ideal living place

  • let you lead and ideal life with an ideal lifestyle to maximise your efficiency, health and lower your survival's footprint.
  • lets you harvest water and food for human and non-human animals in that place.
  • provides medicine.
  • provides space for self care
  • provides you space for friends and those whom you want to help

ideal lifestyle

  • eat fresh food, fruit, herbs, natural body care
  • do yoga, meditation and excercise
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locaterobin / innovation-solutions.md
Last active February 2, 2016 14:57
innovation solution in india for india

for rural

  • water
    • dew
  • toilet
  • garbage
  • stove
  • water purification
    • corn
    • moringa
  • education
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locaterobin / general-enterprise.md
Created January 28, 2016 13:26
general enterprise idea

##compassion cafe

  • compassion cookies
  • seed cards by kids
  • liquid fert
  • inside out hand printed tshirts
  • newspaper in rice paste for posters

##other

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locaterobin / kids.md
Created January 28, 2016 13:23
how to help kids

I think I can work with regular and differently abled kids and help them via

  • teach sign language to kids who are mute
  • teach braile to kids wihout sight
  • then use technology like google gesture
  • then use ebooks to braile technology
  • toys! logic toys
  • arvind gupta toy maker
  • electronic scrap to toys
  • help them via enterprise like "human assisted internet"
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locaterobin / alternate-materials.md
Created January 28, 2016 13:20
research to help environment

##alternate materials

  • scoby
  • mushrooms
  • potato paper

##bio degrade regular materials

  • worms that eat styrofoam
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locaterobin / soil-fetility.md
Created January 28, 2016 13:18
how to increase soil fertility when you don't have cow dung
  • grow algae and use that
  • let weeds grow and keep moving them down. not only will green mulch help the top soil (weeds being up nutrients) .. the roots with break the tough earth. don't pull the roots, let them decay there.
  • attract worms and other insects using kitchen scraps.
  • if you have dog poop, black soldier fly larva can decompose it
  • mushrooms?