Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960904130751.26170E-100000@ava.bcc.orst.edu> Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 13:10:54 -0700 From: Larry Daley <mailto:daleyl@BCC.ORST.EDU> Subject: Re: Permaculture Swale & Pond Building Workshop mailto:@ Rodale To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
Carol:For what its worth, if you are a non-profit organization, i don't see anything wrong with telling us about your meeting.
But then what does an old plant biochemist know?
Larry Daley
On Wed, 4 Sep 1996, Carol Brown wrote:
> Response to Runs With Scissors- Swale construction IS an appropriate
> topic for a compost list. The Clean Washington Center and E & A
> Environmental Consultants in Seattle, WA are in the middle of study
> looking at the use of compost in bioswales and the preliminary results
> look very promising!! These kinds of workshops and opportunities to
> share research focus and information is the reason I stay on this list- not
> to read about individual problems with how to construct worm bins and
> whether grass is a "greeen or a brown"!!!
>
> Let's be a bit more open to sharing and learning.....
>
> >>> Runs With Scissors <mailto:gozer@oro.net> 09/03/96 06:06pm >>>
> Tabloid reporters were flabbergasted when Rebecca Haring wrote:
> > Rodale Institute to Hold Permaculture Swale and
> > Pond Building Workshop
>
> > Everyone is invited to enroll in the pond and swale building workshop
> > October xx-xx. All meals are included in the three-day admission
> > charge of $300. Lodging is available close by. Enrollment is limited.
> > Please call Rodale Institute at xxx-xxx-xxxx for information and
> > reservations.
>
> While admirable, this is off-topic for the compost list.
> Additionally, internet email is an inappropriate forum for unsolicited
> advertising.
>
> Please refrain from emailing unsolicited advertising in the future.
>
> > Rodale Institute is an independent, non-profit public charity,
> > under sections 501(c)3 and 509(a)2 of the IRS code.
>
> I still don't want to see your advertising.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> mailto:gozer@oro.net
>
> -- Floatmeal: the missing bits of precision in a Pentium FDIV operation.
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