Tuesday 28 August 2012

So Many Projects, So Little Time...


It seems like I always has so many projects on the go that I do not know where to begin. I tend to start half a dozen things at once and slowly plod through them, some falling by the wayside to make room for new things and ideas. I love to think things through and solve problems, as well as loving to do things with my hands. I enjoy building things and learning new methods and ways of creating them. To that end I find myself here.

I am going to try to keep track of all of my endeavors, ideas, schemes, and projects here and will try to stay on top of keeping things updated. I tend to become obsessed about something very intensely for a while and then move one, only to return later on and work some more.

Here I will briefly go over some of the stuff I’m working on.

Community garden initiative – the Donation Garden Project I started in Huntsville ON, Canada. It is in its second year and currently has one active garden producing tomatoes, potatoes, broccoli, and squash. All of the produce grown is donated to a local women’s shelter and others in the community who need it.

Open source technology – I first learned about the open source movement in early 2011 and have since become active on the Open Source Ecology forums. On the forums people of varied background and skills come together to share ideas to create open source hardware that will be used to create sustainable communities in the future. My ongoing projects that tie in with OSE forums include a nearly completed solar foundry prototype for use in melting metals and glass as well as a new hammer mill design project.

Business modeling – I have been working on a cooperatively owned business model that would allow for equal wage and rights in a manufacturing or other business environments.

Other ideas – Preliminary brainstorming on a wake brake system for reducing harmful boat wake, locally sourced ethanol production, water/wetland restoration designs, street water runoff rafts, and there are too many others…

All in all there are a bunch of things that I would like to get done, and so little time to do them in. Lets see where it all goes!

~Danial

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