Evening quarry pictures. !!

 You can see the effect of the blasting

 You can see the small crushing / milling machine and Yesso ready for "trucking out".

This is the "restored" area at the back of the hill.

I do not think that it is right for the quarry to remove this hill. Maybe we can save it.

 View from above Los Molinos

 View from the road

Closer to the quarry.

The Bath has arrived. ! I am with Silviu on my I Pad. Silviu is with Julio in Ecuador. !

Morning walk pictures.

 "Away from it all" Country Property. !

Looking down the river to La Casa De La Realidad.

The "cave" dry food store is shaping up under th hands of Said and Lucas.

 Beginnings

 Dogs doing a smell check. !

Dashinka, Lucas and Said. I think that we will have a roof in a day or two. !

Just a little bit of rain, 2mm. !

 The garden, and Lucas, Andreea and dogs walking up after the rain. !

Not exactly wet, but damp. !

Ordering wood for Winter, Gardening and Wi Fi electrics.

 Pedro's wood supply in Alfaix.

 Dario cleaning the paths and enjoying the garden.

 Andreea doing a little pruning.

Peter is installing an additional router for more Wi Fi outside the front of the house.

Country property and Dashinka and Shwartzki

 A nice little country property.!

 Schwartzki.

Dashinka.

September 3rd 2013. A beautiful morning and some building work.

 A beautiful morning. It seems like an early Autumn. Only 26 degrees today. !

Lucas and Said building "the cave".

September 3rd 2013 update

The Casa De La Realidad is quietening down now. We had a super busy August with people visiting and coming to stay. We were averaging around 15 to 20 in the house for a couple of weeks. 

Silviu has just left for Ecuador. We will see him back in December. 

Now we have Andreea, Lucas, Ivi, Peter and myself living in the house. 

Said is working with Lucas on the new "cave store". Said is living in Gotcha.

You can see the "Dutch" houses of "Little Amsterdam" in the far background, then Graham and Alice's house, and the Casa De La Realidad in the foreground. The second picture shows the Hueli quarry eating away at the mountain. !

A new Paella dish and an excellent Paella fromEnrique. Muy Bien. !!

Good evening to you all. I found a new path this evening giving us some new perspectives on the valley. Still no rain. !!

Here we are, Mira and myself. ! Still no rain. Just a little thunder and lightning last night. Maybe tomorrow, or maybe tonight. !!

It's all pretty dry. We still have a good flow down the irrigation Line but we have no more holes to fill. Any leaks are very minor. This is it: ! Right now a storm is approaching with thunder and lightning and it has just started to rain, I am keeping my fingers crossed for a lot of litres of rain per square meter over the next few days.

 This is the main water entrance for the Irrigation Line.

 You see the flow from "The Naciamento" has nearly stopped.

 This is "the stream" from the Nacamiento,

 Not much water. !

I am now up on the "plateau". Very dry. !

The beams for the new bath are now set. We are starting the new "cave" food store. ! Said is the "cave" Maestro. !

Here are Neo and Tao, the children of Idris and Katya. Nice floor too. !!

This is a good picture of Ed sanding the floor. That was a big job. !!

These are the beams for the "split level", bath platform. Peter is the Maestro on this job. We are waiting for the bath to arrive in Sorbas.

This was another good ceremony with Mira. We even had a light rainfall early in the moning. As you can se we need more.rain. !!

Hello All,

I apologize for the lack of posts over the last few weeks. I am "back on the case".

This morning I took some frog poison with Mira. It seems to have stimulated me to get "on the blog". !!

The Australian Earth Law Alliance have asked me to speak at their   Conference, so, on September 23rd, I am off to Brisbane. !!

Wild Law Conference 2013

"Living within our ecological limits: law and governance to nurture the Earth Community", 27-29 September, Southbank, Brisbane

 

Dashinka and Favia

In the river

First load of Winter wood.

Ed has been sanding down the floor. Good job. !

Maybe I will be a speaker at the Australian Earth Laws Alliance Conference. Well, I'm "up for it". ! I am not sure if I am a bit too full on, radical. We shall see.

This is an "abstract" that I have written for the Australian Earth Laws Alliance Conference in September.

"How can human societies learn to live within their ecological limits.?"

Clearly we need to learn how far outside of ecological limits that we are living. We need to understand that it is not MONEY that supports our lives, it is NATURE that supports our lives.

This is not the time to be "pussyfooting" around the reality of the situation in which we find ourselves. We must disregard misinformation fed to us by the vested interests of Governments who endeavor to fulfill their mandates on the back of ecological collapse.

To illicit change we must understand the reality of our situation. We need to be prepared to stand up as individuals to meet the challenges and changes that we will all have to make for our survival.

We need to be clear on the situation within which we find ourselves before we can decide on what we are going to do to enable our survival.

We will then learn to live within our ecological limits, or we will die. !

"How do we reign in humanity’s use of the Earth and create governance systems that nurture, rather than destroy, the natural world?"

We will have to create new LAW. We will have to criminalize the destruction of Ecosystems.

We will have to re-write company law and make it the first objective of any company or corporation to protect the four elements which enable us to live on this planet.

We have to find a new source of abundant, free energy.

We have to dismantle our World Financial System and create a system of equitable sharing and protection of Natural Prosperity. Our present system of inequity must be resolved to enable our survival.

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There is always plenty of space for what I call "righteous indignation", however, I feel that the time is now right to look forwards and to meet our challenge for survival "head on".

I am just back from Ecuador where I have been meeting with the leaders of the Shuar tribe threatened by cultural extinction from a mega copper and gold mine. No "righteous indignation" there. They are looking for a way forwards. We must do the same.

All the best to you from a sunny afternoon in Southern Spain.

David.