Increasing Production in a 2-Acre Fish Pond Using a Greenhouse Wetland Loop A Bright Meadow Group Systems Example Most pond operations are not limited by
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A note from the desk, for anyone whose project has gotten stuck in a way the manual didn’t cover. There are specialists in this world.
RJ doesn’t do a lick of work and I love him for it. I’m serious. Anyone who’s worked with RJ will tell you, very carefully,
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Low Nutrient Polluted Water Solution
The Orange Creek Problem: River Refugium for Acid Mine Drainage When polluted water can’t support its own cleanup biology, you have to prime the pump.
Why Permaculture’s Founding Principles Require Technology, Not Refusal A Cernunnos Foundation Position Paper on Permaculture and the Work of Restoration There is a sentence at
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Backfill: The Hole That Heals
A BMG Concept Brief on Closing the Reclamation Loop The first three pieces in this series argued that American landfills are inventory, that the cities
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The Tin Can Was Steel:
A Hidden Inheritance in American Landfills There is a story we tell ourselves about American industrial history that goes something like this: we used to
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Johnstown’s Next Mill:
A Proposal to Turn Closed Industrial Capacity Into the Region’s Material Recovery Sector A BMG Concept Brief Johnstown is a city built to process material
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Your Neighborhood Pond is GROSS!
Or: How to Turn a Retention Pond Into a Production System Instead of a Seasonal Mistake Your neighborhood looks excellent. Lawns cut like a golf
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Signal and Static:
A Gen-X Witness to the Compression of History I was born in 1972 to a working-class white family in a neighborhood that had only recently
Across thousands of years of human history, one idea appears again and again in different forms: a portion of what we produce belongs to the
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The Battery Supply Starts in the Trash
Trash Is a Battery Resource We’re Throwing Away Every time we talk about batteries, the conversation goes the same way. Lithium.Cobalt.Nickel.Rare earths.Supply chains.China.Mines. We argue
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Open-Source Think Tank
An Open-Source Think Tank (By Accident) Someone said it offhand while we were talking business over coffee: “You talk like your company’s an open-source think
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The Will Allen Model, Extended
A Five-Acre Regenerative Urban Farm for Maximum Food Production This system is built on the core insight demonstrated by Will Allen: Living soil and living
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A Different Way to Think About Data Centers
A Local Ownership Model for Johnstown and Cambria County (This could work anywhere and should. Also site selection on the image was for convenience. No
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River Refugium Project- simplified
Making the World Better, One Simple System at a Time At the heart of the Cernunnos Foundation and our e-zine, The Blue Ribbon Team, is
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Open Source the Future: Why Food, Water, and Healthcare Knowledge Must Belong to Everyone
Open the Knowledge or Admit the System Is a Lie Capitalism, regulated trade, markets—fine.I’m not here to argue against exchange or incentive. Capitalism is very
On Change, Systems, and Learning How the World Actually Works Everything is about water. Most people hear that and think I’m talking about survival. Drinking
“I Am an Edge Species.” People ask me what niche I fill.What role I play.What “space” Bright Meadow Group occupies in the consulting world. Here’s
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THE RIVER OF WASTE:
Why America Must Stop Throwing Away Its Industrial Future Lead Article in the River Refugium Project Series We’re Looking at the Mississippi All Wrong Every
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Introducing the River Refugium Project
A Bright Meadow Group overview Every once in a while, a project grows large enough that you have to step back, take a breath, and