{"id":13695,"date":"2015-10-22T07:16:24","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T12:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13695"},"modified":"2015-10-22T07:16:24","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T12:16:24","slug":"flowing-toward-abundance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13695","title":{"rendered":"Flowing Toward Abundance"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tobyhemenway.com\/1234-flowing-toward-abundance\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flowing Toward Abundance<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"entry-meta\">Over the last year or so, a neighbor has stocked up eight or ten piles of firewood in his yard, probably fifteen or twenty cords. What\u2019s he going to do with it all? The house has a wood stove, but the family mostly uses the furnace, and burns wood only occasionally to get that cozy, fire-heated feel. It\u2019s going to take them a decade or more to go through all that wood. Some of it is split and stacked, while much of it is strewn over a substantial chunk of their yard.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The wood comes from another neighbor\u2019s multi-acre eucalyptus grove. Some of the trees are huge\u2014three or more feet in diameter, a hundred feet tall. The landowner, Lyn, can pull out seven or eight properly chosen big trees each year and still replace all that biomass in the next year\u2019s growth. It strikes me as a sustainable yield. Several neighbors rely on her for their winter wood; the lot pumps out a good fifteen cords a year, and in our mild climate, you can heat a 2000-square-foot house using only wood by burning about a cord and a half.<\/p>\n<p>The point of my little tale is this: My neighbor with the giant woodpile is thinking that the most secure source of wood is the store of it in his yard. But\u2014to put it in systems language\u2014that\u2019s focusing on stocks over flows. We tend to do that in this culture. However, the real wood storage is the woodlot in Lyn\u2019s yard: the standing, growing trees, getting bigger each year, healthy and enlarging rather than rotting and getting punky on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flowing Toward Abundance Over the last year or so, a neighbor has stocked up eight or ten piles of firewood in his yard, probably fifteen or twenty cords. What\u2019s he going to do with it all? The house has a wood stove, but the family mostly uses the furnace, and burns wood only occasionally to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[10119,10117,622,1149,650,7391,712,10118,3721],"class_list":["post-13695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-abundance","tag-flow","tag-permaculture","tag-preparation","tag-prepping","tag-scarcity","tag-security","tag-stock","tag-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13696,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13695\/revisions\/13696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}