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Hello Marcin,
I caught your response on Jeff Vails webpage.  I've been following the whole open source ecology and, resilent communities themes for a while.  Where is the E-Farm located? I may be interested in volunteering for some time.  I'm a 25 year old with a degree in Mechanical engineering currently employed at a power utility, but perhaps not for long. I've decided it is time to jump in the fray and begin making whatever changes I am able at the grassroot level. Which may mean helping transition our family farm to a more permaculture setup and local volunteering or perhaps another adventure?  So please let me know a little bit more about the potential oppurtunities and I'll let you know if it might work for me.  Regardless, what you guys are doing is so very important I wish the project the best of luck.
Nick
raaumn@hotmail.com


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Hi Marcin,
Thank you for the response.  I have been furiously digging through the open ecology weblog and am listening to an interview of you right now by Vinay Gupta , this is the most impressive project I've ever seen!! I'm so thankful to have found it.
I've been thinking along tangent lines for the last 5 years and have been struggling to find a way to start get inolved.  I thought intitialy that I would work at a power plant, gain engineering experience, buy land and build a permaculture project on the side. As it turns out this is too much for me to chew off at once.  I did gain some practical experience that may be of help in your project.  For example; I've done some energy project including 100kW wind turbine installations, I've convereted my 82 300D mercedes to run on veggie oil, and of course I work at a pulverized coal power plant.
I do have some experience with machine design.  For example I designed and had a hazel nut cracker built for a local permaculture group. Concering the ecology portion I put up a 3/4 acre garden this year and spent a lot of time canning.  Anyways I just find it so neat to find a group that is working on things I've only been dreaming about.  So lets talk via skype, I just got an account my number is nickr82.  I'm available anytime after work which is about 5:00 CT. I look forward to hear from you.
Nick
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