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Just letting everyone know the site and the app are back up - they've been down for a while due to a few technical difficulties (okay me not getting emails etc!!) - but all back up and running now :-) The Free Economy - web interface The Free Economy Android App Give it ago - let's build a sustainab...

Hey guys just letting you know the site is going really well and we've just launched an Android App as well https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.free.economy&hl=en We were even lucky enough to get a little bit of local press http://www.thechronicle.com.au/news/toowoomba-father-scot-...

Thanks everyone who'd been enquiring - the free economy site is back up and running - I'd just changed ISP's so had some downtime etc in the change over

http://www.free-economy.org/


Scot

Guinea fowl are popular here in Australia - apparently they don't scratch the garden but will pick out bugs to eat off the plants - and they chase snakes away -- I guess they're good pet/guard birds, I don't know what their laying is like though.

Scot

Yes good observation - and this is what will happen when we run out of fossil fuels, if nothing else can replace them

Scot

Okay thanks

Scot

The Riff-Raff Element wrote:I think this is called "re-inventing the wheel"

Oh I agree but at least now there's a comprehensive scientific study that supports it - so it's got to be pretty hard for various organisations to deny

Scot

I've just noticed one of my pineapple plants is fruiting (or is that vegetabling??) - this is the first time one of them has done that - any idea how long they take to mature. I'm in Brisbane, Australia - just heading into spring and summer now - presumably it would be till late summer? Also the pla...

Just getting back to the original post is there a way to integrate your time zone with your location? It would be interesting if when someone posts, the amount of hours difference between where they are and where the reader is reading from was displayed? I'm probably pushing the coding too far :lol:...

Has anyone seen there was a study recently completed by Iowa State University that concluded improved yields can be gained by longer crop rotation cycles that virtually removes the need for any fertiliser and chemicals. I'll quote a bit from the article in the New York Times; The study was done on l...

Mustardseedmama wrote:I very much want to join freecycle, and tried a few weeks ago, but I can't get logged in to the stupid thing! I sent the little email asking for help, and got back a confirmation of my freecycle name (?!). Urrrrrrgh!

Try free-economy.org -- logging in is optional

Scot

Hi Rachel - yes the original idea was to have something like that - but I thought not everyone would know their longitude and latitude - and we couldn't' find a list for enough towns in the world to make it worthwhile. However it's still a good idea and I think we need to bring in some kind of combi...

Hi guys I've now got the new version of the free-economy site launched http://www.free-economy.org - there'll be various bugs etc that will probably need ironing out - but most of the new features are all there. These include accounts and saved searches - and the ability to define projects. So for i...

Years ago (in the late 90's) I had an idea very similar to freecycle - but I didn't know how to implement it - a few years later a friend told me about freecycyle and I founded one of the first freecycle groups in Australia. Things started slowly and then took off quite quickly - and we rapidly beca...

I've given the front page a bit of a work over - the essential coding for the database is still the same - but if anyone notices any problems could you please let me know. There is now also a google group as the official discussion page for the project -- but here is fine as well :hugish: Scot :-)