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  • We have solar panels and a backup battery for when the grid goes down. Our panels generate more than we generally use (we overbuilt on purpose) but we could run almost indefinitely as long as the panels are clear. There are two totes hooked up to a gutter on the back of our garage which provide 550 gallons of water storage that we use to water gardens and top up our duck pond. The ducks and chickens do most of our insect maintenance in the gardens.

    I'm working on additional shelving in our cellar in order to be able to store more of our canning from the gardens; most of the material is reclaimed pallet wood from a nearby business. We've also got two slightly damaged solar panels that I'd like to use to circulate the water in the duck pond - pump and lift to flow through some uphill garden space back down to the pond after it's been filtered by the plants - and to provide some power to the bird coop for water heaters and maybe a light source.

  • I'm planning to put solar panels on my bicycle cart so I can work in the wild.

  • I have planted a pedestrian browsable food garden along a busy sidewalk. I'm probably 5 years out from actual full tilt production.

    All my lawncare tools are manual or electric.

    I ride my bike to work when I can, its only 5 miles and 4 miles of it are on a car-free bike path. Another half-mile will soon be on a protected bike path in 2027.

    I have a subcompact car that gets ~42 mpg.

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