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Mylar sheets, 3$ for enough to make one solar cooker at the craft store on Main between 15th and 16th, can't remember the name of it right now.

It's listed here as a reflector material for solar cooking. I can't really get 100% behind solar cookers as opposed to rocket stoves if they use tin foil, but I have no problem with repurposing this stuff.

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111129192433/solarcooking/images/e/e9/Table_of_Reflector_Materials.pdf

Hi, Jason - thanks for the response. I will aim to come to the next potluck. DWM

Hi Jason welcome to The Bioregional group I will be calling a get together and discussion once our Summer School is over June.
Kathryn

Now join the Main Street Neighbourhood. That's the village to be in!

Terrorist or Freedom Fighter? Ever the question. Harper's Ferry. That's where I saw the photo. A real hero, especially considering where he grew up. It's easy to be a hero if you have social support around you; he didn't, at all. He was in fact captured by the North (federal troops) and turned over to Virginia for the hanging. They say Brown started the Civil War, or at least his hanging did. In my book, he was a man with laudable conviction, a rare sort these days.

I'll certainly be at the potluck at Celia's, and I'd be happy to talk green renovation/restoration. I have been in construction since I was a kid and trained under PassivHaus builders in Austria. In my book, LEED is hardly green--as practiced here--and the BC building code is an abomination.

I am not a radical; it is just that North America, and especially BC, is 20 years behind the rest of the world. I am happy to give you advice and contacts, but have to say that the web and some common sense will guide you well these days. Philip Be'er, who will likely be there next weekend, is a certified home energy consultant, and has travelled and seen the light. We'll definitely get you started well, and well begun is half done.