2005-12-26

Posted at 18:21 UT by Tamara

From the Ground Up
Creating Energy Self Reliant
Environmentally Friendly
Homes, Gardens, and Systems

Architectural Prototype Designs

The Art Institute of San Francisco has completed
another round of innovative,
Green Architectural Designs for the series
From the Ground Up,
which will be featured in segments
205, 206, and 207
and will be featuring products and manufacturers
being highlighted in the series.

Ecotimber is featured in several of the designs utilizing bamboo for flooring, ceilings, walls, and bookcase insets.

Absolute roofing is being featured with roofing slates created from recycled automobile tires.

Americh, and Zuma are being featured for bathroom tubs, whirlpool tubs, and sinks.

Toto is being featured for water saving toilets, as well as kitchen and utility room sinks.

Trex composite decking is being featured for exterior walkway decks.

Quietside is being featured for radiant floor heating systems in several of the homes that are utilizing cement as a flooring.

Jeld-Wen Aurolast doors, and windows, as well as hand carved wooden doors have been utilized, and arched windows and doorways have been selected.

Milgard Vinyl windows are being utilized in a custom conservatory space on the rooftop patio area.

Admiral Sunrooms is being featured for a sunroom on the northern shaded side of the rooftop patio area, as well as a stand alone gardening room on the terraced mountain top.

Velux Skylights are also being featured in the baths, kitchens, and the rooftop patio areas

Rastra block is being featured to create pool walls, fireplace areas, and garage and battery storage areas.

Gopla is being utilized for driveway and parking retention systems.

D Rainwater tanks by Funke are being featured to hold and store rainwater collection systems which will be buried, and hidden on the rooftop under seating areas, to help provide some gravity feed water to home, fountains. and gardens.

Dimension One Spas is being featured for a ground level exterior patio spa.

Energy systems are featuring Xantrex 48 volt inverter and Blue Sky Energy Charge Controller

Design Prototypes will be continuing for another 4 months in what will be the finishing rounds of initial design concepting, with elements then to be drawn up and selected for submission to the Planning and Building department of Santa Cruz County, which will be providing essential engineering commentary prior to being delivered up for blueprint stages of the building project.

Other manufacturers of energy efficient, environmentally friendly product are continuing to come into the series for consideration by the architects and to be incorporated into the prototype designs, and all are encouraged to send their brochures and information to the production studios by contacting the Producer at TamaraLynnScott@gmail.com.

2005-12-10

Posted at 23:45 UT by Tamara

From the Ground Up
Creating Energy Self-Reliant,
Environmentally Friendly,
Homes and Systems

Segment 203 is currently being produced to
highlight the native plants of the area
as self-reliant, once established,
requiring no added soil amendments,
established in native soils.
Some naturally deer and drought resistant.

Completion of the Segment is currently
estimated in mid January,
with airings anticipated in early April.

Several Native Plant Nurseries have provided
the plants,
Central Coast Wilds,
and Elkhorn Slough,,
and local Botantist, Valerie Hailey,
demonstrates useful planting placements
and procedures.

The Watershed Project Volunteers,
from San Lorenzo Valley High School,
are on-hand to assist with the planting,
and to help enclose a small area
where the deer loving roses,
and other delicious natives
are being planted.

Posted at 02:48 UT by Tamara

Peace on Earth,

Toy Soldier,
Babes in the Woods,
In Toyland,
In shoulds,
In a world of woulds
If only we make,

Peace on Earth.

Fighting to regain,
To remain,
To refrain,

Peace on Earth.

2005-12-02

Posted at 01:10 UT by Tamara

From the Ground Up
Creating Energy Self-Reliant,
Environmentally Friendly,
Homes, Systems, and Gardens

Interviews at Central Coast Wilds Native Plant Nursery with Josh Fodor

A few of the Native Plants
discussed for inclusion
in the forty acres of prototype Gardens
being created for the Broadcast Cable Series,
From the Ground Up,
are including
the following plants.

SEGMENT 194 Interviews at Central Coast Wilds Native Plant Nursery
with Josh Fodor

6 1g Artemesia douglasiana,MUGWORT

6 1g penstemon het blue bedder

6 1G Ribes sanguineum Currant

6 1G Rosa californica ROSE

6 1G Epilobium canum FUSHIA

6 1g Salvia apiana SAGE

6 1G salvia mellifera SAGE

4 1g Sambucus mexicana

Fragaria vesca, the wood strawberry

Arbutus menziesi, madrone edible berries

Arctostaphylos andersoni, manzanitas

Corylus cornuta hazelnut,

Juglans californica, the black walnut

Rhaminus californica, the coffeeberry

San Buchus Mexicana, the BLUE Elderberry

For wetland areas
Food and jams out of the berries
It can grow rapidly.
Some natives in dry areas can
grow very slowly.

Some Plants won't require any
water.

Like

Salvia Melifera, the Black Sage

Occurs in Chapperel
And coastal scrubs.

You can use it in your cooking.
but, it's not as good as the white sage,

Salvia apeanna, the White sage

It occurs all the way down to southern California,

For cooking medicinal effects, it's all about the volatile oils.

White sage might be in dryer southern California.

Black sage grows in a moister place.

Sage has an uplifting,
bright feeling for the landscape,

Another Related Plant,

Artemesia Douglesiana, Mugwort,
Commonly referred to as Coastal Sages,
There are several varieties of Artemesia in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

Known for its medicinal usages.
It grows In wet and seepy areas,
But it can also grow
In hot areas of santa cruz.

It will brown up a little
if you give it zero water.

If you water it just once a month,
deep,
That can keep it going
through all the dry season.

Mugwort is also used as a dream enhancer.
Many make Mugwort Pillows.

It makes dreams more vivid.

So planting this right outside your bedroom would be a good place.

It can be used in a liver formulation.
It's also generally used for the stomach.
A poulstice of it
people will rub on the skin
for minor skin abrasions
or even poison oak.

Ribys malvaceum - a flowering current,

It will have pink or white flowers,
It gets pretty good stature,
It's a good space filling shrub.

Ribes include both flowering currents,
And the gooseberries.

They are edible berries.

You can make jelly out of them.

The Difference between a current and a gooseberry,
is that the Currents don't have any spines on the stems or the leaves,
whereas gooseberries will always have prickelly hairs on the stems and the leaves.

Will the deer like to eat them?

The deer will potentially taste any
native plant in your garden.

Depending on where you are,
the deer may prefer one thing,
or the other.
They may chew your ivys down.
Or not.

What we've found out is that if
you're willing to wait and watch,
Ssometimes they've just pruning
for you and stimulating the plants.
So you don't have to build a
10,000 fence.

"Do all the birds like to eat the currents off them?

The birds definitely like to eat the berries, and that's one reason for planting a species such as this, as food for wildlife, birds, insects.

Other animals find cover under it, squirrels, rabbits.

You've got to get out there early to fend off all the other creatures and get your own share of the bounty before it's all gone.

This one, again,
is going to need once a month,
deep watering.

This can grow in sun or shade, both.

Often its found under a california oak,

Excellent as mixed woodland in your residential landscape.

Most plants you can take cuttings of.

Our preferred method is always collecting the seeds,
In this case,
collecting the berries and bringing them into the nursery environment,
and Treating them, if they need treatment,
Propogating them in flats,
and then transferring them out.

Treatments
are sometimes, just letting them age,
and the rotting, fermenting berry
is what is stimulating the seedcoating inside to germinate

So it can be time.

Ceanopus,
which is another blue blossom shrub
needs hot water treatment.

We take boiling water and pour it over the seeds and let that sit until it cools.

Time and Temperature fluxuation trigger these events in the wild.

Stratification is the typical term to describe temperature flucuation, moisture fluctuation.

It can just be sitting in the duff in the moisture of the forest floor,
and in time it is breaking down the seed coat,
Or an animal can eat it.

The heat of an animal.

The stomach acids in particular,
breaking down the seed coat.

Penstemon heterophylus hybrid,
native, a blue bedder,
is great to plant en mass.
You get great blue purpelish flowers.
It's a Perrineal.
Long lived.
Very drought tolerant.

It will flower and do well with zero water.
But if you want to extend it's flowering,
give it a deep watering once a month.

Use the Leaves fresh,
macerating with oil,
as a salve for minor skin irritations.

It has natural vitamin E oils.

It has natural Antibacterial properties.

It has more of a Mutilagenous type of effect to knit together and bind wounds.

Hazelnut Corylus cormula,

Likes shade or , dappled sun.

It produces the famous Hazel nut.

This is the Californianative variety,
different from the eastern variety,
and doesn't produce quite as many nuts.

You really have to do battle with the squirrels to get your share of them.

They will have a little Pod and a fuzzy coating to it, and the nut is inside is entirely edible.

Add them to your salads for your protein.

These can get quite large, Up to 12 to 15 feet.
But typically you can keep them in the 5 to 7 foot range,

They do well with trimming.

They have a Simple open structure.

Be ready to harvest them as soon as possible

Oaks supply a major form of starch.

American Indians leached it.

Native woodland strawberries, in the oak woodland.
spread runners.
Take the nubs and plant them,

Like all native plants,
they can survive
with the native water flow in California.

RibesVibercarumthe Gooseberry
menziesi, californicum

Sal epilobia, the hummingbird fuschia,

Is used as a bitter,
for the liver,
and induces vomiting,
Purging poisens.

The Bay tree produce fruits,
and a husk like a walnut.
Don't eat the husk.
Age them like walnuts for several months.
Peel off the slimy mess,
roast in the oven, or over the fire.
Or Hose off the husks.

It's like a Roasted coffee bean,
good with chocolate.

Rhamnus californica, the Coffeeberry,
is a Laxitive.
eat the fruit as a medicinal and effective Jam.

Rheumatism tea from the bark,
helps reduce swelling.

Contact the California Native Plant Society
at CNPS.org
Guildelines for landscaping.

California WALNUT TREE,
Juglans californica
is used for root stock for the English walnut.

Interviews at Central Coast Wilds Native Plant Nursery with Josh Fodor.

2005-12-01

Posted at 06:15 UT by Tamara

Mosaics of Recycled marble, stone, tile, and wood
are laid out
on a 40 acre mountain top with
prototype, energy efficient gardens,
featuring Native Edible Plants.

Plantings are occurring
when the rains have deeply saturated the soils.

Mosaics help keep weeds down,
and preserve water.

2005-11-30

Posted at 23:27 UT by Tamara

Bear takes center stage
in a festive red Christmas quilt
created of re-cycled sweaters.

Posted at 17:24 UT by Tamara

Original Computer Artwork of
Tamara Lynn Scott

Posted at 17:19 UT by Tamara

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Poems to the Earth
International Environmental Film Festival
2001 Honorable Mention

Poems to the Earth
International Environmental Film Festival
2001 Honorable Mention

Original Photography and Prose of
Tamara Lynn Scott
Images of Windmills
from the Island of Oland,
Sweden

We Capture From Our Shores
Clean Air
Clear Hearts,
Clean Energy.

An Engine,
Eternal,
That Always Works.

In The Brilliant Splash of Light
and Life,
Always Moving,
and in all Movement,
the Energy of all Life.

Posted at 16:53 UT by Tamara

Poems to the Earth
International Environmental Film Festival
2001 Honorable Mention

Original Photography and Prose of
Tamara Lynn Scott
Images of Windmills
from the Island of Oland,
Sweden

Skeletal Arms Still Embrace The Seas,
And in Quiet Dream still Unfurl.

And Dance in White Whisperings,
Song of the Winds,
Songs of Old,
Ancient,
Retold,
Re-newable,
Non-Finite.

Posted at 16:42 UT by Tamara

Poems to the Earth
International Environmental Film Festival
2001 Honorable Mention

Original Photography and Prose of
Tamara Lynn Scott
Images of Windmills
from the Island of Oland,
Sweden

Posted at 04:44 UT by Tamara

Doorways into the ancient imbued,
From the Stave Viking Temples of Norway
Serpentine Roof
Piercing the water and sky,
Time drifts by
Clang of steel
Restless Waves

Images from the Series:

Great Getaways of the World
Norway

Posted at 04:20 UT by Tamara

Great Getaways of the World

Viking Temples of Norway
Stave Kirke

The most impressive and aweful sights,
The carved Kirke of Viking Temples,
Whose doorways and rooflines are adorned
By the sailing Serpents,
Ships of the Vikings
Set Sail Still
over crosses of time.

Images of Viking hewn wooden doors
Stave Temples of the Vikings
From the series
Great Getaways of the World
Norway.

Posted at 03:06 UT by Tamara

Midnight hour at Hopperstad,
Among the ghosts and Vikings,
that still haunt the grounds,
In life,
In limb,
In memories born
and born again.
What does not die,
Comes visiting
in Midnight light,
in graveyard stones.

Image of Hopperstad,
Viking and Pagan Temple
of Norway

From the Segment Norway
Great Getaways of the World,
Norway

Posted at 02:35 UT by Tamara

Sod Roofed homes of Norway
are the inspiration behind the prototype
home featured in the series
From The Ground UP
which is currently airing
Green home designs
Created by the Art Institute of San Francisco
to educate the public on creating
Energy Self-Reliant Homes And Systems.

2005-11-29

Posted at 22:20 UT by Tamara

From the Ground Up
Creating Energy Self-Reliant,
Environmentally Friendly,
Homes and Systems

Fourty Acre Mountain Top Site
on which is currently in production
Segments which are highlighting
the Native Plants of the area
to demonstrate plantings with the seasons
of rains to maximize plant successfully
establishing without manual watering.

Native Plant Nurseries and botanists have
been interviewed on the plants chosen to
provide medicine, food, and teas primarily.

In keeping with Self-Reliant Gardening,
special attention is being paid to
deer resistancy,
water efficient usage, seasonally provided
low maintainence,
and self propagating species .

Techniques of creating,
and utilizing all food waste,
Composting methods,,
Usage of Coffee Grounds and
On-Site Debri,
as supplements to soil,
is now currently underway.

Also the usage of materials to prevent
undergrowth along walk-ways,
effective for maximizing water to plantings
is being demonstrated.
Recycled materials as walkway art,
as well as on-site paving materials of wood
are being featured.

Posted at 06:11 UT by Tamara

From the Ground Up
Creating Energy Self-Reliant,
Environmentally Friendly,
Homes and Systems

Fourty Acre Mountain Top Site
On which will be constructed
a Passive, Solar Photovoltaic
2 bedroom,
2 bath home
which will feature

Rainwater collection systems and
underground water storage,

Photovoltaic generation of electricity.

Radiant Floor Heating utilizing
Passive Solar Heated Water,

Passive Gravity Feed Water Systems

Eco-Friendly Timber

Water saving Toilets and

Composting Toilets

Slate looking Roof of Recycled, non-gassing, Automobile Tire Rubber

Cement formed walls of Styrofoam moldings

Energy Saving Windows and Doors

Environmentally Friendly materials

Posted at 05:34 UT by Tamara

From the Ground Up
Creating Energy Self Reliant
Environmentally Friendly
Homes and Systems
is currently airing segments featuring
The Art Academy of San Francisco
Prototype homes designed for the series.

Marble Mosaic groundwork
Use of recycled materials.

2005-11-27

Posted at 23:17 UT by Tamara

International Environmental Film Festival 2003
Honorable Mention
for
Interviews at Monterey Bay Aquarium
The Seafood Watch Program

Segment 21 of the Series
Tamara Lynn Scott
Friday evenings, 5:30 p.m.
Cable 27, Santa Cruz, California
Nationwide on Public Access Cable

2005-11-26

Posted at 01:37 UT by Tamara

Cities of the Maya, Palenque
Tomb of Pacal
Temple of Inscriptions
From the Series: Cities of the Maya
Original Photography and Video of
Tamara Lynn Scott

Posted at 01:08 UT by Tamara

Great Journeys - Photo Essays
Cities of the Maya
Chichen Itza
Main Pyramid - The Castillo
From the Series: Cities of the Maya

Posted at 01:03 UT by Tamara

Great Journeys - Photo Essays
National Bison Range
From the segment: Great Getaways
Montana

Posted at 00:13 UT by Tamara

Great Lighthouses
of the Western Coast.
Pidgeon Point
California
From the Series Segments: Great Getaways of California

2005-11-24

Posted at 01:56 UT by Tamara

Each Day is a Grace
Golden Wings,
Sunset Waves,
Mind Remains
Entuned,
Entoned,
Entamed.

Every Day is a Grace.
To those who see
Who quickly fly
To all gone by
To all that remains.

Each Day has a Face.

Each face is a place
We have to learn
We are to why.

Each Day
Each hour.
Each minute
Each find.

2005-11-23

Posted at 21:09 UT by Tamara

Much more to be thankful for
Than to complain against.
More light than dark.
More heart than stark.
More feeling than art.
More more.
More more.

Harvest of the soul delight,
The ancient grains,
Of golden corns,
Of spirit gains,
And golden worns.

Come to me
Regress a me.

Posted at 20:20 UT by Tamara

Thanksgiving Prayer

Every day,

A grace.

Every heart,

A place.

Every mind,

A chase

Of real

And

Real.
 
 

Every thought,

A true.

Every act,

A do.

Every One,

A clue,

To all

We are

To be.
 
 

2005-11-22

Posted at 03:43 UT by Tamara

International Environmental Film Festival 2004
Florida's Endangered Species
Interviews at Flamingo Gardens
DVD Masters of the Broadcasts,
complete with Broadcast Slates and
ready for submission to your own local
Public Access Cable Station

Posted at 03:09 UT by Tamara

Original Computer Animation
Witness
Tamara Lynn Scott
One World Concerts

Posted at 02:57 UT by Tamara

International Environmental Film Festival
Honorable Mention
Interviews at John G. Shedd Aquarium – Endangered Species – Corals and Sea Turtles
Available as DVD Master with
Broadcast Slates
Ready to submit to your own
local, Public Access Broadcasting Stations.

Posted at 01:30 UT by Tamara

International Environmental Film Festival
Honorable Mention
Poems to the Earth
Available as DVD Master with
Broadcast Slates
Ready to submit to your own
local, Public Access Broadcasting Stations.

2005-11-10

Posted at 17:30 UT by Tamara

Mark of Wisdom

Pastel

Tamara Lynn Scott

Lyric from the One World Concerts

Posted at 17:21 UT by Tamara

The Eye of See

Bits and Pieces

Tamara Lynn Scott

Original Parcay

Prose of the One World Concerts

Posted at 17:12 UT by Tamara

Beach of Dreams

Pastel on Wood

Tamara Lynn Scott

Lyrics from the One World Concerts

Posted at 17:02 UT by Tamara

Steps Leading Into The Vast Become

Oil Painting

Tamara Lynn Scott

Lyrics from the One World Concerts

Posted at 16:45 UT by Tamara

Temple of One

Torn Paper

Tamara Lynn Scott

Posted at 16:42 UT by Tamara

Child of Eternities

Child of Limitless Time and Space

Tamara Lynn Scott

Posted at 03:03 UT by Tamara

Women of Salasaca,
Artists All,
Roadside Stalls
Everyday Trade
Original Photography of Tamara Lynn Scott
Great Journeys
Photo Essay

Posted at 02:20 UT by Tamara

Photo Essay
Mountains of Ecuador
Original Photography of Tamara Lynn Scott
Landscape of Eduador in Great Journeys

Posted at 02:04 UT by Tamara

Photo Essay
Mountains of Ecuador
Original Photography of Tamara Lynn Scott
Landscape of Eduador in Great Journeys

Posted at 01:44 UT by Tamara

Avenues of the Presidente
El Presidente
The White House – Master Bedroom –
Now the ghosts linger,
in corridors
and stairways
and halls,
That look out over long procession ways of
Voices that call
To the sword,
And the enslaved.

Original Photography of Tamara Lynn Scott

Posted at 01:42 UT by Tamara

P>Photo Essay: " Great Journeys" - Ecuador
Doors of Cuenca, the Basilica
Original Photography of Tamara Lynn Scott

Posted at 01:21 UT by Tamara

Artists of Ecuador Highlands:
Photo Essay - " Great Journeys "
Original Photograpny of Tamara Lynn Scott

2005-11-07

Posted at 05:16 UT by Tamara

Original Artwork from
The One World Concerts
Computer Amimation Title
Tamara Lynn Scott
Inner I

Posted at 04:47 UT by Tamara

Original Artwork from
The One World Concerts
Photographic Paper Art of
Tamara Lynn Scott
The Waiting

2005-11-06

Posted at 21:19 UT by Tamara

Original Artwork from
The One World Concerts
Computer animation of
Tamara Lynn Scott
Child of Eternities

Posted at 21:10 UT by Tamara

Original Artwork and Lyric from
The One World Concerts
Computer animation of
Tamara Lynn Scott
Always Searching
Always Dream.

Posted at 20:36 UT by Tamara

Original Artwork from
The One World Concerts
Computer animation of
Tamara Lynn Scott
DVD Duplications