The San Francisco Tesla Society
Presents a free presentation

(tentatively featuring . . . . .)

Charles Ostman "At the Intersection of Economic Upheaval and Global Change
Dynamics: A Solution Set That May Fit into this Paradigm- Applied Hydroponics"

Sunday, February 12, 2012 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. at

TechShop
926 Howard Street (near 5th Street)
San Francisco, CA

Going back to the times of ancient Mesopotamia, variations of hydroponic farming
have been practiced with prolific results. Ironically, the revival of this
ancient agricultural art form, enhanced to prolific production potential with
modern technology, may in fact become a crucial component in a mosaic of
interrelated and synergistically interdependent solutions which will be
essential for sustainable survival in a rapidly changing world.

Economies of scale are collapsing inward, resource management and sustainability
are becoming crucial factors, and regardless of the actual causes for such, the
world is being subject to a range of climactic changes which cannot be ignored.

Among the resources that will be most relevant in this rapidly changing world
will be access to fresh water, efficiency of energy usage and the localized
production of nutritious food and medicinal plants.

Applied hydroponics addresses all three of these crucial resource domains. This
presentation will provide an overview of current and experimental hydroponic
agriculture practices, and how this may fit into an emergent paradigm of global
change and required sustainability.

Charles Ostman is currently a consultant to General Hydroponics, Inc. in
Sebastopol, CA. He is also a senior fellow at the Institute for Global Futures,
a consulting group which provides strategic research, analysis, technical due
diligence, and related technology centric development services o Fortune 500
companies and institutions worldwide.

For more information about this lecture, visit

http://www.sftesla.org/Newsletters/2012/SFTS_news_2012_02_12.htm ----

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IN OTHER NEWS ....... The Space Technology and Applications International Forum
(STAIF) is presenting an impressive scientific conference in Albuquerque, NM
from March 13-15, 2012 featuring 3 tracks on conventional technology, plasma
physics & gravitational waves. The STAIF conference will also feature special
extended presentations by George Miley no the Viper fusion probe & Jack
Nachankin on ball lightning. Congrats to former SF Tesla President Shelley
Thompson for helping to organize this exciting conference. An early registration
discount has been extended to Monday, January 9. For more information, visit:
http://www.staif2.org/email/email09.html andhttp://www.staif2.org/about.html

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------- ABOUT THE TECH SHOP .....................

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other industrial fabrication equipment. Membership and safety instruction is
required for the use of TechShop industrial equipment. TechShop is just over 2
blocks from the Powell Street BART station, a block or so from Golden Gate
Transit, SamTrans bus stops and a mere 15 minute walk from CalTrain San
Francisco. Parking is available: at the TechShop parking lot and across the
street at 5th and Howard(for about $10 a day) or at the 4th & Mission garage.
For more information about the TechShop in San Francisco, see
http://techshop.ws/tssf.html
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The San Francisco Tesla Society has been providing free science orientedlectures
to the public for over 20 years. For more information, call ourhotline anytime
at (415) 820-1451 or visit us online at

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