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 I was digging through old notes, a 25-centimetre high pile of them, to celebrate the last day of Discardia by, well, discarding. That's the idea of it. Get rid of the stuff in your life that is dragging you down by its mere existence. On a page of old note paper I found the following (translations added where needed): I was digging through old notes, a 25-centimetre high pile of them, to celebrate the last day of Discardia by, well, discarding. That's the idea of it. Get rid of the stuff in your life that is dragging you down by its mere existence. On a page of old note paper I found the following (translations added where needed):
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   * Reduce   * Reduce
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   * Alles nachher kompostieren (compost everything afterwards)   * Alles nachher kompostieren (compost everything afterwards)
-  * If (good) things cost enough, then they will be made and cause e.g. the rainforests to be sensibly used.+  * If (good) things cost enough, then they will be made and cause e.g. the rainforests to be sensibly used
   * Bootsbau (Boat building) as an example of Green Nomadism   * Bootsbau (Boat building) as an example of Green Nomadism
   * Joyon record trip → zero fossil fuels   * Joyon record trip → zero fossil fuels
-  * Gemütlichkeit (Comfort): no maintenance, wegwerfen (throw away). +  * Gemütlichkeit (Comfort): no maintenance, wegwerfen (throw away) 
-  * Mehr in schönheit und Pflege investieren, dann wird's länger benutzt. +  * Mehr in schönheit und Pflege investieren, dann wird's länger benutzt (Invest more in beauty and care, then it will be used longer)
-(Invest more in beauty and care, then it will be used longer)+
  
 Benefits of Green Tech, making things possible Benefits of Green Tech, making things possible
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   * long trips – sail beating   * long trips – sail beating
   * extreme environment – mountain hut   * extreme environment – mountain hut
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 This might be the end of the story – just another forgotten wreck – and they thought that too until an email arrived from a friend in Austria. Their friend had been contacted by some fishermen who had salvaged the vessel, then floating around the Atlantic coast, and towed it back to harbour. There can be a lot of resilience built into a small vessel, even against the most extreme circumstances. Perhaps Shumacher's call to think small applies to living and travelling too. This might be the end of the story – just another forgotten wreck – and they thought that too until an email arrived from a friend in Austria. Their friend had been contacted by some fishermen who had salvaged the vessel, then floating around the Atlantic coast, and towed it back to harbour. There can be a lot of resilience built into a small vessel, even against the most extreme circumstances. Perhaps Shumacher's call to think small applies to living and travelling too.
  
-(image: Subak2_moored)+<html><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/8428903976/" title="Subak2_moored by _foam, on Flickr"><img src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8211/8428903976_ca0593ac6d_z.jpg" width="640" height="427" alt="Subak2_moored"></a></html> 
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 +Subak2_moored
  
 ====Big enough, but no bigger==== ====Big enough, but no bigger====
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 ====Cooking in the sun and soaking in the rain==== ====Cooking in the sun and soaking in the rain====
  
-After our travels were over, a farmer took Subak2 out to his place on the Murray to live on the river and a theatre group took the Subak for their climate catastrophe piece La Wallifornie. After the vessels were gone, we tried to work out what it had been about. What had worked, what was waste. What made sense, what we could have done without. One of the problems was efficiency. Neither vessel was particularly hydrodynamic. The Subak2 was based upon a racing dinghy, but the pipe extensions proved to be significant brakes. If we had learnt from the Taiwanese pipe boats from which we copied the design, we would have invested more energy in turning up the bow of the pipe sections to allow them to flow over the water rather that plough it aside. The Taiwanese also use flat packing strapping to tie the pipes in contrast to the manilla rope that we were using. We were able to continue refining parts of the Subak2 en route as we had brought several tools with us. The yuloh (an auxiliary propulsion device) was iteratively refined until it became useful and it functioned. We also learnt to use it as we battled our ignorance of how it should be made and how it should be used. +After our travels were over, a farmer took [[subak2 construction notes|Subak2]] out to his place on the Murray to live on the river and a theatre group took the [[subak construction notes|Subak]] for their climate catastrophe piece La Wallifornie. After the vessels were gone, we tried to work out what it had been about. What had worked, what was waste. What made sense, what we could have done without. One of the problems was efficiency. Neither vessel was particularly hydrodynamic. The Subak2 was based upon a racing dinghy, but the pipe extensions proved to be significant brakes. If we had learnt from the Taiwanese pipe boats from which we copied the design, we would have invested more energy in turning up the bow of the pipe sections to allow them to flow over the water rather that plough it aside. The Taiwanese also use flat packing strapping to tie the pipes in contrast to the manilla rope that we were using. We were able to continue refining parts of the Subak2 en route as we had brought several tools with us. The yuloh (an auxiliary propulsion device) was iteratively refined until it became useful and it functioned. We also learnt to use it as we battled our ignorance of how it should be made and how it should be used. 
  
 (images:Subak and Subak_Wallifornie) (images:Subak and Subak_Wallifornie)
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 ====References, Notes, and Interesting Tidbits==== ====References, Notes, and Interesting Tidbits====
  
-Francis Joyon is a professional sail boat racer and yachtsman, and currently holds the record for the fastest single-handed sailing circumnavigation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Joyon +  * //Francis Joyon// is a professional sail boat racer and yachtsman, and currently holds the record for the fastest single-handed sailing circumnavigation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Joyon 
- +  * //The Long Now Clock// is a huge clock, hundreds of feet high, ringing deep inside a mountain. It is designed to tick for 10,000 years. http://longnow.org/clock/ 
-The Long Now Clock is a huge clock, hundreds of feet high, ringing deep inside a mountain. It is designed to tick for 10,000 years. http://longnow.org/clock/ +  * //Discardia// is a holiday to celebrate and teach letting go of what doesn't add value to your life. http://discardia.com/ 
- +  * //“Encyclical of Pope Pius XI”// given at St Peter's, Rome, the fifteenth day of May, in the year 1931, the tenth year of Our Pontificate: 
-Discardia is a holiday to celebrate and teach letting go of what doesn't add value to your life. http://discardia.com/ +  * “79. As history abundantly proves, it is true that on account of changed conditions many things which were done by small associations in former times cannot be done now save by large associations. Still, that most weighty principle, which cannot be set aside or changed, remains fixed and unshaken in social philosophy: Just as it is gravely wrong to take from individuals what they can accomplish by their own initiative and industry and give it to the community, so also it is an injustice and at the same time a grave evil and disturbance of right order to assign to a greater and higher association what lesser and subordinate organizations can do. For every social activity ought of its very nature to furnish help to the members of the body social, and never destroy and absorb them.” http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/pius_xi/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xi_enc_19310515_quadragesimo-anno_en.html 
- +  * //Crowhurst and Moitessier:// In the first ever solo nonstop world circumnavigation race in 1969 the two best-known stories are not about the winner, Knox-Johnston, but about the psychological developments of Moitessier and Crowhurst. Moitessier was winning when he abandoned the race at Cape Horn to carry on to Tahiti “for my soul.” Crowhurst stopped racing, faked a complete log book and re-entered the race as others began heading north up the Atlantic. His mental health broke down in the isolation and his boat was found drifting with no sign of him. 
-“Encyclical of Pope Pius XI” given at St Peter's, Rome, the fifteenth day of May, in the year 1931, the tenth year of Our Pontificate: +  * //Blue Anarchy "Hold Fast":// "One winter, three friends and I resolved to meet in south Florida, find a derelict sailboat, fix it up, and sail off into the Caribbean. Hold Fast is a 'video zine' about our trip: both the story of being broke while repairing a completely wrecked boat in Ft. Lauderdale, as well as the story of what we learned about sailing as we inched across the ocean towards Haiti.” http://www.blueanarchy.org/holdfast/
-“79. As history abundantly proves, it is true that on account of changed conditions many things which were done by small associations in former times cannot be done now save by large associations. Still, that most weighty principle, which cannot be set aside or changed, remains fixed and unshaken in social philosophy: Just as it is gravely wrong to take from individuals what they can accomplish by their own initiative and industry and give it to the community, so also it is an injustice and at the same time a grave evil and disturbance of right order to assign to a greater and higher association what lesser and subordinate organizations can do. For every social activity ought of its very nature to furnish help to the members of the body social, and never destroy and absorb them.” +
-http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/pius_xi/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xi_enc_19310515_quadragesimo-anno_en.html +
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-Crowhurst and Moitessier: In the first ever solo nonstop world circumnavigation race in 1969 the two best-known stories are not about the winner, Knox-Johnston, but about the psychological developments of Moitessier and Crowhurst. Moitessier was winning when he abandoned the race at Cape Horn to carry on to Tahiti “for my soul.” Crowhurst stopped racing, faked a complete log book and re-entered the race as others began heading north up the Atlantic. His mental health broke down in the isolation and his boat was found drifting with no sign of him. +
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-Annie Hill. 2001. Voyaging on a Small Income. Brookline MA: Thomas Reed +
-“Blue Anarchy 'Hold Fast': One winter, three friends and I resolved to meet in south Florida, find a derelict sailboat, fix it up, and sail off into the Caribbean. Hold Fast is a 'video zine' about our trip: both the story of being broke while repairing a completely wrecked boat in Ft. Lauderdale, as well as the story of what we learned about sailing as we inched across the ocean towards Haiti.”  +
-http://www.blueanarchy.org/holdfast/ +
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-Claudia Kirchberger. 2012. Fortgeblasen und Angeschwemmt. Books on Demand +
-This is the description of a journey over three years, across the millennium, continued on the website at http://fortgeblasen.at. +
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-Weston Martyr. 1956 [1932]. The £200 Millionaire. Hamilton & Co. +
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-Stephenson, Neal. 2008. Anathem. New York: William Morrow +
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-Ernst Schumacher. 1973. Small Is Beautiful: Economics as If People Mattered. New York: Harper & Row +
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-An investigation of the way that economics could be adapted to better suit people.+
  
-http://www.woodenwidget.com/milionaire.htm+  * Annie Hill. 2001. //Voyaging on a Small Income.// Brookline MA: Thomas Reed 
 +  * Claudia Kirchberger. 2012. //Fortgeblasen und Angeschwemmt.// Books on Demand\\ This is the description of a journey over three years, across the millennium, continued on the website at http://fortgeblasen.at. 
 +  * Weston Martyr. 1956 [1932]. //The £200 Millionaire.// Hamilton & Co. 
 +  * Stephenson, Neal. 2008. //Anathem.// New York: William Morrow 
 +  * Ernst Schumacher. 1973. //Small Is Beautiful: Economics as If People Mattered.// New York: Harper & Row\\ An investigation of the way that economics could be adapted to better suit people. http://www.woodenwidget.com/milionaire.htm
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