Positive Impact Living

Thursday, 26 July 2007

Sitemap

Below are the links to everything on my site. There are Films instructional and inspiring, that I have searched and put together to introduce topics on Survival, Alternative energy and other inspirations. Then there are my own articles on Health and Fitness, Creating your own Income and Wilderness Living. There's also a short biography here and contact details. I am interested in everything that works, that has a positive effect, that offers solutions to all the problems of today. That's why I put everything I learn here, in the hope that you too may find something useful. If you click here you go to my constantly updated and uplifting blog

Saturday, 14 July 2007

Films

Click on the main title to go to the location of the unlinked videos listed below it or directly on the linked films. If you find any of the films inaccessible please contact me Louise at louisembrookes@hotmail.com
quoting 'video link'.

The films accompany the Positive Impact Living Life Skills Course; they have been sought and vetted by the author to offer the best positive and most practical knowlege available. The videos are meant to inspire you to get really practical and to provide the knowlege you need to have the biggest positive impact you possibly can. Enjoy!

INSPIRATIONAL FILMS
Peace One Day
What would it look like? - The Global Oneness Project
Great T.E.D talks from Chris Obami
George Sampson winner of Britain's Got Talent - a little positivity goes a long way
The Displace Me film from Invisible Children
Low Impact Living
Recording artist, marathon runner and Tibetan Monk Mipham - teaches about Bodhichitta
My Secret Stash
JK Rowling's speech to Harvard
Amma Dancing
Bill Mason - Waterwalker
The A-Z of Bushcraft
Paddle to the Sea 1,2,3
Angelina Jolie and Jeffrey Sachs in Kenya - Stopping poverty in twenty years with the Millenium Project
Dancing Butterfly by ME!
Across Canada in a canoe
NZ Canoe adventure
Flying over the Karakoram
Sam who is 7 truly enjoys the outdoors
The World Wants Obama

Films about wilderness living
Primitive Skills, Applied
Wilderness Survival - Part One - Heat loss
Wilderness Survival - Part Two - Priorities
Into the woodlands - James Bruchac
My favourite - Naked into the wilderness

HEALTH AND FITNESS FILMS
The Yoga Challenge - our amazing potential!
The Renegade Health Show
Damien Walters speaks for himself
Rene Caisse telling the true story of Essiac/caisse tea
Hunza diet
Shaolin monk (Sifu Shi Yan Ming) now teaches in New York
Longevity
Dr talks about the effect of Goji berries on cells
Outline of Noni berries

SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGY FILMS
Sustainable Homes
A Forest Garden Year
Make a hydrogen fuel cell
How Solar Panels are Made

SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT FILMS
Water Car/Hybrid Car
Car that runs on wood
Start of a wood gas car
canoe building

SHELTER FILMS
shelter
debris shelter
building a wikiup A quick survival shelter
The maker was recently in Canada during the winter. His friend and he went out into the woods and built a shelter for their survival trip.
Tarp knots and packiing away
how to set up a tarp
hexa yurt
Cob Houses
Building a cob wall
Eco Building
Cob in a bucket
Mixing Cob
Building with the Lakota in Wounded Knee
Cob: The Origin Story (1/2)
Earth Building: for Free
Cob Solar cooker: Making the form

FIRE FILMS
Including Fire Lighting Techniques, Fire Drill Methods (Hand drill and Bow Drill), and Fire Layouts
Lighting Methods -
Horses hoof fungus and iron pyrite/flint lighting
Fire by friction
Fire - flint and steel Fire lighting kit, charcloth, hacksaw blade
Making fire with cotton ball and vaseline
Magnesium fire starter
Making char cloth for flint and steel use
Using an alcohol prep pad and Swedish fire starter to build a fire
Gathering tinder fuel and one match fire
Firelighting and piston
Fire Drills -
hand drill fire
hand drill
This is the intro to the bow drill set video
Pt.2 Bow Drill set and fire
fire drill
Hand drill using Fatwood starting a fire in under 40 seconds
Fire Layouts -
billycan over fire
dakota firepit - exellent energy saving method for conserving wood in a bushcraft camp
Dakota fire pit commando fire pit

WATER FILMS
Water - dryad
Water -survivalistboards

FOOD, MEDICINE AND PERMACULTURE FILMS
A Forest Garden Year
tapping birch trees
wild edible plants
edible wild stinging nettle
Suburban Renewal - One Backyard at a Time
Greg Felsen a Peace Corp member involved with Permaculture development in Lesotho Permaculture In Lesotho
Permaculture with Claude Genest
What Is Permaculture - a future of possibility
A Field Walk With: Jeff Mason
edible apartment balcony
edible wild plantain permaculture

KIT FILMS
Essential Kit
daypack Contents

FISHING
Longline fishing with hawthorn
Ice fishing

TOOL FILMS
Battening
Crook knife maker
Green pete knife making series
making a knife series
Axe
flint knapping
Spoon making
18thc wood working
Simple fence making
making a candle lantern out of a drinks can

HOW TO MAKE/USE STOVES/COOKERS
Trangia stove
Pocket Cooker - Part 1 of a series looking at non-gas cooksets
Part 2 - Crusader Cooker
Part 3 - Cooksets
Wood Gas Camp Stove
Wood burning turbine/stove/generator
Down draught wood gas burners
Biogas wood stove

CORDAGE MAKING FILMS
processing indian hemp/dogbane
Cordage making
How to make hemp bracelets

NAVIGATION FILMS
Special forces survival navigation training
Navigation with a compass and GPS - Part 1

COMPOSTING/WASTE FILMS
humanure composting systems

REAL LIFE SURVIVAL FILMS
Search and rescue training
Wasdale mountain rescue team training at Piers Gill on Scafell Pike
Riley: The real 9/11 K9 hero

Monday, 2 July 2007

Contact

You can contact me Louise Brookes at louisembrookes@hotmail.com stating PILLS in your subject line. Thank you

Saturday, 23 June 2007

Links

Reference
For Positive News http://www.positivenews.org.uk
For Useful Plant Reference http://www.pfaf.org/
For Living Machines http://www.oceanarks.org/
For Economy where people matter Small is beautiful The E.F.Schumacher Society http://www.smallisbeautiful.org/
The Wilderness Awareness School http://www.wildernessawareness.org/

For Traffic Building http://visionbuzz.com/

Social Network
Mark Bradshaw's Blog http://www.tauntondailyphoto.blogspot.com/
Real Women's Fitness http://realwomensfitness.com/
My Journey To eliminate debt http://eliminate-my-debt.blogspot.com/

If you think you can write an article suitable for this site reflecting the above categories or offering a new one, please contact me lou88inwoods (at) yahoo.co.uk with the subject 'Article submission' with your suggestion, and I will add a link for you once you've sent your article with a short bio about yourself and your own link URL.

I am also happy to swop links, if you send me the link URL where you have posted my site link http:viewsfrommytent.blogspot.com to the above email subject 'PILLS Link Swop', then I will add you to my Links.

Thank you Louise

Thursday, 7 June 2007

About Me!

I always try and update this with my latest craze which is right now RAW FOOD. I am advising folk who are interested in going raw and reaping all the amazing health benefits to check out this book
'Prepare to be Raw' by Matthew Warner

Click here to view more details

Please check out and have an amazing life. Thanks.

Presently I am helping out my mum in Central France.

Near Hofn, Iceland 95 above left & right.
Pigne d'Arolla, Switzerland 02 below & Alpine route planning b.right.

Krakow teashop winter 07 left, and a spot of night cooking on year long Advanced Survival Course .

I've been an adventure sports instructor; teaching rock climbing, surfing, kayaking and abseiling. I've worked for some years as an apprentice of Tibetan Medicine at the Eden Medical Centre in London, learning and practising Herbal Medicine, Massage and Acupressure. I lived on a glacier in Iceland for several weeks when I was 16yrs old, with the British Schools Exploration Society and since then have gravitated towards Alpine Climbing - completing the Alpine Apprenticeship in Switzerland in '02 with the renowned Plas Y Brenin Mountain Outdoor Centre. I have a background in Ecological Living helping to set up a housing co-op and living in various fields (literally) implementing renewable energy, permaculture and living machines and planting a lot of trees.

When I was nine years old I had to attend a special school 'Pilgrims' because of crippling eczema and asthma, which I have overcome oddly enough the reason I got into this school was not because I was so ill (pretty much on my way out) but because my IQ was 149+, which goes to show that means testing has some use after all. I have also overcome M.E or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome which I contracted age eighteen. With the help of Christopher Hansard and Stephanie Wright of the Eden Medical Centre, London and their expertise in Tibetan Medicine I was able to fully recover.

I have been a Sales Manager for a Recycling Box Scheme, lived at the Ecovillage HQ of Canada, and worked as a Product Advisor for Karrimor Adventure Stores in Soho. I was also a waitress and food bar manager when I was 15, sold karate lessons door-to-door, catered for 300 people on retreats and la

st Summer I travelled around Somerset with a horse and c

art and then followed that randomly with grape picking in Provence with about 20 Moroccans, I believe I learnt more Arabic than French.

I've also volunteered with a local veggie box scheme, been Press Officer for Oxfam, run workshops, organised conferences and spent a lot of time planting seeds and pulling leeks and carrots.

Last year I went to Krakow, Poland and ate lots of pyrogi. I have worked in a stable near Bramley, England - looking after about forty hungry horses. This year I have needed everything I have learned about positivity. Recently I have been helping out the R ipa European Centre and setting up an International Fund for peace in the Middle East with www.allmep.org

For the future I want to make best use of the skills I have gained to date.

One of my Ma's dogs Murphy, (right pic - he's diabetic and needs an insulin shot everyday, and blind, but you'd never know because he sees with his nose) and Benson (left pic) who is currently tired out after a hard day at the office, he likes to eat oranges, walnuts, apple and things dogs shouldn't.

Getting a better perspective in the Swiss Alps, sunset where I live in France.

Welcome

Hi, I'm glad you've found the Positive Impact Living Lifeskills pages.

'Positive Impact Living' is the term I use to describe the practical methods we can use to collectively improve our lives. That means that if you implement the methods outlined in any one of my articles you will have a Positive Impact in your own life and in the lives of everyone around the world. Each of these methods doesn't just reduce the negative impact that our lifestyles have on the world but actual provides real positive energy in the form of activating your full potential; integrating renewable energy, and actively solving international issues like social and environmental degradation. This is a process and one that I am also participating in. I have a vast background of seeking out solutions that work and though I haven't implemented all of these methods I am doing so and sharing my progress as I develop this site - so we're in this together.

The PILLS pages provide articles on building your own renewable energy systems and related sustainable technology; a free online homestudy Bushcraft/Survival Course to complement actual workshops run by Survival Schools and other articles about personal development, fitness and health.You can either browse through all my articles or check out the categories.

The idea is that you leave this site with the inspiration and tools to carry out changes that will really help you. I appreciate and value all feedback and you can contact me at my e-mail:- louisembrookes@hotmail.com

If you are inspired by this site you can make a donation

Thanks for coming and enjoy! Louise

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