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That is the heady dream of the institute's young founders, Marine Biologists John H. Todd, 35, and William O. McLarney, 34. Their crusade began in 1969 while they were teaching at San Diego State University. Between classes, they began looking into the prospects of cultivating fish and plants, and using wind and solar power directly instead of energy-wasting farm machinery. They called their experiment the New Alchemy Institute as a reminder of a time when science, art and philosophy were not considered separate or even antagonistic pursuits. Later Todd and McLarney moved to Massachusetts and joined...
...small lifeboat for some of those passengers, Todd and McLarney have created a prototype agricultural "ark," a self-sufficient food-producing complex involving greenhouses, fish ponds, solar heaters and a windmill. The odd layout is clustered around three greenhouse-covered ponds built on an incline. The lowest pond contains a variety of edible fish, mostly the tasty tropical tilapia (somewhat like the sunfish). Pumped by the windmill, the water from this pond is passed through a solar heater, then circulated through a bed of crushed, bacteria-laden shells in the topmost pond. The bacteria not only detoxify the fish wastes...
...Reminder. Corporate tax returns last year carried two pointed questions: 1) Had the company distributed at least 70% of its profits in dividends? 2) If not, why not? This year the questions will be dropped, said Deputy Tax Commissioner Edward I. McLarney. The questions had been only a "gentle reminder" that, after a wartime lapse, the undistributed profits tax would be stringently enforced...