I refuse to succumb to The Nothing; the feeling that my children’s future is dark and written in stone. Will there be less energy? Maybe, and certainly less oil and more storms. But I am committed to ensuring that there will also be more love, more free time, and more community, better food, and deeper thought. Readers [...]
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Rob Hopkins Local Resilience
The Transition Town concept is the most exciting part of applied community permaculture I have stumbled onto of late. Hopkins books is also very good.
-Rob
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As something between Thompson’s Fear and Loathing and Sartre’s Nausea seeps into our collective psyche we must consciously pursue a more active approach. A few days ago I posted -after a long hiatus- about my fears for the future. I was then presented with comments from three of my respected blogging peers -Bart, FGLB, and Kory. Again [...]
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I have found it difficult to write of late. Its not that nothing has happened – my CSE group has met and maitained its momentum (virtually all of the original members returned for the second meeting), I attended a weekend long strategic planning meeting for Sustain Jefferson, and on top of the typical holiday madness [...]
Filed under: Counting our Blessings, Sustainable Development, The Natural Step, going off | Tagged: Climate Change, Peak Oil, Urban Homesteading | 5 Comments »
I love Winter. I know I am getting ahead of myself here by a month or so, but I am getting stoked about the coming season. Why? Winter is the Time of Reading. Starting in late March I am elbow deep in the soil, and the way things are going I will be equally committed [...]
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Yes We Can.
May reality (FOR ONCE!) meet our dreams…for there is nothing false, about Hope.
Yes.
We.
Can.
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