The Mini Lifestyle: more than just off-the-grid! We must also conserve what is left of the Earth's diminshing resources. Reduce. Live small. And do it now. Now as in right now!
Friday, July 31, 2009
How Does One "Chill" in August?
Chill at the beach, get a breeze in your hair or sit in a shady garden. All of my favorite sports!
Peak Everything by Richard Heinberg
Storms Of My Grandchildren by James Hansen
Revenge of Gaia, and also The Vanishing Face of Gaia by James Lovelock, 2006 & 2009
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, by Barbara Kingsolver
One Straw Revolution, Masonobu Fukuaka, 1978
Fields of Plenty, Michael Ableman
The Harrowsmith Reader, 1972
Cloudburst 1 + 2, 1973 , 1975
The Solar Growing Frame, 1978, Rodale Press
Garden Secrets, Harrowsmith
My Life in France, Julia Child, 2007
Some Good Philosophy...
Live harmoniously with nature, rather than exploiting it. Think small, rather than overrun it. Deal in the economics of self-sufficiency. Let the rain for the garden of knowlege carry you through the drought of twentieth/twenty-first century thinking. paraphrased from the introduction to Cloudbust, Handbook of Rural Skills and Technology, 1973.
Jim and I have learned a lot about living small, thus CONSERVING WHAT IS LEFT OF THE EARTH'S RESOURCES. You can too: get involved with your local Transition Town Initiative to find out how! Don't be shy, and don't wait either!
Please post a comment, or email me at michelle.lambton@gmail.com
1 comment:
Ha, found your blog. I thought it was the other one as this one hadn't been updated in 6 weeks. Hey, is that you on the hang glider? Scary stuff.
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