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"When a decision is made to cope with the symptoms of a problem, it is generally assumed that the corrective measures will solve the problem itself. They seldom do. Engineers cannot seem to get this through their heads. These countermeasures are all based on too narrow a definition of what is wrong. Human measures and countermeasures proceed from limited scientific truth and judgment. A true solution can never come about in this way." —Masanobu Fukuoka in other words... “We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” —Albert Einstein
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as i set out to create this page, i realized that the fossil/nuke energy required to run my computer would not net enough value to make the endeavor sustainable, so i decided instead to carve the message into the mossy green siding of the decaying barns that haunt the landscape as ghosts of the long-buried american agricultural heritage. just kidding. about the latter part anyway. this sort of dilemma arises when one looks deep into the matter of sustainability... what are the costs and trade offs; is it worth it; is this something i really need to do or even want, long term? will someone else pay a price (including future generations) for my purchase, action, or choice? those who are in the 'green' movement to be hip or make a fashion statement but don't actually know where their products come from, the impact they make on the producing ecosystem and economy, energy to produce / ship, etc., are not in the green movement at all, but have been seduced by the latest pr and marketing schemes that sell trendy —and damn fine looking— products at outrageous prices (cough—dwell mag—ahem). and that's okay; i'm a sucker for good design, fashion and style, too. just sayin', let's not delude ourselves about what we're really doing here. ____ "reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away," noted metaphysical sci-fi author philip k. dick. natural laws —those pesky arbiters of reality— are kicking back with a vengeance; the signs are posted everywhere to see by anyone with eyes half open and a trace level of intellectual honesty. it's time to get serious about caring for our irreplaceable ecosystem or we go the way of yeast in a barrel. unlike yeast spores, humans, presumably, have the cognitive ability to see that our critical life-supporting eco-systems are disappearing or being contaminated at an alarming rate. will we change course and adopt a sustainable economic model, or will we stagger dumbly ahead with the status quo and wait for reality to make the inevitable adjustments on her own terms? —g.brazel (is curious) ____________________
Will Allen of Growing Power grows enough food on two city acres to feed 2000 people, year round... in Milwaukee.
"Truck Farm" is a fantastic concept... you can't grow loads of produce in the back of an '86 Ram pickup, but you sure can raise awareness of food production in an urban center by commuting in a mobile micro-farm. See the rest at wickedelicate.com
Farming in Crisis. An excellent short film by Rebecca Hosking.
Michael Ruppert, more or less the entirety of this film, has been proven over the years to be right again and again. Ruppert's observations and deductions have been met with with the same fate as all new truths (e.g. planet Earth is round): first the are ignored, then they are ridiculed, then they are violently resisted. Finally, they are commonly accepted as undeniable fact. If you're uncertain about where we are headed and want to place a bet on your future, you'd do well to give Ruppert a listen. And if you're unfamiliar with the concept of 'peak oil', the real purpose of America's eternal 'war on terror', or the basis of our pyramid scheme economy, Collapse is as good a primer as you will find.
Is "More Jobs" Sustainable or Necessary in the Post-Peak Oil World? by Jan Lundberg
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“The greatest
change we need to make is from consumption to production. Even if on a small
scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for
everyone. Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who
depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets,
not food and shelter.”
This compelling video by a U of Colorado-Boulder physics professor is a real eye-opener to the mathematical realities of exponential growth and the physical limitations we must eventually face and deal with... or not.
—Gregg Brazel
Permaculture: Farms of the Future (video)
Amidst all the hoopla of ad campaigns, business news and growth projections, a close examination of our consumer culture reveals a very ugly truth: it thrives on the death of nature, and charges the cost to future generations. But it doesn’t have to be this way. We still have time to redesign our economic model. All it takes is a critical mass of visionaries to step forward.
"Ecological economist Bill Rees started teaching at the University of British Columbia's School of Planning three decades ago. When he gave a presentation showing how British Columbia's Lower Mainland had already exceeded its ability to support its population and suggested that humanity as a whole might also be approaching its global carrying capacity, he wasn't expecting the reaction waiting for him. "One of UBC and Canada's best-known economists told him, in the most collegial way, history had proved Rees wrong and that carrying capacity was irrelevant. "He told me economists had all but abolished the concept of limits to growth and that if I persisted in this line of research my academic career at UBC would be ‘nasty, brutish and short,'" Rees recounts."" —Tom Green, Adbusters
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