Plague/Virus, Species Collapse, Biology Breach, Recovery, and more.
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Easy Action: Socks are part of it, too Sew up the hole in your sock toe rather than throwing the pair out. Five minutes paying attention to your socks will give you months more of those socks. What a savings! Medium Action: Sharing the tool wealth Promote a "tool sharing" system, within your local neighborhood or community. By creating a "virtual library" of available tools -- could be a spreadsheet, could be a piece of paper -- (rototiller at Fred's, lawn mower at Jan and Gene's, circular saw at Marie's, table saw at Dave's, power washer at Bob and Eileen's), and be the librarian-by-phone-and-email. That is, you're the keeper of the schedule; check out by the day, return at night, to the owner. The tool owner gets "labor credits" -- one hour of a person's help, for every two hours of tool borrowing. Serious Action: Local is your friend Subscribe to a local CSA -- Community Supported Agriculture -- to encourage small, mostly organic, local farms by providing them with a "subscription income" for their products. If Farmer John/Joan knows s/he has a market for N bushels, and the risk is much less, then s/he can plan for survival, rather than planning to avoid extinction. Systems Development: Cheap [Strawberry] Days A lot of stupid energy, CO2, and costs are embedded in transportation costs to bring produce from far, far away, even when local agriculture is available. Why can't we develop a system for grocery stores, apartment houses, 7-11s, and others to be able to plan (and promote) "cheap local strawberry day" and its ilk, to encourage personal canning and storage? "Buy $20 worth and get three Ball jars!" |
Balms for the Spirit: Music: Van Morrison: Moondance a joyous, engaging flight of pleasure in the living of life. Poem: Commerce as a vehicle From factory-farmed chicken to old-growth lumber to gas-guzzling cars, many of the things we buy support destructive industries. But businesses, governments, and concerned citizens can harness this same purchasing power to build markets for less-hazardous products, including fair-traded foods, green power, and fuel-cell vehicles. -- Worldwatch Institute "State of the World 2004" report Sites: Addressing the Great Pacific Garbage Patch: Algalita.org The Algalita Marine Research Foundation is dedicated to the protection of the marine environment and its watersheds through research, education, and restoration. |
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