[Homestead] Riot for Austerity! 90% Reduction Emissions Project
Jocelyn Clarke
jclarke at pei.sympatico.ca
Mon Jun 18 13:02:36 EDT 2007
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>oil. If the time comes (as it is indeed coming) when it is impractical to
>impossible to heat and cool a 3800 sq ft house for two people, it doesn't
>mean they
>won't have a toothbrush or a brewski. 1200 square feet for 2 people and a
>dog is practical with wood heat. Toasty warm all winter.
Power goes out, and still toasty warm.
>All I do is apply that to a lot of other areas. I know that turning a 20x30
>plot with a shovel isn't really all that much work as people imagine it might
>be. If you do such things regularly, you get into condition and attitude to
>do them. The benefits are tremendous, a few hours rhythmic motion that
>soothes
>the mind and reinforces the constitution. Yah, you do a one foot strip
>down the side every time you get a chance and in a week or so, it's all done.
You can even take longer, as you can plant the early stuff in the first 3
foot strip, then keep turning sod for the next bit as you go.
>But you just saw me. You were right here. You see that it was nothing and
>it almost made itself into slaw while we were talking. Yet those people
>walked
>away STILL convinced beyond persuasion that to make that much slaw you'd have
>to have and electric kitchen machine or else spend hours in mirthless labor
>doing it. I hear you. I make and wholesale soap, nice face soap, by
>hand. I only make 50 bars or so in a batch, but 5 days a week makes 250,
>etc..doesn't take long to add up.
>
>When the notion that a gizmo or gadget will do a better jog is challanged,
No, some stuff is much better made by hand...hand dipped
chocolates, grafted fruit trees or nut trees, stroking a kitten...I'm sure
you could make a machine to stroke a kitten, but it wouldn't be nearly as
pleasurable to you and the kitten.
Jocelyn
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