Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Marty Kraft <martyk@allspecies.org>]

Maybe. But it would be difficult to contemplate a sustainability  
ethic without considering the renaissance of the 1960s. It threw out  
almost every ruel to try to establish better ones. A lot of babies  
got thrown out with the bath and the staying power was weak, but...

It seems like we need to evolve a sustainability ethic that people  
can agree to in their hearts. I wonder if we on this list could come  
to some guidelines that feel good to live by. The fewer and simpler  
the better.

Toward that I would put forth the idea that everything is  
interconnected or that the universe is one whole thing. Any action  
done to any part effects everything else. The second idea is to do no  
harm, or as little as possible. Maybe this one should be stated in  
the positive that we try to love every thing and everyone, self  
included. The third is to keep your lights turned on especially  
during action so you can see the effects of your actions.

Marty
On May 7, 2007, at 11:05 PM, TradingPostPaul wrote:

> Oh boy, now we've got way off topic and I'm in the middle of it  
> without
> realizing.  Back to Living On The Land?
>
> How bout them chickens?
>
> paul tradingpost@lobo.net
>
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> On 5/7/2007 at 9:48 PM TradingPostPaul wrote:
>
> > Actually what we call "hippies" were a very tiny minority in their  
> > heyday.
> > In contrast, the overwhelming majority of youngsters did not drop  
> > out,
> they
> > stayed in school, closed their minds, joined corporations or the  
> > military,
> > and *they* were the ones who, as you put it, "drove the economy  
> > into the
> > ground". The hippies did not turn into blithering idiots. I know.  
> > When I
> > was at Texas A&M I saw the blithering idiots marching around, waiting
> their
> > turn to join the 50,000 sacrificed in The Nam.
> >
> > paul tradingpost@lobo.net
> >
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> >
> > On 5/7/2007 at 8:34 PM Derek Chamberlain wrote:
> >
> > > Respectfully, the hippies got just about everything
> > > wrong. They are the reason for many ills of society.
> > > They screwed their brains out, and then gave up on
> > > their own dream, turned int he tie-dye for suits, and
> > > drove the economy into the ground. Do a little more
> > > research on the "baby boomers" aka "hippies."
> > >
> > > Excellent article here:
> > > http://www.sfweekly.com/2007-05-02/news/boomtastrophe/
> > >
> > > Even better, try to get a copy @ the library. Truly
> > > scary statistics.
>
>
>
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