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[Livingontheland] Positive Goals for Home & Community
- From: "Douglas Willhite" <drwillhite@earthlink.net>
- To: "Douglas & Hillary Willhite" <drwillhite@earthlink.net>
- Subject: [Livingontheland] Positive Goals for Home & Community
- Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:03:58 -0800
In twelve years of exploring the internet this is the best
homesteading web site I've found:
The following is another excerpt from the "Homesteading in
Wildfire Country" guest article I'm writing. Your input is
welcome.
Doug
Good News
The good news is there are many specific actions we can take that
will help buffer us, our families, and our communities from
needless hardships. We can make our communities less vulnerable by
educating each other to necessary changes and living more knowledgably,
skillfully, and simply. Making positive changes will require aware and
responsible individuals working together in whatever ways are needed. I can
tell you from personal experience that it feels spiritually empowering and
fun to make these creative changes.
Positive Goals for Home & Community
*Create local food security with soil building,
raised vegetable and herb beds; fruit, nut, olive trees, berries,
grapes; greenhouses, cold frames, chickens, rabbits, goats, sheep,
draft horses; heirloom seed saving, canning, food drying; knowledge of ancient
foods and herbal medicines such as acorns, manzanita berries, purslane, and
yucca.
*Conserve local water resources with
community education, care, and wise use. Defend from outsiders with group legal
or political action if necessary.
*Prepare for safety from inevitable wildfires
with tree trimming; brush, leaf and dead wood removal; stuccoed
eves; roof and vent openings covered with steel screen to deflect
embers; Barricade fire-blocking gel applied when fire threatens.
*Move toward energy independence by implementing
solar and wind power technologies for water heating, pumping, and
electricity. Super-insulate homes, e.g., retrofit with stucco covered straw
bales, earthen jacketing, 2x6 or larger wall cavities, adobe, rammed earth,
or underground walls and ceilings.
*Continue community education and conversation
via email, phone trees and gatherings. Knowledge gives us power
and security!
*Form a community owned and operated fire department, security
force and militia if need arises. |
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[Livingontheland] Positive Goals for Home & Community,
Douglas Willhite, 11/29/2007
- Re: [Livingontheland] Positive Goals for Home & Community, TradingPostPaul, 11/29/2007
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