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  • From: Liz <liz@allslash.org>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Derrick Jensen
  • Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 17:52:53 -0500

At 01:50 PM 12/27/2007, you wrote:

In fact many people are doing this: The Compact (people pledge to buy
nothing new for a year or more; the yahoo list is wildly popular);
Reverend Billy and the church of stop shopping (he's an orator a

<snip>

But I know, this kind of thing rarely makes the news and in real life
I know very few others who think like th is. But a couple decades
ago, none of these "movements" existed.

That's encouraging, certainly. And I think there is a new groundswell of interest in sustainable and organic living. It just needs to make that shift from a movement to something that ordinary people do.

One thing I have noticed is that people who used to pooh-pooh the conservation of natural resources (like water) are now singing a different song. But it has taken much-publicized near-crises to bring that about.

Liz in SW VA
http://life-as-a-spectator-sport.com




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