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  • From: "Lawren Pulse" <lawren@procast.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Livingontheland Digest, Vol 167, Issue 1
  • Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 10:36:17 -0800

Wow Laurie! I like this too. I am writing a paper on culture, community
and health (individual, collective, environmental) and this idea was very
helpful today! Thanks~

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Today's Topics:

1. Aspiring food and energy self-reliant community
(Laurie Ann Powell)
2. Re: Aspiring food and energy self-reliant community (Dawne Nuri)
3. Re: Aspiring food and energy self-reliant community
(TradingPostPaul)


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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2008 15:32:03 -0600
From: Laurie Ann Powell <laurie@powellclan.com>
Subject: [Livingontheland] Aspiring food and energy self-reliant
community
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It is possible that such a community could work, but by and large most
of them fizzle out over time, as they are based on non-organic
relationships. (and of course, some of them get busted by government
agents.)

We have decided instead to create a "community within the community"
with an outward spreading vision.

Rather than trying to get people to "join" something, we try to share
some aspect of food production and self reliance with everyone we meet.
When we discover someone with an interest, we connect with them in a
very loose way, for example helping them find the whole food sources
they are particularly interested in, teaching them skills they don't
have and passing on information about the holistic lifestyle. Over
time, we trust people according to their willingness to embrace the
principles we have. Long term, we hope to know who we can trust, should
the apocalypse really come to pass.

We greatly increase the number of people we can exchange with. It also
means there is no "commitment" to break. They either act on what we give
them or not, but they aren't "joining" anything, so they don't "quit"
anything if they decide, for example, they can't give up their
unsustainable life.

In other words, we are trying to be an underground vining community
rather than a row-based community +.+

Laurie Ann
Posing as an ordinary housewife.



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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 22:43:06 -0500
From: Dawne Nuri <getdawne@mmparrish.com>
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Aspiring food and energy self-reliant
community
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wow laurie.

how beautifully said.

thank you.

you are an inspiration.

dawne



> From: laurie@powellclan.com> To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org> Date:
Sun, 2 Nov 2008 15:32:03 -0600> Subject: [Livingontheland] Aspiring food and
energy self-reliant community> > It is possible that such a community could
work, but by and large most> of them fizzle out over time, as they are based
on non-organic> relationships. (and of course, some of them get busted by
government> agents.)> > We have decided instead to create a "community
within the community"> with an outward spreading vision.> > Rather than
trying to get people to "join" something, we try to share> some aspect of
food production and self reliance with everyone we meet.> When we discover
someone with an interest, we connect with them in a> very loose way, for
example helping them find the whole food sources> they are particularly
interested in, teaching them skills they don't> have and passing on
information about the holistic lifestyle. Over> time, we trust people
according to their willingness to e
mbrace the> principles we have. Long term, we hope to know who we can
trust, should> the apocalypse really come to pass. > > We greatly increase
the number of people we can exchange with. It also> means there is no
"commitment" to break. They either act on what we give> them or not, but
they aren't "joining" anything, so they don't "quit"> anything if they
decide, for example, they can't give up their> unsustainable life. > > In
other words, we are trying to be an underground vining community> rather
than a row-based community +.+> > Laurie Ann> Posing as an ordinary
housewife.> > _______________________________________________>
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Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2008 21:24:18 -0700
From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Aspiring food and energy self-reliant
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Much there I have to agree with. However, in our corner we try to learn as
much as teach, to see as much as we demonstrate. We don't actually feel
those who part company or dismiss our advice are unsustainable. There's no
scale of "sustainableness" we know of.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 11/2/2008 at 3:32 PM Laurie Ann Powell wrote:

>It is possible that such a community could work, but by and large most
>of them fizzle out over time, as they are based on non-organic
>relationships. (and of course, some of them get busted by government
>agents.)
>
>We have decided instead to create a "community within the community"
>with an outward spreading vision.
>
>Rather than trying to get people to "join" something, we try to share
>some aspect of food production and self reliance with everyone we meet.
>When we discover someone with an interest, we connect with them in a
>very loose way, for example helping them find the whole food sources
>they are particularly interested in, teaching them skills they don't
>have and passing on information about the holistic lifestyle. Over
>time, we trust people according to their willingness to embrace the
>principles we have. Long term, we hope to know who we can trust, should
>the apocalypse really come to pass.
>
>We greatly increase the number of people we can exchange with. It also
>means there is no "commitment" to break. They either act on what we give
>them or not, but they aren't "joining" anything, so they don't "quit"
>anything if they decide, for example, they can't give up their
>unsustainable life.
>
>In other words, we are trying to be an underground vining community
>rather than a row-based community +.+
>
>Laurie Ann
>Posing as an ordinary housewife.
>




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