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  • From: Dan Conine <dconine@bertramwireless.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Grounded living
  • Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:32:05 -0500


Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:20:28 -0600
From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Experiment in Country Living<Goodchild
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Understood. Your meaning of overhead would be the external costs of a lifestyle, like the overhead of industrial farming would include soil depletion. I didn't know "groundedness" was a word but looking it up it gets a lot of use.
"Externalities" is a term used from the business perspective to push those overhead costs outside of the direct costs of doing business.


But as Mitch said the sort of lifestyle we're advocating should not be
evaluated in monetary terms. I agree it shouldn't be dismissed because it's
not good income. Yet local growers need to find ways to at least make growing
supplement whatever income they have. We know the personal benefits.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

Those with 20 minutes to spare might like this:
The Happy Planet Index vs. Fear:
http://www.ted.com/talks/nic_marks_the_happy_planet_index.html
"What would it be like to be improving the human lot?"
"In the western world, we have enough. Maybe some parts of the world don't, but we have Enough."

And then there is this conference:
http://www.growingpowerfarmconference.org/

Best to all,

Dan C.
Belgium, WI




  • Re: [Livingontheland] Grounded living, Dan Conine, 09/02/2010

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