Does this sound totally stupid? Instead of people living next to a golf course in their fancy houses and condos, how about trying to make a working farm the...
Does this sound totally stupid? Instead of people living next to a golf course in their fancy houses and condos, how about trying to make a working farm the...
Thomas, would you, please give some more details about your experience of living at a resort farm? Were there, are there any in existence at all? How different...
I am not talking about Amish farms. My interest is to establish what to live in an ecologically and socially sustainable way would be, and then figure out how...
I've been a truck farmer and when younger, pursued agricultural interests for over 20 years. Let me tell you, it's tough to survive in the commercial...
Where the individual small farmers and even homesteaders can fail miserably the EcoVillage Community model may be the obvious choice. People need to feel...
Once it would be decided that being ecologically and socially sustainable is desirable for the welfare of most, if not all, species on Earth, the transition...
Thousands of societies (human communities) were growing food for countless generations without depleting the land they were doing it on (and there were some...
Thousands of societies? If you mean to count individual villages or tribes within cultural groups (societies), well, then, perhaps.... I prefer to use words...
Here's something everyone can start doing in their communities now: http://www.middleburysolari.com Here's a real cohousing community with a common farm in VT:...
Jason Eaton
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Dec 8, 2003 11:48 pm
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Dear people, I feel it is important that the scope/focus of this group narrows down a little. The original intent (as expressed in ...
In one word jan we do need to be able to control our own MicroEconomy. Otherwise we could be swamped by economic forces beyond our control which could tear us...
SOLARI -- VOTING WITH OUR MONEY FOR REVERSE GLOBALIZATION by Jason Eaton, President, Middlebury Solari Transcript of Speech at the WBAI 99.5 Pacifica Radio...
Jason Eaton
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Jan 12, 2004 6:26 pm
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http://www.conservationeconomy.net This site presents a well designed pattern of what a conservation economy would consist of. It focuses on positive concepts...
... OK, let's start with ecological sustainability... Ecology is the study of the interrelationships among all organisms and bio and geological processes in a...
... social ... getting ... organisms and ... term "ecological ... existing ... consumption and ... opted by ... system, ... chapeau, can be ... natural ... ...
What I imagine within the framework of your description of a balanced living: (quote from your writing as it appears bellow) "> What we're seeking is a way...
Dear members, thank you for participating so far, but I would like to start the list allover again, this time sticking firmly to the objectives set out in the...
This brings to mind immediately the SETI@home project, which links millions of home computers around the world to analyze data from radio telescopes looking...
Dear Jason, I don't think it matters at all if one makes profit on the road to true sustainability; I am interested in defining, depicting, imagining "true...
Dear T (and, for the matter, anyone else), please describe your ideal community in as much detail as possible, so that we can discuss the pros and the cons of...
The EcoVillage is a new concept. We don't really know what that is yet. I will say that Self Sufficiency should be a very real possibility that should be...
As I preface to my remarks today, I should point out that I am an anthropologist whose field of study is the Inupiaq speaking people of Alaska and the Bering...