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Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 7 months ago.
Please read the entire post because the last line is curious. http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/archives/parsons/fallgarden/fallharvest.html HARVESTING OF FALL GARDEN PRODUCE After gardeners have worked SO hard and SO long to grow fresh, could-be-delicio...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 7 months ago.
First there are places in the US where you can garden year round. Most of the southeast falls into this category. Yes there are issues around water use because much of off season gardening requires watering. But when you look at the exercise and healthy f...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 7 months ago.
Since he never set foot in this country it is a dubious honor, but any excuse for a day off is good. :}
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 7 months ago.
If your workplace has a cafeteria or a food service this is serious business and a potential money maker. http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2009/04/09/538667/a-posting-about-composting-at.html Welcome to Get Green, the Herald’s blog about making the new...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 7 months ago.
Yesterday I posted about corporate recycling and how they have to have plastic containers with labels on them to actually do it. Well here is a thought. Take a felt tipped marker and cross out paper and write organics. That way you are composting at work....
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 7 months ago.
Corporate America was slow to come to recycling because they know a shift to a steady state economy means their demise. Still they come kicky and screaming because they can not withstand the the force of history. It would be nice if they recycled real thi...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 7 months ago.
I was at a food meeting yesterday at LLCC and Wes King pointed out that composting and fall crop covers are actually recycling of the ultimate sort. Taking organic matter and letting it turn back into soil and crops that will turned under in the spring ar...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 7 months ago.
I tried not to say too much about our recent 2 week vacation, but I have to tell you that I think people are being too paranoid. The last time we did a big vacation, I posted from wherever we were. This made it obvious we were gone and even where we were ...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 8 months ago.
I leave you this week in Houston. An oil ton if there ever was one. Got to love a group that is trying to do without hydrocarbons altogether. They claim they are moving to a new site BUT I couldn’t get there yet, so here is a sample of their old sit...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 8 months ago.
I love Brit speak. Some groups are not undecided they are mulling things over. Anyway there is a great list at the end of this article so go check it out. http://citizenactionmonitor.wordpress.com/2010/09/23/canadas-transition-communities/ Canada’s Tran...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 8 months ago.
Today I found to articles that define the pros and cons of Transition Communities. I would tend to call one selfish and foolish. I would call the other one “heads up”, But that is just me. I do not want to take up the space of both articles so...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 8 months ago.
This is a pretty good discussion of the sustainability component of it. I apologize up front for just posting the video connection and not much more. I am terrible at posting videos. http://vimeo.com/28881870 Five minutes with Dave Hamilton by nu project ...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 8 months ago.
This is a pretty complete piece about an oil savvy guy. It is a long piece so go and read the rest. http://www.energybulletin.net/node/49304 Published Jun 17 2009 by North Bay Bohemian, Archived Jun 23 2009 Transition communities gear up for society’...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 8 months ago.
I honestly do not know whether I could live in a transition town or not. I took a hitch hiking tour of “intentional communities” here in America in the early 80s. Now I am not trying to compare Ttowns to communes, but some of them were low tec...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 8 months ago.
I think the real questions here are, can enough of us flee in time and can the different technologies required to do it handle climate change. Unfortunately we shall see. http://transitionculture.org/about/ About this site and me For more about this websi...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 8 months ago.
Those fleeing a hydrocarbon existence use many different rationales. Like Thoreau, they want to lead a simpler life, while resisting the constant wars the US seems to be in. Like Schumacher they want to celebrate appropriate technology. Like the Am...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 8 months ago.
House cleaning: I will soon be on vacation and I think not posting. Or at least intermittently posting. Until then I want to post meditations on the transition community movement. :} These are conscious communities that try to wean themselves from ...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 8 months ago.
Taking the day off to pull weeds. So yes it will be a labor day for me. :} More tomorrow. :}
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 8 months ago.
OK her work’s connection to this blog might seem tenuous at first glane. When not talking about the residential housing market, I am usually attacking the hydrocarbons industry or rapers of the environment. (By the way the Maconda well is leaking ag...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 8 months ago.
I don’t always agree with these folks. Some of their comments on windows for instance leave a little to be desired but still it is a great place to start. Here is a taste. http://www.homeenergyteam.com/home-energy-efficiency-tips-news.html Most Popu...
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