MartyKraft on "Coming Home to Eat Challenge"

MartyKraft — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 02:58:41 +0000

Simple Cheap Solar Collector

One of the quickest, simplest most inexpensive ways to begin cutting greenhouse gas emissions is to put an old fashioned solar collector in your yard by creating a vegetable garden. You will be taking the suns energy and turning it into energy to run your body. That energy takes you anywhere you wish to walk or bicycle. It allows you to think up other ideas for cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Your extra vegetables become diplomatic community builders with your neighbors. In the process, you save the fossil fuel it takes to bring you food from California or New Zealand. The garden is the perfect place to mulch your leaves in the fall while learning the wisdom of nature which we have ignored too long.

jgt on "Coming Home to Eat Challenge"

jgt — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 10:13:06 +0000

I attended the conference, Coming Home to Eat, this weekend. While I was there I encouraged participants to visit this site and use it to express their issues, and hopefully make connections. I also told folks that we should each create one post on the site as a way of introducing ourselves and our interests/concerns.

My area of concern is that the issues of global warming and lack of sustainable practices is a symptom of a bigger problem. The larger issue is the human tendency to be self important and self centered. The idea being that we use our sense of self importance to justify our exploitations, and the unsustainability of this means that it is really our self-centeredness which is unsustainable.

We also need to move from exploitive capitalist models of business and economy to sustainable models based on collaboration and consensus. We would like to develop a program that provides young people with this kind of an experience that deals in sustainable agriculture.

I have a daughter that is a junior in high school and she and I have been brainstorming on this project together. She has mentioned the project to a teacher at her school that is the sponsor of an environmental club there. This teacher has expressed interest in the project and we are planning to have this teacher to our home for dinner in the next couple of weeks to discuss things and do more brain storming. Anyone else that is interested in this idea will be welcome as well. Our feeling is that the more input and collaboration that we can generate the greater the consensus and the more sustainable the solution.

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