JollyJane
10-14-2006, 12:03 AM
presented by Keith Johnson, who lived here in Sebastopol for quite a few years.
He now lives in Indiana and writes for the PERMACULTURE ACTIVIST quarterly.
Please take a moment to check it out!
Peace and planting,
JJane
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From : Keith Johnson <[email protected]>
Sent : Saturday, October 14, 2006 4:31 AM
To : undisclosed-recipients: <[email protected]>
Subject : APPLEs - It's a small world after oil.
Geoff Lawton, Pc designer, teacher said, "You can fix all the world’s problems, in a garden. You can solve them all in a garden. You can solve all your pollution problems, and all your supply line needs in a garden. And most people today actually don’t know that, and that makes most people very insecure."
Bill Mollison, co-originator of the Permaculture concept reminds us, "The ultimate end to a growth economy is the same as an analagous growth: cancer. But for national economies, the victims are nature, soils, forests, people, water, and quality of life. There is one, and only one, solution,and we have almost no time to try it.
We must turn all our resources to repairing the natural world,and train all our young people to help.
They want to.
We need to give them this last chance to create forests, soils, clean waters, clean energies, secure communities, stable regions,and to know how to do it from hands-on experience".
Hello!
I'm the coordinator of Alliance for a Post Petroleum Local Economy - Bloomington (APPLE - Bloomington, IN) and the Relocalization Network (https://www.relocalize.net). I am sending you this email to invite you to join a Local Post Carbon Group. Please forward it to friendly people who INTEND to survive and thrive in the challenging times before us. Anyone who breathes is qualified to help (I hate to be limiting but one has to draw the line somewhere...oh, heck, call on your ancestors, too. The more the merrier).
This growing alliance of groups represents an opportunity to blend and strengthen the personal and organizational energies of all those in every locale who love our beautiful blue-green planet.
We are the ones we've been waiting for. It's time.
Together we can do the difficult, but necessary work, of regenerating a BLOOMING culture quickly and, hopefully, gracefully. If the current collection of idiots in Washington (and elsewhere) has done anything at all, it's been to wake a significant number of people out of their lassitude and stupor. Let's not go back to sleep.
More than at any time in the history of the planet, we need people willing to restore the garden, one yard at a time (or even two or three). We can no longer count on the "chains" of supply to meet our REAL needs, but we must be able to count on each other. In every garden lives the promise and pattern for true abundance. More is good. Growth is good. Ask any gardener.
You can see the new website created for our local group at
https://www.relocalize.net/groups/applebloomington
Take a few minutes to read the short story about The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil by Megan Quinn. This will give you a sense of what is required of us. It's fairly simple really.
Or try out Toby Hemenway's article, Seeing the Garden in the Jungle: Beyond Wilderness for a renewed perspective on forests that may remind you of some of the descriptions of Eden, our first garden.
Feeling a bit removed from that original garden? Look into Heather Flores' new book, Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard Into a Garden and Your Neighborhood Into a Community.
If you have a more technical bent, you might enjoy The Lean Economy: A Vision of Civility for a World in Trouble by David Fleming. Be sure to read the section on 'play and fun'. You might learn what it feels like to have not only the courage of your convictions, but the courage of your location.
If that gets your juices flowing, you'll enjoy Designing and Teaching for Change by Peter Bane who informs us that, " Reducing fossil energy consumption worldwide by 90% in the next decade is probably the minimum price of admission to a livable future. The changes the world must make cannot be mandated by any single authority, no matter how powerful, but must rather be adopted by people everywhere from a sense that these are the best approaches we can make toward preserving a livable world. Everyone must have a stake in their success."
Wondering how to tap into your creativity like never before? Here's another hint from Peter Bane's article, "My experience as a teacher of design has shown me what insightful thinkers have also pointed out—that people’s potential to solve apparently intractable problems is far greater than we imagine, but, if that capacity is to be realized, people must be given respect, access to information, and a sense of the importance of the job to be done."
If that isn't enough to motivate you, read Between the Ice and Ocean: The Rising Tide by Albert Bates and find out a bit more about "the importance of the job to be done".
I don't know about you, but I need all the help I can get, so, please lend a hand (...or an arm or a leg...or even your WHOLE self). C'mon. Your grandchildren will praise you rather than curse you...and that's a good thing, eh?
Thanks,
Keith Johnson
P.S. Some of you receiving this live nowhere near Bloomington, Indiana, but I hope you will join up with relocalize.net and start or join groups in your area. If good black earth is already under your fingernails, keep doing what you are doing, and bless you, bless you, bless you. XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO
If you don't have the time, or energy to start a garden, or join a group, at least forward this email to someone else who might. You have a few other options, though. You can study and share what you learn. You're already doing that? Hallelujah!! You can plant a tree. Ohhh, the planet needs more trees! Send me money and I'll plant a tree for you! Just tell me what you want. Or, you might have something we need, a printer for our office, a scanner, some stamps, something else you don't need that might be useful (use your imagination), some seeds, a few bucks (or doughs). You can even make a difference by donating 2, 5, 10, or 20 (or more) dollars by clicking this button. Talk about easy, eh?
Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!
To join the Group you will need to create a user account if you don't have one already (https://www.relocalize.net/user/register), log in to the site, and join my group (https://www.relocalize.net/groups/applebloomington) by clicking on the big green button at the top of the right-hand sidebar.
For detailed instructions on how to join the Relocalization Network or to sign into a Local Post Carbon Group, please visit https://www.relocalize.net/help/general.
Alliance for a Post Petroleum Local Economy - Bloomington (APPLE - Bloomington)
It’s a Small World After Oil - Personal and Community Preparedness for a Post Petroleum Future
https://www.relocalize.net/groups/applebloomington
Be well. Stay in touch. Do good work.
Love,
--
Keith Johnson
Permaculture Activist Magazine
PO Box 5516
Bloomington, IN 47408
(812) 335-0383
https://www.permacultureactivist.net
also Patterns for Abundance Design & Consulting
also APPLE-Bloomington (Alliance for a Post-Petroleum Local Economy)
It's a small world after oil.
He now lives in Indiana and writes for the PERMACULTURE ACTIVIST quarterly.
Please take a moment to check it out!
Peace and planting,
JJane
=============================
From : Keith Johnson <[email protected]>
Sent : Saturday, October 14, 2006 4:31 AM
To : undisclosed-recipients: <[email protected]>
Subject : APPLEs - It's a small world after oil.
Geoff Lawton, Pc designer, teacher said, "You can fix all the world’s problems, in a garden. You can solve them all in a garden. You can solve all your pollution problems, and all your supply line needs in a garden. And most people today actually don’t know that, and that makes most people very insecure."
Bill Mollison, co-originator of the Permaculture concept reminds us, "The ultimate end to a growth economy is the same as an analagous growth: cancer. But for national economies, the victims are nature, soils, forests, people, water, and quality of life. There is one, and only one, solution,and we have almost no time to try it.
We must turn all our resources to repairing the natural world,and train all our young people to help.
They want to.
We need to give them this last chance to create forests, soils, clean waters, clean energies, secure communities, stable regions,and to know how to do it from hands-on experience".
Hello!
I'm the coordinator of Alliance for a Post Petroleum Local Economy - Bloomington (APPLE - Bloomington, IN) and the Relocalization Network (https://www.relocalize.net). I am sending you this email to invite you to join a Local Post Carbon Group. Please forward it to friendly people who INTEND to survive and thrive in the challenging times before us. Anyone who breathes is qualified to help (I hate to be limiting but one has to draw the line somewhere...oh, heck, call on your ancestors, too. The more the merrier).
This growing alliance of groups represents an opportunity to blend and strengthen the personal and organizational energies of all those in every locale who love our beautiful blue-green planet.
We are the ones we've been waiting for. It's time.
Together we can do the difficult, but necessary work, of regenerating a BLOOMING culture quickly and, hopefully, gracefully. If the current collection of idiots in Washington (and elsewhere) has done anything at all, it's been to wake a significant number of people out of their lassitude and stupor. Let's not go back to sleep.
More than at any time in the history of the planet, we need people willing to restore the garden, one yard at a time (or even two or three). We can no longer count on the "chains" of supply to meet our REAL needs, but we must be able to count on each other. In every garden lives the promise and pattern for true abundance. More is good. Growth is good. Ask any gardener.
You can see the new website created for our local group at
https://www.relocalize.net/groups/applebloomington
Take a few minutes to read the short story about The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil by Megan Quinn. This will give you a sense of what is required of us. It's fairly simple really.
Or try out Toby Hemenway's article, Seeing the Garden in the Jungle: Beyond Wilderness for a renewed perspective on forests that may remind you of some of the descriptions of Eden, our first garden.
Feeling a bit removed from that original garden? Look into Heather Flores' new book, Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard Into a Garden and Your Neighborhood Into a Community.
If you have a more technical bent, you might enjoy The Lean Economy: A Vision of Civility for a World in Trouble by David Fleming. Be sure to read the section on 'play and fun'. You might learn what it feels like to have not only the courage of your convictions, but the courage of your location.
If that gets your juices flowing, you'll enjoy Designing and Teaching for Change by Peter Bane who informs us that, " Reducing fossil energy consumption worldwide by 90% in the next decade is probably the minimum price of admission to a livable future. The changes the world must make cannot be mandated by any single authority, no matter how powerful, but must rather be adopted by people everywhere from a sense that these are the best approaches we can make toward preserving a livable world. Everyone must have a stake in their success."
Wondering how to tap into your creativity like never before? Here's another hint from Peter Bane's article, "My experience as a teacher of design has shown me what insightful thinkers have also pointed out—that people’s potential to solve apparently intractable problems is far greater than we imagine, but, if that capacity is to be realized, people must be given respect, access to information, and a sense of the importance of the job to be done."
If that isn't enough to motivate you, read Between the Ice and Ocean: The Rising Tide by Albert Bates and find out a bit more about "the importance of the job to be done".
I don't know about you, but I need all the help I can get, so, please lend a hand (...or an arm or a leg...or even your WHOLE self). C'mon. Your grandchildren will praise you rather than curse you...and that's a good thing, eh?
Thanks,
Keith Johnson
P.S. Some of you receiving this live nowhere near Bloomington, Indiana, but I hope you will join up with relocalize.net and start or join groups in your area. If good black earth is already under your fingernails, keep doing what you are doing, and bless you, bless you, bless you. XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO
If you don't have the time, or energy to start a garden, or join a group, at least forward this email to someone else who might. You have a few other options, though. You can study and share what you learn. You're already doing that? Hallelujah!! You can plant a tree. Ohhh, the planet needs more trees! Send me money and I'll plant a tree for you! Just tell me what you want. Or, you might have something we need, a printer for our office, a scanner, some stamps, something else you don't need that might be useful (use your imagination), some seeds, a few bucks (or doughs). You can even make a difference by donating 2, 5, 10, or 20 (or more) dollars by clicking this button. Talk about easy, eh?
Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!
To join the Group you will need to create a user account if you don't have one already (https://www.relocalize.net/user/register), log in to the site, and join my group (https://www.relocalize.net/groups/applebloomington) by clicking on the big green button at the top of the right-hand sidebar.
For detailed instructions on how to join the Relocalization Network or to sign into a Local Post Carbon Group, please visit https://www.relocalize.net/help/general.
Alliance for a Post Petroleum Local Economy - Bloomington (APPLE - Bloomington)
It’s a Small World After Oil - Personal and Community Preparedness for a Post Petroleum Future
https://www.relocalize.net/groups/applebloomington
Be well. Stay in touch. Do good work.
Love,
--
Keith Johnson
Permaculture Activist Magazine
PO Box 5516
Bloomington, IN 47408
(812) 335-0383
https://www.permacultureactivist.net
also Patterns for Abundance Design & Consulting
also APPLE-Bloomington (Alliance for a Post-Petroleum Local Economy)
It's a small world after oil.