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anures cover crops mulch and so forth used in the process of building soil that produces fruits and veggies that are superior to the other options because the grower is creating a local environment that fosters unusually healthy plants i don t want to pay twice as much for a pear just because it has a fancy sticker on it in other words i don t want a federal agency to tell me that say copper sulfate is an approved organic anti fungal spray chemical i want to talk to the gal that grew that pear about her cultivation methods if at the end of that conversation i decide i m good with her methods whether they include copper sulfate or not then that should be good enough and it is that s precisely how i go about finding good food these days i don t have a whole lot of respect left for the organic label since 2002 it s meant less every year i ll get to the green new deal in just a minute but i want to lay a foundation and speak to my credentials for commentary on the matter first my history gives me a somewhat more qualified opinion on the matters in question than your garden variety armchair analyst i ve lived in the trenches of the lower impact ambition for over a decade now after a few years of relatively moderate retooling in may of 2012 my family and i took a major plunge and moved into a 20x16 wall tent on land we own in the north georgia woods without power or plumbing we cooked on propane outside in summer and wood indoors in winter we caught rainwater for domestic use and returned our graywater to the garden where we grew vegetables fruit herbs mushrooms you get the idea hippies but as you can imagine living in a tent got old in may of 2014 we built a small cabin from local wood on the deck we built for the tent still no plumbing or electricity but a major step up in comfort in january of 2017 we added a 400w solar power system for a little juice just enough for lighting tool batteries and a small clothes washer nothing like what most americans deem necessary and then in february of 2019 we made the most radical swing to date we bought a 1940s craftsman house in the middle of downtown ellijay ga the town we ve been living near since 2012 and moved our family and business into what seems like an opulent palace to us why well for several reasons for one no matter what we did at the rural homestead no matter how far out on the radical fringe we lived for the last 7 years precious few people ever benefited from it we lived at the end of a quiet road 8 miles from the town center and most of our influence came from this blog s earlier ramblings and the crazy stories told to friends and customers over our farmers market table but most of what we were doing was largely invisible second our view of what others were doing was somewhat limited in town i can take the dogs out for a 20 minute walk in any direction and check out what a hundred different neighbors are up to you should see the big cheese on my face when i pass the remnants of a side yard garden from last year or see the iconic two toned pink blossoms of peach trees popping out of the background there s a full blown central american milpa two blocks east of my front door makes my heart happy to see such things i got very little of that out in the sticks third we were still driving a lot no matter what good we did at home our lives still required near daily driving 15 miles round trip minimum and let s be honest with ourselves here if we want to take our efforts to live lighter to another level burning less gas is a good way to go about it so we moved to town to live an example others could actually see to expose our hearts to edifying behaviors on the part of others and to cut our driving impact to the quick oh and both our growing children and business were pushing our little cabin s carrying capacity it was time to adapt and this is how we chose do it though in no way have we turned our backs on our ethics a new and bigger house doesn t have to mean a larger impact what are the big four domestic power hogs 1 hvac systems 2 batch water heaters 3 ovens 4 clothes dryers 1 our heat comes from a gas furnace which we keep set very low 62 f we will be adding wood heat soon too hopefully before next winter if we can afford it hopefully an outdoor wood furnace it s hard to heat with wood and not make a negative impact on indoor air quality maybe this is the answer ac will only be turned on in desperate situations and then set high mostly for drying out the indoor air here in the humid south though admittedly even that will be a great luxury after 10 years of just dealing with it 2 here s our biggest current impact we inherited an electric batch water heater with the house and can t afford to do anything about that at the moment we are heading for an on demand inline gas water heater asap with a passive solar heater upstream as soon as we can manage the thing for now though we just have to grin and bear this one thankfully we use less water than just about anyone i know 3 during our move we had a new gas line run to the kitchen and bought a used gas stove much better than the 220 outlet waiting there for an electric model one of our guiding principles regarding the use of electricity is to avoid any device that resists the flow of electricity to create heat like electric batch water heaters an electric oven is pretty high on the list of such technologies we will still do most of our summer cooking outside though it s a backwards habit to cook inside in the summer and rely on air conditioning to keep the house comfy 4 we don t have a clothes dryer just a washer we have 2 drying racks straddling heat vents in the house and hang the laundry outside whenever it s sunny enough basic stuff but all of these things are real and useful adaptations to the predicament of our age worrying about what sort of light bulbs to use when you re chilling in the air conditioning is as pointless as worrying about cow farts when you fly and drive everywhere we ve learned how to relate to the technologies that can make us or break us through our first hand experience over the last decade and also how to spot nonsense hint cow farts are nonsense and contrary to popular belief conservation isn t an all or nothing proposition i m amazed at how often someone will spot my android and suddenly turn on me accusing me of being a poser as if chopping wood and carrying water every day mean nothing come live my life for a week and see if you still think it s just posturing every little change you make is worthwhile don t ever let yourself be derailed by cynical ass hats trying to cut you down so they can feel taller they speak only from a position of cowardice and weakness of character they don t have the cajones to do even what you re doing so their reaction is to make it seem like you re not doing anything of consequence either and therein lies one of my fundamental issues with aoc s proposal first she obviously buys the all or nothing rhetoric hook line and sinker and that s nothing more than a recipe for frustration and eventual failure period full stop end of sentence everyone gets tired of making sacrifices constantly my wife and i call it poverty fatigue and it s overtaken us plenty of times on our journey go do something frivolous and then get back to it or as author john michael greer says do whatever thou must to keep from wilting because that will happen and on a national scale you re just asking for a national crisis baby steps are the only viable kind second the only eco conscious building is one that s already built just like the only eco conscious car is a used one parked in the driveway we make impacts every day just by being alive the best we can hope for is to hold them to a minimum the idea of tearing down every structure in the usa and rebuilding it to current leed certification standards there s that damn word again eh shows a profound lack of systems perspective not to mention a desperate need for control can you imagine a larger and more unnecessary environmental impact than razing trillions of dollars worth of our built environment to the ground so we can rebuild it all according to some johnny pencil pusher s current notion of what is right and good what happens when that notion changes a decade or three down the road are we going to do it all over again there is plenty we can do to improve the situation of our existing built environment and those things are in fact being done by millions of people already insulating caulking installing storm windows replacing worn out materials with better more durable alternatives you should see how many new metal roofs are going up in the area around our new house and wood stoves were the american appliance of the year in 2018 then there are all the procreative activities like gardening planting fruit and nuts keeping laying hens even raising some meat in small city spaces poultry companies are swamped with demand for chicks these days rainwater tanks are being installed everywhere despite the fact that they re illegal in most jurisdictions sometimes given out by local governments people are setting their thermostats higher in summer and lower in winter putting on more clothes instead making those clothes it s really encouraging what sort of person can t see these changes happening all around them this is how adaptation is done folks just like eating an elephant it s done one bite at a time by individuals families and businesses top down solutions are worse than useless but one of the biggest issues is that it can t be done never mind that it shouldn t be done it can t be done we sit here today in the richest country on earth surrounded by a level of opulence unimaginable to most of the humans that have ever been born but what most of us miss day after day is that the quality of our energy has declined so sharply over the last century or so that the very existence of any industrial way of life is teetering on the very edge of extinction not humanity not nature just industrial civilization and she wants to just tear it down and rebuild it all sheer lunacy so out of touch with the real world that it embarrasses me is this the best we got it s wrong to think we re heading for trouble as a nation trouble from climate change sea level rise energy shortages overpopulation and so forth we re not heading for that we re already there we re in it now and if you don t see it count yourself among the lucky and sheltered we are already facing predicaments that are turning our way of life on its head there are already millions of americans one missing paycheck away from homelessness and destitution all the good energy is long gone solar wind geothermal none of them can prove an eroei energy return on energy invested any higher than what we re getting from dwindling fossil fuels and at this point that ain t much why do you think we are 22 trillion in debt as a nation because we are accustomed to living a life that our energy base can no longer afford and all the handwaving about novel technologies coming down the pike please enough of the vaporware do we really think that nobody s thought of these things before how arrogant and historically illiterate can we be have we not been trying to get a sustained cold fusion reaction going for like half a century or so already spent many billions of dollars on the attempt and even if we did would it actually be economical to power anything from it if we achieved the ideal of energy too cheap to meter how long do you think the planet would remain habitable our predicament isn t just about energy supply you know technically feasible and economically viable are very different things and i encourage anyone who is conflating the two to rethink a vote in favor of a plan that guarantees swifter failure than what is already approaching at a fair clip what my seven years in the woods taught me is that life goes on without the trappings of industrial culture that it can still be time very well spent most of human history would agree with me and i agree with ms ocasio cortez we have a helluva situation on our hands one that requires radical change but the change she s talking about is suicidal not to mention impossible ill advised oblivious there s a reason we put age limits on positions of power it s called wisdom and aoc is showing her shocking lack thereof cheers tripp out posted by tripp at 12 35 pm 6 comments wednesday august 22 2018 redirection i have removed all of my mediocre rantings from this blog site if you want to get a clearer picture of what s going on in the world today i encourage you to go read john michael greer s blog cheers and best of luck in the future tripp out permanently posted by tripp at 4 03 pm 3 comments home subscribe to posts atom toon followers follow small batch posts atom posts all comments atom all comments about me husband father of two ecologist organic gardener orchardist small stocker mushroom cultivator cobber herbalist teacher and cultural infidel who lived in a big tent without power or running water in the north georgia mountains for two years now doing the same in a simple wooden structure muddling toward sustainability one baby step at a time every now and then i stumble upon something i deem worth sharing even if it s just with myself videos worth watching emilia hazelip s fukuoka inspired permaculture garden 1st of 3 excellent parts http www youtube com watch v ugfd1jdfae0 feature related paul stamets on how mushrooms can help save the earth http www ted com talks paul_stamets_on_6_ways_mushrooms_can_save_the_world html david holmgren on peak oil and his book principles and pathways http www youtube com watch v ofjfg24bex8 david holmgren on the endurance of suburbia http www youtube com watch v itye8wlof1u feature related cuba s model response to peak oil following the collapse of the soviet union www youtube com watch v f7i6rovb5mi michael pollan giving a plant s eye view of the world ttp www ted com talks michael_pollan_gives_a_plant_s_eye_view html geoff lawton giving a tour of his amazing kitchen garden http www youtube com watch v npb8qltab6g p 66c1d27668e75f30 playnext 1 index 14 you don t have a grasshopper plague you have a turkey deficiency http www youtube com watch v b9n5kpuy6ze p 66c1d27668e75f30 index 16 playnext 2 using poultry to break pest cycles http www youtube com watch v oblrbe6adb8 p 66c1d27668e75f30 index 17 playnext 3 geoff lawton s classic greening the desert http www youtube com watch v sohi6vnwzmk 300 year old food forest in vietnam http www youtube com watch v 5zgzwoq ao blog archive 2019 1 march 1 i believe in organic processes a response to the 2018 1 august 1 contact feel free to contact me in regard to the topics of this blog or my grant funded montessori school project operation self reliance whether for speaking engagements workshops consultation or just to chat at trippticket at gmail dot com or simply post to the current 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