Whether it’s population or economic growth, exponential growth inevitably ends with bust and collapse. Here is a video that explains the impact of exponential growth. World news is fixated on the UN’s pronouncement that we are passing the 7 billion population mark. Ironically, there are many countries where population collapse is the issue as chronicled [...]
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Demographics Drive Change
Posted in Ecology, News, Politics, Science, Self-Sufficiency, tagged eugenics, Peak Oil, population bust, population explosion, Provident Living, resource depletion on November 1, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Build a great house for under $10,000
Posted in Art, Community, Ecology, Homes, Liberty, Self-Sufficiency, Shelter, tagged Alternative Construction, Bob Vila, CONEX Container, Container Construction, Containerization, Debt Free, Insulated glazing, Off-Grid, Self Sufficient, Thermal mass, Wood-burning stove on October 3, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Needing to build a guest house. Inexpensive, but strong, well insulated, attractive and off-grid ready. There is a series of YouTube videos featuring Bob Vila building houses with Steel Shipping Containers, sometimes called CONEX boxes. When finished, they make attractive houses, indistinguishable from others in the tract. But the cost per square foot is about [...]
Hands-On Preparedness Fair – Workshops
Posted in Community, Ecology, Energy, Food, Health, Homes, Nature, News, Self-Sufficiency, Shelter, Technology, Water, tagged alternative fuels, Energy Self-Sufficiency, micro-hydro Power, organic gardening, permaculture, Prepper, Provident Living, rain water collection system, Self-Reliance, Self-Sufficiency, Self-Sufficient Living, Self-Sustaining Community, Tennessee Mountain Land on July 17, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Our call for highly qualified workshop leaders has been answered in spades. The quality and diversity of topics to be covered at the Fair on July 23-24 is outstanding. See some of my older posts for a flyer and overview. Here is a sampling Preparedness Fair Schedule 7-24-2010 A sequence of three presentations, starts with Permaculture [...]
Preparedness Fair @ the Village – Permaculture
Posted in Community, Ecology, Food, Health, Nature, Self-Sufficiency, Water, tagged Abundant Lifestyle, EcoVillage, intentional community, organic gardening, permaculture, Provident Living, Self-Sufficiency, Self-Sufficient Living, Self-Sustaining Community, Tennessee Mountain Land on July 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Permaculture Design Class 2010I’m excited to announce one of the presenters at this year’s preparedness fair at the Village on Sewanee Creek. Kevin Guenther is a renowned sustainable landscape architect from Nashville. He will be presenting on the Permaculture ethic, how it is both a community building mind-set “PERMAnent CULTURE” and a method of low [...]
A time for Conservation
Posted in Ecology, Nature, tagged Abundant Lifestyle, EcoVillage, Peak Oil, permaculture, Self-Sustaining Community, Tennessee Mountain Land on June 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It’s time for individual accountability in our stewardship of this beautiful earth.
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