Sustainability and self sufficiency have meaning

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1. support your local economy, even if it means spending slightly more for products that are locally made, hand made or from companies that are locally owned. In the long run, it means keeping our money here instead of siphoning it out to corporations that have no interest in local economy.

2. Find easy ways ways to waste less. For instance, ban paper towels and use washable cloth whenever possible. Plan your errands out efficiently so you can keep gas to a minimal use when it is possible.

3. Stop buying commercial fruit and grow your own, trade, or buy from the farmer's markets from trusted, local farmers. Fruit that is imported has a huge impact on our environment because it requires not only the energy to grow it, but then a lot of extra energy to ship it here. Fruit is mostly water. HEAVY!

"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars."

[AlohaSteven]

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Here is a potentially useful suggestion from http://www.350.org along the lines of "Think globally, act locally."

http://action.350.org/t/9532/tellafriend...d_KEY=4869

...with the You Tube version at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqof641pW...r_embedded

It is always tempting to cynically sniff and yawn at such earnest populist efforts, thinking "What difference is THAT going to make- it will just be ignored" -but indeed doing this is exactly how nothing changes. Historically, when large numbers of people rise up and visibly demand change then things really do happen. Change rarely ever happens any other way.

Large numbers of people coalesce around small numbers of people who are seen to take a stand....


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"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."

Pres. John Adams, Scholar and Statesman


"There's a scientific reason to be concerned and there's a scientific reason to push for action. But there's no scientific reason to despair."

NASA climate analyst Gavin Schmidt

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