I won't belabor this, especially since I commented on the same issue when our nings first started.

The word "COMMUNITY" gets way overplayed in this movement -- "overplayed" because it's used but not embodied, especially when leadership in the movement wastes valuable time belittling leadership in other movements.

TEOTWAWKI is here, folks. This is not a fire DRILL. Stop squabbling and keep moving.

At our Lifeboat homestead, we produce our own electricity and grow our own food. But, we also supplement with some electricity from the grid and food from the store (particularly things we cannot grow, like orange juice and chocolate!!) Every October, we "pull the plug". We live completely within our own means for one month. It's a great way to learn where the "holes" are so we know what we need to work on next.



Taking responsibility for our own needs is our way of saving community… Continue

Here's what's going on at TLA. Maybe sharing will give others some ideas for their bioregions.



September 21 "Cottage Industries" Class At the local community college, we'll begin a class on how to start a part-time home-based business for fun and extra $. We'll encourage participants to think in terms of the New Economy -- local needs, local supplies, local sales, local support. Clothing, shoes, food and food products, forges, grain mills, cheese making -- all these types of endeavors… Continue

ECO – STAYS



Imagine an off-the-grid and off-the-beaten path rural setting, mild marine temperatures, roosters crowing in the morning and the occasional comment from the horse, ducks, goats, sheep, geese, or eagles providing the day's background music.



You rise and pick berries for summer's breakfast, or stoke up the woodstove fire under winter's heartier oatmeal. There's literally wood to chop (if not water to carry), fields, garden, greenhouses, barn, coop and woodlot to… Continue