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<\/a><\/p>\nCorn, Bleeding Heart, Impatiens, Beets and Beans at 3pm<\/p>\n
This morning I got up, ate breakfast and went straight outside.\u00a0 Posting in the morning has begun to interfere with other projects.\u00a0 Even so, I like to do it.\u00a0 The posting gives a start to the day.\u00a0 Just too long a start sometimes.<\/p>\n
Till noon I cleaned up old wire fencing so we can recycle it on Saturday.\u00a0 At noon I began the sun\/shade survey for our ecological gardens project.\u00a0 Instead of shading in a map I decided to use the digital camera and print contact sheets of prints shot at 9AM, noon, 3pm, 6pm.\u00a0 I stand in the same location for each shot.\u00a0 It takes about 20 images to cover the whole yard.<\/p>\n
After the nap I went out into the wide world to collect meds and some ink for my Canon color printer.\u00a0 This is the first time I have purchased ink for this printer, in fact it’s the first time I’ve purchased ink for any printer other than my HP L4 since 1991.\u00a0 The cost of color ink impressed me.\u00a0 High.\u00a0 Ouch.<\/p>\n
About a year ago right now Kate and I attended a conference in Iowa City, Iowa.\u00a0 Focused on climate change and the issues involved, I came away convinced I needed to get involved in some direct way.\u00a0 I made a list of things to do at the conference, but as the year has gone by I realize I have gotten a much better handle on personal action.<\/p>\n
The Sierra Club political committee was one concrete step.\u00a0 This gave my leverage in the political arena, working with committed folks who have a proven track record.\u00a0 The whole permaculture adventure also came from that time.\u00a0 This allows Kate and me to put our homeplace into the mix as a sort of experiment in sustainable living.\u00a0 We have determined that our next car purchase, when Kate retires, will be an eco-sound model.\u00a0 Kate put in compact fluorescents in most of our light sockets.\u00a0 The shift this year to a larger amount of vegetables grown at home began the process for us here, as has the hydroponics.\u00a0 A couple of years ago, the last Woolly meeting I had here, we focused on Thomas Berry’s book, The Great Work.\u00a0 Ever since I read it the Great Work has crept into the forefront of my vision, altering my future and what I want to do with the last years of my life.<\/p>\n
The following two posts come from the Iowa Conference of PSR, Physicians for Social Responsibility:<\/p>\n
September 18, 2007 10:45AM 68 97% 51% 68dewdoint\u00a0 bar, rises 0mph windrose N Ordinary Time\u00a0\u00a0 First Quarter of the Harvest Moon<\/p>\n
I have a good deal to report from the weekend’s conference on the health consequences of global warming.\u00a0 I will summarize here, later today, with a more full report and strategy to follow in the Great Work section.\u00a0 Suffice it to say I found the conference exhilarating.\u00a0 You can count me among the convinced by the data crowd.<\/p>\n
Here’s the most important take-away I have right now:\u00a0 climate change needs a reframe.\u00a0 It must move from the second rank of political issues to the first rank.\u00a0 In order to do this we have to start emphasizing the national security challenges and opportunities represented by a response to climate change.\u00a0 The obvious challenge to our national security lies in our dependence on fossil fuels, especially oil.\u00a0 This challenge strains our economy in many ways:\u00a0 military projection (Carter doctrine), an economic infrastructure dependent on petroleum and the political and economics costs of mitigation and adaptation to the climate change created by excess use of fossil fuels.<\/p>\n
September 18, 2007 11:09PM 66 97% 51% 65dewdoint\u00a0 bar, steady 0mph windrose SSE Ordinary Time\u00a0\u00a0 First Quarter of the Harvest Moon<\/p>\n
Here’s a quick summary of what I learned in Iowa.<\/p>\n
1.\u00a0 Climate change is both a national security issue and an issue as important as national security.<\/p>\n
2. Climate change has a cascade of health effects, some minor, many major.<\/p>\n
3.\u00a0 There are various constituencies among the climate change leadership and they do not agree with each other.<\/p>\n
4.\u00a0 The UN through UNEP and GEF and the IPCC process has standing as a conservative bench mark for climate change science.<\/p>\n
5. The concept of the commons, the stuff not owned by any one, but shared in common, is very important to this generation of climate change debate.\u00a0 The air, soil, ocean, and mineral wealth of the plant is, or should be, in the commons.\u00a0 The most wealthy corporations have figured out how to make money from the commons, e.g. Exxon, Big Coal, Big Steel, Big Agriculture.<\/p>\n
6. There are many creative solutions in the hopper, i.e. The Sky Trust, the Climate Legacy Project, mitigation and adaptation planning at several levels:\u00a0 medical, governmental, emergency, state, national, international to name a few.<\/p>\n
7. The hope for rapid change may depend on the politics of the next 18 months, then the first 100 days of a new administration.<\/p>\n
8. A constituency for climate change may be about to jell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
68\u00a0 bar falls 30.06\u00a0 0mph NNE\u00a0 dew-point 38\u00a0 sunrise 6:45\u00a0 set 7:34\u00a0 Lughnasa First Quarter of the Harvest Moon \u00a0 rise 4:49\u00a0 set 12:17 Corn, Bleeding Heart, Impatiens, Beets and Beans at 3pm This morning I got up, ate breakfast and went straight outside.\u00a0 Posting in the morning has begun to interfere with other projects.\u00a0 … Continue reading Change and Changes<\/span>