Great NPR piece this morning about conflicting needs of food safety and sustainability 
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Which one are you? I’m somewhere between the semi-globavore and the locavore at the moment, although I haven’t been settled in one place for more than six weeks at a time in many months, so it’s hard to characterize my habits. Long-term goal: ultra-locavore.
from the Mother Nature Network
The stat that completely shocks me is that 37% of US households had food gardens in 2009. I only know ONE person with a food garden!! Where are these gardeners? Are they counting basil grown in a little pot on your windowsill?
an intro to the Transition Movement from Rob Hopkins
I learned about the Transition Movement while volunteering at Sunseed. The idea is to transition away from oil dependence, by strengthening local community resilience. I love the attitude—very solutions-focused and creative. Rob Hopkins is the founder, and this video is a great intro to the ideas of the movement. Your town might very well be a Transition Town! Search the Transition Network to see what’s going on near you.
more portraits of Sunseed
photographic portraits this time (:
podcast episode 4: portrait of a sustainability project
My goodness, it’s only been three weeks and I’m already posting another episode! Thanks to some help from my friends at Sunseed, this one came along quickly.
In this episode: Sunseed Desert Project is a small sustainable community in the south of Spain.
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Theme music: Pacifico (James Beaudreau) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
Other music in this episode, in order of appearance:
hello little fly (Deano Merino) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
Memhpis in Winter (Michael Chapman) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
Stellar Rushes (James Beaudreau) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
Podcast Episode 3 - Modern Harmony with Nature: Sustainability
In this episode: Four short stories about sustainability. Katie Tackman on banana circles, Chris Canaday on urine-diverting dry toilets and solar disinfection of water, and Frederique Cebron on his family’s five-year journey to find people developing techniques for sustainable living.
**CORRECTION: Chris Canaday pointed out that normal amounts of soap are not harmful if dispersed on the soil. Definitely NO BLEACH though.**
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The photo shows an ecological dry toilet at Sunseed, much like the model Chris talks about.
Organizations and websites mentioned in this episode:
Chris Canaday’s site about Ecological Dry Toilets
Ecological Sanitation Research from the Stockholm Institute
Theme music: Pacifico (James Beaudreau) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
Other music in this episode, in order of appearance:
like a jungle (DJ BrownBum) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
Mockingbird Diet (Karl Blau) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
Nature’s Cup (Learning Music) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
Too Thirsty To Drink Water (Karl Blau) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
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Podcast Episode 2: Traditional Harmony with Nature—the Waorani
In this episode…
Chris Canaday of the Omaere Ethnobotanical Park discusses how the Waorani (an indigenous group of people who live in the Amazon of Ecuador) use the rainforest as a renewable resource.
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A few articles about the ethics of contacting isolated people and about the Waorani’s difficulties with oil companies can be found here, here, or here. This is by no means a complete selection!
The next episode will feature a few modern ideas for living in harmony with nature.
Theme music: Pacifico (James Beaudreau) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
Other music in this episode, in order of appearance:
Stellar Rushes (James Beaudreau) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
At the Foothills (James Beaudreau) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
Rowing-Haint (James Beaudreau) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
Easy Pieces No.4 (James Beaudreau) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
Quiver (James Beaudreau) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
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