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Friday, September 20, 2013

Wine, Pizza & National Parks

It is just another lovely autumn evening, as I look outside my window and imagine all the endless possibilities out there. "If only I could have some land to live and farm on," I think to myself.

It is not reasonable that all public lands are in the hands of national park services. There are very few people who would actually want to farmstead in small communities, without harming the natural environment, as it has existed for thousands of years. Us few, and enjoyable folk, should have access to the wild. Those lands that are neglected by the national park services.

My first note is that national park services mistreat and doom our natural environment to desolation. The process of desertification and loss of wildlife has been running amok, ever since those guys took over. Many animals that are recorded in the pages of history, even from only a century ago, are already gone or quickly vanishing. This is true worldwide!

My second note, which casually leans on the first, is that ecologically inclined people, also known as local (non-industrial) farmers, are exactly what our environment needs! Regular people, without the use of massive industrial machinery and pollutants, have kept nature in a balanced and lush state, since time immemorial.

I believe in nut & fruit orchards, just like I believe in good food.

Just think about it. People farmed the land, in many different ways, for millennia, and no major ecological distastes happened. It is true that many empires slowly and dreadfully destroyed native forests, for example, in the Mediterranean area. Never the less, even then all that was lacking was the replanting of trees; exactly what farmers are doing now, in some areas, sometimes with government support and funds (Some time ago, I saw a good example on video about China.)

So, it is about time that states the world over started getting their ecology into perspective, and returned the wild back to the hands of the simple farmers. Back to the hands of those that can really serve the wild, unlike the National Park Services.

Monday, September 2, 2013

The Designed Life Is Less Troublesome


Not for the first time, I have just enjoyed watching Toby Hemenway's talk about designing our surroundings and Permaculture. After, quite recently, deciding that my game project (see a few posts below) is a fail, due to the lack of tools for its' making, I returned to the drawing board.

My drawing board is, more often than not, the simple Paint program in Windows.

Naturally, I saw myself returning to those topics that have always drawn my attention. News and updates from the Permaculture world, may sometimes be slow to come, due to the nature of the profession. Yet, this means that when there are news, they are ever more exciting and interesting to learn!

In the above refreshing talk, Toby takes us from our common history - and how it brought us to our current situation - and all the way into the latest positive examples of good environmental design. I hope you enjoy it, as much as I have.

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