Building your dream house (the way nature intendend)

Check out Cal-Earth.Org

Inspirational and practical on so many levels!

".....every man and woman is a doctor and a builder, to heal and shelter themselves - NK........"

Semillitas

"Our seeds are under attack!"

Said alone it raises no alarm to the average American citizen, either because he or she is neither a farmer or a worried citizen. I am an amateur farmer and a very worried citizen.

things started to fall into place when I noticed that swallowing watermelon seeds did not result in my belly growing a watermelon plant as my mom had warned me... so of course I noticed when the seeds in my favorite summer fruit went missing. "Sweet!" I thought, "no more worrying about a watermelon accidentally growing in my stomach!" (you never know right?) Sure the watermelon was more "convenient" in that I didn't have to spew the seeds, but the process was no less messy or sticky.

Then the seeds went missing in another fruit, grapes... "hmm..." I thought to myself, "someone finally made fruit for lazy people!" myself being one of them, a young kid who loved her junk food and hated having to wait to shove something sweet into her mouth.

All this was noticed but I made no big deal about it ... but now a lot older and wiser, how do you grow seedless watermelons and seedless grapes?









"The Future of Food"


In kindergarten I leared that beans sprout and grow and grow until they produce more beans (whether mine made it to adulthood is beside the point). the whole circle of life thing. but how did these plants become seedless?

it turns out it's not just watermelons or grapes that are becoming more "convenient", CORN, SOY BEANS, COTTON, CANOLA ... mostly here in the US, ALL GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS.


Now what does that mean? as a recovering junk food junkie (5 years!) it means that the quality (and control) of the fruits and veggies I love is in jeopardy. ...

this rabbit whole gets deeper ....


keep thinking,
-pj

SuperForest.Org

I am overly pessimistic at times, it's just my nature and with the current gloom over this period in time, there seems to be an endless stockpile of fuel to keep my pessimism simmering. .. AND Yet, I am a firm believer in wonderful and almost Utopian possibilities. Either way, I am always looking for truth and action that brings some whimsy into the darkness.

Enter SUPERFOREST.ORG, my favorite blog. Aside from being a breath of fresh air, SuperForest is "a catalogue of sustainable achievement", a testament to positive thought and action for the greater good. The "greater good" being you, me and everything in between, a community. They are revamping and expanding the notion of community and greater good and making it tangible. Along with awesome do-it yourself ideas and amusing cartoons and anecdotes, they spotlight real community projects, projects of peace, progress and balance. The site itself is a community project. It is a first stop in getting back to basics, a welcome stop in finding what it is that inspires you.

I greatly appreciate their effort, group work and nudge to participate. Their attitude of "every little counts" is genuine. Their feel good attitude is infectious, you feel good by just reading their blog! Every time I read it I feel a little smarter and safer, because someone is doing something and some times that someone is me.

After all ....

"The Environment is everything that disappears when you close your eyes."
Humanifesto, SuperForest.Org

put that way, aren't we all environmentalists?

CHECK THEM OUT!

keep thinking,

-pj