by Karen Olson, former editor of the Utne Reader, on behalf of Permaculture Research Institute Cold Climate.
You may have heard this from Masanobu Fukuoka, the visionary Japanese farmer:
"The purpose of agriculture is not the production of food, but the perfection of human beings"
The trajectory of many martial arts and meditative traditions culminates in a settled, food-producing country life. The lifelong study of balance in physical and mental action can be seen as also a training ground for providing for one's needs in old age, sans Medicare, nursing homes, or intact family structures.
2nd Annual Rising Tide Conference, New Orleans
Damas y Caballeros, seguro que hace rato que no escuchan nada de este loquito. Novedades, si que hay:
by Sally Pistachio
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
March 9-10, 2007
It took the Mississippi River 6,000 years to build the Louisiana coast. It took man (and natural disasters) 75 years to destroy it. Experts agree we have 10 years to act before the problem is too big to solve.-Times-Picayune March 4, 2007