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- How are you currently involved in the Transition?
- TWOG. And a few other things.
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- I am interested in creating practical solutions
I am empowered to find solutions
I feel a sense of accountability to the earth and future generations
I favor creating new situations rather than simply opposing old ones
I recognize the need for change and the resistance to it that exists
I see the beauty in dreaming together, and also in working together (for free!) for the common good
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- I know something about: gardening, food preservation, invasive species, herbology, human anatomy/physiology, seed saving, toxicology/chemistry, environmental systems, public speaking/presentations, crafts (soap, weaving, rug making, candles, knitting, sewing, quilting, frugality, hazard/risk assessment, writing documents, green building, electricity and winemaking. Probably some other things.
- In what neighborhood or part of the county do you reside?
- York!
- Where did you hear about Transition Whatcom and how did you find our community network website?
- I saw flyers, saw it posted on 4th Corner Exchange, and heard by word of mouth. I found the website via 4th Corner.
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- Transition Whatcom may help me do more than I could by myself to leave behind a better world than I found.
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My foray into the 100-mile diet: A weaning period
Posted on January 10, 2011 at 10:27pm 3 Comments 0 Likes
This year I'm testing the waters on the 100-mile locavore diet. I'm pretty excited about it. So far my guidelines are to source 95% of my purchased food locally for the year 2011. (I did not prepare for this experiment. So, after a night of New Years' revelry, I woke up New Year's Day with a hankering to go out for breakfast and remembered, oh yeah, I'm not doing that anymore). In order to make this workable, it makes sense to eat the foreign food that I've already got, which buys me…
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Thanks for all the work you did on this project for us. I appreciate your thoroughness and making it easy for others to plug into. Right now we have some other priorities financially that are higher on the list than this great looking tool. So we will not be going in on the group purchase.
Angela and David
I'm also intersted in a hand or foot press for using with tinctures & oil extractions..
I would want something for small batches, but with a commercial quality to last a lifetime.
I've posted some of the links I've found under my comments on my personal TW page at:
http://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/profiles/comment/list?attachedToType=User&attachedTo=0tcvru41k5xlb&commentId=2723460%3AComment%3A37054&xg_source=activity
The herb tincture press listed in Nancy & Michael Phillips book
-The Herbalist Way ,is this one:
Tincture Press that can do alcohol or oil:
Longevity Herb Company
http://business.gorge.net/longevity/
Great work-party action pictures! Garden work is truly year round!
I have a couple names to pass on for folks you might like to contact to help with the class. Give a call later or email me.
May the living dead among us wake up and join in the work of the transition.
Sajah
Rhys Webb, LMP
I appreciate the link and keeping me in Mind and Heart! Love, Jamie
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