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Friday, April 29, 2011
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38 years living "ultra" green- still going. How to. How not to. Why. Why not.
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It's a play on Grandpa, and green, as in environmentally aware, and Pa, as in ... Pa. An actual grandpa twice, and a Pa three times.
68, kids from two marriages, currently with a 12 year old zooming around the house. The house is as advertised, a very small log cabin in the woods. Tiny. It's like living on a yacht; no closet space, which is maybe half of why #1 went away.
I've been living "ultra" green for 40 years. Off the grid always, business too. Electricity from solar; and a little gas backup in winter. Composting toilet, heat with wood. Not vegetarians; hunter/gatherer/gardener. Not opposed to people living in cities.
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The good news: STILL living Ultragreen. It can be done. I'll talk about how here; including towns and cities.
Education: MS and an "ABD" (all but dissertation of a PhD), in Biology. Focus: evolutionary ecology, botany, genetics, parasitology, mammalogy, behavior, ethology, psychology, language,... marketing...metallurgy... No, really, and I left some out, because you won't believe me anyway.
68, kids from two marriages, currently with a 12 year old zooming around the house. The house is as advertised, a very small log cabin in the woods. Tiny. It's like living on a yacht; no closet space, which is maybe half of why #1 went away.
I've been living "ultra" green for 40 years. Off the grid always, business too. Electricity from solar; and a little gas backup in winter. Composting toilet, heat with wood. Not vegetarians; hunter/gatherer/gardener. Not opposed to people living in cities.
Good health; bad health. Good times, bad times. Poverty, intentional and not. Great friends. Unfriends.
The good news: STILL living Ultragreen. It can be done. I'll talk about how here; including towns and cities.
Education: MS and an "ABD" (all but dissertation of a PhD), in Biology. Focus: evolutionary ecology, botany, genetics, parasitology, mammalogy, behavior, ethology, psychology, language,... marketing...metallurgy... No, really, and I left some out, because you won't believe me anyway.
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1) Off the grid. 38 years. Solar electricity
2) Limited power- house electricity has 4 golf cart batteries.
3) Composting toilet. Outside. (eew, you do that indoors!?)
4) No road to house. You gotta walk.
5) No running water in house. Water pumped by wind.
6) Showers solar heated; outdoors.
7) Heat with wood. One stove in house-..
8) Cook with wood 8 months, propane in summer
9) Most of our fuelwood now is from trees we planted
10) No refrigerator. 40 years, now. You don't need one either.
11) Big garden.
12) Eat locally when possible, not obsessive about it.
13) No pesticide use ever, gardens or crops; not even organic (ok, except a little in the outhouse and the greenhouse...)
14) Earth sheltered solar greenhouse (aren't they all solar??)
15) Shut up about it. Nobody likes preaching.
16. These are our choices- yours are yours.
2) Limited power- house electricity has 4 golf cart batteries.
3) Composting toilet. Outside. (eew, you do that indoors!?)
4) No road to house. You gotta walk.
5) No running water in house. Water pumped by wind.
6) Showers solar heated; outdoors.
7) Heat with wood. One stove in house-..
8) Cook with wood 8 months, propane in summer
9) Most of our fuelwood now is from trees we planted
10) No refrigerator. 40 years, now. You don't need one either.
11) Big garden.
12) Eat locally when possible, not obsessive about it.
13) No pesticide use ever, gardens or crops; not even organic (ok, except a little in the outhouse and the greenhouse...)
14) Earth sheltered solar greenhouse (aren't they all solar??)
15) Shut up about it. Nobody likes preaching.
16. These are our choices- yours are yours.
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2)"Eat compost and die" type comments will cheerfully be deleted. They won't even tick me off, I just feel pity. Really. So if I were you, I wouldn't bother. (Note to other bloggers- this requirement for basic politeness works- total # of mean comments deleted by me so far ~ 5; spammers deleted ~ 10)
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6 comments:
Says it all really but thats how our system still works. There have been talks about becoming a republic but nobody can really be bothered with all the fuss that would entail so they just limited the powers down to nothing instead. Personally I'd rather not have that bit of dna - its a very guilded cage.
viv in nz
I think that the Royal Family and the Middletons paid for the actual wedding: the taxpayers will probably pony up for security but is that different from anywhere else? The G20 Summit that was held in Toronto last year cost Canadian taxpayers (me) over a billion dollars.....and for what? What came out of it? The Obama inauguration cost about 170 million. I could go on but you get the point . . .
What is wrong with humans that we too often want to criticize and b**** about things and look at the negative side of life? Does putting others down make us feel better about ourselves?
Am I the only one who DIDN'T hear anything about their wedding?
All I personally saw, was that when I got an email from post canada telling me my package was in the mail, they had a little link for "limited edition wedding stamps". This was five days ago, and that's all I've heard. When was the actual wedding?
Dea-chan said...
Am I the only one who DIDN'T hear anything about their wedding?"
Yup! :-) And good for you, I might add.
Olivia- I didn't pay any attention to the costs aspect; it was more the strange behavior we all show of worshipping celebrities; of whatever origin, regardless of past histories.
I have no reason to think the couple in this case are anything but nice people (the rude portrayal in the cartoon notwithstanding) but I do share the mild amazement at the hullaballoo over these unknown people- just because of their extremely questionable ancestors. I was given a copy of Charles Dickens "A Child's History of England" long ago (it's not for children) - and do have to share Dickens opinion that history does not paint England's royals as being good, kind, moral creatures; but quite the reverse.
I wish the couple well- they appear to be harmless. But I do find our collective behavior amusing.
:-)
Knutty - so, earthquakes, now tornadoes- they're still missing you, I trust!
Greenpa - This "unknown couple" - at least the male half - and I share at least one of those extremely questionable ancestors so perhaps I, too, have some of those immoral genes ;)
Aside from that - as a Canadian, while not a "monarchist" - we, too, are members of the Commonwealth so perhaps the Royal Family means something a little different here?
I also am bewildered by the cult of celebrity. It's not as common here. Unlike Obama, our Prime Minister is not a celebrity. There is no fanfare surrounding his election and no "inauguration" (crowning?) of him/her. He could probably pass unnoticed in a crowd. We have no "Hollywood" - probably the closest thing we have to a celebrity would be a hockey player such as "Sid the Kid" who would be a celebrity only as long as his hockey skills were up to scratch!
Well Greenpa; you are entitled to your opinion, but it's sad that you have to be so negative about an event that really did touch millions.
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