Farmers agree: In the Valley, the days of large-scale commercial farming are all but gone. But the trade might survive on a much smaller scale. Urban farms — which can take up less than an acre and grow unique produce — may be the only farming that lives on, they say. The small-scale farms work …
Have you been following the news of natural disasters across the globe? Extensive property damage has occurred from: flooding in Houston, India, Nepal and Bangladesh; hurricane force winds in Dominica and Puerto Rico; and major earthquakes in Mexico. Many people living in those communities have lost everything and are now homeless! What they have to …
Creating Community – How Do We Live Together? At the March 7th members meeting we began talking about tiny house communities. Tiny houses are growing in popularity as people realize that they need to reduce their footprint on the planet and lower their consumption patterns. One of the challenges of tiny houses, though, is they …
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal …
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. ― R. Buckminster Fuller There has been much talk of revolution during the recent presidential primary campaigns, especially among Bernie Sanders supporters. Unfortunately, this talk has focused on the changes we need to …
