"Recently retired & looking for an ACTIVE environmental group to volunteer some time with. Must get there from Ellettsville. April, 2012"
Growing Community Resilience for an Abundant Post-Petroleum Future
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David McFarland
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- Ellettsville, IN
- United States
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Latest Activity -- Who's Doing What in Bloomington...
David McFarland joined Rhonda Baird's group
Bloomington Permaculture Guild
This is a way to connect and celebrate the work of the Bloomington Permaculture Guild
Profile Information
- Are you aware that your membership will not be approved unless you complete your profile questions?
- Yes
- How are you currently involved in Transition to a post-petroleum lifestlyle?
- This is the 4th summer I've worked establishiing a permaculture-style suburban yard. (But there will be no chickens.)
We're learning to eat better: more vegetables, less meat and CORN.
- How do you identify with the Transition movement? Why are you interested?
- It's transition or the complete collapse of civilization, a no-brainer...
- How can you help the growth / acceptance / vitality of local Transition efforts? What can YOU teach us? What can your Group teach us?
- Our suburban yard illustrates some Permaculture principles. Holistic ways of understanding are not easy for me, so I need to be a dependable grunt and not a leader.
- Can you give 2-5 hours a month in Bloomington to manifest real projects and will you show up?
- If you're sufficiently well-organized to tell me what I'll be doing in advance, I'll be there...
- Your Favorite Books/Websites/Blogs/RSS Feeds for Information about Transition / Peak Oil, etc.
- Gaia's Garden
Sacred Economics
Post Carbon Reader
Active Hope
David McFarland's Blog
The Transition Handbook and me
(From my Facebook)
"Borrowed The Transition Handbook from Ellettsville branch of MCPL. Though there are only two copies there was no waiting list. Shoulda been. The global warming and peak oil projections already seem unrealistically optimistic, but it seems to me the world should be beating down doors to read this book. (Maybe everyone else in this group has already absorbed all this material.) Anyway, when I'm done with the book, maybe I'll be ready for some actual work helping the… Continue
"Borrowed The Transition Handbook from Ellettsville branch of MCPL. Though there are only two copies there was no waiting list. Shoulda been. The global warming and peak oil projections already seem unrealistically optimistic, but it seems to me the world should be beating down doors to read this book. (Maybe everyone else in this group has already absorbed all this material.) Anyway, when I'm done with the book, maybe I'll be ready for some actual work helping the… Continue
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 9:00am
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