And I just want to be clear that I wasn't trying to pick a fight over who has the best handle on sustainable living. It's not the "choir" that needs alerting. It's the many, many people of means who choose sprawl and bigger houses, SUVs etc. Making changes would be so easy for them, if they knew enough to care.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon St.Laurent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Sustainable Tompkins County listserv" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 11:16 AM Subject: Re: [SustainableTompkins] ST Community Gathering postponed,weather/roads > Bethany Schroeder wrote: >> Another thing to consider is that some of us live outside the city >> proper because we either are growing or hope to grow food to feed >> ourselves and others and we either are now or hope to generate energy in >> some form or another to augment or save on the energy that we all use, >> among other things. > > I keep asking people who live outside the cities, villages, and hamlets > whether they can think of their house as a farmhouse. That often sends > people for a loop, but a fair number have been able to say "yes, > definitely." > > I'm still figuring out whether or not my own house will work that way. > >> I thank Wendy and Jeanne for their generous responses to George's >> "spunky" comments about the necessity for postponing our meeting. > > I should probably clarify that my note about plowing sidewalks was > serious, and that I enjoyed George's remarks too. > > Thanks, > Simon > _______________________________________________ > RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: > [email protected] > http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins > free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org > _______________________________________________ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
