Is anyone else getting the creepy feeling that events are picking up momentum? Tony
On 3/20/08, Katie Quinn-Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This trend will worsen, of course, leading to a lot of volatility as > uncertainty in both the national food supply lines and local > availability of food come into play. If you haven't considered storing > wheat berries, it might be time to reconsider the risks of not storing > food stuffs. Wheat berries last 20-30 years if stored properly. > Organic spring wheat is available from a local farm through Greenstar. > > See: PreparedTompkins.org for how to pack a super pail > < > http://www.preparedtompkins.org/?oc=DbDisplay&dn=Postings&or=vertical&oi=55 > >. > > In addition to being the per capita leader statewide in PV systems, it > would provide us with more food security if we increase the number of > home gardens, root cellars, and households with a year food storage - as > well as the number of people actively engaged in home or small-scale > food processing. > > -- Katie Q-J > > Joel and Sarah Gagnon wrote: > > By then we will be growing it locally again and making the bread locally > as > > well. > > > > Joel > > > > At 12:05 PM 3/20/08 -0400, you wrote: > > > >> Dear Friends--In case you haven't see this on CNN, the network is > reporting > >> on the severe price increases in wheat. The price of wheat has gone up > >> 2-1/2 times over the past year. A commercial-sized bag of flour went > from > >> $37 to $40 over the past couple of months. Everything made from wheat > is > >> going up and up as well. The reasons are 1) more farmers are raising > corn > >> for biofuels and less wheat, so the supply is low and 2) because of the > >> falling value of the dollar more foreign countries are buying more > wheat > >> > > >from the U.S. 60% of our wheat output goes over seas. We now have > less > > > >> wheat available since WW II, so we are all paying the price! Life in > the > >> U.S. is becoming like life in a 3rd World country! > >> > >> Also from CNN: It takes a big rig trucker $1,000 to fill up his/her > >> tanks. They are going bankrupt right and left. Truckers are going to > >> stage a national work stoppage to protest the high price of diesel > fuel, > >> which is near $4/gal. in some parts of the county. > >> > >> How is bread going to get to the bread lines during the coming > >> Depression? Tom > >> > >> Tom Shelley > >> 118 E. Court St. > >> Ithaca, NY 14850 > >> 607 342-0864 > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> http://www.myspace.com/99319958 > >> P I thank you for printing this e-mail only if it is necessary > >> > >> "Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the > present > >> without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their > own > >> needs." > >> > >> The World Commission on Environment and Development, > >> Gro Harlem Brundtland > >> Our Common Future, Oxford University Press, 1987 > >> > >> MY NOTE: Sustainable development does not mean "sustainable growth" as > >> growth per se is not sustainable. And the term "sustainable" has to > mean > >> "for a very long time" (A. Bartlett). > >> > >> "The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives." Sioux > >> proverb > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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 > > > > > > > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: > [email protected] > http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins > free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org > -- In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. - Paul Dirac _______________________________________________ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
