Re: sustainable living
forest <[email protected]> Tue, 06 Jun 2006 06:15:32 -0700
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> This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. --MS_Mac_OE_3232419332_159228_MIME_Part Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit on 6/5/06 10:17 PM, Kit at [email protected] wrote: Hmmm, Do I smell some elitist snobbery going on here?! While these are obviously not folks I'd hang with....not in a million years. Nor do I share their taste in architecture....what's with the put-down?!!! Why aren't all types welcome in the endeavor? Do y'all want to 'own' sustainablity and only let people you think are hip to your singular vision to 'join' in. Not sure about that Hummer.....but it's got to be some sort of tour vehicle, no? I'll give them the benefit of the doubt....and it's not running on hydrocarbon. As far as I see it .....I'll be screwed anyway til people with more money than I have start using the tech and bring the prices down. That's just the way it is....unless you can build it yourself. Kit aloha kit, you make some more good points....these folks sure got us talking if nothing else, eh????....as far a feeling screwed till people with more money do something, don't let that mindset get in the way, i put together a small paradise homestead on less than 3-4 k a year income, way below current poverty levels....lots of labors of love can do amazing things if in line and/or harmony with nature.....all things are possible with passion and action....in fact i hope to, before i die, start up a non profit land trust and educational program for less fortunate folks than me....looking for partners....aloha, -- forest email address: [email protected] website at: http://earthreleaf.htohananet.com/ natural life and health discussion archives at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/naturallifeandhealth/ --MS_Mac_OE_3232419332_159228_MIME_Part Content-type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Re: [Ecobal]sustainable living</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> on 6/5/06 10:17 PM, Kit at [email protected] wrote:<BR> <BR> <BLOCKQUOTE><FONT SIZE=3D"2"><FONT FACE=3D"Arial">Hmmm, <BR> </FONT></FONT> <BR> <FONT SIZE=3D"2"><FONT FACE=3D"Arial">Do I smell some elitist snobbery going on= here?! While these are obviously not folks I'd hang= with....not in a million years. Nor do I share their taste in a= rchitecture....what's with the put-down?!!! &n= bsp; Why aren't all types welcome in the endeavor? Do= y'all want to 'own' sustainablity and only let people you <BR> think are hip to your singular vision to 'join' in.  = ;<BR> </FONT></FONT> <BR> <FONT SIZE=3D"2"><FONT FACE=3D"Arial">Not sure about that Hummer.....but it's g= ot to be some sort of tour vehicle, no? I'll give them the= benefit of the doubt....and it's not running on hydrocarbon. <BR> </FONT></FONT> <BR> <FONT SIZE=3D"2"><FONT FACE=3D"Arial">As far as I see it .....I'll be screwed a= nyway til people with more money than I have start using the tech and bring = the prices down. That's just the way it is....unless <BR> you can build it yourself. <BR> </FONT></FONT> <BR> <FONT SIZE=3D"2"><FONT FACE=3D"Arial">Kit <BR> </FONT></FONT> <BR> </BLOCKQUOTE>aloha kit, you make some more good points....these folks sure = got us talking if nothing else, eh????....as far a feeling screwed till peop= le with more money do something, don't let that mindset get in the way, i pu= t together a small paradise homestead on less than 3-4 k a year income, way = below current poverty levels....lots of labors of love can do amazing things= if in line and/or harmony with nature.....all things are possible with pass= ion and action....in fact i hope to, before i die, start up a non profit lan= d trust and educational program for less fortunate folks than me....looking = for partners....aloha,<BR> -- <BR> forest<BR> email address: [email protected]<BR> <BR> website at: http://earthreleaf.htohananet.com/<BR> <BR> natural life and health discussion archives at: http://groups.yahoo.com/gro= up/naturallifeandhealth/<BR> <BR> </BODY> </HTML> --MS_Mac_OE_3232419332_159228_MIME_Part-- ------------------------------------------------ To subscribe or unsubscribe to ecobalance go to: http://www.ecovillage.org/ecobalance/index.html ------------------------------------------------