2012 alt op # 6. fixing this economy is like shoeing a dead horse

             Just a quick reminder that I’ll be showing the last of two Permaculture DVD’s at Community Seeds this Saturday starting at 10 am. One will be on Urban Permaculture and the other on Food Forests.  If you want to find out how to grow your own food cheap and easy, with less work as the system you set up ages come on down. Otherwise, you can end up buying your food from me and Community Seeds when it gets too expensive to buy gas to run your tiller or drive to Wally World.

            Just saying.

            But on to those other things that tend to make me say “GRRRR!”

            Politicians who keep saying they are going to “fix the economy” if elected really irk me. They are at least a little better than those who are ignoring that problem (and the environment) so that they have time to harp on things that patently are not their business! They seem to think its fine, in this day and age, to tell us ‘girls’ what we can do with our own bodies. What? We suddenly don’t have brains anymore?

            But back to my economy rant.

            They say, those in office already and those wanting to be elected, that they are going to “fix the economy.” My opinion there is that what they are trying to do is shoe a dead horse.

            I’m not saying give up! I’m saying find a better way! A sustainable economy that we can pass on to the kids and grand kids is what we really need. Be nice if it came along with a sustainable world and frankly I don’t think you can have one without the other.

            Of course anything sustainable is a lot of work, especially at the beginning. You actually have to do something hard. You have to think. You might even have to change your habits. Heck, even change the way you think. A good example is the usual way folks think about their lawns. A great lot of folks go along with the ads on TV that say you should have this huge lushly green carpet of a specific kind of grass that needs lots of fertilizer, lots of insecticide, and lots of mowing, mulching, dethatching and other kinds of hard labor or expensive machines. This works out to a costly investment all the way around. On the other hand you can say, “too heck with it,” and never mow again except maybe in small areas. Yeah, the health department might get on you for that, unless you’ve replaced that green carpet with all kinds of garden beds. Gardens full of flowers, vegetables, fruit and nut trees and bushes and such edible kinds of things that could feed you and maybe even your neighbors.

            That’s the kind of thinking shift I’m talking about that we need for the economy. Yes, we all need to make some kind of profit but that is the point I want to make! We ALL need to make enough to live on with enough left over to fix and repair the worn out stuff. We all also need to learn to do real work again, with our hands, our minds and our hearts.