Hello from across the pond
Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2025 2:05 am
Another refugee from the The Green Living Forum'
I'm in my 80's now, living on the eastern slopes of the Berkshire Mountains (Massachusetts, USA). I know I agreed to not be political in this forum, but not sure what that means in my context. Over HERE, believing that there is a pending ecological crisis and that climate change is not only real but caused by us humans IS considered "political" by at least half the population. I live in a rural "town" (township) of about 2000, most in a village shared by a neighboring "town". But we don't live in the village, but halfway up a steep valley. The next "town" upstream has about 300 people, less people than deer << and at the moment they've been without power 3-4 days now; the wind only now calming enough to allow linemen to make repairs >>
We live on 80+ acres, almost all forest. When younger we had large gardens, berry patches, and kept goats, but now just small garden. We heat entirely with wood, except on really cold mornings when a little supplemental electric until the wood stove is again cranking. No, don't harvest our own wood as nearby poor farmers depend on a little extra income << Mike, my truck needs new tires; can you take a couple more cords? >> So our land is essentially recovering forest and wildlife habitat.
Full disclosure, Penny and I are ex 60's radicals. Besides being environmental activists, we both are members of the "Ecocentric Alliance" (by invitation group of activists, academics, artists, etc many of us more than one category). which has an on-line publication "The ecological Citizen" (https: ecelogicalcitizen.net) which resembles a much more serious, academic "Orion", artwork and poetry similar. I may also let folks know when a new issue of "Mother Pelican" comes out (shorter articles, less academic, sometimes, but rarely involving religion). Both are free on-line environmental publications. I am also involved with the effort to breed American chestnut (C. dentata) able to tolerate the chestnut blight fungus (C. parasitica) and the ink disease fungus (P, cinnamomi) << once only a problem in the southern US but with climate change now almost reaching Pennsylvania >>
I'm in my 80's now, living on the eastern slopes of the Berkshire Mountains (Massachusetts, USA). I know I agreed to not be political in this forum, but not sure what that means in my context. Over HERE, believing that there is a pending ecological crisis and that climate change is not only real but caused by us humans IS considered "political" by at least half the population. I live in a rural "town" (township) of about 2000, most in a village shared by a neighboring "town". But we don't live in the village, but halfway up a steep valley. The next "town" upstream has about 300 people, less people than deer << and at the moment they've been without power 3-4 days now; the wind only now calming enough to allow linemen to make repairs >>
We live on 80+ acres, almost all forest. When younger we had large gardens, berry patches, and kept goats, but now just small garden. We heat entirely with wood, except on really cold mornings when a little supplemental electric until the wood stove is again cranking. No, don't harvest our own wood as nearby poor farmers depend on a little extra income << Mike, my truck needs new tires; can you take a couple more cords? >> So our land is essentially recovering forest and wildlife habitat.
Full disclosure, Penny and I are ex 60's radicals. Besides being environmental activists, we both are members of the "Ecocentric Alliance" (by invitation group of activists, academics, artists, etc many of us more than one category). which has an on-line publication "The ecological Citizen" (https: ecelogicalcitizen.net) which resembles a much more serious, academic "Orion", artwork and poetry similar. I may also let folks know when a new issue of "Mother Pelican" comes out (shorter articles, less academic, sometimes, but rarely involving religion). Both are free on-line environmental publications. I am also involved with the effort to breed American chestnut (C. dentata) able to tolerate the chestnut blight fungus (C. parasitica) and the ink disease fungus (P, cinnamomi) << once only a problem in the southern US but with climate change now almost reaching Pennsylvania >>
