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Melissa North
- 24, Female
- Dorchester, Dorset
- United Kingdom
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I've just finished reading Carolyn Steel's excellent book Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives, and have been enlightened to some of the logistics of how a city as big as London can manage to function while producing so little food for itself. It'…
Hi everyone,
I'm not currently in Madison (or the country for that matter) but I'm interested to hear if there's much Transition action going on there yet. It seems the perfect place to build up a network since it already has so many resilient feat…
folks from Madison who are interested in living sustainably and in a vibrant and resilient community
for the central area such as Stevens Point, Wausau, Wisc. Rapids etc.
Driving miles to go to pick up a pint of hormone filled, gm-fed milk, living in an overheated house running appliances non-stop, not knowing (much less trusting) your neighbours, barely talking to your over stressed and commercially stimulated child…
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- In what ways do you identify with the Transition movement? Why are you interested in joining us?
- My family and I are in the process of emmigrating from the UK back to my home state of Wisconsin. We are well aware that peak oil looms in the near future and want to rebuild our lives sustainably working with other likeminded community members. We are very interested in permaculture principles and hope to help provide enough food for us and others.
- How are you currently involved in the Transition movement? If not involved currently, just state that.
- I am looking to become involved.
- What skills/talents/resources/interests do you bring to the Transition movement?
- We are both very resourceful, willing to get our hands dirty to get new skills and get the job done. At the moment our enthusiasm outstrips our skills but we are interested in local food, traditional crafts, drafthorses, homeschooling, renewable energy and permaculture. My husband has a wide range of IT skills and can work with his hands, I have experience working directly with people.
- What would you be interested in doing?
- Helping others start growing food, raising animals. I would like to be someone who helps others find information and take their first steps into transition. My husband would like to be apart of the traditional crafts movement or sustainable building, such as cordwood or whole tree construction. One day we hope to have a demonstration farm to teach how people can maximise their space to grow food. Eventually we'd like to do some teaching.
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Melissa North's Blog
Sitopia - The City of Food
I've just finished reading Carolyn Steel's excellent book Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives, and have been enlightened to some of the logistics of how a city as big as London can manage to function while producing so little food for itself. It's not often one considers just how a supermarket manages to create an atmosphere of unlimited supply on an island that only produces a fraction of it's fresh food. I abhor supermarkets and have weaned myself gradually of them in the last five y… Continue
Posted on February 19, 2010 at 12:56pm — 1 Comment
One Small Step
Driving miles to go to pick up a pint of hormone filled, gm-fed milk, living in an overheated house running appliances non-stop, not knowing (much less trusting) your neighbours, barely talking to your over stressed and commercially stimulated children, this is the world we live in now and this is considered normal. For years my husband and I always had a sick feeling at the bottom of our stomachs which only bloated when we had a child. The answer to all problems these days just seems to… Continue
Posted on February 11, 2010 at 4:41am —
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