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Comment on On vacation by David Parkinson

David Parkinson — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 15:23:20 +0000

Thanks, Candace. I would like to get back to it eventually, but I feel so busy lately that I don’t seem to have much time for slow contemplation. Someday…

Comment on On vacation by Candace Uhlmeyer

Candace Uhlmeyer — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 15:19:43 +0000

I understand the ambivalence about blogging–but its always sad when a good blogger goes by the way. I only manage a post every now and then, but in future hope to get back to it more regularly. I enjoy your stuff, so I hope you also manage to find the time to return somewhere along the line.

Comment on Lesson VI: Assume that change is going to take time by David Parkinson

David Parkinson — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 23:01:17 +0000

Thanks! Can’t wait to read the whole series.

Comment on Lesson VI: Assume that change is going to take time by W Wallace Mud

W Wallace Mud — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 23:00:13 +0000

Hi, In response to your comment [just published at The Mud Report].
Don’t worry, i’m not about to forget yours efforts. My newly started series about co-operatives at The Mud Report is just begining. Tomorrow it’ll be about a few examples from Vancouver that i like to give some urban examples of hands on solutions. Then it’ll move on to small rural solutions i’ve been involved in and finally it’ll turn toward the ‘home’ stretch with Powell River as the focus. At that point it’ll feature the great existing solutions, like slowcoast and Skookum Foods, and what i see as the possibilities combining PRs Zero Waste goals and the LET’S program into a job creating organic agriculture based Co-op.

We’re all in this together.
mr. mud

Comment on Backyard experimentation by H2

H2 — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 02:43:53 +0000

Hi David:
We so enjoy your posts and have a fragile dream of moving from Chicago to your neck of the woods.

A note on SIP reservoirs: if you can get your hands on larger buckets you can create larger reservoirs, requiring less frequent watering. In a hot summer on our roof, temps can zoom to 100+ degrees (especially in these climate-change years).

My partner purchased 6 and 7-gal buckets to create a larger SIP set, with more room for potting mix as well as the larger reservoir.

Here’s a quick view:
http://greenroofgrowers.blogspot.com/2009/02/2009-roof-farm-seed-selection.html

We’ll be eager to hear how your tomatoes grow…

Comment on A place for the rest of us by Lesson VI: Assume that change is going to take time « Slow Coast

Lesson VI: Assume that change is going to take time « Slow Coast — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:34:20 +0000

[...] pieces of the original concept for V8A are still going forward as Transition Town Powell River, the Chamber of Commoners, our regional Sustainability Charter, and a few other groups and [...]

Comment on Lesson III: Make space for self-organization by David Parkinson

David Parkinson — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:44:39 +0000

That’s what we need more of, for sure, Margy: people who relocate and contribute to their new community. What makes me sad is the thought of so many valuable people piling up in RV parks around the continent (because I can’t help but think that this phenomenon of checking out is pretty much restricted to North America), turning their backs on everything around them and subsiding into a life of inactivity. I guess I had it drummed into me at an early age that we are all called on to contribute what we can and that there’s no good excuse for self-centredness. But our culture definitely sends the message that it’s OK to live for oneself with no regard for the greater community. It’s a shame.

Comment on Lesson III: Make space for self-organization by Margy

Margy — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 01:36:48 +0000

I guess we are the reverse of your observation. My husband and I lived all our working lives “down south” and when it came time to retire picked Powell River as our home of choice. Yes, we left our “home” community to try another kind of life. But I think what we found made us better people and more community minded. — Margy

Comment on Spirit and perseverance by David Parkinson

David Parkinson — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:26:59 +0000

Thanks, Daniel. It'll be good to have you back here, bringing another hit of energy to this work. There definitely are huge piles of untapped resources out there in the form of people still outside the range of all the projects we need to start rolling. And a big part of the work involves a reconception of what this place is, and why it's here, and for whom... we need more stories about the past and the future, connecting our efforts together into some kind of roughly coherent whole. That's one reason why CJMP FM is such a hopeful project, since community radio has the potential of getting these stories out there.

Comment on Spirit and perseverance by Daniel Adaszynski

Daniel Adaszynski — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:18:03 +0000

Well I know what kind of projects I’d like to see worked on – and they don’t seem to necessitate too much drudgery over the course of a couple of years.

One of the ways we can look to build up food locally is to restore the abundance around us. I’d like to see measures in place to ensure our rivers and streams aren’t toxified – and then use provincial or federal funds to re-seed those waterways. Deer populations occasionally shoot up in pR and looking into how organized hunting is could be of use.

Mostly though, I see an untapped pool of youth and seniors who can bring a bevy of energy and historical context to the stage – whilst not being completely daunted with their existing responsibilities.

pR can have a big vision that’s infectious to all the towns here in the mountainlands – and seeing that vision as what’s important to us here and today, would hopefully see people finding more energy and compulsion in their minds to do the nitty gritty.

words and love,
dan