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Fukuoka-inspired Vegetable Garden

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Fukuoka’s classic “One Straw Revolution” described a spiritual and natural approach to growing food that he started in Japan in 1938. This approach, which pre-dated permaculture, has been said to supply a spiritual component that works well with permaculture design. These 3 videos are from a master gardener and permaculturist who shows us her gardens as inspired by Fukuoka’s “do-nothing” approach.

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Saving Our Children: Connecting to Ourselves for Sustainable Well-being (video)

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Video of a recent 60-minute talk with music in 9, bite-sized bits, entitled: “Saving Rumi: Connecting to Ourselves for Sustainable Well-being”. It’s a good summary of the sustainable well-being project. Through words and music, the talk discusses how our current way of life is the largest failure in human history, advocates making changes to maximize sustainable well-being, describes some psychological principles needed, and suggests solutions, ranging from a scientific and cultural project called “Open Source Life Design”, to solutions being modeled by pioneering communities throughout the world, to an incubating idea for a Community Supported Sustainable Lake House (CSSL).

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What is resilience?

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Resilience is the ability to survive and thrive under different conditions — the greater the variety of futures you can thrive in, the more resilient you are. It is a necessary part of sustainability. Resilience is mostly about diversifying, putting our eggs in multiple baskets. Fire insurance is a good example. We don’t buy fire insurance because we think a fire will occur, but because it may, and if it does, it could really mess things up in our lives. Thus, we pay for fire insurance and hope we will never use it. This is part of the nature of resilience.

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Water: Storing and Filtering

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See summary parent article on short-term disaster resilience and prepping for other priorities. Storing Water Just thought this spoof on storing “dehydrated” water was pretty funny (see picture), although the source of the picture apparently took it seriously! In any case, the US Government recommends buying commercially purified water for storage, but they also provide

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