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Archive for June, 2007

The Cost of Permaculture Courses

Posted in Blockages to Change, Catalysts for Action, Permaculture, The personal costs of sustainability on 20, June, 2007, | 1 Comment »

On the basis of the Web world being ethereal and ever changing, I copy the WordPress Blog Sustainability Unfolding to this site as Nigel raises some valid issue.
 
Perma($$)culture
March 12th, 2007
 
I bought Permaculture: A Designers Manual last week. It was 137$ — probably the single most expensive book I’ve bought since university. That’s a lot of [...]

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Misuse… or changing use of “aspire”

Posted in Musings on Life, Social Imperatives, The importance of words on 18, June, 2007, | 2 Comments »

In Australia, the current conservative government and media have generated the term “aspirational class” referring I gather to “blue collar” and self-employed tradespeople who want to do better.
It seems to me that aspirational, now has some negative connotations about sweaty less worthy working class people wanting more of goods and services such as the McMansions [...]

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Aphorisms that we go by

Posted in Musings on Life, Social Imperatives on 18, June, 2007, | Leave a Comment »

Some of my favourite aphorisms (short pithy statements) are 
Time is short and the water is rising.
Let us change the world together, while we still have one
Life is not a dress rehearsal, you only live it once.
Faint heart never won fair lady
Make the world a better place for having lived in it.

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Gidday

Posted in Catalysts for Action, Musings on Life on 18, June, 2007, | 1 Comment »

It was my friend Hippiechic that first got me interested in Blogs with her interesting livejournal entries, and then feedback from one of Hippiechic’s aunts that she liked the debate and content that I had contributed to. I tried with Livejournal and it would have been a great way on interacting more on the [...]

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