sustainability - recycling presentation

I am going to pass it around.  I have been really interested in the Transition Town Movement started by Rob Hopkins et al in Totnes....  I also love the Ted talk by Willian McDonaugh on this topic....  I've never really heard a good discussion among integral circles on how to turn the effluent into the affluent, closing the biochemical circle of the earth such that the human mode of being is not disrupting it.... I have the book 'integral ecology' but did not read very far in it.... I am not sure why I abandoned it......something did not satisfy me.  

Anyway, i am really happy you posted this Ambo.  This is absolutely part of an integral life practice.  I would love to not make any garbage.  Sometimes I have gotten very strict about this, buy only things at the Co-op that have no wrapping or packaging except for maybe a paper bag....  this actually makes for a very healthy diet too..... you pretty much hang out in the vegetable section and then it is game over in the rest of the store.  I fall on and off of this band wagon though.....there are always wine bottles or tonic cans.......  Gunter Pauli is a wonderful person to follow in this regard.  He runs the ZERI, Zero-Emissions-Research-Institute..... I studied with him  a few years ago.   He is amazing... and his stories are like this fellow's in the clip.  there is so much that could be done now, and we don't seem to be enacting the obvious.  I would love to hear more integral discussion about this.  

I love to compost.  I put everything that is remotely organic into it..... In the spring I throw it all onto the garden regardless of how decomposed it is..... It is amazing to me to smell the aromas from around the world as I put it in the wheel barrow and haul it into the garden in the spring...... Those smells in that place in my back yard would have never been possible until just the last 100 years.... oranges from Florida, pineapples from Ecuador....

One of the more unfortunate things about living a strict bioregional lifestyle would be the limited amount of food stuff that would be available......I imagine the steady diet of the Innu for 7000 years when they moved into Labrador was  pretty much caribou, porcupine, trout, salmon, black bear, red berries, blueberries, and bake apples...... I guess it is not that much of a surprise that there is a fondness now, after all that time, for Mary Brown's and Tatters, and pepsi....figuring out how to make delicious local food, in any season is a good focus for an waste management plan.. I often wonder about the ecology of gastronomy.  I think if the world exchange shrank to a very small amount of trading between countries.  I would prefer to live further south than I do, mostly because of the food......  I often wonder what an integral agri-business would look like.  I wonder: What is the integral lens on the agriculture industry, food production, and gastronomy? For instance, three things I would not want to give up in my life if I was on a One Hundred Mile Diet are avocados, olive oil and lemons.....  Do any of you think about these things?

Jane

 The fabric of my life is the cloth with which it is my task to polish the lens of my own perception.