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Midnight Thought on the Arc of the Sun | 37 comments (37 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: This is going to be an irregular feature ... (4.00 / 2)

I really enjoyed the read, I love the idea of a blog becoming so huge that within it entire blogs can survive and thrive--making their connections across the threads while the big noises up top huff and puff...

But I never go to daily kos so I'm appreciating the ET spin off!

You asked the question so:

# rediscovering rural development in the Arc of the Sun

Definitely yes. The US seems to be moving rapidly ahead in this, maybe because there is a lot of land around still; maybe because all y'all (see, I learn!)--but hey! You're in Australia, did I get that right? (And yeah with the qualifiers!) I think clearly successful projects with a "what we learned" attached are blueprints for other communities; and I want lots of wonderful people growing food and building renewable energy sources and (for me funky please!) houses that grow with the surrounding land rather than being brick houses plonked on top!

Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.

by rg (leopold dot lepster at google mail dot com) on Thu Mar 13th, 2008 at 04:27:18 AM EST
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Re: This is going to be an irregular feature ... (4.00 / 3)

(I would love to read margouillat on the subject of "green housing" for example! To give it a european perspective.)

Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.

by rg (leopold dot lepster at google mail dot com) on Thu Mar 13th, 2008 at 04:30:00 AM EST
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Re: This is going to be an irregular feature ... (none / 1)

Not the Bazaar, wich is a variant of what we have, but more of the Karwan Saray or Caravanserai... :-)
I have a difficult end of the week and beginning of the other with tons of jurys and crying students... :-)

But you're right, this is important...!

(Now, why do I shiver each time the word "communities" is used ?) :-)

"What can I do, What can I write, Against the fall of Night". A.E. Housman

by margouillat (hemidactylus(dot)frenatus(at)wanadoo(dot)fr) on Thu Mar 13th, 2008 at 12:39:10 PM EST
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Re: This is going to be an irregular feature ... (none / 1)

Communities? Speuuujuuuit!

You'll have to remind me of your preferred word; I'm a (very very) slow learner!

Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.

by rg (leopold dot lepster at google mail dot com) on Thu Mar 13th, 2008 at 01:34:20 PM EST
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Re: This is going to be an irregular feature ... (4.00 / 2)

I don't have problem with words, and I'm used to it here :-)
I just find it funny that we all search for "modernity" in whatever form and still think in "tribes"... <raising eyes to the ceiling>

It relates, of course, with the "cultural barriers" diary :-)

"What can I do, What can I write, Against the fall of Night". A.E. Housman

by margouillat (hemidactylus(dot)frenatus(at)wanadoo(dot)fr) on Thu Mar 13th, 2008 at 01:44:48 PM EST
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I lived in Australia for a decade, but got ... (none / 1)

... back in the US in time for the warm up act in 2006 for the current silliness going on in US politics.

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.

by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Thu Mar 13th, 2008 at 07:12:08 AM EST
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Midnight Thought on the Arc of the Sun | 37 comments (37 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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