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September 05, 2005

3 things

  1. The Katrina Cataclysm. Energy costs skyrocket, and we think anew about our consumption of non-renewable resources.
  2. Madeline's ongoing pursuit of sustainable living.
  3. A visit this afternoon to friends who really live in the country, off the grid; their home accessible only by truck; their dwelling a pair of trailers stacked against the hillside, with the previously occupied trailer simply abandoned on the property; their communications conducted via cell phone that gets a lousy signal in really-rural Chenango County; their media a 5" color TV operating off an old-fashioned antenna; their water from a well that has run pretty damned low in this drought; their bathroom an outhouse; their laundry washed by hand; their power from solar panels and a generator.
And I wonder how BP and I have slid into such a consuming, wasteful mode of living. And I wonder how many things we can do to get out of it. Small things: BP is commissioned to set up a clothesline that I can really use. Larger things: We need to get serious about investigating wind and solar power for this house. Even larger things: Not ready to go there. Not yet, anyhow.

Posted by senioritis at September 5, 2005 05:02 PM

Comments

The really wonderful thing about cny is that it is nearly always DRY enough (arid, that is) to hang out your laundry, even when it should be too cold out.

Hanging laundry is meditative. If not a little numbing to the fingerstips (this, again, when it is cold out).

Posted by: madeline at September 6, 2005 09:01 AM