"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.”

Henry D. Thoreau

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Saturday
Apr112020

Pandemics and Bike Repair

The South Eastman Transition Initiative may not be as well understood as some other community organizations. Some readers, for example, may have trouble understanding how the COVID-19 pandemic relates directly to SETI’s reason for existence. How can a health crisis have anything to do with an “environmentalist” organization?

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Wednesday
Apr012020

The Environmentalist's Dilemma

The environmentalist’s dilemma is a slowing of the economy coinciding with a drop in the price of oil.

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Wednesday
Mar252020

Pandemic: Who Expected This

Almost exactly ten years ago, the South Eastman Transition Initiative came into existence.

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Thursday
Mar192020

THREE CHEERS !

A few weeks ago, in this column, I was imagining a revolution here in Manitoba. Don’t worry, I was thinking of a quiet revolution, a food revolution… one in which our own province becomes the major source of what goes into our mouths and bellies.

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Saturday
Mar142020

Soil is not Inert

So, this is a Re-thinking Lifestyles column, yes? Why, then, am I writing about soil and farming? Well the catchment area of The Carillon is primarily an agricultural area. Vast tracts of our land are in crops. Our families’ livelihoods and all our consumers are dependent on the profitability and future viability of those fields, not to mention the quality of the crops. So, if the state of the earth suggests a need to ‘re-think our lifestyle’, then agriculture itself could use some inspection and introspection

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