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Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Monday, September 26, 2011
Wisdom from Bucky
"There are three kinds of people in the world,
those who are asleep,
those who are stirring,
and those who are awake.
If you try to wake up the sleeping person he will just mumble and go back to sleep.
If you wake up the stirring person he will wake up just long enough to curse you and then go back to sleep.
Instead of trying to wake them up, if you come across someone who is asleep or stirring what you should do is,
fluff their pillow, tuck them in, and kiss them on the forehead.
The important joy for those who are awake is to seek each other out, connect with others who are awake, talk, sing and celebrate together.
This will create a groundswell of awareness.
As this groundswell increases and spreads out, it will awaken the stirring and will begin to stir those who are still sleeping."
~ Buckminster Fuller
those who are asleep,
those who are stirring,
and those who are awake.
If you try to wake up the sleeping person he will just mumble and go back to sleep.
If you wake up the stirring person he will wake up just long enough to curse you and then go back to sleep.
Instead of trying to wake them up, if you come across someone who is asleep or stirring what you should do is,
fluff their pillow, tuck them in, and kiss them on the forehead.
The important joy for those who are awake is to seek each other out, connect with others who are awake, talk, sing and celebrate together.
This will create a groundswell of awareness.
As this groundswell increases and spreads out, it will awaken the stirring and will begin to stir those who are still sleeping."
~ Buckminster Fuller
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Monday, February 21, 2011
Haliburton in Transition
Environment Haliburton! is investigating the Transition Initative and its application locally. This is a grassroots movement that started in Ireland and England several years ago. It has since spread around the world. The Transition movement is about communities responding to the challenges of:
1. Peak Oil….with the profound implications of the inevitable contraction of oil-based energy;
2. Climate Change …which is destabilising the planetary biosphere with implications for habitation, agriculture and food supplies;
and now
3. Economic Instability… which is reflected in rising food and transportation costs, unemployment, and the contraction of credit.
The Transition movement arose to confront these challenges and seeks to re-examine core values and essential functions of commuity life with creativity, imagination and humour . It is positive, solutions-focused, viral and fun. It provides an opportunity to improve the health and resilience of the community during the transition that awaits us.
At a meeting held on January 29th, members of Environment Haliburton! watched the video, ‘In Transition 1.0’ (http://vimeo.com/8029815). ‘In Transition 1.0’ is the first detailed film about the Transition movement filmed by those that know it best, those who are making it happen on the ground. We then discussed its relevance to the citizens of Haliburton County.
It was noted that there are already organisations in Haliburton County engaged in aspects of what Transition addresses. Local food, improved public transportation, the farmer’s market, community gardens, Healthy Communities are all aspects of Transition. Co-operation and mutual support with a positive attitude to transition is the aim.
It was agreed that we would invite a representative of an existing Transition group to describe how the Transition movement started in their community and how it might work here. We also agreed that we would invite individuals and representatives of existing organizations in Haliburton County who might be interested in learning about the Transition movement.
Environment Haliburton has invited David and Bonnie Collacut of Transition Barrie to speak and dialogue with those who come, on Saturday February 26, 10am in Room 12 at the Haliburton campus of Sir Sandford Fleming College.
Call 705-754 -9873 if you plan to attend or if you cannot, but would like to be kept informed. We are asking that you watch the video referred to above, if you can, prior to the meeting. Searching on Transition Town or Transition culture will also provide information on the the global Transition movement.
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius power and magic in it! (Goethe)
1. Peak Oil….with the profound implications of the inevitable contraction of oil-based energy;
2. Climate Change …which is destabilising the planetary biosphere with implications for habitation, agriculture and food supplies;
and now
3. Economic Instability… which is reflected in rising food and transportation costs, unemployment, and the contraction of credit.
The Transition movement arose to confront these challenges and seeks to re-examine core values and essential functions of commuity life with creativity, imagination and humour . It is positive, solutions-focused, viral and fun. It provides an opportunity to improve the health and resilience of the community during the transition that awaits us.
At a meeting held on January 29th, members of Environment Haliburton! watched the video, ‘In Transition 1.0’ (http://vimeo.com/8029815). ‘In Transition 1.0’ is the first detailed film about the Transition movement filmed by those that know it best, those who are making it happen on the ground. We then discussed its relevance to the citizens of Haliburton County.
It was noted that there are already organisations in Haliburton County engaged in aspects of what Transition addresses. Local food, improved public transportation, the farmer’s market, community gardens, Healthy Communities are all aspects of Transition. Co-operation and mutual support with a positive attitude to transition is the aim.
It was agreed that we would invite a representative of an existing Transition group to describe how the Transition movement started in their community and how it might work here. We also agreed that we would invite individuals and representatives of existing organizations in Haliburton County who might be interested in learning about the Transition movement.
Environment Haliburton has invited David and Bonnie Collacut of Transition Barrie to speak and dialogue with those who come, on Saturday February 26, 10am in Room 12 at the Haliburton campus of Sir Sandford Fleming College.
Call 705-754 -9873 if you plan to attend or if you cannot, but would like to be kept informed. We are asking that you watch the video referred to above, if you can, prior to the meeting. Searching on Transition Town or Transition culture will also provide information on the the global Transition movement.
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius power and magic in it! (Goethe)
Friday, January 28, 2011
Tree cutting bylaw coming for county - Haliburton Echo - Ontario, CA
http://www.haliburtonecho.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2951962
By Chad Ingram
Updated 20 minutes ago
The county is moving towards the establishment of a tree preservation bylaw.
County councillors voted at a Jan. 26 meeting to put out a request to the four lower-tier municipalities to delegate all or part of their powers to create bylaws surrounding the destruction of trees to the county.
The bylaw would look mainly at the destruction of vegetation in shoreline areas and county planner Jane Tousaw said putting it in the hands of the county would be the most cost-effective for all municipalities.
Tousaw said the county would incur unknown costs affiliated with licensing, site inspections and enforcement related to the process, but that if not all townships agreed to the process, there could be overlapping of duties and possible duplication of costs.
"It's a huge enforcement issue if it isn't handled properly," said Dysart et al Reeve and county warden Murray Fearrey.
Tousaw said there was a drive from the public to see action on the issue.
"There is some urgency from the public's sort of view … to go through with this policy," she said.
Tousaw said while many people want to see increased protection of shoreline vegetation, there are some who don't feel it's not the government's place to be telling them what trees they can and can't cut on their properties.
The county's various lake associations should also be called on for input, she said.
Tousaw said how far the setback would be still has to be identified.
None of the county's townships currently has a such a bylaw.
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