upcoming movie event....HomeGrown

showing at Whatcom Educational Credit Union February 17th at 6:30pm (optional pot luck at 5:30pm) information at Transition Ferndale Movie night

HOMEGROWN follows the Dervaes family who run a small organic farm in the heart of urban Pasadena, California. While "living off the grid", they harvest over 6,000 pounds of produce on less than a quarter of an acre, make their own bio diesel, power their computers with the help of solar panels, and maintain a website that gets 4,000 hits a day. The film is an intimate human portrait of what it's like to live like "Little House on the Prairie" in the 21st Century.

Running Time: 52 Minutes

more info and trailer at HomeGrown movie site

the dickens of doom is at it again....

and i wouldn't miss him..... sounds like we are looking at a "brace yourself, effie" period in short order. now you wouldn't know this if you lived in mainstream america....there is no intention of changing our consumption or the "non-negotiable american way of life" the tv marketing continues, the casino parking lots are full, very large mini-mansions on acres or five continue to be built, municipalities continue to argue over mall size, we continue to use the dwindling resources of planet earth to fight over the dwindling resources of planet earth and our symptoms continue unabated.
and since i think the good news is....if we survive, we will all have jobs cuz we will be the cheap labor. and i always love his little snipets of good news scattered in the doom......

"Six Months or Less to Live"

By James Howard Kunstler for ClusterFuck Nation

The economy that is. Especially the part that consists of swapping paper certificates. That's the buzz I've gotten the first two weeks of 2010, and forgive me for not presenting a sheaf of charts and graphs to make the case. Just about everybody else yakking about these thing on the Web provides plenty of statistical analysis: Mish, The Automatic Earth, Chris Martenson, Zero Hedge, The Baseline Scenario.... They're all well worth visiting.
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