Hi there, we've had a marvelous long weekend, the unofficial start of summer in SE Ontario. When we lived in northern Ontario, it was the 1st of July long weekend :=) With summer here and a long list of outdoor projects, I'm announcing the Resilience Group summer loafers schedule. I usually create 5-6 resilience posts per week. During Summer Loafers it will be 2-3 (brief) posts per week.
On that theme then, here is another bit of Wendell Berry's practical wisdom: his 9 rules for consumption. I had posted his 9 rules for replacing an older technology and have appended it to this post. More below.

Hi folks, from a glorious Victoria Day long weekend in SE Ontario. This is our traditional National Gardening weekend. Our family is all out in the garden this weekend. The old man just came in for a snack and to rest my back. My word, people are out in force with gas-powered polluting tools. You can't hear yourself think!
We quit using gas-powered outside tools (mostly, except for a big chipper - the little one is electric, and a big chainsaw - the little one runs on an 18-volt bttery) run our powered garden tools on batteries (hopefully learn enough solar to create a DC battery-powering station).
Anyway, I had wanted to write up something from Wendell Berry on replacing older technology with a new one. Sadly, there's no time today, but I can at least post his list of requirements. More below.

Folks sniff at DC. Well, yes, that DC too :=) I mean the other DC; the low-tech power of direct current.
Fair enough. Here's the story of the War of Currents: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Currents
I'm a big fan of Low-tech Magazine (free online), produced out of Barcelona, Spain.

http://www.lowtechmagazine.com
This post is to promote Low-tech Magazine and to marvel at its editor's low-tech, DC-powered apartment office. More below.

Hi there. Here is my pride and joy: my Northern Telecoms (when it still made things, before it descended into crookery) rotary phone. I bought it on Kijiji. It probably anchored some bureaucrat’s desk in Ottawa for donkey years. Anyway, my son showed me how to fix its cable and it works great. More below, including disgusting photos of its gizzards :=)