Thinking clearly about money is one of the biggest challenges to personal and family resilience. Resilient families get the trade-off between time and money right. Lovie and I have made our mistakes along the way, but 25 years later, we know we had made the appropriate trade-off, right at the start of our relationship, between money and time. I would like to lay out our thinking in conjunction with then law professor, now U.S. senator, Elizabeth Warren.

Hello resilient friends, I would like to introduce to you Low-Tech Magazine: Doubts On Progress and Technology, one of the most resourceful (stuffed with resources, in fact :=) free online magazines out there.
Here is today's email delivery: an intriguing article on the return of DC power and it's potential. An extract and the link below.

Martha published an intriguing essay on how our local Post offices could help lead the way into resiliency for our local communities.
http://caucus99percent.com/content/resilience-let-post-offices-lead-way
She challenged us to a thought experiment on how to make this vision practical. So last night I did a back-of-the-napkin sketch of a plan for making the vision practical. As usual, I babbled on endlessly :=) I post it here as a departure point for a c99 brainstorming session on transforming our Post Offices from the ground up.
See, what little public thinking there is about revitalizing our Post Offices after decades of corporatist kneecapping, is all about the national vision. We all know that top-down revitalization is nevah gonna happen. Unless, unless, we the people begin to transform our local PO branches from the ground up, beginning in our local communities - neighbourhoods, suburbs, villages, rural towns, small towns. So how would we do it? Where would we start? Let me show you below.

Hello, resilient friends, let's open discussion on reducing electricity usage in the household. We'll come back to this topic room by room, but for today, let's look at the home workshop. This essay describes what I've learned so far, hoping that you would contribute what you know about air tools and reducing electricity use in the garage/workshop. More below.

Closer to Nature... that would be MY dream... and this re-imagined cow shed in Spain would be part of that dream if I could realize it for myself...

This is a brief reflection on our 3-year old Golden Retriever named Lady; hoping that you would contribute your stories and we would discuss how pets and working animals make us more of everything: more human, more resilient, more happy, more safe, more compassionate, more healthy, and so forth. More below.

How Canada Post can deliver community power to the new green economy

Could we turn 6,300 post offices into community hubs?

Anything's possible if you put your mind to it.

Total Disclosure: I am a librarian at heart. I collect useful information and save it for posterity. It is part and parcel of my Green Witch/Wizard project.

Hello, my resilient friends. I'm late this year...even for Canada, with organizing our seed plantings. Our highly efficient seed organizing system - ahem, the cardboard box on top of a bookcase with a mess of seed packets - and I are spending the weekend together :=) So I thought we would have a bit of fun comparing notes on favourite salad greens. I'll let you know what our family is doing, and throw in some description from our seed provider and other resources. I would like to know what works for you with salad greens: seeds, planting, seedlings, anything that you find that works for you is welcome. More below.