George Lisi's Blog (10)

Just received this email from Ben Falk. GREAT opportunity to tour an amazing Permaculture homestead. RSVP to ben(AT)wholesystemsdesign(DOT)com. George Lisi, TT Montpelier ~ Greetings friends and neighbors, fellow gardeners and farmers, Due to the weather this year our annual summer tour has been pushed forward and scheduled for this weekend. We will have our spring-dug tree crop nursery plants for sale after the tour as well including plants such as hazelnut, plum, apple, chestnut, walnut, sea… Continue

Excellent article on Transition in the July/August edition of Orion magazine. http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/4792 Continue

Lawn2gardeninfosheet.pdf This is a 2 page distillation of Mark Krawczyk's EXCELLENT workshop. Mark has genorously invited us to share it widely. Download and send it on to your networks! George Lisi, Transition Town Montpelier ~ Continue

Root Cellaring and Food Storage in Vermont; Why and How to Do it. By Richard Czaplinski, June, 2009 Please go here for the final version(s), one for reading online, one for printing out. There will also be a print edition available soon. Download, (and freely distribute), Richard's generous gift of knowledge from 30 years of homesteading. Produced as part of PocSun's, (Post Carbon Sustainability Network), tw… Continue

Word doc here: Food Storage in VT- June_09.doc PDF versions here. ROOT CELLARING AND FOOD STORAGE IN VERMONT: WHY AND HOW TO DO IT. By Richard Czaplinski (April 27, 2009) WHY STORE FOOD? If you are not already convinced that food storage is a g… Continue

Originally published in the Spring 2009 issue of Vermont Commons; a particularly power-packed issue. Read this in conjunction with Carolyn Baker's blog post here "When Facing Reality Is Not "Negative Thinking". By now it is abundantly clear to most of us that we are into what James Howard Kunstler called “the long emergency.” Radical changes in our livelihoods and lifestyles are imminent, impelled by the convergence of peak oil, global climate change and global economic contraction. This is a… Continue

Do you have friends or family in Connecticut? The Transition Connecticut http://transitionconnecticut.ning.com/ website is just getting going, and Norwalk resident Jason Garnett has stepped forward to start a Transition effort in Norwalk/Fairfield County.Let your CT contacts know about the site and these exciting developments! George Lisi, TT Montpelier ~ Continue

(Originally published in the Fall, 2008 issue of Vermont Commons) Transition Towns - Using our Heads, Hearts, and Hands in a Post-Peak Oil Vermont, by George Lisi I first heard the term “Transition Town” spoken by peak oil activist Richard Heinberg at the end of his talk in Montpelier last April. The words “Transition Town” struck me powerfully. “Ah! The End of Cheap Oil need not mean sudden, dystopic collapse. Yes, our future lives will be local lives, and, if we embrace this change as… Continue

(Published Nov 20 2008 by Vermont Commons blog) John Michael Greer wonders whether the Transition Town Movement is engaging in "premature triumphalism." As a part of the initiating group in Transition Town Montpelier, which on Tuesday received official recognition from the international transition folks, I doubt it. We're happy if people even notice what we're up to. Luckily, there's a chance Monday for everyone in the central Vermont area to find out more about Transition Towns and judge for… Continue

Over thirty years ago as part of my graduate work I traveled to England to research the UK “garden city” movement where new cities were developed after WWII creating village centers surrounded by protected green belts. Gardening areas and small farms were planned into these new cities. British planners knew that gardens and local farms provided much of the wartime food and research in the UK showed gardens were about 3 times more productive per acre than commercial farms. Gardens and local farms… Continue