Reply #4: Talk to those mothers and collaborate on trips to minimize gas [View All]

[jebediah]

pull together and find ways to save the money. Don't buy the gas by making a small group of people more efficient and interdependent.

What we can't do is maintain the habits of our current communities where everyone is so removed from those around them. If you want to really *do* something then you do it around you. Garden. Bike. Collaborate. Share tools and lawn equipment. What you can't do you trade with the micro community for what you can do.

Join a CSA farm where you can help and pick-your-own surplus. Share hand-me-down kids clothes. Find out what the big needs are for each member of the micro community and rotate the focus to addressing those things as a group.

I don't see angry protests about gas making any substantial changes. If you really want to protest then do it with your dollar and your lifestyle. Driving down to the protest is only telling them that you're still addicted to their stuff even if you're angry about it. Sitting in the box and yelling about it won't get you out of the box.

None of these changes like gas prices, etc. are going to get better in the long term. If you really want to get them then work on surviving without them.

(I'll be spending the weekend planting my garden with my family, mowing the lawn with my manual push mower, and working on my endurance on the bike. So, I'm not blowing smoke here... )