tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4368973750876125596.post3820903474716118274..comments2024-01-23T07:51:17.867-05:00Comments on Fern's Fronds: Who's Green?FernWisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04143005104791389904noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4368973750876125596.post-30606865651536815582012-04-05T16:38:46.616-04:002012-04-05T16:38:46.616-04:00It's true - rural living (or even in any city ...It's true - rural living (or even in any city that was made for cars) is far more wasteful in general than living in NYC. I'm actually watching a show as I type this that is telling me all the reasons for it. :) <br />Mainly I was responding because it was those carbon calculators that convinced me to get rid of my truck. With it, I was over the American average - without it, I was below the world average. It's never enough, but every bit of it is necessary.Solitary Druidhttp://phoenixgrove.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4368973750876125596.post-69094344566158674472012-04-05T10:50:13.010-04:002012-04-05T10:50:13.010-04:00BTW, for those looking for being more natural, che...BTW, for those looking for being more natural, check you Matt and Betsy Jabb's site http://www.diynatural.comFernWisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04143005104791389904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4368973750876125596.post-54101091812869852022012-04-05T10:28:52.196-04:002012-04-05T10:28:52.196-04:00You're absolutely right, Bob. Rural, or even ...You're absolutely right, Bob. Rural, or even most suburban, life requires more cars and other forms of transportation; lawns are pretty but high-maintenance; etc. <br /><br />I've not looked to compare the amount of, say, fuel use embedded in the life of a person in NYC vs rural Massachusetts but even with the rural person driving to a farmer's market for all natural produce .. well. <br /><br />(Yeah, I'm rural. But I'm only 3 miles from the grocery store and 2 miles from the farmer's market (I'm JUST outside of a small town), so I can and do bike it.)<br /><br />Once I figured how to 'create' a Pagan community based on buying houses in rust belt cities, near bus lines/trains/universities (because we don't have ONE holy book, we need full libraries of books). South Bend Indiana never would have been the same....FernWisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04143005104791389904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4368973750876125596.post-9009265713612555932012-04-05T08:59:58.729-04:002012-04-05T08:59:58.729-04:00All examples of behaviors where there is plenty of...All examples of behaviors where there is plenty of room for improvement. You left out the the most glaring inconsistency many of us continue to swallow, though. Since we're pagan, we feel we need to live close to the earth. For some reason, most of us interpret "living close to the earth" as "living in a rural area." We miss the fact that the earth is everywhere. We miss the fact that rural fertilizer poisons are different from -- but not somehow better than -- urban manufacturing poisons. We miss the fact that living in a rural area forces us to drive tens to hundreds of miles per household every single day, just to accomplish the same things we could accomplish on foot or public transit if we lived in places with centralized access to transit.<br /><br />Personally I feel the neopagan insistence on rural living does far more damage to the environment, on a per-household basis, than any of the behaviors you list.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com