DianaIs your car on LP gas?Why not????
June 2nd 2008 21:37
Link: ceres.com
Listening to ABC 747 the other day they were talking about fuel prices and how to deal with it, on this wonderful big island of ours.
Also the topic of global food shortages and high food prices came up.
I was thrilled to hear one fellow ring in and say that in his street in Preston (a Melb suburb) he and his neighbours had removed their backyard fences and had now a thriving communal veggie patch. They also had ducks, chooks, geese and small pigs. He felt it was the only way to go, considering the current economic climate. They also worked together to buy bulk foods and other items.
What a great, heart-warming solution! It wouldn't happen in my street maybe but tis inspiring nonetheless.
Someone rang in and said extensions and renovations were out and we all had to make do with our houses and plant veggies. Maybe in my little hovel I'll finally be acceptable, with our tiny house, large farm-like garden and profusion of animals and things.
But then some other lady rang in and started trilling on about how innovative she was cos she had a car on gas! Lindy Burns and her co-horts really pricked up their ears and asked things like:
did she find she was in a minority at the pumps?
how do you put gas in?
how safe was it?
didn't only taxis use LP gas?
The caller admitted coyly she felt she was the only person she knew in the horsey world who had a gas car and she was always a loner at the fuel stations.
I was feeling a bit restless by now, driving along in my LP 4x4 and thinking of all the people I knew who were on gas and had been for 20 years or more. In fact, I couldn't think of anyone who wasn't on gas, even truck drivers of small vehicles.
I was dying to ring in and say a few scathing words: how could you not be using LP gas in this day and age???
Anyway, I didn't, as you don't, but it was one of those moments in life where you realise that things you have been taking for granted for ages others are only just 'discovering' or starting to use.
And by the way. have you ever been to 'Ceres' in Brunswick?
Full of community gardens, alternative solutions to energy usage and green ways of living it is a wonderful place to gather ideas.
Also a nice place to have coffee, see the farm animals and let the kids run around in the tipees or African villages....
Hope you get to go soon.
ps, if this image works out on this posting: whataya reckon????How smart am I????
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Comment by Ceres
This group secured the lease for a 10 acre piece of land – a former rubbish tip, an area polluted, lifeless, a wasteland, and so began the transformation.
Ceres now:
- Addresses the causes of climate change;
- Promotes social wellbeing and connectedness
- Builds local and global equity, and
- Embraces and facilitates rapid change.