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TRAINING OPPORTUNITY as a Building Analyst at SUNY Canton.
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PAGES OF INTEREST:
PEAK OIL and Beyond
Click this link for a descriptive listing of all 60 episodes of the
Peak Moment Videos that are available through the North Country Library System.
In each episode, Janaia Donaldson hosts grass roots pioneers exploring locally-reliant lifestyles to meet these challenging times. Some topics include: local food production; renewable energy; transportation alternatives; sustainable building; preparedness; psychological, business, and governmental responses.
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Our North Country Public Library Resources Page!
Please click on the title above to check out this new project on our website.
We hope you will find it beneficial! Here we list some selected materials -- by subject matter -- that are available through the North Country Library System. o o o
Report from the Mapping the Future of the Adirondacks retreat that the SLP participated in, in January 2011, as part of the Common Ground Alliance. This was a very interesting exercise where the group envisions the likely scenarios for the region in 25 years (2037) and then works backwards, in essence, setting up events that would help (or hinder) the scenario envisioned...not all of them positive, either! This is the third in a series of workshops being done throughout the Adirondacks, and the State, to help develop a road map for how to get from here to there with a desired scenaroi -- or (more likely) a synthesis of scenarios. Updates can be found at www.ADKfutures.org. The direct link to the report is here: http://www.adkfutures.org/Timeline-Status/ADK_workshop_3_reportout_Final.pdf
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Grains & Beans COOKING Resources Page -- a 12 page print-able resource on how-to rinse, soak, cook, sprout, and store a large variety of grains and legumes. Click on the Attachments at the very bottom of this page to view or download. Check our Workshop Schedule as well to see if one of our seasonal series of Nutritious Delicious (& Cheap!) Cooking Classes is being offered soon. Or, if you want to help make one happen -- cooks are encouraged to participate -- please be in touch!
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Please click on the link in the title above to view our growing collection of resources and information.
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Please click on the link in the title above to view our growing collection of resources and information.
Wholeshare Informationa program for food buying clubs to purchase organic and sustainable foods online, easily!
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Twenty Tools for the HomesteadIf you're new to rural life, this is some useful information. Ecological Footprint Calculators Galore!
www.ecobusinesslinks.com/ecological_footprint_calculator.htm
www.ZeroWasteInstitute.org
A snippet: If you ask the wrong question you will get the wrong answer!
Consider this: most people facing the generation of waste ask precisely the wrong question. The question they ask is this – how can I make use of this waste product so that it will be used, not wasted? Generations of people have wasted their time and their society’s time with this wrong question.
What would be the right question? “How do I change what I (we) are doing so that we no longer produce any waste products?” Find that answer and you have really solved a problem worth solving. We can’t focus so strenuously on past mistakes that we never get to design a better future.
Are you curious what Zero Waste would mean in practice? Since ZW means a redesigning, don’t be surprised to learn that a ZW project can mean a project to redesign a product. Do you want to make some changes in your own life that make Zero Waste real immediately? Here are some recommendations.
The only utopian vision is to believe
that the system we are living under today
can go on forever
-- Slavoj Žižek, Slovenian economist
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TRANSPORTATION
& RECREATION
As of June, 2011 bicyclists have a new resource in their panniers! This 15-county biking website
features preferred routes, rides, and trails along Scenic Byways and off
the beaten paths in the Adirondack North Country Region.
"...this new tourism tool meets cyclists' needs by establishing a
presence for bicycling for the first time across the entire
region. Through this site, NYS DOT's Scenic Byways Program and ANCA's
Byways Program build visibility for the Adirondack North Country
region as a desirable bicycling destination for all interest levels." Kate Fish, ANCA Executive Director
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What does it cost you and the planet to not ride your bike?
There are lots of excuses to drive a car
instead of getting out and riding your bike
“It’s too cold.”
“I’m going too far.”
“I don’t want to show up sweaty.”
But these all seem flimsy when you consider the actual impact of choosing your car over your bike.
- The typical American family spends almost $8000 a year to own and
operate a car, when you count the car payments, gas, oil, maintenance
and repairs, licenses, parking, and insurance.
- Transportation of all types accounts for more than 25% of the
world’s commercial energy use, and motor vehicles account for nearly 80%
of that.
- Cars emit 20 pounds of carbon dioxide (CO2), a heat-trapping, illness-causing gas, for every gallon of gas burned.
Slowly but surely, statistics like this are starting to make
economic, environmental, and physical sense to people in all walks of
life. In fact, the percentage of people using a bike as their primary
mode of transportation grew 45 percent between 2000 and 2009…in the
United States alone. Click here to read more.
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- PAID ADVERTISEMENT -
 Paula M. Youmell, RN, MSAmerican Holistic Nursing AssociationOffering consultations in: Holistic and Whole Food Nutrition, Herbs, Natural Healing
Holistic health and healing is a natural approach to life. I
work with my clients to create a happy, healthy life in a way that is
balanced, flexible, fun and free of denial and discipline. The body
heals when we give it what it needs and remove obstacles to healing.
Working together, we create a lifestyle plan that includes whole food
nutrition, herbs, fitness and relaxation techniques to heal the body
physically, emotionally and spiritually. Click here: www.handsonhealthhh.com
Take your health back into your own healing hands just as nature designed our bodies to function. NOTE: Paula is one of our most popular Workshop Presenters and is a fount of useful information.
In a region with talc mines and other risk factors, serious illnesses from asbestos exposure are a real issue If you or someone you know has been exposed,
this is a site you want to check out! Click on the logo or on "survival rates". Get the facts you need from the
Mesothelioma Cancer Network. Help.Answers. Resources mesothelioma survival rate
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The Forager's Online Field Guide is good but also check out their Bookstore page!
http://theforagerpress.com/fieldguide/guide.htm
Specific to within 25 miles of Cortland, NY but much that relates to us further up in the North Country, too! The photos of different lichens, etc. are really helpful.
http://cnynaturalist.com/index.html
Our new page of Wild Edibles Recipes is here! Please feel free to email us with YOUR recipes as well! So far we only have Spring Wild Edibles -- but more content will be added as soon as it comes in! :-)
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GREEN BUSINESS PRACTICES
NOTE that the SLP / LLF does not endorse any of these services but views them strictly as resources for "growing" your knowledge and ability to do so yourself!
USA Government Guides for Green Business:
http://www.sba.gov/content/green-guide-new-businesses
http://www.sba.gov/category/navigation-structure/starting-managing-business/managing-business/running-business/green-business-guide
http://www.sba.gov/content/green-business-practices
A really fabulous selection of different "ecological footprint" calculators:
http://www.ecobusinesslinks.com/ecological_footprint_calculator.htm
Grow Me the Money
www.growmethemoney.com.au
Guidance is provided for paid members via a website on how to green many aspects of your business.
A Greener Workplace: Planning and Managing Sustainability
Leader’s Guide and Participant Workbook
www.trainingabc.com/product_files/P/WB-Greener.pdf
A training manual to guide your workplace to a greener vision.
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GREEN BUILDING
Your Home Technical Manual
Derived from the book Your Home - Design for Lifestyle and the Future, this is a VERY comprehensive site from the government of Australia. Although there are obvious climatic differences to account for, there is much here that is applicable world-wide.
"...cover(s) all the bases, from the usual suspects of green homes, such as insulation and solar orientation to rainwater harvesting and double glazing...strawbale, mud brick and rammed earth wall constructions...and even adaptable design, like when the inhabitants become noisy teenagers, or develop mobility issues needing walking aids or wheelchairs. There is little about good housing design that is missing from this book." (source: http://www.treehugger .com/files/2011/05/book-review-your-home-manual-for-environmentally-sustainable-housing.php?campaign=daily_nl)350+ pages are available at: www.yourhome.gov.au/technical/index.html
This site should inspire the creative folk among us!
Home-made housing in Wales.
 http://www.simondale.net/house/index.htm
We need your help in adding to this Resource category! Our website is still in development and we'd love to know what sites you have found useful! Please email us at SustLivingProject@gmail.com with your comments, suggestions, and questions too!
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SIMPLE LIVING
Story of Stuff site:
A must-see www.storyofstuff.com
Composting with No Backyard: The basics of small scale indoor composting.
http://planetgreen.discovery.com/home-garden/no-yard-heres-how-you-can-still-make-and-use-compost.html
Rain Water Harvesting: Our ancestors harvested rain just as naturally as they tilled the ground to grow crops. We lost touch with these local solutions. But now, as the taps dry up, more and more people are reviving this age-old system and practicing it very successfully. Information about harvesting, recycling (greywater), and using various water sources, here: www.greywateraction.org. See also the basic but interesting information in the "Rain Water Harvesting" attachment from India, below (bottom of this page) as well as the Reading List resources for Water Storage, also below.
Urban Homesteading: http://urbanhomestead.org
Homesteading Information Directory:
Schools with Homesteading Classes:
- Homesteading Heritage Center for Essential Education (Texas): The school offers a complete curriculum for sustainable living skills from their model four-acre homestead located within their larger 510 acre working farm. They offer single day, multi-day, and three-day homesteading courses.
www.homesteadheritage.com
- Apple Family Farm (Indiana): For three generations the Apple Family Farm has been providing homesteading classes with hands on training, and two to three day classes on topics like; dairy cows, goats, chickens, butchering, soap making, etc.
/www.applefamilyfarm.com/Classes/FarmSchool.htm
- The Institute of Urban Homesteading (California): This school offers a twist on homesteading and simple living. The Oakland, CA school understands that not everyone who is interested in living a simpler, healthier life can live out in the country. They offer urban homesteading classes.
www.iuhoakland.com
- Pioneer School of Homesteading: (Michigan): The Quaker Hill Farm is a Christian-based farm offering homesteading classes to the public. Most courses are about $75 each and cover topics like beekeeping, bread making, medicinal herbs, raising poultry, etc. They also offer online tutorials.
www.quakerfarm.com
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THE BOOKSHELF
READING LIST
Big List of Homesteading, Foodie, Back-To-The-Land, Rural Skills, Voluntary Simplicity & Self Sufficiency Books
(mostly from: www.livingasimplelife.com)~ Click HERE to View ~
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