Garden Girl

A brief post on Lance’s new shop here-
http://www.carectomy.com/index.php/Bikes/Lances-New-Bike-Shop-For-Commuters

Lance is my hero.
I get so frustrated — the answer to our energy problems is not to rely on the dirty costly replacement fuels that will allow us to keep driving Suburbans to McMansions an hour and a half out of town. That is a terrible idea– esp. if the rest of the world adopts that paradigm (& it is: China is investing in liquid coal which is even worse for the planet than our “clean coal”, India will likely go nuke… all because their millions of newly monied working class folks want the American Dream).
& the American Dream seems to lead primarily to heart attacks & spiritual voids.
We can build livable & walkable bike & public transit friendly cities and towns with distributed energy & farming (gardening) built into the design.
There’s a video on decentralized energy that explains it briefly here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klooRS-Jjyo&eurl=http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/2/7/223620/3925

I’m already seeing the new victory garden movement get hip in some U.S. cities to the idea of urban distributed farming (everything from co-ops where different gardeners share produce with other garden co-op members to adopting the British allotment gardening idea, which are like our community gardens, but instead of sharing a whole garden, each community member has a small plot of their own.)

We can have towns energy efficient enough that we could live comfortably on clean renewables & people would drop their stress levels and have more leisure time & more beautiful & human friendly environments to spend that time in.

We’d be happier, healthier & we’d do it without having to figure out what to do about ever expanding energy needs– because we’d actually have less energy needs due to efficiency.

We already have the tech for this.
We need new infrastructure & city design & planning.
We need political will & public education, we need to make it attractive and easy for people to get out of their cars.

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