Rethinking Lifestyle

A few weeks ago in this column, we were challenged to think about what a Homestead Act for the 21st century would look like.

Resilience is a strange word and when you look it up in the dictionary it is described as springing back or resuming original form after stretching.

Wherever we humans live together we inevitably make and accept rules that govern how we relate to one another. Such rules are necessary.

In my last post I suggested that a tax on fertilizer would serve us all well. Specifically I suggested that such a tax would effectively increase the value of manure fertilizer, thereby creating an incentive for farmers to place a greater value of the plant nutrients in their manure.

Recently I had a conversation with a friend who was disturbed at the way today’s factory farms manage the manure generated on these farms.

Everyone knows that if you leave your car outside in the sun with the windows closed it get hot inside – very hot even. The other day I was in a greenhouse with simple plastic cover and it was remarkably hot inside even though it was below freezing outside.

The news from USA in recent weeks has been alarming for the environment. The President does not believe in Climate Change, so his departments are to cease all activities linked to it.

I stepped on the scale this morning and checked my weight. The scale says I am 180 lbs. Does that measurement alone say anything about my health? Indeed it says something, but by itself, very little.

The other day I was having a conversation with a man in Steinbach and it appeared that he did not believe in global warming and climate change.

The story is told, that there was a man who lived in a village by the sea. Every morning he got up and went fishing. After he had caught enough fish for the day he would go home, play with his son, take a siesta and enjoy lunch with his family.