On holidays our family likes to eat, read, watch movies and reflect on the year and what we might resolve for the next, if you are like us, add these flicks to your list. What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire,Crude Awakening, and End of Suburbia, they are movies that will make you reflect on this year and resolve on this new year to come. As humanity reaches peak EVERYTHING; oil, climate, water, waste, it’s not just time to reduce, reuse and recycle, it’s time to regroup and rethink where we are and where we are headed. We all need to question what is best for our remaining resources, how we will sail through the coming rough water and have enough food while we’re doing it.
As I watch our son Aidan draw yet another picture of the Titanic, his newest fascination, I can’t help but think it’s prophetic in some way. He is in awe of its size, its beauty and grandeur, but most of all is impressed that something so BIG actually sank. He constantly asks us, “What time of day was it…. is THIS how it sank, Mommy?” We are now quite learned on the subject. What an awesome ship, totally set up, the best of the best of everything, unsinkable, just like us, right?
To learn more about these movies and to find more books and websites on these subjects visit www.greenguru.org. Let’s build a boat, a lifeboat, right here in Wimberley. Let’s look to the town of Willits, California for our inspiration, and go to www.relocalize.net/groups/wimberley to get started. Marc signed us on over a year ago and we’ve watched new groups start up in towns all over the world. What can YOU bring into this next year that is for our community, is your resolution to eat fewer brownies or is it to eat locally? Is it to exercise more or to build communities, co-op’s, and gardens?
Happy Holidays, from the green guru and may your new year be bright green!
Quote of the Month: “…I have seen that in any great undertaking it is not enough for a man to depend simply upon himself.” –Lone Man, Teton Sioux