Re: [pf] What are some ways?

At 16:25 1/10/2000 -0700, Priscilla wrote:
>I've enjoyed the postings on how to cut back on emissions.
>
**  /I/ agree with this use of the word emissions: what goes up the
smokestack or out the exhaust pipe. However, about ten years ago, while
people and politicians were focussed on "pollution" rather on the overall
human impact, "emissions" came to be used (at least in the case of
vehicles) for solely the tiny particles and large amounts of
non-water-and-CO2 gases that generally were the cause of smog. So in
California, and probably elsewhere in North America now, a "Zero Emissions
Vehicle" /can/ exist, by defining "emissions" as above.


>I bugged my landlord for a while about putting up a clothesline. He did not 
>want me to put one up where people can see while driving by, so he finally 
>put mine up out by the horse pasture. ... I keep ... telling him that solar 
>is fine.  He says, "wait until winter".  He doesn't know me!
>
>I'm really enjoying living in the country. I've wanted to do this for a long 
>time. I'm composting, burning my trash, .. I'm even more cognizant about 
>packaging when I buy.  Next year I will garden and grow some veggies. 
>
>Ah, it's time to take a walk up to the horse pasture to look at the crescent 
>moon. And the stars are incredible here!  Life is good!
>
>Blessings, Priscilla
>
**  Yes, Priscilla is blessed.

**  When you wade through the snow to hang out your clothes in the few
hours of sun in mid-winter after a snow-storm, count your blessings some
more (!)

**  You at least have an indoor toilet, out there in the country. See (Bob
Herman's 1998 comment and) my answer to Diane Fitzsimmons' "hard-scrabble
ancestors" letter, at:
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/6783/hard-scrabble.html#top

**  The originals are in the public domain, at:

http://csf.colorado.edu/mail/pfvs/may98/0619.html - Diane Fitzsimmons
http://csf.colorado.edu/mail/pfvs/jun98/0017.html - David MacClement
http://csf.colorado.edu/mail/pfvs/jun98/0018.html - R C Herman

**  The whole Positive Futures archive is at:
http://csf.colorado.edu/mail/pfvs/

**  I have hung clothes on an outside line all my life, including in Ottawa.
  However, that old stone house (built by my grandfather in Eastern Ontario
- their parents were United Empire Loyalists who left Pennsylvania) had a
lean-to "woodshed" extending outward from the kitchen; before I left in
1946, I remember hanging up clothes on lines strung up under the roof of
that lean-to, in the winter or when it was rainy.

David.
(David MacClement) davd@ihug.co.nz 
http://www.emucities.com.au/member/davd/index.html
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