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Susan O'Donnell's avatar

Thanks Charles for your update, a nice diversion into another life. Enjoy what's left of summer.

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Dr Robert B Feagan's avatar

Love your ramblings. Have been semi-offgrid for the last couple of years, though when I say offgrid, I still love good ciders from local cideries, stuff from the farmers' markets, and good maple syrup and honey from the Valley. We exist with a small solar system -- 3.5 kW, and direct rainwater into our cistern, and grow a lot of berries, but still rely on local producers of lots of things to sustain ourselves. And we are involved in many community activities and organizations. Climate change: remember a fellow at University of BC in the late 1980's telling us about the coming large disruptions to our weather and climate systems, and the various ripple effects regarding habitat, species extinction, as well as the much more variable food and weather patterns that would be coming. Doesn't mean I am hunkering down, though it does mean that this little solidly constructed passive solar house with 20" walls of cellulose and south-facing triple-pane windows, is something I am counting on to help us shelter through some uncertain weather patterns in the future.

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