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prolesunited
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Mon Nov-08-10 07:17 PM Original message |
How self-sufficient are you? |
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MrSlayer
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Mon Nov-08-10 07:23 PM Response to Original message |
1. I'm completely on the grid. |
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slackmaster
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Mon Nov-08-10 07:23 PM Response to Original message |
2. Canning is easy and fun. I do it at least once a year with surplus tomato sauce. |
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prolesunited
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Mon Nov-08-10 07:31 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. They are really pricey |
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Denninmi
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Mon Nov-08-10 07:26 PM Response to Original message |
3. Well, energy wise, I'm not at all. |
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StandingInLeftField
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Mon Nov-08-10 07:35 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. Did you see Detroit Wild City? |
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prolesunited
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Mon Nov-08-10 07:37 PM Response to Reply #3 |
8. Wow! That is very, very impressive. |
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kestrel91316
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Mon Nov-08-10 11:26 PM Response to Reply #3 |
26. If I had the land and the climate, I'd be doing exactly what you are. |
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DeschutesRiver
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Tue Nov-09-10 11:36 AM Response to Reply #3 |
34. I just met the person who has more chest freezers than me. |
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Xipe Totec
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Mon Nov-08-10 07:26 PM Response to Original message |
4. The lesson of the bee hive |
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JuniperLea
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Tue Nov-09-10 08:53 PM Response to Reply #4 |
37. Damn socialist bees... |
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Xipe Totec
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Tue Nov-09-10 09:13 PM Response to Reply #37 |
38. Probably? |
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tularetom
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Mon Nov-08-10 07:34 PM Response to Original message |
6. We could get off the grid but we don't |
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Lyric
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Mon Nov-08-10 07:40 PM Response to Original message |
9. About half. |
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rgbecker
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Mon Nov-08-10 07:53 PM Response to Original message |
10. On, for now. |
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Kennah
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Mon Nov-08-10 08:38 PM Response to Original message |
11. I've told the wife ... |
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Dappleganger
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Mon Nov-08-10 08:41 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Good one! |
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TBF
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Mon Nov-08-10 10:03 PM Response to Reply #11 |
17. LOL - us too - only not so high a roof on the station wagon. nt |
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La Lioness Priyanka
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Mon Nov-08-10 08:41 PM Response to Original message |
13. i have a small carbon footprint because city dwellers tend to |
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bvar22
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Mon Nov-08-10 09:29 PM Response to Original message |
14. So far, so good. |
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Liberal_in_LA
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Mon Nov-08-10 09:36 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. Nice plot |
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bobbolink
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Mon Nov-08-10 09:31 PM Response to Original message |
15. Completely off the grid. Living in my car creates a very small carbon footprint. |
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TBF
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Mon Nov-08-10 10:04 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. Crap, bobbolink, with our luck they'll read this and add it to the platform in 2012. |
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bobbolink
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Mon Nov-08-10 10:08 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. I would welcome the company. I don't wish to hog all the fun to myself. And, *I* have been cut |
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TBF
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Mon Nov-08-10 10:13 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. You have a point there - |
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bobbolink
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Tue Nov-09-10 09:41 AM Response to Reply #21 |
28. The wealthy? I don't notice a rush of support from the middleclass...... |
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TBF
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Tue Nov-09-10 10:43 AM Response to Reply #28 |
30. No I see complicit democrats. At some point you'd think |
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bobbolink
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Tue Nov-09-10 10:47 AM Response to Reply #30 |
33. And the "professional class" you mention are the ones running what used to be *my* party, and they |
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Catherina
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Tue Nov-09-10 08:50 PM Response to Reply #33 |
36. +1 which leads to the very sad statement |
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tsparker78
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Mon Nov-08-10 10:10 PM Response to Original message |
20. Self Sufficiency is unheard of in America |
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Kennah
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Tue Nov-09-10 08:24 PM Response to Reply #20 |
35. Except Alaska |
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InvisibleTouch
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Mon Nov-08-10 10:14 PM Response to Original message |
22. I'm about 40% there... |
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Codeine
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Mon Nov-08-10 10:16 PM Response to Original message |
23. Self-sufficiency is a fantasy, and a silly one at that. |
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SoCalDem
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Mon Nov-08-10 10:19 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. Commune-style self sufficiency is not for most people |
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kestrel91316
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Mon Nov-08-10 11:34 PM Response to Reply #23 |
27. I don't suppose reading Sharon Astyk's blogs would make any |
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prolesunited
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Tue Nov-09-10 10:41 AM Response to Reply #23 |
29. I didn't advocate being a Luddite |
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TBF
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Tue Nov-09-10 10:45 AM Response to Reply #29 |
32. To be specific it is capitalism killing the planet. nt |
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Exilednight
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Mon Nov-08-10 10:22 PM Response to Original message |
25. I have a garden, but eat meat. Luckily, where I live I am allowed to have up to |
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Iggo
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Tue Nov-09-10 10:44 AM Response to Original message |
31. Not at all. |
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bemildred
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Tue Nov-09-10 09:14 PM Response to Original message |
39. Self-sufficiency is a delusion. nt |
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