Thursday, June 30, 2005
Events / Primitive Skills – Comox, BC, July 11 - 17
Firemaker: Living Well, Low-tech
COMOX, BC, June, 2005 (Firemaker) - "Firemaker is an annual gathering that celebrates and rekindles our knowledge of nature based ways of living, primarily North American traditional practices" Primitive skills are well-developed ways of surviving in and thriving with Nature. All of our ancestors knew how to live well without modern tools and materials. Every summer, the Firemaker Primitive Skills Society hosts Firemaker, a gathering for those interested in natural and primitive skills as well as the underlying philosophy of those skills and ways of life. Firemaker is an excellent opportunity to: - Learn to be more aware of the Natural world; - Make useful and beautiful objects with our hands; - Know what, when, and how to gather and use what we gather; - Develop competence for survival and wilderness living; - Connect with each other and our children in a beautiful natural setting; - Make music and have fun together; - Understand the unity of physical and spiritual. Registration: http://www.firemaker.org/registration.html.
Firemaker: Living Well, Low-tech
COMOX, BC, June, 2005 (Firemaker) - "Firemaker is an annual gathering that celebrates and rekindles our knowledge of nature based ways of living, primarily North American traditional practices" Primitive skills are well-developed ways of surviving in and thriving with Nature. All of our ancestors knew how to live well without modern tools and materials. Every summer, the Firemaker Primitive Skills Society hosts Firemaker, a gathering for those interested in natural and primitive skills as well as the underlying philosophy of those skills and ways of life. Firemaker is an excellent opportunity to: - Learn to be more aware of the Natural world; - Make useful and beautiful objects with our hands; - Know what, when, and how to gather and use what we gather; - Develop competence for survival and wilderness living; - Connect with each other and our children in a beautiful natural setting; - Make music and have fun together; - Understand the unity of physical and spiritual. Registration: http://www.firemaker.org/registration.html.
Science & Technology / Efficient Energy
Lighting up BC's Dark Interior
EMAIL Reference, Vera Gottlieb, June 23, 2003 (TheTyee.ca, by David Secko) - Most people flip a light switch without a second thought, but for a First Nations community in the Chilcotin region of British Columbia such thoughts don't come so easily. The Xeni Gwet'in First Nation community is off the province's electricity grid, forcing them to use expensive generators, propane systems, or even batteries to generate electricity. As a result, many of them don't light their homes in the evening. Carolanne Inglis took a dark view of that situation. So she headed out to the Chilcotin region as a soldier of the Calgary-based Light Up The World Foundation. LUTW's mission: to make sure every household in the world has affordable lighting. Read more: http://thetyee.ca/News/2005/06/23/DarkInterior/.
Lighting up BC's Dark Interior
EMAIL Reference, Vera Gottlieb, June 23, 2003 (TheTyee.ca, by David Secko) - Most people flip a light switch without a second thought, but for a First Nations community in the Chilcotin region of British Columbia such thoughts don't come so easily. The Xeni Gwet'in First Nation community is off the province's electricity grid, forcing them to use expensive generators, propane systems, or even batteries to generate electricity. As a result, many of them don't light their homes in the evening. Carolanne Inglis took a dark view of that situation. So she headed out to the Chilcotin region as a soldier of the Calgary-based Light Up The World Foundation. LUTW's mission: to make sure every household in the world has affordable lighting. Read more: http://thetyee.ca/News/2005/06/23/DarkInterior/.
