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Low Impact Living
LOW IMPACT LIVING weekend
Exploring Low Impact Living “The Great Outdoors”
with Paul Mobbs and others
Dates : July 24-25 2010
A weekend of camping, discussions, workshops and contemplating change
Cost: £20 weekend or £10 per day / donations.
Cost: £20 weekend or £10 per day / donations.
Booking : please click here for a booking form
This weekend workshop is held at the Karuna Permaculture project,
an inspiring exemplary site for low impact living in Shropshire. All are welcome.
Come for the weekend or just for a day,
Saturday campfire & social eve (weather permitting) tea/coffee provided,
please bring vegetarian food/drink to share, enthusiasm, musical instruments if you have any etc.
Paul Mobbs ( www.fraw.org.uk ) will be leading the weekend with friends
Hosts Janta and Merav Wheelhouse will give a short presentation about their work and developments at Karuna, an inspiring exemplary Permaculture site for LOW impact living in Shropshire.
In a world where we desire certainty to live a comfortable life the fact that
the world is becoming more uncertain is creating tension, in our own lives,
and in society generally. From the financial markets, to climate change, to
resource depletion, today we face a complex web of inter-related problems
that, as individuals, it's not possible to solve. Rather than try and beat our
heads against the brick wall of impossibility perhaps we should think
laterally and instead look to improve that part of the problem which we do
have the power to change... ourselves. And in particular, our ability to meet
these problems with a greater resilience that we develop from improving our skills and confidence to look after ourselves in more challenging
circumstances. And what, for most people, is the simplest and cheapest way of doing this... we go camping!
'The Great Outdoors' is an initiative developed by the Free Range Network to encourage people to go camping to increase their personal skills -- from the basics of staying warm and dry through to cooking with minimal resources. The patterns of consumption we live within today are debilitating; they remove the ability for us to practically support ourselves because the pressures of time, or the law, or lack of money and open space, prevent us from carrying on the traditional skills that supported our ancestors for hundreds of generations.
The basic idea of the Great Outdoors initiative, and this weekend, is that if
we can live comfortably with very little then, in any crisis, we can adapt
these same resources to live more securely in the space that we inhabit at
that time –- and hopefully share those skills with those around us in order to
support others in our community, not just ourselves.
Over the weekend we'll look at the basics of “low impact”, “rough” or “wild”
camping. We'll look at some of the problems that might arise in the future,
and why our basic human skill-set -- cooking, foraging/growing food, keeping warm, and supporting a community around us -- can help us negotiate the difficulties that lie ahead. Although we'll be conventionally camping, the purpose of learning these skills today is that, be it the power cuts created by energy insecurity or severe storms created by climate change, our ability to confidently react enables us to work communally to solve a whole range of problems that might occur in the future as and when they arise.
the world is becoming more uncertain is creating tension, in our own lives,
and in society generally. From the financial markets, to climate change, to
resource depletion, today we face a complex web of inter-related problems
that, as individuals, it's not possible to solve. Rather than try and beat our
heads against the brick wall of impossibility perhaps we should think
laterally and instead look to improve that part of the problem which we do
have the power to change... ourselves. And in particular, our ability to meet
these problems with a greater resilience that we develop from improving our skills and confidence to look after ourselves in more challenging
circumstances. And what, for most people, is the simplest and cheapest way of doing this... we go camping!
'The Great Outdoors' is an initiative developed by the Free Range Network to encourage people to go camping to increase their personal skills -- from the basics of staying warm and dry through to cooking with minimal resources. The patterns of consumption we live within today are debilitating; they remove the ability for us to practically support ourselves because the pressures of time, or the law, or lack of money and open space, prevent us from carrying on the traditional skills that supported our ancestors for hundreds of generations.
The basic idea of the Great Outdoors initiative, and this weekend, is that if
we can live comfortably with very little then, in any crisis, we can adapt
these same resources to live more securely in the space that we inhabit at
that time –- and hopefully share those skills with those around us in order to
support others in our community, not just ourselves.
Over the weekend we'll look at the basics of “low impact”, “rough” or “wild”
camping. We'll look at some of the problems that might arise in the future,
and why our basic human skill-set -- cooking, foraging/growing food, keeping warm, and supporting a community around us -- can help us negotiate the difficulties that lie ahead. Although we'll be conventionally camping, the purpose of learning these skills today is that, be it the power cuts created by energy insecurity or severe storms created by climate change, our ability to confidently react enables us to work communally to solve a whole range of problems that might occur in the future as and when they arise.
The aim is to leave the weekend pretty open, that way we can work on the expectations of those attending rather than the expectations of those presenting.
For more information see the Free Range Activism Website:
http://www.fraw.org.uk/outdoors/index.shtml
http://www.fraw.org.uk/download/ebo/index.shtml#outdoors
http://www.fraw.org.uk/outdoors/index.shtml
http://www.fraw.org.uk/download/ebo/index.shtml#outdoors
Please bring enthusiasm , food to share and acoustic musical instruments if you have any to play around an Open fire in the evening.
*camping fee £5 per night
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