the next step

[the_siobhan]

Every resource I've ever seen about climate change gives the same basic instructions. "Turn down the AC. Get a more fuel efficient car. Buy locally."

We don't have air con. We bus and bike everywhere. We eat vegetarian most of the time, and every lightbulb in the house is compact fluorescent. We patch, repair, reuse and freecycle.

Now what? Where is the environmentalism 201?

*sigh*

I guess I could always write more letters.

What I'm listening to right this second: Knucklehead

Comments

[montieth.livejournal.com]

Oh, start hunting for your meat. It's the original free range.

[siani-hedgehog.livejournal.com]

hear, hear!!

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

I'd love to, but that's even more expensive than buying free-range at the butcher.

[montieth.livejournal.com]

Once you get a deep freeze, you could probably take a deer or two a year and NEVER have to buy meat for the rest of the year. Heck, you could probably take one deer and turn around and donate the second one to a shelter or some organization that takes such donations. How much do you spend on meat in a year?

Oh, and you could make a new twist to the pig roast. You'd have to cook it slower (less fat).

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

We have a freezer, it's pretty much stuffed. (Mind you a lot of that is leftovers from the pig.) We don't spend that much on meat right now, because we don't eat it that often.

I like the idea of hunting, but the startup costs of the FAC, then the course, then the equipment and then the licence puts it way down on the priority list.

[siani-hedgehog.livejournal.com]

up north you can often find places that sell frozen moose and venison quite cheap, especially if you're willing to agree to buy a half-moose before it's shot. ask around?

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

The Lawrence Market has moose and venison and buffalo.

Now you've got me craving a nice moose steak. :-)