<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Fighting climate chaos with a hammer and a heart]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by escatei http://www.grist.org/article/2009-06-18-love-time-cataclysm/ Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:29:40 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/2009-06-18-love-time-cataclysm/1 Fighting chaos with a hammer and the F*Bomb! Madison Ave learned long ago that to capture human attention, you must startle it. Time for those aware of the facts to start doling them out, no matter how painful they may be to digest. As Ken points out, you can't motivate people into action with a lullaby. Tundrafarts and F*bombs grab attention. Surely action now can preserve one small bit of the planet's integrity. Even if our efforts fail, at least we tried!

 

 

]]> Fighting chaos with a hammer and the F*Bomb! Madison Ave learned long ago that to capture human attention, you must startle it. Time for those aware of the facts to start doling them out, no matter how painful they may be to digest. As Ken points out, you can't motivate people into action with a lullaby. Tundrafarts and F*bombs grab attention. Surely action now can preserve one small bit of the planet's integrity. Even if our efforts fail, at least we tried!

 

 

]]> Comment #2 by craig4survival http://www.grist.org/article/2009-06-18-love-time-cataclysm/ Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:30:42 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/2009-06-18-love-time-cataclysm/2 I definitely feel the same way about balancing love, life, and activism (trying to preserve a future world where life and love can continue to thrive).

Not sure the best way to strike the balance, but have to try.  As you said, what else can we do?

Looking forward to future posts.

-Craig

PS That's one of my favorite YouTube videos of all time.

]]> I definitely feel the same way about balancing love, life, and activism (trying to preserve a future world where life and love can continue to thrive).

Not sure the best way to strike the balance, but have to try.  As you said, what else can we do?

Looking forward to future posts.

-Craig

PS That's one of my favorite YouTube videos of all time.

]]> Comment #3 by katmainomad http://www.grist.org/article/2009-06-18-love-time-cataclysm/ Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:30:15 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/2009-06-18-love-time-cataclysm/3 Good Luck! I'm trying to do a similar thing in Anchorage, Alaska with some beneficial and some harmful differences. I am attempting to green a 1960's era 4-plex (the ecoplex), and I would like it to serve as a positive model for others, and eventually as a meeting and learning center for my neighborhood. To my advantage, the place is currently livable and rentable (though generally ugly and mostly inefficient). Possibly to my advantage is that my job is more of the normal variety, and only demands the regular 9-5 commitment. To my detriment, I'm really slow (and a newby) at remodeling and carpentry work, and usually end up spending too much money calling the plumber when the heat breaks because I don't have the time to figure out the boiler system when it is 20 below out. Even more to my detriment, I have no expertise on getting the word out and getting people to take notice. I want it to be a big deal locally- a real model of what you can do with an older building in this climate, and how you can build community, permaculture gardens, etc, etc in a challenging part of town. But I am a normal person and know nothing about this. And I'm scared. What if I don't make much progress? What if, after all the money and effort, I am an island in the sea and the promise of the model is lost on everyone for never having been seen? What if I alienate my family (6 year old and partner who is supportive, but mostly verbally, of the project). Between being a worker and a partner and a mother and a bike commuter and a landlord, who even has time to slap foam insulation on the exterior - much less money to do so! And boy do I wish I could afford an architect or more than the long, slow, peicemeal approach!

Ahh well, no one said life was easy! Keep up the Chronicle and I will use you for inspiration!

]]> Good Luck! I'm trying to do a similar thing in Anchorage, Alaska with some beneficial and some harmful differences. I am attempting to green a 1960's era 4-plex (the ecoplex), and I would like it to serve as a positive model for others, and eventually as a meeting and learning center for my neighborhood. To my advantage, the place is currently livable and rentable (though generally ugly and mostly inefficient). Possibly to my advantage is that my job is more of the normal variety, and only demands the regular 9-5 commitment. To my detriment, I'm really slow (and a newby) at remodeling and carpentry work, and usually end up spending too much money calling the plumber when the heat breaks because I don't have the time to figure out the boiler system when it is 20 below out. Even more to my detriment, I have no expertise on getting the word out and getting people to take notice. I want it to be a big deal locally- a real model of what you can do with an older building in this climate, and how you can build community, permaculture gardens, etc, etc in a challenging part of town. But I am a normal person and know nothing about this. And I'm scared. What if I don't make much progress? What if, after all the money and effort, I am an island in the sea and the promise of the model is lost on everyone for never having been seen? What if I alienate my family (6 year old and partner who is supportive, but mostly verbally, of the project). Between being a worker and a partner and a mother and a bike commuter and a landlord, who even has time to slap foam insulation on the exterior - much less money to do so! And boy do I wish I could afford an architect or more than the long, slow, peicemeal approach!

Ahh well, no one said life was easy! Keep up the Chronicle and I will use you for inspiration!

]]> Comment #4 by Andrée Zaleska http://www.grist.org/article/2009-06-18-love-time-cataclysm/ Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:15:21 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/2009-06-18-love-time-cataclysm/4 Hang in there Katma in Anchorage!  It's not supposed to be easy.  Embrace the mess.  Remember that you are doing the right thing in a time of moral inertia.  Keep us posted on your project.

Andrée

]]> Hang in there Katma in Anchorage!  It's not supposed to be easy.  Embrace the mess.  Remember that you are doing the right thing in a time of moral inertia.  Keep us posted on your project.

Andrée

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