Comments on: 10 First Steps for a Transition Town Initiative #9. Honour the Elders. http://transitionculture.org/2007/01/23/10-first-steps-for-a-transition-town-initiative-9-honour-the-elders/ An Evolving Exploration into the Head, Heart and Hands of Energy Descent Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:35:12 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: levi civita http://transitionculture.org/2007/01/23/10-first-steps-for-a-transition-town-initiative-9-honour-the-elders/comment-page-1/#comment-16731 levi civita Thu, 01 Feb 2007 22:19:10 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/2007/01/23/10-first-steps-for-a-transition-town-initiative-9-honour-the-elders/#comment-16731 <p>This seems like a self-preservation clause. Living thru profligate times, the elders will have little to offer to energy-restricted communities, except their sorry faces to the "whipping-boy" posters. They do not know how to farm, they are obese, they buy everything in sight, they litter till they drop, and they cannot live without their mortgages.</p> This seems like a self-preservation clause. Living thru profligate times, the elders will have little to offer to energy-restricted communities, except their sorry faces to the “whipping-boy” posters. They do not know how to farm, they are obese, they buy everything in sight, they litter till they drop, and they cannot live without their mortgages.

]]> By: Derek King http://transitionculture.org/2007/01/23/10-first-steps-for-a-transition-town-initiative-9-honour-the-elders/comment-page-1/#comment-15457 Derek King Sat, 27 Jan 2007 10:25:33 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/2007/01/23/10-first-steps-for-a-transition-town-initiative-9-honour-the-elders/#comment-15457 <p>This is interesting, I often wonder whether there is an absolute difference between quality of life before the energy boom and since, and which was "better". Do the things we've lost, community, greater connection with nature, etc. outweigh improved health through higher standards of housing, greater awareness of the world through travel and media etc. The elders of our society have so much to contribute to this debate. One of the limitations of the medium we are using here is that the elder generation is comparatively excluded.</p> This is interesting, I often wonder whether there is an absolute difference between quality of life before the energy boom and since, and which was “better”. Do the things we’ve lost, community, greater connection with nature, etc. outweigh improved health through higher standards of housing, greater awareness of the world through travel and media etc. The elders of our society have so much to contribute to this debate. One of the limitations of the medium we are using here is that the elder generation is comparatively excluded.

]]> By: LizM http://transitionculture.org/2007/01/23/10-first-steps-for-a-transition-town-initiative-9-honour-the-elders/comment-page-1/#comment-15164 LizM Thu, 25 Jan 2007 19:34:00 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/2007/01/23/10-first-steps-for-a-transition-town-initiative-9-honour-the-elders/#comment-15164 <p>Susan Strasser has written two very useful books which you might enjoy.</p> <p>Never Done: A History of American Housework, and Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash</p> <p>Almost an encyclopedia of how they lived then, at least in the domestic realm.</p> <p>I found both at the local library in the Social Sciences section.</p> Susan Strasser has written two very useful books which you might enjoy.

Never Done: A History of American Housework, and
Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash

Almost an encyclopedia of how they lived then, at least in the domestic realm.

I found both at the local library in the Social Sciences section.

]]> By: Margie Kepner http://transitionculture.org/2007/01/23/10-first-steps-for-a-transition-town-initiative-9-honour-the-elders/comment-page-1/#comment-14852 Margie Kepner Wed, 24 Jan 2007 04:46:25 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/2007/01/23/10-first-steps-for-a-transition-town-initiative-9-honour-the-elders/#comment-14852 <p>This reminds me of the series of Foxfire Books, interviews with older people in the Southern Appalachian Mountains in the U.S. It started in the 1960's, to document a way of life that was disappearing. The books include drawings to illustrate what was being described (e.g., quilt designs) and photographs, both about the subject at hand and as portraits of the people being interviewed. fyi</p> This reminds me of the series of Foxfire Books, interviews with older people in the Southern Appalachian Mountains in the U.S. It started in the 1960’s, to document a way of life that was disappearing. The books include drawings to illustrate what was being described (e.g., quilt designs) and photographs, both about the subject at hand and as portraits of the people being interviewed. fyi

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