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17 comments on The Bullroarer - Monday 23 June 2008
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I just want to introduce myself, I have been lurking here for months and just joined up but don't know how much posting I'll be doing.
Like Commuter my big concern isn't the fairly 'discretionary' concept of commuting home-work but rather how we're going to manage for food. I mean the 'we' of the whole society. If people think they've got problems now, wait til the food machine grinds to a halt.
I was surprised by Kiashu's comments about people going to the shops 5 times a week. Really!? Efficiency can be all sorts of efficiencies, not just energy. Who has the time to go to the shops 5 times a week? Haven't they got real lives? What about their time, isn't it better spent on other things?
I have 3 objectives for my physical life : Efficiency, Building up the Assets/Resource Base, and taking care of me. I use the Permaculture principle of things doing multiple tasks but I was doing so years before ever I read it. I am making changes to my daily life, tho a loooooong way to go yet.
I agree with others who have posted here in the recent and not-so-recent past - depression is a normal response to PO awareness, esp. in the early days.
BTW, am I the only woman here?
I will keep reading even if I don't post often.
Ciao, Sundowner
Thanks for speaking up.
I'm not sure if we have any regular female commenters - I don't think so but as most people use pseudonyms its hard to be sure - but I imagine there are a few female readers (there are certainly a number of female ASPO Australia members, and some of the TOD editors in the US are female as well of course).
Your comment seems more oriented towards the last article (James Ward's post) so you may have clicked on the wrong "Add a comment" link...
Australians spend an average of 27 hours a week in front of the TV and computer monitor, about half each. That's almost 4 hours a day.
No, I don't think Australians are short of time. If you have time to watch Everybody Loves Raymond or surf for pr0n, you have time to walk to the shops or make dinner from fresh vegies instead of some packet rubbish.
Note: I don't know that Aussies go shopping 5 times a week. I just know it's over a quarter of all trips taken by car, and that cars are driven an average of an hour and a half daily, though the shopping trips average 13 minutes - suggesting a lot of trips to the milk bar to get a loaf of bread and the like, it's usually more than 6.5 minutes' drive to Bunnings or whatever. So it must be a lot of trips. Discussed here.