Sequim Locally Grown Mercantile

Friends of the Fields, a local nonprofit dedicated to protecting farmland from development and promoting sustainable agriculture in Clallam County, can be found at http://www.friendsofthefields.org. Currently, Friends of the Fields is raising funds to protect Finn Hall Farm, 50 acres of productive, USDA-designated prime farmland, farmed by the Jarvis family for five generations. Sequim Locally Grown Mercantile fully supports Friends of the Fields and hopes you will consider a secure online contribution to them at http://www.friendsofthefields.org/contributions.htm.
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Make it LAST on the Olympic Peninsula http://relocalize.net/groups/sequim Our purpose is to… Unite Clallam County through coordinating and supporting Local Actions for a Sustainable Tomorrow. Our objective is to bring all groups on the Olympic Peninsula that are concerned with our sustainability, our lifestyles and the peninsula's well-being toward the common goal of preparing for the significant changes that will take place because of peak oil and climate change. GUIDING PRINCIPLES Communication: Raise public awareness of the environmental, economic and social challenges facing Clallam County; build a compelling case for action to meet these challenges. Education: Provide detailed information and facilitate the development of skills, knowledge and resources that will be needed within a sustainable local community. Community Development: Strengthen ties between community and governmental groups in order to create or enhance local infrastructure to address the challenges we face. Demonstration: Take individual and collective action, in whatever ways we each can, to serve as an example of sustainable local community citizenship. FOCUS AREAS Energy Transportation Farmland preservation Food Water Emergency preparedness Recycling and waste management Communication Healthcare We have developed a matrix of Guiding Principles vs. Focus Areas to come up with possible detailed objectives, tasks and deliverables within each cell of the matrix. This is our LAST Action Planner at http://relocalize.net/last_action_planner . Background: World oil production is plateauing because oil discoveries have been declining, significantly, since the 1960s. All indicators show we are at or very near the world peak oil production while oil demand is significantly increasing. Oil prices may rise so significantly that the economy of the world is shut down, forcing us to return to community-based systems, i.e. permaculture. Here is an overview video by Dr Colin Campbell explaining the Peak Oil issue. http://www.video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-596805984521272213 Normally, we would meet the last Wednesday night of each month to have planning meetings at the Sequim Library at 7PM and/or having a DVD showing of a related Peak Oil/Climate Change topic and/or a speaker on the related issues. We are placing these meetings on hold for the time being while we focus on Sequim Locally Grown Mercantile, http://sequim.locallygrown.net . LAST members and others are welcome to come to the SLG distribution at the Sequim Prairie Grange on Thursdays at 6:30 PM to observe the food distribution and discuss other LAST issues. We will communicate the rest of the time through our Blogs at http://relocalize.net/node/7307/blogs . If you are interested in attending or in meeting, please email me at olylast@yahoo.com. You are invited to join our group. I think it is our best hope for a soft landing & new, better lifestyle. Take care Sid 360-808-7300
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Make it LAST on the Olympic Peninsula http://relocalize.net/groups/sequim Our purpose is to… Unite Clallam County through coordinating and supporting Local ... more