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21st century sport and the spirit of Compact. Buy Nothing Day
The Really Really Xtreme - Free Market economy
'Can it be all beer and barbecues in the 21st C?' asks Jack Wilkie Jans
C.I.M - A definite Yes from me - so far - 'less there's a hangi on...
'Spurning new stuff for a year is easy. "
Wholistic Australia Embodying the unwritten history and Local Knowledge - Why Brindle Style .
Cairns was thrown together in the 70's and 80's. But beneath the TV generated collective surface we're known throughout the world for - the strengths of courage, resourcefulness and sense of sporting musical comradeship of Nth QLD is amazing and inspiring to see...
Occupy Cairns Cairns Musos On earth for everybody's need, but not for everybody's greed', Mahatma Gandhi - Shoalhaven.net
Maiia: Compacting or downsizing or Voluntry Simplcity - the Australian Heartland. The Aquarian movement.
Maiia: "Three years it took to get down to finally running out of 'stuff' Now as more people join in the recucle reuse and sharing and gifting economies... it's actually got harder to play this game. Cause everyones moving the stuff along...'
The Elders will tell you all the cunning ways of saving, sharing, making, reusing, and finding a cunning quid... And other things
So how are the Aussies handling making Buy Nothing Day into a Buy Nothing Year?
Brindle Style's VOLUNTARY SIMPLICITY feature generates.. hits and mail from all over the world. .The Mighty Buy Nothing Day - Compact began in San Francisco
CompactOz -blog
Maiia:- In NZ my Nanny used to say "It's made round to go round - but it's made flat for stacking." an' my Dad - "If in life you wish to be free, never a borrower or lender be."
I figured I knew the ground-rules to take on the comnpact. I figured it would be a piece of piss. (Aussie for- no effort)
CHARLES PURCELL- SMH Nature Just an't Buy It Anymore -The Australian
Below Kalle Larson... But 'can it be all beer and barbecues?' I say Yess - so far Long as the beer is med-strength and the snags vegetarian... |
The old people used to say vote with your wallet, make-do , reuse and recycle. The good-humoured economic conversation
Most of that kitchen stuff is available from Life-line and Salvos etc- being such a transient population But I failed on wooden spoon. - lol. Possesed I was - just had to have the plash bamboo jobbie I'm hoping will last for years to come. - it didn't it was the biggest piece of pseudo kitchen implement- may as well have used a stick.