Luke Sargent's Blog (8)

I recently posted a petition that came out over the past month from Council of Canadians, a group who are popular on the indy media site RABBLE.CA .( The petition is available to see on my previous post here: http://www.urgentevoke.com/photo/council-of-canadians-for-5/prev ; )



One of my concerns with the group was their method of asking for help via post. It was a fairly compelling and angry sounding… Continue

My suggestion is Buckminster Fuller's "Critical Path". Its a testament to a life of learning and invention based on the future sustainability of humanity.

After more than fifty years of research and 'design science' inventions

Fuller wrote this very relevant, concise and probing book about

pollution, political corruption, systemic economic collapse, population

and the environment.



The nice thing about this book is that not only does it spell out many… Continue

My local hero is Mark Tovey, the person from whom I first found out about Evoke. He's one of the main people updating my favorite website and homepage: worldchanging.ca , the Canadian arm of quite a large international / web based environmental blog and innovation site: worldchanging.com.



Mark's comments are always well considered, accessible to any reader and well… Continue

Greetings!!



Upon reading Critical Path I have been very influenced by the work of Buckminster Fuller, a man who's vision over the past 100 years has probed clearly into the coming problems of today. His dedication to humanity has offered solutions to many of the large-scale problems facing our future. In this post I'm going to quote some reading from Critical Path,… Continue

Create “transparent” technologies.



I plan to create a wiki based on users submitting work and writing referencing the book "Critical Path" by Buckminster Fuller. This would be a smart use of a simple web technology combined with the life's work of an American genius of ecology and humanitarianism, and if I can create an easy format for his list of clearly defined parameters toward the "continuation of humanity" others could help to contribute to this learning platform.… Continue

Its eighteen thirty and I'm late getting home from work. On the way back from the community film centre's office that I use to edit at, I stop at my small grocery to get some food for the kid's supper: locally grown root vegetables (stored over winter in a 'root house' next door), some fresh rocket lettuce (grown in the rooftop geodesic-dome hot house down the street), some brown rice and of course the meaty protein, meal worms (grown in pallets like bee hives in the grocer's basement).… Continue

This is the second consecutive year that my wife and I are actively organic gardening in a local park, Christie Pits, downtown Toronto. The ground hasn't thawed yet, but we do have garlic growing over winter! Before we started, I had no idea you planted garlic in the fall like a tulip bulb.



Last year we had a 4' by 8' plot to grow anything we wanted, so we planted and raised Swiss Chard, Radishes, Onions, Lettuce, Tomatos, Pumpkins (got smashed by a jerk vandal), Zucchinis, Rosemary,… Continue

The amount of community gardens in Toronto are growing at a quick pace, the reason for this are various: community safety and development, food sustainability, income supplement for groceries and the green movement. Right now somebody can go into Christie Pits Park downtown Toronto and see 30 plots 4' by 8' in rows like a graveyard. Also because there was so much demand last year at Christie Pits Park for garden plots, people started to use the fringe areas around the outside of the fence near… Continue