Tomorrow is the big Moving Planet Rally, at 3:50 pm (!)  in Boston. Transition Wayland is leading the Walk to Walden in the morning.  For  the local event, the Walk, we did big (local) publicity and emailed hundreds of people, communities and organizations in town. We built and painted sandwich boards that went up at …
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Help Us Move the Planet on September 24
Dear friends, I hope this email finds you well and that your Summer/Winter was as fruitful as mine. I even have a perfect ending for it: a rally for a better future! On Saturday 24 September people all over the world will come together in a global event called Moving Planet. Our presence will send …
What Have I Been Up to All Summer?
I’m at my desk, not working, in the warming sun – wearing a sweater again – enjoying a coffee and listening to Bach’s Matthew Passion (Emma Kirkby soprano) after what must be years, that particular piece of music, not the rest. Though, honestly, it feels like years since I’ve sat here not frantically writing emails, …
Riot for Austerity Calculator is UP!
Huzzah! Edson fixed the Riot calculator! Join the Riot for Austerity facebook group for wonderful discussions and support. I’ve been away, in a sense. Will try to update soon with the many many wonderful things that are happening with Transition and the Green Team in Wayland, our solar array, garden, etc.  Promise!
Riot for Austerity – Month 34
We’re back. On Sunday, Irene knocked down a couple of trees on our block, which mostly missed people, houses and cars, but got hung up on the electricity cables. Power was restored yesterday, after four days. More on that, later. First: This is the Riot for the month of August 2011. August saw ebbs and …
350 Poems – Poem 3
This video poem was created on 25 August 2011 and sent off – digitally, exceptionally – on the same day. Also exceptionally, the recipient sent me his poem first. That was a wonderful surprise! Thank you! I also got back several beautiful, original poems from both the first and the second addressees. The first actually …
Batten Down the Hatches
So that flaming ball of churning energy is probably heading for us, driving wind, heavy rain and the threat of tornadoes ahead of it. We hardly felt the weather that spawned the tornadoes that destroyed Springfield and Monson, not too far from here, in western Massachusetts, in June. But that doesn’t mean it will spare …
Arrived!
I harvested the last potatoes yesterday and got two surprises. First, when I pulled the straw away, there was this: The first time  I noticed this dark, crumbly soil, I thought there was something wrong with it. Did some sort of cement get into it? What insect does this? Is it good? Then I realized. A …
Follow our Solar Harvest!
You can follow our solar harvest online, second by second. Check it out!
Goings On at the Homestead
Bought 15 pints of Local (Wayland Farmers Market) blueberries: Made it into 27 8oz jars of blueberry jam: Picked off 7 Tomato Hornworms: Harvested all 28 heads of garlic: Harvested and stored 16 lbs. of potatoes: Helping 10 flats of seedlings along (lettuce, spinach, chard, broccoli, collards, kale):