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Recent actions, changes coming |
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Written by Traverse Davies
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Thursday, 31 March 2011 03:16 |
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We are doing some revamp at way of the preserver.
- spam is forcing us to disable the wiki. We will be porting the content of the wiki to the main site and setting up a good workflow for adding info to the knowledge base. We didn't want to go that route, but we really have no choice.
- We will be adding a library and an online library system. The library will be hard copy books, although we will add e-books that have a copyright status that allows us to distribute them as we get time to do so
- I will be more aggressively promoting the site. This site exists to preserve knowledge, something that is easiest done by disseminating it.
In terms of recent changes:
- We started working on a communal garden with a number of other folks.
- We started actually collecting books for the library
- We started to get more serious about finding space (in an ideal world some nice soul in downtown Halifax would let us use some space).
- We started making soap... badly. Still some bugs in the process that need to be sorted out.
- We made a few rocket stoves. They work. One of our members started working on building a scale model of a rocket stove mass heater.
- We came up with about a dozen methods of doing fund raising (mostly aimed at build Monastery 2 at some point in the future) and now need to nail down which ones we are going to use.
With all of this stuff we are are also actively engaged in outreach to like minded people. Given the methods we use to build group cohesion it is easiest to build cohesion with people in the immediate geographical vicinity, but that's alright... we still very much want to have close ties with members in other places, and figure it's worth a bit of extra effort on the part of all involved.
Traverse Davies. |
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Last Updated on Friday, 08 April 2011 02:51 |
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Written by Administrator
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Tuesday, 22 March 2011 02:46 |
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The Way of the Preserver is actually taking action on a number of things, but I feel like we need to move faster. Because of this I am going to try and make this site more complete, and quickly. First I will probably move the Wiki articles onto the site (because at this point we are running it more as a site than a wiki... thanks spammers). There will be a number of changes in the next few weeks however, as I try to quantify the new heroic story we want to encapsulate. Sharon Astyk is talking about how we need to tell a new story, one that changes the way people look at the world, and I think the Way of the Preserver is well situated to tell that story.
In my mind the story is one where being self sufficient is heroic, where the young folks of today start to believe that learning how to do things, instead of moving around pixels on a screen is heroic. A story where they are the hero, instead of waiting for superman to swoop down out of the sky to save them. This is a zombie movie without the zombies, and the members of the way are the tough as fuck people who won't get eaten. Hell, we learn from what has come before so we won't be fooled by that one guy who's hiding a bite... |
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Written by Traverse Davies
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Thursday, 24 February 2011 04:47 |
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According to CNN the markets were supposed to get better today, then the dow dropped another hundred + points. Oil is back at almost 100 a barrel and housing prices are supposed by 25% over the next little while, across the board. Sounds to me like we are back in full on collapse. Meanwhile, the middle east is exploding.
I think it's time the Way of the Preserver started gathering resources. We need books folks, as many as we can get our hands on. Practical guides, sciences, that kind of thing, and we need to figure out storage places for them. We don't want to find ourselves like Detroit, with the vast wealth of paper knowledge gradually rotting into sludge. |
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Last Updated on Saturday, 02 April 2011 00:59 |
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Written by Administrator
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Friday, 18 March 2011 03:51 |
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There's an interview with Mike Ruppert on youtube that's pretty interesting. Right now it seems like everyone has abandoned the idea that collapse is coming, and settled on the idea that collapse is here, that we are in the middle of it. This really became the recurring theme on most of the collapse sites I read within the last month. I don't think it means we hit a tipping point in the last month, it's that we all suddenly woke up and realized that the rollercoaster just passed the crest and we are rushing down at breakneck speed. |
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Written by Administrator
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Wednesday, 26 January 2011 14:28 |
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Yet again Detroit leads the way in societal collapse. |
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