By Ragan Sutterfield on 09/05/2010
I set my bike up with a rack and saddle bags. I rode to the grocery store. I rode to work. I rode to friends’ houses for potlucks and parties. I rode the 6 miles to the school farm I help with. But I also found out how much I was dependent on a car for so many little things…
Posted in Agrarian Notebook, Features, Intentional Living | Tagged alternative transportation, bicycles, local living, oil spill, post-carbon, relocalization, relocalize, scale of living, slow living, Sustainability, Sustainable Living |
By Ragan Sutterfield on 03/01/2010
I have been thinking a good deal lately about culture and how it happens. There are two kinds of Pop culture it seems—the kind we consume and the kind we produce. These days the kind we consume seems to dominate. That we consume culture is not a bad thing, but that this form of pop [...]
Posted in Agrarian Notebook, Features, Society and Culture | Tagged culture, local arts, local living, local renaissance, means of production, music, pop culture, video |
By Ragan Sutterfield on 10/14/2009
Now I simply eat locally, shop locally, and largely avoid the big box stores. Those choices are no longer conscious choices. They are simply the outcomes of my form of life.
Posted in Agrarian Notebook, Intentional Living | Tagged eating local, local living, locavore, ragan sutterfield, Simple Living |
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