Comments on: Meet The Lammas, The UK’s First Eco Community To Obtain Permission To Construct A Mini Eco Village http://www.bloggernews.net/114788 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:04:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Rhywun-arall http://www.bloggernews.net/114788#comment-1426371 Rhywun-arall Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:38:20 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/114788#comment-1426371 To suggest of Glandwr that "It’s far, far away from the civilized world as you and I know it. But if the Lammas have their way, that’s going to change" is as naive as it is patronising. Glandwr certainly didn't need a pack of dreamy eco-squatters, pursuing what is essentially an oddball, luxury lifestyle choice and marketting it to Pembrokeshire council as 'sustainable living' to suddenly become acquainted with 'civilization'... Surely, it would only be sustainable if every family on earth could similarly resort to subsisting off 4 acres of arable land but clearly such isn't possible and real solutions need to be sought somehow else. To suggest of Glandwr that “It’s far, far away from the civilized world as you and I know it. But if the Lammas have their way, that’s going to change” is as naive as it is patronising.

Glandwr certainly didn’t need a pack of dreamy eco-squatters, pursuing what is essentially an oddball, luxury lifestyle choice and marketting it to Pembrokeshire council as ’sustainable living’ to suddenly become acquainted with ‘civilization’…

Surely, it would only be sustainable if every family on earth could similarly resort to subsisting off 4 acres of arable land but clearly such isn’t possible and real solutions need to be sought somehow else.

]]> By: morgan http://www.bloggernews.net/114788#comment-1417260 morgan Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:43:50 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/114788#comment-1417260 hi. I understand that you have a monthly meerting open to interested people. Please let me know when and where the next one is, because i would like to come. I own Turners' Field near Glastonbury and lived on it for 17 years, through 2 public inquiries and a high court appeal against enforcement which as expected did not succeed. My son lived there with me for a while and he wouyld like to come with me to meet you and here about what you are planning. My phone is 01458 442192 Look foward to hearing, Morgan hi. I understand that you have a monthly meerting open to interested people.
Please let me know when and where the next one is, because i would like to come.
I own Turners’ Field near Glastonbury and lived on it for 17 years, through 2 public inquiries and a high court appeal against enforcement which as expected did not succeed.
My son lived there with me for a while and he wouyld like to come with me to meet you and here about what you are planning.
My phone is 01458 442192 Look foward to hearing, Morgan

]]> By: Nancy Reyes http://www.bloggernews.net/114788#comment-271259 Nancy Reyes Sat, 29 Mar 2008 05:51:45 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/114788#comment-271259 I'm not saying that living off the grid can't be done, but those who do so usually don't shout to the world how wonderful they are. They just buy a mobile home, buy a couple acres of land, and settle in. They then set up their gardens and gradually build their house as time and income allow, often bartering with neighbors to get supplies. This sounds like they are collecting money for a utopia. They are starting big and overblown...and it will undoubtably collapse when someone runs off with the money, or families get tired of the hard backbreaking work that goes along with rural living. Do any of them actually have practical experience? There are lots of folks who are old enough to remember how to live a "sustainable" life...for real. and lots who still live that way. I’m not saying that living off the grid can’t be done, but those who do so usually don’t shout to the world how wonderful they are. They just buy a mobile home, buy a couple acres of land, and settle in. They then set up their gardens and gradually build their house as time and income allow, often bartering with neighbors to get supplies.

This sounds like they are collecting money for a utopia. They are starting big and overblown…and it will undoubtably collapse when someone runs off with the money, or families get tired of the hard backbreaking work that goes along with rural living.

Do any of them actually have practical experience? There are lots of folks who are old enough to remember how to live a “sustainable” life…for real. and lots who still live that way.

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