Comments on: End of the Trail http://anthropik.com/2008/03/end-of-the-trail/ se wo were fi na wosan kofa a yenki Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:15:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Rob http://anthropik.com/2008/03/end-of-the-trail/#comment-180647 Rob Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:49:55 +0000 http://anthropik.com/2008/03/end-of-the-trail/#comment-180647 Hi Jason and Guili, My name is Rob Content, and I work as Program Manager for Community Solutions, a non-profit in Yellow Springs, Ohio that works on local-level solutions to the challenges posed by fossil fuel depletion and global warming. As a long-time follower of Anthropik (and we almost met at Seneca Rocks a couple Septembers back), I’d be pleased if we could send you a complimentary copy of a new book by our executive director Pat Murphy called "Plan C: Community Survival Strategies for Peak Oil and Climate Change." The book has grown out of the New Solutions newsletters that Pat has been publishing on our site for the last four years, as well as the annual peak oil conferences we sponsor, and an hour-long documentary film called “The Power of Community” we made in 2006 about Cuba’s response to the cut-off of fossil fuels around 1990. I believe you’ll find the book a valuable contribution to the literature, and we’ll put a copy in the mail to you at if you’ll kindly send us the mailing address where you’d like to receive it. And let me add a personal note to say I'm looking forward to news about Toby's People (if that's still what's ahead for you these days)! Best, Rob 937 767 2161 rob@communitysolution.org Hi Jason and Guili,

My name is Rob Content, and I work as Program Manager for Community Solutions, a non-profit in Yellow Springs, Ohio that works on local-level solutions to the challenges posed by fossil fuel depletion and global warming.

As a long-time follower of Anthropik (and we almost met at Seneca Rocks a couple Septembers back), I’d be pleased if we could send you a complimentary copy of a new book by our executive director Pat Murphy called “Plan C: Community Survival Strategies for Peak Oil and Climate Change.” The book has grown out of the New Solutions newsletters that Pat has been publishing on our site for the last four years, as well as the annual peak oil conferences we sponsor, and an hour-long documentary film called “The Power of Community” we made in 2006 about Cuba’s response to the cut-off of fossil fuels around 1990.

I believe you’ll find the book a valuable contribution to the literature, and we’ll put a copy in the mail to you at if you’ll kindly send us the mailing address where you’d like to receive it.

And let me add a personal note to say I’m looking forward to news about Toby’s People (if that’s still what’s ahead for you these days)!

Best,
Rob

937 767 2161

rob@communitysolution.org

]]> By: anon http://anthropik.com/2008/03/end-of-the-trail/#comment-180485 anon Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:00:57 +0000 http://anthropik.com/2008/03/end-of-the-trail/#comment-180485 Good to hear its still planned Jason. Look forward to it. Hope my previous comment didn't seem curt. Good to hear its still planned Jason. Look forward to it. Hope my previous comment didn’t seem curt.

]]> By: Jason Godesky http://anthropik.com/2008/03/end-of-the-trail/#comment-180480 Jason Godesky Sat, 21 Jun 2008 06:27:35 +0000 http://anthropik.com/2008/03/end-of-the-trail/#comment-180480 And yet, not nearly as rich as yours. I preach nothing, but you deign to preach to me about something you misunderstand so deeply as to think that schedules, classes or a medium lie antithetical to it--and you do so without any knowledge of how I live, or care to even try to understand. In fact, I let that June deadline slip by precisely <em>because</em> I chose to spend a weekend in the woods with a knife and hatchet, and a good deal besides that. Rewilding doesn't contradict planning ahead or learning from others, nor communicating with one another by whatever means we happen to find at hand. Rewilding means first and foremost reconciling family and land. Now, how can you possibly do that when you busy yourself so thoroughly with passing judgment, even when you obviously know nothing of who or what you've decided to judge? And yet, not nearly as rich as yours. I preach nothing, but you deign to preach to me about something you misunderstand so deeply as to think that schedules, classes or a medium lie antithetical to it–and you do so without any knowledge of how I live, or care to even try to understand. In fact, I let that June deadline slip by precisely because I chose to spend a weekend in the woods with a knife and hatchet, and a good deal besides that. Rewilding doesn’t contradict planning ahead or learning from others, nor communicating with one another by whatever means we happen to find at hand. Rewilding means first and foremost reconciling family and land. Now, how can you possibly do that when you busy yourself so thoroughly with passing judgment, even when you obviously know nothing of who or what you’ve decided to judge?

]]> By: ArtIsLife http://anthropik.com/2008/03/end-of-the-trail/#comment-180479 ArtIsLife Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:08:22 +0000 http://anthropik.com/2008/03/end-of-the-trail/#comment-180479 The irony of your comment, Jason, is rich. You preach a return to primitive living, and then you go and set schedules, attend classes, and participate in the online world, all of which are antithetical to primitive living. The weather's warm, and the living's easy. Instead of attending a class on "permaculture" (whatever the hell that is), why don't you go spend the weekend in the woods with a knife and a hatchet? The irony of your comment, Jason, is rich. You preach a return to primitive living, and then you go and set schedules, attend classes, and participate in the online world, all of which are antithetical to primitive living. The weather’s warm, and the living’s easy. Instead of attending a class on “permaculture” (whatever the hell that is), why don’t you go spend the weekend in the woods with a knife and a hatchet?

]]> By: Jason Godesky http://anthropik.com/2008/03/end-of-the-trail/#comment-180467 Jason Godesky Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:36:42 +0000 http://anthropik.com/2008/03/end-of-the-trail/#comment-180467 I didn't think anyone still paid attention--no, I haven't given up on Toby's People at all. I knew June 18 would mean a pretty demanding schedule, and I thought I could do it, but things ended up taking longer than I'd expected. I did make a conscious choice, however, to spend more time with my own personal rewilding now that I have more of an opportunity to do so, and that has made the website schedule slip. I make no apologies for that. I could rush one out for July, just to run into problems in August when we head for our permaculture class, but I think it makes more sense for us to simply plan for issue 1 in September. I didn’t think anyone still paid attention–no, I haven’t given up on Toby’s People at all. I knew June 18 would mean a pretty demanding schedule, and I thought I could do it, but things ended up taking longer than I’d expected. I did make a conscious choice, however, to spend more time with my own personal rewilding now that I have more of an opportunity to do so, and that has made the website schedule slip. I make no apologies for that. I could rush one out for July, just to run into problems in August when we head for our permaculture class, but I think it makes more sense for us to simply plan for issue 1 in September.

]]> By: anon http://anthropik.com/2008/03/end-of-the-trail/#comment-180465 anon Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:04:27 +0000 http://anthropik.com/2008/03/end-of-the-trail/#comment-180465 18th June has past. Is toby's people still in progress? 18th June has past. Is toby’s people still in progress?

]]> By: jmtrombley http://anthropik.com/2008/03/end-of-the-trail/#comment-180362 jmtrombley Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:53:29 +0000 http://anthropik.com/2008/03/end-of-the-trail/#comment-180362 Hey, you had me scared there for a minute. I just joined the network yesterday, so when I read the "End of the Trail" title I thought to myself "Crap! I'm late again!" But I'm glad to hear that you'll be shifting over into a new format rather than bringing things to a halt. In any case, I love what I've read so far and I look forward to reading more in the future and being part of the discussion! Thanks, Jeremy Hey, you had me scared there for a minute. I just joined the network yesterday, so when I read the “End of the Trail” title I thought to myself “Crap! I’m late again!” But I’m glad to hear that you’ll be shifting over into a new format rather than bringing things to a halt. In any case, I love what I’ve read so far and I look forward to reading more in the future and being part of the discussion!
Thanks,
Jeremy

]]> By: Jason Godesky http://anthropik.com/2008/03/end-of-the-trail/#comment-179384 Jason Godesky Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:55:07 +0000 http://anthropik.com/2008/03/end-of-the-trail/#comment-179384 The Storied Landscape will become a regular feature in each issue. And thanks for focusing our attention on the Full Moon names, it gave me a much better pattern to focus the issue schedule on than months (a word which comes, of course, from the word "moon"). I plan to write a lot more in a creative non-fiction style for the features, and to have a whole regular section on how those issues apply to my own bioregion. For people from other parts, I hope that will work as an example of how to bring these issues home, if you will. So if that counts as what we <em>do</em>, then yes. I still won't post up our foraging grocery lists, though. :) By the by, we've started up <a href="http://tobyspeople.tumblr.com/" rel="nofollow">Toby's Tumblr</a>. Tumblr uses more of the short-form blog posts, kind of like what you usually see on <a href="http://ranprieur.com" rel="nofollow">Ran's page</a>. I've filled in a good backlog, and I think Giuli & I will probably update this something like daily, more or less, even before issue #1 of Toby's People comes out. The Storied Landscape will become a regular feature in each issue. And thanks for focusing our attention on the Full Moon names, it gave me a much better pattern to focus the issue schedule on than months (a word which comes, of course, from the word “moon”). I plan to write a lot more in a creative non-fiction style for the features, and to have a whole regular section on how those issues apply to my own bioregion. For people from other parts, I hope that will work as an example of how to bring these issues home, if you will. So if that counts as what we do, then yes.

I still won’t post up our foraging grocery lists, though. :)

By the by, we’ve started up Toby’s Tumblr. Tumblr uses more of the short-form blog posts, kind of like what you usually see on Ran’s page. I’ve filled in a good backlog, and I think Giuli & I will probably update this something like daily, more or less, even before issue #1 of Toby’s People comes out.

]]> By: Rix http://anthropik.com/2008/03/end-of-the-trail/#comment-179382 Rix Sat, 22 Mar 2008 19:33:56 +0000 http://anthropik.com/2008/03/end-of-the-trail/#comment-179382 I love this change, Jason. I think it reflects a lot of your personal growth, as well as the growth of the rewilding movement (or my own growth as a rewilder, at least). Anthropik spent a lot of time setting up the premises of why we need something different, and now Toby looks like it will explore how you plan to <em>do</em> something different. Not that I expect you to start writing how-to articles, but if the new stuff looks anything like the Storied Landscape series that you started here, then I expect to enjoy feasting on it. I also love the storytelling aspect that you mention and eagerly anticipate how "all kinds of different ways to merge organic flash and digital storytelling and mythic cartography and wayfinding" will look. I love this change, Jason. I think it reflects a lot of your personal growth, as well as the growth of the rewilding movement (or my own growth as a rewilder, at least). Anthropik spent a lot of time setting up the premises of why we need something different, and now Toby looks like it will explore how you plan to do something different. Not that I expect you to start writing how-to articles, but if the new stuff looks anything like the Storied Landscape series that you started here, then I expect to enjoy feasting on it.

I also love the storytelling aspect that you mention and eagerly anticipate how “all kinds of different ways to merge organic flash and digital storytelling and mythic cartography and wayfinding” will look.

]]> By: Jason Godesky http://anthropik.com/2008/03/end-of-the-trail/#comment-179380 Jason Godesky Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:23:39 +0000 http://anthropik.com/2008/03/end-of-the-trail/#comment-179380 Well, I've already got tobyspeople.com set up as a redirect here, so what I'd like to set up would have all the Anthropik articles remain at all their current URL's, so the search engines stay happy, but anything at anthropik.com just silently redirects to tobyspeople.com, and we go forward from there. So it shouldn't break anything already up. I agree, we've done too much here so far to just leave it by the wayside so easily. Well, I’ve already got tobyspeople.com set up as a redirect here, so what I’d like to set up would have all the Anthropik articles remain at all their current URL’s, so the search engines stay happy, but anything at anthropik.com just silently redirects to tobyspeople.com, and we go forward from there. So it shouldn’t break anything already up. I agree, we’ve done too much here so far to just leave it by the wayside so easily.

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