tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67862643111158087002024-03-12T23:18:19.394-07:00FireweedKnife makers, Aki and Scott, post about the bush and survival, living off the grid, bush craft growing food and living with the sun's energy.Aki and Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07603961673011273718noreply@blogger.comBlogger65125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786264311115808700.post-81387921151575440952023-12-31T10:36:00.000-08:002023-12-31T10:36:21.227-08:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF1nQsj_reZh4FJGu8yjwHD-WzZBb6JAdYodp62fEDppArP4p0MPQbOVICUx-0xxHLjOfufFq3Q_1yTTcHYaA-9PFMa1T-NmNErBJxMPd5Zm1eyZs9L5jqSN1WeX8bR7qBaxlLsCIp1dfsZkO5QowzA8P3U_3yUCXE81uz0ScKsN7tCw1_0Ch-spREBOn9/s4272/New%20Year%2024.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2848" data-original-width="4272" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF1nQsj_reZh4FJGu8yjwHD-WzZBb6JAdYodp62fEDppArP4p0MPQbOVICUx-0xxHLjOfufFq3Q_1yTTcHYaA-9PFMa1T-NmNErBJxMPd5Zm1eyZs9L5jqSN1WeX8bR7qBaxlLsCIp1dfsZkO5QowzA8P3U_3yUCXE81uz0ScKsN7tCw1_0Ch-spREBOn9/w320-h213/New%20Year%2024.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /> Aki and Scott<p></p><p><a href="http://www.caribooblades.com">www.caribooblades.com</a> <br /></p>Aki and Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07603961673011273718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786264311115808700.post-55309262535070466162023-08-05T11:17:00.023-07:002023-11-25T13:06:27.189-08:00Bushcraft and Survival Garden (updated)<p> <br />
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We live in the bush and have created a garden that was unheard of in
these parts. In fact, the old timers thought we were crazy (<i><span style="color: #999999;">26 years ago</span></i>). Cultivating
wild flowers, greens and vegetables along with domestic greens and
vegetables. Enriching the soil with what is around us, starting apple trees, doing it all by
hand with the help from tools we've made. Simply. Leaving a light
footprint. </p><p><i><span style="color: #999999;">We live in the "working forest". Logging, ranching and mining. Consuming.</span></i><br /></p><p><br />
We call it bushcraft gardening. I suppose you could call it survival gardening because that is how we survive.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our tree limb greenhouse. 150lbs of tomatoes</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #999999;"><i>Since we've been here the winter temperatures have gradually risen. We don't see a week or two of -30 or -40 anymore. When the cold began to move into our cabin anything on the floor froze. </i></span></p><p><span style="color: #999999;"><i>It might get down there for a few nights now. We might get a week or two between -20...-28 with a -18 in there. Still cold but it's an easier way. How fragile we are.<br /></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #999999;"><i>.<br />
We're more relaxed now</i></span><span style="color: #76a5af;"><i>. We still live in our 800 sq foot cabin</i><i>. We would not live anywhere else. </i><span><br /></span></span>
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Fruit trees have been difficult but now we have a small orchard. Between
moose, deer, bears, voles and mice it has been a challenge.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #999999;"><i><br /><b>
</b><span>Honey bees have been emotionally draining because they die from causes we can't control. We don't raise them now. Instead we've been cultivating our relationship with wild bees. Every year there are fewer. This year we had bumble bees. The 5 or 6 species of wild bees usually pollinating our plants were missing.. We've been using a feather trying to pollinate</span></i><span>. </span><b><span> </span><span><br /></span></b></span></p>
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Growing our own food has taught us about survival. In between frost, hail, bear, moose
and deer, birds, rabbits, mice, voles, bugs, hillbilly pigs, the
dreaded free range cattle and the government spraying herbicide over the forest we try to relax. The boreal forest is filled with
animals that want almost everything that we grow.<br />
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<i> </i></p><p><i> </i></p><p><i> </i></p><p><i> </i></p><p><i> </i></p><p><i> </i></p><p><i> </i></p><p><i> </i></p><p><span style="color: #999999;"><i>He's a young adult now. </i></span></p><p><span style="color: #999999;"><i>After a judo tournament he skyped us,</i></span></p><p><span style="color: #999999;"><i>" My body is aching, my fingers and toes skinned</i></span></p><p><span style="color: #999999;"><i>My face hurts to touch and I can't make fists due to ligament injuries </i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #999999;"><i><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzQdZqjog-TSSEw3mHAjf3hfPpHMBNuLowzU_REcfu1aMUMmIA36a9EuCxQKSRIH6AKLRSkPwXvMPMaWGYk9Q' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></i></span></div><p></p><p><span style="color: #999999;"><i>My spirit is unwavering </i></span></p><p><span style="color: #999999;"><i><br /><br />Looking forward to getting my Nidan and making knives".</i><br /></span></p><p> </p><p>
This gardening method is sustainable, organic and has very little impact except birds, bugs, mice, snakes and worms have never had it better. <br />
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It's a state of mind going into the wilderness with nothing but seeds
and a shovel, an open mind, relaxed and keenly observing your
surroundings with a sense of freedom and balance.<br />
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around you may have a use for your bush garden. Rocks act like sinks
storing heat energy from the sun that can offset cool nights. They are
fertilizers slowly giving important nutrients to the soil. They collect
and trap water. They can also be protection from animals and cover for
others, like toads.<br />
That old stump – do I remove it, or can I plant a garden around it and let it slowly fertilize?<br />
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Rotten wood has got to be the supreme bush fertilizer adding organic material and fluffing up heavy soil.<span style="text-align: center;">There are droppings from animals like deer, moose and rabbit which are good "on the spot" fertilizers.</span><br />
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Harvesting what you need with care and never taking more than 1/3 of anything. <br />
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Surviving with respect and again, with a light foot step<br />
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Those “weeds” or wildflowers – pull them out or cultivate them, let them flower to attract the bees.</div>
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If the location of your plot is covered with grass or weeds turn it over
and leave it in place. It will decompose and become food for your
plants.</div>
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Fireweed shoots--Excellent greens</blockquote>
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<br /> Cultivate dandelions, wild onions, wild parsnip, lambs quarters, <br /></blockquote>
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We've been fertilizing by mulching with green grass (before it goes to
seed) covered with an inch of sand then covered with rotten
wood. We have some chicken manure that we fertilize beans and greens
with. After the crop is harvested plant rye grass or Chinese
vegetables. When the thick head is 6 to 8 inches high we turn it over.</blockquote><br />
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<i><span style="color: #999999;">a young adult now learning about the city and people. The old timers are dead. It will be our 27th winter. Not much has changed here. We're older and still thriving in the bush. We wonder and ask ourselves.</span></i><br /></blockquote>
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Regards,<br />
Aki and Scott<br />
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Our business, <a href="http://www.caribooblades.com/">http://www.caribooblades.com/</a></div>Aki and Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07603961673011273718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786264311115808700.post-25426004778359147432023-04-18T09:38:00.009-07:002023-11-25T13:12:31.615-08:00Living with Energy from the Sun for 26 Years, what we have learned (update)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhdkpIZaBmF222aZVrHyp_RUAza23eBZYnNvEZRoEV8VoMYjwR_hNe_Y8E8vdoL8X16HO-06wNs96mvvmFiPPSDGgwkW85dVRoNS3ZkgJ87NttooEjsT7Y6M7JY5lJGAvwUDIYw-S1vb0hHTwLfhVOSaYsf6z6VxYBh5bFbSgqHf3lfcBtxe46XzU3eLA=s565" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="We all live here. Moose reflecting people" border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="565" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhdkpIZaBmF222aZVrHyp_RUAza23eBZYnNvEZRoEV8VoMYjwR_hNe_Y8E8vdoL8X16HO-06wNs96mvvmFiPPSDGgwkW85dVRoNS3ZkgJ87NttooEjsT7Y6M7JY5lJGAvwUDIYw-S1vb0hHTwLfhVOSaYsf6z6VxYBh5bFbSgqHf3lfcBtxe46XzU3eLA=w932-h286" title="Animals and People" width="932" /></a></div><p>It almost feels like sun worship. Watching our garden grow, working,
feeding our electricity habit and staying healthy by the sun. <br /></p><p>We live a low energy lifestyle and work in an isolated spot in
the interior of British Columbia. Getting away from the geopolitical mess or at least putting a bit of head space from the mess of corruption and manipulation.<br /></p><p>We started with two 85 watt panels and
two golf cart batteries 25 years ago. Powered our 12 volt tv and a
light. Now we run 3 small, independant solar arrays.<br /></p><p></p><p>The
smallest is made up of a 75 watt panel fixed to our roof, facing south
connected to a charge controller. The controller is connected to one 12
volt deep cycle battery. It powers a 12 volt light in the pantry, a 12
volt water pump from our well, a cd, tape player and radio. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgx2qoey9Gv89ltNME4EUo3Eu6xPXvaq4Cg1mbcSAkUKOIbKWCFxGSMMWoTyz5X1atP_b0j8PHcdBEOlkQeHro9cQCmVqYNgX2CbwqhD6eKq3mST_wkhdG8vFS0gxAqTXDbEMTNUAv69gi9asZC8ypGzE0NyITp2PsCVZRG4xqMEC0mWdMnQ86vnQ6Mvw=s4272" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="solar panels on a tracker" border="0" data-original-height="2848" data-original-width="4272" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgx2qoey9Gv89ltNME4EUo3Eu6xPXvaq4Cg1mbcSAkUKOIbKWCFxGSMMWoTyz5X1atP_b0j8PHcdBEOlkQeHro9cQCmVqYNgX2CbwqhD6eKq3mST_wkhdG8vFS0gxAqTXDbEMTNUAv69gi9asZC8ypGzE0NyITp2PsCVZRG4xqMEC0mWdMnQ86vnQ6Mvw=w320-h213" title="Solar energy" width="320" /></a></div>A
second system is made up of 4 panels (400 watts) mounted on a sun
tracker 5 metres high that we built for less than $50. The panels are
connected to a 40 amp controller that is connected to 4 x 6 volt deep
cycle lead acid batteries. The batteries are connected to a 1750 watt
inverter. The system is 20 years old. Two of the panels are 25 years
old. The system runs electricity into our cabin and shop. It cost us
$5000.<p></p><p><br /> </p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjoiGKbNKhHeudRo-bjYQ_PZ008en8mCMHa5HCLyOaR-3XSYAuyqKI8NH8B6-4t7-HXSZfIlIPcnQz11Y-EnNTcJRXtybQC2wi0uzZsHkuv5yWITaoVCUYBEACdQG3KixPFlvG_e9SPkJ7XI2EeAP72MsAC4m9z2zIECjZggEkQMuJfTzVrwvH-lfhWgw=s4272" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="DIY solar tracker" border="0" data-original-height="2848" data-original-width="4272" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjoiGKbNKhHeudRo-bjYQ_PZ008en8mCMHa5HCLyOaR-3XSYAuyqKI8NH8B6-4t7-HXSZfIlIPcnQz11Y-EnNTcJRXtybQC2wi0uzZsHkuv5yWITaoVCUYBEACdQG3KixPFlvG_e9SPkJ7XI2EeAP72MsAC4m9z2zIECjZggEkQMuJfTzVrwvH-lfhWgw=w320-h213" title="Tracking the sun for energy" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">500 watts of solar panel <br /></td></tr></tbody></table>The
third system is made up of 5 panels (500 watts) mounted on a sun
tracker 3 1/2 metres high we made for less than $100. The panels are
connected to two 30 amp controllers that are connected to a 2000 watt
inverter. One controller has a disconnect from the batteries for
charging automobile batteries. This system is 2 1/2 years old. The cost
was $1600. In the years, since purchasing the last panels 20 years ago,
the price of panels and inverters has come <u>down 80%</u>. The price of batteries has risen about 10%. <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjCpMKdjVwO2Psg1l7iL9zIhrQeqNozSSf7hJcGWaRFX6XuPCZtaHGAYAGqxchktTzU7NiF-zPIyZzb_eHshv8NRMZvpDqBeGtcTsclycaAkiitgBphx9QWSgczYiG2Vwtu1pqholeqNNDd22cePDO91mspRT8vc77XP0JtPyW8IYPFW9l5e9CM7zBAtA=s533" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="solar panel sun tracker" border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="400" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjCpMKdjVwO2Psg1l7iL9zIhrQeqNozSSf7hJcGWaRFX6XuPCZtaHGAYAGqxchktTzU7NiF-zPIyZzb_eHshv8NRMZvpDqBeGtcTsclycaAkiitgBphx9QWSgczYiG2Vwtu1pqholeqNNDd22cePDO91mspRT8vc77XP0JtPyW8IYPFW9l5e9CM7zBAtA=w150-h200" title="DIY sun tracker" width="150" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p>Sun trackers can provide a 45% increase in power. <br /></p><p>We built this one 20 years ago. It has been modified since then to hold 4 panels vertically. <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj-QjZ4PlinGu36YZFD2EzRXuUVSNl1YoCNM_n4wJJiAAp4Cj1lOpCqGbSlbO6ta9kx8zj3KXIikdwPBx3oPmWHuaL06kriwr7ZBMIkSaMcL2N5qmifZrFCv2tySEau3wBcYuFz7QmhJzq8pXrgDOvFGPRSNqDMIRo1PKjR6chNn__ki39A9smZThTHFA=s200" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="the sun's energy" border="0" data-original-height="133" data-original-width="200" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj-QjZ4PlinGu36YZFD2EzRXuUVSNl1YoCNM_n4wJJiAAp4Cj1lOpCqGbSlbO6ta9kx8zj3KXIikdwPBx3oPmWHuaL06kriwr7ZBMIkSaMcL2N5qmifZrFCv2tySEau3wBcYuFz7QmhJzq8pXrgDOvFGPRSNqDMIRo1PKjR6chNn__ki39A9smZThTHFA=w203-h133" title="Sun Print" width="203" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p>We
live and work here. The trackers are manual. We turn them directly on
the sun three or four times a day in the summer. Spring and fall, 2 or 3
times. In the winter they are static. Working with the sun. On dark
winter days we run a 3000 watt inverter generator for a few hours,
assuring everything stays rock hard in the freezer.<br /></p><p>Besides
lights, computers and the odd kitchen appliance, we power our shop. Our
most demanding machine is the band saw with a 3/4 horse power motor. </p><br /><p></p><p>What we have learned to get the most from your solar panels is:<br /></p><p>charging
batteries and relying on that stored power is not the way to go.
Battery technology is inefficient. For us stored power is just enough
for lights and computers when there is no sun. When the sun is out we'll
work. From March until October we have unlimited power for our needs.
We work full time with smaller machines (10 amps and less) when the sun
is out. The bigger machines we use intermittently and because of our
lighter wiring we run one 3/4 horse machine at a time.When the batteries
are charged and there is a 60% sun day the process is a lot more
efficient. Solar energy flows through the panels. The batteries act like
a conduit. Energy the inefficient batteries will not accept on a full
sun day is the energy we can use up.</p><p>After working in the shop,
at the end of a day the batteries have as much charge as they had at the
beginning of the day. If the day involved lots of heavy use, like using
the table saw ripping or milling apple wood with the band saw etc, all
over 15 amps, then we would alternate system. Keeping the batteries
charged. <br /></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEit-byqdiyMi198HnERdEtpYYuxrJey-rbH4P0pnH7otOTqcoTEpa1IuVSm4pgrWq0rfQduej9P1etbzqhfKffXMnOuKg_EGHGCmCIzl9g2f4tY-n9wg3gAZiB0Z9PhMVEu6NDVPefGbisH9ecG_uEmyXRw1aErJGvqcj8xR8j2VhkU5wLDwzefXB9oFg=s4272" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Winter in the bush in chilcotin territory" border="0" data-original-height="2848" data-original-width="4272" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEit-byqdiyMi198HnERdEtpYYuxrJey-rbH4P0pnH7otOTqcoTEpa1IuVSm4pgrWq0rfQduej9P1etbzqhfKffXMnOuKg_EGHGCmCIzl9g2f4tY-n9wg3gAZiB0Z9PhMVEu6NDVPefGbisH9ecG_uEmyXRw1aErJGvqcj8xR8j2VhkU5wLDwzefXB9oFg=w320-h213" title="Living offthe grid" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our shops<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> <p></p><p>This
power set up could be doubled, tripled, quadrupled... You would just
need more. Heavier wiring, more wattage (panels), larger capacity
controllers etc.... <br /></p><p>We help charge the batteries with a
generator in the low sun months from November until the middle of
February. We need to use a generator for machine power in the winter and
on heavy load days in the early spring and fall. We slow our work right
down in the winter. It works out.</p><p>Having two main systems that are interchangeable has proven to be a
great asset in the low sun months. As one system is being used and
discharges the other is charging. </p><p>4.6 billion years old. The sun will start a transformation into a red dwarf in 5 billion years. Swallowing the earth, Mars...<br /></p><p>Consider, the sun provides enough power in one hour than the planet of people use in one year.<br /></p><p>We
are fortunate to live and work with the sun. A few panels and batteries
have worked for us. What we've paid for our 1000 watt systems, today,
you could buy 6 or 7 times as much power. A system of 5 or 6 thousand
watts would pay for itself in 2 or 3 years if not sooner. </p><p>It
almost feels like sun worship. Watching our garden grow, working,
feeding our electricity habit and staying healthy by the sun. That is
the point. The sun. The most eye opening idea we've seen is the fact that the sun will supply everything human kind needs and more, it's staggering how much more, <br /></p><p></p><br /><p></p><p> </p><p>Regards,</p><p>Aki and Scott</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.caribooblades.com">www.caribooblades.com</a><br /></p><p> </p><p> </p>Aki and Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07603961673011273718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786264311115808700.post-26944969242326653012022-11-26T09:30:00.005-08:002023-04-15T10:53:05.428-07:00Chance For Peace<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0rHHKwun300RLPlqeckekadLHdilmxv_D_W-QgtSvtyzVgLvohUiyjeQIuyeXzXllLxcdypTuYkHiRsoBV0NkxqOzDHmHrA8REGEsmhaMtfiTkZ6_qakcUL5QzFz6FScuiLHmQ2cgSuvcuDKNCTIuwtH6EMYhKM2GWpPmESzvlUf1rogbDlkFZvZc2w/s800/feb%202021%20from%20the%20throne.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0rHHKwun300RLPlqeckekadLHdilmxv_D_W-QgtSvtyzVgLvohUiyjeQIuyeXzXllLxcdypTuYkHiRsoBV0NkxqOzDHmHrA8REGEsmhaMtfiTkZ6_qakcUL5QzFz6FScuiLHmQ2cgSuvcuDKNCTIuwtH6EMYhKM2GWpPmESzvlUf1rogbDlkFZvZc2w/w400-h266/feb%202021%20from%20the%20throne.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or9I-qElmCY">1953, President of the United States</a>... </p><h1 class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata"><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto">President Eisenhower - Chance for Peace - Full 1953 Speech</span></h1><p>how many chances do we get?<br /></p>Aki and Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07603961673011273718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786264311115808700.post-89990064702834405462022-03-11T12:29:00.015-08:002023-01-02T17:16:55.726-08:00For Profit<p><br /> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgens2s5JvjvcGHRveRd1_re2bSrc5knkN_AR-AdMkXdRaRf0pMT-Qdn7bPJxmCo7rRz_L3EbVDpNP3kobQcJHia7O1Qr2NiyfMozpOfVr2eqn6c8A4MN5K9pf85_S328LrvP-bCEf-s0WE3kvjfm1t2AJoWQFPrr1tQzkwMjuvopVDxbJR48yoPt8B8Q=s4272" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2848" data-original-width="4272" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgens2s5JvjvcGHRveRd1_re2bSrc5knkN_AR-AdMkXdRaRf0pMT-Qdn7bPJxmCo7rRz_L3EbVDpNP3kobQcJHia7O1Qr2NiyfMozpOfVr2eqn6c8A4MN5K9pf85_S328LrvP-bCEf-s0WE3kvjfm1t2AJoWQFPrr1tQzkwMjuvopVDxbJR48yoPt8B8Q=w442-h213" width="442" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p> The
link below leads to an article published by Bloomberg January 18th. We've posted it as well. Everyone should read this if they
are vaccinated with the Pfizer covid 19 vaccine. It is background to a
report from the FDA published a few days ago. </p><p>We've posted more information below the article as well. <br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/why-a-judge-ordered-fda-to-release-covid-19-vaccine-data-pronto" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/why-a-judge-ordered-fda-to-release-covid-19-vaccine-data-pronto</a></p><p><a class="router-link-active" href="https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/"></a></p><aside class="TheArticleLedeImage_aside_3fZtF TheArticle_ledeImage_13mpd"><div class="TheArticleLedeImage_aspectRatio_1A9jf"><img class="TheArticleLedeImage_image_37csn" src="https://db0ip7zd23b50.cloudfront.net/dims4/default/f8cef9a/2147483647/legacy_thumbnail/960x369%3E/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbloomberg-bna-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F92%2F78%2F9dcd7fc64a56b59eb00c33f8b0fb%2Ffda-logo.jpg" /></div><div class="TheArticleLedeImage_credit_3pJPh"> Photographer: Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images </div></aside><div class="TheArticleSocialSharing_socialIcons_2LMKG TheArticle_sharing_1nfm-" data-test="article-social-sharing"><a class="facebook-share-link TheArticleSocialSharing_link_3mZCZ" href="https://facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.bloomberglaw.com%2Fhealth-law-and-business%2Fwhy-a-judge-ordered-fda-to-release-covid-19-vaccine-data-pronto" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"><svg class="TheArticleSocialSharing_facebook_3335d" height="32px" viewbox="0 0 32 32" width="32px" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"></svg></a></div><a class="linkedin-share-link TheArticleSocialSharing_link_3mZCZ" href="https://linkedin.com/shareArticle?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.bloomberglaw.com%2Fhealth-law-and-business%2Fwhy-a-judge-ordered-fda-to-release-covid-19-vaccine-data-pronto" target="_blank" title="Share on LinkedIn"><svg class="TheArticleSocialSharing_linkedIn_3uLQc" height="32px" viewbox="0 0 32 32" width="32px" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"></svg></a><a class="twitter-share-link TheArticleSocialSharing_link_3mZCZ" href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.bloomberglaw.com%2Fhealth-law-and-business%2Fwhy-a-judge-ordered-fda-to-release-covid-19-vaccine-data-pronto&text=Why%20a%20Judge%20Ordered%20FDA%20to%20Release%20Covid-19%20Vaccine%20Data%20Pronto" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"><svg class="TheArticleSocialSharing_twitter_1GXeG" height="32px" viewbox="0 0 32 32" width="32px" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"></svg></a><header class="TheArticle_header_R8qvI"><h1 class="TheArticle_headline_31d6T">Why a Judge Ordered FDA to Release Covid-19 Vaccine Data Pronto</h1></header><div class="TheArticle_dates_23n60"><span>Jan. 18, 2022, 1:00 AM</span></div><aside class="TheArticleToolBar_buttons_1KnBV TheArticle_toolBar_3aGVC" data-test="article-toolbar"></aside><div class="TheArticleToolBar_printButton_21AUL"></div><a class="TheArticleToolBar_emailButton_3lYuy" data-test="email-button" href="mailto:?subject=News from Bloomberg Industry Group: Health Law %26 Business News: Why a Judge Ordered FDA to Release Covid-19 Vaccine Data Pronto&body=Here is a story that I thought would interest you.%0D%0A%0D%0Ahttps://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/why-a-judge-ordered-fda-to-release-covid-19-vaccine-data-pronto/?utm_source=Email_Share" title="Email Article"></a><aside class="TheArticleSnapshot_snapshot_1dMDc"><p>A
group of scientists and medical researchers sued the FDA under FOIA to
force release of hundreds of thousands of documents related to licensing
of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine. Plaintiff’s attorney Aaron
Siri, who is representing the group, explains the fight that led a
federal court to order expedited release of documents the agency claimed
it would take decades to process.</p></aside><div><div><div class="QvNnGjy8J7gi"><div><p>In response to a Freedom of Information Act request, the Food and Drug Administration <a href="https://www.sirillp.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/FDA-Brief-and-Appendix-e3999de9aee38921cd4fbb035c33e304.pdf">asked</a>
a federal judge for permission to make the public wait until the year
2096 to disclose all of the data it relied upon to license Pfizer’s
Covid-19 vaccine. </p><p>That is not a typo. The FDA wanted court approval to have up to 75<b> </b>years to publicly disclose this information.</p><p>In its attempts to build public support for Covid-19 vaccinations, the FDA repeatedly promised “<a href="https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavirus-covid-19-update-fda-announces-advisory-committee-meeting-discuss-second-covid-19-vaccine">full transparency</a>,” and reaffirmed its “<a href="https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-authorizes-booster-dose-pfizer-biontech-covid-19-vaccine-certain-populations">commitment to transparency</a>” when licensing Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine.</p><p>With that promise in mind, after the vaccine’s licensure in August<b> </b>2020, Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency, a group of <a href="https://phmpt.org/">highly credentialed scientists</a>
submitted a FOIA request to the FDA for the data submitted by Pfizer.
The scientists explained that, until all the data is produced, a proper
review cannot be conducted because missing even a single data set could
throw off any analysis.</p><p>In response, the FDA produced nothing.
Therefore, in September 2021, the scientists, represented by their
attorneys at Siri & Glimstad, <a href="http://phmpt.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/001-Complaint-101021.pdf">sued</a> the FDA demanding it produce this data by March 2022. </p><p>The agency originally estimated it would need to produce 329,000 pages, and <a href="https://www.sirillp.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/020-Second-Joint-Status-Report-8989f1fed17e2d919391d8df1978006e.pdf">asked</a> the court for permission to produce just 500 pages per month, which would have taken 55 years. In its final <a href="https://www.sirillp.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/FDA-Brief-and-Appendix-e3999de9aee38921cd4fbb035c33e304.pdf">brief</a>
to the Court, the FDA admitted that the total page count was at least
451,000, but still sought permission to produce just 500 pages per
month. Meaning that it could have taken 75<b> </b>years, when most Americans alive today would be dead, to fully publicly disclose this information.</p><p>On
Jan. 6, a federal court in the Northern District of Texas ordered the
expedited release. As of Jan. 12, the FDA hasn’t indicated it intends to
appeal.</p><h2>Scientists Requested Data After FDA Licensing</h2><p>The FDA <a href="https://www.fda.gov/media/151710/download">licensed</a> the Pfizer vaccine on Aug. 23, 2021, just 108 days after Pfizer <a href="https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-detail/pfizer-and-biontech-initiate-rolling-submission-biologics">started producing</a>
the records to the agency. During that period, the FDA asserts it
conducted an intense, robust, and thorough analysis of those documents
to assure the public that the Pfizer vaccine was safe and effective. </p><p>Yet, when asked to share those documents with the public, the FDA <a href="https://www.sirillp.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/020-Second-Joint-Status-Report-8989f1fed17e2d919391d8df1978006e.pdf">claimed</a> it needed over 20,000 days. The FDA’s production schedule clashed with its promise of transparency.</p><p>The
purpose of FOIA is government transparency. When it comes to the Pfizer
vaccine, the need for transparency is unprecedented. A majority of
Americans are now mandated to receive a Covid-19 vaccine under penalty
of losing a job, or worse. </p><p>This has never been done before.
Typically adult vaccine mandates have been limited; even the seminal
U.S. Supreme Court vaccine mandate decision, <a href="https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/197/11/"><i>Jacobson v. Massachusetts</i></a><i>, </i>only
involved a state-imposed $5 penalty, and school vaccine mandates have
historically had liberal religious or personal belief exemption
policies.</p><p>Even more problematic is that Americans, if injured,
cannot sue Pfizer. There is virtually no other product where a consumer
is prohibited from suing the company that manufactures, markets, and
profits from the product. </p><p>Decoupling a company’s profit interest
from its interest in safety creates a moral hazard and departs from
centuries of product liability doctrine. Thus, it is extraordinary that
Americans must take this product under penalty of expulsion from work,
school, the military and civil life, but they cannot sue Pfizer for any
resulting injuries.</p><p>The federal government created this
unprecedented situation. It granted the immunity, licensed the product,
and aggressively sought mandates. This situation therefore warrants
unprecedented transparency.</p><p>As then-presidential candidate Joe Biden <a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4988427/user-clip-jul-28-2020">told</a> the American people, “You’ve got to make all of it [the vaccine data] available to other experts across the nation<b> </b>so they can look and see.” He repeated that need to share the data numerous times. So did senators and representatives on <a href="https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2020.09.14%20Letter%20to%20FDA%20re%20transparency%20in%20vaccine%20review%20process_.pdf">both</a> <a href="https://norman.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1087">sides</a> of the <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1461523687333666817">aisle</a>.</p><h2>FDA Claimed It Can’t Comply, Judge Orders Compliance</h2><p>The
FDA apparently disagreed. During a hearing on Dec. 14, 2021, its
counsel steadfastly maintained that the court should not require the
agency to produce more than 500 pages per month, harping on the FDA’s
purported limited resources, its need to redact personal information,
and duty to protect Pfizer’s trade secret interests, all the while
ignoring the interests of the American people.</p><p>The FDA’s excuses
were incredible. The FDA has more than 18,000 employees and a budget of
over $6.5 billion. It would be laughable if any multibillion-dollar
company came before a court and claimed poverty to escape making a
document production, but that was the FDA’s position.</p><p>U.S.
District Judge Mark T. Pittman, Northern District of Texas, expressed
dismay at the FDA’s proposed rate of production. He found the duration
requested by the FDA unreasonable, comparing it to the actions of
totalitarian nations. As such, the judge on Jan. 6 <a href="https://www.sirillp.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/ORDER_2022_01_06-9e24e298ae561d16d68a3950ab57077b.pdf">ordered</a> the FDA to produce at least 55,000 pages per month.</p><p>In
his ruling, the judge recognized that the release of this data is of
paramount public importance and should be one of the FDA’s highest
priorities. He quoted James Madison as saying a “popular Government,
without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a
Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy” and John F. Kennedy as explaining that
a “nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and
falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”</p><p>America
has some of the greatest institutions of learning the world has ever
known. We need the scientific community, both inside and outside the
government, to address the serious ongoing issues with the vaccine
program, including <a href="https://www.healthline.com/health-news/states-with-high-vaccination-rates-can-still-experience-covid-19-surges-heres-why">waning</a> <a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/08/23/does-the-fda-think-these-data-justify-the-first-full-approval-of-a-covid-19-vaccine">immunity</a>, variants <a href="https://fortune.com/2021/11/26/omicron-south-africa-covid-variant-vaccine-resistant-pandemic/">evading</a> vaccines, and that vaccinated individuals can still transmit the virus.</p><p>The
FDA’s attempt to close the door and lock out independent scientists
from the data necessary to address these issues was irresponsible.</p><h2>Transparent, Independent Review Is Needed </h2><p>The
failure of the government’s closed-door approach is exemplified by the
fact that the FDA did not send a representative to the court hearing
because, as the government attorney explained, the FDA’s Covid-19
protocols would not permit it.</p><p>Meaning, despite a reported <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/briefing-room/2021/11/24/update-on-implementation-of-covid-19-vaccination-requirement-for-federal-employees/">vaccination rate</a> of over 96% <b> </b>across
federal health agencies back in November 2021, and the FDA’s claim that
the vaccines are “effective,” Covid-19 is still disrupting everyday
life. This brings into stark focus the need to open the door and involve
independent scientists.</p><p>As Pittman recognized, America needs transparency and independent scientists to review this data—not in 75 years, but now.</p><p><i>This
article does not necessarily reflect the opinion of The Bureau of
National Affairs, Inc., the publisher of Bloomberg Law and Bloomberg
Tax, or its owners.</i></p><p><a href="https://pro.bloomberglaw.com/author-guidelines/"><i>Write for Us: Author Guidelines</i></a></p><h3>Author Information</h3><p><a href="http://www.sirillp.com/aaron-siri"><i>Aaron Siri</i></a><i>
is the managing partner of Siri & Glimstad LLP, and has extensive
experience in a wide range of complex civil litigation matters, with a
focus on civil rights involving mandated medical procedures, class
actions, and high-stakes disputes. Twitter </i><a href="https://twitter.com/aaronsirisg?lang=en"><i>@aaronsirisg</i></a><i>.</i></p></div></div></div></div><p> <br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Pfizer made $40,000,000,000 extra last year.<br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Regards,</p><p>Aki and Scott</p><p> </p><a href="https://www.caribooblades.com " target="_blank">https://www.caribooblades.com </a> Aki and Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07603961673011273718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786264311115808700.post-15446371657726522662022-01-08T10:26:00.003-08:002022-01-08T10:30:19.727-08:00For What it's Worth <p>For the New Year. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiK7zgQss6i3izvP2jsY15xpfvXW70iqdkZwBJQdtYr7hlN2ICdgX2GdMYCogfPTjVfFJGNLzGJVttqMLfpkgGdsnxxhV2w6MttpJm1fedCn96BWviNkpA-hY7QBmIZbeyGokLMfV28yGp31C9R8mD_Q9NBdnY8lnciYIoI-ETs435xH5EHtwjwZ5QPbQ=s4272" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2848" data-original-width="4272" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiK7zgQss6i3izvP2jsY15xpfvXW70iqdkZwBJQdtYr7hlN2ICdgX2GdMYCogfPTjVfFJGNLzGJVttqMLfpkgGdsnxxhV2w6MttpJm1fedCn96BWviNkpA-hY7QBmIZbeyGokLMfV28yGp31C9R8mD_Q9NBdnY8lnciYIoI-ETs435xH5EHtwjwZ5QPbQ=w400-h241" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><br /><p>1. YOU CAN ONLY WORK FOR PEOPLE THAT YOU LIKE<br />
2. IF YOU HAVE A CHOICE NEVER HAVE A JOB<br />
3. SOME PEOPLE ARE TOXIC AVOID THEM.<br />
4. PROFESSIONALISM IS NOT ENOUGH (or THE GOOD IS THE ENEMY OF THE GREAT)<br />
5. LESS IS NOT NECESSARILY MORE<br />
6. STYLE IS NOT TO BE TRUSTED<br />
7. HOW YOU LIVE CHANGES YOUR BRAIN<br />
8. DOUBT IS <br />BETTER THAN CERTAINTY<br />
9. IT DOESN'T MATTER<br />
10. TELL THE TRUTH<br />
</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><br />
Milton Glaser<br />
<span face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><i> </i></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNoK0_OAlY0O4j6XiTfRq_grMWl3P5tTEtuX1-yZjtB1SQ1Ol8ti1Ip_rZFBiAUro0GtMRcZEyQgDXgD2JDvf7kw54VuEk9IP7JbapdbXNxbI-WNv85frxbm-by5V0Wq5P0TWKaf46om_WelIU6PW8wgX69Cg6j3Md14powoECBG04dK6F8RsyvMoMDg=s800" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNoK0_OAlY0O4j6XiTfRq_grMWl3P5tTEtuX1-yZjtB1SQ1Ol8ti1Ip_rZFBiAUro0GtMRcZEyQgDXgD2JDvf7kw54VuEk9IP7JbapdbXNxbI-WNv85frxbm-by5V0Wq5P0TWKaf46om_WelIU6PW8wgX69Cg6j3Md14powoECBG04dK6F8RsyvMoMDg=s320" width="320" /></a></div><span face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><i>A butcher was
opening his market one morning and as he did a rabbit popped his head
through the door. The butcher was surprised when the rabbit inquired
‘Got any cabbage?’ The butcher said ‘This is a meat market – we sell
meat, not vegetables.’ The rabbit hopped off. The next day the butcher
is opening the shop and sure enough the rabbit pops his head round and
says ‘You got any cabbage?’ The butcher now irritated says ‘Listen you
little rodent, I told you yesterday we sell meat, we do not sell
vegetables and the next time you come here I am going to grab you by the
throat and nail those floppy ears to the floor.’ The rabbit disappeared
hastily and nothing happened for a week. Then one morning the rabbit
popped his head around the corner and said ‘Got any nails?’ The butcher
said ‘No.’ The rabbit said ‘Ok. Got any cabbage?’’</i></span><p></p><p><span face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><i></i></span></p><p><span face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Regards,</span></p><p><span face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Aki and Scott</span></p><p><a href="www.caribooblades.com " target="_blank"><span face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span></a></p><p><span face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="www.caribooblades.com " target="_blank">www.caribooblades.com </a><br /><i> </i></span> </p>Aki and Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07603961673011273718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786264311115808700.post-60408000928973546552021-12-25T19:12:00.104-08:002023-04-09T13:37:34.305-07:00Living with Solar Power for 26 Years, What We Have Learned<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhdkpIZaBmF222aZVrHyp_RUAza23eBZYnNvEZRoEV8VoMYjwR_hNe_Y8E8vdoL8X16HO-06wNs96mvvmFiPPSDGgwkW85dVRoNS3ZkgJ87NttooEjsT7Y6M7JY5lJGAvwUDIYw-S1vb0hHTwLfhVOSaYsf6z6VxYBh5bFbSgqHf3lfcBtxe46XzU3eLA=s565" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="We all live here. Moose reflecting people" border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="565" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhdkpIZaBmF222aZVrHyp_RUAza23eBZYnNvEZRoEV8VoMYjwR_hNe_Y8E8vdoL8X16HO-06wNs96mvvmFiPPSDGgwkW85dVRoNS3ZkgJ87NttooEjsT7Y6M7JY5lJGAvwUDIYw-S1vb0hHTwLfhVOSaYsf6z6VxYBh5bFbSgqHf3lfcBtxe46XzU3eLA=w932-h286" title="Animals and People" width="932" /></a></div><p>It almost feels like sun worship. Watching our garden grow, working,
feeding our electricity habit and staying healthy by the sun. That is
the point. The sun. <br /></p><p>We live and work in an isolated spot in the interior of British Columbia. We started with two 85 watt panels and two golf cart batteries 25 years ago. Powered our 12 volt tv and a light. Now we run 3 small, independant solar arrays.<br /></p><p></p><p>The smallest is made up of a 75 watt panel fixed to our roof, facing south connected to a charge controller. The controller is connected to one 12 volt deep cycle battery. It powers a 12 volt light in the pantry, a 12 volt water pump from our well, a cd, tape player and radio. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgx2qoey9Gv89ltNME4EUo3Eu6xPXvaq4Cg1mbcSAkUKOIbKWCFxGSMMWoTyz5X1atP_b0j8PHcdBEOlkQeHro9cQCmVqYNgX2CbwqhD6eKq3mST_wkhdG8vFS0gxAqTXDbEMTNUAv69gi9asZC8ypGzE0NyITp2PsCVZRG4xqMEC0mWdMnQ86vnQ6Mvw=s4272" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="solar panels on a tracker" border="0" data-original-height="2848" data-original-width="4272" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgx2qoey9Gv89ltNME4EUo3Eu6xPXvaq4Cg1mbcSAkUKOIbKWCFxGSMMWoTyz5X1atP_b0j8PHcdBEOlkQeHro9cQCmVqYNgX2CbwqhD6eKq3mST_wkhdG8vFS0gxAqTXDbEMTNUAv69gi9asZC8ypGzE0NyITp2PsCVZRG4xqMEC0mWdMnQ86vnQ6Mvw=w320-h213" title="Solar energy" width="320" /></a></div>A second system is made up of 4 panels (400 watts) mounted on a sun tracker 5 metres high that we built for less than $50. The panels are connected to a 40 amp controller that is connected to 4 x 6 volt deep cycle lead acid batteries. The batteries are connected to a 1750 watt inverter. The system is 20 years old. Two of the panels are 25 years old. The system runs electricity into our cabin and shop. It cost us $5000.<p></p><p><br /> </p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjoiGKbNKhHeudRo-bjYQ_PZ008en8mCMHa5HCLyOaR-3XSYAuyqKI8NH8B6-4t7-HXSZfIlIPcnQz11Y-EnNTcJRXtybQC2wi0uzZsHkuv5yWITaoVCUYBEACdQG3KixPFlvG_e9SPkJ7XI2EeAP72MsAC4m9z2zIECjZggEkQMuJfTzVrwvH-lfhWgw=s4272" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="DIY solar tracker" border="0" data-original-height="2848" data-original-width="4272" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjoiGKbNKhHeudRo-bjYQ_PZ008en8mCMHa5HCLyOaR-3XSYAuyqKI8NH8B6-4t7-HXSZfIlIPcnQz11Y-EnNTcJRXtybQC2wi0uzZsHkuv5yWITaoVCUYBEACdQG3KixPFlvG_e9SPkJ7XI2EeAP72MsAC4m9z2zIECjZggEkQMuJfTzVrwvH-lfhWgw=w320-h213" title="Tracking the sun for energy" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">500 watts of solar panel <br /></td></tr></tbody></table>The third system is made up of 5 panels (500 watts) mounted on a sun tracker 3 1/2 metres high we made for less than $100. The panels are connected to two 30 amp controllers that are connected to a 2000 watt inverter. One controller has a disconnect from the batteries for charging automobile batteries. This system is 2 1/2 years old. The cost was $1600. In the years, since purchasing the last panels 20 years ago, the price of panels and inverters has come <u>down 80%</u>. The price of batteries has risen about 10%. <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjCpMKdjVwO2Psg1l7iL9zIhrQeqNozSSf7hJcGWaRFX6XuPCZtaHGAYAGqxchktTzU7NiF-zPIyZzb_eHshv8NRMZvpDqBeGtcTsclycaAkiitgBphx9QWSgczYiG2Vwtu1pqholeqNNDd22cePDO91mspRT8vc77XP0JtPyW8IYPFW9l5e9CM7zBAtA=s533" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="solar panel sun tracker" border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="400" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjCpMKdjVwO2Psg1l7iL9zIhrQeqNozSSf7hJcGWaRFX6XuPCZtaHGAYAGqxchktTzU7NiF-zPIyZzb_eHshv8NRMZvpDqBeGtcTsclycaAkiitgBphx9QWSgczYiG2Vwtu1pqholeqNNDd22cePDO91mspRT8vc77XP0JtPyW8IYPFW9l5e9CM7zBAtA=w150-h200" title="DIY sun tracker" width="150" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p>Sun trackers can provide a 45% increase in power. <br /></p><p>We built this one 20 years ago. It has been modified since then to hold 4 panels vertically. <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj-QjZ4PlinGu36YZFD2EzRXuUVSNl1YoCNM_n4wJJiAAp4Cj1lOpCqGbSlbO6ta9kx8zj3KXIikdwPBx3oPmWHuaL06kriwr7ZBMIkSaMcL2N5qmifZrFCv2tySEau3wBcYuFz7QmhJzq8pXrgDOvFGPRSNqDMIRo1PKjR6chNn__ki39A9smZThTHFA=s200" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="the sun's energy" border="0" data-original-height="133" data-original-width="200" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj-QjZ4PlinGu36YZFD2EzRXuUVSNl1YoCNM_n4wJJiAAp4Cj1lOpCqGbSlbO6ta9kx8zj3KXIikdwPBx3oPmWHuaL06kriwr7ZBMIkSaMcL2N5qmifZrFCv2tySEau3wBcYuFz7QmhJzq8pXrgDOvFGPRSNqDMIRo1PKjR6chNn__ki39A9smZThTHFA=w203-h133" title="Sun Print" width="203" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p>We live and work here. The trackers are manual. We turn them directly on the sun three or four times a day in the summer. Spring and fall, 2 or 3 times. In the winter they are static. Working with the sun. On dark winter days we run a 3000 watt inverter generator for a few hours, assuring everything stays rock hard in the freezer.<br /></p><p>Besides
lights, computers and the odd kitchen appliance, we power our shop. Our
most demanding machine is the band saw with a 3/4 horse power motor. </p><br /><p></p><p>What we have learned to get the most from your solar panels is:<br /></p><p>charging batteries and relying on that stored power is not the way to go. Battery technology is inefficient. For us stored power is just enough for lights and computers when there is no sun. When the sun is out we'll work. From March until October we have unlimited power for our needs. We work full time with smaller machines (10 amps and less) when the sun is out. The bigger machines we use intermittently and because of our
lighter wiring we run one 3/4 horse machine at a time.When the batteries are charged and there is a 60% sun day the process is a lot more efficient. Solar energy flows through the panels. The batteries act like a conduit. Energy the inefficient batteries will not accept on a full sun day is the energy we can use up.</p><p>After working in the shop, at the end of a day the batteries have as much charge as they had at the beginning of the day. If the day involved lots of heavy use, like using the table saw ripping or milling apple wood with the band saw etc, all over 15 amps, then we would alternate system. Keeping the batteries charged. <br /></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEit-byqdiyMi198HnERdEtpYYuxrJey-rbH4P0pnH7otOTqcoTEpa1IuVSm4pgrWq0rfQduej9P1etbzqhfKffXMnOuKg_EGHGCmCIzl9g2f4tY-n9wg3gAZiB0Z9PhMVEu6NDVPefGbisH9ecG_uEmyXRw1aErJGvqcj8xR8j2VhkU5wLDwzefXB9oFg=s4272" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Winter in the bush in chilcotin territory" border="0" data-original-height="2848" data-original-width="4272" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEit-byqdiyMi198HnERdEtpYYuxrJey-rbH4P0pnH7otOTqcoTEpa1IuVSm4pgrWq0rfQduej9P1etbzqhfKffXMnOuKg_EGHGCmCIzl9g2f4tY-n9wg3gAZiB0Z9PhMVEu6NDVPefGbisH9ecG_uEmyXRw1aErJGvqcj8xR8j2VhkU5wLDwzefXB9oFg=w320-h213" title="Living offthe grid" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our shops<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> <p></p><p>This power set up could be doubled, tripled, quadrupled... You would just need more. Heavier wiring, more wattage (panels), larger capacity controllers etc.... <br /></p><p>We help charge the batteries with a generator in the low sun months from November until the middle of February. We need to use a generator for machine power in the winter and on heavy load days in the early spring and fall. We slow our work right down in the winter. It works out.</p><p>Having two main systems that are interchangeable has proven to be a
great asset in the low sun months. As one system is being used and
discharges the other is charging. </p><p>4.6 billion years old. The sun will start a tranformation into a red dwarf in 5 billion years. Swallowing the earth, Mars...<br /></p><p>Consider, the sun provides enough power in one hour than the planet of people use in one year.<br /></p><p>We are fortunate to live and work with the sun. A few panels and batteries have worked for us. What we've paid for our 1000 watt systems, today, you could buy 6 or 7 times as much power. A system of 5 or 6 thousand watts would pay for itself in 2 or 3 years if not sooner. </p><p>It almost feels like sun worship. Watching our garden grow, working, feeding our electricity habit and staying healthy by the sun. That is the point. The sun.<br /></p><p></p><br /><p></p><p> </p><p>Regards,</p><p>Aki and Scott</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.caribooblades.com">www.caribooblades.com</a><br /></p><p> </p><br /><br />Aki and Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07603961673011273718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786264311115808700.post-27710338865269974522021-12-09T11:34:00.022-08:002023-07-28T13:09:45.188-07:00Covid Insane, The changing Landscape<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4FsmbqYuGd87xMFDS_IxuLqCyfi5ajy6LB2ZzauQdhNkBV8PBto-A_a-JynQd_2INt5iOIZf7myYwLszYujJqcU7KRxdPwX59kxD3_urlQu5-KawX9B_F_oNuAeCczL5aIAwgT2U2lQQ7/s2048/IMG_0089+%25282%2529.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="371" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4FsmbqYuGd87xMFDS_IxuLqCyfi5ajy6LB2ZzauQdhNkBV8PBto-A_a-JynQd_2INt5iOIZf7myYwLszYujJqcU7KRxdPwX59kxD3_urlQu5-KawX9B_F_oNuAeCczL5aIAwgT2U2lQQ7/w558-h371/IMG_0089+%25282%2529.JPG" width="558" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">There are questions about the way we've been dealing with covid 19.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Biologist Bret Weinstein Phd interviews a cardiologist/ immunologist, Dr Peter McCollough.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Is it dangerous and immoral to vaccinate healthy children? If there is any risk of death from the vaccine, why are we giving it to healthy children ?<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zg1j7Zquoc&t=9s" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="301" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-zg1j7Zquoc" width="432" youtube-src-id="-zg1j7Zquoc"></iframe></div><br /></a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zg1j7Zquoc&t=9s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zg1j7Zquoc&t=9s</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Regards, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Aki and Scott</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.caribooblades.com" target="_blank">www.caribooblades.com </a> <br /></div><br /><p><br /></p>Aki and Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07603961673011273718noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786264311115808700.post-9424553727827982272021-06-02T09:38:00.034-07:002021-06-04T09:09:16.316-07:00MONSTER, A RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL EXPERIENCE<p><br /><span dir="ltr" style="font-family: serif; font-size: 18.3333px; left: 240px; top: 936.35px; transform: scaleX(1.00021);"></span></p><span dir="ltr" style="font-family: serif; font-size: 10.3889px; left: 578.005px; top: 534.592px; transform: scaleX(0.952312);"></span><p><a href="https://soundcloud.com/alwaysoutside/monster-dennis-saddleman" target="_blank">Monster</a></p><p> </p><p>This is a recording of Dennis Saddleman's poem. </p><p>We post this in the wake of another residential school's graveyard of buried indigenous children found in Kamloops, BC. It is estimated that upwards of 15,000 to 25,000 children are in unmarked graves around residential schools in Canada.</p><p>Imagine the government comes with police. They take your child..children. It's the last time you ever see them. <br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Regards,<br /></p><p>Aki and Scott<br /></p>Aki and Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07603961673011273718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786264311115808700.post-91413270350534744402021-04-27T09:25:00.004-07:002021-04-27T22:23:47.638-07:00Some Truth About Covid-19<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSucLBsgep2Gqn6673XQ1fGOvmrg-xxQdl2vHCnVvGMsZjOU069gIJy1Zcu87I1StpTP00yIXDUR4Ce542oUlraeWRIC69wA9yYz-7Kc0X-plEhkhi1X4rh3_tlflXCSRCqa-FLBjD6JMC/s800/IMG_7795.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Fireweed" border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSucLBsgep2Gqn6673XQ1fGOvmrg-xxQdl2vHCnVvGMsZjOU069gIJy1Zcu87I1StpTP00yIXDUR4Ce542oUlraeWRIC69wA9yYz-7Kc0X-plEhkhi1X4rh3_tlflXCSRCqa-FLBjD6JMC/w400-h266/IMG_7795.JPG" title="Purple Fireweed" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><h1 class="ArticleHeader_hed__hCOBy">The CDC has finally said what scientists have been screaming for months:
The coronavirus is overwhelmingly spread through the air, not via
surfaces.</h1><p>Last week, the CDC <a data-omni-click="r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'0',r'None'" href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/more/science-and-research/surface-transmission.html">acknowledged</a>
what many of us have been saying for almost nine months about cleaning
surfaces to prevent transmission by touch of the coronavirus: It’s pure <a data-omni-click="r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'1',r'None'" href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/scourge-hygiene-theater/614599/">hygiene theater.</a></p><p>“Based
on available epidemiological data and studies of environmental
transmission factors,” the CDC concluded, “surface transmission is not
the main route by which SARS-CoV-2 spreads, and the risk is considered
to be low.” In other words: You can put away the bleach, cancel your
recurring Amazon subscription for disinfectant wipes, and stop punishing
every square inch of classroom floor, restaurant table, and train seat
with high-tech antimicrobial blasts. COVID-19 is airborne: It spreads
through tiny aerosolized droplets that linger in the air in unventilated
spaces. Touching stuff just doesn’t carry much risk, and more people
should say so, very loudly.</p><p>Like many, I spent the early months of the pandemic dunking my apples
and carrots in soap. That was before I read a persuasive essay in the
medical journal <i>The Lancet</i> by Emanuel Goldman, a microbiology professor at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School: “<a data-omni-click="r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'3',r'None'" href="https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30561-2/fulltext">Exaggerated Risk of Transmission of COVID-19 by Fomites</a>.” (In medical jargon, <i>fomites</i>
are objects and surfaces that can transmit an infectious pathogen.)
This opinion ran contrary to the conventional wisdom of the broader
scientific community, and Goldman told me that several journals rejected
his essay. But he was not alone in his quest. Writers such as my
colleague Zeynep Tufekci and researchers such as Jose-Luis Jimenez, an
aerosol scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder, were also
outspoken in their insistence that we needed to focus on ventilation
rather than surfaces, windows rather than Windex. They were rebuffed,
not only by loudmouths on Twitter and on TV, but by <a data-omni-click="r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'4',r'None'" href="https://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlkNuOgyAQhp-mXBrOwgUXmzR9DYMwWloFA7iN-_SLNpnMgcP8M5-zFeaUD7OlUtHphnpsYCJ8ygK1QkZ7gTwEb4johSTIG-6JEgqFMkwZYLVhMTXvgLZ9XIKzNaR4vSeKo6exPfQUC8a5EJ4J1WMmCWHMTW4aqVZfUbv7ANGBgV_IR4qAFvOsdSs39nOjj2b1E85xOpfWVr2Wl0tLytanVpVq615aQpjCkmHKtKYcK95zcWOP1uROMQqGYkowJ5hoKpnsSCfkxK0ED9p7x3sPaqSEU6yF5oozf-N4nWlX9rFJuPcpjrK5v-szrVu7nM_tr9O2_NDiusdQjwGiHRfwXy71C_ciNcwQITfofrDVEEkUVlRhoRvZC0QDxwTGkiuNmqxP7Vc0f3BE2P4B62qLSA"><i>other scientists</i></a> who clung stubbornly to an outdated view of viral spread.</p><p>These days, Goldman is extending his crusade against fomite fear from
COVID-19 to other diseases. The old story is that if you make contact
with a surface that a sick person touched, and then you touch your eyes
or lips, you’ll infect yourself. While Goldman acknowledges that many
diseases, especially bacterial diseases, spread easily from surfaces, he
now suspects that most respiratory viruses spread primarily through the
air, like SARS-CoV-2 does.</p><p>“For most respiratory viruses, the
evidence for fomite transmission looks pretty weak,” Goldman said. “With
the exception of RSV [respiratory syncytial virus], there are few other
respiratory viruses where fomite transmission has been conclusively
shown.” For example, rhinovirus, one of the most common viruses in the
world and the predominant cause of the common cold, is probably <a data-omni-click="r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'5',r'None'" href="https://academic.oup.com/jid/article-abstract/156/3/442/806507?redirectedFrom=fulltext">overwhelmingly spread via aerosols</a>. The same may be true of influenza. Many experiments that suggest surface transmission of respiratory viruses <a data-omni-click="r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'6',r'None'" href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/02/hygiene-theater-still-waste/617939/">stack the deck</a>
by studying unrealistically large amounts of virus using
unrealistically ideal (cold, dry, and dark) conditions for their
survival. Based on our experience with SARS-CoV-2, these may not be
trustworthy studies.</p><p>Unlike the coronavirus, hygiene theater is very much alive on
surfaces across America. Transit authorities are still taking subway
cars offline to power-scrub their walls. Baseball parks are <a data-omni-click="r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'7',r'None'" href="https://mobile.twitter.com/AlecMacGillis/status/1381094456523378695">banning cash</a> to protect fans from fiat germs. Schools throughout the country still require <a data-omni-click="r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'8',r'None'" href="https://www.ncadvertiser.com/news/article/CT-schools-still-receive-deep-cleaning-despite-16090324.php">deep cleanings</a> that sometimes shut down classes for hours or days. The Los Angeles Unified School District’s <a data-omni-click="r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'9',r'None'" href="https://www.lausdrepro.net/files/subscribers/639ea9b6-34b1-406b-a281-45651eac5d19/sites/31fd3e56-0a3d-41b0-8447-4a05be2dbfa0/products/4f6de339-d3d5-49bf-8f20-69f42d6c1d6c/ThreeSCOVID19Poster1220EngSpan_Page_1_xlarge.png?stamp=637515245932438736">COVID-19 posters</a>
still urge people to “clean high-touch surfaces frequently,” with no
mention of ventilation, air filters, or keeping windows open. Target is
still running ads <a data-omni-click="r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'10',r'None'" href="https://t.co/yLEjN5Ebgz?amp=1">on Hulu</a>
bragging about how it calls in workers at 6 a.m. to mop and scrub for
several hours, for the comfort of its germophobic customers.</p><p class="c-recirculation-link" data-id="injected-recirculation-link" id="injected-recirculation-link-1"><a data-omni-click="r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'11',r'None'" href="https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/10/pandemic-safety-america/616858/">Read: The difference between feeling safe and being safe</a></p><p>Alas,
not even my own employer is immune to the scourge of hygiene theater.
In an update on our back-to-office policies yesterday, <i>The Atlantic</i>
instituted a “clean desk” protocol starting this summer that will
require “daily neatening and sanitation of workspaces.” Anybody who
works in journalism, or has ever seen a movie about journalism, knows
that journalists take to daily neatening the way lions take to
vegetarianism. Beyond being unnecessary, workplace-sanitation rules also
carry the risk of enforcing an awkward parent-teen relationship between
bosses and employees. In this business, “clean up this paragraph” is
hard enough on one’s self-esteem; “... and clean your filthy desk while
you’re at it” is not the sort of workplace banter that eases one’s
psychological transition back to the office.</p><p>Whenever
I’ve written about hygiene theater, some people have responded with the
same objection: “Hey, what’s the matter with washing our hands?” That’s
an easy one: Absolutely nothing. “Pandemic or no pandemic, you should
wash your hands, especially after you prepare food, go to the bathroom,”
or touch something yucky, Goldman said.</p><p>But hygiene theater
carries with it an immense opportunity cost. Too many institutions spend
scarce funds or sacrifice scarce resources to do microbial battle
against fomites that don’t pose a real threat. This is especially true
of cash-strapped urban-transit authorities and school districts that
have spent <a data-omni-click="r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'12',r'None'" href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00251-4">hundreds of millions of dollars</a> on soap technology rather than their central task of <i>transporting and teaching people.</i></p><p>Hygiene
theater also muddles the public-health message. If you tell people,
“This disease is on surfaces, on your clothes, on your hands, on your
face, and also in the air,” they will react in a scattered and scared
way. But if you tell people the truth—this virus doesn’t do very well on
surfaces, so you should focus on ventilation—they can protect
themselves against what matters.</p><p>At
the ideas level, the jealous protection of hygiene theater is an
example of a larger American crisis. “When the CDC doesn’t update its
fomite language for months while scientists are screaming about
aerosolized spread, it just seems like a case of the precautionary
principle taking over,” Goldman said. In his 2011 book, <i>The Beginning of Infinity</i>,
the physicist David Deutsch defined the precautionary principle as a
form of pessimism that “seeks to ward off disaster by avoiding
everything not known to be safe.” The opposite of the precautionary
principle is something like epistemic optimism: <i>We don’t know enough, and we should always try to learn more</i>.</p><p>That
point might sound airy and theoretical, but it makes direct contact
with America’s worst pandemic failures. Too many U.S. institutions
throughout the pandemic have shown little interest in the act of
learning while doing. They etched the conventional wisdoms of March 2020
into stone and clutched their stone-tablet commandments in the face of
any evidence that would disprove them. Liberal readers <a data-omni-click="r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'13',r'None'" href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/12/americas-bipartisan-covid-19-illiteracy/617368/">might readily point</a>
to Republican governors who rejected masks and indoor restrictions even
as their states faced outbreaks. But the criticism also applies to
deep-blue areas. Los Angeles, for instance, closed <a data-omni-click="r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'14',r'None'" href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-03/covid-19-la-parents-anger-closed-playgrounds">its playgrounds</a> and <a data-omni-click="r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'15',r'None'" href="https://twitter.com/LACityParks/status/1333477860984516608?s=20">prohibited</a><a data-omni-click="r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'16',r'None'" href="https://twitter.com/LACityParks/status/1333477860984516608?s=20"> friends</a>
from going on beach walks, long after researchers knew that the
coronavirus didn’t really spread outdoors. In the pandemic and beyond,
this might be the fundamental crisis of American institutions: They
specialize in <a data-omni-click="r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'17',r'None'" href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/why-americas-institutions-are-failing/613078/">the performance of bureaucratic competence</a> rather than the act of actually being competent.</p><p>The
CDC’s announcement should be curtains for theatrical deep cleanings.
But until companies, transit authorities, retailers, and magazines
embrace the value of scientific discovery and the joy of learning new
things, the show, and the soap, will go on.</p><div class="ArticleBio_imgContainer__2ZYsD"><figure class="ArticleBio_media__1pE5L"><a data-action="click author - image" data-label="https://www.theatlantic.com/author/derek-thompson/" href="https://www.theatlantic.com/author/derek-thompson/" title="Derek Thompson's writer page"><img alt="" class="Image_root__J8Wlz Image_lazy__1w_jB Image_loaded__3uNg2 ArticleBio_img__2Exn9" height="100" src="https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/3obBb4pwVmXT_U4Doe2VkZ84fas=/300x0:1068x768/100x100/media/None/Derek_Thompson_grey/original.png" width="100" /></a></figure></div><div class="ArticleBio_bio__22vzm"><a class="author-link" data-action="click author - name" data-label="https://www.theatlantic.com/author/derek-thompson/" href="https://www.theatlantic.com/author/derek-thompson/">Derek Thompson</a> is a staff writer at <i>The Atlantic,</i> where he writes about economics, technology, and the media. He is the author of <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hit-Makers-Science-Popularity-Distraction/dp/110198032X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=">Hit Makers</a> </i>and the host of the podcast <i><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/crazygenius/">Crazy/Genius</a></i>.</div><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><h1 class="ArticleHeader_hed__hCOBy"> </h1>Aki and Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07603961673011273718noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786264311115808700.post-70884120060777884402020-08-11T21:01:00.167-07:002020-08-25T09:34:21.025-07:00George Sears (Nessmuk) and Henry David Thoreau <p> </p><p> Two Massachusetts writers who have had an impact on our lives here here. <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVYbU-icX7SbRvGTODtHVIIvbgyt6b0XN2M2LDBZdg6ijq6Z4xKs7dRWNjWAjntpJFM7tc15Q2ILjpJFPRtig9OIKZnTMFRXJ1ZgJG0bCJ0z1Mx5jEA8aBHBpV8sGAKLDmaqU5ArJNTIta/s800/IMG_7714.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Potato patch" border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVYbU-icX7SbRvGTODtHVIIvbgyt6b0XN2M2LDBZdg6ijq6Z4xKs7dRWNjWAjntpJFM7tc15Q2ILjpJFPRtig9OIKZnTMFRXJ1ZgJG0bCJ0z1Mx5jEA8aBHBpV8sGAKLDmaqU5ArJNTIta/w400-h266/IMG_7714.JPG" title="Poppies, carrots, beets and potatoes" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The potato patch.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc"> </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">It
wasn't until Aki and I moved into the bush in '97, started to make
hunting and survival knives that we learned of George Sears (pen name
Nessmuk), his methods, bushcraft skills and the famed design, the
"Nessmuk" knife. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc"> </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc"> </span></span><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">"Go light, the lighter the better". </span></span> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We've sold many bushcraft knives fashioned after George Sears Nessmuk knife design. In total a few years of living here.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We read Henry Thoreau. He writes of freedom. 40 years later we're still reading. Testaments on freedom. Holding his
belief in life close.... we persevere. We read his work aloud. Always
amazed at how pertinent his insights remain.<br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Starting the green house with lots of greens. They go to flower and the bees come.<br /></div><p></p><p>Before<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9Fh7OmEUwmzAZuTVnsM8kwr4JdDFRb4w8XRRTBHXsofCg1cycjlDZuj58ouzylqfkFfvtieC0R_ujpqtPgZsHTfTYrHMtvA0lLh4FJ3wN6LDZ_CwrIMlSxWzO1t5ttg4iR0Uem77NLpOT/s800/IMG_7150.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Early flowers in the green house" border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9Fh7OmEUwmzAZuTVnsM8kwr4JdDFRb4w8XRRTBHXsofCg1cycjlDZuj58ouzylqfkFfvtieC0R_ujpqtPgZsHTfTYrHMtvA0lLh4FJ3wN6LDZ_CwrIMlSxWzO1t5ttg4iR0Uem77NLpOT/w400-h266/IMG_7150.JPG" title="June greenhouse" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnI03SfJViwaydGALqFy2BmtFlCFmsxL0Wxa-amGEypnbTRk5pc0SpWMnlwuZOwoiLUQPyVl7lvDOD8krD_eN32a-zVoENGCEDBEYjNjwG0BlgkQpjY3FubCv-M47lWKtq3Fth02iBFVTV/s800/IMG_7856.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The Polinators give us a good life" border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnI03SfJViwaydGALqFy2BmtFlCFmsxL0Wxa-amGEypnbTRk5pc0SpWMnlwuZOwoiLUQPyVl7lvDOD8krD_eN32a-zVoENGCEDBEYjNjwG0BlgkQpjY3FubCv-M47lWKtq3Fth02iBFVTV/w400-h266/IMG_7856.JPG" title="Green house in the bush" width="400" /></a></div><p>After <br /></p><p> </p><p>Bees are amazing. Privileged to work with them.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLbsKEcJ14yv0O7cQpfsnhoDgY_DG3v72rGij-bMrDj35rQtCCoJ06Lb-WYsyzqIE-v7rVLmOHBvqC7gMdVyhso7os4sboZ-nE_NfrWwgglIR4_Ozgg2sUpuENrS0KFbf7oECyJqmX7vPB/s2048/IMG_7375.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The Pollinators" border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="427" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLbsKEcJ14yv0O7cQpfsnhoDgY_DG3v72rGij-bMrDj35rQtCCoJ06Lb-WYsyzqIE-v7rVLmOHBvqC7gMdVyhso7os4sboZ-nE_NfrWwgglIR4_Ozgg2sUpuENrS0KFbf7oECyJqmX7vPB/w640-h427/IMG_7375.JPG" title="Bumble Bee and Mustard" width="640" /></a></div><p>Bumble bee and mustard.</p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc"> </span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">"I
went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only
the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to
teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived". </span></span></p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">Henry David Thoreau <br /></span></span><p> </p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitB5ekmHeaiBYXbPr1qMcf1MVyQAY6oCG072rChXSLG_J3y3MuAJCFYJvVesCdE56Lu2WywPJI6wcG0yiDEAXNe2INsN0pIJP7vOfUmgNuuwU5r1DfKenQ_1jdLPJ1g8ySboft5S1BhIGo/s800/IMG_7858.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Cherry tomatoes" border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitB5ekmHeaiBYXbPr1qMcf1MVyQAY6oCG072rChXSLG_J3y3MuAJCFYJvVesCdE56Lu2WywPJI6wcG0yiDEAXNe2INsN0pIJP7vOfUmgNuuwU5r1DfKenQ_1jdLPJ1g8ySboft5S1BhIGo/w400-h266/IMG_7858.JPG" title="7th generation after Richardson's Lake." width="400" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-r4zVOIXj-meJE83kCjzIR7_gVc6M2BQYXc7otqySa7YbavAD2fhiChuuxiFuuh5dJsVtUepN4GXiaWXyDMy-4991uufQYZvINjN9KFBo6yERDpCdNAL4no8skGDopAeDeTF6LDX-_ysO/s800/IMG_7864.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Lots of tomatoes" border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-r4zVOIXj-meJE83kCjzIR7_gVc6M2BQYXc7otqySa7YbavAD2fhiChuuxiFuuh5dJsVtUepN4GXiaWXyDMy-4991uufQYZvINjN9KFBo6yERDpCdNAL4no8skGDopAeDeTF6LDX-_ysO/w400-h266/IMG_7864.JPG" title="Inside our green house." width="400" /></a></div></div><p>Aki sun dries, freezes, sauces and cans. We eat a lot of tomatoes. <br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsnvNJ5GPsD3ujDSgCic34aiwrCS6EMSezIQ41BOZvRoCseng3jj97tfqYikBdjyc_NEw8X58uUV1l89PXUxOZgoEQHfAPPAzkj-9KPAu_pBNLgRKnvLH6oVLP09VzJ1ZC5HQQOVYnYfv1/s800/IMG_7863.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="On the vine tomatoes" border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsnvNJ5GPsD3ujDSgCic34aiwrCS6EMSezIQ41BOZvRoCseng3jj97tfqYikBdjyc_NEw8X58uUV1l89PXUxOZgoEQHfAPPAzkj-9KPAu_pBNLgRKnvLH6oVLP09VzJ1ZC5HQQOVYnYfv1/w640-h426/IMG_7863.JPG" title="Tomatoes in our green house" width="640" /></a></div><p> </p><p>Peas, Aki and fireweed.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq9D6OK6xPRNlAo14y5pe7v3Z2MyGvwVmT8OOQ0eXBgrOSLW01XlahtoDEs54ri5l2JjqeWHji0y2zBQ6VNfjUrVW-rjh-6_uZTxGDKlAIJq7_HAuzS5jlyrfnQ7Yl3vqmp0gGSI3r6FRc/s624/IMG_2427.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Peas, Aki Yamamoto, fireweed and sulsify" border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="624" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq9D6OK6xPRNlAo14y5pe7v3Z2MyGvwVmT8OOQ0eXBgrOSLW01XlahtoDEs54ri5l2JjqeWHji0y2zBQ6VNfjUrVW-rjh-6_uZTxGDKlAIJq7_HAuzS5jlyrfnQ7Yl3vqmp0gGSI3r6FRc/w400-h274/IMG_2427.JPG" title="Peas, Aki, fireweed and sulsify" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcZL38bQlMY4pzsqHWj_3MqB_kw1ghhswGIKA2rwfzZG7fuRlzqunMsLGpu7zgRYybpTMtKEMlKXUz78Sn1-EO-dbLch91aFqoz6PfKEdtj-m5aYdygsKRKQkC8aOsAus53uLatDWNd9yG/s800/IMG_7771.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Squash, strawberries and garlic" border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcZL38bQlMY4pzsqHWj_3MqB_kw1ghhswGIKA2rwfzZG7fuRlzqunMsLGpu7zgRYybpTMtKEMlKXUz78Sn1-EO-dbLch91aFqoz6PfKEdtj-m5aYdygsKRKQkC8aOsAus53uLatDWNd9yG/w400-h266/IMG_7771.JPG" title="The cat on guard for mice" width="400" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggrDRg-TVIw2Jr-8Yhy8mZ2Yo7jS5hUYDSWVcvL0wcQTJab5_x44O9PRl2r3WuYNXqicRfkht8dWFTN2_B1mIMaCTSda6ZYTFwNJ28jQEYBpwcOmOutJrfkrxSfF1U9RiUhoT82Pehmi2E/s800/IMG_7795.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Fireweed" border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggrDRg-TVIw2Jr-8Yhy8mZ2Yo7jS5hUYDSWVcvL0wcQTJab5_x44O9PRl2r3WuYNXqicRfkht8dWFTN2_B1mIMaCTSda6ZYTFwNJ28jQEYBpwcOmOutJrfkrxSfF1U9RiUhoT82Pehmi2E/w400-h266/IMG_7795.JPG" title="Our spot on the planet" width="400" /></a></div><p>Fireweed and rocks.</p><p> </p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc"> "We do not go to the green
woods and crystal waters to rough it, we go to smooth it. We get it
rough enough at home, in towns and cities". </span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">George Sears, Nessmuk. </span></span> <br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTc2dZ0j9EO_QEe7HW6JXj0QG-3179_lsgPh6d90ZpYRvf5jQCG1-MjjqTNKOCsKWwx2JaFxIOUJ-6RPLrOp5Q0vx2lMxsmQaHy77fdtm6US8zWn-DgmZSXMQsTIMXRUEqPTN_DtOpDEGu/s800/IMG_7868.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Strawberry, raspberry and saskatoon berry" border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTc2dZ0j9EO_QEe7HW6JXj0QG-3179_lsgPh6d90ZpYRvf5jQCG1-MjjqTNKOCsKWwx2JaFxIOUJ-6RPLrOp5Q0vx2lMxsmQaHy77fdtm6US8zWn-DgmZSXMQsTIMXRUEqPTN_DtOpDEGu/w640-h426/IMG_7868.JPG" title="Berries from our garden" width="640" /></a></div><p> </p><p>Lots of rain this year. We lost our lakeside garden to the lake.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYP5kEwIJV9qqe0HAbzSx4vcDhpAAISvnMrPFUUL1rJKPS1hTgqg1uDGU5spVPNXFgfBlZMgG6Rmvzm1yJ_J9r6HVsenwBf-0drQ61Oi1jzAk14U9n4K3CTWZPlsux0Ea0YTLPt1Udn6ne/s800/IMG_7896+%25282%2529.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="flooded garden" border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYP5kEwIJV9qqe0HAbzSx4vcDhpAAISvnMrPFUUL1rJKPS1hTgqg1uDGU5spVPNXFgfBlZMgG6Rmvzm1yJ_J9r6HVsenwBf-0drQ61Oi1jzAk14U9n4K3CTWZPlsux0Ea0YTLPt1Udn6ne/w400-h266/IMG_7896+%25282%2529.JPG" title="A flooded garden" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqhJrsgcEbIvYhLhEvvtBqf50dyMXSh4j760xbSDrvCWSBpFrMOzkzFKrM5nxF53PqqSmpDhAw5G1rnRrcgPRQP2dmFOqUwU5gW1FkXlcyznRXgGP3HMT_4EKCUz-kDfCm78TW03pu9788/s720/greens.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Kale and swis chard" border="0" data-original-height="334" data-original-width="720" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqhJrsgcEbIvYhLhEvvtBqf50dyMXSh4j760xbSDrvCWSBpFrMOzkzFKrM5nxF53PqqSmpDhAw5G1rnRrcgPRQP2dmFOqUwU5gW1FkXlcyznRXgGP3HMT_4EKCUz-kDfCm78TW03pu9788/w640-h297/greens.jpg" title="Salad greens" width="640" /></a></div>Salad Greens.<p>I viewed Thoreau's ideas as my own. It only made sense to me.<br /></p><p>Living simply. Living with a light footprint. Feeding ourselves with the food we
grow. </p><p>So we live by isolation in the boreal forest while the world changes. <br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicCvkProZgduHChdUMXA9LAqs2xIuWqvW9grQFEBctIg56E2XVazX6JtXdzFfk3CFm_3B5fZlcfyaSogT3ga4mDrD1kNVvyuDycSAVPz9YufKnH1Gy2TxCgjEGS7tWEWPqfhgHc34GCVZ5/s800/IMG_7721.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicCvkProZgduHChdUMXA9LAqs2xIuWqvW9grQFEBctIg56E2XVazX6JtXdzFfk3CFm_3B5fZlcfyaSogT3ga4mDrD1kNVvyuDycSAVPz9YufKnH1Gy2TxCgjEGS7tWEWPqfhgHc34GCVZ5/w400-h266/IMG_7721.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">It
felt serendipitous, a few years ago we made a connection. George Sears
was born in 1820 at what is now Webster, Massachusetts. Less than 100
kms away from where </span></span><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc"><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1817.</span></span> They grew up at the same time and essentially the same place. They were neighbours.<br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzlVSJhztM6RC4cA7DSbdfjoYcIg4L3DOpMSZetMKu8QlsKqMJE1OmmqVYqrlfeuBNaCbEW1h8OvY998CRAIlC8khPU3GXmGucwoc7sPkmWYH5aCplbhd4kylQ9FrI-OG1lip91gkhvXSV/s800/IMG_7822.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Garden Flowers, poppies and chrysanthemums" border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzlVSJhztM6RC4cA7DSbdfjoYcIg4L3DOpMSZetMKu8QlsKqMJE1OmmqVYqrlfeuBNaCbEW1h8OvY998CRAIlC8khPU3GXmGucwoc7sPkmWYH5aCplbhd4kylQ9FrI-OG1lip91gkhvXSV/w400-h266/IMG_7822.JPG" title="Poppies and Chrysanthemums" width="400" /></a></div><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">Photographs by Aki Yamamoto</span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc"> </span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">Thoreau, </span></span><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc"><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862, </span></span>was a an</span></span><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc"> essayist, poet and philosopher. He was a transcendentalist. Thoreau wrote a book <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walden" title="Walden">Walden</a></i> which we have our son reading outloud to us these days when people are following rules and avoiding each other.</span></span> </p><p>"Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry amount to more than 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions are his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_writing" title="Nature writing">writings on natural history</a> and philosophy, in which he anticipated the methods and findings of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecology" title="Ecology">ecology</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_history" title="Environmental history">environmental history</a>, two sources of modern-day <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmentalism" title="Environmentalism">environmentalism</a>. His <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_language" title="Literary language">literary</a> style interweaves close observation of nature, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbol" title="Symbol">symbolic</a> meanings, and historical lore, while displaying a poetic sensibility, philosophical <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asceticism" title="Asceticism">austerity</a>, and attention to practical detail.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_5-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau#cite_note-ReferenceA-5">[5]</a></sup>
He was also deeply interested in the idea of survival in the face of
hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay; at the same time
he advocated abandoning waste and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusion" title="Illusion">illusion</a> in order to discover life's true essential needs.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_5-1"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau#cite_note-ReferenceA-5">[5]</a></sup>
</p><p>He was a lifelong <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolitionism" title="Abolitionism">abolitionist</a>, delivering lectures that attacked the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugitive_slave_laws" title="Fugitive slave laws">Fugitive Slave Law</a> while praising the writings of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendell_Phillips" title="Wendell Phillips">Wendell Phillips</a> and defending the abolitionist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown_(abolitionist)" title="John Brown (abolitionist)">John Brown</a>. Thoreau's philosophy of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience" title="Civil disobedience">civil disobedience</a> later influenced the political thoughts and actions of such notable figures as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy" title="Leo Tolstoy">Leo Tolstoy</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi" title="Mahatma Gandhi">Mahatma Gandhi</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr." title="Martin Luther King Jr.">Martin Luther King Jr.</a><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-:2_6-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau#cite_note-:2-6">[6]</a></sup>
</p><p>Thoreau is sometimes referred to as an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism" title="Anarchism">anarchist</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-7"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau#cite_note-7">[7]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau#cite_note-8">[8]</a></sup>
Though "Civil Disobedience" seems to call for improving rather than
abolishing government—"I ask for, not at once no government, but <i>at once</i> a better government"<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-resistance_9-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau#cite_note-resistance-9">[9]</a></sup>—the
direction of this improvement contrarily points toward anarchism:
"'That government is best which governs not at all;' and when men are
prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will
have". </p><p>(I copied this from Wikipedia only to give a little insight into Thoreau) </p><p><br /></p><p>Aki and Scott</p><p><a href="https://www.caribooblades,.com" target="_blank">www.caribooblades.com </a><br /></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc"> </span></span></p><div style="left: -99999px; position: absolute;">I went to the woods
because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts
of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not,
when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Henry David Thoreau<br /> Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/henry-david-thoreau-quotes<div style="left: -99999px; position: absolute;">I went to the woods
because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts
of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not,
when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Henry David Thoreau<br /> Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/henry-david-thoreau-quotes<div style="left: -99999px; position: absolute;">I went to the woods
because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts
of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not,
when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Henry David Thoreau<br /> Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/henry-david-thoreau-quotes<div style="left: -99999px; position: absolute;">I went to the woods
because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts
of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not,
when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Henry David Thoreau<br /> Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/henry-david-thoreau-quotes</div></div></div></div>Aki and Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07603961673011273718noreply@blogger.com0Williams Lake, BC, Canada52.1416736 -122.141688523.831439763821152 -157.2979385 80.451907436178843 -86.9854385tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786264311115808700.post-58073868227730772032020-07-16T09:47:00.002-07:002020-07-16T09:47:15.621-07:00Kitchen Ulu Demonstration Aki's cutting up chicken.<br />
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Ulu's are a great tool for the kitchen. Different. They become an extension of your arm.<br />
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We raise chickens for eggs and meat.. We've 2 left in our freezer from last season. This year we're raising 35 meat birds.<br />
Here's a post about how we raise chickens, <a href="https://aki-and-scott-fireweed.blogspot.com/2015/09/you-are-what-you-eat-feeding-your-food.html" target="_blank">https://aki-and-scott-fireweed.blogspot.com/2015/09/you-are-what-you-eat-feeding-your-food.html</a> <br />
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We make the ulus from steel we recover from the lumber mills in the Cariboo region of British Columbia.<br />
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Aki and Scott<br />
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Everyone is seeing blue skies. Some living in the cities are seeing clear skies for the first time.<br />
Staying at home, being alone, thinking.<br />
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Schools have begun pointing their students online. Face to face teaching.<br />
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Online education, arguably the best instruction on the net is, <br />
<a href="https://www.khanacademy.org/" target="_blank">https://www.khanacademy.org</a>. We've been utilizing this source, full time for 10 years.<br />
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There is an online webinar with Bill Gates and the founder of Khan Academy, Sal Khan, this Friday. Watch live on <a href="https://emails.khanacademy.org/click/19889960.48133/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZmFjZWJvb2suY29tL2toYW5hY2FkZW15L3ZpZGVvcy8yNTE3NDkwMjkxOTM3NDEvP3V0bV9lbWFpbF9rYWlkPQ/5d1686ce05e94e11153fdcc2B841ee7e3" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">Facebook</a>. Watch live on <a href="https://emails.khanacademy.org/click/19889960.48133/aHR0cHM6Ly95b3V0dS5iZS9ORG5qWGREeEVoaz91dG1fZW1haWxfa2FpZD0/5d1686ce05e94e11153fdcc2Ba56c64e5" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">Youtube</a>.
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Some information about dedicated home schooling, pros and cons. <br />
<a href="https://www.calverteducation.com/should-i-homeschool/homeschooling-pros-and-cons" target="_blank">ttps://www.calverteducation.com/should-i-homeschool/homeschooling-pros-and-cons</a><br />
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With Khan Academy and maybe some new sites being whipped together now
(Khan Academy started in 2008), homeschooling will be an easier and a better education for many. <br />
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In one crazy way a revolution has begun. Don't doubt that governments are taking advantage. It's time for everyone to be hypersane and hypersensitive. Most of the politicians, at least in North America, I wouldn't trust to clean out our shed. Stay vigilant.<br />
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Unlike the majority of Canada, most of the territory we now know as British Columbia was never ceded by First Nations who have <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/archeological-find-affirms-heiltsuk-nation-s-oral-history-1.4046088" target="_blank">lived</a> on these lands for at least the last 14,000 years.</div>
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British Columbia, as settlers first called the province, has existed for
just over 160 years — less than one per cent of the time First Nations
people have lived here. <br />
Except for the <a href="https://hcmc.uvic.ca/songheesconference/" target="_blank">Douglas Treaties</a>
on Vancouver Island, a portion of northeastern B.C. covered by Treaty
8, and a handful of modern treaties signed since the 1990s, the majority
of British Columbia is First Nations’ land that was never covered by a
treaty or taken as spoils of war.<br />
Today, there are 200 distinct First Nations occupying their territories in B.C.<br />
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Like their lives and
cultures, First Nations and Inuit legal systems across Canada were never
extinguished, even where treaties were signed. The Supreme Court of
Canada has declared these legal systems, unique to each nation, never
stopped being valid just because Europeans settled here.<br />
.This reality has meant
continual clashes between Canadian governments who wish to mine natural
resources for profit and jobs, and Indigenous people asserting their
right to a seat at the table where decisions are made over how lands and
resources are used. <br />
The latest such conflict occurred last week
when the Royal Canadian Mounted Police entered the unceded territory of
the Wet’suwet’en Nation, 22,000 square kilometres located southwest of
Smithers, <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/5dmyvk/what-its-like-living-in-a-region-divided-by-a-pipeline-and-colonialism" target="_blank">arresting</a> almost 30 Wet’suwet’en people and their allies.<br />
The police were enforcing a Dec. 31, 2019
B.C. Supreme Court injunction granted on behalf of Coastal GasLink, a
subsidiary of TC Energy, a.k.a. TransCanada Energy.*<br />
Last month, following the injunction ruling, B.C. Premier John Horgan announced the Coastal GasLink project would go ahead, <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/lng-pipeline-horgan-british-columbia-1.5425745" target="_blank">telling</a> the media “the rule of law applies” now that the courts had sided with TC Energy.<br />
But on unceded territory, the title of
which is claimed by a First Nation living there for thousands of years
without signed treaties or surrendering their land, whose rule of law
applies? That question drives intensifying debate and protests.<br />
Let’s break down and clarify six elements at play in this legal drama.<br />
<b>1. THE INJUNCTION</b><br />
The B.C. Supreme Court’s Dec. 31 injunction
sided with Coastal GasLink, giving it the right to continue
construction on a 400-person “man camp” in anticipation of a provincial
permit to construct a natural gas pipeline running from Dawson Creek to
Kitimat, B.C. <br />
Both the man camp and the pipeline will cut right through untouched Wet’suwet’en territory. <br />
This series of raids is the second time in <a href="https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2019/01/08/LNG-Pipeline-Unistoten-Blockade/" target="_blank">13 months</a>
the RCMP had raided Wet’suwet’en checkpoints along the logging road
leading to the proposed man camp site. The previous raids were in the
wake of a temporary injunction granted Coastal GasLink. In both cases
arrests were made in the name of Coastal GasLink workers’ safe access to
the territory.<br />
Injunctions have proven an effective legal
tool in Canada for corporations. The Yellowhead Institute, a First
Nations-led research centre focusing on land and governance based in
Ryerson University’s faculty of arts, released a <a href="https://redpaper.yellowheadinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/red-paper-report-final.pdf" target="_blank">report</a> last fall showing of the roughly 100 injunctions they reviewed, 76 per cent filed by corporations against First Nations were <a href="https://twitter.com/Yellowhead_/status/1226901044787056641/photo/1" target="_blank">granted</a>, but just 19 per cent of injunctions filed by First Nations against corporations were approved. <br />
“Land alienation is linked to the broader
political economy of Canada that relies to a significant extent on its
natural resource sector to secure jobs and investment. Thus, land
alienation is a major economic driver of the Canadian economy,” the
report concludes.<br />
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<b>2. HEREDITARY CHIEFS AND BAND COUNCILS</b><br />
Under the <a href="https://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/bands/" target="_blank">Indian Act</a>,
those who are recognized by the federal government as having First
Nations “status” are grouped into bands, led by a chief and council
elected by the band members. <br />
Bands have control over reserve lands,
where First Nations were forcibly relocated — sometimes on their own
territories, sometimes not — under the Indian Act. Under Canadian law,
reserve lands actually belong to the Crown, but bands have jurisdiction
over the people and services on those reserves.<br />
Coastal GasLink has signed <a href="https://theconversation.com/wetsuweten-why-are-indigenous-rights-being-defined-by-an-energy-corporation-130833" target="_blank">Impact and Benefit Agreements</a> with 20 Indian Act band councils along the 670-kilometre proposed pipeline route.<br />
Prior to the passing of the Indian Act in
1876, First Nations, including the Wet’suwet’en had their own leadership
and legal systems that were ignored by colonial governments, but never
extinguished. <br />
While the elected Wet’suwet’en chief and
council have jurisdiction over the reserve communities on their
territory, the rest of the 22,000 square kilometre territory — roughly
the size of New Jersey — is the jurisdiction of the 13 hereditary chiefs
of the Wet’suwet’en Nation’s five clans: Gilseyhu, Likhts’amisyu,
Laksilyu, Tsayu and Gidimt’en. <br />
Between the five clans there are 13 houses,
each with their own territory overseen by a hereditary chief. The
proposed Coastal GasLink pipeline and man camp are slated for a section
of Wet’suwet’en Nation controlled by the Dark House.<br />
Due to the recent passing of two hereditary
chiefs — and two hereditary chief vacancies — only nine of the 13
Wet’suwet’en hereditary chief positions are currently filled.<br />
Unlike the hereditary royalty of the
British monarchy, Wet’suwet’en hereditary chief is not a lifetime
position bestowed on a bloodline. Rather, it’s a title that can be
bequeathed a Wet’suwet’en Nation member based on their character and
conduct — though this remains <a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/article-wetsuweten-hereditary-system-coastal-gaslink-pipeline-protests-bc/" target="_blank">a matter of some dispute</a> within the Wet’suwet’en First Nation. <br />
While the elected Wet’suwet’en band council
signed an agreement in favour of the pipeline with Coastal GasLink, the
nine Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs maintain it is they, not the band
council, who have jurisdiction over their territory. <br />
“This pipeline does not go through one
band” community, said John Ridsdale, a.k.a. Hereditary Chief Na’Moks,
one of two hereditary chiefs of the Tsayu or Beaver Clan. <br />
The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that
in order for resource projects to go ahead on Indigenous lands, the
government must engage in consultation with Indigenous title holders in
order to receive their “consent” for the project — or else prove why
it’s in the public interest to override Indigenous people’s <a href="https://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/constitution_act_1982_section_35/" target="_blank">constitutional rights</a>.
The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples goes
one step further, calling for “free, prior and informed consent” for
all projects on Indigenous lands.
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But Chief Na’Moks says the B.C. government
abdicated its responsibility for consultation to a corporation, in this
case Coastal GasLink. And when the hereditary chiefs pushed back, the
government sent in the RCMP.<br />
“You look at ‘free, prior and informed
consent,’ and at this point now, looking down the barrel of a gun, I
don’t know how that can be considered ‘free,’” he said.<br />
There has been a Wet’suwet’en checkpoint on
the Morice West Forest Service Road, erected at Unist’ot’en Village on
Dark House territory, since 2009. In 2018, Coastal GasLink filed an
injunction against the checkpoint, alleging its workers were unable to
enter the territory to begin construction on the man camp.<br />
In December 2018, the B.C. Supreme Court <a href="https://www.jwnenergy.com/article/2018/12/judge-expands-coastal-gaslink-injunction-against-pipeline-blockade/" target="_blank">granted a temporary injunction</a>,
but the Wet’suwet’en refused to allow Coastal GasLink to cross. The
following month the RCMP raided the checkpoint, arresting 14 people.<br />
Eventually the chiefs met with Coastal
GasLink and agreed to let workers enter Wet’suwet’en territory to
conduct “soft work” like water and soil sample collection and testing.
But Chief Na’Moks told The Tyee in a recent phone interview that Coastal
GasLink did not stick to the rules. <br />
“They started clearing trees, building
roads, put in a man camp. They absolutely abused the access, which we
had allowed,” he said. <br />
“We had filed a judicial review of the
certification and permitting of Coastal GasLink — it’s before the Oil
and Gas Commission right now — and in a 10-month period we have in
excess of 50 infractions.”<br />
All nine existing hereditary chiefs oppose
the project, and issued an eviction notice to Coastal GasLink workers on
Jan. 4, 2020. By this point three protest camps had been established
along the service road to stop Coastal GasLink workers from entering.<br />
But the granting of the temporary
injunction was enough to grant the RCMP powers to raid the camps. After
weeks of tense standoff, the RCMP began moving in, and over the course
of a week beginning Feb. 6 they raided and dismantled three Wet’suwet’en
camps along the Morice West Forest Service Road, arresting almost 30
people. No charges have been laid. <br />
<b>3. PREVIOUS COURT RULINGS</b><br />
While the continued existence and relevance
of Indigenous land-based legal systems may come as news to many
Canadians, it is not news to our governments or law courts. <br />
In fact, it is recognized in our Constitution: Sec. 35 recognizes and affirms the “existing Aboriginal and treaty rights.”<br />
And our <a href="https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/const/page-15.html" target="_blank">Charter of Rights and Freedoms</a>: the rights and freedoms of others do not override or take away those of Indigenous people.<br />
Over the past 30 years there have been
several provincial and national court rulings affirming the existence
and continued relevance of Indigenous legal systems in what is now known
as Canada. In the interest of time and space, here are just a few: <br />
<i>R. v. Van der Peet (SCC 1996)</i>:
Dorothy Marie Van der Peet, a member of the Stó:lō Nation, was charged
with selling fish without a license. Van der Peet maintained this
infringed on her Indigenous hunting and fishing rights as outlined under
Sec. 35 of the constitution.<br />
While Van der Peet lost the case, Supreme Court of Canada judge Beverley McLachlin wrote:<br />
“The history of the interface of Europeans
and the common law with aboriginal peoples is a long one. As might be
expected of such a long history, the principles by which the interface
has been governed have not always been consistently applied. Yet running
through this history, from its earliest beginnings to the present time
is a golden thread — the recognition by the common law of the ancestral
laws and customs of the aboriginal peoples who occupied the land prior
to European settlement.”<br />
<i>Delgamuukw vs. The Queen/British Columbia (SCC 1997)</i>: A <a href="http://www.gitxsan.com/community/news/the-delgamuukw-court-action/" target="_blank">combined legal effort</a>
by the 13 Wet’suwet’en and 35 Gitxsan hereditary chiefs to stop the
province of B.C. from clearcutting on their unceded territories.
Originally filed in 1984, it took 13 years to reach the Supreme Court of
Canada, who ruled they could not establish Wet’suwet’en and Gitxsan
rights and title due to a technicality. Instead they suggested a
retrial, or negotiations with the province and federal governments.<br />
With their resources exhausted, neither
Nation brought the case to trial again, and negotiations with Canadian
and provincial governments did not happen. <br />
However, Delgamuukw, <a href="https://thediscourse.ca/urban-nation/twenty-years-historic-delgamuukw-land-claims-case-pipeline-divides-gitxsan-nation" target="_blank">named after</a>
just one of the hereditary chiefs involved, did rule that Indigenous
oral history, previously dismissed by lower courts as irrelevant, was
just as valid as European settlers’ written histories. And it maintained
Indigenous rights and title could not be dismissed or dissolved by
Canadian or provincial governments.<br />
<i>The Tsilhqot’in Nation v. British Columbia (SCC, 2014)</i>:
This was the first Supreme Court of Canada case to rule definitively on
Indigenous rights and title. The courts granted the Tsilhqot’in
Nation’s claim to the 1,750 square kilometres they were in court to
protect from clear-cut logging.<br />
While the courts did not say the decision
over resource extraction in the region belonged to the Tsilhqot’in
Nation alone, it did rule that when a First Nation has proven title in
court (as has the Tsilhqot’in), colonial governments must engage in
consultations with them, government-to-government, for free, prior and
informed consent on resource projects happening on their land before
greenlighting a project. The Wet’suwet’en seek but have not yet proven
title in court.**<br />
As Judith Sayers, a.k.a. Kekinusuqs from
Hupacasath First Nation in Port Alberni, B.C., president of the
Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council, <a href="https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2014/07/04/First-Nations-Decision-Changes-BC-Business/" target="_blank">wrote in The Tyee</a>
a month after the ruling was released, “My prediction was that this
country would be rocked by the Tsilhqot’in decision and it certainly
was. We are still feeling the reverberations from the Tsilhqot’in
decision and will for many years to come.”<br />
(You can read about other relevant court cases <a href="https://www.wcel.org/blog/invisible-thread-coastal-gaslink-decision-and-why-we-must-do-more-recognize-application" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="https://raventrust.com/2020/01/20/get-clear-on-wetsuweten-law-unpacking-canadian-court-and-medias-confusion" target="_blank"> here</a>.)<br />
<b>4. PAST STANDOFFS AND THE SHIFTING LEGAL CONTEXT </b><br />
The Wet’suwet’en blockades are not the
first time First Nations people have literally stood their ground on
land and title disputes in Canada.<br />
This summer marks the 30th anniversary of
the Oka Crisis, a 78-day standoff between the Mohawk and the province of
Quebec over the expansion of a nine-hole golf course by the Oka
municipality onto sacred Kanesatake Mohawk territory. While no golf
course was built, the Mohawk continue to <a href="https://aptnnews.ca/2019/07/11/29-years-after-the-oka-crisis-land-disputes-still-haunt-kanesatake/" target="_blank">fight off</a> development on the territory. <br />
And 25 years ago, 400 police officers and
the army came down on 20 Ts’peten Defenders of the Secwepemc Nation at
Gustafsen Lake, B.C., after a 31-day standoff over ranchers’ grazing
rights on Secwepemc land. <br />
But this is the first land standoff since
the Supreme Court of Canada made clear that Indigenous law was never
extinguished, said Kate Gunn, a lawyer with First Peoples Law. <br />
Gunn’s firm is representing the Dark House
in an upcoming judicial review of Coastal GasLink’s archeological
mitigation plan for their territory. Gunn spoke to The Tyee on her own
behalf, not that of the Dark House.<br />
The courts have ruled governments, not
corporations, must engage in nation-to-nation consultations, Gunn said,
that is consistent with the Indigenous nation’s laws and cultural
practices in seeking free, prior and informed consent. <br />
“I don’t think that the federal or
provincial governments, at this point, have really grappled with what
that means in terms of having the Wet’suwet’en or other Indigenous
groups really actively asserting their laws and jurisdiction out on the
land,” she said. <br />
“There isn’t a template that says which law is paramount when that happens.”<br />
<b>5. UNDRIP</b><br />
Then there is the United Nations
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People, more commonly referred
to as UNDRIP, a non-binding resolution outlining the rights of
Indigenous people worldwide. Passed by the United Nations in 2007,
Canada did not endorse the declaration until 2010, although it still
referred to the document as “aspirational.” <br />
It would be late 2015 before the federal
government promised to adopt and implement the declaration, a move we
are still waiting on over four years later. Rather, it was British
Columbia who took the first step last October by becoming the only
province to pass legislation aimed at implementing the declaration in
all provincial ministries, Crown corporations and laws. <br />
The celebrations didn’t last long. RCMP raids on Wet’suwet’en territory, according to <a href="https://sierraclub.bc.ca/wp-content/uploads/Press-Release-for-Indigenous-Youth-Press-Conference.pdf" target="_blank">some</a>
who occupied the steps of the B.C. legislature last week, appear to
directly violate at least one of UNDRIP’s 46 articles. They point to
Article 8 which declares, “States shall provide effective mechanisms for
prevention of, and redress” for any action “which has the aim or effect
of dispossessing them of their lands, territories or resources” and any
“form of forced population transfer which has the aim or effect of
violating or undermining any of their rights.”<br />
Sayers, who is also an assistant professor of business and law at the University of Victoria, <a href="https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2020/01/15/Horgans-Pipeline-Push-Betrays-Reconciliation-Promise-UNDRIP/" target="_blank">highlighted</a> in The Tyee a few other UNDRIP articles these raids may violate: <br />
“For instance, Article 18 gives the
Wet’suwet’en the right to participate in any decision-making through
their own procedures and law. This has not happened. Article 26 gives
them the right to own, use, develop and control the lands, territories
and resources they possess through ownership, and says the state must
give legal recognition and protect their lands and resources. None of
this has occurred to date, and it doesn’t look like B.C. is even
considering it. The government is saying this is Crown land, the company
has Crown permits, so therefore the development must happen.”<br />
<b>6. WHAT’S NEXT FOR THE COURTS</b><br />
In her New Year’s Eve decision granting the
injunction that triggered last week’s RCMP raids, Madam Justice Church
of the B.C. Supreme Court made several <a href="https://www.coastalgaslink.com/siteassets/pdfs/whats-new/2019/2019-12-31-coastal-gaslink-comments-on-injunction-decision/judge-church--coastal-gaslink-pipeline-ltd.-v.-huson--december-2019.pdf" target="_blank">statements</a> regarding whether Wet’suwet’en law should be factored when land claims remain unsettled.*<br />
“As a general rule, Indigenous customary
laws do not become an effectual part of Canadian common law or Canadian
domestic law until there is some means or process by which the
Indigenous customary law is recognized as being part of Canadian
domestic law, either through incorporation into treaties, court
declarations, such as Aboriginal title or rights jurisprudence or
statutory provisions,” she wrote.<br />
“There has been no process by which
Wet’suwet’en customary laws have been recognized in this manner. The
Aboriginal title claims of the Wet’suwet’en people have yet to be
resolved either by negotiation or litigation. While Wet’suwet’en
customary laws clearly exist on their own independent footing, they are
not recognized as being an effectual part of Canadian law.”<br />
Ultimately Church concluded the issue of
whether Wet’suwet’en law and land title were legitimate are beyond the
scope of an injunction hearing. “This is not the venue for that analysis
and those are issues that must be determined at trial.”<br />
Gavin Smith, a staff lawyer with West Coast Environmental Law and Smithers resident, wrote a blog post <a href="https://www.wcel.org/blog/invisible-thread-coastal-gaslink-decision-and-why-we-must-do-more-recognize-application" target="_blank">tackling</a> Madam Justice Church’s conclusions. <br />
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He notes: “The recognition of Indigenous
governance within the Canadian legal system is emphatically not an issue
specific to Dark House or the Wet’suwet’en. We all have an interest in
the recognition of Indigenous governance, both to address colonial
injustices and to uphold the law in its fullest sense (including the
Canadian constitution).” <br />
In the wake of the injunctions, members of the Wet’suwet’en Nation have launched several court actions <a href="https://thenarwhal.ca/b-c-failed-to-consider-links-between-man-camps-violence-against-indigenous-women-wetsuweten-argue/" target="_blank">including</a>
a judicial review of Coastal GasLink’s permit as it relates to man
camps and their documented impact on violence against women and girls;
and a constitutional <a href="https://raventrust.com/2020/02/12/breaking-wetsuweten-house-chiefs-launch-legal-challenge-over-climate-impacts-of-fossil-fuel-projects-on-their-territories/" target="_blank">challenge</a> over the potential environmental impacts of a natural gas pipeline and the resulting carbon emissions.<br />
This fight is far from over, but the existing Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs express confidence their law will prevail. <br />
“At one point they said, ‘You’ve got to
prove your strength of claim,’” Na’Moks said of the B.C. government.
“I’d like to see their strength of claim. We know ours. We’ve been here
for thousands of years.”<br />
<i>*Story updated on Feb. 18 at 12:50 p.m.
to correct that the Dec. 31, 2019 injunction ruling in favour of Coastal
GasLink came from the B.C. Supreme Court, not the B.C. Court of Appeal.</i><br />
<i>**Story corrected Feb. 15 at 12 p.m.</i><br />
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Aki and Scott<br />
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<a href="https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/02/14/Wetsuweten-Crisis-Whose-Rule-Law/" target="_blank">https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/02/14/Wetsuweten-Crisis-Whose-Rule-Law/ </a><span style="font-weight: normal;"> An in-depth article about the state of government relations.</span></h4>
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Aki and Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07603961673011273718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786264311115808700.post-18578544299993967882020-01-19T13:32:00.000-08:002020-01-20T10:23:17.791-08:00Survival or "Indian Time"<br />
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Awhile ago, sitting in my truck on a cold winter evening listening to a radio program on CFNR called "Journeys", an indigenous-run show out of Terrace B.C., the guest talked about "Indian time". What Indian time was.<br />
When salmon are running it is time to fish. If you don't you'll starve over the winter. When salal berries are ripe it's time to pick or they're gone for the season. A simple idea. Do or don't, live or die.<br />
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Indian time is about survival. Indian time is about life whether it's about food, finances, relationships or keeping control of your car in a tight situation.<br />
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Understanding critical times. Times that can determine our survival.<br />
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Our son played tournament chess, at 13 he was challenging the best players in the country. The game is about critical thinking, recognizing critical times and situations. A tool for children to learn about consequences. Indian time.<br />
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It seems to us that everyone should pay heed to Indian time as the climate changes, populations increase and the planets resources are being depleted.<br />
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Aki and Scott<br />
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logging road about a kilometre from our house when I found myself in the
midst of a pack of about a dozen wolves. They'd been chasing our two
dogs (who had been running ahead of me) and had arrived at the spruce
tree at the same time as myself. Utterly surprising to both parties,
and there were minutes spent just milling about, uncertain as to what
came next. Our two dogs, courage boosted by this pause, decided to turn
and give chase themselves. The wolves turned, ran for a bit, then
turned back to resume their pursuit. This happened three times, with
the wolves stopping just before they reached me, unafraid but wary. I
had picked up a stick and was waving it and yelling at our dogs to quit
their foolish behaviour. I finally had to give the dogs a whack to make
them listen, and turned towards home. The wolves followed for a spell -
I could hear them in the bush, but then it was quiet. The grey one
whom I took to be the leader had stopped and was looking at me, from a
distance of about 5 metres. Quiet and calm. The wolf turned and loped
away. Then I remembered the camera. Aki.<br />
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Copper
has been used by the indigenous here for thousands of years. In trade,
ceremony, tools, cutlery and generally showing affluence. We’ve melted
copper onto the blades, before hardening, intentionally distorting the blades. The
distortion comes from what we have seen here living in the bush in
British Columbia for 20 years. The impact on the indigenous peoples and
environment is distorted. The distortion in the steel follows the
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Our son, Kai, runs in the forest on a trail he made. One morning his
dog, Jack, jumped out of the bush in front of him. Jack was being
pursued by 2 wolves. They jumped out close behind Jack. Kai and the 2
young wolves, less than 10 feet apart, stopped and stared at each other. Moments passed. The wolves turned and went the way they had
come. At 100 feet into the bush the two wolves stopped and turned to
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">We’ve used moose antler off cuts we saved from our
knife shop, bent and distorted. We boiled the pieces, straightened them
with clamps and vise. They are the scales that hold the razor sharp
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our food, the dogs food, apples, berries and lots of dandelion and
flowers. I step out of the cabin and they leave. Jack, our dog, makes
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Two or three times in the last 20 sum years when the water
is low enough, swans visit and feed. They come and go for a couple of months in
the fall. They were here in 2018.</div>
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The small lake we're on gets smaller and much noisier.
Trumpeter swans are loud and like a big brass band that can't seem to keep a
tune but they sure are majestic creatures. We get the chance to get to know
them. Aki had a new attachment to the spotting scope.</div>
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Two
or three times in the last 20 sum years when the water is low enough,
swans visit and feed. They come and go for a couple of months in the
fall. They were here in 2018.</div>
<div data-redactor="1">
The small lake
we're on gets smaller and much noisier. Trumpeter swans are loud and
like a big brass band that can't seem to keep a tune but they sure are
majestic creatures. We get the chance to get to know them.</div>
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Two
or three times in the last 20 sum years when the water is low enough,
swans visit and feed. They come and go for a couple of months in the
fall. They were here in 2018.</div>
<div data-redactor="1">
The small lake
we're on gets smaller and much noisier. Trumpeter swans are loud and
like a big brass band that can't seem to keep a tune but they sure are
majestic creatures. We get the chance to get to know them.</div>
</div>
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Two
or three times in the last 20 sum years when the water is low enough,
swans visit and feed. They come and go for a couple of months in the
fall. They were here in 2018.</div>
<div data-redactor="1">
The small lake
we're on gets smaller and much noisier. Trumpeter swans are loud and
like a big brass band that can't seem to keep a tune but they sure are
majestic creatures. We get the chance to get to know them.<br />
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Two
or three times in the last 20 sum years when the water is low enough,
swans visit and feed. They come and go for a couple of months in the
fall. They were here in 2018.</div>
<div data-redactor="1">
The small lake
we're on gets smaller and much noisier. Trumpeter swans are loud and
like a big brass band that can't seem to keep a tune but they sure are
majestic creatures. We get the chance to get to know them.<br />
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Two
or three times in the last 20 sum years when the water is low enough,
swans visit and feed. They come and go for a couple of months in the
fall. They were here in 2018.</div>
<div data-redactor="1">
The small lake
we're on gets smaller and much noisier. Trumpeter swans are loud and
like a big brass band that can't seem to keep a tune but they sure are
majestic creatures. We get the chance to get to know them.<br />
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Two
or three times in the last 20 sum years when the water is low enough,
swans visit and feed. They come and go for a couple of months in the
fall. They were here in 2018.</div>
<div data-redactor="1">
The small lake
we're on gets smaller and much noisier. Trumpeter swans are loud and
like a big brass band that can't seem to keep a tune but they sure are
majestic creatures. We get the chance to get to know them.</div>
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Two
or three times in the last 20 sum years when the water is low enough,
swans visit and feed. They come and go for a couple of months in the
fall. They were here in 2018.</div>
<div data-redactor="1">
The small lake
we're on gets smaller and much noisier. Trumpeter swans are loud and
like a big brass band that can't seem to keep a tune but they sure are
majestic creatures. We get the chance to get to know them.</div>
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Photogaphy by<br />
Aki Yamamoto<br />
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<a href="http://www.caribooblades.com/">www.caribooblades.com</a><br />
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Two
or three times in the last 20 sum years when the water is low enough,
swans visit and feed. They come and go for a couple of months in the
fall. They were here in 2018.</div>
<div data-redactor="1">
The small lake
we're on gets smaller and much noisier. Trumpeter swans are loud and
like a big brass band that can't seem to keep a tune but they sure are
majestic creatures. We get the chance to get to know them.<br />
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Two
or three times in the last 20 sum years when the water is low enough,
swans visit and feed. They come and go for a couple of months in the
fall. They were here in 2018.</div>
<div data-redactor="1">
The small lake
we're on gets smaller and much noisier. Trumpeter swans are loud and
like a big brass band that can't seem to keep a tune but they sure are
majestic creatures. We get the chance to get to know them.<br />
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Two
or three times in the last 20 sum years when the water is low enough,
swans visit and feed. They come and go for a couple of months in the
fall. They were here in 2018.</div>
<div data-redactor="1">
The small lake
we're on gets smaller and much noisier. Trumpeter swans are loud and
like a big brass band that can't seem to keep a tune but they sure are
majestic creatures. We get the chance to get to know them.<br />
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Two
or three times in the last 20 sum years when the water is low enough,
swans visit and feed. They come and go for a couple of months in the
fall. They were here in 2018.</div>
<div data-redactor="1">
The small lake
we're on gets smaller and much noisier. Trumpeter swans are loud and
like a big brass band that can't seem to keep a tune but they sure are
majestic creatures. We get the chance to get to know them.</div>
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Two
or three times in the last 20 sum years when the water is low enough,
swans visit and feed. They come and go for a couple of months in the
fall. They were here in 2018.</div>
<div data-redactor="1">
The small lake
we're on gets smaller and much noisier. Trumpeter swans are loud and
like a big brass band that can't seem to keep a tune but they sure are
majestic creatures. We get the chance to get to know them.<br />
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Two
or three times in the last 20 sum years when the water is low enough,
swans visit and feed. They come and go for a couple of months in the
fall. They were here in 2018.</div>
<div data-redactor="1">
The small lake
we're on gets smaller and much noisier. Trumpeter swans are loud and
like a big brass band that can't seem to keep a tune but they sure are
majestic creatures. We get the chance to get to know them.<br />
<div data-redactor-wrapper="1" style="left: -9999px; position: absolute;">
<div data-redactor="1">
Two
or three times in the last 20 sum years when the water is low enough,
swans visit and feed. They come and go for a couple of months in the
fall. They were here in 2018.</div>
<div data-redactor="1">
The small lake
we're on gets smaller and much noisier. Trumpeter swans are loud and
like a big brass band that can't seem to keep a tune but they sure are
majestic creatures. We get the chance to get to know them.<br />
<div data-redactor-wrapper="1" style="left: -9999px; position: absolute;">
<div data-redactor="1">
Two
or three times in the last 20 sum years when the water is low enough,
swans visit and feed. They come and go for a couple of months in the
fall. They were here in 2018.</div>
<div data-redactor="1">
The small lake
we're on gets smaller and much noisier. Trumpeter swans are loud and
like a big brass band that can't seem to keep a tune but they sure are
majestic creatures. We get the chance to get to know them.<br />
<div data-redactor-wrapper="1" style="left: -9999px; position: absolute;">
<div data-redactor="1">
Two
or three times in the last 20 sum years when the water is low enough,
swans visit and feed. They come and go for a couple of months in the
fall. They were here in 2018.</div>
<div data-redactor="1">
The small lake
we're on gets smaller and much noisier. Trumpeter swans are loud and
like a big brass band that can't seem to keep a tune but they sure are
majestic creatures. We get the chance to get to know them.</div>
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<div data-redactor="1">
Two
or three times in the last 20 sum years when the water is low enough,
swans visit and feed. They come and go for a couple of months in the
fall. They were here in 2018.</div>
<div data-redactor="1">
The small lake
we're on gets smaller and much noisier. Trumpeter swans are loud and
like a big brass band that can't seem to keep a tune but they sure are
majestic creatures. We get the chance to get to know them.</div>
</div>
<div data-redactor-wrapper="1" style="left: -9999px; position: absolute;">
<div data-redactor="1">
Two
or three times in the last 20 sum years when the water is low enough,
swans visit and feed. They come and go for a couple of months in the
fall. They were here in 2018.</div>
<div data-redactor="1">
The small lake
we're on gets smaller and much noisier. Trumpeter swans are loud and
like a big brass band that can't seem to keep a tune but they sure are
majestic creatures. We get the chance to get to know them.<br />
<div data-redactor-wrapper="1" style="left: -9999px; position: absolute;">
<div data-redactor="1">
Two
or three times in the last 20 sum years when the water is low enough,
swans visit and feed. They come and go for a couple of months in the
fall. They were here in 2018.</div>
<div data-redactor="1">
The small lake
we're on gets smaller and much noisier. Trumpeter swans are loud and
like a big brass band that can't seem to keep a tune but they sure are
majestic creatures. We get the chance to get to know them. </div>
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Aki and Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07603961673011273718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786264311115808700.post-55383428272176787402019-07-15T10:25:00.001-07:002020-01-20T10:38:11.987-08:00Rain and Mushrooms<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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We took our 4 wheel drive off the road for the summer. Insured our car,.<br />
<br />
We have a car now. It has rained for a month. We haven't been able to get out of the bush for 2 weeks. <br />
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<br />We're picking a winter supply of mushrooms. A year's supply. We're eating a lot of mushrooms.<br />
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<br />Aki and Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07603961673011273718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786264311115808700.post-59063208246691029382019-06-25T17:51:00.000-07:002019-12-13T09:55:55.192-08:00SpringTelling it with pictures.<br />
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Sitting at the laptop connected via satellite from a cabin in the bush on the edge of the Chilcotin Plateau B.C. Amazing times connection. Aki is preparing lunch, greens from our bush garden she had dried in the summer, eggs <br />
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from our chickens, the oyster mushrooms we harvested from the aspen groves, boletes from around the young pines and some pork from a pig raised for us by an organic farmer.<br />
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Cowboys came through our place on horseback in the fall looking for stray cattle that roam the bush.<br />
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Sun dried., canned. Tomatoes make living in the bush easier.<br />
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We have one line coming in from a shallow well. Our cabin has no foundation so an insulated box with a small automobile 12v light keeps the pipe from freezing.<br />
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The outhouse's frozen stalagmite is growing. Got to dig deeper.<br />
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Our 21st winter living in the bush on the edge of the Chilcotin plateau. Every winter has been different. </div>
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