TV Turn-Off Week 23-29 April April 23, 2007
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The idea is simple: take your TV, your DVD player, your video iPod, your XBOX 360, your laptop, your PSP, and say goodbye to them all for seven days. Simple, but not at all easy. Like millions of others before you, you’ll be shocked at just how difficult – yet also how life-changing – a week spent unplugged can really be.
But there’s a lot more to TV Turnoff Week than shaking up your relationship with passive entertainment. It’s all about saying no to being bombarded with unwelcome and unhealthy commercial messages. It’s about saying no to unfettered corporate media concentration and to the democratic deficit that results. And it’s about challenging the heavily distorted reflection of the world that we see on the screen, a reflection that is keeping us ill-informed and unaware of the very real political and environmental crises that we all currently face.
There are loads of ways you can get involved, whether it’s spreading the word with a poster campaign, posting our spots on your video blog, or making a donation to help air the uncommercials on broadcast TV.
This made me laugh, Adbusters have created a remote that will turn off almost any TV set! Check it out.
Or, you can just go ahead and brace yourself for the challenges and joys of seven days spent liberated from the commercial information grid.
Here´s one of the uncommercials created for this year´s campaign:
rustika April 12, 2007
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Our new home in El Cañuelo may be small, but the garden isn´t_3000 square metres of land sloping towards the mediterranean to be exact. Beautiful. I´ve never been much of a gardener, but the earth is very grateful and without too much effort we´ve had a generous vegetable garden for the last year. I marvel at the simplest things: I plant dry brown seeds and now I collect broad beans every week…Mother Earth reared those plants ever so tenderly, from fragile sprouts to stalk-bending bountiful plants. Small miracles. I love ‘em.
So I´d heard a lot about permaculture during my Californian phase but was too much of an urbanite to pay close attention, but now with a chunk of land before me…I decided to experiment! I got a book by Toby Hemenway called Gaia´s Garden and have been studying. Permaculture is a practical system of ecological design. By learning to mirror the patterns found in healthy natural environments, you can build profitable, productive, sustainable, cultivated ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. it works with a set of ethics that suggest we think and act responsibly in relation to each other and the earth. The ethics of permaculture provide a sense of place in the larger scheme of things, and serve as a guidepost to right livelihood in concert with the global community and the environment, rather than individualism and indifference.
The foundation of every successful garden is good soil, so I decided to get started at the most basic level by composting and sheet mulching. I collected a bunch of brown cardboard (no synthetic dye in there), straw and cow manure (all cheap and good quality) and placed them in layers as the book indicates. I wanted to give the soil in our new terraces and around our trees a nice boost for the long term. The idea is to mimic the way dark spongey soil is formed in a forest, where leaves fall on the ground and slowly decompose with the help of worms and other microherds. Weeds stop growing because those cardboard layers prevent light from getting to them and we maintain humidity in the earth much longer, a great benefit in arid Malaga…So let´s wait and see, it´s raining a lot suddenly which should speed the decomposition phase ( I have had straw started garden fire nightmares, it gets VERY DRY here over the summer you see) and present us with amazing soil in october or so.
roxy art April 11, 2007
Posted by Administrator in : kraziness , 4commentsRoxy drew my picyure today, look good, don´t I?
