Recipes are works-in-progress. Adjust and season to taste.
To respect nature and technology's limits:
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1. Abide by Herman Daly's principles: Do not take from Earth faster than it can replenish, and do not waste faster than Earth can absorb the waste.
2. Acknowledge that we've not abided by these principles for centuries. We each struggle here, do our best-- and have lots to learn.
3. Ask questions. Listeners can receive.
4. Prioritize the ecophere's health. If bats, honeybees and coral reefs (for examples) are not healthy, every living creature is affected.
5. Get your hands in dirt. (Connecting with dirt can help reduce desire for new things.) Grow herbs on your windowsill. Grow vegetables and share your produce with neighbors. Interview relatives about your ancestors' connection to land.
6. Compost your kitchen scraps. Use less plastic.
7. Learn about your watershed. (The U.S. has six main and about 2100 smaller watersheds.) Trace your water supply from precipitation to tap and back to precipitation. Learn about the minerals, fuels and food within your bioregion. Learn how mining and manufacturing impact your watershed.
8. Move toward living within your watershed's offerings.
9. Notice that covering land with roads, parking lots, data centers and utility-scale solar PVs disrupts soil structure, water cycles and Earth's cooling mechanisms. Build healthy water cycles and soil structure. Care for your bioregion so that in 100 years, it will care for your offspring.
10. Do not give children an electronic device at least until they master reading, writing and math on paper-- and can cook a favorite meal. No Google maps until you can read a map on paper.
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