Dr Abe V Rotor
Living with Nature - School on Blog
Living with Nature - School on Blog
Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid with Ms Melly C Tenorio
738 KHz DZRB AM Band, 8-9 evening class, Monday to Friday
UST-AB DevCom: Bring answers tomorrow's meeting February 21, 2014, AB Dean's Office, together with other assignments.
Visit a museum rather than spending money in the mall.
Pahiyas in Lucban - a simple attraction every May 15
1. The term "voluntary simplicity" is one
path to simple living, it emanates from oneself – self discipline.
2. Simple living as a concept is distinguished from
those living in forced poverty, as it is a voluntary lifestyle choice.
3. Buddha, Francis
of Assisi, John the Baptist, did not only live simply, they were early ascetics, and asceticism to
them is a way of life.
4.
The best way to save money is to set aside
immediately a part of your salary, say 20 percent, and budget strictly the 80
percent. This is more effective than setting 20 percent after having budgeted
and spent 80 percent of your salary.
5.
You participate in the informal economy just
like the farmer’s wife who goes to market to sell farm products and comes back
with various household supplies. This is
contemporary barter system. This is
entrepreneurship on the grassroots.
6.
Food supplementation reduces our dependence on
conventional food; discovery of new food sources like seaweeds, wild food plants, as
well as the discovery of
new ways to prepare food comes at the heels of
austere living. Hamburger from banana flower (puso), Ipil-ipil for coffee DON’T
– use roasted rice instead or roasted corn, papait vegetable, sea cucumber,
kuhol, the many uses of gabi, substitution of wheat flour with rice flour.
Substitution of staple food with root crops (camote, cassava) to save on
precious rice.
7.
Postharvest losses reduces our supply, in fact
to one-half, that by saving even only 10 percent of what is wasted, would be
sufficient to fill up our annual deficit in rice and corn. Austerity is
reducing our waste on all levels – production, postproduction, food preparation.
8.
You would rather buy things in volume, preferably at wholesale price (paint,
cooking oil, rice), or by the dozens (e.g. eggs) for ready supply at
home, particularly these days when prices are increasing and supply is
unpredictable.
9.
You keep these tools and materials which you personally
use now and then in various handiwork such as house repairs and gardening: a
pair of pliers, hammer, set of screw driver, nails and screws, GI wires,
electrical tester, and the like.
10.
As a
general policy of any state, the government should pursue a self sufficiency
program in food, particularly staple (rice and corn) as the best way to insure
food security, even if there is adequate supply in the world market.
11.
You would rather have your laundry and ironing
once a week rather than daily or every other day, scheduling it usually on a
weekend, thus saving precious water and electricity, and getting more helping
hands from the family.
12.
Family
planning refers to limiting the number as well as proper spacing of your
children. If there is a sin of
commission or omission, there is also a sin of neglect – and if that neglect is
within the knowledge of the sinner, and the consequence is the ruin of the lives
of those under his care as parent, atonement is almost unthinkable.
13.
It is easier to meet our needs than our wants
to most people although to many, affluence is pursue even before needs are met.
14.
Youth today are torn between choices of white
collar jobs and blue collar jobs. They
are lured to easy education – diploma mill, and on the modern method of leaning
on the computer which actually does not offer an “end course” that makes one a
professional like a doctor, lawyer, agriculturist, and the like. Austerity
calls for a re-definition of courses that are functional in nature and
p[practical in application, and relevant to the changing times.
15. Corn as a whole, tops all rice substitutes,
other than the fact that 20 percent (14 million) of our population depends on
corn as staple.
16. In urban areas the most popular rice
substitutes are noodle products, followed by pandesal and
other wheat products. In rural areas, sweet potato (Ipomea batatas) and
cassava (Manihot esculenta) top the list of rootcrops.
18.
Food
management at home was a subject required in the elementary a generation ago
which was then called Home Economics.
19.
Save on
food if you have less pets. This is a
policy of China even to the present to save on food.
20.
There are more and more good schools in the
provinces and chartered cities. We would
rather send our children in these schools for practical reasons.
For practical reasons prepare food at home. Avoid eating outside.
If you cannot, prepare packed meal and snacks (baon).
21.
Grains would rather be used directly as food
and lessen the amount of using them in producing animal protein by feeding the
grains to poultry and animals. By doing this we maximize the value of food and
make them available to ordinary people.
22.
Tragedy of the Commons means that common
people who do not wake up to the realities of modern living will be left behind
by progress.
23.
Revolutions start with hungry stomach as
history can attest. French Revolution,
Russian, Chinese to mention some. These support Marxist philosophy of
justifying socialism over aristocracy and capitalism.
24. Simplification, ruralism, naturalism,
philosophy of living in solitude – all point to simple living .
25. That "bigger the better" is true, as based on E F Schumacher argument in his book Small is Beautiful.
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