Being a Chicago native and with lesser experience in the other two cities, I am grateful to you to point our all the good qualities of large cities. Of late, I’ve been very critical of them for ecological and sustainability reasons, i.e. the huge quantities of food and energy needing to be concentrated there and the equally huge quantities of waste and toxins produced.
I have seen great promise in small towns, now abandoned across the country where small farms could produce food for local consumption and all ecological and sustainability problems could be much more easily dealt with. On the other hand, a small town might be a difficult place to be different.
In the light of your comments, I’m inclined to see that there can be a blending of the two. Villages can exist within a city with many of their own needs being satisfied withing their neighborhood. When in Havana twenty years ago, I was told that 60% of the produce for the country was grown right in Havana. You could see every vacant lot being gardened, and I even saw a parking strip filled with cabbages! Perhaps waste could also be composted in the neighborhood rather than sent to large central treatment plants or landfills that present their own unique problems.
It would be great to have our cake and eat it too.
You make so much sense, Terry. I do think some large cities are developing community gardens that include composting facilities...that would be utopian, yes? To have our greens and eat our diversity too.
Vividly told and hit me right in my cabin fever place -- except no longing for winter right now, so yes! I'll pick LA and I'm calling a friend down there this week to see if she wants company! Thanks for a great read!
Being a Chicago native and with lesser experience in the other two cities, I am grateful to you to point our all the good qualities of large cities. Of late, I’ve been very critical of them for ecological and sustainability reasons, i.e. the huge quantities of food and energy needing to be concentrated there and the equally huge quantities of waste and toxins produced.
I have seen great promise in small towns, now abandoned across the country where small farms could produce food for local consumption and all ecological and sustainability problems could be much more easily dealt with. On the other hand, a small town might be a difficult place to be different.
In the light of your comments, I’m inclined to see that there can be a blending of the two. Villages can exist within a city with many of their own needs being satisfied withing their neighborhood. When in Havana twenty years ago, I was told that 60% of the produce for the country was grown right in Havana. You could see every vacant lot being gardened, and I even saw a parking strip filled with cabbages! Perhaps waste could also be composted in the neighborhood rather than sent to large central treatment plants or landfills that present their own unique problems.
It would be great to have our cake and eat it too.
Being a Chicago native and with lesser experience in the other two cities, I am grateful to you to point our all the good qualities of large cities. Of late, I’ve been very critical of them for ecological and sustainability reasons, i.e. the huge quantities of food and energy needing to be concentrated there and the equally huge quantities of waste and toxins produced.
I have seen great promise in small towns, now abandoned across the country where small farms could produce food for local consumption and all ecological and sustainability problems could be much more easily dealt with. On the other hand, a small town might be a difficult place to be different.
In the light of your comments, I’m inclined to see that there can be a blending of the two. Villages can exist within a city with many of their own needs being satisfied withing their neighborhood. When in Havana twenty years ago, I was told that 60% of the produce for the country was grown right in Havana. You could see every vacant lot being gardened, and I even saw a parking strip filled with cabbages! Perhaps waste could also be composted in the neighborhood rather than sent to large central treatment plants or landfills that present their own unique problems.
It would be great to have our cake and eat it too.
You make so much sense, Terry. I do think some large cities are developing community gardens that include composting facilities...that would be utopian, yes? To have our greens and eat our diversity too.
Vividly told and hit me right in my cabin fever place -- except no longing for winter right now, so yes! I'll pick LA and I'm calling a friend down there this week to see if she wants company! Thanks for a great read!
Being a Chicago native and with lesser experience in the other two cities, I am grateful to you to point our all the good qualities of large cities. Of late, I’ve been very critical of them for ecological and sustainability reasons, i.e. the huge quantities of food and energy needing to be concentrated there and the equally huge quantities of waste and toxins produced.
I have seen great promise in small towns, now abandoned across the country where small farms could produce food for local consumption and all ecological and sustainability problems could be much more easily dealt with. On the other hand, a small town might be a difficult place to be different.
In the light of your comments, I’m inclined to see that there can be a blending of the two. Villages can exist within a city with many of their own needs being satisfied withing their neighborhood. When in Havana twenty years ago, I was told that 60% of the produce for the country was grown right in Havana. You could see every vacant lot being gardened, and I even saw a parking strip filled with cabbages! Perhaps waste could also be composted in the neighborhood rather than sent to large central treatment plants or landfills that present their own unique problems.
It would be great to have our cake and eat it too.