"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.”

Henry D. Thoreau

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Rethinking Lifestyles

We prepare a weekly column that appears on page 7 in The Carillon and on mysteinbach.ca every week. It also appears as a blog: Rethinking Lifesyle.blogspot.com. Subscribe to it in your reader and join the discussion through the comment section. We also welcome 500 word essays from readers of the column and will publish essays germane to who we are. Send your essays to eric@southeasttransition.com.
Tuesday
Sep252012

12-09-27 Solar Ready Homes

This is not a plea to put solar panels on every house. This is simply a plea that houses being built today be built in a way that will accommodate solar panels in the future. It is time the eminence of a low-carbon future affected everyone’s choices: potential homeowners, homebuilders, developers and city planners.

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Wednesday
Sep192012

12-09-20 Is the South Eastman Transition Initiative Needed?

We need a group that brings together residents of southeastern Manitoba who share a concern about the way we live: a group that facilitates conversations and allows for the possibility of group action that will have a greater impact on our community than each of us acting individually. The South Eastman Transition Initiative tries to be such a group.

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Tuesday
Sep112012

12-09-13 Measuring What We Want

Someone has said “What you measure is what you get.” Implicit in TomorrowNow is the conventional assumption that the measure of success of government policy is GDP. This needs to change. GDP as a measure of prosperity and success needs to be supplanted with some other measure that more accurately reflects prosperity.

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Tuesday
Sep042012

12-09-06 Let the Parker Pay

Imagine a different Steinbach. Imagine a Steinbach with a parking policy and a culture that expects the driver to pay for the space to park his car!

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Tuesday
Aug282012

12-08-30 Learning About Organic Dairy Farming

On Thursday, August 23rd, the South Eastman Transition Initiative sponsored a visit to Sardius Holsteins, an organic dairy farm a few miles south east of Steinbach. Sam and Anne Appleby together with their son Bill run the farm.

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