Want to Build A Local Libertarian SMILE Community?

Join the official effort and become a trainee. The pilot has 30K participants. See: http://libertariancitizencommunity.wordpress.com/

A Healthy Vegetarian Christmas…

…or winter holidays can be done, or also as an impressive set of sides for your regular meal…best wishes!

Video of the Month: How To Go Back to The Land

We’re combining the Youtube/Ted to a video of the month on the 27th. Enjoy!

http://farmwars.info/?p=8959   Just remember chickens and ducks don’t mix. One couple’s story…and why not have a second place in the copuntry or another country just in case, maybe?

Upside Down Libertarian Gardens: Winter Tomato Heaven

 

 

 

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http://greenupgrader.com/14886/garden-hack-repurposed-upside-down-tomato-planter/ First developed by Libertarians in the last century and revived by LIO leaders, it keeps away confused bugs, minimizes space and water needs, and more!

SIP! Your Soda Bottle Year-Round Window Farm

 

http://www.insideurbangreen.org/recycled-popsoda-bottles/ What better Fall project, especially with the kids?

First revived by Libertarians in the 70′s, they’re coming back…because nothing says love like fresh parsley and free and nutritious year round tomatoes, salad greens, spinach,  peppers, eggplant, beans galore,  peas, chives, herbs, strawberries,  and much more. Just cut up the bottles, hang them up in ‘strings’ or on a shelves…and soon you have an attractive addition to your more autonomous home.

Libertarian Preppers, Survivalists! Foxfire Unveiled

 

…here are great links to the influential, fascinating and useful approach & toolkits developed by libertarianist hippies and dedicated people’s historians once distributed by the USLP …with plenty of things you can use today…

1. http://www.foxfire.org/articles/FoxfireFundInc.pdf (16 amazing pages you might love)

Non-Hybrid Seeds Explained

...by this dealer, and something you may want to look at as some companies try to get them banned and sue small farmers out of existence, say critics…http://www.non-hybrid-seeds.com/

Green Libertarians!

It’s easy to start being one…Libertarians have been championing voluntary Green solutions from the start. Have you taken advantage of  our items at http://libertariansmile.wordpress.com/category/all/your-causes/green-libs/ ?  Enjoy, and share with friends or link to your site!

Hydroponic Greenhouse Provides Jobs

http://crispgreen.com/2012/06/hydroponic-greenhouse-will-create-food-and-jobs-in-mn/ talk about hitting several targets with one stone…

Resilient Community Project

http://www.resilientcommunities.com   …another adaptation as Lib-type  ideas move through the culture…

Low-Cost Portable Eco-Micro Houses

…Snoopy wants one. The concept raises many challenges in areas  from zoning to recycling…See

Be A Low-Income Millionaire? Get The Libertarian Edge!…With These Powerful Articles…

…That many have missed…and spread them to friends, your e-groups…

Be Low-Income Millionaire		3
Global Security Info		3
Anarchist Co-op’s Urban Garden		3
Activist Campaign Against Web Censorship Win		3
Astronauts Laud Private Spacecraft		3
TED of the Month: Advertarianism, Life Extension, and More		3
6 Coercive Government Bans You’ll Love…		3
Randall Holcombe, Social Economist		3
Photosynthesis!		3
Write on Web, Get Paid		3
Libertarian Entrepreneurs: Check Out…		3
Thoughts On The Coming Electric Highway…		3
LIO Fellow L. Nikonov on Cronyism In Russia		3
Bennie Award-Gov’t Monopolies No More: Libertarians & Lib Ideas Cleared the Way for the 10 Largest–By Customer–Great US Companies…		3
Video Games Help You Discover Planets And More		3
FOIA D-BASE On Govenment…Every Nation Needs One		3
Systems: Best Map Ever		3
How Messed Up Were You By the School System?		3
World Hazelnut Co-Op is Free		3
What Was Communism Really Like?		3
Many Answers Must be Questioned		3

Taxes vs. Prize Challenges To Advance Society? 10 Great Prizes Underway

…the US Founders liked the idea, and it’s blossoming thanks to Lib-championed openness on everything from low-cost space travel to ecology to meat substitutes for vegetarians: http://listverse.com/2009/09/01/10-fascinating-prize-challenges/

Great Urban Homestead Links: Goats, Chickens, Mini-Farms, Honey, & More

…done right (organically, clean)  it won’t bother neighbors and has several benefits–even if you don’t eat them, just the milk and eggs…another step towards household autonomy and garden cities LIO Friends/ Libs are helping work for…and great project for co-ops, teens, homeschool, retirees, co-housing and more… : http://www.bing.com/editors-picks/home?q=urban+homesteading&form=pgbar2 …

Plastic Bottle Homes

…to match plastic bottle prepper storage…and that you can build, and people are creating right now:

Denise Minger: Are USDA Guidelines Hogwash?

.(Photo: Denise Minger) ..and other debunking of studies by government agencies and the  large corporations they adore in this contrarian blog  http://rawfoodsos.com/

Urban Beekeeping!

…fun, or you can always buy natural honey, a great imperishable food: http://devour.com/video/urban-beekeeper/

Libertarianism is Privatizing Nuclear Weapons: Lib Idea of the Month

…just not the way narrow-minded dunderhead critics expect, says MG who predicted it in 1977 –Will critics now say “But what about the poor?” Intrigued? Find out how it’s being done at :http://www.silohome.com/

Another Potential Libertopia Town

…namely this small town ready for sale, population: 1 –and BTW so much for the idiots who think saying “Libertarianism would mean people would have their own town” is an argument. http://www.bufordtradingpost.com/?p=154

 

…and to find out about the Libertarian community project and how to start one locally, go to: www.Libertarian-Citizen.org

Recycling Pizza Boxes

..can be harder than baking the Pizza–or even toxic. Home recyclers, public officials take note:http://www.recyclebank.com/live-green/330-the-pizza-box-recycling-mystery/

Your 1-Acre Self-Sufficient Sanctuary

…and without the livestock relaxing second home or co-housing project is a lot easier than you think, plus links on how low-cost intensive 3-acre organic farms can feed entire small communities http://wakeup-world.com/2011/07/22/how-to-start-a-1-acre-self-sufficient-sanctuary/

Thoughts On The Coming Electric Highway…

…not quite learning history’s lessons with more private, but a ways to go. Libs, take note: http://www.ecomagination.com/the-dawn-of-the-electric-highway?utm_campaign=outbrain

Farmer To Be Jailed for Feeding Hungry? Libertarian-Liberal Facepalm Award of the Month

http://farmwars.info/?p=7913  …many Libs suggest re-insured certification for these private co-ops along with vigilant consumers who know the provider.

100+ Edible and Medicinal Plants

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..because, hey, you never know:http://www.raems.com/edibles/wildmededibles.htm also    http://hurthawaii.blogs.com/EDIBLEANDMEDICINALPLANTS.pdf and   http://www.dpnc.org/News/JunJulAug10rgb.pdf  See more articles@

Photosynthesis!

…will be used for cheap transport and food production, say long-term researchers

3 Obvious Reasons To Prep: Opinion

..and don’t say LIO curator MG , who luvs ya baby, didn’t tell you. Prep by moving sensibly through these 3 possible needs, with something from his own experience… (Photo: Aristotle implied that an independent home of reasonable people was the goal of philosophy and the salvation of nations. Sounds logical.)

Smart People Use Mediterranean Diet, Which Makes Them Smart

See? So smarten up: http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-mediterranean-diet-brain-health-20120213,0,5561161.story  and talk to physician about joining many LIO Libs rejecting the old silly official guidelines that reduce lifespan, cause emotional swings leading to crime, and enrich political contributors.

Patronage Refund! *or* Why Everyone in Burlington Should Be a Member of City Market.

Reblogged from American Socialism for the Rich:

Many of the folks I know who live in Burlington, Vermont have a mixed perception of our co-operative grocery store, City Market. Though they appreciate the convenience of the downtown location, it's often perceived as an overpriced natural foods store which might be nice for specialty items, but would break the bank if you did the bulk of your grocery shopping there.

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A twofer today for the notorious US tax deadline...and another great lib co-op concept and model for ALL  public programs and many private ones of public character...

Libertaires! Start A Green Libertarian Town for 500K…Lib Idea of the Month (And No April Fools Joke For You)

Old French town for sale waiting to welcome a social model. And there are many other towns for sale worldwide as well, as low as 20K USD:

Kitchen Tools List–And ‘Green’ Kitchen Tools

http://www.bing.com/shopping/time-saving-kitchen-tools/r/270?FORM=pgbar2 Progress marches on– no thanks to coercive centralists who once tried to ban microwave ovens or saw them as a threat– in the overlooked time savers that have transformed homes and lives getting more energy efficient or sustainable every year. Which would you like?

Bennie Award:The Truth Behind that US Keystone Pipeline Opposition

 …isn’t crazed ecologists but Eminent Domain courtesy of Canada, but thanks to Lib activists forging coalitions, whole states are rebelling.

“I gotta law, you getta monopoly…everybody-a happy!”–Uncle Bennie

Be sure to look and check out our other Bennie awards each 7th of the month

Urban Farming Is Simple-Plus FREE Stuff

http://www.urbanfarm.org/  and http://www.urbanfarm.org/tidbits Great resource link and join growing community for af supportive 10K farmers…–We say start with simple independence-building, cost-saving herb window gardens and, well,  it just grows from there…

Get your copy of “The Urban Farm Story” Just fill out the details below and you’ll get access to the PDF faster than you can say “homegrown” …

*LIO Fellow B. Fuller: The Lib-Direction Governmentless City

…that helped inspire the modern world movement: Anarchist community without government ( using common law juries, contracts) in a mini-archist designed but flexible setting. This concept of a highly-proactively designed voluntary action/libertarian-based governmentless city of a highly humane and educated population so fascinated planners and futurists  it attracted favorable attention by the US Government, 3M and the University of Minnesota, which in the ’60′s contemplated helping fund a model for study–the US Federal Government studied abolishing itself, said Fuller, except as a more guideline oriented educational entity.

LIO Observer and Fellow philosopher-architect Buckminster Fuller proposed

Libertarian Lunatic Farmer Joel Salatin Named Person of the Year!

…by the Hook…and he’s one of many Libs and users peacefully  changing urban-, regular-, vegetable garden-  and micro-farming  worldwide with an expanded non-coercive, non-polluting, non-authoritarian and less- is- more Lib efficiency approach… See: http://bytestyle.tv/content/libertarian-lunatic-farmer-joel-salatin-named-person-year and also

Anti-Systems: How Regulators Created the BP Mess And More

http://tirelessagorist.blogspot.com/2012/01/libertarians-are-true-pragmatists.html By blocking common law inspection with regulations they then didn’t follow, and more factoids on how coercive regulations exist or act to subvert law here

EZ Milk Carton Container Garden–Great for Contrarian Lib Upside Down Gardens as Well.

 

http://coachhousecraftingonabudget.blogspot.com/2012/01/greenhouse-space-saver-plus-milk-carton.html Just thread slats thru handles and grow seedlings, healthy veggies… For upside down gardening use, 1st developed by our Libertarian collective in NY & DC  (it saves water and cuts down on bugs and space, and in this form helpes everything from urban and indoor food gardens to serious larger homesteads) in the early 70′s for use in program to convert abandoned lots into family friendly community gardens starting in economically devastated Harlem, and why ADD to pollution by paying Wal-mart?) see GOOGLE:

Alert! Will the Real Organic Please Stand Up?

 http://www.foodpolitics.com/2012/02/the-endless-controversy-over-organics/  A perspective on what many Libertarians are worried have become the bizarre battles to marginalize the movement for life-extending health and natural food and cunningly ’re-define organics away’ by crony capitalists allied with rule-touting officials vs. real issues of studying economic and health claims scientifically …

Food Politics

by Marion Nestle

Like TV’s ‘Parks and Recreation’ Show? …Meet the REAL Lib Parks Swanson

http://libertarianlifeguardssafetyvolunteers.wordpress.com/2011/01/08/libertarian-the-real-parks-swanson/ plus other great volunteers and youth in this growing and paradigm busting group started by Lib Lifeguards at work bettering safety and shifted to LIO volunteers…

Organic Farm/Garden/Foodbank Tips!

http://freewheelinglb.wordpress.com/2012/01/04/the-art-of-growing-food-interview-with-an-organic-farmer/ …Armand Saiia is a ball of manic energy. Originally from Buffalo, NY, Saiia spent most of his nine lives as an artist in New York City. However, his jack-of-all-existence work has found him as a sculptor, painter, photographer, filmmaker, chef, restaurant owner, yogi, Qigong healer, wilderness camp instructor, and now– organic farmer. His life story is a tumultuous, bohemian saga that at 56 has spat him out in rural New Mexico. Now, his art has transformed from images and sculpture to growing food and running Desert Grows, a non-profit that donates organic produce to local food banks.

More On Lib-based Garden Cities

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Photo: Espoo cultural centre – which houses a library, a gallery and a theatre – and the Keskustorni (central tower), one of the oldest buildings in Tapiola, Finalnd, which uses Garden City Concepts

…proposed by libertarians of the day and members of the LIO predecessor, the League, to pro-actively prevent many woes based on concepts of anarchist community extended to average people…NB: The concepts were meant to be flexible, and in the context of a wide range of local-based choice to p[rovide healthy, low-cost environments without poverty, and nurturing personal initiative…See:

Earthineers!

http://www.earthineer.com/index.php Check out this great blog community with incredible tips, forums and more…

Proto-Libertarian/Intentional Communities Resources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_anarchist_communities and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation_of_Egalitarian_Communities also http://www.gen-europe.org/ have many useful resources, including a community finder @ http://gen.ecovillage.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=226 And check out: http://www.findhorn.org/aboutus/ecovillage/ecovillage-at-findhorn/

Lib Kids! 4 Food Safety Habits

Hmmm. look it up online at ShelfLifeAdvice.com or call the local university extension offices.AND TEACH YOUR KIDS! (We would add fanatic handwashing and monitor fridge temperatures).

Rule 1: When in doubt toss it
Rule 2: Cut out the bad and eat the good
Rule 3: Smell it, look at it and decide
Rule 4: Nothing teaches you better than getting sick, play it safe.

More at this great site..

Survivalist Forum! Are YOU ready for Anything?

http://www.survivalistboards.com/ Incredible discussion from simple tips to whole-scale mini-communities.

50 Urban Farming Youtubes

Check out from amazingly money-saving container gardening by your indoor window to serious back garden greenhouses that grow enough to feed several families organically… 

Benefits of 1 Year Without Grocery Store

http://wakeup-world.com/2011/11/16/what-we-learned-from-a-year-without-food-from-a-grocery-store/…After a lot of research I had found a milk delivery service that actually came to my town. We made do that first month without our co-op order and the steer finally came in. We visited the farmers’ market every Saturday and if something came up and we couldn’t make our local one, we were able to always find another one in a nearby town that we could go to. Our little urban farm started to

Lib-Style Solar Power Co-ops in Bangladesh

Govenment stops taxing them, people start using them…

Home Energy Diet, Free Booklet

http://news.consumerreports.org/home/2012/01/this-year-put-your-house-on-an-energy-diet.html?EXTKEY=I72RSHA We cut costs dramatically…so can you:

Tool: Global Land Grab?

http://www.farmlandgrab.org/ Tracks legitimate purchases and abuses of eminent doimain and other laws to seize people land, farms. etc..Sample posts–

System: 1 MM Lbs. Organic Food on 3 Acres?

http://wakeup-world.com/2011/07/14/how-1-million-pounds-of-organic-food-can-be-produced-on-3-acres/ …and that’s no rutabaga. A debate–see