Picture a Crow Indian elder, his wizened eyes catching yours in the ancient flicker of firelight. He is the last traditional chief of his people. He is over 90 years old. He tells you the story of the crow; about their intellect, cleaver ways and knack for adaptation. And then he tells you to watch this video to better understand just what you are up against.
- Ken Elwood / 31 / M / Longboarding, scouting mountain land, trading stuff, growing three kids, (日本語) - Please, NO press -
- February 2012. I recently planted potato seed.
- Welcome to Trad'er. What's here is for trade; not for sale. Here's my promotional video(s):
- Here's my wish list. It's getting down to where there's very little that I need. Most of this list is just stuff I could use if I had it lying around. 
- Welcome to Woodland - A nature-based micronation in Japan that claims over 2.5 million acres of abandoned forestland. Motto: E Silvam Libertas (From the forest, Freedom).
- I found mountain land. Technically it’s in Shiga, but it feels like Gifu or Mie.
- A personal project to save epic links. 
- It's gonna be an interesting 4o years to come, no doubt. People, stuff, oil, food, forest, weather, and all of it. In Food and Energy in Japan - How will Japan feed itself in the 21st Century?, written by Atony F.F. Boys back in 2ooo, I think the stuff said from the middle of page 58 to page 63 sums up the future of Japan (2o10-2o50) rather well: it'll be a steady series of changes in the background of our daily lives, with occasional local catastrophes.
And for the duration of all this, the "what can we do to save the entire planet?" rhetoric will probably devolve into "what can we do to survive here, to help others survive here, to minimize suffering and prepare for recovery here?" and the economy will shift gears into something we can't imagine yet. 
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