Over the Hedge by T Lewis and Michael Fry for August 11, 2012

Too small

Now for the extension cord!

Verne, don’t forget your moisturizer, exfoliating gloves, tweezers, Pippi Longstocking books and your SPF 60 sunblock!

As many people discovered in the “Back to the Land” movement in the ‘70s, you can’t go back to where you didn’t come from in the first place.

JosephR4570: Very few are born there any more. Their problem was incomplete information, and the powers that be are determined to keep it that way. I have a six semester-hour course covering everything from energy sources, to hydrologic cycle, to transportation, to economic systems. I have taught it before 1982 and kept up with technology since. But since Reagan gutted the Bureau of Appropriate Technology in ‘82, no college will let me teach it even on a noncredit basis – and there are some 20 accredited colleges and universities within commuting range of my house. I almost got hired at the one my masters came from, but I think they decided it wouldn’t help their tenure track to have a course on how to do things for yourself and neighbors rather than buying from multinational corporations when the chair of the Board of Regents is also CEO of the local electric monopoly.

I hope you have a generator in that shell Vern.

Jkiss: Or at the very least, a photovoltaic shell, erectable windmill, and a pelton wheel for any creek still flowing.

Better hope it’s a solar powered night light.