The Shed

GROWING OUR CAPACITANCE

Recent events have had me thinking about what sheddies can do for themselves and others. I’ve also been contemplating how important it is that sheddie knowledge gets spread wider.

Society clearly needs to be able to weather shock-load events better, the buzzword for this being ‘resilience’: the capacity to cope with, to absorb, to withstand.

Instead, we have evolved a just-in-time, minimal-inventory system dependent on cheap production ‘somewhere else’, because the number crunchers reckon unmoved stock and reasonable wages

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