Month: August 2020

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Statement on Covid-19 from International College of Integrative Medicine

Here are some good suggestions from the ICIM for reducing risk from Covid-19.
These are their suggestions for basic supplements to support your immune system to minimize symptoms if you should catch the virus:
The following inexpensive supplemental levels are recommended for adults; for children reduce these in proportion to body weight:
1. Vitamin C: 3,000 milligrams (or more) daily, in divided doses.
2. Vitamin D3: 2,000 International Units daily. (Start with 5,000 IU/day for two weeks, then reduce to 2,000)
3. Magnesium: 400 mg daily (in citrate, malate, chelate, or chloride form)
4. Zinc: 20 mg daily
5. Selenium: 100 mcg (micrograms) daily

Please note that since this was written the CDC has updated their mask-wearing recommendations. They now recommend that everyone wear a mask in any public setting, especially when social distancing can’t be maintained.

Woman wearing face mask with images of antiviral herbs
Art by Wendy Chappell-Dick
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Zoom Get Together August 18

At our July event those who gathered had a great conversation about initiatives for Bluffton Transition. We reviewed what we are currently doing and plan to continue doing (community garden, public events, repair clinic) and things others are doing which promote a resilient and sustainable community. Then we brainstormed other projects folks were interested in pursuing. We chose two projects to get started on right away. The first is a sharing library of books to be expanded to other things like tools, skills and time (you received an email from Chris Morrissey about this). The second is cleaning out invasive species and promoting native plants.

On Tuesday, August 18 at 7:30 pm we will hold a similar event (on Zoom) in which we discuss our current projects and decide what else people are interested in undertaking. All our welcome to attend. If interested in joining the conversation call Jon or Sally at 419-358-0950.

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Transition Bluffton Library!

Transition Bluffton is trying something new for us – a virtual library! We hope to spread knowledge for the benefit of the community on topics related to resilience, the environment, and community building. See the link under “resources” at the top of this page. Here’s how it will work:

  1. We each go through our shelves and find any books or other items that we think might be relevant and of interest to others that you would be willing to loan out.
  2. To add a book to our database, or if you see a book you would like to borrow, send us an email at transitionbluffton@gmail.com and our librarian, Chris M., will give you contact information so you can contact the owner to arrange to borrow it, or will add it to our list.
  3. Original owners remain owners of the items. Borrowers are responsible to care for borrowed items as if they were their own and return them to the owner at an agreed upon time. Owners and borrowers should exchange contact information and are responsible to keep track of where they are. Transition Bluffton’s only role is to keep a list of items and bring lenders and borrowers together.

We are starting with books and related items, such as DVDs and videos. If this is successful we may in the future expand into tool sharing, seed sharing, or who knows what.

Please only offer items related to “Transition type” topics, such as resilience, self-sufficiency, community building. General interest titles or things that could be found at the public library should not be included.

If you would like to write a review or description of a book, please do so and we would put it on our website or FB page.