“The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become” Goethe. A continuation of a fictional reflection by a hundred-year-old Espe from 2112 about the start and on-going movement of transformation to Sustainable Living. I add clarification links and Read more…
“There’s nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord with the world, they will live in accord with the world. But given a story to enact that puts them at odds with the world, as yours does, they will live at odds with Read more…
“Truth does not mind being questioned – A lie does not like being challenged” Brian Weiner A continuation of a fictional reflection by a hundred-year-old Espe from 2112 about the start and on-going movement of transformation to Sustainable Living. I add clarification links and quotes as needed The political chaos Read more…
I am but a single drop in a limitless ocean, but what is an ocean but a multitude of drops? David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas A continuation of a fictional reflection by a hundred-year-old Espe from 2112 about the start and on-going movement of transformation to Sustainable Living. I add clarification links Read more…
A continuation of a fictional reflection by a hundred-year-old Espe from 2112 about the start and on-going movement of transformation to Sustainable Living. I add clarification links and quotes as needed. It would be too easy to just record that the future was going to get better for humanity and Read more…
A continuation of a fictional reflection by a hundred-year-old Espe from 2112 about the start and on-going movement of transformation to Sustainable Living. I add clarification links and quotes as needed. I still recall the profound sadness I experienced as a young woman at the numbers of people whose life Read more…
A continuation of a fictional reflection by a hundred-year-old Espe from 2112 about the start and on-going movement of transformation to Sustainable Living. I add clarification links and quotes as needed. It is hard for our young in 2112 to fully understand how so many of the world’s population in Read more…
A continuation of a fictional reflection by a hundred-year-old Espe from 2112 about the start and on-going movement of transformation to Sustainable Living. I add clarification links and quotes as needed. My Father, a great influence on me, was originally grounded in the status quo of recognized scientific information of Read more…
Regular readers will recognize that I usually follow a theme for a while before switching gears and writing on something else. If anyone wants me to write on anything specifically, just let me know by email to richardjurin@outlook.com (email found at bottom of my blog page one). “Any sufficiently advanced Read more…
“To develop a complete mind: Study the science of art; Study the art of science. Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else” Leonardo Da Vinci. “As our own species is in the process of proving. One cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying”Arthur Read more…
“Quite an experience, to live in fear, isn’t it? That’s what it is to be a slave” Roy Batty, Blade Runner (movie). “Safety and security have become their own arguments. Officials and organizations seem to believe that the mere mention of these words is enough—no further justification is needed. Safety Read more…
A Happy New Year to everyone, everywhere. This is of course using the Gregorian calendar, which is the dominant one used at the point for most global businesses. But it might be good to remind everyone that it isn’t just the Chinese that have a different date for the New Read more…
A quick diversion from my Espe stories. It’s a major holiday today here in the U.S. and many western countries – Christmas – but my comments are about what it ought to be not what it has become. One of the newer Christmas movies in the west is ‘Love Actually’ Read more…
A continuation of a fictional reflection by a hundred-year-old Esperanza (Espe) from 2112 about the start of the transformation to Sustainable Living. I add clarification links and quotes as needed. “You can argue all day about whether one person not using straws or going vegan makes a global difference. Read more…
In July 2009 there was a TV program on US television called Earth 2100. The essence of this program was a business-as-usual worst-case scenario of what might happen if we do not make any major decision about changing our westernized consumer lifestyles in the very near future. Rather than the Read more…
” There are hundreds of paths up the mountain, all leading in the same direction, so it doesn’t matter which path you take. The only one wasting time is the one who runs around and around the mountain, telling everyone that his or her path is wrong” Hindu Proverb. Sustainable Read more…
“People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing—refusing to participate in activities that make life bad“ Leo Tolstoy. We must avoid the alarmism that is so prevalent with environmental activism and politics. We have some serious challenges Read more…
Even those who are on-board with a sustainable paradigm are often still hampered by a way of thinking that has been conditioned into them their whole lives. It’s a part of the system we live within generally titled ‘consumerism.’ I talk a lot about this and if you rad any Read more…
An unusual title about the cruise ship, but let me explain more. In my research on worldviews (see, Richard’s Research on Worldviews and why he is optimistic about a transformation {June 2018}) I describe four main groups of how people are people are likely move to a sustainable paradigm. The Read more…
If anything, 2020, as bad as it was with the lockdowns and disease fear mongering by gullible true believers and public health authorities, was a great year because it began the awakening of so many people to the harsh system that has been controlling us for millennia. And why might Read more…
Waiting for governments, corporations, and monied elites to solve our Climate Disruption is akin to asking a fox for the best way to rebuild the chicken coop. I read an article this week about how investment company Vanguard sees a lot of financial benefits that can be realized in pursuing Read more…
Part 4 was meant to be a look at “Develop Local Exchange Trading System currency and expand sub-regionally as it catches on’ but I’ll return to it once I cover climate disruption a little more. I have had several comments over the past 4 years about why, if I am Read more…
This is an overview of the options of public transportation. Growing up in the UK, even before I could learn to drive, I was able to take a bus or train to most places I needed to go. And that included places in the countryside where I hiked as a Read more…
“An organic farmer is the best peacemaker today, because there is more violence, more death, more destruction, more wars, through a violent industrial agricultural system. And to shift away from that into an agriculture of peace is what organic farming is doing” Vandana Shiva The second essential aspect of developing Read more…
In my last post I ended with a short series of ideas for creating sustainable community. The first was to work on localizing your local energy systems. When you look at national and regional electrical grid systems with real scrutiny it becomes alarming just how fickle they have become. More Read more…
Economists do not like anything that cannot be put into some form of equation, which is strange if you think about it because economics is a social science (based on human psychological reactions). The goal back in the 1800s was to find a way to measure well-being derived from economic Read more…
Having high quality energy is the reason that our technology has advanced so much in the last century. Now having high quality energy that doesn’t pollute has to be our next main goal. But as I alluded to in the last post, we have to change our consumer mindset and Read more…
I gave a short Zoom talk the other night. I thought I would overview what I talked about as an overview for newer subscribers to this blog and as a way to refresh my views for longer time readers on the direction we need to take if humanity is to Read more…
Thanks for letting me know that when I suggest a series of related to read and only make one link, it is still difficult to find them all – apparently the blog site doesn’t run sequentially from each post. In future I will link all the posts individually, e.g., New Read more…
The consumer paradigm has succeeded as well as it has because it offered us all the potential to live like kings with everything we want and a life free of want and fear from starvation and hard work as well as reliance on other people. We pay for services rendered Read more…