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…
I am always being asked how we resolve our planetary problems so that we can live sustainably. Initially, I said the same old things that you can get from any environmental group – things like green energy, the three R’s, organic farming, etc. I knew that it would require much Read more…
I had an email (my address on bottom of homepage) from a reader who said that sometimes it is hard to search my blogsite to find the earlier posts I quote, so I have added links to make it easier. Just let me know what I need to do to Read more…
As I have emphasized many times: There is no superman coming to save us – we are the ones we are waiting for. We cannot be victims and accept the totalitarian two-step in which the unaware are being herded. Massive inflation is here and major recession around the corner. We Read more…
“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 C. Clarke. When I was teaching my university environmental Studies introduction class, many of the students named it the ‘doom and gloom’ class because of Read more…
“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist.” This is a great line from the movie, The Usual Suspects. Without giving the story line away, it is a great story about how people get bamboozled. Today, the mainstream media and the corporate systems Read more…
I have been watching political leaders, all over the world, during this past two and a half years since Covid started and what strikes me is how in lockstep they all were, and still are, all parroting the same agenda as if reading from the same script. I watch the Read more…
The middle way – Mutual Benefit – Altruism: Love, Compassion and Non-violence (e.g., the Dalai Lama, Gandhi) – The power of truth must come through openness and transparency with no censorship and certainly no lies. I titled this post ‘health freedom’ but it could just as easily have been about Read more…
Another long post today – there’s so much to say and I am merely summarizing. As many if my regular readers will know, I am a natural skeptic and follow a Pyrrho of Elis kind of thinking (see a very early post Skepticism {January 2018}). I have long been skeptical Read more…
I last commented on the C19 vaccines in September of 2021 – so it’s a long post today. It’s time to revisit what is going on while keeping an eye on the great ‘Cognitive Distractions’ occurring around the world. But before I get to my update below, what I find Read more…
“The Hallmark of an open mind is not letting your ideas become your identity. If you define yourself by your opinions, then questioning them is a threat to your integrity. If you see yourself as a curious person or a lifelong learner, changing your mind is a moment of growth” Read more…
I often ponder the economic paradigms we use, and I agree with many of the great modern ecologically minded economic thinkers who have endeavored to illuminate us. Paraphrased, the problem can be simply summed up as, we cannot become sustainable as a planet while our human economic system keeps chasing Read more…
“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities; we are eaten up by nothing” Charles Bukowski. During his early life, my father went through hell and turned out sane. Read more…
I begin today’s post with a paragraph by poet Allie Michelle, because it is so poignantly on point about our need to stop accepting victimhood as normal and to claim back our power instead of waiting for others to create changes that we want. “We yearn for connection, yet isolate Read more…