I thought I had said enough about vaccines and Covid-19, but the medical tyranny we are facing is real and about to be imposed on us in a big way. A British site I recommend is www.vernoncoleman.com. He does YouTube Read more
‘It is so empowering to say this isn’t serving me and then to walk peacefully away.’ Anon If there ever was a time for major change to happen, now is that time. I’m not just talking about tweaking our current Read more
I read the social media with interest at this time. Especially the vitriol between vaxxers and anti-vaxxers. The response to the Plandemic video has been ideologically polarizing. I have been reading several commentaries, against the Plandemic video, that use Ad Read more
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored” Aldous Huxley. I originally was doing a Covid-19 update then the problems with vaccines but now I have so much to say about Covid-19, I have to separate the two. Read more
Times of crisis are periods when the what we think was impossible can happen. The elites find more ways to shaft us further in the guise of saving us from something, or we rise up and push our own agenda Read more
So much of world is under lockdown because of the Covid-19 virus, and there is a lot of talk about a mandatory vaccine that I decided to do a dive down the vaccine rabbit hole this week. Let me say Read more
I have spent the past week reading a lot about Coronavirus and the official responses such as the lockdown and in some places, extreme legal lockdown. What is becoming obvious is the incredible misinformation that is happening, and the difficulty Read more
I find that wherever I look in the media at this time, there are so many people moaning and complaining about the state of the world. Yet, a large number resist doing anything to create change that would begin the Read more
The comments section of this blog is interesting to me in hearing about people’s thoughts of my posts. I have had some who want to discuss things more, but the comments section is just short blurbs and isn’t the real 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 One of the consequences of this global lockdown is the growing awareness of how connected we all Read more
As I was writing about what a future society might look like, the Coronavirus has been literally wreaking havoc on the global economy. Just yesterday, the U.S. government set up $2 trillion (yes with a T and bigger than many Read more
“The more we’re thrown into conflict with each other through engineered distrust, the less able we are to unite against those responsible.” DaShanne Stokes It has been less than a week since my last post and yet the whole world Read more
I have been emphasizing that we are as humans hard-wired to be egalitarian. Let me explain my reasoning for this, which should also explain why I am so positive about humanity’s future if we make the choices we need to Read more
I have talked at length about how sustainable living (SL) is so much more than just adapting to use green technology. It is relearning how to live together in communities that my definition, identify as equitable, regenerative, resilient and adaptive. Read more
In this blog I’m trying to cover some complex issues in simpler ways. When I mention the stakeholder issue, it is important to recognize that when it come to this planet we are ALL stakeholders because every environmental ‘insult’ will Read more
This first part of community development deals more with business aspects involved in the technology of buildings. For a while back in the 1960s especially, everyone went into cheap efficiency buildings – concrete blocks basically. But buildings are where we Read more
Continuing on from my last post about other frameworks that are leading the way to changes in business philosophies and practice towards sustainability. Just to show how difficult it can be in our current business paradigm, authors Esty & Winston Read more
In this post I again have taken several comments out of my Environmental Communications Text, Chapter 20. As we think about re-conditioning ourselves away from the consumer and profit only worldviews conditioning, a reminder that being aware that you have Read more
In this post I have taken several comments out of my Environmental Communications Text, Chapter 20. To pass outside one’s comfort zone means to embrace the unknown and face the fear of failure. Doing the right thing is such a Read more
“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.” Mahatma Gandhi In this post I have taken several comments out of my Sustainable Read more
When I was visiting Eire in 2010, I spent a day with critical economist Richard Douthwaite (Book: Short Circuit; The Growth Illusion; The Ecology of Money) to probe his views. After several hours of pleasant discussion, I asked him what Read more
I ended the last post with a statement from Daniel Quinn concluding that the path forward is to recondition ourselves to simply begin anew and stop relying on old failed paradigms to somehow work out solutions for us. When Read more
In my Sustainable Living textbook, I have a chapter on economics. Recently, I was looking at it and pondering on how many years I have been trying to get people to see that money and more ‘stuff’ does not make Read more
“Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come…” Victor Hugo We have just come through the Christmas Holiday, where in countries where Christianity is a primary religion, we at least, for one day a year espouse, “peace Read more
In the previous post I talked about false narratives that continue to persuade us of the false reality of scarcity, which in turn causes us to make poor decisions about how we live. Yet, what is the alternative? Listening to Read more
As an Addendum to the last post, in the USA, in 1949, the Federal Communications Commission created he Fairness Doctrine – “All controversial issues of public importance must be covered in a way that is honest, equitable, and balanced way.” Read more
Most of the problems in the world can be tied one way or another to money, and by default to the need to keep acquiring it – it is what drives our failing world economy. We hear of the levels Read more
If standard of living is your major objective, quality of life almost never improves, but if quality of life is your number one objective, your standard of living almost always improves. Zig Ziglar If there is one thing that characterizes Read more
When thinking over what large urban centers might look like in a sustainable world, the conclusion is that they cannot be concrete, glass and asphalt sprawls. The reason I say this is because the world sustainability implies self-sufficiency and current Read more
An overview of how cities developed and overwhelmed their environments seems pertinent now as we ponder what our future living environments may become. We can do nothing of course and just await whatever happens in a most non-adaptive and fatalistic Read more