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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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, 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. 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 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 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 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 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 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 Read more