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
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 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 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 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 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 Read more
I recently had a friend ask why I am talking about propaganda instead of giving more direct insights about sustainability. The reason, as regular readers of the blog will already know, is simple; our modern world is a result of Read more
“Propaganda works best when those who are being exposed are confident that they are acting on their own free will” Joseph Goebbels. I watched the historic series The Last Kingdom and what struck me was the way that it was Read more
“The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth” Garry Kasparov A revisiting to explain more why I spend time talking about propaganda and personal sovereignty Read more
“You are afraid to die, and you’re afraid to live. What a way to exist.” “There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you” Neale Donald Walsch. A bit of Read more