“Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose.” Janis Joplin – You got nothing left to lose…you can leave it all behind for its the anchor that holds you down…from being free. For many decades the consumer dream, driven by a deeply flawed economic system, has been captivating. But Read more…
If this past year of 2020 (and continuing in 2021) has taught us anything, it should be that we need to become more self-sufficient as individuals and as communities that live in the same area. What does seem to have happened though is that we have fallen into using big Read more…
“Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control people” Henry Kisinger. I fully intended to just do a localized food growing post, but I watched a short news interview with noted Indian sustainability scholar-activist Vandana Shiva, and ended up exploring yet another rabbit hole – that of Read more…
“The Great Reset is an attempt to create a plausible impression that the huge winners in this system are on the verge of voluntarily setting greed aside to get serious about solving the raging crises that are radically destabilizing our world.” Naomi Kline The above quote comes from an article Read more…
I have been reading a lot these past few months, on all kinds of media (Left, Right, Mass, and Alternate), about something called the ‘Great Reset.’ This ‘Great Reset’ agenda sounds OK on the surface until one looks more closely at what is being said and who is saying it. Read more…
As most of you will realize in reading my blog, I spend more time talking about our collective cognition as the problem and not just the technological problems we create through our lifestyle choices. Environmental Educator David Orr talks about how we try to tweak ourselves out of our problems Read more…
Only through illumination of the past does a new future become visible. Here is where I take an incredibly complex idea and distill it down to an essential 100 words. I have been sat at my computer this past first week of January 2021 observing all the incredible goings-on. Obviously, Read more…
When people are afraid of losing something they need either physically or psychologically, they can be controlled. People with nothing left to lose can be dangerous to those in charge. The controllers placate them with enough things in their lives so they fear what little they do have may be Read more…
There is no shortage of great thinkers and researchers who have illuminated the risks being imposed up on us with consumerist worldview. Michael Pollan has clearly expressed the problems with our industrial food systems (see earlier post Relocalization and Community {Jan 2018}). Avoiding processed food and non-organic produce is a Read more…
In May 2020 I talked a bit about vaccines (posts Vaccines: part 1-5). With the push to release the Covid-19 (C-19) vaccine, in keeping with my current risk theme, here is a long update summary from what I have studying within and outside the mainstream. I am posting early this Read more…
“Our world is divided is not divided by race, color, gender, or religion. Our world, is divided into wise people and fools. And fools divide themselves by race, color, gender or religion.” Nelson Mandela I saw a neat quote on the Sustainablehuman.com website. “The goal of life is not to Read more…
“The greatest fear in the world is the opinion of others, and the moment you are unafraid of the crowd, you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion. A great roar arises in your heart, the roar of freedom.” Osho Have you ever wondered why peer pressure is Read more…
What I am observing at this time, as are so many of us, is a lot of protesting and activism on behalf of something or other. There are a lot of reasons that everything all over the world seems so chaotic at this time, but change is in the air Read more…
“Mindfulness is observing your life right now. Accepting your current situation without judgment or struggle. Allowing feelings to exist without letting them driving your actions. Noticing thoughts that occur without needing to buy into them. Taking action based on what you feel in your heart rather than old habits or Read more…
“Mindfulness isn’t difficult. We just need to remember to do it” Sharon Saltzberg In the last post I talked about choice as the way to create personal, social, and ecological freedom. I want you to think for a minute now about the one singular factor that controls much of the Read more…
“Complacency is not your friend. When you become complacent you turn yourself off. You begin to think that calmness is a way of life. You forget that the nature of life is chaotic change and then a season of calm, but then the storms kick in again. It’s not personal Read more…
“Humanity treats humanity in the same way that humanity treats nature” Michael Roads. What makes people conform to the Status Quo? – Peer Pressure and the fear of being rejected, i.e. being unlovable. This is the pressure that so many accept in order to be liked – being a people Read more…
I used this in an earlier post but it is worth repeating: “I used to think the top environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse, and climate change. I thought that with 30 years of good science we could address those problems. I was wrong. The top environmental problems are Read more…
Conspiracies are rampant in all the information we seem to be getting at this time. The result is an even greater polarization than ever, driven by the internet and its inherent anonymity of opinions from so many users. It’s not that there may or may not be any conspiracies but Read more…
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” Socrates. As I read about the goings on around the world, what I see too much of is fear and anger being expressed. There is an awakening going on Read more…
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 videos and then has the transcripts on his website. I 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 dystopic system where the 1% currently lord it over us, 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. I was looking at official sources to figure out more 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 of a lay person to figure out what the true 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 transformation from an oligarchy to a world that works better 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 small countries’ economies) for economic relief. Of course there was 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 seems to have gone insane with fear from the Coronavirus. 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 us happy over the long term. I went through my 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 alternative news and finding out about other grassroots perspectives form 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 of money held by the uberwealthy and also the debts Read more…