Just read a great story about urban farmer/entrepenuer/philanthropist in Wisconsin. check the story...
NYT article here
Here's a link to an organization with programs in many cities.Urban Farming.org
Check out the vertical farm option for indoor high rise gardening...fancy pants
Thanks again and love something today!
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Sorry for the mess friends...
I've been feeling guilty of being human lately. It seems we at an all time low of intelligence. So here is my formal apology. Love to all!
Apology to the Universe
I can only speak for myself. What myself encompasses entirely is presently beyond the knowledge of the conscious creature incarnate here on planet earth, alive through a body that is made of the same stuff as the terrestrial habitat it roams. I speak for that conscious creature, and the operating personality that assists in navigation of the terrain.
I don’t know why we are given such a sublime gift and not able to operate it smoothly. It seems easy enough to live here, to work, play, dance, perform, write… sleep. Maybe the other 80% percent of our brain could bring it in. How do we turn that on?
I can see all the answers to humanities woes and the dark clouds that hinder these solutions. It is obvious that something is amiss and that some group of string pullers does not like being around humans that are healthy, awake, and fulfilled.
Many think it is just a mechanism of greed consolidated with megalomania, some think it is just a whole lot of disconnected greed, working itself out on the population.
It seems rather clear that many humans have forgotten how to live on this planet. How to give birth, save seed, and live through winter. Plenty still do, but vast tracts of this beautiful planet are being ruined, culturally and ecologically, to feed this population.
This gem of blue shining in the universe is revered by many of you out there I am almost sure. So I really am sorry for what we are doing here. Sorry for all of it.
Every tree cut instead of the fiber queen hemp being used to make lumber.
Every mountain blown up or dug out for minerals or fuel that we don’t really need instead of using wind, solar, biomass, pneumatics, and textiles.
For all the unnecessarily toxic manufacturing processes we utilize and the waste we do almost nothing to stop.
For the industrialized agriculture, feed lot, pasteurizing machine that poisons the holy relationship of land, food, and kitchen.
For butchering and poisoning ill people instead of giving them botanical preparations, appropriate diets, manual therapies, and exercises.
For all the wasted water, like putting excrement in one of the universe’s most valuable resource, FRESH WATER, WTF!
For the damage that all those activities cause to waterways and aquifers.
For the senseless pillage of our own dignity, our cultural heritage, and the traumatic abuse that goes on all over the planet;
Abuse to trees and plants,
to animals,
to rivers and oceans,
to the land,
and to each other.
I feel ashamed some moments, I feel rage roiling up in me, I say
“Stupid Humans” and move on with remorse and love and faith that some how those of us that care will be given that chance again.
I am sorry my friends who love this place.
I’m sorry for how stupid we have let ourselves become.
If you want to help us, now is the time.
Love
Apology to the Universe
I can only speak for myself. What myself encompasses entirely is presently beyond the knowledge of the conscious creature incarnate here on planet earth, alive through a body that is made of the same stuff as the terrestrial habitat it roams. I speak for that conscious creature, and the operating personality that assists in navigation of the terrain.
I don’t know why we are given such a sublime gift and not able to operate it smoothly. It seems easy enough to live here, to work, play, dance, perform, write… sleep. Maybe the other 80% percent of our brain could bring it in. How do we turn that on?
I can see all the answers to humanities woes and the dark clouds that hinder these solutions. It is obvious that something is amiss and that some group of string pullers does not like being around humans that are healthy, awake, and fulfilled.
Many think it is just a mechanism of greed consolidated with megalomania, some think it is just a whole lot of disconnected greed, working itself out on the population.
It seems rather clear that many humans have forgotten how to live on this planet. How to give birth, save seed, and live through winter. Plenty still do, but vast tracts of this beautiful planet are being ruined, culturally and ecologically, to feed this population.
This gem of blue shining in the universe is revered by many of you out there I am almost sure. So I really am sorry for what we are doing here. Sorry for all of it.
Every tree cut instead of the fiber queen hemp being used to make lumber.
Every mountain blown up or dug out for minerals or fuel that we don’t really need instead of using wind, solar, biomass, pneumatics, and textiles.
For all the unnecessarily toxic manufacturing processes we utilize and the waste we do almost nothing to stop.
For the industrialized agriculture, feed lot, pasteurizing machine that poisons the holy relationship of land, food, and kitchen.
For butchering and poisoning ill people instead of giving them botanical preparations, appropriate diets, manual therapies, and exercises.
For all the wasted water, like putting excrement in one of the universe’s most valuable resource, FRESH WATER, WTF!
For the damage that all those activities cause to waterways and aquifers.
For the senseless pillage of our own dignity, our cultural heritage, and the traumatic abuse that goes on all over the planet;
Abuse to trees and plants,
to animals,
to rivers and oceans,
to the land,
and to each other.
I feel ashamed some moments, I feel rage roiling up in me, I say
“Stupid Humans” and move on with remorse and love and faith that some how those of us that care will be given that chance again.
I am sorry my friends who love this place.
I’m sorry for how stupid we have let ourselves become.
If you want to help us, now is the time.
Love
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
If you can't choose your own health care options, how are you free?
Here is a letter you can paste and send to your Representatives, send it to your state reps too. Everyone should hear about this.
Ron Paul wants to make the FDA, a quasi G.O. that is inhabited thoroughly by big Pharma and big Ag, do it's own work to DIS credit valid traditional medicine. We have been healing each other for thousands of years in almost the same way, and I would like to continue, for myself. Even if you don't want traditional medicine and prefer the treatments and drugs they have invented in the last 100 or so years, ensure that options are available. Even Loius Pasture realized on his death bed that his work was wrong and subsequently mishandled.
Below the letter are a few links about the FDA and the AMA, both caught with their pants down behind the wood shed, helping their "friends" in "food" and "medicine" manufacturing bring us such brilliant care. Thanks.
Support Ron Paul's Health Freedom Protection Act, H.R. 2117
Tell Your Congressmen and Women to Co Sponsor the Health Freedom Protection Act, H.R. 2117
The FDA is on a rampage against dietary supplements. Preventing reasonable and factual health claims, the FDA is using its immense power to fuel the pharmaceutical profit picture at the expense of the lives and health of hundreds of thousands of Americans each year. The rights of Americans to learn about natural products through truthful, science-based health claims is routinely stifled to the detriment of health and health freedom in the United States.
This bill shifts the burden of proof onto the FDA whenever the agency wants to deny the public the benefit of health claims information about Dietary Supplements.
H. R. 2117 allows reasonable health claims, with proper disclosure language, "unless the Secretary determines that -- `(i) there is no scientific evidence that supports the claim; and `(ii) the claim is inherently misleading and incapable of being rendered non misleading through the addition of a disclaimer." Thus, even "a scintilla" of scientific evidence would allow the making of claims that Dietary Supplements may be of benefit to individuals. The requirements of the bill are consistent with the law that already governs the agency's position, announced in 2004, "FDA intends to apply a standard for substantiating claims for dietary supplements that is consistent with the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC's) standard for dietary supplements and other health related products of 'competent and reliable scientific evidence'."
Current FDA policy, in violation of US Case Law, is to deny truthful claims which do not relate to either structure or function. All other truthful health claims are currently forbidden by the FDA. This bill would greatly enhance public access to truthful and
not misleading health information, in keeping with the US Supreme Court's dictum in Thompson v. Western States Medical Centers and presents a clear opportunity to enhance legal
protections for Dietary Supplements and natural remedies.
Urge your Congressmen/women to press for passage of H. R. 2117 and to introduce sister legislation into the Senate. This Health over-regulation of safe food substances to what should properly be considered their main task, protecting people from dangerous drugs and medical devices.
Please use this opportunity to encourage your Representatives to work with other congresspeople to join as cosponsors and your Senators to introduce sister legislation and get behind the Health Freedom Protection Act.
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
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Here is a little history of the various acts that have enabled the FDA over the years
Dirty trail
Wiki for the AMA, American Medical Association here.
Here is a quote from another history of the AMA.
"The American Medical Association, organized in New York in 1848, advanced two seemingly innocent propositions in its early days: that all doctors should have a "suitable education" and that a "uniform elevated standard of requirements for the degree of M.D. should be adopted by all medical schools in the U.S." These were part of the AMA's real program, which was openly discussed at its conventions and in the medical journals: to secure a government-enforced medical monopoly and high incomes for mainstream doctors.
Membership in the new organization was open only to "regular" physicians, whose therapies were based on the "best system of physiology and pathology, as taught in the best schools in Europe and America." The public had a different view, however. Official treatments of the time, such as bloodletting and mercury poisoning, harmed and sometimes murdered patients, causing mass outrage."
Piqued your interest enough?
Here is the rest of it.
Ron Paul wants to make the FDA, a quasi G.O. that is inhabited thoroughly by big Pharma and big Ag, do it's own work to DIS credit valid traditional medicine. We have been healing each other for thousands of years in almost the same way, and I would like to continue, for myself. Even if you don't want traditional medicine and prefer the treatments and drugs they have invented in the last 100 or so years, ensure that options are available. Even Loius Pasture realized on his death bed that his work was wrong and subsequently mishandled.
Below the letter are a few links about the FDA and the AMA, both caught with their pants down behind the wood shed, helping their "friends" in "food" and "medicine" manufacturing bring us such brilliant care. Thanks.
Support Ron Paul's Health Freedom Protection Act, H.R. 2117
Tell Your Congressmen and Women to Co Sponsor the Health Freedom Protection Act, H.R. 2117
The FDA is on a rampage against dietary supplements. Preventing reasonable and factual health claims, the FDA is using its immense power to fuel the pharmaceutical profit picture at the expense of the lives and health of hundreds of thousands of Americans each year. The rights of Americans to learn about natural products through truthful, science-based health claims is routinely stifled to the detriment of health and health freedom in the United States.
This bill shifts the burden of proof onto the FDA whenever the agency wants to deny the public the benefit of health claims information about Dietary Supplements.
H. R. 2117 allows reasonable health claims, with proper disclosure language, "unless the Secretary determines that -- `(i) there is no scientific evidence that supports the claim; and `(ii) the claim is inherently misleading and incapable of being rendered non misleading through the addition of a disclaimer." Thus, even "a scintilla" of scientific evidence would allow the making of claims that Dietary Supplements may be of benefit to individuals. The requirements of the bill are consistent with the law that already governs the agency's position, announced in 2004, "FDA intends to apply a standard for substantiating claims for dietary supplements that is consistent with the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC's) standard for dietary supplements and other health related products of 'competent and reliable scientific evidence'."
Current FDA policy, in violation of US Case Law, is to deny truthful claims which do not relate to either structure or function. All other truthful health claims are currently forbidden by the FDA. This bill would greatly enhance public access to truthful and
not misleading health information, in keeping with the US Supreme Court's dictum in Thompson v. Western States Medical Centers and presents a clear opportunity to enhance legal
protections for Dietary Supplements and natural remedies.
Urge your Congressmen/women to press for passage of H. R. 2117 and to introduce sister legislation into the Senate. This Health over-regulation of safe food substances to what should properly be considered their main task, protecting people from dangerous drugs and medical devices.
Please use this opportunity to encourage your Representatives to work with other congresspeople to join as cosponsors and your Senators to introduce sister legislation and get behind the Health Freedom Protection Act.
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif
Here is a little history of the various acts that have enabled the FDA over the years
Dirty trail
Wiki for the AMA, American Medical Association here.
Here is a quote from another history of the AMA.
"The American Medical Association, organized in New York in 1848, advanced two seemingly innocent propositions in its early days: that all doctors should have a "suitable education" and that a "uniform elevated standard of requirements for the degree of M.D. should be adopted by all medical schools in the U.S." These were part of the AMA's real program, which was openly discussed at its conventions and in the medical journals: to secure a government-enforced medical monopoly and high incomes for mainstream doctors.
Membership in the new organization was open only to "regular" physicians, whose therapies were based on the "best system of physiology and pathology, as taught in the best schools in Europe and America." The public had a different view, however. Official treatments of the time, such as bloodletting and mercury poisoning, harmed and sometimes murdered patients, causing mass outrage."
Piqued your interest enough?
Here is the rest of it.
Sunday, March 8, 2009
THE NEW DEAL, PART TWO
It's obvious now that what ever our new deal is so far it's no deal at all. nothing but random pork, bank bailouts that will just help people exit the lending market and bouey poorly run institutions, highway construction to help continue a blind subsidy of long haul trucking, new crack downs on property rights and health care freedoms.
WE NEED TO STAND UP AND BE COUNTED PEOPLE!
IT'S TIME TO NOTIFY THESE LOOSERS IN CONGRESS THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR STEERING THE SHIP, AND THE PRESIDENT TOO.
I have composed a letter, please copy and email, or print and snail it to your representatives in DC. It is a simple call to balance the equation and bring our country and humanity back to the light. We are falling people, learn to fly or die!
hello elected officials,
As you may know, in the waning days of the Bush Administration, the BLM signed a decision to drastically increase the amount of clear cutting on public lands. This decision (know as the Western Oregon Plan Revisions or “WOPR”) was opposed by over 25,000 Americans who asked the BLM to manage these lands for the benefit of all, not just for the profits of a few. Now the BLM contends that despite the wishes of the public, that large-scale clear cutting will be their primary forest “management” tool.
Now the WOPR itself exposes a larger flaw in the system because it was created as a response to rural western counties need for payments from their “occupied for free” federal lands. TO GET MONEY, TIMBER MUST BE HARVESTED. This is an unsustainable policy arrangement and is unfair due to the amount of taxable land base these counties loose.
We as a nation are vulnerable to Federal Forest land decisions, and in rural western counties especially so. This comes both in changes to our quality of life including loss of salmon economy, recreation opportunities, , as well as larger direct services large swathes of mature forests provide, such as weather and atmospheric stablisation, carbon sequestration, wild life habitat, crucial to national food supplies, local water qualities and well managed forest doesn’t burn as hot, cutting down on costs incurred from fighting wild fires.
This policy is why the BLM created WOPR, so rural westerncounties can get some money from the millions of federal acres on which they collect no annual taxes.
I ENCOURAGE A NO HARVEST PAYMENT SYSTEM FOR ALL STATES WITH FEDERAL LANDS.
We need the tax base payments to be fairly represented in Washington DC! A western state legislative coalition (that perhaps some mid and eastern state reps join) could easily make this happen. Salmon create jobs and human food, 2x4s are just a waste of resource when other composite fiber options are available and provide an overall savings in resource conversion. This coupled with increased farm products and low energy manufacturing = a huge reason to team up and transform the economy of more than just western states with two simple initiatives:
A NO HARVEST PAYMENT SYSTEM FOR ALL STATES WITH FEDERAL LANDS, TO HELP PAY RURAL COUNTIES FOR THEIR ROLE IN PROTECTION AND LONG TERM RESTORATIVE MANAGEMENT OF THESE VALUEBLE STRATEGIC RESOURCES.
IT WILL ALSO MAKE THE FEDERAL OCCUPATION OF THESE LANDS A LITTLE MORE FAIR.
DECRIMINALIZING INDUSTRIAL HEMP TO JUMP START THE MOST LUCRATIVE AND INNOVATIVE TIME IN OUR HISTORY; ONE THAT WILL BRING FARMERS AND NICHE MANUFACTURERS TO THE FOREFRONT OF THE ECONOMY AND PUT MILLIONS BACK TO WORK, PRODUCING FIBER PRODUCTS THAT WILL EASILY REPLACE THE BUILDING MATERIALS NOW HARVESTED FROM SOFT WOOD FORESTS, HIGH VALUE PROTIEN FOOD STUFFS AND EASY TO PROCESS FUELS OR PLASTICS FROM THE SEEDS, AND STURDY RICH SOIL THAT WILL HELP REPLACE THE MILLIONS OF TONS WE HAVE LOST OVER THE LAST CENURY.
WE ARE POISED AT THE CLIFF AND MUST JUMP INTO SPACE AND FLY BY THE TIME WE REACH BOTTOM OR WE DIE!
IT IS TIME FOR A LEGISLATIVE COALITION TO FORM AND MAKE THIS HAPPEN. WE WILL ALL HAVE JOBS, THE ATMOSPHERE WILL IMPROVE, THE SOIL WILL IIMPROVE, SALMON WILL BE ALLOWED TO RETURN IN GREAT NUMBERS, WESTERN RURAL COUNTIES WILL FEEL INCLUDED AND FAIRLY TREATED, FUEL PRICES WILL STABALIZE, INNOVATION WILL ESCALATE, AND YOUR CONSTITUENTS WILL FEEL RESPECTED.
WE WILL TURN THE TIDES ON FUEL SCARCITY, CLIMATE ISSUES, ECONOMIC ISSUES, SOCIAL ISSUES AND LEARN TO FLY INSTEAD OF DIE!
YOU MUST DO IT!
IF YOU DO NOT, IT WILL BE KNOWN BY ALL THAT READ AND SEND THIS, THAT YOU PEOPLE, NOT YOUR OFFICES, ACTED AS FIDUCIARIES FOR THE WORLD’S RULING/OWNING ELITE INSTEAD OF THE PEOPLE WHO ELECTED YOU, AND WE MAY, DUE TO THE PERILOUS NATURE OF OUR POSITION AS A SPECIES AT PRESENT MOMENT, FIND YOU GUILTY OF CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY. INDIVIDUALS MAY ACT IN BAD WAYS, YOU ARE DOING THIS PERSONALLY AND THEY MAY SEEK RETRIBUTION. THIS IS THE END GAME AND ITS UP TO YOU PEOPLE TO CUT OUR CHAINS AND LET OUR WINGS GROW.
DO NOT GIVE OUR COUNTRY AWAY AND SELL US OFF AS SLAVES!
DO THE RIGHT THING NOW!
NOW SOME MUSIC
Sweat Shop Union is great hip hop act out of BC. They're vocal harmonies, conscious content, and excellent craftmanship give them 3 gold stars on my chart! My space here. Happy days, you better read and send that letter, notify the man you will not be a slave!
WE NEED TO STAND UP AND BE COUNTED PEOPLE!
IT'S TIME TO NOTIFY THESE LOOSERS IN CONGRESS THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR STEERING THE SHIP, AND THE PRESIDENT TOO.
I have composed a letter, please copy and email, or print and snail it to your representatives in DC. It is a simple call to balance the equation and bring our country and humanity back to the light. We are falling people, learn to fly or die!
hello elected officials,
As you may know, in the waning days of the Bush Administration, the BLM signed a decision to drastically increase the amount of clear cutting on public lands. This decision (know as the Western Oregon Plan Revisions or “WOPR”) was opposed by over 25,000 Americans who asked the BLM to manage these lands for the benefit of all, not just for the profits of a few. Now the BLM contends that despite the wishes of the public, that large-scale clear cutting will be their primary forest “management” tool.
Now the WOPR itself exposes a larger flaw in the system because it was created as a response to rural western counties need for payments from their “occupied for free” federal lands. TO GET MONEY, TIMBER MUST BE HARVESTED. This is an unsustainable policy arrangement and is unfair due to the amount of taxable land base these counties loose.
We as a nation are vulnerable to Federal Forest land decisions, and in rural western counties especially so. This comes both in changes to our quality of life including loss of salmon economy, recreation opportunities, , as well as larger direct services large swathes of mature forests provide, such as weather and atmospheric stablisation, carbon sequestration, wild life habitat, crucial to national food supplies, local water qualities and well managed forest doesn’t burn as hot, cutting down on costs incurred from fighting wild fires.
This policy is why the BLM created WOPR, so rural westerncounties can get some money from the millions of federal acres on which they collect no annual taxes.
I ENCOURAGE A NO HARVEST PAYMENT SYSTEM FOR ALL STATES WITH FEDERAL LANDS.
We need the tax base payments to be fairly represented in Washington DC! A western state legislative coalition (that perhaps some mid and eastern state reps join) could easily make this happen. Salmon create jobs and human food, 2x4s are just a waste of resource when other composite fiber options are available and provide an overall savings in resource conversion. This coupled with increased farm products and low energy manufacturing = a huge reason to team up and transform the economy of more than just western states with two simple initiatives:
A NO HARVEST PAYMENT SYSTEM FOR ALL STATES WITH FEDERAL LANDS, TO HELP PAY RURAL COUNTIES FOR THEIR ROLE IN PROTECTION AND LONG TERM RESTORATIVE MANAGEMENT OF THESE VALUEBLE STRATEGIC RESOURCES.
IT WILL ALSO MAKE THE FEDERAL OCCUPATION OF THESE LANDS A LITTLE MORE FAIR.
DECRIMINALIZING INDUSTRIAL HEMP TO JUMP START THE MOST LUCRATIVE AND INNOVATIVE TIME IN OUR HISTORY; ONE THAT WILL BRING FARMERS AND NICHE MANUFACTURERS TO THE FOREFRONT OF THE ECONOMY AND PUT MILLIONS BACK TO WORK, PRODUCING FIBER PRODUCTS THAT WILL EASILY REPLACE THE BUILDING MATERIALS NOW HARVESTED FROM SOFT WOOD FORESTS, HIGH VALUE PROTIEN FOOD STUFFS AND EASY TO PROCESS FUELS OR PLASTICS FROM THE SEEDS, AND STURDY RICH SOIL THAT WILL HELP REPLACE THE MILLIONS OF TONS WE HAVE LOST OVER THE LAST CENURY.
WE ARE POISED AT THE CLIFF AND MUST JUMP INTO SPACE AND FLY BY THE TIME WE REACH BOTTOM OR WE DIE!
IT IS TIME FOR A LEGISLATIVE COALITION TO FORM AND MAKE THIS HAPPEN. WE WILL ALL HAVE JOBS, THE ATMOSPHERE WILL IMPROVE, THE SOIL WILL IIMPROVE, SALMON WILL BE ALLOWED TO RETURN IN GREAT NUMBERS, WESTERN RURAL COUNTIES WILL FEEL INCLUDED AND FAIRLY TREATED, FUEL PRICES WILL STABALIZE, INNOVATION WILL ESCALATE, AND YOUR CONSTITUENTS WILL FEEL RESPECTED.
WE WILL TURN THE TIDES ON FUEL SCARCITY, CLIMATE ISSUES, ECONOMIC ISSUES, SOCIAL ISSUES AND LEARN TO FLY INSTEAD OF DIE!
YOU MUST DO IT!
IF YOU DO NOT, IT WILL BE KNOWN BY ALL THAT READ AND SEND THIS, THAT YOU PEOPLE, NOT YOUR OFFICES, ACTED AS FIDUCIARIES FOR THE WORLD’S RULING/OWNING ELITE INSTEAD OF THE PEOPLE WHO ELECTED YOU, AND WE MAY, DUE TO THE PERILOUS NATURE OF OUR POSITION AS A SPECIES AT PRESENT MOMENT, FIND YOU GUILTY OF CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY. INDIVIDUALS MAY ACT IN BAD WAYS, YOU ARE DOING THIS PERSONALLY AND THEY MAY SEEK RETRIBUTION. THIS IS THE END GAME AND ITS UP TO YOU PEOPLE TO CUT OUR CHAINS AND LET OUR WINGS GROW.
DO NOT GIVE OUR COUNTRY AWAY AND SELL US OFF AS SLAVES!
DO THE RIGHT THING NOW!
NOW SOME MUSIC
Sweat Shop Union is great hip hop act out of BC. They're vocal harmonies, conscious content, and excellent craftmanship give them 3 gold stars on my chart! My space here. Happy days, you better read and send that letter, notify the man you will not be a slave!
Friday, March 6, 2009
Raise you voice for food purity and property rights!
First check Here for some excellent music that came through my small town last night...very well written and sung. Not to be missed.
I am really concerned about some legislation being fast tracked through congress right now. HR 875 and S 425 are both "food security" measures that will force all farms and ranches, no matter size or scale, to adhere to specific practices. These are counter to natural and organic methods of land stewardship and will basically back door the destruction safe and pure food.
This also flies in the face of property rights and choice of methods to run your enterprise, where do we live folks? Looks like Hitlers Germany to me...
I have not read the bill, but there is a lot of chatter about it so I'm suggesting a firm no. Tell your elected officials, they will listen. Tell them you don't want super agencies to control our food or health care, NO to the new "food czar" and "health care czar". These new federal agencies are sure to be worse than the ones we already have. Tell the them to divest the FDA also. Do it now, please.
Please click onto the congress.org link to the right and do something about it, please
this government is slipping backwards so quickly it's amazing. We need less control not more...
Gotta run. ciao
I am really concerned about some legislation being fast tracked through congress right now. HR 875 and S 425 are both "food security" measures that will force all farms and ranches, no matter size or scale, to adhere to specific practices. These are counter to natural and organic methods of land stewardship and will basically back door the destruction safe and pure food.
This also flies in the face of property rights and choice of methods to run your enterprise, where do we live folks? Looks like Hitlers Germany to me...
I have not read the bill, but there is a lot of chatter about it so I'm suggesting a firm no. Tell your elected officials, they will listen. Tell them you don't want super agencies to control our food or health care, NO to the new "food czar" and "health care czar". These new federal agencies are sure to be worse than the ones we already have. Tell the them to divest the FDA also. Do it now, please.
Please click onto the congress.org link to the right and do something about it, please
this government is slipping backwards so quickly it's amazing. We need less control not more...
Gotta run. ciao
Monday, February 23, 2009
Socialism at its best...
It may seem naive but I think the feds should spend their money buying equity in both large scale wind projects and de-centralized roof top solar schemes. They have the check book power right now, when it's needed, and the long term revenue will boost federal coffers for ever, cutting the need for some future taxes.
I know that socialism is a dirty word at many parties, but I am a small scale manufacturer and a huge supporter of energy revenue for governing bodies. Why freely give money or incentives to private industry when states and the feds need revenue desperately. Private industry will find new ways to profit of our needs and state (or locally) owned utilities are part of what helped build our nation into the greatness it is about to fall from. This will solve the lack of viable credit markets, put teeth in any generation standards they agree to, help fund our national security, and help restore faith in our federal government's ability to meet public demand!
And yes please give me carbon tax, at the meter, at the pump, and especially at the stationary points of emission, and make it a stiff one, we need the money and the incentive. While you're at it, why not invest all the revenue into owning more generation and transmission capacity and make our government rich again!
It sucks to be governed 4 sure, but at least we could be governed by responsible stewards that own equity in major revenue generating infrastructures and follow a simple set of principles that steer our policies...oh yeah, that's the constitution...
What ever happened to that thing anyway?
Here's an updated set of principles that could be used for a strategic plan to get back to the business of having fun around here permaculture's guiding principles scroll down and read on. They are very bsic common sense principles that anyone making a profit will relate too...
Love you
I know that socialism is a dirty word at many parties, but I am a small scale manufacturer and a huge supporter of energy revenue for governing bodies. Why freely give money or incentives to private industry when states and the feds need revenue desperately. Private industry will find new ways to profit of our needs and state (or locally) owned utilities are part of what helped build our nation into the greatness it is about to fall from. This will solve the lack of viable credit markets, put teeth in any generation standards they agree to, help fund our national security, and help restore faith in our federal government's ability to meet public demand!
And yes please give me carbon tax, at the meter, at the pump, and especially at the stationary points of emission, and make it a stiff one, we need the money and the incentive. While you're at it, why not invest all the revenue into owning more generation and transmission capacity and make our government rich again!
It sucks to be governed 4 sure, but at least we could be governed by responsible stewards that own equity in major revenue generating infrastructures and follow a simple set of principles that steer our policies...oh yeah, that's the constitution...
What ever happened to that thing anyway?
Here's an updated set of principles that could be used for a strategic plan to get back to the business of having fun around here permaculture's guiding principles scroll down and read on. They are very bsic common sense principles that anyone making a profit will relate too...
Love you
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Wrap it up with a bow?
So it seems that times like these call for fairly comprehensive, strategic action for everyone. Individuals and organizations that want to be profitable or at least effective will be rendering a life in balance and cooperation with surrounding ecosystems. That includes social, economic, and terrestrial. Relating to our federal govt' throwing money to private banks, i'll say no more. We don't need to fund zombies and prison gaurds. Funding "shovel ready" projects could help a little, keep some folks employed anyway. But we need a lot more than just a few jobs.
We need to re-inhabit our economic ecosystem.
So much of it has been off shored or done away with in the name of "growth" and ROI bottom lines, that it's effectively a clear cut we now have to re-plant. So clear cut may be a bit much, severely disrupted for sure and "gutted" of it's natural supply chain. This leaves most of us with little choice beyond imported, plastic, genetically altered, wage slave produced, and sure to break in 4 months to a year products.
Initiatives that up the use of recycled materials and agricultural fibers in our supply chains will improve our long term, collective bottom line. If those materials are truly renewable, like non tree agricultural fibers or post consumer waste, it will improve all the more because our collective natural long term capital will remain intact, while our short term seasonal capital renews itself annually. This principle can be applied almost anywhere in the economy. Design, manufacture, building, even the service and entertainment sectors can save money and support net gains of material prosperity by choosing appropriately in supply chain and design decisions.
If currency is also allowed to circulate regionally and profits are well distributed then the overall effect is even more noticeable. The same money continues purchasing goods and services, adding value to peoples' lives till it goes away, along with most of the profit, to a distant bank account and share holders' dividends.
Here's the wiki on ethical purchasing.
Worth a read.
Alternative currencies wiki
Here is something a little more thought out.
Along the way small steps can help the use of alternatives, be they post consumer or post wasteful. Here's an idea:
Executive order that commands all paper trails for the white house and congress(if possible) and why not the entire public school system too, be printed on paper containing minimum of 80% post consumer (or 50%PC/25% split w/ non tree sources). That would make the paper that no one wants to recycle worth more. Every piece of paper would be recycled because of the demand needed to sustain this new order. Transport and domestic paper production would increase w/ a net reduction in over all harm to our shared resources (atmosphere, water, landscapes etc.). Agricultural fiber production would begin being profitable and eventually with this constant in flux of annual fiber, paper prices could stablize as would the price of many things.
Recycled paper value low, problem solved. Trees that could be sinking carbon into their trunks and the ground being turned needlessly into paper? Solved. Massive dumping of toxic materials from tree to paper process into rivers, solved. Little or no market for agricultural fiber products, solved.
Here is the original executive order William Jefferson Clinton signed to get a 30% post consumer content in "non permanent" documents. Tell president Obama to go another step, if the order is still in place.
While you're at it, how bout an executive order legalizing industrial hemp again, granting farmers the power to grow most of what we need in the field. All that while taking carbon out of the air, improving soil, and providing for a massive resurgence of US ingenuity in industrial production.
Check out some Industrial hemp facts here.
Why not throw heavy subsidies at alternatives to forest sourced lumber using agricultural composites, encourage use of local currencies, and write a guide for states and counties to follow loosening up building codes and permit requirements.
Want another reason to laugh, check this out!
It seems technology has once again shown us that we can live life and use less electricity. Magnetic refrigeration, welcome to the party. Read here for a NYT article.
Seems like a good investment...
And as though you didn't already know that giant fuel providers and oil extraction companies would eek out profits even in this atmosphere, read here.
Seems like another good investment, if you want to make blood money. Thanks for reading, stay involved...go to
congress.org and tell them all.....
We need to re-inhabit our economic ecosystem.
So much of it has been off shored or done away with in the name of "growth" and ROI bottom lines, that it's effectively a clear cut we now have to re-plant. So clear cut may be a bit much, severely disrupted for sure and "gutted" of it's natural supply chain. This leaves most of us with little choice beyond imported, plastic, genetically altered, wage slave produced, and sure to break in 4 months to a year products.
Initiatives that up the use of recycled materials and agricultural fibers in our supply chains will improve our long term, collective bottom line. If those materials are truly renewable, like non tree agricultural fibers or post consumer waste, it will improve all the more because our collective natural long term capital will remain intact, while our short term seasonal capital renews itself annually. This principle can be applied almost anywhere in the economy. Design, manufacture, building, even the service and entertainment sectors can save money and support net gains of material prosperity by choosing appropriately in supply chain and design decisions.
If currency is also allowed to circulate regionally and profits are well distributed then the overall effect is even more noticeable. The same money continues purchasing goods and services, adding value to peoples' lives till it goes away, along with most of the profit, to a distant bank account and share holders' dividends.
Here's the wiki on ethical purchasing.
Worth a read.
Alternative currencies wiki
Here is something a little more thought out.
Along the way small steps can help the use of alternatives, be they post consumer or post wasteful. Here's an idea:
Executive order that commands all paper trails for the white house and congress(if possible) and why not the entire public school system too, be printed on paper containing minimum of 80% post consumer (or 50%PC/25% split w/ non tree sources). That would make the paper that no one wants to recycle worth more. Every piece of paper would be recycled because of the demand needed to sustain this new order. Transport and domestic paper production would increase w/ a net reduction in over all harm to our shared resources (atmosphere, water, landscapes etc.). Agricultural fiber production would begin being profitable and eventually with this constant in flux of annual fiber, paper prices could stablize as would the price of many things.
Recycled paper value low, problem solved. Trees that could be sinking carbon into their trunks and the ground being turned needlessly into paper? Solved. Massive dumping of toxic materials from tree to paper process into rivers, solved. Little or no market for agricultural fiber products, solved.
Here is the original executive order William Jefferson Clinton signed to get a 30% post consumer content in "non permanent" documents. Tell president Obama to go another step, if the order is still in place.
While you're at it, how bout an executive order legalizing industrial hemp again, granting farmers the power to grow most of what we need in the field. All that while taking carbon out of the air, improving soil, and providing for a massive resurgence of US ingenuity in industrial production.
Check out some Industrial hemp facts here.
Why not throw heavy subsidies at alternatives to forest sourced lumber using agricultural composites, encourage use of local currencies, and write a guide for states and counties to follow loosening up building codes and permit requirements.
Want another reason to laugh, check this out!
It seems technology has once again shown us that we can live life and use less electricity. Magnetic refrigeration, welcome to the party. Read here for a NYT article.
Seems like a good investment...
And as though you didn't already know that giant fuel providers and oil extraction companies would eek out profits even in this atmosphere, read here.
Seems like another good investment, if you want to make blood money. Thanks for reading, stay involved...go to
congress.org and tell them all.....
Monday, January 26, 2009
Daily dodads
So i rant about a lot of crap, one of which is how rigged agianst the commoner our economy is. Read my buddies plight about his crackberry going nuclear on him.
Now is the time to contact el prezidente and congress with your suggestions. Do it now!
Do it now! Scroll down to the zip code section. Tell Pres you want a victory garden at the White House!
While you're at it, here's a list:
Carbon Tax instead of crap and trade bullshit carbon ponzi credits to be sold to the highest bidder. Then who gets to be industrial, the ones who can get the credits!
Keep our health products healthy, Europe already has supplements that are useless.
health freedom.org
Stop giving money to banks, nuclear plants, "clean" coal, and highways that long haul trucks are just going to demolish again in 10 years. Build rail depots and then charge the long haul trucks for the amount of damage they actually cause to our interstate highways.
Having a garden for herbs, veggies and fruit is a great thing. Victory Gardens! It's getting popular in England again too. check out one of their little pieces of pop culture garden style.
Here's a little recycled wind turbine action
Oregon style! Wind turbines have a second life once they are re-furbished and put back on the range. Go recycled wind turbines!
Just a little something, thanks
Now is the time to contact el prezidente and congress with your suggestions. Do it now!
Do it now! Scroll down to the zip code section. Tell Pres you want a victory garden at the White House!
While you're at it, here's a list:
Carbon Tax instead of crap and trade bullshit carbon ponzi credits to be sold to the highest bidder. Then who gets to be industrial, the ones who can get the credits!
Keep our health products healthy, Europe already has supplements that are useless.
health freedom.org
Stop giving money to banks, nuclear plants, "clean" coal, and highways that long haul trucks are just going to demolish again in 10 years. Build rail depots and then charge the long haul trucks for the amount of damage they actually cause to our interstate highways.
Having a garden for herbs, veggies and fruit is a great thing. Victory Gardens! It's getting popular in England again too. check out one of their little pieces of pop culture garden style.
Here's a little recycled wind turbine action
Oregon style! Wind turbines have a second life once they are re-furbished and put back on the range. Go recycled wind turbines!
Just a little something, thanks
Monday, January 5, 2009
Railroad Solidarity
If you really want to see rail stay ahead of the game then write your senator and let them know you don't want any price controls for a few years at least, and then give them the idea i spoke of earlier about county owned, fed built regional freight depots that can handle (off load/on load )rail freight efficiently. This will give trains the opportunity to play their most efficient role in transportation logistics. Read an WSJ article here that exposes the fixed pricing agenda. Contact your congress reps here and be sure mention railroads' important role in increasing shipping efficiency by using less fuel and causing no harm on our federal highways system. Also remind them that train industry has to build it's own roads and will need to upgrade in coming years. A study by the Surface Transportation Board supports railroads' price increases, only 6% on average. Please do something to help our country, contact your representatives. Thanks
Saturday, January 3, 2009
How many geeks does it take?
Here is a little caveat; I speak here of geeks in the best possible ways, we need geeks to study how to get things done. I have a bit of geek in me and trust in data and analysis for most of my answers in life. Thanks you.
Recently a newspaper in London, The Independent asked the world's leading climate scientists whether we should prepare a 'Plan B' to curb the worst effects of global warming. The only one that really hit it on the nose follows, but other folks semi agreed with his theory.
Some actually posited that geo-engineering some "global cooling" scheme is a potential solution. Um, has anyone read up on the sobering news that our so called "global warming" has potentially staved off the next cycle of ice age? national geographic article
Here's an article about the sun spot theory relating to cooling cyles article 1
and another about the potential of de-salinization in regards to quick climate change. Sounds like a movie to me...
How about the effects of so called areosal seeding in the atpmosphere, it coulod worsen the scene. pan evaporation study analysis
Here again is the smart answer to the question posed by the Independent:
Kevin Trenberth, US National Centre for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado
Who makes the decision on behalf of all humanity and other residents of planet earth to change the climate deliberately?
Climate change is not necessarily bad. The climate has always varied to some degree, and changes have occurred over decades and millennia. Humans and other creatures have evolved and adapted to the changes, or perished. It is a part of evolution. Changes projected with increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere may have some aspects that could be regarded as bad: increased heat waves and wild fires in summer, increased and more intense droughts, heavier rains and risk of flooding, stronger storms and hurricanes, decreases in air quality, increases in bugs and disease, and so on, are all likely threats. But in some areas climates improve, high latitude continents become more equable, growing seasons are longer, and so on.
There are winners and losers and it is possible to adapt to such changes – at least if the changes occur slowly enough to allow this to happen. In other words, a key issue is the rate of change, perhaps more so than the nature of the change? This obviously also depends of how long such changes continue for. In that sense, it is the "change" part of climate change that might be argued as being bad.
But given that there is no universal condemnation of the climate change, how can anyone justify deliberately acting to change the climate to benefit some group, and perhaps even a majority? It is argued here that the ethical questions arising from this loom so large that some forms of geo-engineering are simply unacceptable. The forms that are acceptable include those that reduce emissions and mitigate the rates of change, or reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Forms that propose to block the sun in some fashion, perhaps to emulate a volcanic eruption, change the hydrological cycle and weather patterns in ways that would be simply unacceptable, even if they were doable. The cost of any such proposals and their viability are other major issues, but, in my view, they are overwhelmed by the ethical considerations.
Look here for complete list of answers to this puzzling question good luck buttercup.
Recently a newspaper in London, The Independent asked the world's leading climate scientists whether we should prepare a 'Plan B' to curb the worst effects of global warming. The only one that really hit it on the nose follows, but other folks semi agreed with his theory.
Some actually posited that geo-engineering some "global cooling" scheme is a potential solution. Um, has anyone read up on the sobering news that our so called "global warming" has potentially staved off the next cycle of ice age? national geographic article
Here's an article about the sun spot theory relating to cooling cyles article 1
and another about the potential of de-salinization in regards to quick climate change. Sounds like a movie to me...
How about the effects of so called areosal seeding in the atpmosphere, it coulod worsen the scene. pan evaporation study analysis
Here again is the smart answer to the question posed by the Independent:
Kevin Trenberth, US National Centre for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado
Who makes the decision on behalf of all humanity and other residents of planet earth to change the climate deliberately?
Climate change is not necessarily bad. The climate has always varied to some degree, and changes have occurred over decades and millennia. Humans and other creatures have evolved and adapted to the changes, or perished. It is a part of evolution. Changes projected with increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere may have some aspects that could be regarded as bad: increased heat waves and wild fires in summer, increased and more intense droughts, heavier rains and risk of flooding, stronger storms and hurricanes, decreases in air quality, increases in bugs and disease, and so on, are all likely threats. But in some areas climates improve, high latitude continents become more equable, growing seasons are longer, and so on.
There are winners and losers and it is possible to adapt to such changes – at least if the changes occur slowly enough to allow this to happen. In other words, a key issue is the rate of change, perhaps more so than the nature of the change? This obviously also depends of how long such changes continue for. In that sense, it is the "change" part of climate change that might be argued as being bad.
But given that there is no universal condemnation of the climate change, how can anyone justify deliberately acting to change the climate to benefit some group, and perhaps even a majority? It is argued here that the ethical questions arising from this loom so large that some forms of geo-engineering are simply unacceptable. The forms that are acceptable include those that reduce emissions and mitigate the rates of change, or reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Forms that propose to block the sun in some fashion, perhaps to emulate a volcanic eruption, change the hydrological cycle and weather patterns in ways that would be simply unacceptable, even if they were doable. The cost of any such proposals and their viability are other major issues, but, in my view, they are overwhelmed by the ethical considerations.
Look here for complete list of answers to this puzzling question good luck buttercup.
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