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 Climate Friendly Products and Practices3 comments
category picture12 Apr 2007 @ 11:25
oops spelling sorry

April 12, 2007
Earth
Thursday
Dawn

"CLIMATE FRIENDLY" PRODUCTS AND PRACTICES

This thread is perhaps to be similar in tone to "Selfing Healing" Forum whereas if you have a practice or product you can reasonably assuredly "endorse" as climate friendly please share it so that we, in the failure of our governments to act, might act in the capacity as conscientious and climate friendly consumers ourselves.

Now by what is meant by climate friendly is somewhat problematic as even if we had acted thus five years ago we would still be in the same boat as we are today, as climate takes a long time to process through the system and even if we act now, we may not see and change and things may slightly worsen for the next 30 - 60 years. So given that reality we sort of have to anticipate beyond then and act in good faith that the small and large acts and friendly lifestyles of today will be for not our immediate benefit or result today but for the future but we may find we were "meant" to live in harmony with the planet so acting as such has the reward of "living right" or "smart living."


so first recommendations

1. well I have a solar unit consisting of a panel and a back up battery. it is portable though very low power but the battery is 120 volt and 60 cycle AC as it has a built in inverter but takes about a week to charge with my small 5 watt panel. it has an electrical AC grid plug in charger but cannot return power to the grid. I've used it for about a year and am quite happy with its performance except perhaps for a lo freq hum when used sometimes with audio systems.

note oh I suppose sequential numbering our tips can assist in there organization and reference.

2. I've changed the way I drive after going for five years without driving. Coming back to it I now read the lights and coast a lot more even if the buggers? behind me come right up on my tail light but I no longer care unless they of course want to pay for my gas , brakes and polluting.

3. Doing art or being an artist is a more or less climate friendly occupation.

4. Growing organic vegetables via perma-culture is a more or less climate friendly.
occupation.

5. Take "electric holidays" is a good practice. What this is is turning off your power box for an hour or a day and taking a break from the grid. It saves power money and the climate.

6. Not immediately draining your hot bath can use the heat to heat and humidify your bath room for about 5 to 8 hours. And taking a bath when all the power is off with candles and an open bath room door is a rather pleasant feeling and experience as when the powers off the smoke alarms don't go off because of the high humidity.

Any way as they say the ball is now rolling so take it away Johnny but don't expect much for 40 or so years but rest in the assurance of "right and smart living".


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 Climate Freindly Products and Practices2 comments
category picture12 Apr 2007 @ 11:20
April 12, 2007
Earth
Thursday
Dawn

"CLIMATE FREINDLY" PRODUCTS AND PRACTICES

This thread is perhaps to be similar in tone to "Selfing Healing" Forum whereas if you have a practice or product you can reasonably assuradly "endorse" as climate freindly please share it so that we, in the failure of our governments to act, might act in the capacity as conscientious and climate freindly consumers ourselves.

Now by what is meant by climate freindly is somewhat problematic as even if we had acted thus five years ago we would still be in the same boat as we are today, as climate takes a long time to process through the system and even if we act now, we may not see and change and things may slightly worsen for the next 30 - 60 years. So given that reality we sort of have to anticipate beyond then and act in good faith that the small and large acts and freindly lifestyles of today will be for not our immediate benefit or result today but for the future but we may find we were "meant" to live in harmony with the planet so acting as such has the reward of "living right" or "smart living."


so first recommendations

1. well I have a solar unit consisting of a panel and a back up battery. it is portable though very low power but the battery is 120 volt and 60 cycle AC as it has a built in inverter but takes about a week to charge with my small 5 watt panel. it has an electrical AC grid plug in charger but cannot return power to the grid. I've used it for about a year and am quite happy with its performance except perhaps for a lo freq hum when used sometimes with audio systems.

note oh I suppose sequential numbering our tips can assist in there organization and reference.

2. I've changed the way I drive after going for five years without driving. Coming back to it I now read the lights and coast a lot more even if the buggers? behind me come right up on my tailight but I no longer care unless they of course want to pay for my gas , brakes and polluting.

3. Doing art or being an artist is a more or less climate freindly occupation.

4. Growing organic vegetables via permaculture is a more or less climate freindly.
occupation.

5. Take "electric holidays" is a good practice. What this is is turning off your power box for an hour or a day and taking a break from the grid. It saves power money and the climate.

6. Not immediately draining your hot bath can use the heat to heat and humidify your bath room for about 5 to 8 hours. And taking a bath when all the power is off with candles and an open bath room door is a rather pleasant feeling and experience as when the powers off the smoke alarms don't go off because of the high humidity.

Any way as they say the ball is now rolling so take it away Johnny but don't expect much for 40 or so years but rest in the assurance of "right and smart living".


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 Global Moratorium0 comments
category picture12 Apr 2007 @ 04:04
April 11, 2007
Wednesday
Earth
Evening

Justice
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 24th Anniversary3 comments
category picture11 Apr 2007 @ 12:56
April 11, 2007
Wednesday
Alberta
Morning
Cloudy

24th Anniversary


Well its about the 24th Anniversary of my glory experience.
Who could have imagined where we would be at now. I mean all the details would have been hard to conceive. Not great mind you but not to bad. We survived the "cold war" I suppose so thats perhaps a bonus or did we survive ? Well somewhat what. A little worse for wear. And we have the internet. Who'd a thought? Sort of came out of the blue it did. A bit of "blue sky" thinking then.

Well anyway happy anniversary glory.

ed

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"GLORY"
11-04-04, 07:43 am (PDT)
TOUCHED BY GLORY(A true story)

The year was 1983, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. I was living in a small house on the outskirts of the city. Strangely enough it was the house our family had lived in, in my first 2 or 3 years of life. It had been relocated from its original place and brought to this place besides the Black Mud Creek.
After a rather uneventful life, I had just gone through a divorce and was working for the government of Altberta. My divorce had so distrubed me that I had sought out professional help, also from the government. I was sort of diagnosed as having had some sort of trauma during the first two years of my life. Eventually it was revealed and remembered by my mother that I had had a convulsion at the age of 2 and had stopped breathing. My father was called and assessed the situation with the aide of a medical book and revived me a short time later by turning me upside down and spanking me. The hospital was called and I was placed under observation. Unfortunately my parent were recent immigrants to Canada and as a result I at that time only spoke German. Memories reveal that at that time I had cried for water and to go home repeatedly but no one could understand or aid me. I cried incessantly until sometime later an old cleaning lady came to my aide explaining to the charge nurse that I needed some water. I suspect the damage was done and had taken its toll. A toll that would effect me throughout my life.
At any rate, after the divorce and my breakdown, I was residing by myself in this small home. One night a friend came over and we listened to music and perhaps got high. Prior to this evening I had been experiencing flashes of red light. They would appear at odd times but usually accompanied with intense emotions and music. I felt somewhat possessed and obsessed with and by them. I had no idea what they meant. I was also experiencing time loss and electrical sensations from
household appliances. It was to say in the least, a highly disturbing time. I would sometimes have visions of myself floating in space above the Earth and looking down upon it.
I because of all this tried to get some time off work but I had exhausted all my leave time and they said, my government employer, that I would need a doctors note to gain further leave. I was under a professionals care at the time at my own expense and asked if he could provide me with that. He seemed to indicate that my situation was adverse but would not provide me with the necessary documentation so in a kind of desperation I felt I had no options left and found it necessary to quit my job and hope for the best. Little did I know what the future held in store.
I think this period was sometime after the death of John Lennon the Beatle yet one night perhaps it was the radio, I had a connection there some how. Anyway much was occurring it seemed on many and every level. Our city hockey team The Edmonton Oilers were battling for the Grey Cup. Hockey fever was in full swing and so it seemed was the cold war. It was a rather stressing and distressing time all around. I guess it was the logical progression of a breakdown and perhaps the final receiving of an uncontested divorce papers, I don't clearly remember but it signaled the end or something. I was finding it too then most difficult to separate thoughts,fantasies and realities from one an other.
My friend had come over that night for what reason I'm not sure. I think he may have been concerned for my welfare. At any rate we were perhaps high or something and then it happened. I was seated in my chair looking south across the living room. I glanced at my friend to the east of me and he seated as well seemed zonked out and preoccupied with staring at the floor. And then it happened the room sort of seemed to dissolve and I appeared to be there but it was like I was in a kind of hazy red fluid.
Everything was melted and I was simply an other melted part of it. It was heaven, timeless spaceless heaven...... the sea of Love..... I was thinking to myself I want to stay here forever or I've been here before. I had been having some thoughts about the womb around that time period ..... Feeling perhaps the Love abundant there....
My songs of the time reflecting this....." Wheres my Love"... a line from one and....
"Cinderelli where are you"..... " and it could be poetry in time if the lovers kept singing"......... and "Sunlo begone"..... a fantasy of a dragon that I was trying to slay or chase away from the children of the world who seemed in danger. Well we were all in danger it was the cold war afterall.
Here I floated in this sea of Love or heaven and then something or someone appeared there and ahead to the southeast of my chair..... I was a presence a personage of some sort that I recalled it seemed from somewhere before because I said "YOU" silently to myself..... and "knew" this but didn't know or understand it. This glowing red light hovered for a while there about 4 feet away and then came over to me and passed its hand or something through me where my heart was and where incidentally I had spilled a pot of boiling water on me at the age of
four.
Somehow there appeared to be some kind of exchange of information or something and just as suddenly it seemed it and the sea disappeared and I was left
sitting there with the worst splitting headache. I looked east to my friend and he was still zonked staring at the floor. I abruptly said I had to go to bed and left because it was all to much somehow.
As much as I have thought about it over the years I have been unable to make sense of it . What or who was this red light that hovered at heart level above the ground. How or what had it done to me by touching me. The touch was like a certainty of something..... death perhaps. I felt that that touch should have killed me but I lived if you can call it that somehow. I struggled endlessly to identify and sort out that night until I just had to let go of it because it haunted and possessed me so over the years. I dared not tell anyone perhaps only one or two because it was too real or at least so real that I felt I could not deny it. Yet I had to come to deny it myself because it was or seemed so creditless somehow. Certainly it would have been considered crazy talk or such. So over the years the memory has diminished and the quest left unanswered. Yet just recently I read a passage about "GLORY" and a kind of certainty came over me. A ringing true of what it was.
I then on that night of spring of 1983 had witnessed and been touched by Glory.

Ed
Nov 4 2004
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 Mammalsphere Update0 comments
category picture10 Apr 2007 @ 21:19
well just some house cleaning

and some artistic touches

and linking the pages together

anyway

The Mammalsphere has been updated

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enjoy

ed




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