Tag: eco-awareness

Nikola Tesla-The Greatest Mind of All is from the History Channel’s Modern Marvels series. Tesla was a genius, no doubt many years ahead of his time. He invented radio transmission before Marconi, worked with x-rays before Roettgen was granted a Nobel Prize for doing the same, invented radar before others were officially credited, came up […]

No one would be surprised if a movie called Addicted to Plastic was full of unpleasant facts about plastics. Like the fact that a lot of plastic doesn’t get recycled and winds up in one of five garbage zones in the oceans, called gyres. The UN says that there are 46,000 pieces of plastic for […]

Last September we visited our friend Pat Wilborn at his aquaponics farming project outside of Port Washington, WI, and shot some video of his operation under construction. Pat is determined to discover whether growing vegetables in a 96-foot-long greenhouse using poop from yellow perch for fertilizer is economically feasible. As I’ve written elsewhere, Pat is […]

I’ve been reading quite a fascinating book lately, Secrets of Antigravity Propulsion, by Paul A. LaViolette, Ph.D. I don’t recall how I came to buy this book because I’m not big on reading anything that promises to tell me the secrets of. Some of the math in the book was daunting for me, but you […]

The thing is, things are a huge problem. ~Two-bit Guru~ As I’ve written previously, the Pachamama Alliance recognizes that we in the industrial world are in a trance. In my estimation this trance is centered on greed, power, destruction of nature, and ultimately results in an ocean of things that are bad for the environment. […]

No doubt that sustainability is a good idea blossoming these days, and not any too soon. More and more of us are becoming aware of the need to make peace with the earth, to stop our polluting ways, maybe even to stop bashing each other over the head, literally and figuratively, to have our way. […]

“One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” ~a pithicism~ “One man’s hoarding is another man’s sustainability. This goes for women, too.” ~Two-bit Guru~ I was thinking about some of the habits of my sustainable lifestyle. Trash picking, recycling, upcycling, saving jars (with and without lids), saving nails, bolts, and screws, composting, saving cardboard boxes,  making […]

If you’ve ever wondered how much oil it takes to make one plastic bottle, or how many million plastic bottles we Americans use in a day, or how much water it takes to make one plastic water bottle, this nifty plastic recycling infographic can tell you that, and more. Via OnlineEducation.net TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious

What kind of bunch are these Pachamama people to be making such an audacious statement? They admit it’s audacious themselves, but they also firmly believe that now is the time for such a mission. I agree with them. The documentary Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream, expresses a reality that many of us already know, […]

At this unique time in history we probably ought to abandon making forgettable resolutions for the coming year and instead look beyond 2013 by making resolutions for the next 5,125 years, the length of time it will take for the Mayan calendar to complete another full cycle. Before we begin planning we ought to first […]