Displaying items by tag: oilFueling Our Future
At its best, technology is a universal connector and translator, helping us come home to ourselves in the deepest sense. Never before have we approached such a leveling of levels, an alliance of adopters across age, social, cultural and religious spectra.
As the world again becomes flat, we're creating ever-expanding arcs of connectivity. And connection equals energy.
We can literally power the planet with the energy of pure love, which enables us to reimagine the obvious. For example: hydrogen, a gas that's plentiful and perennial, can be used to fuel our future with zero pollution, zero cost, and zero depletion of finite resources.
Energy and environmental analyst Harry Braun lucidly explains in this Science for Life interview how the world can make the shift to a highly renewable, fossil fuel-free future of sustainable solar hydrogen power.
Then there's alcohol. David Blume, Executive Director of the International Institute of Ecological Agriculture and a globally recognized expert on Ethanol and biofuels, invites us to drive it rather than drink it: Alcohol Can be A Gas.
When I recently listened to him cavorting with astrologer Caroline Casey on her weekly Visionary Activist radio show, I was galvanized by possibility.
Caroline introduced the show by saying, "We are convening the Ouija Board of Directors," where curiosity and generosity open the path to ingenuity. Caroline and David are masters of non-linear, alchemical thinking; in fact, both spoke to the "alchemy of reversal" that only awaits human receptivity to manifest.
What David shared set my mind whirling. Ethylene (the key ingredient in crude oil) is what Pythia, the Delphic Oracle, would inhale to inspire prophecy! It's the same smell that fermenting fruit gives off. Ethylene is also a precursor to ether (anesthetic).
I immediately understood: We can remain anesthetized (deadened, living as sheep, ruled by the Dominator virus), or alive and undrugged, seeking to collaborate with rather than conquer Nature.
Caroline invoked, "Let us all be Pythias: how do we come into accord with the larger, mythic design of our lives?"
She opined that the "new Pythic car" might be one where we "drive and prophesy." She's not far off: just a week prior, I found the site of a Japanese scientist who has discovered how to turn plastic back into oil. And there's inherent humor: while the word may mean something entirely different in Japanese, his company is "Blest."
David helps create sustainable energy solutions for urban and rural communities worldwide, such as Project Gaia, a global initiative to develop clean cooking fuels. How do we produce non-wood fuel in indigenous cultures? Easy: Ethanol. It's a clean, non-toxic fuel source that saves both trees and people's health (because they're not breathing in the smoke from cooking daily over an open fire.)
He proposed a solution for the Gulf oil spill as well: bioremediation with kelp. Once again, it's about using what Nature has provided. He explained how Gulf fishermen could toss kelp nets over the ocean and use defunct refineries for harvest, yielding re-oxygenated water, fertilizer and fuel. David asserts that this method can easily power the entire U.S.!
What these mentally elastic pioneers are doing might be termed shapeshifting. In his riveting book Shape Shifting: Techniques for Global and Personal Transformation, former management consultant John Perkins, once an expert witness for nuclear power who awakened to become a proponent of clean energy, describes his life-altering encounters with master shamans worldwide.
The indigenous prescription for planetary salvation: "change the dream" of conspicuous, Earth-decimating consumption to an Earth-honoring, balanced vision that serves both ancient and modern cultures. To serve this new dream, Perkins founded DreamChange.org, a global grass roots movement of people from diverse cultures and backgrounds dedicated to shifting consciousness and promoting sustainable lifestyles.
Clearly, the possibilities for fueling our future in every sense are limitless, if each of us is willing to be the change, to affirm, "The buck stops here." This is also the key to wealth creation: claiming responsibility (the ability to respond) in every area of our lives. By stepping fully into our power, by refusing to point the finger or pass the buck, by being willing to leave herd consciousness for conscious co-creation, we accrue true wealth, which means well being and wisdom.
It's a subtle shift: from passivity to passion, collusion to collaboration, independence to interdependence. If we've been accustomed to canon firings to get our attention, now the caress of a feather will suffice. Noise and commotion jar the senses and sensibilities; it's only in repose that we can hear the beckoning wonder, calling us to release our sticky, oil-soaked cravings and glide with grace into our heart's desire.
Remember how Doc Brown stuffed banana peels into his car's gas tank in Back to the Future, when he returned from a brief trip ahead? That 1985 film was prescient. A quarter century hence, we're nearly there.
Ethnocide and Biological Distruction- Will We Ever Change?
I’ll set the scene: A world unknown and untouched by modern society, native persons living in tranquil isolation for thousands of years. Capitalist, oil-hungry corporations forcing their way in, willing to do anything for the black gold protected deep beneath the dense jungle- lie, cheat, even kill. And no, this isn’t a synopsis of the popular flick Avatar, this story is real--happening right now and the land and people who are in danger actually exist. If you liked James Cameron's newest billion-dollar tale, you are going to really get fired up about this one…
