it matters

You are currently browsing articles tagged it matters.

Keeping us in the Dark About Fuel Efficient Cars?

06/15/2012 in News, Things that Suck, Thoughts, What Matters Most by Evelyn | No comments

About thirty minutes ago I wasn’t sure what to blog about today. Then about 10 minutes ago I knew precisely what to blog today! I love the way the Universe gives us just what we need when we need it.

Here’s what happened, I watched this video because I have been extremely concerned as to ‘why’ USA car manufacturers have not made available to us cars that get over 60mpg, there’s no reason why they shouldn’t get at least that kind of gas mileage.

So, the reason is because the US has a gas tax and those funds go to maintain our highways. When a car gets better than 20-30mpg that means the funds necessary for maintaining our highways is greatly compromised. OK, so we’ve gotten ourselves into a pickle here!

There is another issue which Brian, the guy in the video, didn’t bring up… let’s assume that we all had cars that got 100mpg and/or we had electric cars. That would mean that the oil industry would be selling a lot less oil, gas and diesel to us, do you see where I’m going with this? Well, that would mean that the entire oil industry would suddenly have very few customers. Which would mean fewer jobs, no reason to fight expensive wars in the Middle East, oil tankers and the production of them, storage facilities, and so forth would become history.

While getting superior gas mileage or having cars that don’t require gas absolutely would be a fantastic thing for the environment and our ability to create more peaceful relationships with foreign countries… it would also mean that we would have to come up with a ton of jobs for all of those who are tied to the industry. Possible solutions to that might be new jobs and industry’s that reach further still to create superior ‘Green’ technologies in other areas of our lives.

Doing that would be a monumental task to say the least but based on the way things are going anyway… one way or another, we are going to have to make drastic changes in these areas within the next five years anyway (otherwise we’re screwed essentially)… so why not get in gear, inform the masses, and start doing it now – rather than this pathetic nonsense we have been doing!?

As for the lack of funds for maintaining our roads, because they won’t be able to get enough on gas sales, all they have to do is figure out (not hard to do) how much is required to maintain the roads and then divide that number by the number of car owners and we all pay a portion -or- let them base it on the number of miles a car owner drives a year (which might be more fair) and that will act as the equivalent to the current funds raised from taxes on gasoline sales.

But wait, I haven’t even gotten to the good part yet…

I wanted to Tweet about this video (above) and provide a link to the UK Voltswagen website on my Twitter page that sells the VW Passat but Twitter will not let me, it says the link to that site contains “spam.”

Oh, really????

I was just at the site and there is no spam there whatsoever, none!

I even went back to the UK VW site to double-check, and there’s no spam content there at all.

The only thing that could be considered “unsafe” is the fact that we might learn something!

Are we being kept in the dark about something that someone doesn’t want to go viral?

The site is nothing more than a site that sells cars to the folks living in the UK.

I just wish this dishonesty nonsense would come to an end. We are fully capable of reason and logic when we know the facts -and- we ARE fully capable of allowing ways of obtaining funds to maintain our highways to happen.

Surely whoever is behind this nonsense can’t be thinking that we’re not mature enough to know that each of us has to chip in to keep our roads maintained.

Twitter however, DID allow me to Tweet the site from the Tweet button on the website itself. Which I did just moments ago.

Here’s a screenshot of the Twitter window that will not let me post a link to that VW – UK website.

Screenshot of VW Twitter link

Twitter only has an issue with the “Voltswagen Passat Bluemotion” and SnipUrl portion of what I was trying to post, nothing else.

I cannot think of any reason whatsoever as to why a link to that site would throw up a warning flag on Twitter… well, other than possibly because someone(s) out there doesn’t want us to know what ‘could’ be available to us.

I cannot think of any other logical explanation as to why Twitter won’t allow me to post a link to that site on my Twitter page. So, I posted it on my Facebook page and I’m putting my entire experience here on my blog because I believe we all deserve to know the reason ‘why’ we continue to have US vehicles with crappy gas mileage while other countries get twice as good.

Twitter ‘will’ allow me to post this link http://www.naturalnews.com/036183_fuel-efficiency_automobiles_government.html (which I did) to my Twitter page that I found at the NaturalNews website, which does have a link to the UK website in the article (the exact same link I posted above).

 

Evelyn Vincent Evelyn Vincent

Native Plant Landscaper, Gardener, Labyrinth Design, Feng Shui Practitioner,  Aromatherapy / Essential Oils, Big Fan of Nature and Living Simply.

"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."
~ R. Buckminster Fuller

Follow Me on Pinterest

Tags: , ,

Electricity for Our Homes: Wind Power or Mountaintop Removal

11/09/2011 in Health, News, Our Mountains, Reflections & Discoveries, Things that Suck, What Matters Most by Evelyn | No comments

The Last Mountain: Mountaintop RemovalIn a world of rising energy prices, rising global temperatures, and rising sea levels, Americans are looking for clean and affordable energy. Yet under the influence of big energy companies, policy-makers are stubbornly clinging to the old, dirty fossil fuel technologies of the past. Along with global warming, mountaintop removal is an egregious example of the destructive impact of our addiction to coal.

For years I’ve been saying, “I would RATHER have our mountains than this extremely environmentally damaging coal industry, I will do everything within my power to get  off of the grid and make much wiser choices!”

View the Google Earth Tutorial to see what’s going on, the Appalachian Mountains are in our backyards… this IS the high cost of coal!

The Last Mountain: A Sundance Official Selection, The Last Mountain is described as, “…a passionate and personal tale that honors the extraordinary power of ordinary Americans when they fight for what they believe in. The Last Mountain shines a light on America’s energy needs and how those needs are being supplied. It is a fight for our future that affects us all.” Find theatre showings.

Wendell Berry has this to say about the clean coal industry…

Not a Vision of Our Future, But of Ourselves

The only limits so far honored by this industry have been technological. What its machines have enabled it to do, it has done. And now, for the sake of the coal under them, it is destroying whole mountains with their forests, water courses and human homeplaces. The resulting rubble of soils and blasted rocks is then shoved indiscriminately into the valleys. This is a history by any measure deplorable, and a commentary sufficiently devastating upon the intelligence of our politics and our system of education. That Kentuckians and their politicians have shut their eyes to this history as it was being made is an indelible disgrace. That they now permit this history to be justified by its increase of the acreage of “flat land” in the mountains signifies an indifference virtually suicidal. Continue reading…

Study Shows West Virginia Mountain Could be Permanent Power Source for 150,000 Homes Continue reading “Electricity for Our Homes: Wind Power or Mountaintop Removal” »

Evelyn Vincent Evelyn Vincent

Native Plant Landscaper, Gardener, Labyrinth Design, Feng Shui Practitioner,  Aromatherapy / Essential Oils, Big Fan of Nature and Living Simply.

"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."
~ R. Buckminster Fuller

Follow Me on Pinterest

Tags: , , , , ,

Gross National Happiness

11/05/2011 in Fun Stuff, How To, News, Reflections & Discoveries, Thoughts, What Matters Most by Evelyn | No comments

Rare photo of BhutanUntil a few years ago I didn’t even know a country named Bhutan existed, only 110 miles from the north to south and 200 from east to west, Bhutan – called by its people Druk Yul, “the Land of the Thunder Dragon” – is home to a remarkable variety of climates and ecosystems. When I heard a long-time friend talk about a guy he had met from Bhutan and how cool and sane it was I Googled the name and began reading… WOW! It sounds like an absolutely amazing place!!! A place where we, in the US, can learn lessons and continue on the path of ‘positive’ change.

Many Americans are probably unaware of another historic election of 2008. Bhutan, once an absolute monarchy, became one of the world’s newest democracies in March. While this may not seem significant at first glance I think it deserves a closer look…

One thing I find outstanding about the Kingdom of Bhutan is that it’s a place where the Gross National Happiness is deemed more important than the Gross National Product.

Instead of focusing on gross domestic product (GDP), Bhutan measures gross national happiness (GNH).

When I read this, I stopped in my tracks… to be in the moment of what exactly gross national happiness was and what it might feel like. The more I thought about it, the more it touched my heart and soul, and what it might feel like to be a citizen of a country who felt their leaders actually cared about the average people. To know that my voice would be heard and the decisions made higher up in government would be a reflection of not only the average persons preference, but of something more tangible that reaches far beyond the superficial and beyond what benefits corporations. Continue reading “Gross National Happiness” »

Evelyn Vincent Evelyn Vincent

Native Plant Landscaper, Gardener, Labyrinth Design, Feng Shui Practitioner,  Aromatherapy / Essential Oils, Big Fan of Nature and Living Simply.

"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."
~ R. Buckminster Fuller

Follow Me on Pinterest

Tags: , , ,

Voter Fraud or Election Fraud?

10/27/2011 in Fun Stuff, News, What Matters Most by Curt Siters | No comments

On C-Span one morning before the 2008 election I heard that according to a Zogby poll Barak Obama had a six point lead over John McCain and is approaching 50% of likely voters.

Six percent is almost meaningless, statistically speaking that is. All it would take is a couple of million registered voters to suddenly be ineligible or unable to vote to shift the election into John McCains’ favor.

How could someone become ineligible to vote?What would it take for a person to suddenly become ineligible or unable to vote?

To be unable to vote would mean that for some reason they were not able to cast their vote by the time the polls closed and may include any of the following:

  • This could be due to them not being able to get to the polling station or
  • the lines at the polling station were so long that they couldn’t get in to vote or
  • they were challenged or
  • they were stricken from the eligible voters list for some reason or
  • that they didn’t use their name as it appeared on the eligible voter list or
  • their address didn’t match or
  • their name was close to the name of a known felon or
  • their name isn’t on the list or
  • they were told that the date of the election had changed (which it doesn’t)

What is going on today in the “worlds greatest democracy” is a shame, and a horror. The Republican Party many years ago was involved in a court case about what is known as “caging.” This is a process whereby they supposedly sent out voter inquiry cards – which by law cannot be forwarded – and any that were returned had the persons name removed from the rolls. They lost the case and were enjoined not to do it again.

Well, they did it again in 2004. Nothing was done except outrage by the citizens and a brief inquiry.

It is quite possible that they have upped the ante to election fraud (also known as “rigging the election“.) You see, voter fraud, although serious, would be minor as it involves only individual people. Election fraud would take an organization to accomplish. There are far more people registered as Democrats than as Republicans and if all the Democrats turned out to vote very few republicans would be elected. It’s a numbers thing.

Now that there have been hundreds of thousands of people are losing their homes the last thing on their mind is to update their voter registration records. These people are in jeopardy of losing their right, and duty, to vote in any presidential election (if they haven’t already) due to shady tactics like caging.

There are many organizations out there trying to get people registered to vote such as Rock The Vote, Why Tuesday?, Student PIRGs, Declare Yourself, Head Count and many others.

ACORN, another organization that registers people to vote, is being vilified in recent years by the Republican Party. Besides registering people to vote they also look for voter fraud and election fraud. Go figure.

Another way for a person to have problems voting is if their name wasn’t on the polling list.

According to Greg Palast in some investigative work for Rolling Stone has found that Colorado had quietly purged 20% of the people from the voter records. John McCain stopped campaigning in Colorado.

I am not liking this at all. I would call this October surprise #2 (#1 is the tanking economy.)

# # #

Curt SitersCurt Siters

Webmaster

Shoals Creek Village - a new build intentional community.

My Eco Oasis - the hub for what will be a network of many ecovillages.

Big fan of living simply

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.  ~Albert Einstein

Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.  ~Standing Bear

Tags: , ,

Genetically Modified (GM) Canola Found Growing Along Roadsides

10/12/2011 in Cooking, Food, Health, News, Plants, Things that Suck, What Matters Most by Evelyn | No comments

A study published October 11, 2011 by the online journal PLoS ONE reports that genetically engineered canola endowed with herbicide resistance have been found growing outside of established cultivation regions along roadsides across North Dakota. These “escaped” plants were found state-wide and accounted for 45% of the total roadside plants sampled.

The authors of the study also found that the escaped plants could hybridize with each other to create novel combinations of transgenic traits. In the study they conducted a systematic roadside survey of canola (Brassica napus) populations growing outside of cultivation in North Dakota, USA, the dominant canola growing region in the U.S.

Lead researcher Cynthia Sagers said, “More than half of the earth’s terrestrial landscape is managed in cultivated crops or forage species, yet we have little understanding of how domesticated plants influence their wild relatives.”

Regular crops also spread unnatural genes around

It should be noted that non-GM crops (conventional and organic) contain traits bred into them – which are often found and selected by irradiating seeds or exposing them to synthetic chemicals to create thousands of random genetic mutations – that can also spread to wild plants.

The authors argue that their result, more than 10 years after the initial release of genetically engineered canola, “raises questions of whether adequate oversight and monitoring protocols are in place in the U.S. to track the environmental impact of biotech products.”

A Costly Prime Example of How Easily GM Plant Genes Spread

Percy Schmeiser, a farmer in Bruno, Saskatchewan Canada whose Canola fields were contaminated with Monsanto’s Round-Up Ready (GM) Canola. Percy’s canola fields (which have been grown for decades by using seed he and his family saved year-after-year, long before Monsanto began producing GM seeds/crops) became contaminated from neighboring farms growing Monsanto’s GM canola.

Monsanto’s position was that it didn’t matter whether Schmeiser knew or not that his canola field was contaminated with the Monsanto Roundup Ready gene, or whether or not he took advantage of the technology; that he must pay Monsanto their Technology Fee of $15./acre.

Percy spent years in court with Monsanto and underwent enormous legal expenses exceeding $400,000!

Eventually the courts ruled in Percy’s favor – need I say – YAY!!!

Monsanto has agreed to pay all the clean-up costs of the Roundup Ready canola that contaminated Percy’s fields. Also part of the agreement was that there was no gag-order on the settlement and that Monsanto could be sued again if further contamination occurred. Schmeiser believes this precedent setting agreement ensures that farmers will be entitled to reimbursement when their fields become contaminated with unwanted Roundup Ready canola or any other unwanted GMO plants.

Percy’s story is told on DVD, Percy Schmeiser – David versus Monsanto a film by Bertram Verhag… Imagine that a storm blows across your garden – and that now, without your knowledge and without your consent, foreign and genetically-manipulated seeds are in your vegetable patch which you have nourished and maintained for many years. A few days later, representatives of a multi-national corporate group [Monsanto] pay you a visit at home, demand that you surrender your vegetables and file a criminal complaint against you requesting a fine a $20,000 USD against you – for the illegal use of patented and genetically-manipulated seeds.

Source:

Schafer MG, Ross AA, Londo JP, Burdick CA, Lee EH, Travers SE, Van de Water PK, Sagers CL. The establishment of genetically engineered canola populations in the US, PLoS One. 2011;6(10):e25736. Epub 2011 Oct 5.

Evelyn Vincent Evelyn Vincent

Native Plant Landscaper, Gardener, Labyrinth Design, Feng Shui Practitioner,  Aromatherapy / Essential Oils, Big Fan of Nature and Living Simply.

"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."
~ R. Buckminster Fuller

Follow Me on Pinterest

Tags: , , , ,

Whither Goest The Bees…

05/21/2011 in Gardening, Health, Things that Suck, Thoughts, What Matters Most by Curt Siters | No comments

I remember as a child that seeing 40 to 50 butterflies a day was not uncommon. About 3 miles from where I lived thousands of Monarch butterflies would gather for their migration. It truly was a sight to behold. This was back in the day before wide spread use of massively toxic chemicals were used to try to control insects and unwanted plants (referred to as weeds.)

Bees were scary because they made a buzz noise and stung (which really hurt.) I knew they were part of nature and beneficial. They were beneficial because they pollinated the plants and gave us honey, but I really didn’t pay much attention to them. Well, with the exception of one that hung out in the space between my parents patio and the neighbors shed. I didn’t know why (or what kind it was) it was just an interesting thing to watch as it bombed other insects that invaded its turf.

As a note I also enjoyed watching spiders spin their webs. If you haven’t done that try it – fascinating.

A few years ago I started hearing about CCD (colony collapse disorder) and how the bee population was decreasing suddenly and rapidly. My girlfriend and I started talking about this and how Isaac Newton stated that when the bees are gone man won’t be far behind. We rely tremendously upon the bee for our agriculture. We rely on the butterfly as well which I haven’t seen many of over the last 20 years or so.

A few months ago my girlfriend and I watched a show on PBS about the state of agriculture in China and how the absence of bees has affected it. China has approximately 1/3 of the worlds population and for a significant portion of their agriculture they now rely on people collecting the pollen, drying it and manually pollinating the flowers.

Recently I read that the German Coalition against Bayer Dangers brought a charge against Werner Wenning, chairman of the Bayer Board of Management, with the Public Prosecutor in Freiburg (south-western Germany). The group accuses Bayer of marketing dangerous pesticides and thereby accepting the mass death of bees all over the world.

The Coalition introduced the charge in cooperation with German beekeepers who lost thousands of hives after poisoning by the pesticide clothianidin in May this year. Read more…

Clothiandin is the successor to Imidacloprid whose introduction years before coincided with another sudden drop in the bee population. Clothiandin was released and pushed, as legal protection (meaning patent protection) was set to expire and any competitors could produce it without having to pay royalties.

Why is it that we, as a species, must develop things without looking at the impact it will have? The Iroquois Confederacy used to say “In our every deliberation we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations.” We need to start thinking about our world in this way and put an end to the short term, near-sighted approach we are taking today.

# # #

Curt SitersCurt Siters

Webmaster

Shoals Creek Village - a new build intentional community.

My Eco Oasis - the hub for what will be a network of many ecovillages.

Big fan of living simply

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.  ~Albert Einstein

Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.  ~Standing Bear

Tags: , , , ,

Forget ANWR Forget Global Warming Forget the Environment

05/15/2011 in Saving Energy, Things that Suck, Thoughts, What Matters Most by Curt Siters | No comments

For this article it doesn’t matter if you believe in Global Warming or if you are for or against drilling off the coast or in ANWR (Alaskan National Wlidlife Refuge) or if you think we are harming the environment. What does matter is that you take a good long look at where we as a species are headed.

Face the fact that we live on a spec of celestial dust withlimited surface area and limited volume. Within that there are thousands of objects – plants, animals, rocks and other combinations of the elements. Since the surface area and volume are limited everything on this speck we call Earth is limited.

If you can argue against those facts, by all means post a comment.

Now, if everything is limited, we can only use a natural resource for a finite time before it is gone (without replenishment.) It becomes consumed.

“Consume: to destroy or expend by use; use up. – “

There comes a point where half of it is gone. If demand increases while supply decrease the will be a crisis, especially if nothing is done until the resource is exhausted. China is consuming natural resources at an increasing rate. As is India. America isn’t slowing down. Developing nations are starting to desire it.

We have come to that point (maybe not quite or maybe just past it) with respect to oil. There is a lot of arguing going on about this between the “tree huggers” and the “stay the course crew.” I’m telling you, it doesn’t matter which side you are on – OIL IS GOING TO RUN OUT! When it does the world is going to fall into the second Dark Age because we have become addicted to one thing and one thing only.

It doesn’t matter which side of the argument you are on – there has to be a paradigm shift. We will need solutions, and fast, if we want to keep living even close to the level we are now.

President Bush has said that the free market works, keep government out of business. I say, OK, let’s do it, with one caveat remove all the tax breaks, take away all current subsidies and plough it into truly renewable resources (and I don’t mean ethanol made from food crops or require decimation of a forest to grow.) If all those businesses that receive subsidies are true businesses they don’t need them because they are viable. If they aren’t economically viable they will go the way of the dinosaur and the dodo.

Let the market decide!

# # #

Curt SitersCurt Siters

Webmaster

Shoals Creek Village - a new build intentional community.

My Eco Oasis - the hub for what will be a network of many ecovillages.

Big fan of living simply

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.  ~Albert Einstein

Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.  ~Standing Bear

Tags: , , ,

Foundations – a pox on the economy and the money supply

04/13/2011 in Fun Stuff, News, Thoughts, What Matters Most by Curt Siters | No comments

The other night Evelyn and I were watching the final episodes of Lost on hulu and there were an inordinate amount of commercials from foundations (including charitable organizations). Foundations for this cause, foundations for that cause. I got to thinking about it and thinking about the structures, total capital and funding of these foundations. I did some research and came up with some interesting answers.

Total Foundation Capital

I couldn’t come up with a good answer for how much capital is tied up by all the foundations.

According to wikipedia:

  1. The 27 wealthiest foundations in the world have a total capitalization of over 270 billion dollars.
  2. 18 of the 27 wealthiest foundations are in the U.S.

Let’s just say that this represents half of the capitalization of all the foundations which would bring the total over $540billion. Since this is a large number and most people (including myself) have trouble understanding just how large this is. Since this capitalization reflects world numbers I will break this down in world terms:

  • $540billion will employ (worldwide) 1,646,341 (.02% of the world population) households at a median income of $8200 for 40 years.
  • $540billion will employ (worldwide) 3,292,683 (.05% of the world population) households at a median income of $8200 for 20 years.

If we use the $270billion as what is the total foundation capitalization of U.S. foundations:

  • $270billion will employ (U.S.) 312,688 (.1% of the U.S. population) households at a median income of $21,587 for 40 years.
  • $270billion will employ (U.S.) 625,376 (.2% of the U.S. population) households at a median income of $21,587 for 20 years.

The Gross Domestic Product of the U.S. is $14.7trillion. The capitalization represents 1.84%.

The total money supply in the U.S. is $2.37trillion. The capitalization represents 11.39%. Which means that over 10% of our money supply is tied up in foundations.

If those funds were actually invested in people by creating jobs there would not be any financial crisis in the U.S. as almost all of that money would be circulating through the economy.

# # #

Curt SitersCurt Siters

Webmaster

Shoals Creek Village - a new build intentional community.

My Eco Oasis - the hub for what will be a network of many ecovillages.

Big fan of living simply

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.  ~Albert Einstein

Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.  ~Standing Bear

Tags: , , ,

EndofAmerica33, the stock market and a looming crisis

03/31/2011 in News, Things that Suck, Thoughts by Curt Siters | No comments

I just watched a video, EndofAmerica33.com (stansberryresearch.com – this is an advertisement). It is interesting to say the least. The subjects discussed include the stock market (the Crash and today), the price of gold and silver, and a looming crisis when the U.S. Dollar is no longer the world’s reserve currency.

I feel that stansberryresearch.com may have either intentionally left out information or has misconstrued some information for the sake of driving fear. Some of the information is stating President Obama is a socialist and is driving the U.S. down the road of England under the Marshall Plan. This is wrong – England was not covered under the Marshall Plan. This made my red flags go up.

He spoke of the Crash and the current recession comparing them. I like to do number crunching and find that the shapes are similar, however, that is where the similarity ends.

Are the Great Depression and the Crash related? Continue reading “EndofAmerica33, the stock market and a looming crisis” »

# # #

Curt SitersCurt Siters

Webmaster

Shoals Creek Village - a new build intentional community.

My Eco Oasis - the hub for what will be a network of many ecovillages.

Big fan of living simply

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.  ~Albert Einstein

Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.  ~Standing Bear

Tags: , , ,

Obama gives $36 Billion in Guarantees for Nuclear Power Plants

03/24/2011 in Intelligent Designing, News, Reflections & Discoveries, Things that Suck, Thoughts, What Matters Most by Curt Siters | No comments

Just how much is 36 Billion dollars?

36 Billion Dollars seems like a large amount of money. It can be a little hard to comprehend so, I broke it down with several examples so that we can see what it really is. money

  • It is one-half of Bill Gates net worth
  • It is enough for every (legal) man, woman and child to each receive $119.90 (based upon a population of approximately 300 million).
  • It is enough to build 720 new schools at $50,000,000 each.
  • At 0.0043 inches thick 1 trillion dollar bills would reach 2,605 miles high, or or reach two thirds of the way across the US
  • 3,797,468 households, each would receive $9,480.46 – enough to solarize each and every household (averaging $9,000 per installation)
  • At 16 square inches if you laid them side by side they would cover 125.9 square miles or cover a little less than one-third of New York City (468.9 sq.mi.)

36 Billion Dollars worth of solar energy would reduce the U.S. need for fossil fuel or nuclear power plants by 4% (based upon the US Census of 2000 with 105+ million households). Add to that an additional 8% (for a total of 12%) by redirecting the subsidies of $100,000,000  for the oil, coal and gas companies every year. Within 10 years our country would be energy independent.

Ever notice whenever there is a major storm or earthquake how hundreds of thousands of people lose power? That is due to the centralized power production scheme that is currently in place. If these power companies instead would invest in decentralized production by offering to help with the purchase, install and maintenance of solar systems on buildings their job would be much easier and the effects of natural, or man-made, disasters would affect fewer people.

I’m just wondering when the power companies will wake up and say “DECENTRALIZED is the way to go!”

I’m also wondering when our government will wake up and serve the people instead of the corporations (in spite of the Citizens United case).

# # #

Curt SitersCurt Siters

Webmaster

Shoals Creek Village - a new build intentional community.

My Eco Oasis - the hub for what will be a network of many ecovillages.

Big fan of living simply

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.  ~Albert Einstein

Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.  ~Standing Bear

Tags: , , , , ,

« Older entries