Solar is the Solution! No More Time to Mess Around!

We need to switch to alternative energies asap to end the dirty CO2 fossil fuel age that is bringing humanity to the edge of disaster with global warming and all the cancer related sickness from petrol based products - diesel fuel, plastics etc. Solar is the way. The sun will be shinning for another 4-5 billion years. Enough energy falls on the earth in one day to power the all the worlds energy needs for years to come. Capturing it at a competitive rate per kilowatt hour is the challenge. In this video - the speaker mentions that most solar panel installations are subsidized. This is true but what he fails to mention is that fossil fuel fuels are also subsidized through huge tax breaks and creepy loop holes. Solar is growing faster than ever before - it doubled in 2013-14 and will continue to do so as the prices are coming down and people are seeking solutions to the fossil fuel nightmare monopoly that has been going on for far too long. Check out the link and you will see the concept in action. Last year a 579 Megwatt power plant using this focused sun energy technology went online and will serve 255,000 homes with electricity by 2015 - awesome! Just the beginning - but we the people must speak with our voices and our wallets by supporting leaders and companies who are pro-solar energy. Our healthy collective future depends on it! Let's do this!

http://www.voanews.com/content/world-largest-solar-plant-online-california/1790639.html

Freewill? Yes or No?

I believe in freewill. I think it is a great gift from God. What we do with it is another story. I thank Dr. Libet for his establishing scientific evidence for freewill, albeit a brief half a second. Here are a few differing viewpoints from some influential academics.

Dr Libet's Consciousness/Freewill Experiment

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/07/25/c-s-lewis-problem-of-pain-free-will/?utm_content=bufferf2d15&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

This is an old, but classic video putting things into perspective.

Divest from Fossil Fuels Now!

We as a people need to take action into our own hands. The power of the purse or what I call a 'pocketbook revolution' is a proven, successful method to change the world for the better. Boycotts were used successfully by Gandhi, Martin Luther King and divestment in South Africa helped end apartheid. This link is a nice recent video made by the 350.org folks leading this David fight against the Goliath fossil fuel industry. We the people must act today - the climate warming from CO2 releases - is not going to stop unless we make it stop! Divest!

http://youtu.be/Fbv_tU2riNQ

Why so many images?

I guess a picture does tell a thousand words as some ancient Eastern sage once said. Images - pictures - have taken over the internet media scape. Every popular website, blog etc are images - mostly mundane subject matter such as selfies which is such a recent phenomenon that it still shows up as a spelling error on my word processors - or superficial fashion/shopping/consumerism stuff. How many pictures of yourself and friends can you take/look at before you become sick of yourself and others? I am a teacher of teens in NYC and it amazes me how many images they take or look at for hours a day. I love looking at images too - for I am an artist and a visual person by nature but I also love to read. I feel that the next generations do not read enough. Reading is how we absorb and process information to make informed decisions - or so we hope. With the proliferation and popularization of images via social websites by creatives and silicon valley - there seems to be no end in sight. Let's face it - images are easier on the brain. Less work for the lazy mind. Images have become dangerous distractions from reality which needs more participation of we the people. Apathy is a luxury we as a country/world can no longer afford.

I recently was coming back to NYC from a short stay in Woodstock - on the bus. I was seated with my girlfriend right behind a young duo of female teens - probably around 16-18. They spent the entire 2 hour trip scanning through images on their smart phones and a laptop. I could not help but see through the space between seats what they were viewing. Mostly images of friends and themselves - mostly selfies of the one dominant, peroxided blond girl who was doing most of the image searching. 

I looked at some images myself, in my magazines like National Geographic and Discovery but more importantly I managed to read several articles and a few chapters of a book called Imagine Living in a Socialist USA. I feel people need to balance out their image obsession with reading and therefore becoming more knowledgeable human beings. Do more civic action - get involved-organize-fix the world because our leaders are all puppets and it is up to us to make things right through grass roots organizing. This takes time and energy - the precious time and energy most are wasting looking at and taking pictures of everything - instead of doing something useful for society. Such as reading my book Sto-ology: A Metaphysical Exploration of the Human Condition - many informed concepts on just about everything under the sun!

This is the latest from this group trying to raise awareness through a mock ad about multinational corporation Exxon who are taking us all to hell with them based on an unpatriotic greed sickness. Exxon's only allegiance is to money at the expense of our collective healthy future.