What is your energy descent plan?

You may see a little more of this coming over the coming months (posting of special interest pieces) as I believe there are brighter people then me that can talk clearly, passionately and in some cases humourously about energy descent. I encourage you all to follow regularly some of the blogsites listed at the sides of my blog, but if i find some pearl, it'll be posted here too.

"Right now, global food supply is largely sustained through oil-powered “green revolution” technology. In the US, we spend 9 calories of petrochemical energy per food calorie which we consume. In Bangladesh, about 1/2 calorie of human and animal energy goes into producing each calorie of food energy consumed. The petro-energy has meant that we get by with very little human and animal energy. In our equation, it is treated as negligible. A lot of the energy devoted to the calories we eat comes from our cars, refrigerators and cooking devices. Also, we are wasteful of this energetically expensive food. If you throw out half of what you cook, after leaving it sitting in the fridge, you doubly worsen your calorific efficiency." - John Day

http://guymcpherson.com/2012/01/personal-choices-in-uncertain-times/

Time to get tooled up?

A New Challenging Year

Another year gone by the wayside, very little of anything positive to write about in 2011, but in 2012 the blog is my creative outlet focus. So have any of you noticed the small incremental changes going on around us, much like the frog in the slowly heating pot, I doubt it! But fear not, I will endeavour to find the time to share my own thoughts along with respected others this coming year.

The focus remains on the changes that need to be made during an energy descent, with the sincere hope that the changes are slow enough so as we can cope with the transition in as painless a way as possible. This is not a pet project or a whim but increasingly my responsibility to myself, my precious daughter, my extended family and my friends.

"In a time when the survival of the human race is in question, to continue with the status quo is to cooperate with insanity, to contribute to chaos. When darkness engulfs the spirit of the people, it is urgent for concerned people to awaken, to rise to revolution. The cleverness of the human mind has led us to the complex, horrifying, and all-encompassing crisis that we now face. The familiar solutions, based on a limited view of what a human being is, continue to fail, to be pathetically inadequate. Yet we pour vast resources into these tired solutions and feel that if we achieve a grand enough scale, the old solutions will meet the new challenges. Do we have the courage to see failures as failures and leave them to the past? Do we have the vitality to go beyond narrow, one-sided views of human life and to open ourselves to totality and wholeness? The call of the hour is to move beyond the fragmentary, to awaken to total revolution." - Vimala Thakar

http://www.enlightennext.org/magazine/j34/thakar.asp

Time to get our hands dirty and reconnect with the land?



Peace and Love