Thursday-Sunday, May 16, 2010
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Friday, May 14, 2010
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Four Months or Several Million Years???
Thursday-Thursday, May 13, 2010
Blessings of Peace Kin Kin. Thank you Sane and Reverent Allies of Living, Loving Light.
So I've been working on crackpot theory number one. I know what the theory is. It's hard to get it in writing though. LOL! I'd like to have some citations or links for the references I want to work with, yet it's a busy, busy world we're attempting to navigate. May evolution happen in the land of monkeys!!!
I'm including an article I wrote that appeared in the Ramah Farmers' Beet last fall. It was right about the time BP began drilling the well that's now spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
Four Months or Several Million Years???
I first heard of biodiesel in 2004. For some reason, I thought it was a hoax. It wasn't until 2007 that I discovered it was a reality. In the winter of 2008, I came across the Spring 1999 issue (102) of Communities Journal of Cooperative Living. On page 75, in an ad for Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage, I read, "At Dancing Rabbit we: ...make diesel fuel from vegetable oil." Talk about arghhh! That was in 1999, and I was finding out 10 years later?
This past February, I heard an interview with David Blume, executive director of the International Institute for Ecological Agriculture. He's been pioneering alcohol fuel since the 70s. The interview blew me away! I went to his website (AlcoholCanBeAGas.com) and ordered his book and DVD, Alcohol Can Be A Gas: Fueling an Ethanol Revolution for the 21st Century, then rattled an earnest email to Jackie, the editor at the Ramah Farmers' Beet to ask if she had heard of this guy.
So I've been working on crackpot theory number one. I know what the theory is. It's hard to get it in writing though. LOL! I'd like to have some citations or links for the references I want to work with, yet it's a busy, busy world we're attempting to navigate. May evolution happen in the land of monkeys!!!
I'm including an article I wrote that appeared in the Ramah Farmers' Beet last fall. It was right about the time BP began drilling the well that's now spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
Four Months or Several Million Years???
I first heard of biodiesel in 2004. For some reason, I thought it was a hoax. It wasn't until 2007 that I discovered it was a reality. In the winter of 2008, I came across the Spring 1999 issue (102) of Communities Journal of Cooperative Living. On page 75, in an ad for Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage, I read, "At Dancing Rabbit we: ...make diesel fuel from vegetable oil." Talk about arghhh! That was in 1999, and I was finding out 10 years later?
This past February, I heard an interview with David Blume, executive director of the International Institute for Ecological Agriculture. He's been pioneering alcohol fuel since the 70s. The interview blew me away! I went to his website (AlcoholCanBeAGas.com) and ordered his book and DVD, Alcohol Can Be A Gas: Fueling an Ethanol Revolution for the 21st Century, then rattled an earnest email to Jackie, the editor at the Ramah Farmers' Beet to ask if she had heard of this guy.
While waiting to hear back from Jackie, I reread the January '09 edition of the Beet, where I came across an article entitled "The Biofuels Hoax" that downplayed the validity of biofuels:
"Propaganda.
Cable vision.
Syndicated TV.
Look into the box.
Is this the world you see?"
Does anyone remember The Waltons? After learning about ethanol, I recalled an episode in which one of the Walton brothers runs a car on moonshine. That's what ethanol basically is: moonshine! Reviewing an online synopsis of the episode (http://www.the-waltons.com/season7.html#TheBeau,) I found the memory I had was correct: The episode aired on Nov. 23, 1978 and the brother was Jim-Bob,who realizes that WWII gas rationing is coming and decides to see if he can get a car to run on alcohol made in a friend's moonshine still. After a couple of attempts, they distill a 190 proof brew, perfect for running his car. Not wanting trouble with the government, Jim-Bob reports the alcohol fuel to them, but they respond that it is impossible for fuel to be made from alcohol; that it's a hoax.
That was 1978. I was nine years old but the episode stuck with me. Thirty years later, Al Gore challenged America to re-power our country within 10 years with alternative energy, to become energy independent. He didn't mention biofuels, though he did point out that American businesses are paying foreign countries two billion dollars every 24 hours for oil...well, not exactly paying: The American Government is actually borrowing money from China for oil.
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." -Thomas Pynchon
"The Biofuels Hoax" article in the January '09 Beet focuses on corn and soybeans as the main source for biofuel production and distillation. It states that Archers Daniel Midland, Cargill and Monsanto are the ones profiting. That is the hoax! Does anyone reading this think Archers Daniel Midland, Cargill or Monsanto have the best interest of the planet or public in mind?
I've expressed my enthusiasm for ethanol, and for the most part have been met with extreme skepticism:
"You can't do that. It's against the law. The ATF will be all over you."
Actually, it is legal to make alcohol for fuel.
"Farmers should be making there own fuel."
They do in Iowa.
"I've already seen the ethanol fuel issue. There's not enough land to grow our fuel. We need to be feeding people organically."
“We” are not even feeding starving people inorganically!
Alcohol Can Be a Gas is an eye-opening tome of information that busts the myths of corporate propaganda. Blume presents a model for biofuel production that isn't dependent on Corporate America and includes permaculture and sustainable solutions.
Ethanol isn't just for cars: It can also fuel small engines, power plants and airplanes. Imagine a future with no nuclear or coal-fired power plants! No more uranium waste to put in some hole in the ground for our great grandchildren and our great, great-to-the-nth degree grandchildren to deal with.
I'm a fan of Blume. He's really helped open my eyes about the oil debacle and the misinformation surrounding ethanol. He's also innovative as all get out. In the interview last week, he presented a bio-remediation idea for the Gulf using kelp. The kelp would be made into ethanol. Thank you David! I hope your ideas and book get some attention with the folks in our nations Capitol.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
A Camera in Your Eye...
Thursday-Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Blessings of Peace Kin Kin. Thank you Sane and Reverent Allies of Living, Loving Light.
If it can to... it can happen to...! You just learn to deal.
If it can to... it can happen to...! You just learn to deal.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Snake energy...
Thursday-Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Blessings of Peace Kin Kin. Thank you Sane and Reverent Allies of Living, Loving Light.
Monday, May 10, 2010
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Happy Mother's Day
Thursday-Sunday, May 9, 2010
Blessings of Peace Kin Kin. Thank you Sane and Reverent Allies of Living, Loving Light.
Some of what I gathered from Dr. Argüelles was that the 13 numbers represented tones emanating from the earth's core, the planetary center. The 20 glyphs were solar. The sun is the solar system's center. So what about 8 and 5?
From nature. It all seems to be from nature.
Before I begin writing about the Kardashev scale, I feel I need to discuss the Fibonacci sequence. After coming upon Carl Calleman's, work I began wondering where the Tzolki'n (the sacred 260 count of the Maya,) had come from. Why the numbers 13 and 20? Something about Calleman's book Solving the Greatest Mystery of Our Time: The Mayan Calendar, got me playing with number sequences.
13 is part of the Fibonacci sequence.
13 is part of the Fibonacci sequence.
Fibonacci | 0, 01, 01, 02, 03, 05, 08, 13, 21, 34... |
Cumulative Fibonacci | 0, 01, 02, 04, 07, 12, 20, 33, 54, 88... |
Fibonacci | 0, 01, 01, 02, 03, 05, 08, 13, 21, 34... |
Cumulative Fibonacci | 0, 01, 02, 04, 07, 12, 20, 33, 54, 88... |
I was excited to make this discovery! Wow, something from nature that the Tzolki'n might be based upon! I wasn't the only one to make this connection. I discovered an article at One Reed Publishing by Valerie Vaughan discussing this very thing.
The next cycle I began looking for was 360, (18 and 20.) Though it still came from the Fibonacci sequence, it took a while for me to see it. 5+13=18.
Fibonacci | 0, 01, 01, 02, 03, 05, 08, 13, 21, 34... |
Some of what I gathered from Dr. Argüelles was that the 13 numbers represented tones emanating from the earth's core, the planetary center. The 20 glyphs were solar. The sun is the solar system's center. So what about 8 and 5?
The next is speculative on my part. I began thinking of 8 as the sun's center and 20 as the sun's corona. So I had a planetary center, (13) and a solar center (8.) Following this logic, I decided that 5 represented the galactic center.
05 – galactic center.
08 – solar center.
13 – planetary center.
Cumulatively we have 12 at 5, 20 at 8 and 33 at 13. 33 remains a mystery to me but 12... The 12 Apostles. The 12 signs and houses of the western zodiac. And the 12 signs of the Chinese zodiac. This was another one that took a long time to see. The Chinese zodiac not only has 12 signs, but each sign has 5 elements, (metal, water, wood, fire and earth.)
5 x 12 = 60. Perhaps the mechanize timing frequency, 12:60, that is integral to Dr. Argüelles and Dreamspell followers has its basis in the Fibonacci sequence. It's just a thought.
From nature. It all seems to be from nature.
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Friday, May 7, 2010
Thursday, May 6, 2010
David Blume on The Visionary Activist Today...
Thursday-Thursday, May 6, 2010
Blessings of Peace Kin Kin. Thank you Sane and Reverent Allies of Living, Loving Light.
This just in! David Blume of the International Institute of Environmental Agriculture, author of Alcohol Can Be A Gas, will be on the Visionary Activist Show with Caroline Casey. The show airs today, live on WAMU 88.5 at 5:00pm ET and Pacifica Radio KPFA 94.1 FM at 2:00pm PT. You can tune in through the web at KPFA.org. Sometime after the show you can download an mp3 of the program.
Here's a short clip with David.
Here's a short clip with David.
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Had to Lighten Up A bit...
Thursday-Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Blessings of Peace Kin Kin. Thank You Sane and Reverent Allies of Living, Loving Light,
I don't know if you've been following the the spewing oil volcano off the Louisiana coast, but I saw this clip this morning and.... I'll be getting to the type system soon.
Monday, May 3, 2010
23 turning into 18
Thursday-MONDAY, MAY 3, 2010
Slow going. Working with a distracted mind. Wondering what the "right" thing to do is. Whew!
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Spills and Shakes. Whatever it Takes???
THURSDAY-SUNDAY, MAY 2, 2010
Blessings of Peace Kin Kin. Thank you Sane and Reverent Allies of Living, Loving Light.
With all the earthquakes this year, and the oil spill disaster that's ongoing in the Gulf of Mexico, I feel visiting the Civilization Type system is appropriate.
"What's a Civilization Type System," you may wonder?
I first heard about civilization types, the Kardashev scale, watching a video interview of Michio Kaku, a renown American theoretical physicist specializing in string field theory. He states that when physicist look into outer space, they're looking for "energy signatures" of civilizations. The Kardashev scale has three designated categories.
- Type Zero, (not designated,) the world now... uses dead things, (coal, oil,) to power our civilization.
- Type One, Planetary Civilization... uses and control their planetary resources, (weather, earthquakes, volcanoes,) to power their civilization.
- Type Three, Galactic Civilization... uses and control their galaxy's energy, (billions of stars, black holes,) to power their civilization.
- Type Four, (not designated,) Universal Civilization... uses and control their Universe's energy (billions of galaxies, black holes,) to power their civilizations.
- Type Five, (not designated,) Multiversal Civilization... uses and control multiple Universal energy (infinite? Universes,) to power their civilization.
What all does this have to do with the Mayan calendar?
Saturday, May 1, 2010
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