Melting Lands trailer from Hemmings House Pictures on Vimeo.

www.breathingearth.net/

Sunday, September 27, 2009
San Luis Obisbo, California

Spent the last two days hanging out with Jordan and Meleah of N'Credible Edibles. This dynamic duo of non-stop energetic flow is all about changing the face of suburban yards. The company logo on the back of their work truck reads “Food not Lawns!” below their logo of a giant mushroom. The reason for the mushroom is simple, N'Credible Edibles is built on a foundation of mushroom compost. Jordan and Meleah basically create a new membrane of skin over yards and desert landscapes transforming it into a vital food supplying ecosystem!

When I first started talking to Jordan on camera, he described NCredible Edibles as builders of food forests, regardless of your location. “We’ll build you a food forest in your yard, on your urban balcony, in your camper, or even on your boat!” In fact I think these guys even did the lat one for a guy in Morro Bay who now has a food forest growing out on his boat in the bay. Beautiful. I told them of my VanGarden from back in the day up in Canada, and how I had to transplant to issues of international borders.. but we are obviously of like mind.

I dropped in on one of Jordan and Meleah’s work sites last week to take some footage of them in action. The site is a home that appears to belong to someone who is quite well off in terms of money. Meleah explains they don’t discriminate, whether you’re rich or poor they’ll build a landscape that will feed you!

When it comes to the grass roots these guys are also deeply entwined as well. Every years they teach workshops at schools throughout the country teaching kids to make seedballs that they can then plant in their gardens of spread across the landscape. Jordan tells me that he likes to get the kids really dirty! The first thing they often do is get the kids to take off their shoes and walk around in the mud and squish it between their toes. The talks about ecological illiteracy in not only kids but their parents. It’s as though we have lost a few generations to a disconnected world.

He tells me of parent who intentionally bring their kids to the workshops in clothes that they can’t get dirty in. Meleah mentions one instance where a teacher in speaking to a child who was excitedly gathering up all of her seed balls shunned the girl saying, “What do you think you’re going to do with all of those? You have way too many, don’t be ridiculous!” To which Meleah interjected and intervened correcting the older woman’s behavior, saying “she’ll plant them and provide food for people wherever she does!”

Some people don’t recognize a dirty child as a connected child, engrossed in the natural world. Some parents prefer for their children to live in a well defined sterile manufactured reality. I think this says a lot about our culture and the fact that ecological illiteracy has now become a problem of gigantic multigenerational proportions.

People like Jordan and Meleah are definitely part of the solution! Yesterday I headed out to their greenhouse to film Jordan and James (Meleah’s son) doing some work while I talked to them on camera. A young intern came by for an interview to do a few hours of work every week for N'Credible Edibles. And this is where you see it all in action. Jordan takes him around the greenhouse site fueling him with ideas and inspiration, and when the teenager responds with his own ideas, Jordan is like YES, YES, YES… he tells the teen he can start his own food growing projects, make the place his own, bring his friends to learn and get involved. Not because he’s interested in free labour, but because he recognizes that the only way forward is for all of us, especially our youth to reconnect to our food supply! He knows that these kids will go home and talk to their parents and get them rethinking their front lawns and he knows that these kids will then be able to help them make the transition towards more sustainable living.

At one moment Meleah is showing me pictures from an album of jobs they’ve done.. and then there are some of jobs they haven’t done. In one example is an office yard they transitioned into food, on the next page is the office owners home where they have done the work themselves without more than a few phone calls to Jordan and Meleah. It’s an example of teaching a man to fish, rather than fishing for the man… Jordan and Meleah recognize that there is no shortage of work out there and they are keen to empower the people as they go. It’s a wonderful approach to life and business!

Whether at the job site, or at the greenhouse, I’m surrounded by not only food but medicinal plants. I’m coming across more and more of this lately and it’s really affecting my paradigm. Jordan tells me as I walk through the greenhouses edible landscape, that at one time they had 350 varieties of medincinal plants growing here. Forget the pharmacy, get back in touch with nature’s abundance and healing properties.

The thing is that all of this is possible for all of us, regardless of location or climate. We can all be working towards growing our own food and medicinal plants not only as individuals but within communities. If you don’t have Echinacea in your garden you can pick some out of your neighbors yard, they can get apples off your trees, or better yet from the trees in the local park.

As I eat these amazing organic apples off a tree out at the greenhouse site, I’m reminded of a story I once heard about an Amazon First Nation Tribe. When they would go out and hunt, they would walk along pathways through the forest. Along ALL of these pathways were food forests that they would cultivate as they traveled for, in some cases, hundreds of miles. They would always have food on hand, and would also always be disseminating seeds and new life. They lived in a living, growing, thriving, food –producing space.

Now is the time for us to build these traditional common-sense models into our current reality and, in doing so, create true food security for all!

Scarcity and industrial agriculture are myths of the industrial age. Organizations and projects like these get me so excited. We can live in a world of abundance where every space catching sunlight, whether urban or rural, can be growing food. Imagine every office tower having it’s southern exposure used to grow food that not only feeds the people working inside, but also cleans the air and cools building interior in the summer months. Think of roof-top gardens that not only grow food, but also capture Co2, cool the city below, and act as living water-harvesting infrastructure, providing clean water! As Brock Dolman said recently in a talk I attended, “The Game IS ON people!” Project just like I’m describing are happening around the world and for the non-believers here are some links to prove it!

http://www.greenroofs.com/projects/pview.php?id=476
http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/06/05/jean-nouvel-takes-a-green-slice-out-of-la/
http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/10/25/sites-residence-antilia-green-tower-in-mumbai/

BUT, this is also just only the beginning! Until we all WAKE UP and realize the future is in not just in local but ‘personal’ food supplies, we’re still in deep trouble.

The price of oil will go back up, and when it happens we’ll see a dramatic shift in the price of food. If you thought the food riots in Spain looked bad, it’ll be coming to your neighborhood soon! And think, in Spain, a lot of people still grow their own food as their ancestors did.

I can go on and on… since it extends in all directions. You can’t talk about food without talking about the desertification of North America by industrial agriculture (FACT), or Peak Water (FACT), and distribution systems that are built on a foundation of a linear debt-ridden economy (FACT)… I DO mean to scare you! It’s time we all look into true food security, while optimistically rejoicing in the reality of nature’s true abundance and the only way to do that, after you look into what I’m saying to find out for yourself, is to be like the kids Jordan and Meleah teach and…

GET YOUR HANDS DIRTY!

peace,d

[Pics: Flower, Future Food Forest, Spiral Garden Built From Recycled Concrete: Urbanite ;-), Greenhouse, Inside Greenhouse, Jordan & James Plastic Hanging, Jordan AppleBliss, Dan PeachBliss :-)]

Friday, September 25, 2009
Location: Morro Bay, CA

Back in Morro Bay and about to head off to Avila to do another interview this afternoon but wanted to drop a few lines before I head out.

After my time with Occidental Arts and Ecology it was time to head back down to Petaluma to meet with Trathen Heckman of Daily Acts and Green Sangha. Although I've been talking to Trathen online for weeks, I first met him face to face last week in Cotati, CA where he, the city of Cotati and a bunch of volunteers were taking a suburban park space and converting it into a food forest and medicinal landscape. Grass-covered parks require a tremendous amount of water to sustain, so Trathen and crew have started a project that takes these water hogs and converts them to food low water using food forests.

When I arrived the crew had already sheet-mulched the entire lawn on site and were busy planting fruit trees, medicinal plant ground cover, and sedges indigenous to the local environment. In California where an large amount of the water is imported projects like these make tremendous sense. In time this park space will not only be a place to sit and contemplate nature and natural systems, but will also be a place to gather apples, nuts, and medicinal teas. All while lessening the impact on the hydrological system.

The other benefit of this project is that the volunteers involved can go home and begin to educate others about the benefits of a Food not Lawns mindset. Leaving the site inspired, they now have the tools to begin transitioning their own lawns into food forests or simply low water use spaces of peace and tranquility. A beautiful thing to see the ripples forming.

When I finally got around to visiting Trathen, his home was hard to miss! I drove through the streets of Petaluma and it was lawn, lawn, lawn, lawn, then ZING!! there was Trathen's place a veritable garden of eden bursting forth with an abundance of food, life and love!

Trathen and I had a great dialog about the work he's doing the way to inspire and motivate others, and the importance of restoring the Egosystem as much as the importance of restoring the Ecosystem. We talked about the importance of finding our light in this world, finding the things that light us up and through every individual daily act, leave the world a better place than when we found it.

The question I have for you, is, are you lit up? Do you feel your presence is building resilience and improving the system we are all dependent upon? And if not, why? There is so much for us to do to transition this world into the future and as Trathen and others are demonstrating, it's all so very very possible! Begin to take the steps to be the change you wish to see in the world.

Pics: Trathen in his front yard, Installing drip irrigation system, discussions of plants around sedge, John tests a swale to see if it will Slow, Spread, and Sink the water rather then sending it 'away' to nowhere.
peace,
d
Here's Trathen on Peak Moment TV. ENJOY!

Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Occidental, CA

Wow! I've been a lot of extraordinary places on my travels, and all along the way I've been dreaming of building my own place back in Canada. I've been cataloging techniques, ideas, voices, and inspirational innovations to incorporate into my future work of building a sustainable off-grid permaculture farm that is also an educational center, community space for artists and educators, and just a beautiful space to live. It seems all of my dreaming and travels culminated this week in one place named Occidental Arts and Ecology Center. This place is beautiful!

I arrived at OAEC to do an interview with two amazing individuals, Dave Henson and Brock Dolman. Dave and I talked about how we organize our world, the importance of re-indigenating ourselves, establishing places that restore the land and overall fecundity and thus increase our resiliency going forward into the hard times ahead.

Brock blew me out of the water with his thoughts on water and thus totally affected my head-waters ;-)

It was a pleasure to meet both of these men, and to sit with participants of OAEC's current permaculture course while eating scrumptious meals mostly from on-site gardens. I really encourage everyone reading this blog to go and check out OAEC's website and learn more about what they're doing and what we can all do going forward.

I'm fairly certain Liz and I will be back here to take some courses down the road, since even in the short time I had to visit this time around, I can feel new shifts in my own personal ever-shifting paradigm :-)

peace,d
(pics to follow.. camera in van.. maybe more text too:-)
A vid of Brock talking :-)

Sunday, September 20, 2009
Petaluma, CA

I just recently posted the video John Francis: I walk the Earth (scroll down), and ever since I've been thinking of how I'm a prisoner of my own creation. I firmly believe that we are all artists living within a giant life-canvas, we hold the power to manifest as co-creators limitless possibilities.. but we are also just people.

A while back a bought a bunch of those poetry fridge magnets and affixed them to my van, for a while people would rearrange them leaving me notes and poems. I removed most of them a while back.. but there is one that remains on my back door. It reads, "Blue Sky Crush My Trudge".

As much as we're co-creators, we're also just people trudging along under the mercy of a beautiful blue sky. As much as we have the ability to create we're also subject to impermanence, change and the ever-present flow of the universe.

As in the case of john Francis, there's a certain point where you have to recognize the limits to your own manifestations, and take a step back. When I was an aikidoist my sensei used to always say, "be careful not to become a victim of your own discipline." In the end John Francis asks us to all examine our lives and question the inner spaces where we've become prisoners of ourselves, our choices, and our own outward manifestations.

All of this HAS led me to be a bit introspective, and as a result, I've been afflicted with anxiety-filled sleepless nights in the van.

I've been on the road for 1288 days... over three years of living between the cracks, living without a schedule, drifting from place to place, living frugally, unconcerned about 'making a living'... in a word FREE.

But if only it were that simple...

In that time I've also become attached to life out here on the road, life without a kitchen, life of impermanent communities, life of constant change, life of adaptation, versatility and resilience... and a life of letting go.

But what if I want to hold on?

Like John Francis did, I'm finding myself at a crossroads. I say 'finding' since I'm not quite there yet, but I feel the beginning of the shift in another direction. I'm looking at the choice of going down into Mexico and Central America in the next few months and I'm looking at it as symbolic of leaving North America... Originally that was always the plan, to leave and get 'outside' of the box, to travel deep and away into a foreign jungle or landscape.

But like all journeys, something happens along the way. In my case I fell in LOVE, not only with a beautiful woman, but with North America. I've found myself in love with the place I was so set on to leave behind. I'm in love with the Hope, in a world that according to all my reason, is set to destroy itself. I'm in love with all the people who can see an alternative vision for humanity. I'm in love with the people who distribute bumper stickers with pictures of whales on them with text that reads, "SAVE THE HUMANS".

I'm in love with this whole potentially God Damned Place!

It's been Liz that has helped bring me home, it's been in my conversations with her that I see what's possible. I guess in the end it becomes about the power of LOVE..

The power of LOVE to help us face our fears as individuals and as a culture, the power of LOVE to help us face our childish machinations and internal mutant message systems, the power of LOVE to change the face of ourselves while changing the face of our reality. I think John Lennon had it right when, in Mind Games, he sang 'Love Is the Answer'...

http://www.lostino.com/Media/John%20Lennon%20-%20Mind%20Games.mp3

Now at this point, I'm still going to Mexico, but as I say to Liz I'm no longer envisioning it as a process of leaving, letting go, or going away... but instead I'm looking at it as a process of coming full circle. As pilgrim, filmmaker, and as a man.

Sunday, September 20, 2009
Petaluma, CA

Was just at the Petaluma Progressive Festival where someone handed me a postcard with the following pie-chart on it.. I thought it was worth sharing.

peace,d

and a link to the site with the source info:
http://www.notmypriorities.org/

http://11thhouraction.com/node/3084

peace,d

Friday, September 18, 2009
Inverness, California

I'm sitting at Sim Van der Ryn's where he was gracious enough to give me a place to rest my head and some wonderful and nourishing food in my belly. We've had lots of great talks since I arrived yesterday, some on camera, some off, and I'm grateful for everything shared.

In one of those conversations he mentioned a man who started his journey in Point Reyes just outside of where I am now. I looked him up this morning and this is what I found, and it's a timely message for me, especially the ending of being a prisoner... it's something I've been exploring myself these days.

peace,
d

A good book for all you builders,

CLICK THIS

peace,
d

Yesterday I had the wonderful opportunity to sit down with Richard Heinberg to discuss peak oil, peak everything, the changing face of our world, and the future of agriculture.

It was kinda strange to meet Richard in person since he seems to be everywhere in the media these days, but despite his celebrity status, he was grounded, graceful, and welcoming. It didn't take long before we were down to business filming our conversation and Richard was outlining the challenges to our future, our complete and utter dependency on oil and fossil fuels and his belief that we are about to undergo some major transitional crisis' as a global collective society.

When asked about optimism, Richard spoke to our adaptive nature and how throughout human history we've changed a lot as a species, and we are fully capable of changing some more. The world of the next hundred years is likely to be much different from the world of the last hundred years, and like James Lovelock said in his interview with Rolling Stone, for those who survive, it will be quite exciting.

It does Richard no service for me to speak for him, so go hear his own words online.


Google Richard Heinberg for lots more!
peace,
d

Tidal Energy Article.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Location: Santa Rosa, CA

So the past two nights I've been woken up by cops pounding on the door of my van. First I was in Novato, CA and the cop knocked on my door and when I rolled down the window he apologized for waking me up and asked to see my I.D. I obliged and we had a nice talk and he told me he had no problem with me sleeping there. I told him I was glad they could look out for me. All good!

Then last night I drove up to Santa Rosa for my next interview and found myself looking for a place to crash as dusk was settling in. I checked out the closest park but it was 22$ so opted to drive back down the highway a little to the Wal-Mart in a place called Rohnert Park.

Now, it's well known that Wal-Mart is a great place to sleep in your vehicle if you need to. People sleep in Wal-Mart parking lots all across America. You can use the bathroom, buy odds n ends, eat whatever you wish. Above all it's a safe place to sleep where you aren't bothering anyone.

Little did I know.

1 am rolls around and I awake to pounding on my door. Weird I think as I crawl into the front seat. There outside my door is a older police officer pointing his flashlight in my eyes. I roll down the window thinking it must be nothing.

"You can't park here!" he says forcefully. "I thought I could park at any Wal-Mart," I say.. "I don't understand?" And he lays into me, "Well you see that camper over there, they can park here because they have a toilet in their camper, but people like you wake up in the morning, and like every male, you have an erection, and you go outside and piss on the side of your van. And if you have to take a dump you go and shit in the parking lot bushes. (I'm thinking.. does he think I'm an animal?) And Rohnert Park doesn't want your kind here!"

I'm stunned.. this is a police officer talking like a drunken sailor, rude as hell.

"Ok" I say, "I can see that you're not going to change your mind on this, so do you have any idea where I can park that would be ok? It's 1am."

He repeats himself, "Well Rohnert Park doesn't want you kind around here, in fact the whole county doesn't want your kind around here, so drive out past the county line until you get to the cows and sheep. You won't bother anyone out there!"

Really? This is really happening?

I'm not argue the fact that there are no signs posting what he's saying. I'm not going to argue the fact that I have never, nor ever will, shit in a Wal-Mart parking lot bush, nor piss on the side of my van. This guy hasn't asked me what I'm doing here, has made no attempt at all to find out the real story of how I'm a filmmaker here for a legit interview. This is just a rude, ignorant hillbilly, who clearly only ever took the oath to push people around.

So I tell him I'll leave. He moves on to hassle the people in the camper down the line (who have a bathroom) while I stare blankly at my GPS looking for a place to go.. stunned by the manner with which I was treated.

Eventually he leaves, slowly cruising past me with intimidation.

I move .5mile away to a gas station where the guy working the night shift tells me I can park in the stations parking lot, and use the bathroom if needed. He tells me if this police officer comes back to tell him to go F$%K himself.

It's not really my nature.. there's lots of pavement in this world and lots of people who are kind and open towards people on the road.

peace,
d

Novato, California
Monday, September 14, 2009

This is how Bob Banner was first described to me by someone in working in the California Transition Town Movement. I contacted Bob a few weeks back and some beautiful connections blossomed due to that connection.

I finally had a chance to sit with Bob yesterday and talk about what seemed like everything! We covered media and the ability to affect change, ego and it's limitations in our present reality, permaculture and the future of humanity... and a bunch of other stuff that I can't seem to recall off hand.

It was a great dialog with Bob overflowing with energy and enthusiasm! The light shines through this man's eyes while he talks about the potentially dark reality that is facing all of us. He spent a lot of time speaking about how to create change and redesign our world rather than wasting our energy resisting the status quo. He talked about all the years he spent fighting and resisting until one day he opened himself up to some positive media, and ZING.. the light hit him. He realized that wonderful things were happening all around him and if he could be positively affected, so could everyone else.

It's probably somewhere around that point that he began to publish and edit Hope Dance. Bob is also involved in a ton of other networks and positive impact connectivity processes ;-) Here are a couple more,

http://www.ediblecommunities.com/sanluisobispo/
http://transitioncalifornia.ning.com/

peace,d

Location: Novato, California
Sunday, September 13, 2009

If you find yourself in a cafe, without the travel mug you accidentally left back in your car, do you object when they give you a paper cup, and walk back to your car... or do you just go with the flow of another daily act of destruction..?

I vow to be more disciplined in my daily acts.

I hate when they just give you a paper cup, when real mugs are just behind the counter... grrr

http://www.dailyacts.org/

peace,d

Saturday, September 12, 2009
Location: Morro Bay, CA

I met yesterday with Celebrate Your Waste founder Richard Smith. The site is really worth checking out since it chronicles Richards Process of building this beautiful oasis that essentially rests on a pile of sand in Atascadero, California.

I arrived in the morning to this city lot that is beginning to look like a jungle oasis. Richard and I sat on the patio off to one side of the house and went through the usual getting to know you process. I asked him at one point if he wanted to go inside, and he replied, "we are inside", meaning that this is a space built into the landscape and the landscape is built into the place. There is very little delineation between inside and outside since the entire space flows, inwards and outwards. Human conceptions immediately begin to break down in this place built almost entirely out of recycled materials.. also known as junk. Yet it's extraordinarily beautiful.

So there we are sitting on the patio which is also a giant solar collection space come early afternoon. It's morning so the sun isn't on us yet, and it's still cool and comfortable, but in just a few more hours we'd be able to cook food in the solar oven here using purely sunshine.

It's hard to describe this place... it's so organic and natural in its construction and vision. You can tell that it's a space that has involved lots of assessment and contemplation as the junk was salvaged for reuse. One thing Richard and I talk about in our on-camera dialog is the idea of a storied landscape, since I feel that that's what he's built here is a place that bursts with story, personality, educational knowledge and wisdom.

In this world of consumption spinning out of control, here is a man who is tired of sitting in on political meetings, pushing through red tape, and talking about solutions. Richard says repeatedly throughout our session, "I just would rather do it. I want dirt under my fingernails"

This is a contrast to a lot of the interviews I've done where brilliant minds are talking about the things that need to be done from their comfortable homes with SUV's in the drive. Often my opinion emerges as, the time for talking has past, the time for doing is upon us, although what that means for this feature filmmaker I do not know... the balance of filming and disseminating information, or moving into post while actually doing something that involves dirt under my fingernails.

Richard is one of those interviews that makes me feel that we need to start growing food and self reliance and we need to do it yesterday. The sense of urgency he instills in me in deep and profound. Everything he speaks to is rooted in current information about where our world is headed.. but he also is sure to note that regardless of the future of humanity and civilization this is what he wants to do. This is the path of heart.

I know I'm all over the map with this blog, but another thing worth mentioning is the grey water system and filtration process. Richard explains to me that the whole system is a closed loop. The water circulates and is reused over and over again as needed. It begins in the large pool at the top of the property which is filled with fish and then is gravity fed down into the house where it's used for washing dishes, laundry, bathing, before if goes back into another pond where fish and other organisms clean it. It's actually amazing, at one point Richard did the dishes as I sat by the pond watching the fish eat all the table scraps coming down the pipeline. There are also various beds of mushroom compost as part of the filtration process that I'm not quite clear on. Then all the water ends in a big pool at the bottom of the property where it's pumped back to the upper pond using a low voltage pump that will eventually be hooked up to solar power.

Originally when he arrived here this was a mound of sand. He brought in mushroom compost and dug large swales in the land that he then filled to catch moisture. These beds are the basis of what he refers to as 'a new skin' on the land. Upon these mushroom compost filled swales he's planted Bamboo, for use as a building material, and a large variety of food sources. Throughout the landscape there are fruit trees, nut trees, and edibles of every kind. You can't step anywhere without encountering something to nourish your body, be it mint, tomatoes, squash, or even grasses of wheat and rye that he is increasingly exploring these days.

I'm really grateful for the time spent with Richard and look forward to perhaps going back to help him dig and plant in the future. While I was there I also met some of the surrounding community who are eager to get their hands dirty. Together we ate fresh baked zucchini bread while they talking with Richard about some land they were looking into for their own non-profit food-forested, intentional community space. It's exciting to see people young and old delving into what needs to be done to move forward into a world where our food and nourishment isn't controlled by 3% of the population and a mix of big corporations and government.

peace,
d

Pics
Richard's Office & Chicken Yard
Outdoor Kitchen & Fresh Food
Grey Water Filtration Pond
Humanure & Compost Bins
Richard & Kerry Relax with some Archery

I drove up the coast a bit with Liz last week. Had a beautiful time. Aside from being a time of us catching up and re-connecting, it was a time of scouting shooting locations and getting my bearings. I'm now back in Morro Bay, missing Liz, but grateful to have a solid orientation to my surroundings.

peace,d

Spreading the love.. this is a dark but important film for everyone to watch.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/67878/the-future-of-food

peace,d

I was sitting in the park the other day, bitching to the universe that not enough was happening at the speed I like... which relates to the fact that my mind that lacks presence, I'm not living in the now, I'm gauging my success on some vague notion of 'progress'. All this rather than simply using the ebb to my advantage and enjoying the cool breeze, the grass against my legs and watching others race to and from work with the greatest air of self importance.

In any case, there I was unenlightened, bitching to the universe when I heard a ruckus outside my van. I opened the side of my van and found myself practically in the center of a group known as the Activist Support Circle. Here were a group of activists from the Los Angeles area congregating in the park to enjoy a meal together and listen to a talk by S. David Freeman.

I introduced myself, kinda staying on the sidelines to get a sense of it all, and within moments was deep in conversation with Debra and Charles and others regarding the state of the world, what needs to be done, and some general philosophical banter. Ask and ye shall receive.

S. David Freeman arrived and sat with us to give a talk relating to his views on activism, his general thoughts on politics, the future and what needs to be done... yesterday. At times he was blunt and to the point expressing the activists, conservationists and environmentalists oftentimes are too busy throwing bombs of opposition rather than being proactive and solution based in their thinking. This is something I've heard echoed across the continent and I think all these individual self interests speak to the problem of complexity... what we need is a holistic management approach a unified vision of the future. Or as S. David Freeman put it, we need more straight forward common sense!

Here's the link to a free online version of S. David Freeman's book, Winning Our Energy Independence: An Energy Insider Shows How

I will hopefully be sitting down with Mr. Freeman in an on-camera dialog in the near future.

peace,d

A bit left wing radical.. but still food for thought. peace,d

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090914/swanson

http://www.nickbrandt.com/

Inspired... so beautiful.
peace,d