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Space - The Final Frontier
Space - The Final Frontier.Apparently NASA in its infinite wisdom is about to deliberately crash land a rocket into the Moon to try and create a crater so they can find out more about the Moon.What a great way to spend countless millions of dollars!Never mind the other billions upon billions that have also been spent on countless other programmes over the years.However don't get me wrong, I do believe that we need to continue with a space exploration programme into the future, but perhaps one that is closer to home.It is essential that we create spaces in our communities at every level from physical to spiritual so that we can discover different parts of ourselves that can give access and release to a different kind of future. Part of this space programme (not the stupid one run by NASA!) is to create awareness of what is really important and what is going on in our communities to facilitate the shifts in consciousness that are needed to change our reality. Our problem is that we have been living in the wrong reality for quite some time and this has led us to making wrong decisions and wrong actions.And before you know it someone somewhere is authorising programmes to crash into the Moon!We have an almost unlimited amount of space in our communities for well over 99% of each and every person is made up of space. We also have lots of space externally if we shift our values, goals and importances and reallocate some of these spaces to community groups and volunteers for them to create allotments, gardens and places of beauty and sustainability.The only thing we need to do to allow this to happen is to create some space in our thinking.To think it is to create it.The place to do that is here on Earth for it is highly doubtful that NASA will find any good ideas inside the crater it creates on the Moon.
Posted on 6/28/2009
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Is Organic Food More Expensive?
Classic reasoning suggests that organic food is more expensive to produce and buy than so called main stream food. But is it?If you look at the strict production costs then yes, on average, organic food costs about 10 -15% more to produce.But, that is not the whole story because you have to consider the side effects as well.For did you know that the average Irish person consumes 7 kg of preservatives and additives each year? In fact it takes human beings longer to decompose when they die because of all the preservatives and additives in their bodies!Many of these chemicals have been shown to cause illnesses and diseases because the body has great difficulty in breaking them down. As they are ‘foreign’ invaders the body often attacks them and this can cause illnesses such as Cancer. These illnesses then have Health Service costs that far outweigh the alleged savings produced by using chemicals to produce the food.These additives and preservatives are not healthy either in a person or in the land where they inevitably end up. For when you die you yourself could become a source of environmental pollution as all the preservatives and additives in your body slowly seep into the land. Quite a thought isn’t it?So don’t become a source of environmental pollution and at the same time save the country money! Spend a bit more money at the till now and buy green and then it won’t cost you so much later on when your health suffers! And when you die you can rest easy knowing that you didn’t end up as a source of toxic waste and pollution.
Posted on 5/22/2009
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Recession, sustainability, economics
Turn on the TV today, listen to the radio or read the papers and it all seems to be doom and gloom and the compounding of bad news from one day to the next. But is it? For what is happening is that we are simply being shown what works and what doesn’t where our relationship the Earth and the future are concerned in a very telling and profound way. And two very similar words reveal the all and everything of what we have become and what we could yet be. And those two words are: Greed and GreenGreed causes things to be consumed in a damaging, costly and unsustainable way. Green energy causes things to grow in a generative, healthy and sustainable ways. So don’t be fooled by all the hype, nonsense and spin that claims that all things green are “alternative”. Considering that these practices have been around for many thousands of years the “sciences” of chemicals, additives, pesticides and the great God Economic Growth are the imitation “alternatives” that are now being shown to be what they really are: greedy technologies that simply don’t work.The recession is forcing us to be greener in many ways. It is often said that it is an ill wind that blows nobody some good, and the recession in fact has much to teach us about what works and what doesn’t. The Gaia principle says that the Earth has the ability to adapt and change to balance out what happens to it to restore equilibrium. As we live on the Earth that says we can do so too!So why not be a volunteer and embrace the change with verve!Do something green today. You won’t be just growing green vegetables, for example, but you’ll be helping the future grow too!
Posted on 5/22/2009
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Climate Change
Anywhere you go today all you hear is more doom and gloom about climate change and how do we prevent climate change from happening.Well, this article suggests that you stop fighting it and learn how to embrace climate change so that what needs to happen can happen!For climate change is exactly what is needed, if we are to embrace a sustainable future.How so you might say?Well, the external forces of climate change that human beings are causing are the direct result of the wrong kind of internal climate system that we have been operating on since the rise of civilisation and in particular the Industrial Revolution in the 18th Century. For the human climate then changed from being one of part of nature to one of trying to conquer nature, mostly with the idea of making a profit at whatever cost.This is somewhat ironic for all profit costs someone or something somewhere.For profit making isn’t sustainable in the long run, whereas natural law is.The climate that is needed is not an external one of changing what we do as a first principle, but a climate change of remembering what we actually are.We are human beings not human doings and it is all our doing, doing, doing that has got us into all this trouble in the first place. And this has caused a cloud of depression to appear overhead.However all is not lost. For behind those clouds lies the Sun and as the giver of life it can teach us things about climate change and what we might need to do to rescue the future from the errors of the past.And that is to ask ourselves, what does it mean to give rather than take, to work with nature and not fight it, and most important of all why would we want to change our internal climate in the first place?Tony Kearney
Posted on 5/22/2009
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