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Grow a Treehouse with Terreform

Video: Inhabitat

I remember reading a Scifi years ago, that wrote about the concept of these sorts of structures being lived in. Personally I thought it was plausible and one day it might be possible… nothing has changed my mind. I see no reasons why whole dwellings or even partial dwelling should not incorporate these sorts of ideas, in fact bionic pergolas already exist.

Old fashioned lawn mower

Image: Duffy via groovygreen

I am all for any method which is going to reduce excess CO2 into the atmosphere more than what is natural. The old fashioned pushed mowers are also quite good for improving your fitness, and if the blades are sharpened they are not that difficult to push (as long as you don’t let the grass get too long). Anyway, if you get yourself a good ram it could also act to guard your property.

Website: Old fashioned lawn mower

Paul Stamets 6 ways mushrooms can save the world

Video: Ted Talks

I remember reading something from the late Terrence McKenna, suggesting, from memory, that Mycelia may have played a part in the creation of mammals, perhaps in order to help provide feed for fungi, in order to produce spores and then to help move its spores around, and ultimately, they may have also played a part in the sudden and dramatic increase in the size of the human brain, some 2 or 3 million years ago.

Paul Stamets expands on the importance of Mycelia, saying that they are sentient and that they have a range of applications which might help save the Planet. Fungi is the grand molecular disassembler, it was the first organism to migrate on to land, and it’s there that fungi helped produced the first soils and it in fact may help to fight soil erosion now. Fungi is capable of converting pollution to food, it fixes soils and will result in mixed communities of life, in short, it can be responsible for habitat restoration.

Fungi has also been proven to be highly effective against viruses, in fact Paul suggests that saving Old Growth forests, which is critical for these Fungi, should be a matter of National Defence. There is fungi that kills or repels termites from eating houses, and they, on the other hand can be used to attract insects to certain other areas. There is also fungi that can produces econol (ethanol) by breaking down cellulose and it might well be a better way of producing an alternative fuel, rather than using scarce food.

All these possibilities for fungi, yet most of us have never heard of their amazing abilities, one would have to say why, why could such a relatively simple, yet inexpensive solution be over looked, in asking the question you realize you’ve just answered the question… because big business ain’t going to make big bucks from it.

Wade Davis Cultures at the far edge of the world

Video: Ted Talks

I do not even know where to start to make a comment on this anthropology video… the best I can do is to say watch it, absorb it and think about it.

Natural Heroes

Video: YouTube

I’ve been warning you, the Hippies are not extinct… they have just been biding their time, so watch out for the fashion anarchists.

This is a video of a bunch of Hippies doing as they always did, showing us an alternative to the ‘Consume, be silent, die’ mantra… put forth by those with most to benefit from that mantra. There’s no doubt the kids were enjoying this lesson.

Green Gasoline: Fuel made from cellulose

Photo: University of Wisconsin-Madison

Researchers from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst (UMass) have made an exciting breakthrough in developing “Green Gasoline”, a substance with very similar properties to ordinary Gasoline, except it is derived from plant cellulose.

The steps involved to produce the Green Gasoline involve rapidly heating the cellulose in the presence of solid catalysts and then quickly cooling the products to obtain a liquid that has many of the compounds found in ordinary gasoline. The entire process takes less than 2 minutes and uses only a small amount of heat. This liquid can be treated further or used as is for a high octane blend.

This Green Gasoline could be obtained from crops such as Poplar trees and Switchgrass, both of which could be grown on marginal land, thereby saving the better soils for food crops.

Other advantages with the Green Gasoline is that it can be used in existing engines, requires much less energy to make than ethanol and the excess heat can be used to produce electricity. The carbon footprint for producing this fuel could well be zero if the excess heat is used to produce power.

So when will we see Green Gasoline in our service stations and fuel tanks, maybe not for 5 - 10 years

Website: Green Gasoline via Ecofuss

The Rick Simpson Story (Part 7 of 7)

Video: YouTube

I have never understood why it’s illegal. I agreed that there are many businesses who benefit from it’s illegality, but I feel there must be more to it.

Could another part of the reason be that Marijuana has, as a side effect, a ‘bullshit’ detector? I remember once reading how a Catholic Bishop was extremely upset; back 2 or 300 years ago, when he was laugh at by a group of Pot smoking sailors; after he’d tried to preach to them.

There is I feel much more to the desperation to keep Marijuana illegal… I’m just not sure what it is. As far as I can see, there has rarely, if ever, been such a determined, nor such a prolonged and widespread conspiracy against anything else. Which to me means they are scared of it, not just for financial reasons, but because it poses some sort of threat to their system.

Here’s a little story:-

Some years ago; around ‘76ish, The Australian Marijuana Party had it’s offices broken into and burgled. The ‘thieves’ stole a typewriter, a petty cash tin with some $30 in it and… and this is the significant and suspicious thing, a petition apparently with something like 3 million signatures, complete with addresses; it was the 70’s after all and one of the signatures was mine.

Now 3 million + signatures on A4 paper is quite a hefty package, and not the sort of thing your garden variety thief would make the effort to steel. However, some who might could be ASIO (our CIA) or possibly the NSW Special Branch (our equivalents of the US FBI), which 20 odd years later, was disbanded for corruption and allegedly, had their files on citizens, politicians and Judges destroyed - yeah right.

Website: Phoenix Tears

The Rick Simpson Story (Part 6 of 7)

Video: YouTube

Well what can I say… other than if they jail or fine Rick Simpson it looks like Canada is no longer the exception, no longer enlightened nor humane, and that’s really very sad. Shame on you Stephen Harper, and Shame on your government.

The Rick Simpson Story (Part 5 of 7)

Video: YouTube


Well it seems to me, to be much the same bunch of bastards who started the Vietnam war. It wasn’t the North Vietnamese who started it… we now know that the Tonkin Bay ‘incident’ was up there with the Kennedy ‘Magic bullet’ and our more contemporary Iraqi WOMDs.

You don’t hear much of WOMDs now days do you, strange when you think about it. I mean looks like it’s going to cost the US three trillion dollars, according to Joseph Stiglitz who was the winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics, a former Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank who served in the Clinton Administration as the chair of the President’s Council of Economic advisers (1995–1997).

Yet Rumsfeld scoffed at the prospect that the Iraq war was going to cost several hundred billion. “Baloney” he said, “The Office of Management and Budget estimated it would be something under $50 billion”. - Online NewsHour.

It’s kind of strange isn’t it… governments are actually stopping people from using a natural plant with natural healing properties, that apparently has cured Cancer, helped with MS and Glaucoma. It helps with chronic pain or loss of appetite from Chemotherapy or AIDs, and has at it’s worst, a side effect that makes people laugh, get the munchies and generally get on with each other better… hey, not only do they stop people from using it, they throw them in jail, sometimes it’s for Life!?

These governments pro porting to be God fearing, bastions of the Law, Champions of Democracy and Freedom, continually lie, murder uncounted thousands of innocents, treat their own Veterans; both the injured and the minority who are relatively unscathed, with such unbelievable callous disregard it’s hard to believe.

Yet they give countless billions to the Military Industrialists and the Drug companies, but they can’t give the Veterans proper health care, nor even millions of kids. They will not give Veterans a decent standard of life either, and they pretty much leave the Veteran’s families, or the jails, to pick up the pieces.

Lighten up Beam you’ll bust a vessel! OK then, lets look at the funny side of the equation.

Drugs and Evolution

Video: YouTube

The Rick Simpson Story (Part 4 of 7)

Video: YouTube

The more I see of Rick Simpson’s story, the more disgusted I get with the Drug companies… how many people have their drugs killed, how many people’s lives have they ruined because of their greed. Yet we see Drug companies salespersons smiling at how much money they and their companies are making on Cancer ‘cures’, many of which actually cause people to die from the treatment.

And I’m not leaving the doctors out of this either, it may be edicts coming down from higher up, but it seems to me that some doctors have in investment in sickness rather than health, and either don’t want to look seriously at using Hemp Oil… or they are stupid enough to believe the outrageous lies told about medical Marijuana, or if you prefer, the Hemp plant.

The fact that some doctors smoke tobacco, drink too much and even indulge in using drugs illegally, shows that they are just human, and as such, prone to human foibles, such as being shown to being gutless, by not standing up to their own governing bodies and the government for their patients.

The Rick Simpson Story (Part 3 of 7)

Video: YouTube

Well I would have expected better from the Canadian authorities… but then, they do now have a Conservative government, so I guess they are mono focused on ‘free enterprise’; that’s where fewer benefit but more are disadvantaged, and lies, bigotry and ignorance reign supreme.

Isn’t it typical, a few rednecks in suits, who probably drink & smoke (tobacco), using outrageous bully boy tactics with little or no regard for what’s moral. Doing the deeds of faceless stupid, ignorant, bigoted and hypocritical suited ‘old boys’, with their secret hand shakes, and oaths taken with trouser legs rolled up, white gloves on, hoods on heads and nooses around their necks… what a pathetic, corrupt, power mad, chauvinistic bunch of pedophile protecting parasites they are.

The point was made in this video clip about what happened to innocent until proven guilty? However, the problem is, Pot, Hemp, Marijuana or whatever you care to call it, is never judged on a level playing field. If it were it’d be tobacco and alcohol that would be illegal.

FOX News Whistle blowers. UNBELIEVABLE!!!

The cover up of a story on the reports of Monsanto’s growth hormone in your milk.


Video:YouTube

Corporation’s willingness to tell blatant lies; whilst being protected by amoral Lawyers (spit on the floor), and their ability to bribe their way through government departments either by Lobbyists or directly, is something that should not be allowed to continue.

My personal view is Australia needs it collective heads read for not kicking this mongrel Monsanto out of our country period.

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