Author Archives: Milt

Sustainable Living: Phase III – Transportation

Transition to sustainable living includes sustainable transportation – the topic of this segment – but first a recap of previous entries.   Phase I: Electricity. As you recall in June of last year we decided to become sun farmers and installed solar PV panels to harvest current sunlight and convert the sun’s energy to electrical power […]

April 27, 2012 – 2:08 pm | By Milt | Posted in 4. Living Sustainably | Comments (0)

THE Canyon – indeed Grand (Part I)

THE Canyon – it is indeed Grand   In this segment (Part I), we focus on the Natural / Geological Story of Grand Canyon – a Story told by the Ancient People, as well as by today’s geology scientists. As we look over the South Rim, that Story traces what we see today back into […]

March 24, 2012 – 5:44 am | By Milt | Posted in 2. Connecting Consciousness with Cosmic Mystery | Comments (0)

Conservation (Personal Epiphany)

January 6, 2012 was a day when a personal epiphany emerged. Energy Conservation Sucks. The other day, during lunch, a much respected friend (whose wife drives a Prius) made the comment that “the best way to produce energy is to conserve energy.” My first impulse was to agree – then for some reason it occurred […]

January 6, 2012 – 3:51 pm | By Milt | Posted in 4. Living Sustainably, 5. Identifying Unsustainable Issues | Comments (0)

Halloween…2011

Sorry Family and Friends, but we just couldn’t not do this. You probably already guessed what. You know this obsession we have with sustainable living and the application of solar technology to everyday life? That’s right, we just had to carve a solar jack-o-lantern this year. We call this year’s pumpkin “Two Solar Spooks.” It […]

October 30, 2011 – 9:13 pm | By Milt | Posted in 4. Living Sustainably | Comments (0)

The Amazing “Hoodoos” of the Southwest…

This weekend we visited Bryce Canyon National Park in southern Utah – an amazing display of Mother Earth normally not visible to us. Because of the unique erosion of this portion of the great Colorado Plateau, the underlying strata called the Pink Cliffs and Grey Cliffs are exposed for all to see. In this region, […]

October 25, 2011 – 7:20 pm | By Milt | Posted in 3. Seeing Ourselves in Relationship to Nature, 4. Living Sustainably | Comments (1)

Occupy [fill in the blank]….

Here is how yesterday could have gone…..   Reporter:   Why are you here today standing on this corner with several dozen other Occupy demonstrators? MAH:  I’m not really sure.  Demonstrating is not my thing. A peace activist once asked Mother Teresa “Why don’t you show up at our anti-war demonstrations?” Mother Teresa replied, “When you hold […]

October 18, 2011 – 10:27 am | By Milt | Posted in 5. Identifying Unsustainable Issues | Comments (0)

Social Security (Part II) – What is the ROI?

But there is more to the Social Security story than that expressed in Part I.   Of course as a former Republican, I would expect to have received some “return” on my investment (ROI)  in this “entitlement” program that I was forced to enroll in. So let’s do some more math. Let’s look at a reasonable case […]

October 14, 2011 – 4:02 pm | By Milt | Posted in 5. Identifying Unsustainable Issues | Comments (0)

Social Security (Part I) – an Entitlement?

Entitlements – a pejorative term used frequently by Republicans and Tea Partiers When I was around 40 and looking ahead to retirement planning, I recall talking with my Dad about the then evident Social Security woes.    I remember telling him that I expected Social Security to be bankrupt by the time I retired and was not planning […]

October 14, 2011 – 11:57 am | By Milt | Posted in 5. Identifying Unsustainable Issues | Comments (0)

Was that my alarm going off?

Since 1987……   That was the date on the Wells Fargo debit card I just shredded. Yes, I just closed the account and moved the money from this financial giant occupying Wall Street to a local credit union back home. Thanks to the ongoing Occupy Wall Street protest, over a year of studying everything I could find […]

October 13, 2011 – 8:38 am | By Milt | Posted in 5. Identifying Unsustainable Issues | Comments (1)

Sustainable Energy: Phase II – Geothermal Heating and Cooling

Well folks, on Aug 29, 2011, we turned off the natural gas line to our home and became another of the growing number of homes around the Planet that are switching to Geothermal Heat Pumps (GHP) for heating and cooling needs. Free (of Fossil Fuel) at Last – at least for our home. Phase II […]

August 30, 2011 – 12:48 pm | By Milt | Posted in 4. Living Sustainably | Tagged | Comments (0)