The 2012 Hetrick Family reunion was all but over. Elders, adults, youth, and children all containing the same genes were packing up and heading out. Just three remained seated on folding chairs in the driveway of the old homestead farmhouse. As westerners, were their bodies simply still in a different time zone and thus were […]
As we entered the quant Fresh Start Diner on Main Street in downtown Oberlin, Ohio, bells jingled as the door shut behind us. “Just sit anywhere” the server said. A quick glance around indicated that “anywhere” may have been a hallway in a former life but was recently transformed into an immaculate eatery with a […]
Advancing Sustainable Transportation. 1.0 Introduction. Part I of this series provided some real data that illustrated how a plug-in hybrid vehicle can indeed reduce our dependence on fossil energy (e.g. oil and coal) – using technology available today. Part I illustrated how it is possible to put together a personal solar PV “system” that allows […]
New Plates 1.0 Introduction. Getting a different car means new license plates. I dislike taking a number and waiting in line at the DMV. Fortunately I remembered to take a good book to read and the new vehicle registration took just over an hour on a Thursday afternoon. Because of the example set by my […]
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 […]
As we come out of the introspective pause in Occupy activism and burst into the American Spring, the season of extraversion, here’s what I’ve come to realize about Why I Occupy. First, let me be absolutely clear that I am basically a raging introvert whose primary color is self-reflective blue…the exact opposite on the color […]
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 […]
Is this an extra day for playing catch-up with our Star, or is this to be a day for setting into motion the quantum leap of consciousness that is needed for a viable planetary future? While we’ve been asleep, corporations and politicians, big banks and Wall Street, have been busy beneath the radar screen. And […]
Awakening in the pre-dawn of another Groundhog’s Day, I find myself wondering what’s the matter with ‘we the people’ on the North American Plate of Planet Earth?! We have just lived through the second warmest January ever recorded and are jokingly renaming it June-uary! Here in the Mojave Desert, where summer temps have gone from […]
While driving back to Vegas after spending Christmas in Denver, Milt and I talked about how to understand the Deep Time of our planet and our human place within it. In the fourteen hours of travel time, here’s what we came up with: We’d use the human body as a measure of all of Earth’s […]