My Blog
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Musings
How to Be the New Guy
Your Turn Challenge Day #4:ย Teach us something that you do well My sense of traveling has evolved. When I started, I was a tourist wanting to take a photo of virtually every single step, so that I could update my status on Facebook to show my friends and family all...
โFoodโ
Your Turn Challenge Day 3: Tell us about something that you think should be improved Every moment there are trillions of biochemical reactions happening on the surface of our skin and inside of our bodies. Old cells die, new cells come to life. The cycle of life....
Belief is something thatโs important to me.
Your Turn Challengeย Day 2: Tell us about something thatโs important to you I was brought up in an environment where believing was paramount. I learned that fostering a strong faith was the point of my entire existence. I went deep inside the faith and convinced myself...
Photos
My kinda town
My kinda town
Epic art
Epic art
Mulberries
The first harvest of the randomly sprouted mulberry tree that started growing on the creek bank because we let nature do itโs thing. #ecology #permaculture (at Darien, IL)
Learning
The Windship Has Landed
On February 23, 2014 more than 70 people from around the world and the Philippines converged in Batug to build the first Windship the world has ever seen. A Windship is an Earthship-inspired typhoon bunker built using recycled materials employing a closed loop waste...
Regenerative Rehabilitation โ A Fresh Flavor of Relief
The Earth Village Project is focused on regenerative rehabilitation; weโve taken the word relief out of our vocabulary. There are no beneficiaries; we work collaboratively with the community, learning together. It comes back to the age-old adage of โIf you give a man...
Sustainable Rehabilitation in the land of Waray
Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) was off the scale. A category six storm that devastated the Philippines, it was the strongest storm to wreak havoc on land in the history of humanity. I have been working with the Earth Village Project since January in the Barangay (village)...
buy positively
T shirts made from trash! This is awesome, one man’s trash really is another’s treasure. unconsumption: Colombia-based Vapor Apparel is due to launch a new 100% recycled fabric at the EcoPrint show in Berlin this week. The company, a leader in...
Fresh Canned Air For Sale!
ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย I came across an article talking about a Chinese billionaire that is selling a line of canned fresh air. This reminds me of the supposedly fantastical plot outlined in the story of The Lorax by Dr. Seuss where one man gets all his wealth...
Why do you buy things?ย energyawakening: Bathroom graffiti gem in nyc. Most of us know there are more important things in life than material possessions, but our culture doesnโt put much emphasis on that as we are bombarded with advertisements that prey upon...