Emerald City

Remember kids, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

This is the first post that will be at the bottom of the blog, where I explain what it seems to be all about to me at this time.  I'm just keeping track of some links, Ideas and other things that pertain to the Emerald City project and my involvement.  I am an artist and musician and I am in college.  I am 35 years old, single, no kids, not attached to anything really.  My work centers around the oneness and our journey.  I tend to think that nature is very important and has a lot to teach us through observation.  I feel that we are trapped in a society geared towards waste (of all kinds) and that other cultures's ideas about how to use and reuse and how to prevent the foolishness that causes us to do toxic cleanups and otherwise cause misery and death.

There are so many photons coming down, heating water and air, exciting all of the other electrons, that we shouldn't have to burn so many corpses of old animals and plants to heat and cool our food and move about the planet. 

I am a proponent of extreme bicycle use.  I envision a world where bicycling from KC to Denver is commonplace.  Right now it isn't safe, It has to be done a certain way and there is a lot of planning and equipment necessary. I like internal combustion engines, when they are efficient and used well.  I like diesel engines more.  We really need to get away from the design of our cities that requires the majority of the population to move a ton of metal with gasoline just to transport one person.

I have done a lot of research into wind energy and find it is a bust.  There are small generator windmills that I have seen that were homebuilt that actually appeared to be quite efficient, but the majority of the windmills on the market are overpriced, inefficient and will not last longer than a year in most weather conditions.

Solar energy seems to be stable, workable and with a few adjustments in the way we live, is affordable to all income levels now.  I am personally working on a solar battery charger to charge up my AAs for my camera.  This will be an open-source project, I will explain about the diodes and the purpose for them and also that this stuff isn't that hard and isn't scary.  There are so many photons coming down, heating water and air, exciting all of the other electrons, that we shouldn't have to burn so many corpses of old animals and plants to heat and cool our food and move about the planet.