Amtrak was not too bicycle friendly, I could not get the peddles off, my precious bike could not make it on the train.

It is now somewhere loose in San Fransisco, CA.
I no longer have anything, except a camera that
was given to me from my grandparents and of
course books. There is a reason I choose to
live the way I do. I am learning.
Always learning.

Thank you everyone who believed in me as I did.

No! Food security, "is" a crucial issue, NOW!

This article is titled, "How to live with climate change".
It is a shame that many people read and actually believe it.
Prejudice, protectionism, genetic engineered food, don't buy it.

North American Kulture.

Energy Basis for Man and Nature, Howard T. Odum and Elisabeth C. Odum

"This book is aimed at the general public, political leaders,
and students who may need a short concise statement of the
principles of energy and the way these shape our culture,
past, present, and future."

"This book introduces simple, commonsense diagrams that use
the energy principles to visualize broadly the patterns that
affect our own nation and the world."

"The transition from growth to a steady state can be smooth
and planned so that individuals can make changes and learn
new ways; or it can be sharp, disorderly, and disastrous for
individuals, with unemployment, famine, epidemic diseases,
and unnecessary war."

"Energy is not only for specialized courses in physics and
chemistry; it should permeate education from kindergarten
through graduate school."

"University administrators must ask if their curricula
address the real process of fitting with nature or whether
they simply foster the status quo."

"Citizens must no longer accept money as the criterion of
value. They must no longer leave energy to specialists who
do not worry about the effects of energy on the economy as
a whole."

""Basic scientists," who define basic as "looking to the
parts," need to learn that putting parts together to under-
stand whole systems is equally basic."

"The scientist who uses his discipline to learn more and more
about less and less must connect his specialty to the real
world as an entirety. Anyone who sets boundries to his field
of interest is limiting his capacity to grow."

Visited CalPoly and was pleasantly surprized to see Energy Basis for Man and Nature in their collection.

Howard T Odum was a progressive ecologist of the 70's.
He wrote some fundemental concepts of permaculture.
I believe 15% of permaculture design graduates will
ever touch this book. Repressed by educational
institutions and even the permaculture forum have
neglected his research.
I think he was ahead of his time.

San Luis Obispo, CA.

Morro Bay Annual 2011 Polar Bear Plunge


Leaning Pine Arboretum

What a wild road.

Due to lack of resources,
A2BGreen:Cuba was coming
to an end. Hwy 33 Ojai, CA
is as far as this project
went. Decided to take a
train from Ventura, CA to
Flagstaff, AZ to have
Christmas with my mother.
My family was deeply con-
cerned about me crossing
the border into Mexico.
Fear-mongering in the
media put fear into my
family and soon into me.

Signs, signs, everywhere signs.
The universe has been good to me.

If you conspire, so will the
universe, don't be afraid, if
you feel a cause inside, it is
for good reason. Intuition is
the greatest asset one could
have, regardless of what
corporate media may say.

Kalidasa

"Look to this day:

For it is life, the very life of life.
In its brief course
Lie all the varieties and realities of your existence.
The bliss of growth,
The glory of action,
The splendor of achievement
Are but experiences of time.

For yesterday is but a dream
And tomorrow is only a vision;
And today well-lived, makes
Yesterday a dream of happiness
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.

Look well therefore to this day;
Such is the salutation to the ever-new dawn!"

http://www.poetseers.org/spiritual_and_devotional_poets/india/kalidasa/kalidasa_poems/loo/

What do we label it?

1.Manifest.

2.Write it down.

3.Execute.

Join the Resistance: Fall in Love.

Crimethinc.com

"For the lover speaks a different moral and emotional
language than the typical bourgeois man does.
The average bourgeois man has no overwhelming,
smoldering desires. Sadly, all he knows is the silent
despair that comes of spending his life pursuing goals
set for him by his family, his educators, his employers,
his nation, and his culture, without ever being able
to even consider what needs and wants he might have of
his own. Without the burning fire of desire to guide
him, he has no criteria upon which to choose what is
right and wrong for himself. Consequently he is forced
to adopt some dogma or doctrine to direct him through
his life. There are a wide variety of moralities to
choose from in the marketplace of ideas, but which
morality a man buys into is immaterial so long as he
chooses one because he is at a loss otherwise as to
what he should do with himself and his life. How many
men and women, having never realized that they had the
option to choose their own destinies, wander through
life in a dull haze thinking and acting in accordance
with the laws that have been taught to them, merely
because they no longer have any other idea of what to
do? But the lover needs no prefabricated principles
to direct her; her desires identify what is right and
wrong for her, for her heart guides her through life.
She sees beauty and meaning in the world, because her
desires paint the world in these colors. She has no
need for dogmas, for moral systems, for commandments
and imperatives, for she knows what to do without
instructions."

http://www.crimethinc.com/texts/selected/joinresistance.php
[Copy and Paste]:)

"Not sure if I have permission to copyleft this, but until
told otherwise, this is how it flys."

Letting go of expectations

I do not feel I have been too successful in this endeavor of
blogging my journey and learning experiences along the way to
Cuba. It is challenging to survive and learn while in
a country going through an economic crisis.


Lesson 1: Create intersections

Like the animals that meet at the water hole to drink, humans
meet. Like the animials at the water hole humans converse,
interact, get to know one an another as opposed to divided and
conquered."Create intersections", in many ways. City Repair
hosted a Village Building Convergence in Portland, Oregon this
summer.Creating intersections was the main theme and the main
lesson I took, objective achieved.

Lesson 2: D.I.Y. and Anarchy.

Yes, everyone is an artist, DO IT YOURSELF, alternative is
Corporate America. You always have a choice.
The "A word", I like to refer to as, "D.I.Y. Culture", because
the media has red flagged them in mainstream as a bunch of
rock throwing riff-raff. I look forward to correcting this.

Lesson 3: The way we treat mother earth is the way we treat women.

Judi Barli, Revolutionary Ecology.

"The holistic and interdependent eco-feminist view in which humans are inseparable from nature, is not any different than deep ecology or biocentrism. This is simply another way of saying the same thing. And so, to embrace biocentrism or deep ecology, is to challenge the masculine system of knowledge that underlies the destruction of the earth, and that underlies the justification for the way our society is structured.

Eco-feminism, however, does not seek to dominate men as women have been dominated under patriarchy. Instead, it seeks to find a balance. We need both the masculine and the feminine forces. It's not that we need to get rid of the masculine force. Both of them exist in the world but must exist in balance. We need the conquering and the dominance as well as we need the nurturing. Eco-feminism seeks find that balance."

http://www.judibari.org/revolutionary-ecology.html

Our deepest fear....

OUR DEEPEST FEAR IS NOT THAT
WE ARE INADEQUATE.
OUR DEEPEST FEAR IS THAT WE
ARE POWERFUL BEYOND
MEASURE. IT IS OUR LIGHT, NOT
OUR DARKNESS, THAT MOST
FRIGHTENS US. WE ASK
OURSELVES, WHO AM I TO BE
BRILLIANT, GORGEOUS, TALENTED
AND FABULOUS? YOUR ARE A
CHILD OF GOD. YOUR PLAYING
SMALL DOESN'T SERVE THE
WORLD. THERE'S NOTHING
ENLIGHTENED ABOUT SHRINKING
SO THAT OTHER PEOPLE WON'T
FEEL INSECURE AROUND YOU.
WE ARE BORN TO MAKE
MANIFEST THE GLORY OF GOD
THAT IS WITHIN US. IT'S NOT
JUST IN SOME OF US; IT'S IN
EVERYONE. AND AS WE LET OUR
OWN LIGHT SHINE, WE
UNCONSCIOUSLY GIVE OTHER
PEOPLE PERMISSION TO DO THE
SAME. AS WE ARE LIBERATED
FROM OUR OWN FEAR, OUR
PRESENCE AUTOMATICALLY
LIBERATES OTHERS.

Nelson Mandela
1994 Inaugural speech

Paralyzed with fear

Burn bright and shine next to those who choose
not to.

I love everyone, I am a desperate person, I
just want to learn to learn, then I can make use
of myself in society using my fullest potential.

I have learned that cooperative behaviour rather
than competitive behaviour is essential for our
survival as a living race.

When people tell me our world is dominated by
the corporations, I tell them, "there is a coop
for every commodity that you can think of". If
there isn't, then there should. This is my
reality.

I think cooperatives could out compete the
destructive corporations.

What do you think?

is this possible?

Thank you for your time :)

Potential bee corridor in back alley

Solar Dehydrator

My friend Naga lives in a neat little urban community

I left my bicycle and hitched to Village Building Convergence back up in Portland.

Eel River, Klamath River, Redwood National Forest, Rockefeller Forest. Northern California.

Green Collar Worker, in pursuit of Permaculture, no green-wash intended.

Buck Minster Fuller

"In 1927, at age thirty-two, finding myself a "throwaway" in
the business world, I sought to use myself as my scientific
"guinea pig" (my most objectively considered research "subject")
in a lifelong experiment designed to discover what -if anything
-a healthy young male human of average size, experience, and
capability with an economically dependent wife and newborn
child, starting without capital or any kind of wealth, cash
savings, account monies, credit, or university degree, could
effectively do that could not be done by great nations or great
private enterprise to lastingly improve the physical protect-
ion and support of all human lives, at the same time removing
undesirable restraints and improving individual initiatives
of any and all humans aboard our planet Earth."

Critical Path (1981)

"We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of special-
ization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently,
society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be
crisply brief. . . . In the meantime, humanity has been deprived
of comprehensive understanding. Specialization has bred feelings
of isolation, futility, and confusion in individuals. It has
also resulted in the individual's leaving responsibility for
thinking and social action to others. Specialization breeds
biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological
discord, which, in turn, leads to war."

Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)

Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but
possibly one of the most important is the fact that society
operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success,
not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.

Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)

"on first priority in design consideration is the full realization
of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative —
full realization for all individuals"

No More Secondhand God (1963)

Eugene, Oregon

http://www.maitreyaecovillage.org/