Hi,
Max Randall is 9 years old and is interested in music and the environment. He has been playing guitar and piano for nearly two years. When he was seven, Max wrote his first song “Yes We Have A Chance”, a song about hope. When a child sings, “Our beliefs, must not divide, let respect rule our lives” it is very moving.
Max has plenty of ideas and other causes he wants to sing about. He asked “If millions of people hear my songs, do you think we can help the world?”
Max’s second song, “Believe” is about the damage adults are inflicting on the planet. When Max sings, “I hope there’s something left for me” his message can and should make an adult cry.
Ideally, Max wants schools and kids from all over the world to sing his songs and translate them into their own language and help to make a difference.
I hope you can help Max to help the world!
My message is more of a question really, People all over this earth have the money to help and a few very few do and I really wanna know why? When we only have one planet we can have fun on and we all are killing it faster it seems each day. I’ll be honest not prond to say this but im a guy with really no money, But wanna help this plant out anyway I can working hard doing so, makeing a difference. This is my life goal To help the world out any way I can.
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I am a painter. It is what I love to do. I paint landscapes, giant fruits hanging on the tree or balancing impossibly on a tabletop, giant flowers and tiny flowers.
I love to see healthy, happy people and I admire those who contribute to them. I love the way life forms work together in a well managed organic environment to create a happy, respectful and healthy living for one and all.
I have learned that life is not an object and that it is aware. I have even learned that the tiny fungi along the roots of plants in healthy soil CHOOSE minerals for the plants! They are essential to proper nutrition. I seek to raise awareness of the network of life.
My mission impossible is to paint life even though life is awareness and is not visible. I guess that is what we do every day. I just love paint!
Hello Friends,
I have worked for many years in the Heritage and Entertainment Crafts business producing sculpture, props and displays for film,advertising,museums,theatre and the retail industries. A cross section of some of the crazy things that I have been asked to make can be found at http://zazzle.com/scificastings. Pretty much everything from dinosaurs to aliens.
Over the years I have been obliged to work with some quite nasty materials and chemicals in order to make things happen. And I feel quite fortunate to be a healthy 50 year old, dispite the impetuous abuse to my system.
I have ‘Seen the Light’ and will now only work with environmentally friendly materials. Which I also encourage as a Lecturer at The Centre for the Creative Industries at Exeter College.
This year I set up FX Sculpture and our aim is produce modern sculpture that is inspired by Sci-Fi and Fantasy. The kind of stuff that we are all used to seeing in films and on television.
Our Greys that Glow are our first product. They are cast using Jesmonite, which is an envronmentally friendly water based resin system, manufactured here in the UK.
As a new business venture we have only recently started to promote our work on the internet. And are finding it a quagmire of advertisers asking money up front and shops offering sale on return.
We would very much like to sell our work on recommendation and for commissions to go to good causes or individuals helping us to spread the word.
Therefore we would like to offer a 10% commission on every one of our sculptures sold. This would be payable through paypal, by simply including a code into the notes section when a purchase is made.
To request a code number please visit our site and send me an email.
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I would like to point out that we are green right through to our servers and grid that power us through solar panels. Many unfortunately are “spinning” green or hanging a Green tag.
I invite you to join us, browse our site and community members, and calculate your Carbon Footprint.
I ask my big brother the following question, “Yo James, what’s the plan with space travel? Let me know. -Joe”
James replies,
I havent written the space stuff yet. I got sidetracked in renewable energy calculations. I’m trying to figure out what to do after aviating India, and I think I’ve figured it out. Build hydro power stations and wind turbines! A 1.5 MegaWatt wind turbine (one of those giant windmills you see in the pass there in Palm Springs) costs around 2.5 million dollars to install. But then it’s nearly maintenance free for the 20 years of life it’s got. And it will produce around 15 million dollars worth of power. That’s a return of investment of 12.5 million! Sounds like a pretty good business to me. But you only make decent money on the big wind turbines. The small, household ones don’t pay for themselves until about 6 or 7 years.
And micro-hydro is another thing that pays back even more. I read an article about some guys up in Canada that installed 2000 feet of pipe up the side of a hill to catch the water in a brook. The brook only ran in the winters but the project paid for itself in 3 years. So I’m researching that too.
I’ve been taking to heart what was said in the CRASH COURSE about how oil energy has resulted in the biggest boom mankind has ever seen. Right now electricity costs about $.15 per kiloWattHour (that’s running something 1000 watts for an hour such as a small air conditioner…that’s a kWh). Check your electric bill and see what you’re paying. If you ran your shop on solar panels then, after 20 years you’d have paid an average of 9 cents per kWh. If you ran it off a small wind turbine it would be about the same. If you ran it off a giant wind turbine you’d pay about 4 cents per kWh! And if you had 500 feet of waterfall to plug a 6 inch pipe into and run a microHydro generator then you’d pay about 3-5 cents per kWh (over a 20 year lifetime).
The point is that if you could supply everyone in the world with electricity at 4 cents a kWh we would give this planet 3 times the energy it has now! And I was thinking that you could replace money with an energy credit which would be worth 1 kWh of power. Because there’s not enough gold and silver in the world to back money with. LRH says money is energy. So why not just make money worth kilowatthours! I think it’s brilliant if I do say so myself.
Oh yeah, and solar… since the sun is out only a few hours of the day they don’t produce much. But it’s better than a coal fired power plant at least. Of the 3 renewables (wind, hydro and solar) it’s the least good. The best is hydro. It runs 24/7. And nobody is really doing micro-hydro. It could be a really good business.
And that’s it,
James
My jaw drops, “HOLY CRAP, THAT IS GENIUS. MONEY= ENERGY. OF COURSE!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I would love to help! If every person decided to make a difference… How different would our lives be? As a wife, mother, and traditionally published author… I have been creating tales for our youth, that will educate and inspire…
An important concept to define might be the concept of freedom. What the heck is that?
I’ve been quietly studying this concept of freedom for myself and thought I’d make a note of it.
I see freedom as an ability, as a possiblity, as an avenue of action. With a new car comes the freedom of travel; it’s an avenue of increased activity. With connections to the right people comes the possibility of a greatly increased shpere of action. The examples can go on and on.
I look at freedom as an elevated existence and the resultant resposibilities that go with it. For me, freedom is not the same thing as escaping responsibility, in fact, it’s totally the opposite. With freedoms come greater responsibilities. Now that you have a new car, don’t you need to maintain it?
Purpose fits in here somewhere. If my purposes consisted of walking my dog in the best, and most expansive park, and there was a park across the street, then i would technically have all the freedoms i desired. But, if i hated walking the damn dog, and thought of it as a chore, then the park across the street wouldn’t look seem so exciting. But there is one more scenario that i’ve been noticing…
What if everyone had the purpose to create a better life, and the freedoms, avenues, and possibilities for enhancement exists … NOW? Continue reading The freedoms that exist
Because we can end world hunger with 10% of what is spent on arms. Imagine how life would be if 30-50% of the arms budget went toward improving people’s lives instead of being used for destruction.
Because eliminating wars and violence means leaving human pre-history behind and taking a giant step forward in the evolution of our species.
Because we are accompanied by the voices of all the war-torn generations that came before us. The echo of their voices still resounds throughout the world, wherever armed conflict leaves its sinister memorial to the dead, disappeared, disabled and displaced.
Because a “world without wars” is an image that opens the future and seeks to become reality in every corner of the planet, as violence gives way to dialog.
The moment has come for the voiceless to be heard! Out of agonizing and urgent need, millions of human beings are crying out for an end to wars and violence.
Welcome to my first Art in the Making Newsletter, which marks my re-emergence into the art world and the launch of the Leisa Collins website.
So how did this all begin?
The year was 1975. It was the beginning of a beautiful New Zealand summer and I was fresh out of high school. The setting was a stuffy lecture room at the Auckland Technical Institute where I had enrolled for art training so that I wouldn’t end up behind a grocery store check-out counter with no formal education to fall back on.
The teacher’s discourse ran on and on, his voice echoing off the walls… and then it hit me! There had to be more to art and life than this! Surely art was something to be LIVED, not just the subject of boring, pedantic course room lectures.
I made up my mind. I would learn my craft by capturing the splendor of the countryside on canvas. I threw the few paintings and art supplies I possessed in the back of my old station wagon and with only a few dollars in my pocket (no credit cards those days) I embarked upon a new adventure. And what an adventure it was. I gave rides to a wide variety of foreign hitch-hikers and learned about their cultures and customs, I visited the Maraes (community meeting centers) of New Zealand’s native Maori race, I got lost in remote mountain regions, and when I found myself totally broke I spontaneously set up my easel with a beautiful scene in front of me… and a busy tourist resort directly behind.I sold the landscape before the paint was dry and was back on the road in a flash.
My interactions with people on these travels gave me my first view of social injustice. When I arrived back in Auckland I continued my career as a full time artist while becoming increasingly involved in the growing movement to restore Maori land rights. A few years later I decided to devote my energies full time to social issues – a course which lead me to the four corners of the globe. This provided me with greater insight on life and introduced me to many diverse cultures and art forms.
My motto is Art with a Message and my new path is to work again as a full time artist while using my art to promote and create change on important social issues.
Over the last few months I have compiled an art portfolio which I hereby proudly present to you through my new website – www.leisacollins.com.
I invite you to tour my virtual gallery and take note of my unique commission work. I also especially invite you to visit the Art in Action page of the website.
Remember that supporting a living artist and owning original works of art gives you a unique relationship and ownership – something that is rare in the artificial world of today.
Purchase one of my original paintings online, send me an e-mail message, visit my Art with a Message Blog or sign up for this Art in the Making Newsletter.
I will continue to update my website with new works of art and blog the daily events of my upcoming live tour – Across the USA from the Eyes of an Artist.
Later this year I will continue to blog as I retrace my journey through the New Zealand wilderness where I first taught myself to paint.
Most importantly, I would love to hear from you and get your feedback.
Technological savvy could turn 600 million tons of turkey guts and other waste into 4 billion barrels of light Texas crude each year. By Brad Lemley, Photography by Tony Law
Gory refuse, from a Butterball Turkey plant in Carthage, Missouri, will no longer go to waste. Each day 200 tons of turkey offal will be carted to the first industrial-scale thermal depolymerization plant, recently completed in an adjacent lot, and be transformed into various useful products, including 600 barrels of light oil.
In an industrial park in Philadelphia sits a new machine that can change almost anything into oil.
Really.
“This is a solution to three of the biggest problems facing mankind,” says Brian Appel, chairman and CEO of Changing World Technologies, the company that built this pilot plant and has just completed its first industrial-size installation in Missouri. “This process can deal with the world’s waste. It can supplement our dwindling supplies of oil. And it can slow down global warming.”
Pardon me, says a reporter, shivering in the frigid dawn, but that sounds too good to be true.
“Everybody says that,” says Appel. He is a tall, affable entrepreneur who has assembled a team of scientists, former government leaders, and deep-pocketed investors to develop and sell what he calls the thermal depolymerization process, or TDP. The process is designed to handle almost any waste product imaginable, including turkey offal, tires, plastic bottles, harbor-dredged muck, old computers, municipal garbage, cornstalks, paper-pulp effluent, infectious medical waste, oil-refinery residues, even biological weapons such as anthrax spores. According to Appel, waste goes in one end and comes out the other as three products, all valuable and environmentally benign: high-quality oil, clean-burning gas, and purified minerals that can be used as fuels, fertilizers, or specialty chemicals for manufacturing.
Unlike other solid-to-liquid-fuel processes Continue reading We need one of these in every community
It was an eye opener and worth a read. It’s largely about an area of the ocean being preserved and not fished and how the whole ecosystem is back to what it should be (or probably close). I was impressed by what one guy and small group achieved.
It’s a good example of what we need to do- To me , the Ocean is too important to Life’s balance and people need to know what it use to be like- before we changed it! Sure we can use it, but a good analogy might be the farmer who rotates his crops so that the soil is still good every year (I’m no expert but I’m sure there is a proper way). Well, the same with the Ocean- there’s no reason we can’t stop overfishing and polluting it.
I guess spending 100s of billions of dollars on 1,000 overseas military bases policing the world and giving billions to car manufacturers is more important. While we’re at it let’s print another trillion dollars or so in order that all of us can have Health Care. Why stop there? This money printing is getting real fun- I love it, I can’t stop. OOOOOBBBBBBAAAAAMMMMMAAAA- show me the MONEY!!!!! Lets’ earmark another Bill so we can print some more for the American Medical Association so they can do some more studies on “Embitterment Disorder”- I think it’s spreading real fast these days!
Where can I get my hands on one of those Money Printing Machines? I must have missed it in Economics 101.
I am a Health and Wellness Advisor, creating healthy lives, on at a time.
I am also very ‘green’ minded and believe that the environment has a direct affect on our health and not only encourage but also provide ways for people to create a healthy environemnt in which to live. If we all lived in a healthy environment – our environment outside would improve it’s health.
I was totally disabled some 16 years ago and by making healthy lifestyle choices I was able to build my health back and today I feel better than I did 35 years ago.
Today it is my passion to help as many people as I can to do the same; and in so doing be able to make a difference in their lives and the lives of their family.
There is no greater satisfaction than to hear someone else sharing something they learned from you…it’s nothing extraordinary, just everyday things done and experienced naturally, without the harmful, toxic chemicals. We call it ‘Living in Harmony with Nature’.
Example: Everybody washes their clothes…I wash mine with ‘green’ cleaners, natural enzyme booster to whiten and brighten and biodegradable dryer sheets. Thins that work in harmony with nature in stead of against nature. Nothing extraordinary, but if half the people on the planet did the same thing – WOW! what a difference that would make!!
Yes. I do have an Uncle Shirley. Not only that, I never met anyone else with the name Shirley until I was eleven years old.
When I met the new Shirley, I asked her if that was her real name. When she told me it was, I broke out laughing at the fact she had a man’s name! Then I also felt a little guilty for making fun of someone over something they had no choice in, as well as pitying her a little. After all, she had name everyone would find hilarious. The poor thing obviously got laughed at a lot.
We were in class when I met her, so I’m sure you can guess how the other shoe dropped.
Yep. I was informed by the teacher that Shirley was not a man’s name at all, but a fairly common name for a woman. No one believed I could possibly have an uncle named Shirley. When I convinced them I did, they thought that was hilarious!
Arrgh. The humiliation.
Shirley Wilson Young was not a man to be laughed at. He was a connoisseur of gourmet candies. He had an enormous coin collection. He was the greatest barbecuer of elk on Planet Earth. And he had a professional garage in his back yard as big as his house.
A couple of years later, he taught me to appreciate satire, using the example of Walt Kelly’s comic strip, “Pogo.”
Alright. I hear you thinking, “When will he stop bragging about his uncle and get to the point?”
You are right. While he plays a part in the subject, this is not an essay on my uncle. This about a non-polluting fuel.
The following post consists of 23 short videos that are highly understandable, almost genius in the presentation. The information is incontrovertible data about ENERGY, ECONOMY, ENVIRONMENT, and how they tie in together. This video does not leave one feeling apathetic about the situation. If you start watching the videos, i recommend that you just keep going untill the end.
I am very interested in having some educated conversations on this topic.
Here is the definition of crash course: Noun 1. Crash course – a rapid and intense course of training or research (usually undertaken in an emergency)
The following are all the videos all on a single page. It is approximately 3hrs combined. This link goes to Chris Martenson’s website where you will be watching the information from the source: www.chrismartenson.com perhaps you can visit him and share some love for the masterpiece he created.
And i will say this again, I am very interested in having some educated conversations on this topic.
This link will show you a company that has lived it’s philosophy by doing good all over the world for over 53 years and shows us ways that each and everyone of us can make a difference in this world.
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Why I Like Hydrogen
