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Peak Oil here we come! Get used to having less and less energy.
Over 2 decades of fiscal insanity is finally coming to an end.
Voluntary Simplicity and living locally are the way forward.
I choose a vegan diet for the planet, for my health, and ethics (in that order).
We can not consume our way to sustainability.
I'm a techno geek - I love things technical - but I believe that the way forward is the "power down" scenario.
Humans are best if they living locally - and if their decsions pollute and destroy locally - it's the only way we will learn and limit our destructive tendancies.
The journey of life is within - discover the beast and the angle and only then, when you know your demons, can you live wisely.
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Former McDonald's executives to start healthy fast-food chain
Good luck to them. We avoid fast food places like the plague - it's a waste of money. Given that the past 30 years has been based upon credit and debt the entire collection of big box retailers and fast food joints that we see around us will crumble into history. The 60's and 70's should be the new normal - something more sustainable instead of people living wayyyyy beyond their means.
It's about time people got real jobs doing real work. One can't build an economy by borrowing and spending. The fact that it ran 30 years is amazing - but just look at the parabolic rise in debt. It's a freekin' joke right now with some trumpeting the falling consumer debt levels - well it's because they're defaulting on mortgages and loosing their bubble ATM-homes. Meanwhile the trade defecit continues - while exporting real jobs to make money to pay off the debt.... The depression has barely begun.
Good move - wrong time!
The Blog Begins! Why are YOU vegetarian/vegan?
Diet For a Small Planet made us vegetarian (although not religously so) for environmental reasons. After reading McDougall, China Study I went pretty well vegan (ok I've always hated cheese and eggs) - for health reasons.
My wife has concerns over omega 3/6/9 so there is a bit of fish every few months and eggs weekly for the kids. They've also cut back on their cheese addiction (I think?). But my wife counters that a vegan, and even a vegetarian diet is highly unusual - more so than an Atkins diet. Atkins diets have existed for long periods of time. So it's impossible to justify a vegan diet, to my wife, for our kids.
In the end we all die of something - how much are you willing to do to extend life a bit? In our case weight and cholesterol levels are excellent - even on a omnivore diet.
In the past 5 years we tried a 100 mile diet and have shifted to more local and organic foods and now consider ourselves to be "whole food vegetarians".
Parents have moved to a mostly vegetarian diet and their weight has come down. In our case we did loose some weight going veg - and the winters can be very cold now - even with an undershirt, long sleeved shirt and a sweater or two when the house is around 20C. The cold winter drove my wife to get a free range chicken and cook it up. Another friend was veg but also has been trying to gain weight by eating chicken - without success.
It doesn't help that the kids are well below the 5th percentile for weight and height (but look better by the WHO numbers, and their parents are slightly below average in height). There are comments from friends that our kids need to gain more weight and grow taller.
In a community where a veg. diet (my Indian friends) is the norm these questions don't arise! But our non-religous homeschooling, local whole food diet, voluntary simplicity and vegetarianism are very counter to people around us.
My belief is that those who stretch themseles tight will snap and go the other way - it does not pay to be extreme. Also as we power down and go into peak oil - our diet will have to be omnivoe - a vegetarian diet is not possible, or sustainable, in our climate without massive amounts of energy input. A veg. diet is a luxury of unparalleled prosperity.
Japan radioactivity could enter food chain, kids at risk
Thanks to GE for their Mark 1 which was not consider safe in the early 1970's and which in the 1980's was put at a 90% risk of loosing containment if cooling was lost.
Look at the maps of what happened with Chernobyl and soil contamination. Thankfull we have a big ocean to fill with glow-in-the-dark fish before it gets over here. Still, this isn't a Chernobyl style nuke and it's very unlikely to undergo explosive ejection of core material. But it's a hell of a lot bigger and with all of that spent fuel exposed and as long as there isn't cooling each reactor and spent fuel tank is going to burn and spew.
Our choice of nuclear power is one we're going to live with, and fear, for a few more 10's of thousands of years. I saw a figure I've not been able to verify of the 100's of millions of UK pounds that it costs per year to keep spent fuel cooled.
There better be a global re-examination of the types of reactors used (some safely shut down in these circumstances), the safety of the site and the long term fuel storage issue.
www.DemocracyNow.org has done some good coverage the past few days of the safety of nuclear power plants.
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If it kills bugs it kills people. If it's considered a "hazardous waste" and you can't throw it into the garbage it shouldn't be in the home - and that's many cleaning products.
Children are most sensitive - esp. to endocrine disruptors.
The greatest sin is exposing young women to any nasty fat soluble chemicals as when she nurses her first child(ren) they'll get dosed.
If you're not willing to eat it - then don't expose your children to it!