Great video and great tips from Dr. Mercola on how to find locally grown produce — and other farm products — in the winter, no matter where you live. As well as why this is good for your health and the health of the planet.
See both here:
by ken winston caine
We’re always told to think outside the box. But it’s about time someone spoke up for the box. Because, paradoxically, thinking inside a box can spark creativity, not squelch it. So maybe you don’t need to think out of the box. Maybe you just need a new one to think in.
– Dan Heath and Chip Heath, December 2007 Fast Company
Reconsider the absolute boundaries.
Define them.
Reconsider the ultimate objective. The ultimate objectives for all concerned.
And set a goal to vastly and remarkably improve upon the status quo.
Define cool.
And, based on that, redefine your box.
Once you know the rules, find new (more…)
by ken winston caine
Towns and cities could cut electricity use significantly — simply and painlessly.
Almost overnight.
All they have to do is to commit to quit trying to light up the night as though it is day.
Turn off, or turn down, street lighting, building lighting and after-hours electric signs on businesses. (This was decreed by President Nixon as national policy during the first oil embargo in 1973, alongside more drastic measures such as gas rationing and a national 55 mph speed limit.)
Cutting street lighting has been shown to CUT crime. (More on that in a moment.)
Bring back the night.
Bring back the stars.
If cities would turn off just every other streetlight, on alternating sides of the street, immediately they would cut streetlighting energy use in half. And cut the cost of streetlighting in half.
Why is no one thinking like this at a time when greenhouse gasses produced by coal-and-other-carbon-fuel-fired power plants are destroying the planet’s equilibrium and by extension, our current and future quality of life … and simultaneously, world-wide, we are facing an energy shortage?
Instead, power companies are calling for more power plants and, at the same time, (more…)
