https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1qa4YG70TI
Is Capitalism the Only System? Is Capitalism Killing the Planet?
Is Capitalism the Only System? Is Capitalism Killing the Planet?
Derrick Jensen keynote speech -- Earth at Risk Conference 2014
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Massive #ArrestTrump Movement on Social Media. Millions of Americans are Demanding That The DOJ "Lock Him UP!" Read More at:
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Derrick Jensen - Civilization & Resistance
Derrick Jensen interview for "Clearcut Nation" documentary
Clearcut Nation - the Movie
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| Computer Art - Gregory Vanderlaan - Done in paint dot net |
http://www.fertilegroundinstitute.org/
Fertile Ground Institute is a non-profit working for ecological and social justice.
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Interesting Author: Derrick Jensen... deep ecology
http://www.derrickjensen.org/
Required reading at Humboldt State University: A Language Older than Words... about inter species communication... Like between Me and My Cats...
https://derrickjensen.org/language-older-than-words/
Make America Greta Again Embroidered Baseball Cap
by gregvan
People Say That... They Have to Drive to Work Every Day... However, SOME Jobs can be done at home... SOME Businesses Could Relocate the Office to an Abandoned Shopping Mall Near Homes... SOME People Could Ride the BUS to Work... It's Possible...
On Halloween, I Brought My Guitar and Sang for the Party Goers on the San Jose Light Rail...
More Importantly, I Rode from Almaden to the Public Library and Used the Free Computers there to Build a Website in the Late 1990s. Tripod and Yahoo Geocities... I didn't know what I was doing but the Other Patrons were Happy to Help. My Content is Still Online 23 Years Later! http://www.oocities.org/gregvan/
My Favorite Photograph... Taken Just Before I put the Camera in my Pocket, Joined Hands With the People and Chanted OM... Remember: It's More Important to LIVE LIFE than Document Life...
Required reading at Humboldt State University: A Language Older than Words... about inter species communication... Like between Me and My Cats...
https://derrickjensen.org/language-older-than-words/
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Interesting author: David Grinspoon - Deep Ecology - How we can engineer our way out of global warming.
Yes, we are clever monkeys... We can figure a way to solve our own problems. Looking at our history over millions of years, we have figured out how to survive every time and it's likely that we will do so this time too. Geoengineering might work!
I saw him talk about his book at the Smithsonian Institute and his words were uplifting. Just because we have not come up with the solution yet is not cataclysmic because there are smart people being born every day. Maybe one of them will think of something new. Like a giant air conditioner that moves excess air pollution into space...
Quote from the Amazon webpage about this book:
For the first time in Earth's history, our planet is experiencing a confluence of rapidly accelerating changes prompted by one species: humans. Climate change is only the most visible of the modifications we've made--up until this point, inadvertently--to the planet. And our current behavior threatens not only our own future but that of countless other creatures. By comparing Earth's story to those of other planets, astrobiologist David Grinspoon shows what a strange and novel development it is for a species to evolve to build machines, and ultimately, global societies with world-shaping influence.
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Bees Love our Crepe Myrtle Tree. Blossoms all year round... Helping Wild Bees Survive.CONVERT HUMAN FAT INTO ELECTRICITY With an Exercise Bicycle Power Generator. ZERO POLLUTION. Simply Use the Bicycle to Drive an Automobile Alternator with a Belt... Store Electricity in a Car Battery...Hundreds of Thousands of exercise Bicycles ALREADY EXIST and they Create ZERO Electricity... Let's All Email PELOTON and ask them to Build USEFUL Power Generator Bicycles!
 What if we installed electric power generators on every exercise bicycle nationwide... We could replace coal burning power plants and help reverse global warming/climate change. These bicycles let a person spin an automobile alternator using pedal power. Built by CCAT at Humboldt State University |
"Make America Greta Again"
Embroidered Baseball Cap FOR SALE!
100% of My Profits Donated To Charity...
Climate Change is Real and We All ought to DO SOMETHING... I don't own a Car... Rarely do I travel... except that I walk all over the place... every day... I use UBER when I need to go a longer distance... and... STOPPED FLYING IN JET AIRPLANES Totally!
Make America Greta Again Embroidered Baseball Cap
by gregvan
JUST PARK IT. Let's Cut Driving in Half... It's the Burning of Fossil Fuel That is Causing Climate Change. Cars, Trucks, Vans, Buses and Jet Airplanes. Ask Yourself: Is It Absolutely Required that I Drive?
Can You Find Happiness Without Destroying Life on Earth?
Sure... People Say That Climate Change will only Kill Off Four Billion Humans and Then The World Will Heal BUT... Why Not Take Action Now and Prevent Disaster?
I Personally DO NOT Own a Car... I Travel by LYFT about Twice a Year... As a Retired Person, I walk around the Neighborhood Every Day BUT... All That Mad Rushing Around Traveling All Over the Place FOR AMUSEMENT is in My Past... Yes... I Used to Drive All Over the USA in order to Dance at Grateful Dead Concerts... WELL... We Can't Do That Anymore...
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| My Little White Truck with a Red, White and Blue Heart painting. |
"Round TUIT" Keychain for sale... "Someday I'm Going to get Around To It. OH! Today's The Day..."
All My Royalties from my Zazzle Store are Donated to A Worthy Charity. Helping a Retired Lady Living on Social Security Make Ends Meet. The Rent on Her Trailer Space Just Increased... For No Reason... Greedy Landlords... https://www.gofundme.com/f/cxfg3f-1000 |
| Wildfires in Northern California - 8/10/2021 Hey Governor Newsom: Let's Buy 100 Helicopters to Dump Water on Wildfires. An Endless Parade of Helicopters Dipping Buckets in Lake Almanor Would Put the Dixie Fire Out. https://disasterresponse.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=2ff1677111ae4018ac705fcce7c3312f |
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| Ecology - a Concept not grasped by Monster Truck Guy |
People Say That... They Have to Drive to Work Every Day... However, SOME Jobs can be done at home... SOME Businesses Could Relocate the Office to an Abandoned Shopping Mall Near Homes... SOME People Could Ride the BUS to Work... It's Possible...
People get Laid Off from Work Quite Often These Days and... at that time... It would be excellent to select a new job with a Drastically Shorter Commute... If You Drive an Hour To Get to Work 5 Days a Week a HUGE PORTION of Your Precious LIFE is Wasted... Never to be Lived Again... I Rode the Bus in Eureka, CA and Slept during the Morning Commute... and Chatted With Women on the Way Home... THAT'S Living!
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| rake vs gas powered leaf blower MEME by gvan42 |
Solar Powered Street Lights Would Save a LOT of Electricity Currently Being Generated in Coal, Natural Gas and Atomic Power Plants (Polluting the World) and Distributed Using WIRES. That's WASTEFUL and DANGEROUS... POWER LINES CAUSE FOREST FIRES.
Nothing NEW Needs to Be Invented... We Ought to Simply Replace the Millions of Old Style Street Lights... With Solar Cells and LED Lamps... The Concept of Generating Power in One Central Location and Distributing it to the User is Quite Wasteful... Some Electricity JUST VANISHES over the Long Distance... and DANGEROUS because the Wires Start Forest Fires... PG&E Power Company Just Burned the Entire Town Of Paradise, CA... and It Caused the Company to Go Bankrupt. Distributing Power From a Central Generator is an Obsolete Idea. What if Every House had Solar Panels on the Roof That Provided Enough Electricity to UNPLUG FROM THE GRID...
Please Let Your Elected Officials Know That WE Have Had Enough of the Madness!
I Loved Riding the Bus and Light Rail in San Jose and EUREKA, California. https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/01/i-loved-riding-bus-and-light-rail-in.html
I remember when I could not afford a Car I was able to get to work on the Bus ...and... Drinking and Driving is Not Only Illegal But Actually Dangerous While Drinking and Riding the Bus is FUN...
On Halloween, I Brought My Guitar and Sang for the Party Goers on the San Jose Light Rail...
More Importantly, I Rode from Almaden to the Public Library and Used the Free Computers there to Build a Website in the Late 1990s. Tripod and Yahoo Geocities... I didn't know what I was doing but the Other Patrons were Happy to Help. My Content is Still Online 23 Years Later! http://www.oocities.org/gregvan/
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My Favorite Photograph... Taken Just Before I put the Camera in my Pocket, Joined Hands With the People and Chanted OM... Remember: It's More Important to LIVE LIFE than Document Life...
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| Rainbow Gathering California July 4th Chanting OM |
We Need 1,000 More Fire Fighting Helicopters in the USA. Please Let Your Elected Officials Know That We Want Them to Take Action! Helicopters Can Simply Dip a Bucket in a Lake, Dump Water on the Fire.
The Entire West is Burning... Every Year there will be MORE MORE MORE fires... and Two of California's Massive Fires - Were Near Lakes... One Near Lake Tahoe and One Near Lake Almanor... and Both Lakes Had Water in them...
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| CDF Helicopter Dipping Water For Fighting Fire This Photo was Taken at Horseshoe Lake, Upper Bidwell Park, Chico, California |
Let's Bring Home the Helicopters From Afghanistan or Use Pentagon Money to Buy New Ones!
Thank You, Joe Biden, for Ending the Pointless War in Afghanistan. Our Soldiers were Wasting their Time fighting a war that cannot be won for people that do not want us there. I feel certain that the Soldiers would rather be home fighting fires that threaten their families and friends... Bring 'em Home and Bring Home the Helicopters too...
LINK to All My Rainbow Cross Gifts:
Original Artwork Printed on Merchandise:
Good for "Rainbow" Rights Activists
and Followers of Jesus...
or BOTH!
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AMERICA'S BOGUS WARS - Since 1945, The US Military Has Never Defended The Country, Not Even Once. Ever since Victory in Japan, All of Our Wars have been Marketing to Sell Weapons for the Military Industrial Complex.
READ MORE: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/07/great-book-americas-bogus-wars-since.html
Often The USA chooses sides in Someone Else's Civil War, Gets Real Excited about Fighting Communism (or whatEVER) and then We Get Bored, Retreat, Lose and the Total Effect is ZERO. For Example: Vietnam. After 10 years of fighting, we lost and then The Surrounding Countries DID NOT Fall like Dominos... Believe it or not, There was a "Domino Theory" proposed by Vice President Richard Nixon that Stated that, If we lost in Vietnam, the neighboring Countries would become Communist and then the Entire World would GO Commie and we will have Reds Ruling Mexico! And Attacking the USA! I'm not making this up... There were people that really believed this theory... and were willing to send other people's children to die because they were Fighting Communism. Danger Danger! If we don't beat the Reds in Vietnam they will come right up to our border... ABSURD! For those of you that have never heard of Dominos, it's a game with numbered tiles that you could stack in rows so that if you pushed one over, it would hit the next and that one would hit the next... and on and on and on... and they would all fall down. This was popular before Video Games.
However, Hughes Aircraft, Dow Chemical and other Defense Contractors MADE A FORTUNE... People that sell Bandages, need Bleeding Soldiers to use them up... and then they make a Sale Restocking the Military. Helicopters, Agent Orange, Napalm, Boots, Boats and Food were all wonderful businesses to be in... Soldier Have to Eat... We can sell more MRE if there is an active war than during peacetime... To Quote Country Joe McDonald: "Come on Wall Street Don't Move Slow, Why Man this War's a Go-Go. There is Plenty Good Money to be Made, Supplying the Army with the Tools of the Trade! Just hope and Pray when they Drop the Bomb, They drop it on the Viet Cong..." Defense Contractors kept the war going for a long as possible. Nixon's Campaign Promise was to End the War but he kept it going an extra FOUR Years. If you think about it, We could have Won that War in ONE DAY. A Hydrogen Bomb on Hanoi would have Ended The War. Totally. We knew HOW to WIN since we we Dropped Atomic Bombs on Japan. BUT, we selected to Lose.
One real effect of that war was: we got a LOT of immigrants. Vietnamese Boat People and Hmong... They came here by the Thousands... and then the Country of Vietnam became a Capitalist Manufacturing Country... Go Figure! They did not like being Commie after all. In general, the refugees were nice people and no one can imagine WHY we would go to war with them...
However, Hughes Aircraft, Dow Chemical and other Defense Contractors MADE A FORTUNE... People that sell Bandages, need Bleeding Soldiers to use them up... and then they make a Sale Restocking the Military. Helicopters, Agent Orange, Napalm, Boots, Boats and Food were all wonderful businesses to be in... Soldier Have to Eat... We can sell more MRE if there is an active war than during peacetime... To Quote Country Joe McDonald: "Come on Wall Street Don't Move Slow, Why Man this War's a Go-Go. There is Plenty Good Money to be Made, Supplying the Army with the Tools of the Trade! Just hope and Pray when they Drop the Bomb, They drop it on the Viet Cong..." Defense Contractors kept the war going for a long as possible. Nixon's Campaign Promise was to End the War but he kept it going an extra FOUR Years. If you think about it, We could have Won that War in ONE DAY. A Hydrogen Bomb on Hanoi would have Ended The War. Totally. We knew HOW to WIN since we we Dropped Atomic Bombs on Japan. BUT, we selected to Lose.
One real effect of that war was: we got a LOT of immigrants. Vietnamese Boat People and Hmong... They came here by the Thousands... and then the Country of Vietnam became a Capitalist Manufacturing Country... Go Figure! They did not like being Commie after all. In general, the refugees were nice people and no one can imagine WHY we would go to war with them...
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| Colin Powell gave a Press Briefing at the United Nations where he explained the Reasons for going to War in Iraq. Traditionally, press briefings are held in front of Picasso's Painting "Guernica" that depicts insane death from the sky... Powell was proposing starting a war that had a lot of insane Death from the Sky... SO HE HAD JANITORS COVER THE PAINTING AND HE SPOKE IN FRONT OF A WHITE SHEET. This Image shows what the press conference would have looked like. |
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