Enough Stuff Already -- Be Happier Without It!

Stuff Enough Already!

It has been a conspiracy all along to get us to buy stuff. Marketeers and companies have been dictating style, fashion and getting you to believe you can only feel good by buying and shoppoing for more and more stuff!

An interesting quote by a Victor Lebeau ?? around 1950s

“Our enormously productive economy…..demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction, our ego satisfaction, in consumption…. We need things consumed, burned up, replaced and discarded at an ever-accelerating rate”

Have they won? Are you really that uncomfortable with yourself, with nature that you need to buy and surround yourself with stuff. Are you loved more when you get stuff? Do you love them more when you give stuff? Sad if it is true.

Check out the story of Christmas and the story of stuff (a great video)

Good Nigh From Maine, USA!

Killing Trees? Getting Junk Mail? Stop It!

Here is an interesting site you might find interesting and it may help stop the flow of dead trees and carbon emitting transportion to deliver -- by stopping junk mail. It is similar to the concept of 'do not call' list. StopTheJunk

If this does not work for you, you can always send the same stopping request to the Direct Mail Association (DMA)

Green With Envy -- The Planet Earth or You?

It is not the planet that is at risk. It is green with its methane, carbon, volcanoes and massive toxic thermal vents. It is we. We are just a small blip and irritant on the planet's fabric of life. The earth is healthy. It is our imposed way of life, our expectation of the way the earth should be, our lives that our at risk. We are the ones who are sick and unhealthy. Let's come clean -- green is not really about the earth, planet and nature at all. It is solely, uniquely and selfishly about us!

This is a quote sent to me by Don. I think this just about sums it up.

Hermann Scheer, Time Magazine, August 26, 2002
The globe doesn't need to be saved by us, and we couldn't kill it if we tried. What we do need to save – and what we have done a fair job of bollixing up so far – is the earth as we like it, with its climate, air, water and biomass all in that destructible balance that best supports life as we have come to know it. Muck that up, and the planet will simply shake us off, as it's shaken off countless species before us. In the end, then it's us we’re trying to save – and while the job is doable, it won't be easy.

Good Night From Maine, USA!

Eco Numbies

What is an eco numbie? I propose it is the many good hearted, good natured nature extremist that want to preserve land, animals and the world as it is now. Evolution, change and extinction is not a natural option to them. Many of them drive very nice cars on their way to Whole Foods too!

It is the people who expound upon emotionally driven "fixes" yet who literally know nothing about the true outdoors and the natural order of things. They want to save Bambi but do not even understand the life span nor life cycle of a deer. "But we must preserve them" from this horrible fate!

Native Indians, native Alaskans, Mainers, Montanans, and other true native people understand the natural order of things as well as mans some times devastating impacts -- at least the increased rate of impacts.

All things are naturally, spiritually and oneness connected. Point solutions and emotionally-based actions are ill founded and don't work. Make less people, make less stuff, use less stuff, travel lite and impact little -- that works.

Good Night From Maine!

A Maine Fall Day!

Mother Nature painted a great week. Her picture is beginning to fade in some areas while 'leafing' green in many spots. Apples, pumpkins, and farms are in full fall swing too. It is just awesome out there.

On a side note -- polar bears. Their habitat is changing and significantly impacting their life. While there is much argument whether humans caused it or not, the natural order of things is being changed by our behaviors to "save the bear" just as much as our warming impacts.

I believe we should only change our behavior and not rush to "rescue the bear". Nature always changes things we may not like such as making life hard for the polar bear. These bears are an awesome animal being and I would sorely miss them should they disappear. It would be sad, but natural too.

If Nature is killing off or making animals extinct should we rush in and save them just for our own personal human needs? Is this man behavior just as 'bad' as being the sole cause of warming or at least the rate of warming?

Can man stop being almighty and begin to nurture the concept of nature collaborating naturally? If we did stop, we might at least be in a more natural world even if it is not beneficial to man. We need to take ourselves down a few notches, quite a few, and step back. Nature, the Universe and animals do not function around our self-impose human-centric activities. Nature has its own rhythm and many times humans may become extinct. Man definitely would not be around if earth had not "died before". It will die again, at least from the sole perspective of humans.

Can we give a try to becoming and being in harmony naturally with nature and not impose or project only one view upon the beautiful world? Let's try it.

Good Day from Maine, USA

World Animals and Us!

Today on the national news network it was reported that more than a third of all the animal species are at risk of vanishing. The report further noted that this is mostly due to the loss of habitat. Loss due to man, not nature.

On a small incremental level Landicity is exactly that -- simply trying to save some habitat and make you a steward-owner of the land so you become directly connected to the land. Your land and the animals land.

Saving habitat will not really have a significant or direct impact on saving the planet. It may help a little, but it won't matter. What really matters is getting individuals engaged and educated about the habitat, the animals, the natural being of things, and about the planet. What really makes the most difference is engagement and education of people; give them an ownership stakeholder position. We can conserve 100% of the land, but without the people being engaged it will be for not.

Good night from Maine, USA!

Moose Abouts

Maine has the highest population of Moose of any states, except Alaska. Maine is much, much smaller than Alaska, but the Moose are big and now in rut. While Alaska may have more moose, Maine has the highest car-moose crashes than any other state.

Actually, the bull moose are in rut from about late August to October. In rut? Actually, they are horny, in heat and are looking for action. (when are humans "in-rut"? I guess always!).

Horny moose in rut are not to be messed with. They roam the woods, chase people, chase cars and come out of the woods to run the roads. They might be on the loosing end of the car fight, but they take their share of "no prisoners". The moose dies, some people do and the car almost never makes it!

Maine DOT used to keep a map with plots of every moose-car encounter. Based upon the map, most moose seem to travel on roads too. Or, at lease the ones who crash into cars!

So, as you go out into nature and watch her draw her fall canvas of colors, be on the look out for horny moose. They will chase and do just about any thing unexpected. What ever you do, don't ride a Maine Moose in the Fall.

Good night from Maine!