Food for Thought - 192021.org

I didn't have access to this blog for a long time. I just noticed that I was able to log in again, Here some food for thought with a beautifully designed webpage.

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BP: Beyond Petroleum

What if oil companies don't even believe in the future of oil anymore?

This is not just any oil company I'm talking about. This is one of the multi-billion oil majors that is starting to invest in alternative energy sources. To be exact: $8 Billion per year (according to them), which is really considerable if you look at what they make per year: $22 Billion income (according to wikipedia.org).

Think about what that means for the oil industry and what it tells about the oil reserves.

Read up on bp's webpage about this.

Wind Energy as an Investment in Niagara

I thought I would quickly report on a little observation I made some time ago. Whenever I drove through Vineland I noticed what look like a wind testing tower just up the escarpement in Niagara. I finally had the time to stop and ask about it, and in fact it is a testing tower that has been standing there now for almost 3 years, recording data about the wind.

Mark (of Mark's Automotive) owns the tower and it was really interesting to talk to him briefly. As I understood he never intended to put up a turbine, he' was simply recording the wind up on the escarpment to sell the data (which he did). He resold the tower and it seems as if the investment paid of for him. He referred me to a guy called Ken Baigent who he calles "the number crunshing guy" behind this project. I'll contact Ken soon and see what more interesting things we can find out about wind energy in Niagara.

With some luck and the work of some business savy people we might see a wind turbine erected right outside of Vineland in the Niagara region.

Are you a sceptic?

I know so many people that don't think that the human has any kind of effect on the planet. Breathing Earth gives us a nice graphic representation of how many people are born, how many die and how much CO2 is emitted. I think you must agree that we do affect the earth!

Watch this and don't brush it under the carpet!

It's called the most terrifying video you'll ever see!!



Maybe, but only if you don't do anything... seriously, do you still not understand what I'm talking about? This video puts into words what I've tried to express so many times. Spread it!

China vs. us!!! Are we letting China win?

Hi Fella's!

I just came back from a trip of my tool supplier. The owner is a Dutch guy and we got talking about my new toy company that I'm just starting. He spoke very harsh words about where our world is heading. I'm trying to sort my thoughts, but it's really hard to put it down.

First of, I was telling him about my job (sound guy) and how I get to travel lots. We both agreed that it is a real life experience to travel and see other cultures. To get a different look at how we operate in North America from a different perspective. The conversation continued and I told him that I was about to start a new company, building wooden toys here in Canada. He didn't really seem to like my company idea. He advised me to always think of the fact that we do live in a capitalistic world and that I have to operate within the boundaries of it. My business will in fact fail, if I try to reinvent the wheel, he said.

Art (the fella I was talking to) was telling me about one of his clients that had gone to China to see some of the factory's where they are building little toys. He was telling me about halls filled with thousands of people drawing intricate little designs onto toys, everyone so concentrated on his work, that they did not even look up or flinch when the visitor was walking through the halls. "These people make 10 cents per hour!" said the factory supervisor. That's just $200/hour in labor for 2000 people. At the end of the hall a door "Do you know what's out there?" the tour guide said "2000 more people waiting for more work!" It's scary to hear that, and I refuse to believe that this is healthy for the planet.

This really got me to think. Am I doing something wrong? Will my business fail, because I refuse to operate within the materialistic world? Within the capitalistic philosophy?

I refuse to support the system that is unhealthy for the people and for this planet! "They will take over the world", Art said. I believe that is true as well, but was it avoidable? Can it be that we let Asia take over, because we are so greedy? Just because a few of us (the few that are rich) want to make more and more money, and are creating the big bad machine. Just because we refuse to work for less and keep the money in our countries, we triggered Asia to create new power over us. Would Asia ever have gotten there if we did not bring our industry there? I think we triggered them, to maybe become a capitalist world, by giving them a taste of the things that we have and the things that we desire!

What do you think about this? Do we have reason to be scared about this? Do you think saving the planet by not supporting this bad system is the wrong choice or even possible? Is this the end of our society, just like all the other big empires in the past have failed?

December 10th: Human Rights Day

Today is Human Rights Day and coincidentally, I came across a really interesting organization yesterday. There name is witness. If you would like to find out more about all the conflicts on earth, the different issues in the different countries, please visit their page. Some issues are really aggravating, but we need to hear about them, so we can start acting upon them.

Let's just do something...

Witness has their own channel on joost, this link will take you to the intro video of the channel.