The Solar Solution
Note from Jim:After 2 months of trying we (mostly Dave) are still unable to say with any certainty why the ability to download the audio portion of these podcasts have been so hit and miss. Rather than cease production I have decided, for the time being, to turn these podcasts into blogs. Rest assured that we (mostly Dave) are continueing to search for a remedy to the issue and we have every expectation of returning to podcast status ASAP.
While creating these podcasts/blogs over the past year, I have tried to avoid overtly political content; the reason being that long ago I realized regardless of political affiliation, there will be no heroes riding in at the last minute to save us.
We will have to do that for ourselves – hence the nature of this website.
Whenever I feel my personal peace growing to the point of it being uncomfortable, I can always count on the corporate media to try to disrupt it with tales of blood and terror. On my most charitable days, to say that I am merely disappointed in the media and its performance as informant to the masses is about as generous as I can be. Over the past few days, watching the corporate media project their visions of worldwide financial catastrophe has brought to mind one of my first jobs out of high school.
I was a telemarketer (que horror movie music).
My job was to set sales appointments for a company that sold and installed solar water heaters. Part of my sales pitch was that a homeowner could redirect money they were already spending on their utility bills; combine that with state and federal tax credits and they could save money and energy without having to come up with any out of pockets expenses.
A jewel in the rubbish that is the Bush administration is that they have bankrupted the
It is crucial to understand that despite what we have been told recently and will be told in the coming days, weeks and months; there is enough money to achieve a greater good for not only the American people, but all of humankind!
Any one or a combination of all three of these seemingly radical ideas would produce a pool of wealth that combined with technologies that have existed since the early 1970s would provide every man, woman and child on the planet with clean water and safe housing; to say nothing of education and health care. To paraphrase Buckminster Fuller, Now it is simply a matter of will.
Coming soon: Are we watching the 2008 Presidential election being stolen right in front of our eyes?
