how-to-save-the-world ~ draft 4

To recap, Expulsion posts with #drawfool #doodles posted here, from Dec. 2017 to April 2018. (see list). Then I began the work of setting up my pottery studio to make ceramic art. Did I mention I am a fool artist/writer? Anyways, after a while of scribbling, the fiction book has started to take shape. August 2018. Promises, promises, don't believe me, fine. Intentions pave the way to, you know. Blog posts of fiction story from out-line posting goal for episode 1, Jan 2019.

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list of 50 daydreams

(links to full posts in order, as blogs scroll in reverse)

1. Revolution level passive energy redesign and upcycle of all buildings, home, business, storage, all construction from dog houses to skyscrapers.

2. BYOM (Bring your own mug) water bottle or thermos.

3. Eliminate the digital divide and simultaneously save millions off of print cost across the economy.

4. to-save-world -- end junk mail via the internet for every home and an official USPS current resident/local news, services and sales email.

5. Stop using use-once throw-away plastic bags.

6. Re-shippers -- Reusable mailers for all shipping companies to eliminate cardboard boxes, and paper (SASE) envelopes.

7. No more toxic chemical roof run-off - anywhere.

8. No more asphalt or cement parking lots.

9. People and living creatures first, automobile road design second.

10. Replace monoculture mown and trimmed grass lawns with native grasses and other low maintenance ground cover plants.

11. Plants, plants and more plants -- everywhere. Gardening is the number one hobby worldwide, everyone should have access to fresh fruit, vegetables and herbs.

12. Crowdsolving save-the-world with the collective intelligence.

13. Goats and sheep, lama, etc... in movable fences, to clear brush and trim landscaping near paths and roads, fertilize and aerate land - instead of herbicides, controlled burns, machines and chemical fertilizers.

14. Organic food by default should be - stickerless and crude oil packaging free and pesticide produced products should wear the warning labels.

15. Compost. -- Inspired by the giant rats I watched roam the streets in Portland in the 90s.

16. eating meat with lower cost to the planet than factory farmed pork or beef.

17. Life on the planet dead-serious how-to-save-the-world via our oceans and rivers -- sustainable harvesting of fish and shellfish in tandem with habitat restoration.

18. Improve the human diet by body type, age and physical activity levels - not about losing weight, but for a healthier people and planet.

19. Fibers, dyes and the production of cloth, all types, baby clothes to potting soil “bags” and boat tarps, weighed for environmental impact.

20. Plug-in electric vehicles connected to smart microgrids that run on solar & wind power to replace our crude-oil dependant system.

21. People power paths everywhere -- walking, bicycle, unicycle, wheelchair or skate etc.. - as alternative transportation to roads.

22. End plastic packaging. Stop all plastic use-once-throw-away-trash by designing it out of production.

23. Standardised refillables. For all types of products currently sold in throw-away plastic.

24. Water efficient redesign of all toilet and bathroom plumbing. Flush grey-water or better yet, don't poop and pee in water at all.

25. Solve money. How do we reach that Star Trek utopia where money isn’t?

1. Housing and buildings for small businesses (individual mortgages).
2. The arts, culture, and literature.
3. Postage, packages, and snail-mail.
4. Communication media.
5. Food.
6. Education.
7. Healthcare and medicine.
8. Transportation and shipping.
9. Industry and production for larger businesses.
10. And last Government (I break that one into three parts). A. Politics, B. the work of leadership and C. the military.


26. Oh yeah, I almost forgot. Social currency for the arts, culture and literature is daydream 26/50.

27. Remove money from politics.

28. Truth in journalism and news via peer and public review plus writing credits. Some issues balanced with the rights to publicity and privacy.

29. Drugs and illegal substance laws need to be reevaluated weighing the most current research on the physical harm to the individual health of the users and each specific substance socioeconomic damage and possible benefits to quality of life for populations.

30. Prison reform - the US has the highest documented* (China is not documented) incarceration rate in the world = big complicated problem.

31. Electronic medical records that belong to the patient for safer more accurate and efficient healthcare.

32. Recognise Physical Characteristic Discrimination of ourselves (like racism, misogyny, homophobia, and ageism all rolled into one).

33. The Right to Privacy and the Right to Publicity in the digital age.

34. Family medical history as preventive medicine: as recommended by US Human & Health Services - The Surgeon General's Family Health History Initiative.
 http://www.hhs.gov/familyhistory/

35. Crime preventions plus access to health care make the human race's most dreaded 'A' word a solvable problem.

36. Outdoor lighting -- all upcycled and replaced with solar-panel plus light-sensor lamps.

37. Copycat crime and blood guilt of the entire news media industry.

38. Clean-up how we clean ourselves, our homes and our workplaces.

39. An answer for the middle-class (about global economic leveling).

40. Ridding America of unnecessary paper trash, eliminate paper napkins/paper towels, etc... (Define necessary paper :) i.e. no milkshakes sans cup, etc…)

41. Stop planned obsolescence - and make accidental defective designs repairable.

42. Understand the limitations of the human lifespan and live for people who will be here long after we are gone.

43. Economics based on production/profit need to become a thing of the past.

44. Make sure to focus on yourself sometimes.

45. Upcycle the tradition of the Christmas tree to better suit the time we live in.

46. Protect and expand “parks” (p.s. Why do we have to keep calling these areas parks?) - National and state forests and wildlife refuges to tiny urban green spaces with one tree, a green roof or a bench planter at a corner bus stop.

47. Helping families and individuals die with dignity. Stop pain meds epidemic.

48. Birds, window glass birds can see, Window angles 20% away from the sky works, how about less? 7-10% tilt plus an awning to block the reflection of the sky that they dive into and die.

49. Meatless / machineless Mondays.

50. World Wednesday -- every Wednesday.

Looking for #drawfool doodles? more doodles are posted here, and here 2018 doodles and more doodles than...

9 #drawfool doodles for May 19, 2018.

Time for a WW conversation about planet Earth.

#drawfool doodle for March 27, 2018.

Talking with a marine biology college student recently reaffirmed the need for everyone worldwide to join in the conversation. We all need to discuss what we can do as individuals versus what needs to happen with corporate responsibility for the pollution, emissions and plastic garbage they produce.

Consumers have limited options, we buy what is available to buy. Corporations have shifted the burden of guilt for buying the same products, now packaged in more and more plastic to the consumer. The financial responsibility to recycle or properly dispose of product packaging needs to be directed back to the producers of that garbage. If we want them to stop bottling and shrink wrapping everything in plastic, we could ask nicely, and if they don't respond, we should start demanding laws for them to properly dispose of the waste they produce. The US needs to discuss laws like they have now in Europe and a few other less ass-backward countries where corporations are not people too.

Many have been discussing the gyres of plastic floating in every ocean on Earth. But, what is less talked about and more insidious is the plastic particles floating unseen in several layers of depth depending on the molecular weight of the type of plastic. As these layers of particles drift in the sea this plastic crap nibbled on and mistaken for nutritious food, then clogges up the insides of every living creature in the oceans because as we all know, the big fish eat the little ones.

#drawfool doodle for March 28, 2018.

Daydream 41 out of a list of 50 ways-to-save-the-world. Stop planned obsolescence. 

The weakest link in any machine is a cheaply designed part, or component difficult or impossible to replace. Many electronics like cell phones could last for years to be upgraded or upcycled with a cracked screen replaced or a loose microphone input reconstructed.

Appliances of all types, big and small, from washing machines to mixers, toasters etc.... used to be built to last a lifetime. Seals would over time, with the old plastics get cracked and replaced. But, my grandfather's old washing machine with a hand crank wringer to squeeze out the water before hanging the wash up on the line to dry, that very old machine was still in working condition long after my grandpa was gone.

I know machines now are way more complex, but all the more reason to make them so they can be repaired or upgraded.

Recently I got rid of my Apple laptop because the adapters are so cheap. So, let me clarify, the heavy converter box seems to not be cheap but it is attached to a wire that has a plastic casing that breaks when bent too many times, like the action required to wind the wire up to fit in the pocket of your laptop case, and this plastic also melts with grime like oil from human skin. (note to self, I have taken a few photos of this, it's ugly, find those pictures).

My house has used only Mac or Linux computers since before the millennium. So, transitioning to a Windows machine felt like sacrilege, but I had purchased more than 9 adapters, and I could not in good conscience buy another Mac if it means that I was going to buy many adapters for it too. Irony is, as many Microsoft Surface Pro users know, even tho it's a black cord, not white like those many Apply adapters, this cord is also attached to a heavy box, and it too frayed and it was 25% more expensive to replace. 99 dollars instead of 75 or so. I am now on my third Surface Pro adapter.

These are good machines, but they do not work without power. Whoever designed these adapter cords is failing these corporate giants and all of us for the world's energy wasted. We have several very old laptop adapters, from a Mac Clamshell Laptop, an ancient IBM from work, and an even older Fujitsu touchscreen. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE DECADE OLD LAPTOP ADAPTERS WORK PERFECTLY!

Yeah, I went there, to all caps, with a bang. Planned obsolescence, either "unintentional" by bad design or on purpose like a cheap light bulb, makes me very angry. Life is more important than a profit margin. This is a small planet. Have some respect.

#drawfool doodle for March 29, 2018.

42/50. Understand the limitations of the human lifespan and live for the people who will be here after you are gone. 

Think about it. You, if you are very, very lucky, will only live to be 100. Most, people will not live a century. While it is difficult, if not impossible to explain to someone under 25. Closer to 50, a person begins to look at the elderly closer. Thinking how time flows so much faster than the summers of childhood and that 70 to 90 year old could be me. If I survive for a couple more decades. 

How does understanding the limitations of the human lifespan save the world? The key is truly understanding. Not, knowing how old you are by the number, but actually understanding the difference between your own personal mortality, in a way that anyone who has come close to death can understand versus the limit to a human life even if everything happens perfectly. Comprehending a lifespan versus awareness of mortality are not the same.

"Things" and hoarding, excessive greed becomes useless. Planning a life so that someone else young can use the space you left behind, becomes priceless. Ideas learned and shared, memories written down or protected for future generations to use or enjoy, like a beach or a park in nature, a garden plot, a tree planted. 

Yes, if everyone understood and respected the limit to their own human lifespan, the world would be a very different place.

#drawfool doodle for March 30, 2018.

Daydream 43/50. Economics based on production/profit needs to become a thing of the past. 

The world needs us to paradigm-shift away from profit margins and producing stuff,... towards people and culture - gross national happiness or something more attune with the-meaning-of-life.

I think 'attune' is a good word for today.

attune: /

əˈt(y)o͞on/

     make receptive or aware.

"a society more attuned to consumerism than ideology"

#drawfool doodle for March 31, 2018.

Daydream 44/50. I give up on everybody and the whole stupid world! 

I’m going to just stop writing stuff and go pout and play video games for a couple years. 

I am going to the pound, find a couple well behaved cute little dogs and focus all my love on them. Forget all of you alls. FU planet Earth! and all living things in general. Bring on the killer weed and cheese puffs. Virtual brain shut off here I come.

#drawfool doodle for April 1, 2018.

P.s. Dear Jesus, I know, you know I'm kidding.

No excuses for plastic garbage

idea simpled down to main points.

Design-out the production of all plastic garbage, no excuses.

#drawfool #doodle for Feb. 28, 2018.

Daydream number 22/50. End plastic packaging. Stop all plastic use-once-throw-away-trash by designing it out of production. 

Making sure zero plastic garbage gets distributed is the main way the world will have a fighting chance of cleaning up all the plastic trash currently floating around. Plastic should only be used for durable goods.

This daydream happens all the time. Like a constant OCD nag making my skin crawl. It’s bad enough to force me to repress or sublimate it, (i.e. Make art or something useful out of collected plastic garbage). Also, unlike daydream 21. bike-trails/walking paths, since the 80s it seems that plastic packaging is getting worse, not better. When I shop I can avoid some plastic packaging, but only a small percentage of the time. Bringing my own bags to stores, not buying beverages in plastic, keeping a clean stainless steel coffee mug in my car, using bar shampoo wrapped in paper, owning a set of camping dishes and cutlery for outings etc... these are all itsy bitsy steps, that do little to making them stop producing the evil triple-wrapped plastic-bottle, in a plastic-bag, sealed with plastic-shrink-wrap crap.

In my imagination, many of my daydreams are tangled together, like the inverse of a several ton blob of plastic a friend of a friend, who is serving in the Coast Guard, got in trouble for dragging to shore off hours, after their shift end. True story, the trash blob was so big a work crew with chainsaws had to cut the mostly plastic tangle up so it could be hauled off.

So, to untangle that mess. Take daydream number 4. Sease sending tons of junk-mail, flyers, catalogs, political mailers etc.. And number 3. Solve the digital divide. And number  6.(Reusable mailers for all shipping companies to eliminate cardboard boxes. All those tons of unused pulp and factories currently making boxes, printing the grocery store flyers and flashy cards with ads printed on them, could instead be up-cycled to produce food-grade plant-based waxed-paper-packages for everything. Wax-paper chip and snack bags, paper wrappers from butcher paper to fancy candy wrappers and all shape and sizes of cartons like milk cartons to replace plastic tubs that everything from applesauce to yogurt is currently sold in.

To really design plastic out of production, we need to do this for every product in all stores, not just food. Toys and dry things like electronics are easy to package in a box of course. Removing water from products like soap or shampoo. People could purchase a refill kit and have nice dispensers in their bathroom or kitchen that match their decor.

I’ll try to stop now, post is getting too long. Most of my how-to-save-the-world daydreams are contingent on one another. When talking with friends I recognize many, many people wish for a less polluted more ergonomic world. Millions of people are all thinking parts of the same sad, things-could-be-better thought. Some daydreams like about clean water and air for everyone, actual billions of people are all sharing the same wish in the same way we all share this little blue planet. They laugh or shake their heads agreeing, we are all doing what we can, but… Truth isn’t easy, for example, there are no excuses in life. You either made it out of the fire unscathed or you didn’t. One solution could generate twelve more problems because there isn’t one answer. Together, that’s the most uneasy truth. We have to save-the-world together, and it’s going to take a lot of work, maybe for a thousand years. No excuses.

#drawfool Feb. 29, 2018.

#drawfool #doodle for March 1, 2018.

23. Standardised refillables. For all types of products currently sold in throw-away plastic. 

The last paragraph above of how-to-save-the-world daydream 22. I mention that every solution creates 12 more problems. This 1:12/solution:problem ratio is I hope an exaggeration, tho more likely an average based on a range of problems that need solving. More complex problems result in iterations of solutions that fragment like a fractile. Like for example refrigeration and perishable goods. Less complicated problems are usually simply idiotic. Like plastic toys, babies or pets chew on. It’s idiotic because chew-toys for mammals should never have been made out of plastic. I will leave the correct/best materials for babies/pets chewing up to the responsible caretakers. The topic is standardized refillable packaging.

Every product line has its own design solution. We currently seal everything in plastic to protect the product from moisture, damage, and pests. 

For example chips, it doesn’t matter what kind, potato, corn, baked, fried, we seal them in plastic bags with a pocket of “air”. The dried air keeps the chips crisp and crunchy and the pocket of air in the bag helps to keep the chips from getting crushed to dust. The bag needs to be airtight in order to do both of these things. Waxed paper chip bags will work, but wax will crack and the paper will defuse, both moisture and air deflation can ruin the chips. Currently, these bags of chips are shipped to stores in cardboard boxes. Tho some shipping trucks, use plastic or wire racks, like the type American sandwich bread is shipped on to keep the bread loaves from getting smashed. So, the reusable standardized refillable would be a stackable shelf display sized airtight tub. The tubs get opened when people buy the product and the refillable container stays in the store to be returned to the chip factory. Bakery goods, cereal and all sorts of dry goods too fragile to be sold in bulk bins, could go from shipping to end user eliminating plastic bags via resealable tubs with lids.

Next example; pharmaceutical drugs, over the counter medications and vitamins. We have a series of problem-related to pharmaceuticals, contamination of water and addiction or misuse. Packaging from many pharmaceuticals can’t even be recycled because plastic can’t be cleaned of some drug residue and reuse may result in cross-contamination. 

Something needs to change, and safer distribution and packaging for less drug contaminated garbage is a good place to start. Doctor prescribed medications should be issued with a refillable container that belongs to that patient, especially if that drug is going to be taken for years. If this is done wrong it could be terrible for pharmacists. But, if it’s a smart system, with two appropriately designed containers, where the patient turns in the empty and picks up the refill there is the potential do good. Prescribed refillables could help make sure patients are taking their meds or not overtaking them. It could even make certain problem drugs harder to steal because inventories could be more precise. If a patient is being prescribed too many drugs or the medications are very time sensitive, certain medication conflict, etc… fractals. 

Over the counter medications and vitamins, refillables could be coded returnables, designed to return to factories, be sterilized and refilled. Smelly valerin, oils, bitter uncoated aspirin like meds. Most of these items are sold in somewhat standardized packaging now. But, not to the degree where they don’t get thrown from the recycling tub to the garbage because the container has the potential to contaminate the mixed recycling.

Stop dwelling in the negative, in this case how badly the attempt to recycle plastic is cost ineffective and failing. Asia to US shipping of plastic across the Pacific or other world oceans is a too well-known nightmare. 

Instead, let’s look anew at what renewable resources we have. Steel production is a giant US industry that needs to be stepped up to compete. Canada has surpassed the technology of US lumber processing, and in the US we can grow bamboo and other useful fiber plants, like hemp etc...

Colorful enameled steel stackable reusable containers with high-temperature silicone seals or lids. (Expensive yes, but after a number of uses, especially protecting any costly food item, they will pay for themselves. Steel “Tins” shipped on wood pallets. 

Glass is one of the most readily recyclable material and can be returned to the bottler to be sterilized and reused. Glass won’t leach chemicals into food as plastic can. Plastic has replaced glass because cheap processed food and drink is being shipped farther distances. Small local production of food and drink with bottle returns and more freshly prepared foods in small batches can increase quality and food safeness. (Search for wide-scale food distribution as it relates to the spread of diseases like E-coli or Mad-cow). For safe handling and local distribution, wood crates, for bottles and jars, both used over and over, many times. 

Packaging design and a shift away from distribution dependant on crude oil to renewable reusable and recyclable last of the three R’s has a giant potential to shift away from the plastic chemical garbage we invented in the 40s, to make that type of garbage extinct instead of life on our planet, i.e. save-the-world. 

Feels like I need some sort of twist or joke to end this post... but, I haven't got one. If you read this far and have a joke or a happy thought, that would be super. ☮+💚 everybody, sincerely, Uva "Be".

Hey, it's Friday! 😁 March 2, 2018. So, I'll continue down my list of 50 daydreams to-save-the world.

24. Water efficient redesign of all toilet and bathroom plumbing. Flush grey-water or better yet, don't poop and pee in water at all. 

the toilet I want :(

second choice grey water flush system.

Across the US this could conserve millions of gallons of fresh water daily. In urban buildings, 1-2 toilets to flush just a little sometimes and a bigger flush other times to prevent people from flushing low flush toilets three times. In private bathrooms in homes, the 1-2 low flush toilet plus a system to use washing water twice, bath/shower and washing machine water, filtered greywater for flushing toilets. In bathrooms with access to yard waste and non-food gardening compost space. Modern composting toilet systems instead of flush toilets. Tho, I don’t advocate composted human waste being used in gardens. Human waste compost needs to be wintered over at least a year and used on non-food plants or trees in the correct season when there's no fruit or nuts ripening. (Search for pharmaceutical contamination as relates to human effluent). Alternatively, a better plan is idea number 1. modern energy toilet systems, some currently in use around the world for toilets that use human waste to generate energy. Poop energy I joke about being the ‘cold-fusion’ energy source the world has been looking for. Today's daydream is about water, toilets and greywater systems, one part of daydream number 1., -- the entire building design, passive energy, renewable energy used locally and energy efficiency.

Snowball in hell, March 3, 2018. 

Do I really hate 45? -- Are there snowballs in hell? Maybe all this bad energy will just melt away.

Third confession attempt

I’ve seen several video clips of that man acting presidential. He parrots, flapping his hands, squawking on and on incessantly repeating parts of arguments he doesn’t seem to understand because he will often contradict himself. It’s like he absorbs catchphrases that he likes the sound of but the meaning of what people are trying to communicate is only a rapid fire of squeaks and clicks in his mind, like a bird.

As an American, the worst, most nauseating bits to watch are when the people who I can only assume are the ones actually doing all the work, (any work that happens to get done by this understaffed administration). When these people gather around and praise him, for what? This sublimation as if bowing before a ruler who has declared himself a demi-god and demanded each take a turn at praise or lose their heads? Seats? This horrid display is blasphemy, not against God with a capital ‘G’ but the principals this nation was founded on and holds dear.

This man who exemplifies everything that is most wrong with the United States -- racism, misogyny, the suffering of the masses caused by the greed of the oligarchy, eating fast food, over watching TV and refusing to read anything longer than a tweet that doesn’t have his name in it. This man is in the White House.

I was raised to never hate anyone. Hate was a worse word in our house than the f-bomb. To persist in anger takes too much energy away from your own life. Forgive and forget, do no go to bed angry. Hatred is worse, to hate is to wish murder upon someone. The act of hatred steals the life energy of the person doing the hating or in this case the many people in our nation ranting hatred in waves of social media vitriol. I confess to give in to, laugh at and sometimes even retweet some of these heinous memes.

As a Nation we are suffering. We are embarrassed and fearful he will insult other world leaders into attacking us. Sometimes we might even project slight hopes on the people around him in those videos. But, any glimmers of optimism are dashed against their stone cold poker faces and folded arms. He is blatantly seeking approval and those in the room don't want to show any hint of emotion because he might see it, and latch onto them. They who should hold power are fearful that he will go-off on whatever made them grimace trying not to laugh or frown because they are weary of his narcissism. The current administration swear to each other, if you are fired we all are fired, because they are afraid 45’s idiocracy will mortally damage the country without them. Worse, sometimes the administration has actively hated directly, calling him a fucking moron etc... and are therefore are disloyal to him personally, as if this was the point of being POTUS. ”Because when it comes down to it, I’m all that matters… just me. I’m the leader of the free world. Can you believe it?”

Meanwhile, this fool that I am, blogging to myself and a handful of folks who are keeping an eye on me. I confess to my ears are pricked, listening for any whisper of impeachment. Bring on the trail with an orange jumpsuit. Lock him up, but do not dress him in a white straightjacket under private house arrest. Lock him up in solitary, for his own protection, to whine sadly to himself suffering many days of loneliness until he goes mad and dies alone pondering just what he did wrong.

The truth is, there hasn't been a trial yet, so I will presume him innocent, try my best to forget and wish I could post this, laugh and just magically feel better -- then go make art and write fiction. Philip K. Dick, he had the FBI’s ear, I understand he was friendly with a few of them. Me? I add my words to the collective social digital consciousness and then search for the next topic to catch my attention.

recurring daydream 1 and 2 of 50 ways to 'save the world'

Doodle for January 16, 2018.

Recurring daydream -- Yep, this is a biofuel system, like LooWatt only with additional passive and renewable energy modules working together. Seems like a fair joke to admit that this could be the 'cold fusion' humanity has been searching for, for decades now, but, it's been coming out of our asses the entire time.

Recurring daydream as in a lot, here's a paragraph copy and pasted from a list of 50 ways to 'save the world' that got written into my November 2017 NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month).

1. Green housing & building , experimental engineering and design neighborhoods in every state & climate region in the US - working with colleges, community colleges & trade schools, to build & test prototypes, promote fair competition of best designs, keep zoning laws and building codes up to speed on the safest most efficient local designs, train and certify trades people in how to best install and construct everything ( smart micro-grids, energy storage, gray water systems, passive solar window boxes etc..) and get the best ideas into the market and to the people most efficiently.

So there's the idea, and here's why it isn't happening... Well besides the obvious reason. Money. I.e. passive energy doesn't make big energy money. 

If I had a shit ton of money, I'd have a company that designed systems for small houses. I looked for our house, multiple times for more than one place we lived over the years. So far, I've only found estate sized systems on the market and even those were in parts. The solar tubes sold separately from the tank system etc... 

A passive energy revolution would create a lot of jobs. It's also so expensive to design and maintain custom systems, very few are able to do it. 

The garbage industry plus septic engineering job isn't something many people want to spend their lives "processing". Picking up tanks of effluent and bins of byproducts, checking filters and catalytic converters, not glorious work unless you have an 'unsung hero' complex. 

Also, gas lines, tanks, and energy generating systems require space that is separate from living space, both to maintain air quality in the living spaces and for a contained blast wall for normal combustion chambers and accidents.

Onwards ☮ + 💚

P.s. I ended this on a low note because this is 'expulsion of the fool' - not a How-To blog. If you have a company making any part of this passive/renewable energy system for small homes, in the US, I'd love to hear from you. Even just a tweet at @Uva_Be would be super.

Doodle for January 17, 2018.

I can not even convince some of my most beloved friends to stop buying plastic bottles. This is either my third or fourth blog post on the topic of throwaway beverage containers and I confess to complete environmental duh-fatigue, so I'm just tacking BYOM onto the blog post from yesterday.

2. BYOM (Bring your own mug) water bottle or thermos.

Instead of a soda machine, a small commuter cafe would be nice. Or even a corner store with a hand washing sink or a small beverage container cleaning station and a rack of new beverage containers beside soda fountains, juice bars, coffee stations etc… Not only to stop the obvious pile of use once and throw away beverage containers but stop the fuel used to transport water.

Water is heavy at a pint per pound, for miles and miles, to then be stored in plastic bottles in large glass door refrigerators running 24/7.

How is our use-once throw-away plastic-culture not the very definition of social insanity?

Just google BYOM or plastic trash or plastic gyers in every ocean on planet earth!

Okay as for a solution to bad water. The most affordable house or small business sized water filters are those sold for commercial ice machines.

Also, there are some nice counter top models. I know, nothing worthwhile is cheap, and it takes a little effort on your part. To make your own damn cup of filtered water or tea/coffee. But, please people, for you and me and all the fishes in the sea. BYOM is a good place to start making a difference.

P.s. I feel really bad, guilty even for the increasing number of communities who have water poisoned by fracking or lead and other chemicals. I write this, in the hopes that good water filter systems and cup washing stations will be installed in all schools and neighborhood markets, especially those with contaminated water.

BYOM this is about plastic trash and if you have good water at home or work please appreciate it. Thanks

Jan. 20, 2018

We are the wall, today's #doodle (really more of a scribble :) #drawfool inspired by Jan. 20, 2018 Woman's march and Brick x Brick performance art/protest a human wall CA to VT to end misogyny. I wonder how many million were out there worldwide today? Sea to sea, Canada and UK as well.

The news feed got me down, but an image search, Twitter and YouTube show you can't hide the truth. Check out the reTweets from marches all over the world if you need some cheering up. https://twitter.com/Uva_Be  (P.s. there are a ton of photos there today, I don't know what will be in the tweet stream tomorrow, it's twitter. :D