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.

nothing but scribbles

#drawfool #doodle for Feb. 23, 2018.

Yeah, I made it to 20/50 or 2/5th of my goal to free myself from these persistent megalomaniacal daydreams, soon I may be free to languish in frivolous art making and fiction writing.

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

Yep, and everybody who owns a plug-in vehicle right now knows how not close we are to that daydream. :(

Doodle for Feb. 24, 2018.

tiny doodle Feb. 25, 2018.

It's an ant on a gray rainbow, in the rain. What else to say? It is what it is. Ink on paper on the corner of a page in a 'tb' (thought book).

Apathy versus Monsters

#drawfool Feb. 16, 2018.

Yesterday's doodle 365 was a red triangle devil, today it's a blue kitty of doom. I was pondering happiness for no particular reason like depression or chronic grumpiness, these chemical states, don't just "happen" and no pill is gonna fix them. It's true on the grander scale of things life is suffering, but while it's also true that if you smile at someone, you may make them feel a smile, and "making someone smile" may be superficially reason enough to smile. Smiling while suffering miserably is not the purpose of smiling.

These are the types of ponderings the blue kitty of doom is all about. Kitty knows everything is not fine. Kitty is judging you all. Doom, doom, doom, relentless purrs it's fuzzy blue heart. No questions = no answers. No conflict = no story. No contrast = no art. A soft blue-gray hum, droning on and on, like a mysterious machine noise, electric-metallic-whirring in-the-background, slowly driving you batty.

Drawfool doodle for Feb. 15, 2018. What will I do when I get to the end of my list? I imagine I'll be "free" to daydream about more frivolous less functional stuff.

So, to that end, I keep going. Weighing-in with the collective digital consciousness of the information age, one more vote to save-the-world survival of our planet valued over profit for the few.

Daydream number 18/50. Modernize our entire cargo transportation system. US transportation infrastructure is in dire need of a complete upgrade away from crude oil. 

Daydream 9. Has to do with roads. Daydream 8 parking lots. This daydream is focussed on hauling goods and people long distances. US railroads with fast-rail or “tubes” to replace commuter jets, and safer more efficient tracks and rail systems for cargo trains to meet up with teamsters and drivers of local hauling trucks and public transit vehicles. Why have people involved in this work? I believe we will always need ears and eyes on the ground to keep the machines running especially where the goods and people meet.

Yep, I know I'm not doodling trucks and trains. Why? I can't stand them. Truck brakes and trains honking and screeching in the night, always wake me up. Always, I seem to never get used to them, I just don't sleep well when those things are running nearby. That's the other reason I want our transportation system upgraded. I imagine it might be quieter for residential areas.

Doodle/#drawfool for 2/14/2018.

The next daydream on my list, number 17/50, about how-to-save-the-world -- sustainable harvesting of fish and shellfish in tandem with habitat restoration. 

There are lists of what seafood is best to eat, what is endangered and what kind of fish are most toxic, i.e. if you are a cancer survivor, or pregnant. Once again, I'm a moderate, but many folks would mistake me for a liberal. I want very much to clean up the oceans, rivers, and streams. Restore and protect habitat. This is happening here and there, but... it's a problem as big as our Earth's oceans. Water and all the creatures that thrive in water, fresh or salty need our help and we need them. 

One way to do this is with careful management of fish runs, and shellfish farms, and this is happening, in some places. While we give nature a break we eat other seafood farmed in isolated tanks, but not salmon or species that can or want to escape. I don't assume we can raise a school of giant tuna in any tank. We have to eat the species that don't mind being raised in a pond or tank kept far away from mixing with rivers or oceans. Why not have canned tilapia replace canned tuna? No, it doesn't taste the same. It's probably better prepared with salsa instead of pickles and mayonnaise. Also, we can learn to eat problem species for a while, until they become less of a problem and restore whatever ecosystem they were chewing their way through. I say this, knowing it's complicated. Fish are perishable, I don't think tilapia sushi or catfish sushi is a good idea at all. So if you are going to market something, you need a good distribution plan.  And to top it all the Earths oceans are rising and we have a trash plastic problem. With the ratio of fish decreasing and the ratio of plastic in the ocean increasing. ... big sigh. Okay, this isn't a lecture by a Ph.D. in marine biology you are reading here, this is 'expulsion-of-the-fool'. I enjoy seafood, and would love to see native trout, rockfish, and other populations of everything that lives in our plant's water from frogs to catfish thrive. Therefore I daydream about how to save these creatures, and I assume I am one of many millions of people sharing very similar daydreams. It's Valentine's day, the fish is a metaphor symbol of the soul, not the heart, but -- from one heart and soul to the many daydreamers out there. Happy Valentine's day. 

#drawfool #doodle for Feb. 13, 2018.

hunting robot inspired by these

Yeah, I know, this is a terrible daydream that could go wrong in so many ways, I wasn't going to keep going down my list. But, then I drempt up some hunting robots.

Daydream number 16/50. Is about eating meat with lower cost to the planet than factory farmed pork or beef. 

Animals that are not grain fed create less methane because farts are all about sugar and those macrobiotic critters in guts having a party via sugar are the fart makers.

Grass-fed beef is leaner than corn-fed beef. Bison is leaner than cows. Deer and goats are better for the planet than bison. Most birds are lighter and easier on the planet than deer. Less water, less land used. Tho, how the animal is fed, where it lives. I'll leave the number crunching to folks actually doing the numbers.

Lately, I've been craving peanut butter cookies. Meat, often totally grosses me out. Disembodied chunks of flesh on "those" trays, wrapped in saran-wrap, often set on a little 'pad' to soak up the blood.... mmmm yummy.

I wasn't going to write out this idea at all, but some part of my brain thought it was funny to daydream about a hunting robot. It parks itself near where the birds or bunnies hang out. It opens up like a flower with a little dish of food. It lets the animals eat the food. You get a video message and tell the robot what critter you want. It would be really bad to get the neighbor's pet in the trap. You pull the trigger. The robot grabs the animal and cuts it's head off. Tipping up so the animal is in a cone and drains as the robot returns home to you with its catch.

Does the robot also gut it, protect it from pests as it treks home, skin it or boil and pluck feathers too? What a lot of work! More cookies for me, please.

Feb. 12, 2018. #drawfool #doodle

What is clown-paint/makeup anyways? Not what is the sticky stuff monsters are made out of, but what does it mean?

Monsters trend. Around the Bush W. era and inspired after he lost the popular vote to Al Gore, we were plagued with zombies. Bush W. would inspire wave after wave of zombies, popular en masse for twice as long as his presidency. Before W, Bill Clinton's monster problem was the werewolf. The animal side of himself that he couldn’t control only a mute part of his presidency, a benevolent monster able to work on both sides of the aisle like the dual personality of howling at the moon lycanthropy. He may be the only living president to ever balance the budget, but, Bill Clinton couldn’t stop the vampires. He made some very bad deals to get out of that pit we call government. Bush Sr. was the Vampire era, heaven only knows why he called it trickle down economics. Everybody seemed to imply it was pee, but I am afraid it was blood. The life-blood of the working class, sacrificed by Regan’s monster, a sweet-talking lying devil, a trickster whispering in his ear that he was doing ‘good’ while he shut down mental institutions and other social services. Plastic as cash was new as cassette tapes paired with the greedy interest collectors feeding off of the working class as old as stone tablets. Regan’s ‘small-business miracle’ was people pulling themselves up by their own bootstraps, working 70+ hours a week on their own sweat and tears without compensation. All while paying wages to other working folks against a rip-tide with a very high small-business fail rate. Bubble crunching corporate feeding frenzy, Wall Street like sharks, the big fish eating the little ones. The ‘War on Drugs’ filled prisons with incarcerated slaves and banking deregulation tossed the middle class into debt, usury slavery. The American dream drowned in record-breaking storms, several waves of monsters later during the heartache when we elected Obama. Obama’s monsters were actual men. Police shooting unarmed children. The ghost-like costumes of the KKK. The statistics of insanity in white people, from the top 1%, -to- 1 in 5 CEOs being psychopaths and depending on the study, 18 to 25% of mass shooters had a history of mental illness. Bringing us to our current evil-clown-baby. What the heck is clown paint? What is treason? Why do so many folks fear clowns? Do we laugh at clowns because they are scary? I.e. we laugh because we are frightened and we need to laugh? What are all those spooky clowns up to? The clown mocks civilized man like the Trump mocks truth, the free press, civil liberties and our constitution. It’s too soon to tell if this monster is an old man that acts like a baby or a terrible-toddler-clown trapped in an old man. What is clown paint? Really? Think about it. Where are we now? What direction do we run, and what actions do we need to take to survive this?

Carter. Yes, I am old enough to not be able to forget about him. Star Wars, E.T. to X-files. A several decade-old government conspiracy of space aliens attacked after we (my parent’s generation) scoffed at Carter when he asked people to conserve energy for our grandchildren, turn down the thermostat, wear a sweater. Trump is not the first time we have elected a celebrity to play the role of Commander in Chief. The movie star who ripped the solar panels off the White House, is slight compared to what the current reality TV star is doing to the EPA. Carter may be the history we need to learn from. He was the first president to leave office and continue work by serving people. Building homes for the poor. We have learned building habitat for humanity is a group effort. We have learned he was correct about the impending consequences of our energy dependence. Past time to clean off the clown paint of misogyny. Time for the victims to heal and for unsung heroes to put-down the monsters. Together, we the meek could rule the world, like Mothers. Kind, vigilante mothers, and fathers, big sisters, brothers and friends, the people who make a house a home and keep all the scary things away.

The apathy part? I dunno…. You go vote, not just by 'how you "feel", actually bother to read past the lies to be able to pay attention to who or whatever is on the ballot.

spheres of influence

Friday the 26th, is at the end of this weekly post. Saturday the 27th is in the middle.

Thursday, January 25th, 2018.

Daydream number 4. to-save-world -- end junk mail via the internet.

I've written quite a few posts about this one over the years. The last time I walked into our local post office, the mail person said. "If the recycling barrel is full please leave your junk mail on the counter." By the way, the counter high blue container was in fact, completely, jammed tight to the top, stuffed full.

Is a photo, (in this case a doodle) really worth 1,000 words? Okay, this is me daydreaming about a real person. My Dad was a home-health nurse when I was a teenager. He told me this story about an old person's house stacked full of years and years worth of junk mail and old newspapers.

There was a narrow path to the bed, another narrow path that went into the kitchen and the bathroom. The old person was so blind they couldn't tell the difference between the junk mail and the bills. They could no longer read the newspaper, tho sometimes another elderly person read to them, but obviously, these old people were not well enough to carry the paper junk out to the trash.

So in my daydream world, they are "reading" the newspaper, paying their bills and even clicking on "coupons" via computer and listen to a digital reader.

I have written a much longer version of this. I believe if Benjimen Franklin were alive today, he'd be aghast at the tons of junk mail we are plagued by. He was an innovative guy. He'd fight for a digital branch of the USPS and all shopping mailers and catalogs would pay for adds and listings in the USPS digital 'Yellow Pages' everyone could search via a Federal minimum required internet connection, with USPS local address pages for all current residents. And all utilities, government services, and businesses would be found easily on the official local digital map.

I even got a very nice email reply from the postmaster general. But, that was in 2010, when I still had hope that we could and would do something, change for the better. The ironic conclusion is, a lawsuit about junk mail has already gone to the supreme court.

Yep, in 1970  the United States Supreme Court ruled that an addressee of postal mail has unreviewable discretion to decide whether he wishes to receive further material from a particular sender, that vendor does not have a constitutional right to send unwanted material into someone’s home.

But, Rowan v. Post Office Dept., 397 U.S. 728 (1970) only helped with "porn" or sexual junk mail. The rest continued for millions and millions of tons of paper because. "The freedom to communicate orally and by the written word and, indeed, in every manner whatsoever, is imperative to a free and sane society."Brief for Appellants 15.

Page 397 U. S. 736 Without doubt, the public postal system is an indispensable adjunct of every civilized society, and communication is imperative to a healthy social order. But the right of every person "to be let alone" must be placed in the scales with the right of others to communicate.

And that, ladies and gentlemen of plant Earth is why we continue to bury people with junk mail.

So, where is that fix to the digital divide already?! Yep, ... statistic v. reality continue to amuse me.

Wednesday, January 24, 2018.

Blurb III. (copy & pasted from 2017 NaNoWriMo)

I have a lot of ideas about how to make the world a better place. By, a lot, I mean at least one spell of megalomaniacal daydreaming most every day, with several ideas juggled mentally per mood episode. I write some of them down, most are negated as too costly. The ones I edit and draw out are all about reducing suffering. I am not really so crazy as to imagine that I alone can save-the-world, just, help out as one mind and body working together with a ton of other folks, to reduce suffering and make the world a little bit more sustainable for future generations.

The 3rd idea to-save-the-world

3. Eliminate the digital divide and simultaneously save millions on the cost of education. (billions counting the savings resulting from adults being online). Library networked digital school textbooks, efficient on-demand publishing of workbooks, electronic grading of tests and papers, open source computers operating system (like the one laptop per child program NOT corporate brand-name computers). Open source computers children can learn to code on, in all US public schools, for every child regardless of economic status.

January 27, 2018

Saturday. I don't know what today's doodle/draw-fool is. I am not being creative, I am simply going down my list of 50 ideas to save the world.

This is idea number 5. Stop using use-once throw-away plastic bags.

We should always go reusable: shopping bags for most stuff and wide shallow baskets for delicate fresh produce and eggs (i.e items you don’t want on the bottom of the pile on your trip home), and returnable crates for heavy stuff.

This way to change the world, like organic food is happening and has been happening, one person at a time for decades.

I am bragging here. My Mom has been bringing her own bags to the grocery store since the 80s. (possibly since the late 70s but I don't remember). As a teenager, I remember standing there watching check-out baggers stuffing paper bags inside of her cloth bags. My Mom who is a very polite and succinct person, she would say things like. "I don't think that is really necessary. Save yourself some work and don't do that to the rest of the groceries." Sometimes the clerk would nod yes, and sometimes they actually talked back about being required to use the plastic bags the store used. Interestingly, this isn't happening much anymore. Tho I am surprised how may check out clerks in mall clothing stores in the 2000s are surprised when you reject their brand name plastic bags for your own well-used nylon/polyester ones. No, I don't use the heavy canvas ones. I used the colorful bags that fold up to pocket size. I've been using one bag that looks like it's made out of blue paisley windbreaker type plastic fabric since the 90s and this over 20-year-old shopping bag, comes out of the washer with the other newer cloth bags just fine.

Since plastic lasts forever, we should use it for well designed durable good that gets used "forever".

No more use once and throw away plastic bags. Not just grocery bags, all shopping bags from giant malls to tiny vendors who sell goods out of carts.

P.s. This is happening.
http://www.ncsl.org/research/environment-and-natural-resources/plastic-bag-legislation.aspx

It's only Tuesday, but it feels more like Wednesday or possibly some sort of perpetual Thursday.

doodle for 1-23-2018

Wrinkled paper, no frame, bad lighting, crappy ink pens, one pen I tossed after it quit scribbling on this "thing" a second marker, I filled the cap with water and painted with it after it soaked. To be clear, this, what I'm doing here, isn't about art. I am sincerely attempting to expel waves of idiotic notions, swine to the swine. The worst part is I sort of like pigs, tho am honestly fearful of having one for a pet instead of a dog because many folks would love to eat the cute walking bacon. Life/diet. Off topic, I'm a flexitarian.

What am I attempting to achieve here with 'expulsion of the fool'?

Human's live in cycles of habits. Our thoughts, when not captured by what's happening or a TV screen, constantly flash with weighted layers of conscious and subconscious ruminations. Control is only possible with practice. Meditation. Prayer. Art. Writing. Whatever you call it. #drawfool forces me to not ignore the noise.

It's Monday, yet again, I find myself wondering 'who is this evangelical base as relates to US politics and how do they test to see if their approval has changed, or not? -- they often announce very quickly, as in within hours after the latest wave of "stuff" goes public. 'No change in Trump supporters... regardless of whatever the latest moral debacle is.

Who do they call? Is there a phone ring of pastors and small-town counsel folks who post 'supporter' option polls hourly or check-in with FOX news?

Seriously, if you know, how they know, please let me know. Thanks :)

Jan. 22, 2018.

Friday, January 26, 2018.

No one answered my question about the quick math about the steadfastness of the Trump base. So, I forgot about it until I was listening to a podcast and they kept saying 35% still support Trump. This number bothers me. Why? Only 58% of people registered to vote, voted, 26% for Donald and 27% for Hillary. 5% for other candidates. Then they*(Reuters and HuffPost) say support for Trump has dropped from 2/3rds after the inauguration to less than 1/3rd now, since August and November 2017. Now in January 2018. I read this number of supporters as 26% minus two thirds of those voters or 8.7% of voters. Not the entire US population but of voters. So by this math, why do people still state that 35% still support this man? You are welcome to explain statistics out of election results versus polls to me. I'd like that actually. ☮

They* (links to sources)

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-poll/trumps-low-approval-rating-masks-his-support-among-likely-voters-reuters-ipsos-poll-idUSKBN1D8380

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-poll-support-levels_us_5993411fe4b0091416407ace

Sunday, January 28, 2018

Complaint to myself, posted here, who knows why.

Sunday, today is intended as a day of rest, but while resting I'm pondering survival. The sweet ideal where your work is something that matters. To love your life's work, the ultimate achievement. The stigma and stereotype of artist (starving to multi-million art star) legitimacy is always the debate. Tho, I guess it's the same for all humans regardless of career. The plethora of marginalized unprocessed writers. What are the mainstream publishing odds now in 2018? I'm too bitter to do the work to calculate the math. In 2010 after quite a shit-ton of research the ratio I came up with was 30,000:1. As in 30-k book manuscripts slush piled on the sagging roofs of the industry, for every one published and marketed novel. I'm truly not something else. This narrative artist/whatever I am, but I wish my mind worked another way. I try and fail to be logical. I attempt over and over again to think of ideas that make sense in this world. But, I need both the cents and the sense to make a survival. Lately, I am painfully aware of not making either.

Not giving up and just playing video games, watching TV and compulsively posting to social media. I do those things, but I am also slogging along on mass scribbled storyboards for another project. Depression, especially when it manifests itself as grumpy complaining is hellishly boring in my opinion. Just in case anyone wondered or got this far, reading? Some days I think the clicks on this blog are all me, checking for typoes then reloading because I never get them all.  

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

brains on emotional rollercoaster

Doodle for Jan 15, 2018

Mind's eye view of me from above.

Okay? I've decided I like the digital doodles for this project. Er... daily expulsion, whatever I'm doing. Also, I'm going to post 7 doodles in one weekly post, and I'll put my favorite doodles on top and push the less liked scribbles down the page. Unless I change my mind of course. Eh, whatever.

Doodle for Jan 14, 2018

Yep. Brain chemicals, heart rate, time of day, plus stuff going on in the world and how successful we are in ignoring/reacting to it all.

Doodle for Jan. 21, 2018.

So? That day after I state that I'm going to add 7 doodles to one weekly post, I draft up two of my environmental episodes and then return to the emotional self-portraits. Yep. Here ya go.

Doodle for January 18th, 2018

Today is Friday. Yesterday night, hubby and I, we skipped a day and decided Thursday was Friday. I was digging through some boxes looking for a glue-brush for bookbinding, and found a couple bottles of wine left over from Thanksgiving. We only opened one of them, but that was enough to throw us off task for the evening. 

The good news is, no news. Because of a mistake made by the New York Times help department, my newspaper subscription got canceled. Instead of reading the news on the toilet. (Yes, I've been reading the shit the US call news lately, on the "pot"). This morning I opened an Arts & Culture app. I've been alternating between art by the dead i.e. history, and ello. They have a pretty damn good blog. https://ello.co/elloblog full of art from around the globe, but mostly from NY (therefore everywhere). I've been cross-posting my #drawfool #doodles via ello. https://ello.co/uva-be . See :)

Jan. 19, 2018

2018 ready or not, we're here

Doodle for January 7, 2018.

Things that divide us. #doodle #drawfool

a thing. Jan 8,2018

Chores and errands. Jan 9, 2018. Last night I couldn't sleep because I figured out how to "save the world", today, I cleaned the kitchen and went grocery shopping. 

Jan 10, 2018. I had some ideas for titles while doodling this, but the truth is I don't like it enough to even sign it. It's just a doodle that I hope doesn't look like the Window's logo :( as I got my colors reversed. Yep, what do ya know, dyslexia is actually good for something.

Doodle for Thursday, Jan 11, 2018.

scribble "plan" for the tower of babble

Quote of no accountability "blah, blah... f***-it, we'll figure it out as we go". 

I know I’m a complete and total idiot when it comes to social networking + my rights of publicity and privacy and my personal digital biodata (face recognition, location patterns, purchase habits, etc…). 

Google must totally hate me. I imagine I’m on a list of people who, like me regularly complain about our rights versus their bottom dollar.

I try and fail over and over to rationalize why being tracked everywhere I go, and for everything I buy bothers me so much. Do I buy too much beer? Yes, I imagine I do buy way more beer than the average person. Do I really care? …. I pause and think about it for a bit.

No, my hang-up over personal biodata isn’t about drinking an embarrassing quantity of beer. 

I’ve been pondering this for a while now and I haven’t resolved a single angle of this equation. It remains this amorphous tangle. Physical characteristic discrimination as the new racism. The digital divide multiplied by the solar system scale of the income inequality gap. I should feel comfortable with the rest of the negative thousandaires. They map the world for free and we pay them by telling them where to buy the best beer. I see you are at a pub again, would you answer some questions and help our map app compete. I should just, click ‘yes’ thirteen times and drink my damn beer and shut up.

But, I can’t drink beer all the time. I wrote a fictional character who is somewhat immortal and he drinks beer all the time. But, I can’t physically do that. I don’t have the spare “change” or the extra liver.

So? I’m not going to drink beer tonight after work. I’m just going to do normal stuff, like eat a somewhat healthy dinner and maybe play some video game. Build a tower of babble for digital sheep. Whatever. Money wins, again. And the AIs will still be crawling long after I’m gone, so who gives a…. 

"Hi." Doodle for Jan 12, 2018.

Jan 13, 2018. Lately, been debating if I like the doodles I do via the very simple Google app on my Chromebook or drawing on paper with this set of ink pens I got as a gift.

wish I was a tree

I recognize it's a bad time to wish to be a tree. I don't mean winter. So many trees are burning. Other tropical trees and shrubs, having never experienced ice are being frozen, buried under the weight of snow and broken. Around the globe drought and flooding is moving in never recorded biome confusing patterns significant enough to weaken entire forests, leaving trees vulnerable to pestilence and disease. 

All this doesn’t change my wish. Because I find psychology amusing, I looked for a dissociative disorder to classify my persistent dream. The closest I found was far, Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder (DDPD). It seems some folks wish they were animals? I didn’t find anything about trees.

Trees look at time differently. Each turn of the planet is a single breath. They exhale as the wave of daylight passes over them, and inhale with the turn of the planet away from the sun. Critters flit by like dust particles. They breathe and reach and pray, their dance music is the wind and clouds. Lightning strikes very quickly. The most difficult part of being a tree might be knowing how other trees around you decay or fall tangled in the dance. But, to know their lives purpose, without doubt, seems the very definition of nirvana. I still wish.

Many things

Jan 5 2018 

Just another #doodle for this #drawfool thing I'm doing.

Normal, human, trying logic, seeking belief betrayed, battling doubt, sadness numbed, anger soup.

Got more than a couple lists. I look out the window, up at the sky. Time to work. On what? What's worthwhile adrift on the sea of words? Don't ask the why demon. The why demon slithers endlessly, there are no answers to the knowledge it grants, only more questions. That fruit is shit, for a long time now, eons ago, thousands of lifetimes before me and mercy only knows how many lives after this space-time. A speck on the globe. A flicker, the tiny bird, not the energy that warms my body's blood. My thoughts like incoherent fuzz, rumination grooves fragmented like glass diatoms in sand.

just #drawfool

2018 one voice with many. "They" say bad people have brainwashed us, ruined the country, are ruining the world for all of us. What happens if the meek and the peaceful, seekers of truth and happiness, we the people. What happens if we all think for ourselves? Love from a safe distance without wish to trespass. Not romantic love, but storge and philia.

Philia; usually translated as "friendship" or affection, a mutual type of love shared by lifelong friends, fellow-soldiers and familiars. It’s not about God, because we are not equals with God. But, could be a type of love given by a craftsperson to a loyal customer, if the customer “loves” via returning loyalty to the craftsperson. No belief in anything required, just be you.

Inner sunshine -- just draw fool.

Storge what is that silly human going on about?

Doesn't matter, people don't read blogs anymore. I am free to be too honest. No comments, no RT, or "likes". Well, one like on a doodle, from a kind friend.

Expulsion is not a meme. Just getting stuff out of recursion from wearing a groove in the back of my mind, so I can move forward to other thoughts. 

Perfect amount of hangover for the first day of 2018.

Jan 2nd, 2018

No excuse, I know, but I drew this too much yellow thing #doodle, in the dark.

Jan 3rd, 2018

This was my 4th doodle try today, so I just went with it.