Regards,

John

I need to tell you what I feel, what I think, what I FEAR for our own future, for the future of our little ones. It´s not enough to change “some” things in this “necrotic” system… We have to change most EVERYTHING if we wish a better future for our own children… please…!!! In the U.S.A. as in Canada, Europe, Japan, China and all the developed countries, the present culture of ilimited consuming habits has to be radically changed to the opposite culture of total AUSTERITY.

I think it’s time for all humankind to be conscious about reality. It’s not possible to go on with this irrational level of industrialization.

Humankind MUST STOP making so many frivolous and unnecessary luxurious products, all dispensable in this necrotic system of ilimited consumption. Our very toxic and contaminating garbage is growing in exponential degree, as well as human population does. Neverending contamination…!!!

Natural resources will soon be exhausted, so the logical reaction SHOULD BE to walk back the same way that brought us all up to this irrational point of neverending consumption.

DECREASE IS one of the two alternatives we have, but the ONLY LOGICAL ALTERNATIVE that IS LEFT in this PATHETIC REALITY that INVOLVES US ALL. The another one is to go on in the same very dramatically wrong way we are since ever.

Industrialization has to DIMINISH to the minimun necessary and vital level.

It’s needed a radical change in all steps of Education to provide the technical, mechanical, manual knowledge to go back to our grandparents’ times or to the style of the Amish people, in order to prepare our children to be able to get their own daily sustenance from mother earth, taking care of it naturally and without agrotoxical and chemical industrialized products. Familiar or community farms, with agricultural cooperatives in small communities should be encouraged to be done elsewhere for the self-sufficiency of goods and supplies. Recycling, restoration, recovering, reparing activities with manual and handicraft labours should be the alternative jobs in the near future for our children, activities of minimum fossil fuels requiry.

Please, do all what is possible for you to encourage the whole World to STOP PRODUCING cars, electronical supplies incompatible with new ones that forces people all around the world to buy new elements instead, luxurious materials, most everything no biodegradable and with very toxic components, etc.etc.etc. Industrialization should be diminished to its minimun necessary level!!!!!

Instead, it has to be produced all types of spare parts to recycle, restore, repare, recover, etc., all types of manual and mechanical elements for all jobs and labours of minimum fossil fuels requiry.

WE HAVE TO TAKE CARE OF THE LITTLE NATURAL RESOURCES THAT ARE STILL LEFT…

NO other alternative energy will be able to sustaine this irrational level of neverending consumption. It’s not enough to go on studying other alternative energies in this irrational and neverending necrotic system of insatiable industrialization.

We are all destroying our unique Planet, we are destroying LIFE elsewhere, contaminating water, air, soil, and intoxicating PEOPLE with MINING and AGRIBUSINESS activities.

Latinamerican people, the poor people in this part of the Third World or of this Latinamerican Developing Countries are suffering since ever in many ways because of long-term unemployment, intoxication, contamination, physical attacks to push them out of their ancestral lands and to be left excluded in poorer areas. All of our communities in Argentina are suffering the consequences of contamination of our soil, air, water natural resources with mining and agribusiness activities of multinational monopolies. The Economic Power of the First World is taking out all our natural resources and destroying our ecosystems, killing LIFE in the vulnerable biodiversity, contaminating our water natural resources, our soil, intoxicating our people, etc.etc.etc.

GREED, SELFISHNESS, LIES, HYPOCRISY, are the values and principles that push people of economic power in the First World since ever.

This is the only truth that explains everything pretty much.

Whoever doesn’t want to see or understand this… it’s simply because he or she feels the same and shares with them the same purposes: to earn more and more BLOODSTAINED MONEY, to hoard PROPERTIES insatiably, etc.etc.etc.

We need to multiplicate our voices exponentially. We have to awaken more and more people all around the world from the basis of this feudal social pyramid. We need to be more and more people all around the World to take notice of this dramatic situation, that makes us feel this same anguish and distress in order to try to change this suicidal way straight to an abyss without return…

Please, you have to visit these other web sites for more information given by suitable professionals of all around the world.

http://www.crisisenergetica.org/

http://www.chrismartenson.com/crashcourse/

http://oilsmokeandmirrors.com/

WE HAVE TO , WE NEED TO CHANGE THIS SUICIDAL WAY STRAIGHT TO AN ABYSS WITHOUT RETURN…!!!

I really appreciate “cradle to cradle” but I think the key to making consumer packaging work is incredibly tough and reusable packages in standard sizes. These would be packages designed to last at least 10 years – think Mason Jars. As many goods as possible would be shipped in bulk and part of the function of a grocery store (for instance) would be to package (or enable the consumer to package) into these standard containers.

The environmental impact of producing these containers would be kind of high. They might be Pyrex or stainless steel or ceramic – things that are inert, can be dropped from at least 4 feet without breaking and can be denatured a few million times without significant wear. There should be enough to handle at least 50% of the consumer food stuffs, household cleaners, toiletries, etc…

The three Rs are reduce, reuse, recycle IN THAT ORDER. This type of container would achieve the first two Rs. It would reduce the use of disposable packaging by displacing its use. And in being reusable itself it would achieve the second and do so FOR A REALLY LONG TIME.

So many new houses have been built in the US in the last decade that the package could use the most popular existing cabinetry dimensions (and refrigerator dimensions) as references for exterior dimensions of the package.

Merchandisers could get their sales jones on with labeling (all the containers would have a spot where a label could be slipped in… There could be coupons, prizes… Whatever visitation from advertising hell that the machine can dream up. These would be recyclable (or reusable).

The packages would be discarded into a “recycling” container in a special bag that is either delivered back to the store or set aside at the recycling center for pickup by Joe Packaging Incorporated. OR they could be returned using the bottle deposit method. In fact, there’s a perfect business model built into the bottle deposit method since it would provide a significant pile of floating cash to the package manager.

The design would be an open standard. The manufacture and management could be strait widget capitalism.

I think this beats the hell out of most biodegradable alternatives with the possible exception of compost-able materials.

Craigslist is a great way to pass things on that you would otherwise throw out – such as children’s toys, bikes, swing sets, clothing. I give everything I don’t want to either Goodwill or list it for free on Craigslist. We hardly throw away anything. Also, many school groups take things for yardsales for fundraising. Blankets and sheets can be given to shelters, even shelters for animals.

I work at Peet’s coffee and tea, ALL of our “waste” is cardboard boxes, paper, receipts, plastic bags, tins from tea, and paper or plastic milk cartons, which my coworkers constantly are chucking in the trash, then they complain about taking it out.

It seams like some times all I’m doing at work is pulling stuff out of the trash and putting it in the recycling. the only thing that we actually would be throwing away is coffee grounds and food that was dropped on the floor.

This is a small store that could recycle if it actually tried but the problem is people are lazy. and not only that but the company thinks that the time lost from making a decision to put in a recycling bin or actually putting the brain and body effort to recycle is not worth the money they would spend paying us to do it or to educate us to do it.

There are only a few companys that actually recycle. for instance I worked at hot dog on a stick, and if you got caught throwing a cardboard box in the trash you got written up. although it was just cardboard boxes, It was better than nothing, and at the mall we were located at they didn’t even have a place for us to recycle anything else.

I think sadly what it will take is a $$ incentive to drive corporations to want to recycle. but for now.. Its always waste.

I’m posting this comment under your “What’s NXT” topic because I wanted to post a link to a similar example – this time, involving a (disposable) mascara applicator that spins( https://www.spinlash.com/ver6/index.asp ), apparently targeted to those who lack thumbs and/or the manual dexterity to spin the applicator themselves??