Blog Action Day – Climate Change

My friend Siona from Gaia informed me that today is Blog Action Day. She gave the acronym BAD on the subject line and that piqued my interest enough to open the email! So to break form from my regular posts about developmental levels, meditation, healthy eating, the mood food connection, and purpose, I’ll take today to post about the BAD topic of the day: Climate Change.

Every THING is interconnected with everything else. In fact, when I saw Bernie Glassman speak, he stated that his definition of enlightenment is to realize the interconnectedness of all things. So, here is a blog post about my take on climate change:  intimately interconnected with personal growth, purposeful living, and everything else!

I truly believe that intentional communities of earthships are the way to go when it comes to saving resources, reducing toxic emissions, reducing dependence on foreign oil/drilling. A couple of earthship communities may not solve some of the widespread infrastructure problems that large cities come across in the event of natural disasters, but as for me, my dream purposeful life consists of building my own earthship, and heck, not just one, but a whole village of ‘em, and teaching/learning about sustainable living, as well as our own bodies’ ability to turn the nutrients we eat into energy (thus my interest in the mood food connection.)

As temperatures on the planet change, weather patterns change, and even our own coastlines change. Look at a Mandelbrot fractal to see the never ending variation one coastline brings. Sudden landscape changes either destroy or damage structures not built with this in mind. The infrastructure built up by the modern world is dependent on oil. If there is no access to gas, oil, and plastics, then the everyday routine we depend on comes to a grinding halt.

I admire the earthship design because it is its own mini biosphere. If climate change ends up knocking out power to entire cities, people with the earthship’s solar and wind energy collection systems will not even feel the loss of power. If climate change ends up driving the price of crude oil, then even the food you buy in the grocery store may become an expensive luxury because nearly all of it has been DRIVEN there in gas powered trucks.  The earthship’s internal greenhouse design enables owners to grow their own vegetables all year long.

The earthship design has several self contained systems: water collection and treatment, electricity production, food production, and stable interior climate without the use of heaters/ac.

I love the idea of being sustainable, independent, and off the grid. Climate change is forcing current consumeristic society to redesign itself. Visionaries like Gunter Pauli of Zeri are on the leading edge of testing new designs. He says he’s built an entirely biodegradable factory! If society can follow his example of redesigning business structure around sustainability, then not only could humans slow down current rate of climate change a bit, we could empower even more humans to be able to lead a sustainable way of life.

Purposeful thinking brings about purposeful change. Let’s lead this frothy wave of evolution with integrity to mother nature.