30 September 2009

Being Human

The Human body contains perhaps 100 trillion cells.

And around 90 trillion of those cells are actually bacteria.

SPACE and TIME

We are travelling around the Sun at about 67,000 miles per hour.

22 September 2009

Anaïs Nin said:

We don't see things as they are,

we see them as we are.

Marshall McLuhan said:

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Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's jobs with yesterday's tools.

We drive into the future

using only our rear view mirror.

Erich Fromm said:

Let your mind start a journey through a strange new world.

Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before.

19 September 2009

Fortress of Solitude

Melting Ice Caps Expose Hundreds Of Secret Arctic Lairs

"Claiming it to be one of the most dramatic and visible signs of climate change to date, researchers said Monday that receding polar ice caps have revealed nearly 200 clandestine lairs... once buried deep beneath hundreds of feet of Arctic ice."

17 September 2009

Earthship Perrine in Normandy

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"This wonderful self-catering house is suitable for families and couples, sleeps six and is entirely off-grid: meaning it isn’t connected to any mains utility lines such as gas or electricity. It produces all of its electric power with solar panels and wind turbines. In the event of the end of civilisation, in theory one could survive here - once they get the vegetable patch and chicken coup up and running that is."

12 September 2009

No more talk about the old days it's time for something great


Farm Lab, LA
photographed by Kris Cohen

New World

Arundhati Roy said:

"Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. And on a quiet day, if you really listen, you can hear her breathing."