Liquefaction

Liquefaction is a term used to describe what happens to looses soil when an earthquake is emminant. I recently have been watching episodes of Earth on More 4 which aims to open people's minds to what is happening to the planet we live on. There are very beautiful footages of the planet at work. Some depicting the wrath of the planet and others explaining how the planet works to heal itself. If you thought the Anartic Ice Caps melting was a problem, think again dirt crashing down like liquid is just one more of those things you rarely hear about but happens most often because the soil in earthquake places are loose and dry.

Times are a Chanigin' (for the worse)

My whole idea about conducting this blog was to give people an idea of what we do as humanity to make a greener start on life. The rubbish I took photos of in the beginning of this blog all sustain the amount of mistakes every one seems to make in their free time but time has so much to do with how we as a "civilization" have unwantingly become apart of the problem. After WW2 western civilization was all the more hungry for an easier life and all the rationing has tightened the buckle on just about everybody. The Americans won the race for mass production and pushed it towards its people in very little regard for whether or not we would run out. Running out of resources only tackles the fringes of the problem; because the real problem is a generation of people trained to live in an unsustainable fashion. Simplicity has been replaced by commonplicity...if its broken throw it away and buy a new one!

Writers and the Solution

Recently their has been a wave of sustainable ideas spilling forth from the scribes of writers trying to get their words in about ecology and way we can all start doing something to change the world we live in. Even Penguin one of the largest publishing companies has decided to make a special edition of books that will be printed on 100% recycled paper. "How Can I Stop Climate Change?" By Helen Burley & Chris Haslam

Eco-Housing

Combating consumerism is one thing but human living is just as important if not one of the most important issues concerning the world. We have enough technology to make sustainable living spaces not just for the sake of ecology but for the cost effectiveness of the creation of such spaces. The ancients probably were a whole lot more sustainable than we are today because they used things from nature to construct thier living spaces and quite often their spaces laste longer. It might have taken patience to produce their living spaces but they were capable of sustaining their life in harmony with their surroundings.

Sustainable Gadgets

So talking about ecology may help us scrutinize consumerism but what is consumerism doing to scrutinize the amount of garbage we produce. I do a lot of eco-traveling which consists of either walking or horse riding and of course car pooling which does its part but I often find that sustaining the amount of energy for documenting my travels is anti-ecological as much as anybody driving their car up and down a road 5 miles to attain their daily goods. In the last year I have done research on sustainable energies for people who travel. I had previously heard of the Trevor Baylis wind up radio but hadn't quite understood the mechanics behind it. After finding that solar panels were expensive and usually unreliable unless they were in a stable place I realized that the best source of sustainable energy we possess as humans is our movement our energy as beings. The wind up radio is good for a lot of things but I like listening to my music on my travels and most of the time go nuts when I am out in the middle of a Forest wanting to call somebody. The Trevor Baylis Eco_MP3 Player does several things that cut down my necessity for plugging into a power outlet. It recharges my mobile, plays mp3, has a built in light, and although bulky cuts down on unnecessary trips to the city to use electricity.

Stuff Piles up and what is there to do...

Ecology is about our ecosystem and its lifeforce that sustains human life. Unfortunately the ammount of people living on the planet today all buy and accumalate loads of things. Consumerism is not a sustainable commidity especially since the main commidity used to produce consumerstic products has a larger negative effect on our enviroment not just in the sense of production but also in its consumption.

No More Money for Eco-Projects

Apart from companies in the UK like E.ON who works with Shell there has been a lack of interest in finding sustainable energies. Last month even Gordon Brown decided to go back to coal with E.ON talking of a capturing device to store the emissions given by burning coal.

The UK is the only country in the EU that has not taken on the guidelines stated in the lowering of emissions supposedly ready by 2020.