Water. part I

Without water we wouldn't have gardens. We wouldn't have waves, physical health by hydration, or any kind of development and progress. Water channels through the earth, making pathways and generating life. The biblical Garden of Eden represents a lush vision of perfection, an oasis where abundance of plenty grows and prospers.

Yet how often do we in the time of modernity and technology take this essential element for granted?

As surfers, we are magnetically attracted to water. The way it smells, sounds, looks and feels, we yearn for it as lovers do. The calm, the power, the girts, water both gives and takes lives and inspires awe and fear.

Is it finite or infinite?

Some work to desalinate the ocean, creating drinking water for humans, irrigating crops and feeding wildlife. Humans build fountains and dams, harvesting the power of water, humans enjoy its soothing beauty, and use it to create cities.  But is there enough water to go around?  Living as if it is a predictable resource, a commodity that is limitless, may be morbidly foolish.

The way I see it, water is both limitless and limited. Fresh water is harnessed in aquifers, purified in forests, stored and released by the earth. Water is bottled and sold for money. In biblical story, there were great floods cast upon the earth to cleanse it of evil and divine deviation.

Water is a potentially destructive force we cannot take for granted or underestimate. Rains without organic green matter, create floods and drown everything to its inevitable fate. Fires create slippery slopes when the rains hit. Dangerous predicaments for humans and societies.

We must open our minds to thinking bigger. Thinking and behaving as if things, elements, life matters. With a new view comes a new way of being. A Way that comes from discovering how water behaves naturally, enabling it to penetrate, be absorbed and restore rather than stagnate, destroy and be wasted.

The idea of waste proliferates in our society more than any other time, I think.

Landfills are real. The idea of wasting time, thoughts, ideas, and resources is real. Wasting a life, a soul on things that don't inherently matter is a fact and more commonly experienced. When was the last time you felt completely alive and present? When whatever you were doing you felt fully engaged and focused, grateful and complete?

These are big issues to consider. The use and production of water; the satisfaction of engaging our souls; the efficiency of time properly spent, and life properly designed and supported.

Landscapes have been designed with gardens and habitats. Landscapes deserve thriving ecosystems and integrated boundaries. Their presence or absence dictates what is possible.
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the OCEAN, the MOTHER, our HOME

If the ocean could talk what would she say?

If our species depends on the well being of the planet, then is it not our responsibility to protect her and defend her?

http://deepseanews.com/2013/11/true-facts-about-ocean-radiation-and-the-fukushima-disaster/ 

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Fukushima news:

huffington post contaminated water plan

huffington post video: safe power is no nuclear power

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/fukushima-radiation

Mediums of Exchange

"Bilateral exchanges of goods would be impossible because of an absence of what economists call a 'double coincidence of wants': A wants B's rice but can't barter with A because B doesn't care for A's wheat; and so on" (54) Dasgaupta's Economics: a very short introduction

The use of money as a medium of exchange enables people to do business with one another without a a means of want otherwise.

People hold money because they want to exchange goods and services without possessing the goods and services in which to barter. "so money is not only a medium of exchange, but also a store of value." The value is in the fact that people rather>>> being self sufficient

You either trade in the market, or become self sufficient with a sense of reciprocity within your immediate society, community.

Lives constructed around the world differ significantly. Facing different futures due in a great deal to where you are born. Different opportunities and obstacles greatly determine your believe of what you are able to do and who you can become.

"Economics in great measure tries to uncover the processes that influence how people 's lives come to be what they are." (7) Economics also tries to identify and influence those processes; How are things allocated? By age, gender, status, role, history...

"In various degrees, the millions of individual decisions shape the eventualities people face" (8) Ah, Consequences! The millions of small contributions (whether driving or burning dung for fuel) add to the whole. They create the whole picture. Actions create feedback loops. Positive or negative cause and effects.

A role: economists try to uncover reasons why events in a specific place unfold the way they do; identifying key drivers.

I want to uncover why the standard of living is so much lower in some parts than in others, and if a balance can be designed and created. Why I care so much about balance? Survival of the fittest, or compassion for everyone?

there exist a multitude of alternative models on social phenomena. In Buddhism we are encouraged to cut out the delusion, and see phenomena clearly.

The Real Wealth of Nations, wisdom from Riane Eisler

Economic Sectors:

Household economy (is the core inner sector)

Unpaid community economy

market economy

illegal economy

government economy

natural economy

an economic system where "human needs and capacities are nurtured rather than exploited, our natural habitats cared for and conserved rather than destroyed, and our great potential for caring and creativity is supported rather than inhibited." 14

The values of caring p. 16-21 the six Foundations 21-23