Saving the World While On the Road

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Ideas & Examples are needed!

We are the Example

Every year I find my way to rainbow land, inspired and full of great ideas. Ideas that I want to share with the world. As a rainbow family full of inspiration and great ideas, we together as a whole can save the world! Even when you're on the road.

One thing is certain that when you make a habit of things, they become easier to do. Recycling is one thing that I still have yet seen in Rainbow land. I think it is important for us to do this. We are human and we sh*t a lot. If we keep sh*tting on our mother earth then all we are doing is just that. As humans we are better than that and we know how to do more than just that. I think that it is a positive possible idea, and we need to set an example for the children, because they are the future. Together we can all save the world!

If you have any other positive ideas for Rainbow, fill me in because this is important. A lot of chaos is happening in the world right now and i know we can make positive changes for the future, for the world!

 

i met some gnarly old rainbows
who cry out fuk it burn it
and do it
itsa a big stinky toxic
fire and cripey , the slag
that remains is
pure horror .

but ya know what , just forget
about that a bit cuz
them old crustified farts
got a rainbow heart
of pure sweetness
that you can touch
and eat
and be amazed

 

We need to make MAKING THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE the number 1 priority of our existance. Each one of us as individuals. All the rest will come...

 

A good friend of mine, teepi, once said that if you want to change the world, you have to change yourself. The more and more I think about this, the more I find it to be true and hold up to reality, even though it seems our Mother Earth is just crying out for physical help and action, and it just might be.
Other ideas, are composting... I forget the statistic, but a very big portion of landfills is food, often wasted and nearly edible, and often organic matter that could enrich some green life, but is instead rotting with no purpose on a hill of man made bullshit. You don't even have to build a compost pile, but just throwing apple cores under a bush or into a forest, it will very quickly decay or be gobbled up by a forest critter. Any food I am about to waste always goes to the racoons here, and if I am not home, I always make sure my spare greens find a home besides a trash can. Another very green way to live is to turn vegetarian, it is much greener than you would think and the reasons to do it are more than I care to type. Plus, it is so easy to eat vegetarian now a days, it makes it so impractical not to.

And also, not to pop your bubble and send you falling down to reality, recycling is not as green as you might think. I'm not totally informed on this, unfortunatley, but I have heard several times that it is so bad it is almost counterproductive.

Shopping at thrift stores and using recycled clothing is also very hip. I have a theory now, that if we were to stop growing cotton, one of the most polluting crops grown, that we would have enough clothing to last all of us for at least a decade. Instead of buying into the consumer crap were told we need, buy hemp, organic, or second hand clothing. Organic cotton is very difficult to grow though, while hemp is incredibly easy and yields so much more product that is so much more effective and durable. You can also find many other re-used things at thrift and second hand stores, re-using really is the way to go. The concept of "trash" and "waste" has always seemed a little pecuilar to me anyway.

 

Hmmmm.
recycling cans...good for the environment and road money...until you buy toxic gas of course....better make sure your wheels run on veggie oil.....could teach others how to veggie oil their cars while on the road...after all...teaching dont cost a dime (well, not many dimes anyway)....and will spread the goodness.......
something along those lines.

 

My Husband and I have already started to make changes in our community of friends and family. We are veggies, we shop at thrift stores, and we council on pretty much anything that comes to mind. Think of all the energy that goes somewhere else like a landfill? Why not use that energy recycling, building a compost bin? I love you guys, and thank you so much for posting. I'm glad to know that there are many others like our community that is really doing something to make it happen. I know that you can't make anyone do something they don't want to, but it's important to bring out awareness. There are people out there that live their everyday life, not even thinking of what they really do with all that garbage. On the science channel they had a show on recycling and the process, of recycled goods. It seemed like a positive process. If anyone can help find any more info on recycling & that if it may be bad for the enviroment, let me know. Because it may be true, but it may be a gimmik to get people not to recycle. I really appreciate your posts

 

We have thought about this as well. The government makes bukoos of cash on gasoline and until we run out, they will keep selling it and and continue the war on iraq. The sad thing about this is that they probably already have figured this out so that when they do stop selling gas, they can go to plan B. Ridiculous waste. I say Plan B NOW!!! Screw The Gas

 

Hehe, glad you liked my post : )

Yeah, the big oil companies suck. Their profit the last quarter was over 10 billion dollers, and I think they set a record with it. That BS about Katrina, not very true I don't think, the amount of oil distributed throughout the country changed very little.

When you do buy gas though, and when it is convenient, it is best to buy it from Citgo and a couple of their branch-stations, because they get their oil from Venezuela, which is arguably a much better place to be supporting than Saudi Arabia.

You know, soymilk is also VERY green. Not only is it way better for you and tastier imo, but it fixes a lot of ruined soils too. Then there is rice milk, and almond milk, its all so delicious, but soymilk is the most widely available at grocery stores... I recommend vanilla or chocolate, always do Plus, cows are treated SO inhumanely, and wreck so much havock on the environment, it is very immoral to support the dairy industry imo, especially when it's so cheap to drop out of it. The meat(including dairy) industry is second only to automobiles in terms of environmental destruction. I imagine this is not chicken so much, but mainly the pigs and cows with all their poo and methane they emit, and the waters they destroy. The meat industry is likened with the big evil corporations of the world in my book, they give the government a lot of money and everything. VERY VERY greedy stuff goes down in that industry.

Fishing is OKAY when done sustainably and when you pay attention to what your eating, but I still think you should eat flax seeds or hemp seeds if you want good health. Always buy organic when possible too! Or when it matters, theirs 10 things on foodlist.org i think that have the highest amount of pesticides and chemicals applied, and if you avoid those top 10 I think you can make a decent difference still if your funds don't allow support for organic farmers. Some 90% of chemicals never even reach what their intended to anyway. I think if your smart and use your head though, I think most people can support more organic stuff than they would like to admit.

It's always bests to shop and support at health food stores when funds allow. Their not exactly a booming industry but they definatley deserve to be with all the good veg organic food they carry. Its all very unconventional stuff, rainbows would love it.

Remember too, there is a lot of light to spread in humanities mind set as well, even if they all seem thickheaded and closedminded. It might not seem like what you say or how you act makes a difference in how THEY chose to act and think, but it definatley does. Even if they don't understand what your talking about right away, it clicks later on very often and helps them make a little more sense of life I think.

Other green shit you can do is plant trees. There are SOOOOOOO many benefits of planting trees... For one they clean the air and keep us healthy, and keep us from commiting eco-cide. They also give people peace of mind and a little higher energy, and a sense of spiritual security if their open to it. I've read that is the only thing that can truly stop global warming now, which is said to be irreversible by many, by taking all the shit out of the air. Even if we were to stop driving and doing all the other stupid shit we do today, that still would'nt be enough to fix things. So we have to not just stop doing evil, but work to do some good as well.

A good way to find free native trees, is to go into a local forest and yank up baby trees and throw them in pots. I do this sometimes with soil and pots I dumpster dive and trash dig and give them away for free. Dumpster diving is another hip environmental thing to do, plus it makes it a little cheaper, and you would be amazed at the stuff people throw away in America, or maybe you would'nt. I think the stat is we are 5% of the world, but eat up 30% of the resources. But this way, your sure the tree is native, and it probably was'nt gonna survive anyway. You have to be careful doing this though, practice makes perfect, I can help describe the process a litle more if you'd like.

I think in the environment forum, a page or 3 back there was a big thread about recycling, but I was too lazy to read it, maybe I should have though. Hmm, I think I'll go look for that...

OH, never use plastic bags either! Instead, get some burlap or use a backpack or something, be creative. In some places, they will give you a dime or something if you ask for no bags. Regardless, it is an easy way to become a little more sustainable.

Invest in glass plates too. Never buy kleenex products either, they destroy ancient forests to make tissues. That's really rainbow, huh? Theirs a few others that fuck up good forests to make shit like that too, visit the green peace website for more info. They advice the best to support, I would know, but I have the money to just buy seventh generation products and very rarely use paper towels or tissues anyways.

 

Well, some cows are treated inhumanely, standing around in feedlots and such, and shot up with every manner of hormone and poison, but then again there are the organic family farms where they're not, and if everybody just quit supporting them then they would go under. Cows produce LOTS of manure, but it's the big agro buisness farmers that seem to have forgotten that it's organic and it composts and goes back to the land. In the dairy AND the meat business, it's all a matter of who and how. Cattle are NOT, themselves, at all destructive to the environment, it is the people who manage them who are the problem. Overcrowding, misuse of organic waste, excess of unnatural feeding, housing and poisons, those are the problems created by the ignorant. It just isn't necessary.

I just had to take a bit of an issue with your statement about it being immoral to support the dairy industry. This coming from me, the born and bred dairy farmer. We did everything organic, the cows were treated well, all the manure went back to the land. The cows traveled across the hills instead of up and down, making nice terraces instead of gullies for erosion, and the land they were on became much more fertile and abundant natural grasses took over, so they actually are GOOD for the land if it's done right.

 

I do think there is still Hope for humanity. But if we don't stop the cutting of trees, then there won't be any fresh air to breathe in. Next thing you know they'll be selling fresh air in plastic bags too, like they do with bottled water. Not only the air will be polluted with filth, but polluted with noise as well. They cut down the trees, clear the land, just so they can build sub-divisions on it! Makes me sick!!! When people move in so close to each other that way, people don't even know everyone in their neighborhood, they don't even say hello to each other anymore. It's not like the old days, when grandma and grandpa new everyone in their neighborhood, and everyone loved each other, helped each other. The cutting of trees is a distraction from our mother and our spirituality. I think that it also has great affect on the weather changes.

Bamboo-spreads

 

If you want organic? Got to do it yourself I love soy milk. But Organic milk sounds good too. Right now I have 2 goats, but I can't get any milk from my girly goat, until she has her first lil' goats. Then she'll be ready for a milkin*. They'll be a year in a few months. Goats are cool because it's the the most natural way to get your grass cut and bushes trimmed. I also need to get me some hens, because I would like to have my own free ranged eggs, yum.

 

I think that Rainbows need to make positive good goodness happen or else the world is doomed

-I think that rainbows need to recycle more often, in all ways possible

-RESPECT each other

-Do Less Drugs (not saying not to, but vices tend to make it harder to make positive changes)

-Council on a clear mind or (meditate) more

-Come together and LOve each other much more, like families should/would

-We need to take care of ourselves, love ourselves!!! As warriors of the rainbow we need to get together and make changes to save ourselves, and the future

Because the future is in our hands & we really can make positive changes happen

 

I understand where you are coming from.

But, how common are organic dairy farms now a days? How common are any of what you could even call farms now a days? Willie Nelson speaks frequently about we lose more and more family farmers every year, and how about only one percent of our population are farmers now. So is it practical, to maintain a dairy habit, especially if your rainbow on the road where organic stuff is rarely plentiful. Or is it just a conditioned habit your clinging to for no true reason??? Just stuff to think about...

Another argument I would make is that HUMANS ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO DRINK THE MILK OF COWS! Not only is it horrible for our body, but it is bad for our spirit as well. Any raw vegan will tell you without hesitation that dairy is a terribly unhealthy thing to be consuming and messes with your energy a LOT. Human evolution is leaning towards soy, for many many good reasons, so let's get that bandwagon rolling while we still can.

Rainbow is about breaking conventional models of thought and ways of life... well, I cannot think of a better place to start than what we put into our bodies everyday, and the industries we chose to support when it comes time to chose at the store. For those of you that have not, just TRY some chocolate soymilk, and read the package, it is A LOT more rainbow!!! And does not cost more than milk, really, just think about it, it is very rewarding, if it wasnt, I wouldnt be such an avid promoter of it, a little love goes a long way to yourself and this world.

 

so i'm a farmer , and i say grow your own food . it's taxing the prime lands too much to provide for the mass of cities . yes , grow soybeans wherever you are if you got a climate for it . pick them , roast them and grind it into flour . it's 35% digestable protein . i like to mix generously with wheat to make bread , and simply mixing it with water and flavoring is soymilk . or what , do you want me to make you some and send it to you in a plasticized package ? maybe glass would be better if'n i really have to do that . you could melt it down into hip beads or glass construction brick . but for all of this you need fire , got some ? there's plenty of fire at a gathering , eh .

 

So, where is a facility that recycles those soymilk boxes? You know, the plasticized cardboard ones with the plastic top? And aren't they lined with aluminum?

 

They are called aseptic containers, and they are recycable. You can find a place near you, hopefully, that recycles them at their site... http://www.aseptic.org/

Very valid point about growin your own food, much more nutritious when it is fresh and from un-tapped dirt, and of course reusing resources.

 

I love to drink tea everyday, and lately i've been drinking chai with a lil' bit of hot soy milk in it. It's sooooo good. I don't know about flavored soy milk, but I do love it plain. soy smoothies are delicious too.

 

Food just taste better when it's grown with LOVE

 

This post by Wanderingturnup. I'm on Hippiehillbilly's computer.

Let's put this in the perspective of the '06 Annual Gathering. Most of the recycling sites listed in the Aseptic Packageing Council's Product Recycling Database seem to be in the Denver area. (I'm not all that familiar with the geography of Colorado) The Gathering site will most likely be on the Western Slope somewhere, at least 15 miles from the closest gas station. The '92 site was, what, 30 miles from Paonia? Acording to the APC's Info for Recycling Co-ordinators, "Adding the cartons...lower disposal fees."(sic) The largest portion of a "disposal fee" for Gathering trash is the fuel cost to get it to a dump. (environmental dammage from burning all those hydrocarbons...)

If you bring aseptic packageing to to a Gathering, pack those chocolate soymilk containers out with you. Don't leave them for the Clean Up Crew. That's your guarantee no Front Gate Drunk will burn 'em.

 

Since I posted that under another name, I can argue with myself. Watch:

Oh yeah? You think it's that simple. Well, try this scenario. While en route to the Gathering, Sister Slime-in-her-Hair drags forty-leven dozen cases of soymilk in aseptic containers out of a dumpster. Upon arrival at the site, she donates them to Main Supply. Supply doles them out to several kitchens. Whose job is it to pack those containers out to a city large enough to have an aseptic container recycling center?