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About
Visionary stage at the moment (and a dated perspectiveblur, I will leave it here for entertainment): Developing a non profit organization The Last Frontier Eco Foundation, social change/ environmental awareness in Alaska. Below are some details about the direction/ a project...
pics = Denali / Model for Fire Island Renewable Wind Energy Project / 1992 Mount Spur Volcano Erupts
I am working on developing an Alaskan based organization the Last Frontier Eco Foundation with a short term goal of focusing national/ global attention on some big picture alternative energy solutions for our state of Alaska, (recently becoming the poster state for climate-change): the Mt Spur Geothermal Project and the Fire Island Renewable Wind Energy Project etc.... spark a shift from an economy defined by a dependency on the use and development of non-renewable resources to capitalizing on the explosive potential of our alternative energy resource options... Long term the hope is to expand upon/ tie-into the conceptual framework of San Fransisco based social justice activist/ co-founder Elle Baker Center Van Jones's 'Green Jobs' campaign http://ellabakercenter.org/page.php?pageid=1 (Green For All); get government funding to provide people in low-income/ at risk situations in Anchorage etc. an opportunity to get in at the start of this explosion of clean energy technology and the sustainable environmentally -friendly/ community-building gateway jobs / career paths that are associated with it. Fix the poverty crisis and environmental / climate change crisis and diminishing oil reserve/ peak -oil crisis with one program, that will make Alaska more self-sufficient (growing our own foods etc, empower/ stabilize our local economy, no longer the end of the food chain...). So in other words a disadvantaged 18/19 year old kid from Anchorage or Fairbanks who is looking at a bleak future could be given the option of entering into a supportive high expectations/ high achievement work-place environment of remodeling/ retrofitting for energy efficiency and / or constructing a cold-weather geothermal powered greenhouse... than work in the greenhouse plant in return for fair salary, housing and reasonable health care coverage... and have the potential to work his/her way up to a manager/supervisor role... subsequently earn education and become involved in developing the cutting edge alternative energy technology or pursue meaningful educational work in various artistic fields... the idea of working with some social groups to get competitive after-school leadership-building, creative-arts/ learning centers literally built into the greenhouses(built with salvaged materials) - (think 20 plus acre greenhouses located around the cities perimeter; like http://www.backyardbeauties.com/, open-air architectural palaces that cultivate a values-based atmosphere that inspires and motivates people to pursue their dreams, to do like polar explorer Norman Vaughn says 'dream big and dare to fail'...)... I think these projects if done right can be solutions that can address all our primary concerns in Alaska; education/ health-care/ jobs/ poverty/ energy/ conservation of resources/ climate-change...
Check out A: the resource links on my profile above for more intelligent data re AK alt energy.
B: http://www.wiserearth.org/organization/view/d334c0e51d20d0a91476b7b6d8c04115
to learn about the great work of ex NFL player Mao Tosi with Anchorage youth.
C: http://www.wiserearth.org/user/elim
to learn about the 300 pop. town of Elim on the Bering Sea Coast, and their struggle with an impending Uranium development... serves as emblematic of Alaska's relationship to the world.
pics= Crops from a geothermal-powered Greenhouse in Iceland / Space shot of Mt. Spur 1992 Eruption
pics = Denali / Model for Fire Island Renewable Wind Energy Project / 1992 Mount Spur Volcano Erupts
I am working on developing an Alaskan based organization the Last Frontier Eco Foundation with a short term goal of focusing national/ global attention on some big picture alternative energy solutions for our state of Alaska, (recently becoming the poster state for climate-change): the Mt Spur Geothermal Project and the Fire Island Renewable Wind Energy Project etc.... spark a shift from an economy defined by a dependency on the use and development of non-renewable resources to capitalizing on the explosive potential of our alternative energy resource options... Long term the hope is to expand upon/ tie-into the conceptual framework of San Fransisco based social justice activist/ co-founder Elle Baker Center Van Jones's 'Green Jobs' campaign http://ellabakercenter.org/page.php?pageid=1 (Green For All); get government funding to provide people in low-income/ at risk situations in Anchorage etc. an opportunity to get in at the start of this explosion of clean energy technology and the sustainable environmentally -friendly/ community-building gateway jobs / career paths that are associated with it. Fix the poverty crisis and environmental / climate change crisis and diminishing oil reserve/ peak -oil crisis with one program, that will make Alaska more self-sufficient (growing our own foods etc, empower/ stabilize our local economy, no longer the end of the food chain...). So in other words a disadvantaged 18/19 year old kid from Anchorage or Fairbanks who is looking at a bleak future could be given the option of entering into a supportive high expectations/ high achievement work-place environment of remodeling/ retrofitting for energy efficiency and / or constructing a cold-weather geothermal powered greenhouse... than work in the greenhouse plant in return for fair salary, housing and reasonable health care coverage... and have the potential to work his/her way up to a manager/supervisor role... subsequently earn education and become involved in developing the cutting edge alternative energy technology or pursue meaningful educational work in various artistic fields... the idea of working with some social groups to get competitive after-school leadership-building, creative-arts/ learning centers literally built into the greenhouses(built with salvaged materials) - (think 20 plus acre greenhouses located around the cities perimeter; like http://www.backyardbeauties.com/, open-air architectural palaces that cultivate a values-based atmosphere that inspires and motivates people to pursue their dreams, to do like polar explorer Norman Vaughn says 'dream big and dare to fail'...)... I think these projects if done right can be solutions that can address all our primary concerns in Alaska; education/ health-care/ jobs/ poverty/ energy/ conservation of resources/ climate-change...
Check out A: the resource links on my profile above for more intelligent data re AK alt energy.
B: http://www.wiserearth.org/organization/view/d334c0e51d20d0a91476b7b6d8c04115
to learn about the great work of ex NFL player Mao Tosi with Anchorage youth.
C: http://www.wiserearth.org/user/elim
to learn about the 300 pop. town of Elim on the Bering Sea Coast, and their struggle with an impending Uranium development... serves as emblematic of Alaska's relationship to the world.
pics= Crops from a geothermal-powered Greenhouse in Iceland / Space shot of Mt. Spur 1992 Eruption
These days (not always the case... I firmly believe we are all to some degree a product of our experiences, believe in the 'dynamic path') I am driven not so much by vanity/ego but by a humbling desire to build a coalition that will make the everyday lives of people better thru these common sense programs/solutions, a desire to unite these progressive idea-makers/ activists I have been reading about and blend their ideas into a practical plan to lay the foundation for a sound/ self-sustaining future for the people/ the land of Alaska. A lot of our tie-wearing elect might suggest that the above-mentioned vision is unrealistic to some degree, but like Barack Obama I think most of our mainstream government officials - and their subsequent policies - lack guts/ ambition and that it is up to us at the grass-roots level to close the gap between the enormity of the problems we face and the pettiness of our politics. I believe we need to work to get back in touch with our disparate landscapes, with the elemental... we seem to have lost the 'rite of passage' experiences that historically would define individuals within their cultures -- bring them to the edge and let them see it and be humbled by it and return with a need to contribute to/ improve society. I believe we need to work to become more aware of NOW (be Zen); reteach each other the inherent sacredness in the details of our ordinary lives, of how the shimmering quality of each small action can lead to glowing moments of change, how conquering everyday struggles compiled can create a new legacy that honors the literal history of humanity. Its like the saying " once u wake up the human animal... u can't put it back to sleep again" . What we need to do is wake everyone up with an unprecedented sense of urgency... get people to act together to git 'R dun.
pics= stillmorning / Van Jones / Barack Obama / Che Guevara
Admittedly at times I am driven by a kind of angry Che-spirited socialist instinct that almost unreasonably demands the kind of purity of design that can only be created in the natural world... but I am tempered by the words of Obi Wan to Luke Skywalker in the star wars movie.... 'use the force Luke'... I believe that working together with the power of our minds/ intuitions we can accomplish anything. From the crisp-collared corporate venture capitalist to the hooded silhouette on the streetcorner and everyone in between - all elements of the socio-economic spectrum - serve to gain from the ASAP implementation of the above-mentioned plan and the storm of business opportunities that thematically tie into the Alaskan green movement, sprouting forth like buds from the ever-growing branches of our alternative energy resource 'tree'. The whole thing is definitely an evolving vision and I am learning daily. I look forward to connecting/networking/ learning more/ working with other great minds to create a better future for our world.
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Norman Vaughn young ... old / Pittsburg Creative-Arts guru Bill Strickland / Joe Sr. on Denali with dogs 1979
In the short term Fire Island / Mount Spur etc. will need some pretty serious intelligent national / global exposure to come into fruition... I am working with some top people to put together a team that will make a real comprehensive educational film that will involve a 2009 climb of Denali linked to the dogsled expedition that Iditarod founder Joe Reddington Sr., 4x Iditarod Champion Susan Butcher and the legendary mountaineering guide Ray Genet completed in 1979. The project will hopefully raise a significant amount of money for the Susan Butcher Cancer Center in Anchorage as well (Both Joe Sr. and Susan recently passed on from cancer). The film will be composed of footage from the climb spliced/ inter-cut with interviews collected from a variety of alternative energy experts and will visit other places nationally (and internationally, hoping to include Iceland) that are already up and running. It will visually reinforce each part of the plan/ outline the vision in the context of our current events/ Alaskan history/ our rapidly changing times, while capitalizing on Alaska's rugged beauty and our unlimited potential to shape our future... use the metaphor of climbing the mountain (the challenge of our figurative and literal uphill journey ahead) as a way to artistically tell the story of the film.
Just two months ago on December 19th 2007 the Green Jobs Act was signed into law by President Bush and Congress... allocating 125 million annually for 'greening' the U.S. workforce, enough $$ for training 35,000 people each year... more importantly it sets aside 25 million to be used in 'pathways out of poverty' type programs like the one I described above, which again is patterned after Van Jones very successful Oakland Green Jobs Corps. So this is not just dreams -- the federal money is available, the Fire Island Renewable Wind Energy Project will be before the Legislature again soon and drilling sites on the slopes of Mount Spur are currently being bid on.
This got the wheels turning...
pics= turning pages / da Vinci sketch / eyeword / old-school bio-mimicry
The progressive Marin county Bioneers group is founded with the phrase that 'revolution comes from the heart of nature', that in nature's designs and her ability to self-repair we can find the solutions to all our most complex problems... it leads into the idea that in the chemical reactions that occur within the cells of our bodies we might find the perfect blueprint for the next computer system breakthrough... that there is truth in the analogy that a well run business is like an untouched forest, that with the power of our minds we can innovatively weave the invisible intelligence behind the beauty of the natural world with the competitive spirit that sparked the current digitalized flourish of modern technology. The troubling Buddhist economics theory that a socio-economic existence forged with a dependency on finite and non-renewable resources is parasitic, almost cancerous... the undying conflict that lies between a free man and a stable culture, a free man like a wild seed/ the seeds of change carried by the changing winds of circumstance, the idea of a 'wiserearth'... the flaw in the very direction of all these comments/ theories; manipulating/ mimicking nature in an effort to ultimately preserve/ conserve it (and us) conflicts with the experience-based reality that defines the core of humanity (wouldn't a perfect world require a sophisticated version of globalization? wouldn't that undermine the current multi-cultural diversity of man on earth?... wouldn't it be similar to the negative effect on local/regional cultural perspective/ art that the U.S. has visited upon so many native communities in Alaska (check out the book: http://www.amazon.com/Ordinary-Wolves-Novel-Seth-Kantner/dp/1571310479)? A field (an earth) planted with one crop is a human idea, requires human maintence; not natural... a subtely suicidal way to undermine the integrity of the eco-system by mistake; wiserearth website seems to inadvertently facilitate globalization etc....). So for instance if we created a mandatory transportation system that works like a river system (we tried to perfect it, because nature's imperfection is an attempt at perfection/ efficiency) thru competition to build sustainably it could ultimately limit the chance of experience to the point where there is no longer the raw meaning of accident, the devastating chance of fate (if every family approached perfection we would not have the poetry of Alice Walker, if cancer were cured there would be no Lance Armstrong, if the world was at peace we would never have had a Churchill/ or a T. Roosevelt a Bin Laden a Hitler a George W. Bush, if there had always been equal rights Malcolm X would never have had the chance to speak with fire in his eyes, to die for something meaningful -- is meaning unnatural? -- is war natural? Can we use the metaphor of a forest in the process of a wildfire to describe war? Can we use the metaphor of a forest in the process of a wildfire to describe our impact on/ relationship with the earth? What if we prevent the fire in the forest in the name of peace(what if we light the fire(with unnatural (or natural?) oil) in the name of justice)? Is peace a natural thing? What is it really mean to live in peace, in harmony? Is music harmonious... Isn't music expression, isn't expression based on the ingredients of emotion and experience -- both things contextual to the individuals circumstances/ background/ perspective... How can we begin to have the audacity to pretend to be able to measure emotion? Isn't it wrong to work to remove perspective/ context, to limit freedom/ art? Does anyone think that they can measure emotion?
pics= rose / tupac / black rose with snow / young Stalin
The metaphorical window of circumstances/ often difficult/ un-ideal experiences that have consistently produced our most creative artistic minds and the meaning/ insight that we gain from their work could become stifled, the dimensions of our reality begin to fold in on us, we undermine the essence of our humanity... flowers die in snowflakes... I am not arguing for anti-intellectualism or reduced opportunities. Just think how different Tupac would be if he had not gone to the Baltimore arts school... without that experience in the context of all his other life-experiences would he still have become the metaphorical rose that grew from concrete? Probably not, it would be easy to argue that exposure to education/ environment allowed him to transcend the stereo-typical expectations of his reality and create experiences that redefined his relation to the world. If you listen carefully to Tupac Shakur's rap lyrics foretelling his arrest and incarceration or later his death -- you can see the burning seer-like otherworldly talent for almost uncanny accurate foretelling that existed in Leonardo da Vinci's renaissance sketches of flying machines and that seems to exist in some of the more daring bio-mimicry analogies... can we think in that direction? Will we be shot down for dreaming? Is dreaming a natural (nature-based) thing (or is it just a simple chemical process?, something we can pattern a computer system break-through after)? Or are they one and the same? Is language scientific in its patterns of expression and if it is do you really believe you can measure the beauty there, the worth of language. Why are talented writers like Cormac McCarthy and Arundhati Roy drawn irresistibly to science and to social issues, why do they try to save us? Why did Tupac try to unite, try to save. If Malcolm X had hung out with people in Marin county instead of Elijah Muhammad and had got his education at Yale rather than jail would he be similar to Van Jones (Is Van Jones public speaking character patterned to some degree after Malcolm X, does Cormac McCarthy's writing style shine with Faulkner, are Tupac's strongest rap lyrics versions of Shakespeare (or did Tupac subconciously pattern himself after a tragic charachter from a Shakespeare play: Tupac's genius being a dionysian impulse; a desire to dance, to enter into the unstable/ non-representational, limitless/ metaphysical world of art; his music creating his literal relationship with the world)-- who started art (did nature?))? -- when those (Malcolm X/ Van Jones) guys speak in front of audiences of thousands they do not seem to be acting, they seem to be artists possessed with meaning. They seem to care. This goes back to the question is meaning natural? Is caring natural? Is social activism the natural protective animalistic instinct of a mother dieing for her young? Is that instinct 'genius'? Is genius natural; self destructive? Is it consistent to a 'black hole' as described in physics? Is it possible to supersymetrize/ out of our collective demise? Is the lesson in the nature of our mind? Is the other side of genius the male lion killing its offspring? Is that the young Stalin's fluid poetry, is there such a thing as a black rose that grew from snow; inhospitable experiences allow the genius mind to develop itself into undefinable/ uncategorizable strain of twisted beauty? A genetic albino... (are these people pre-disposed genetically or is experience the ultimate maker. Is this destruction in our DNA; humanity realized our potential to transcend the NOW: is destined to be ravished by our own genius?) Are these things natural? Would the divine spark of ingenuity in Tupac have evolved into a Stalinesque figure under different circumstances/ experiences? Are we all really sure that Tupac was a good guy, was a rose... or does his real artistic genius lie in presenting himself to us as a rose subconsciously uncondemning himself in light of reality thru a metaphor in a poem written with backward letters because as a human being he wants to believe in the purity of his own heart? Do you know what I am getting at? Is his strain of rose (of genius) more intelligent -- more influential -- due to reflexive reflection? Do people like that for-tell their stories right into their deaths by mistake ... In other words... If tupac had used the power of his mind and intuition and forced himself consciously to foresee himself living indefinitely/ safely and succeeding at all his different business ideas/ social projects/ music goals could he have done it, would he have not been killed? Can we really expect to do that kind of thing? To be human, to know meaning and to create a risk-less Utopian environment and to be able to live with it? How does emotion and the power of the human mind fit into the natural world?
pics= da Vinci sketch flying machine / Tupac 'rose that grew from concrete' poem / Arundahti Roy
If your were charged with a crime you did not commit would you enter a guilty plea to accept reduced charges and avoid the risk of the ultimate punishment, even though you did not commit the crime? Isn't that kind of gutless theoretically? Is our legal system a system patterned after nature? Does it reward taking the path of least resistance? Does it reward accommodation? Is truth meaningful? Is truth worth risking everything for? Is truth inseparable from risk-- is the challenge of any good justice system to bring truth into a place where it does not need risk, where truth is safe? Isn't that impossible?: Isn't truth different for everyone due to their perspectives, their experiences? Isn't their a politics to truth? Can we convince ourselves with the power of our minds that we did not do something that we did? Can we really ever escape that lie? And more importantly what would it do to the human part of us, the artistic beautiful part of us that loves meaningful things to avoid risk and to enter a guilty plea when we were innocent. Would it reduce our humanity? Is it worth living life without risk, without truth? Why do we feel alive when we come thru a near-death experience? Is it because we became intimate with the truth of the delicacy of life? Is that the only truth?
pics= oil fire tornado / dna strand / tornado-rainbow
Is it legitimate to have the idea that we could rescind the sin/ the evil genius of the industrial revolution with the crisp taste of a Christmas apple harvested from a greenhouse during Alaska's dark winter months, a greenhouse fueled by molten rock bubbling up from beneath the snow covered arctic skyline, that all our present needs could be met with one burning solution -- fake fruit from beneath the fiery light of forty-below stars. Is the idea itself a lie? If if happened would it matter? Would it have meaning? Or would it just take away from the seasonal rhythm, destroy the grace in all the small imperfect moments -- the things that make up a quality human life. Is there a reason -- a meaning - in the self-destruction of a genius's mind? Is there an instability there -- a freedom -- that NATURALLY cannot accept the limitations of the world?
'Revolution from the heart of nature'. Is revolution natural? Isn't revolution a human action that is a result of a meaning-based (human) reality? Does nature have a heart? Is nature emotional?
pics= dandelionseed/ snowflakes hold bacteria/ spiderweb/ crosscut dna helix; molecular heridity.
(To creatively take it a step further;) the idea that we could flick a lightswitch back to the moment the snakes cold eyes grew bright as Eve tasted the forbidden -- use the power of our collective minds to figuratively undamn ourselves from an imminent descent into a twenty first century hell and de-myth the boundaries of our literal existence like rain drops halted by willpower to return into the sky. Each geothermal powered greenhouse a new eden-esque sanctuary that dissolves the line between science and art and fuels creativity, creates an intellectual space that speaks to the invincible human spirit, the indomitable human will. A system of society-stabilizing epicenters that produce affordable housing/ jobs/ health-care/ education/ food/ energy/ art etc. and that neutralize the effects of end-of-the-food-chain imbalance/ urban sprawl/ decreasing non-renewable energy reserves/ poverty/ climate change -- our system of greenhouses explicitly working to reduce the Greenhouse Effect (metaphorically/ literally (talk about some tricked-out (steroids or natural?) feng shui)) and adding to/ intensifying America's legendary infrastructure while boosting the diverse dynamic integrity of our blossoming twenty first century culture health-shake blend...
The idea of working with nature to heal the natural world/ and working with nature to cultivate the artistic multi-cultural diversity of humanity is at the core of the Last Frontier Eco Foundation... with respect to the Denali / Fire Island / Mount Spur Film Project as well as our long term vision for a sustainable future for Alaska. I think there is a real difference between what is easy and what is right. If we do the easy thing and not the right thing we just end up diminishing ourselves. We just end up losing a part of the thing in us that makes us human, the thing which puts stock in martyrs dieing for their beliefs or wild roses blooming in the shadows, the currency of meaning which has burned in the hearts of the most influential, fearless and brilliant minds...
pics= Anchorage from Cook Inlet / Cook Inlet / Cook Inlet from air
The Film will begin with a sweeping shot from a bush plane racing low across the water of the Cook Inlet with the Chugach mountains glimmering in the distance ... than cut to the turning arms of a windmill than the flashing rotor blades of a helicopter taking off from the tarmac in Juneau on a clear summer day, than the petals of a wildflower spinning in a little girls hands, the freedom of a child's laughter; hope. The inspirational photograph of Susan Butcher and Joe Reddington Sr. brought to the summit of Denali by dog power, thirty years later we can bite into the same human idea of defying impossibility with a vision of using volcanic in-stability as a way to fuel the fire of life, to improve our condition on the earth by harnessing the wind... the idea of water burning into sky... Hope... The most human of emotions, the most natural of designs. The inevitability of chance can only be conquered by trying. Trying is the truth... as Yoda says to Luke Skywalker in the Empire Strikes Back Star Wars Movie: 'Luke, there is no try'.
pic above= yoda is wise / don't leave home without your lightsaber
pic below= above skagway 4th july fireworks / start / glacierdusk / me / glacier
Also working on a fleshed-out manuscript/ essay/ short book that will much better explain the above garbled snapshot re the direction of the collage of ideas behind the 'foundation' presented in its current events/ historical light and in the context of my personal background ... I caught some of the beaming bioneers satellite conference this fall and hope to make it to the real deal next year... I like the group's core idea. currently my formal education is from libraries/ used book-stores/ the shrine-like couch of barnes & noble/ the flat world of the internet/ the metaphorical rock-filled mountain paths of real-life... though back in the day I did a year 'of time' at Colorado College ... have spent the last 5 years all over Alaska, am hoping to get a community organizer job to provide me with a better platform to aggressively pursue this vision and help people make their lives and the world a better place... am 24 years young, lots of diverse interests/hobbies... thanks to the long list of interesting people who run this great website... its cool to read all your profiles and think and learn..... always looking for FUNDS and friends for the last frontier eco vision and projects...
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Remove JTHESSERT about 1 month ago
thanks for posting those links, I would be glad to help/ contribute some ideas! ... and I will be in touch with you via the "send a message" link at the top right hand side of the user profile beneath the profile picture.
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JT, Conprehensive...
Check out these sights: WILD9.org SustainableHomer.com Please consider attending WILD 9, likely to connect with research for solutions. I am putting together the teen and young professional track.
Also, my 11 year young son, McKenzy Sage is doing a documentary called AKids Climate Change Solution Ideas? Naturally, Kat Haber
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wow, ive been away from WE for about a month now (working on Obama campaign) AND then find your wonderful, wonderful page AWA your comments on the online courses and reaching critical mass ...
it's going to take me a little time to read through our work and catch up on whats been going on in my absense. |
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