'Greedy Generation'

Iconic, eye-catching architecture, used on the rear face of the Holburn museum, Bath (www.holburne.org).

It is human nature, to always desire improvement.

One cannot build improvements using a resource that does not exist.

Therefore sources must be strictly protected, and resources used sustainably, with care. For we must keep what we have, ensuring we build from a solid baseline.

Humanity must be led by democratically elected politicians who recognise these basic facts. Abuse power and you will suffer! Do you want a good legacy?

• We all want to improve things. Everything. 
• Bigger is not always better.
• Things may improve through growth, but growth cannot be infinite. 
• What is important is the recognition of the growth-process, not what is attained by it. With such ‘recognition’ we can learn and use such knowledge elsewhere. 
• Those who are fixated by achievements and what we attain, become obsessed. Obsession is dangerous. 
• Throughout the entire world there are unfortunately, so many examples which actually involve zero recognition of the growth process, nothing has been learnt, and nothing can be recognised. 
• Such things may be desirable now, but tomorrow? Tomorrow we will look back on these things as a waste of resources which we will need so badly elsewhere. 
• Whether we like it or not, humans consume. Only consumption of sustainable resources can continue to exist. It alarms me how many fail to understand this!
• Anyone who actually chooses to consume unsustainably should be considered greedy. There is nothing worse than greed. I cannot bear the thought of future generations looking back on us, and in disdain, calling us ‘greedy’!   
• The ‘Greedy Generation which failed the Earth’. 
• …

We have the knowledge. WE MUST ACT RESPONSIBLY!!

Pela cases

I am on course to be completing my purchase of a mobile phone, this Friday.

You should know that I try and shop ‘ethically’, wanting to reduce the size of my ‘footprint’ on our planet’s resources. Phone contracts mean the large companies have us hooked to their custom. I am in a scheme which allows me to sell my old phone back as I purchase a new device. Parts of the old phone live on in different forms/uses. 

Everyone protects their phone in a case. Cases are almost as fashionable as the phone themselves. They can be just one piece of one material, and hopefully, as eco-friendly as possible, not a colourful, non-biodegradable, polymer composite.

pelacase.com

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I realise that I maybe sounding like a long list of dull instructions. Sorry, but...

PLEASE DO WHAT YOU CAN!

the answer!!!

This post starts with a bad, low note, but climbs to finish on a positive, high (using a wonder-drug)…

I’ve NEVER been a professional cyclist!

I am actually unsure as to whether I should be spreading this news. It has alarmed me so much. I realise that to a certain extent, my mind was closed...

SF6

This is kinda BIG news...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-49567197

‘the significant downside to using the gas is that it has the highest global warming potential of any known substance. It is 23,500 times more warming than carbon dioxide (CO2).’

SF6

I found the above article, earlier in the week, through the BBC Homepage. I expected the follow-up response everywhere, to be overwhelming. However, I heard nothing. Should it be ‘silenced’?

Romelu Lukaku, new striker for Inter Milan 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/49738276

I enjoy following Italian football. However the tragic problem of racism has been so heavily entrenched within certain fan-bases, perhaps reflecting socio-geographic areas which are refusing to live in the modern world. The problem cannot be within football alone. It is a cultural problem, and football is a victim. For as long as the country attempts to ‘sweep problems under the carpet’, they will always exist.

‘Do ya wanna race? Hahaha ‘

The other day I travelled back home from Kingston, along the riverside. Halfway along the Queens Promenade I found myself approaching loud trance music, screaming from a box owned by a man wearing a full-dayglo outfit. It wasn’t particularly sunny, but to complete his look, he was wearing gold, tinted sunglasses! Waving his arms about, he was off-his-face! I looked out, towards the river as I passed, but then he tried to joke - ‘Do ya wanna race?’ (He pointed to his bike, next to him, and laughed). 

I declined, but knowing the workload that I put through the pedals of my gym bike, I was left thinking to myself ‘Laugh at my wheelchair need, but I would quite comfortably wrip your legs off’!

;) 

Drove over my toe!

Wednesday, I left my flat, passed the bus stop, looked behind and ahead of me, there was no traffic approaching the narrow, one-way ‘Electric Parade’. I continued on

WOAH!!

I avoid collision... 

‘OW!!!!’

He had continued on, over my toe!

The Neanderthal-looking brute had continued off-and-away. He had been illegally driving the wrong way down a one-way road, and didn’t want to let a wheelchair slow his escape.

I was counting my lucky stars that he had not seriously injured me.

some signs are too easy to misread, for neanderthals 

Thank you Kingston Green Party

Skype

I was unable to physically attend the monthly meeting. I had provided design concepts that I wanted some feedback on. We are small but we are growing. My attendance was important. I have used Skype plenty of times before, but never for such a large group meeting. Incredibly successful. No-one in their right-mind follows parliamentary politics right-now (abolished parliament or not). But the Green Party is so much more. Hundreds of smaller, local Green Parties are fighting for correct causes, throughout the UK. Thank you. 

I realise that my shopping is generally that of a green, ethical customer...

... apart from a shelf full of plastic bottles, holding shampoos and shower gels of the large multinational companies.

... so I finally made a change. A bar of ‘Ethique shampoo’, was bought, stored in a cardboard wrap. I am told that the bar of soap will last for three times as long as a regular 350ml bottle.

My bar of shampoo now sits on an espresso-cup plate (i have enough)! 

People. The way forward...

#giveupthebottle

‘Are you ok there?’

Just because you’re in a wheelchair and not moving down a pavement, people assume that you’re in trouble!!!

Whenever, i stop, I am used to receiving such attention.

:(

I have tried to cut down. I can survive on less of a ‘lunch’, but Coffee levels MUST BE MAINTAINED.

I drink a double, and a smile is put back on my face! If, forever, there is any lack of a smile being worn, then I know what is needed! A good coffee is the answer to everything!

power failures

I feel that we ALL are in debt to this world.

What a wonderful world

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFoXcO8llNI

September, summer has gone. I travel along the riverside, yet I realise happiness surrounds most! It is delightful weather, and I feel that most people are recognising how lucky we are.

The world is one, circular, globe. Everywhere has an opposite position, everyone must realise this fact. All inhabitants, feed from the world, and its’ produce. Everyone has a take/take relationship, with Earth. We all are in debt.

Yahoo! I finally celebrate my discovery of recyclable toothbrush heads. It had been irritating me how Oral-B had sold me an electric toothbrush, but then had hooked my custom of their litter, harming the planet, every time I was due to install a new brush-head.

LIVECOCO
https://www.livecoco.com/products/oral-b-electric-toothbrush-replacement-heads-with-charcoal-bristles

Bio-degradable charcoal brush fibres, stand from the top-of-the-head. The main part (the neck) fits all Oral-B electric toothbrushes, but it is a polymer. An easily recyclable plastic, it can be melted down and the material re-formed to a new life. 

Congratulations SURBEANTON 

I was delighted on Monday afternoon, I entered the coffee shop as I had just left Sainsbury’s (across the road). The staff all wore a huge grin, but it was only after asking that I find out why!

Voted ‘The best Tea/Coffee house’ in ‘south-west London/Surrey’ 

Congratulations for winning the biggest prize!

It is widely felt that the British political system is broken. Proportional representation is a step in the direction, but older parties do not like the theory.

Older parties must be forced to face facts (just look at the problematic, current state of things).

A more drastic change is needed. 

A change that will entice more people to become politically aware.

After generating ideas for our Kingston Green Party, I left one of my favourite coffee shops (‘The Fleet Street Press’), went past the Royal Courts of Justice, and around the Aldwych. My mind was buzzing...

It is widely recognised that the British political system is hurting…

Drastic help is needed.

A bold change is required.

How about we have a General Election, more frequently, perhaps each year?

That way power failures cannot last. MPs would need each other, and parties will be forced to work together. Everyone works with an open desk, and is able to see everything belonging to every other MP. No-one is allowed secrets. By working together, real problems will need to be prioritised, and solved. No party dominates. Everyone wins? A new PrimeMinister each year? The nation unites, larger problems will be solved. No party dominates. Leaders will always feel more pressure of public scrutiny.

Candidates may continue to work by representing a political party, but the electorate (entire population) vote for individual candidates. No MP will feel a force from their party to ’follow their line’. MPs are elected, not political parties.

Campaign funding must be monitored carefully, as we learn from the US.

 MPs should not be allowed to hide in obscurity. All should be open to the entire nation.

The people must vote for the entire cabinet (which could lead to a mixed compound, no domination). MPs would stand for a constituency, and only one position in the cabinet, or PrimeMinister.

How many corners?

I wrote this post yesterday, Saturday. I do not know, but this could be the first time I have ever posted on the weekend. I am sure that audience levels will be affected!...

I sat in my favourite coffee shop, at peace. Relaxed, calm and happy...

but, really?

I am like a coin. There are always two opposing sides to everything, but I regularly feel both. I am forever happy, but i am also forever unhappy. I believe I wear my moods well, because I am always confident in being able to find a positive, when down.

Aaaaaaaah, the weekend! 

99% people are not working!

Free! Happy! Groups of friends...

Discussions of ‘Friday Night Fun’!

Girls and Boys and Girls and Boys

following the herd, down to Greece

ON HOLIDAY 

I have not experienced a weekend for almost THIRTEEN years. Two Saturdays before, I travelled to Paris, with cycling club mates ahead of Sunday’s long-distance cyclo-sportif - 165km! The following weekend I travelled to Birmingham to spend a wonderful weekend with my girlfriend. I didn’t know, but the accident of the following weekend would steal my ability to maintain both of my biggest passions. I had spent the previous two weekends indulging in both. 

I listened to this song. I recognise the first three chords of Ashcroft’s strummed guitar, and i feel a warm-hearted love for this tune. I would enjoy playing guitar along to my ‘Urban Hymns’ CD. I cannot do so now (post injury), but I actually feel closer to this particular song as i examine the lyrics.

‎released 24 November 1997 (just under nine years later…)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QsFNqL8eSc

Please read the lyrics...

This is me...

Happiness

More or less

It's just a change in me

Something in my liberty

Oh, my, my

Happiness

Coming and going

I watch you look at me

Watch my fever growing

I know just where I am

But how many corners do I have to turn?

How many times do I have to learn

All the love I have is in my mind?

Well, I'm a lucky man

With fire in my hands

Happiness

Something in my own place

I'm stood here naked

Smiling, I feel no disgrace

With who I am

Happiness

Coming and going

I watch you look at me

Watch my fever growing

I know just who I am

But how many corners do I have to turn?

How many times do I have to learn

All the love I have is in my mind?

I hope you understand

I hope you understand

Oh, no no no no no no no no no

Gotta love that'll never die

Happiness

More or less

It's just a change in me

Something in my liberty

Happiness

Coming and going

I watch you look at me

Watch my fever growing

I know

Oh, my, my

Oh, my, my

Oh, my, my

Oh, my, my

Gotta love that'll never dies

Gotta love that'll never died

No, no

I'm a lucky man

It's just a change in me

Something in my liberty,

It's just a change in me

Something in my liberty,

It's just a change in me

Something in my liberty,

Oh, my, my

Oh, my, my

It's just a change in me

Something in my liberty,

Oh, my, my

Oh, my, my

everlasting!

Firstly, I want congratulate my brother, who got married to his wonderful  girlfriend, this past weekend. Dominic and Holly both put in extreme effort in order that everything was perfect! The  pair succeeded, the event was incredible, and will live everlasting in the memory!

Best wishes, thank you both. xx

:)

Where does it go?

I DO NOT LIKE using something but then leaving it’s future life to my ignorance. I was always conscientious, but this obsession began seriously, before my accident, whilst working in Sustainable Design in 2005/06.

Post accident, in my rehabilitation home (2008-10), I remember forcing every other resident (and every staff member) to correctly use various specific bins for a variety of materials!

Finally, recycling is the norm. If you fail to do it correctly, shame ON YOU!

Food packaging is the worst culprit for this generation of wasteful material. It may be recyclable, however if you know that it is not but you still consciously choose to spend your money on everlasting litter, do not, you'll harm our environment forever. If not even bio-degradable, FORGET!

There is nothing worse than single-use material. Being so  harmful myself, hurts me. I am a life-long patient of my Brain Injury. I receive Physiotherapy and I must keep belief that I will regain the ability to walk. I had been working hard to reduce the requirement of medication (I take muscle-relaxing pills, twice a-day). A ‘mishap’ (fall, broken femur/hip joint, surgery twice), reminded me of how dependent I am on these pills.

I have no choice but to consume these, packaged in such ecologically-harmful packaging. 

I say with pride that this is possibly the only thing that I use which cannot be recycled (to my knowledge), or is fully biodegradable. Toothpaste tubes being one other...

I will leave an everlasting mark on Earth, through pill packets and toothpaste tubes!

I admit to owning a huge shelf of CDs, virtually all-of-which were purchased in my previous-life. They all hold everlasting-memories/emotions for me. I know that Compact-Discs will never degrade. This upsets me, but I can do nothing but accept my failure. I currently use a powered-wheelchair, which uses energy and is charged-up overnight (most nights). I sat on the bus this afternoon, pondered this, realising that I do not own an automobile, and recognising just how much energy and material I save.

I have to rely on ‘my wildcard’...

… ‘All evens out’

The sum of everything, is zero.

Rulers determined to scrap democracy?

Bad times!

Scary times!

Defend your right, 

DEFEND DEMOCRACY!