New Concepts in living design.

I came across these websites this morning and became inspired as to the thinking that people are doing in bringing about sustainable living. I feel lucky to be moving into a condo that has solar panels allowing for a 2.0KW energy supply!

Compact house for

your backyard

Under the sea!

The Key to a Healthy Life

How to increase serotonin in the human brain without drugs.

For the last 4 decades, the question of how to manipulate the serotonergic system with drugs has been an important area of research in biological psychiatry, and this research has led to advances in the treatment of depression.

Another reason for pursuing nonpharmacologic methods of increasing serotonin arises from the increasing recognition that happiness and well-being are important, both as factors protecting against mental and physical disorders and in their own right.

If you continue the article you'll see that most of the information is common sense (less the medical jargon)....but now with scientific backing ;)


via Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience

Internet with a purpose

I've finally taken some time to see what this 'stumbleupon' is all about and all i can say is....WOW! i've been on it for 2 hours straight and have come across some very interesting pages. the timing of this couldn't have been better as i was going through a little bit of a depressive state by losing my faith in humanity. when i look out at nature (the natural world before man has a chance to reinterpret it) i see everything as it's supposed to be. it makes sense to me.

going through some of the webpages it has allowed me to see the diverse nature of man! this has instilled hope in me that man can pull together to align ourselves with the universe once more (and this includes me). here are some samples of what i've come across...

Wind Power Anywhere







5 Scientific Theories



Glass Butterflies






Nouveau sculpture




Cute Animal Tickling

Impressive Chameleon

Medical Silver Bullet

It's been a long time...

It's been awhile since the last post and I have some ideas that I should share. The more I learn the more I see that the world is broken down into two parts. The first is the natural world. This world is what the earth has come to produce life on. This system has lasted over millions of years and has enabled life to persevere through some rather adverse conditions. The other world is man's world. This system has only been developed over the last couple of thousand years and is entirely designed through man's mind. The environmental problems that we are experiencing are caused by these two worlds colliding into one another.

In order to fix most of the problems that we are witnessing (e.g., pollution, forest depletion, climate change, water conservation, etc.) these two systems must align.

The natural world (the world that is governed by the laws and behavior of nature) is a cyclical system.

Man's world is linear system. Man's mind thinks linearly. Take a moment to consider how you view your life. You're on a course right? You're getting from point A to point B?

The natural world does not think in those terms. Because the planet has sustained itself for such an amazing amount of time (relative to our notion of time), it works itself in cycles. Take the water cycle for example.

This system can renew and refresh itself time and time again.

Now take a traditional model that man uses quite often say in the world of business.

The problem as I see it is that we are so focused on 'moving forward' that we tend to overlook patterns all over the place that reflect more of the former way of operating. That is, cyclical.

Yes our lives certainly seem linear. We are born, live a little while, then die. Point A to point B.

But take into consideration that you are not the first human being nor will you be the last (well, hopefully lol). Our lives are here because of many before us. What we consider to be the 'economy' is a representation (or a misrepresentation) of how we should be living our lives. We base everything on the principles of what an economy should be. Our food, water, shelter, health care, transportation, etc., all depend on the economy. However, because we do not model it based upon the natural world, we often suffer to some extreme extents.

I'll continue more but for now I'm sleepy. More to come tomorrow.