Our soul energy

Now it all seems to come together, even here, out in the boonies, like my friend Marge jokes about the quietude, peace and the feeling of being totally cut-off in this area - even if standard offers won't be more than barely half a loonie per kilowatt hour for electricity produced by solar panels and communities still waste their money in paying off the dept of monopolistic and outdated energy suppliers - at least the media are now reporting on successful renovation and restructuring of a former almost monopolistic energy market - you guessed it, I am - once more - going to refer to my country of origin (I swear, when I left that place, I would have lol just thinking on how many times I would point it out as a role model in terms of change - now that thought will amuse many of my old-world friends), Germany. The CBC has just started to poke around, and I recommend their articles as a very good outlook from a Canadian point of view.

If you wanted to feel the heat as it comes up, you gotta move closer, though - this is my #1 Canadian change blog, Clean Break, refreshingly down to earth and non-ideological. Good ideas, ready for the market or not, as well as clear words addressing the political dimension of this game, every day. Click now and you will know what house you want to build, even if you never felt that you wanted one at all.

In case the Canadian public manages to be outraged enough (which is pretty unlikely but possible if you get the Irish going in the right direction), the uranium drilling nonsense north west of Perth and the completely over-projected 30 new nukes for Ontario may just be a catalyst for a quicker and more consequent move towards renewables, like wind, solar and so forth. Nuclear is not an option any more, as it never has and will never be affordable by its way of eradicating our natural supply once and for all and having the taxpayer foot the bill for incompetence or worse, in case of so many political representatives, ignorance, who really could have avoided the mess and still can, for instance by updating the mining legislation and giving home owners control over their land - not just its surface (how schizophrenic can the law get, or was somebody on the board of, let me guess, a mining company?)

The purpose of nuclear energy never seems to have been an abundant supply for everybody, just for the powerful few, who, in Germany, invested all that tax free reserve money dedicated to the safe deposit of nuclear waste (which is now leaking into a salt stock end dump in Gorleben, established at the time by incredibly ignorant politicians against better knowledge expressed in numerous geological discussions and street fighting resistance of the entire republic) - we're talking billions here - in the creation of cell phone companies - It seems in that way, much rather to resemble fascism: The accumulation of money and power in order to control everybody else. Good thing, that people are not that complacent any more.

Call it personal vanity, but I thought I'd share something else with you guys. This is from the home page of my band. I wrote that passage about 18 month ago, and with this nuclear discussion going on, it seems so right to have a close look at how renewables are about to avalanche into transforming society in a dimension, that may just well up tears in any freedom fighter's eyes. Only now, my fellow Ontarians, is the time to SPEAK UP. You are so close to catching up to the real deal, don't let anybody burden you with this supply panic. You have watched the sun beat down on even the coldest, driest January day - THAT is the only reliable source of energy on earth.

How about attending this fall's vote in Ontario (agencies open with the 27th of August, more info is here and here) and actually voting for a more proportional voting system (is it dawning on you now, that there is the referendum vote in a addition to the provincial polls)? The alternate voting system favors a second count of all votes together, so that small parties like the green party, who never have won any direct mandate, could still work in a parliamentary coalition - you will not be surprised to have me refer to Germany one more time here: Because that is exactly the way, how these ideas, which now account for the outlook of Germany being entirely powered by renewables by 2040, got introduced into the working committees of the German democracy.... and trust me, that used to be one resilient, slow grinding apparatus over there.

Got your Mojo running? Have fun reading some more then.

Modern technologies have incorporated the energy-efficiency demonstrated by mother nature. Renewable energy beats the fossils (good word, ain't it? ;) ) in many ways. Now is the time to educate the skilled trades to apply these life saving technologies. WHY? The least perceived is probably the fact, that THEY ARE ALL MORE EFFICIENT than the oldsters. The most political is, however, that THEY DECENTRALIZE THE CREATION OF ENERGY.

Now that is some powerful stuff. And the powerful realize that. It is quite immanent in human nature to see them fight their grounds. We just have to see it for what it is (doesn't the entire-oil-coal-nuclear-lobbyists-and-oh-so- willing-political-counter-parts-complex look like a dying dragon-dinosaur, which refuses to follow the flow of an ever changing evolution without condemning anybody and anything that came after it to die with it?). After all those years, still, we can't get no satisfaction from the bull crap that you call life, when after all, it's your life and that of the other corporations that is sucked right out of us.

It's been right from the sixties on to stand up for a better world. Now we know that THAT will be the only way to SAVE THIS PLANET for future generations. Looking at it, there's one thing to note about this second generation of hippies:

WE STILL WANT THE WHOLE F...ING BAKERY!"

Remember - I can't vote here. So many others can't either. You can. The right to vote is a privilege - exercise it!