Postive News Forum

[andycer]

Hey guys, is there anyway we can start a section with positive news...I mean if something good happens why can't we talk about that.  Example:  Bloomberg wants to convert the entire NYC taxi fleet to hybrid:

  http://www.sptimes.com/2007/05/23/Worldandnation/A_green_New_York__hyb.shtml

that's pretty big news. 

[lady-t]

i see more people wallking and riding a bike the last two weeks.  that could be construed as positive. people learning to adapt and change to little or no or high priced gas.

[Dennis from Oregon]

MadMax.  That is good news?? Do you understand how much additional oil it takes to build those cars??  The facts that those nasty batteries only last a few years and the have to be recycled??  Changing this fleet only helps those companies save a few bucks and hastens overall energy depletion in a way even more harsh to the environment..

If thats good news we are doomed...

[Dennis from Oregon]

Lady T, they are riding as they just got their car repo'd or got their 17th DUI and got their car impounded.  Not good news for them I suspect...

[doctor zaius]

As Matt once said, if you want good news about the future of energy, just turn on the TV or read a mainstream newspaper - they are all proclaiming "don't worry, be happy".

Sure, you can post positive news here, but it will be balanced with a lot of the not so positive news.

[Huaquelah]

Sweetie, I hear you. Try this one for mo' bettah news...

Reality Sandwich
http://www.realitysandwich.com/node/109

Reality Sandwich is a web magazine for this time of intense transformation. Our subjects run the gamut from sustainability to shamanism, alternate realities to alternative energy, remixing media to re-imagining community, holistic healing techniques to the promise and perils of new technologies. We hope to spark debate and engagement by offering a forum for voices ranging from the ecologically pragmatic to the wildly visionary (which, to our delight, sometimes turn out to be the one and the same). Counteracting the doom-and-gloom of the daily news, Reality Sandwich is a platform for voices conveying a different vision of the transformations we face. Our goal is to inspire psychic evolution and a kind of earth alchemy.

from
A Revolution without Enemies
by Anu Bonobo

Without a higher synthesis, without a way out from this either-or dance, we see an almost infantile attachment to moral authority, the preschool preoccupation with absolutist notions of right and wrong that lead to fanaticism and fundamentalism. Since any constructed binary from light-versus-dark to self-versus-other requires placing one side on top, any dualistic thinking, then, is inherently hierarchical. When people adhere to a vision of revolution that requires enemies, they see themselves as always justified, as the perennially oppressed underdog, focusing on the hierarchy without and ignoring the hierarchy within—their own sense of ethical pre-eminence.....
“Since we’re in an apocalyptic situation, old historical dialectics no longer apply. I prophesy that the only way to reverse the apocalypse is white magic, since the apocalypse itself is incarnate black magic. What would be the effect of total sacramental harmonious shamanistic ritual prayer magic massively performed in the American or Russian political theater?”

Are we any less troubled today? If any human can be called “swine” in the sense that the 60s’ radicals meant when they said “off the pigs,” it’s the puny-minded punishers who pummel the earth and imprison her defenders. At least today, we have the benefit of a majority of people the world over acknowledging the severity of the ecological crisis. Each day that passes in the automobile-centric culture that Henry Miller dubbed the “air-conditioned nightmare,” the planet burns itself towards meltdown through mass resource extraction and consumption on an incalculable scale. Kurt Vonnegut puts it bluntly in a recent interview with Rolling Stone: “We have destroyed our entire planet over transportation-whoopee.”

While I’m not ready to join Vonnegut’s “humans are a mistake” eviction of evolution, who can blame him for suggesting such in a culture driven by drivers of SUVs and breeders of large families. You may not believe in magick—but at least admit you’d accept some sorcery if it showed up tomorrow to put the oil-pushers out-of-business.

Consider what I learned the other day doing research on the Green Scare: the vehicles that jailed earth-warrior Jeff Luers destroyed in a symbolic, desperate, and heroic act of defiance were rebuilt and resold. A car is reborn! That’s how sacred property is to those who have sold our common ancestor—the land—for the temporary thrill of cruising on pavement at 80 mph...

[lady-t]

Lady T, they are riding as they just got their car repo'd or got their 17th DUI and got their car impounded.  Not good news for them I suspect...

i was just trying to help.  at least they don't have that nasty gasoline bill to pay

[Dennis from Oregon]

But they no longer can drive to work either...

Its good Lady T that you are trying to be positive.  Im all for it.  I just dont see many positive things outside my personal life and sometimes not even then..

Carry on...

[andycer]

..and premium gas went down 2 cents here in Denver.  I'm telling you, there has to be something positive out of all of this...the Chinese are getting ready to take a couple of solar panel manufacturers public here soon.

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2007/05/11/4441/uk-us-to-see-chinese-listings-influx/