Life in the LongWhiteCloud

Sharing experience with a group of like minded people, towards a worthy cause is the best thing I could do with my life. Emphasis on the like-minded, for me this means green-thinking sustainability type folks in their 20's. I also need musical folks to create things with  as an expression tool. Both are important, incidentally they are both possible through uni. I have thought a lot about plunging into the unknown and trying out an idea, a solution for an otherwise environmentally-fucked society. To match up with my skills this would take the form of a bulk refill, zero-waste shop, promoting eco-products and fighting food waste from supermarkets.  If we put that out there as something I want to do in this lifetime, also have to put in perspective with the other things I want to do, travel south america, london, work in these countries, connect with my roots, play music more...  Live out on the west coast, live a simpler lifestyle. This is the best pathway I h...

"If clarity is the absence of doubt, why do I doubt after being so sure?" Winter is here, along with new avenues for exploring, new ways of looking at the world and new lifestyles to live by. Becoming vegan has been on my mind, but it took something to really humble me to look beyond myself and my own health, and instead the happiness of other beings on this planet. I'll start officially on the 12th, making my own vegetarian meals 3 times a week, going down to one night of meat eating on the 18th.  Different veiwpoints from the physicist Neil Degrass'e have made me think about life, in the context of being constrained by time, its our knowledge we will die tomorrow which spurs us to live, love life, be ambitious today. Why would you want to live forever, when you always have tomorrow? Krishna monk Devamrita Swami have made me realise material outlooks on life don't bring us satisfaction but emptiness, and is the main problem for ecosystems, the climat...