gridblog: earthday

well, john's request for an earthday post fest ties in with my thoughts as of late. unfortunately, i'm too lazy to read up on the earthday site other than the front page. so, it looks like it's about climate change. ok. on that topic i would point everyone to the half plan at builditsolar. This family cut their energy usage by 1/2 in one year. sure it cost some money, but the return on saved energy bills was 45% the first year! oh, yah and they saved loads of CO2 emmisions.

now, i'm thinking that living off-grid would save even more (money & green-house-gas). not using nasty utility energy or burning fossil fuel. all we need are good electric cars and it's perfect ;-).

back to the half plan. they have stuff to help you make your own half plan. hey what have we got to lose? save money, and our kids' future while your at it!

self-sufficient.... no.... God sufficient living

after reading john's consumerism post it got me to thinking... no, not about joining a commune... but about unplugging from the world, or at least the materialist-consumerist-lemmingish aspects. i mean unplug; both metaphorically and physically. let's go off-grid. live on what God gives us (gives everyone). ok, so let's take our inventory:

• earth
• plants
• animals
• sun & rain

wow, looks like He has given us everything doesn't it? maybe crofters have it right? i wonder if it might be possible to 'live off the land', right in the middle of a developed, first-world country. hmmm i like a challenge. it seems that The Lord Almighty gives everything needed to all, regardless of your opinion of him. might just need a little ingenuity to "...subdue it". how cool would that be?