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Thursday, July 15th, 2010
Amish Solar Power
A few weeks back I accompanied Vidya, my wife, to the Pennsylvania Gourd Society Festival. It was held in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania which is the original Amish community in America. There are over 25,000 of them there so it is a pretty unique experience — it affects the ambiance. They don’t use electricity in their […]
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Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
Don’t Bother About Big Big Buildings
“That is Vrndavana life. And they are absorbed in this so-called opulence. Krsna has taken birth. They are bringing so many nice, pleasant foodstuff, very well-dressed and ornamented. These are description. In the morning we were reading. How they were happy, the inhabitants of Vrndavana with Krsna and living and cows. “That I want to […]
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Saturday, July 10th, 2010
All One?
DHARMA THE CAT SAYS: “Comparisons are odious!” Filed under: Jokes
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Friday, July 9th, 2010
Got No Time
“The prosperity of humanity does not depend on a demoniac civilization that has no culture and no knowledge but has only gigantic skyscrapers and huge automobiles always rushing down the highways. “The products of nature are sufficient. When there is a profuse supply of milk, yogurt, honey, food grains, ghee, molasses, dhotis, saris, bedding, sitting […]
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Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
Black Currant Jam
Last year and this year I planted a bunch of different kinds of berries. Of the ones I planted last year I am getting some berries this year. Blackberries and elderberries will be a lot of them, but not here yet. I planted some raspberries in the fall and got a handful from a few […]
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Monday, July 5th, 2010
AEP Rate Increase Approved in W.Va.
With electrical rate increases of over 40% in the pipeline for New Vrindaban, my faith in the idea of installing some alternative energies remains unshaken. What I need is a researcher to get some quotes. I mean a serious researcher, not just someone to spend a half hour on Google and then send me three […]
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Saturday, July 3rd, 2010
Inertial Writer’s Block
Inertia: 1. Physics The tendency of a body to resist acceleration; the tendency of a body at rest to remain at rest or of a body in straight line motion to stay in motion in a straight line unless acted on by an outside force. 2. Resistance or disinclination to motion, action, or change So […]
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Monday, June 28th, 2010
“Out of Metropolis” by Lynn Emanuel
We’re headed for empty-headedness, the featureless amnesias of Idaho, Nebraska, Nevada, states rich only in vowel sounds and alliteration. We’re taking the train so we can see into the heart of the heart of America framed in the windows’ cool oblongs of light. We want cottages, farmhouses with peaked roofs leashed by wood smoke to […]
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Sunday, June 27th, 2010
No Spiritual Advancement Without Cow Protection
“One cannot become spiritually advanced without acquiring the brahminical qualifications and giving protection to cows. “ Srimad-Bhagavatam 6.18.52 Filed under: Cows and Environment
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Friday, June 25th, 2010
But This Should Be Our Aim
Prabhupada: So new… When they are trained up, they can come, live, especially grhasthas. My point is whether the farm is attractive. Not very much. Yogesvara: The potential is wonderful. Prabhupada: And therefore I’m asking. Potential is wonderful, so why they are not attracted to live in the farm and be self-independent and chant Hare […]
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Monday, June 21st, 2010
Krsna is the Farm Acarya
Letter from Tamal Krsna Goswami, Secretary to Srila Prabhupada, to Hari Sauri Das, ISKCON Melbourne, August 10th, 1977 (sent from Krsna Balarama Mandir, Vrndavana): Srila Prabhupada always enjoys hearing from you as you have gained an eternal position at His Divine Grace’s lotus feet. Srila Prabhupada appreciated your opening prayers. Srila Prabhupada was most enlivened […]
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
Consumerism Or Cow Protection?
Did Srila Prabhupada promote living dependent as consumers in New Vrindaban or living dependent on the land and cows? Krishna by His practical example taught us to give all protection to the cows and that should be the main business of New Vrindaban. Vrindaban is also known as Gokula. Go means cows, and kula means […]
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
This Is What the End of the Oil Age Looks Like
Deepwater Horizon & the technology, economics and environmental impacts of resource depletion. by Richard Heinberg, Post Carbon Institute Published: June 14, 2010 The End is Nigh “There will be plenty of blame to go around, as events leading up to the fatal Deepwater Horizon rig explosion are sorted out. Even if further efforts to plug […]
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Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
Bye Bye Euro
Sometimes the media over complicates things. See above for one simplification. Here is another: Great Recession in the US? If you spend more money on oil from the Mideast and goods from China than you make, you go broke. Filed under: News, Ramblings or Whatever
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Monday, June 14th, 2010
Ran 800 Meters Without Stopping To Walk
Today is the first time in a long time, probably 6 years, that I have been able to run 800 meters (1/2 mile) without stopping to walk for portions of it. I say 6 years because 2004 was the last season I played soccer in an organized league and after that I went downhill fast […]