Crispy's Blog (9)

To the people of Ushahidi,



It is equally disastrous and ridiculous that I must bring to your attention my home's current outbreak of egomania. Long have we been a people proud of our abilities and accomplishments, but recent developments have led this mindset to a state of national crisis. Likely even global.



It began innocently enough with a drive for affordable food and a simple, safe lifestyle. This meant farms, houses, roads and stores. And it worked. With this strategy,… Continue

There's a women's group in my area called The Butterfly Effect.It's a group that focuses on empowering women in business and life, and one of their mandates is to give back to the community. One of their current projects here in Kelowna is placing inexpensive healthy water dispensaries across town to help dissuade people from purchasing disposable bottles. Being a not-woman, I am not a part of this group.… Continue

Here in North America, water crisis goes by another name: Wastefulness.



A toilet uses 2-3 gallons of water every time it's flushed. Most people here flush even when they urinate.



Showers use 3.5 gallons of water per minute. Most people shower every day.



A front-load washing machine uses about 15 gallons of water per load. A top-load machine uses 40.



You add in the water people use to wash their cars, water their lawns, clean their dishes, etc; and things… Continue

Gaflabendary 1st, 2020.



Twelve months ago the MassShift occurred, slingshotting the Earth out of its orbit. Eventually coming to equilibrium another 7 million kilometers away from the sun, the Earth re-entered orbit of Sol with virtually no effects to human lifestyle. Except for two:



1. We victoriously stumped global warming by 2°C.

2. Earth's now larger orbit forced the creation of a new month: Gaflabendary.



Today, being the first of Gaflabendary, is the long… Continue

I sit for hours every day playing video games. All in all, not the most sustainable of my activities. So, why not create a rocking chair with a generator in it, so that while I lounge there lazily in a semi-catotonic state, at least I can be generating the electricity for my gaming system (or tv, computer, electronic paint dryer, whatever I'm watching at the time). This could be doubly good, as it would force moderate abdominal exercise during the process, and reduce the guilt of being a lazy… Continue

“If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would

only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination,

no more plants, no more animals, no more man.”



This quote has been accredited to Albert Einstein. This is probably untrue.



What is true, however, is that honey bees are vanishing every year, and this… Continue

It's April 2020; planting season.



We're ready this year, a thankful change. It's been... challenging. Getting it all together, making it all work. Learning the ins and outs of self-reliance after a lifetime of depending on others. We nearly starved that first winter. Nearly froze too! There's a lot art in building a sustainable food source, and a sustainable home; and it isn't without its mistakes.



We're doing better every year though. There's a hundred of us now, since that… Continue

Make It Inexpensive



The ma**** have made this priority number one. Poverty requires it, savings promote it, and profit is born from it.



The main demand that shapes our world: We want more, and we want it for less. Less meaning money.



We're smart. No problem. Let's do it.



Let's monocrop. One crop means one of everything. One way to grow it, one way to feed it, one time to water it, one way to pick it, process it,… Continue

Aprilish, 2020



The New Money



"They're currency because they're rare, and they're useful. They're currency because anywhere you go, they equal food."



Traditional money— bills, coins, bank accounts— were a hallmark of the Falling. Their steady drop in value came to shadow the tale of a culture that lost its worth. And when the dust settled, a new form of primate came to roam this earth. One not so fascinated by numbers on paper, a… Continue