My American family on the peak of the local mountain, where from we can see Boston.
We helped my cousin to get rid of the leaves from the autumn. Big surface, that’s a lot of work, but when it’s a small farm… It’s interesting that after a job like this, I had a lot of energy, it would have been perfect to visit in the evening Fine Arts Museum, but the traffic…
I don’t understand why in the 60’s, before they started to move in the outskirts of the cities, they hadn’t make a test to see how it would be the life of the people when everyone commutes.
I could see quite often efforts to be more green. If you look carefully you can see the Audi is hybrid, and the car in front of it is a Toyota Prius. The day I came in Boston, my aunt got her new Nissan Leaf, an electric car, 100 miles autonomy, chargeable for free in a couple of places.
But for the moment, instead of setting the charging places in front of the shops, to be visible, so everyone to see and to think that another benefit of such a car is that’s easier to find a spot, there are set at the back of the buildings. Once we spent 5 minutes with the guy at the security, because he couldn’t understand ‘electrical car’.
Massachusetts state goes green. I saw a lot of solar panels, even some farms. My aunt and my cousin installed solar panels from Solar City, the company of Elan Musk. You pay nothing for the installation, and a few for the panels, but you split the harvested energy.
This forest is very young. It has maximum 40 years. Since XVIIth century, New England had a lot of farm, and as they were extending, the forest was cut. In the 60’s, working the field became totally not feasible, so the old farms let the ground neglected. The forest took over, without any human intervention.
This railway was heavily used during the wars. In the 80’s was completly closed. Now they talk to make a cyclable road over it, like our famous RAVel in Belgium.
The nature has a big power to recover, if it is allowed.
>> It’s interesting that after a job like this, I had a lot of energy, it would have been perfect to visit in the evening Fine Arts Museum, but the traffic…
A man living in the middle of the nature is like a fish in a lake with sweet water
Our civilized towns became lakes with steel and concrete
The city people are some sort of mutant fishes walking on the ground
How simple is to get food by milking a goat, taking eggs under your chickens, taking fruits from the tree
How complicated is to get food by typing to a keyboard producing virtual goodies. But it can be do it with a very big converter.
Let’s say I’m a programmer, and my tool-chain is this:
IT school => programmer career / job => software company => teams => market => customers => moneys => salaries => shops => milk and eggs
But hold on. I don’t see the goat in this picture. Should be another converter.
commercial milk <= stores <= transportation <= packing <= processing industry <= collection polluted milk => medicine / doctors / treatments /fitness => health
And so on.
So to have some milk by typing on keyboard you need a town. And many industries around.
Towns are hand-made by humanity from dead nature.
The nature itself is God’s handmade and is alive.
The energy gathered doing work with your cousin in a forest was lost by staying in traffic…
I think is explainable.
I agree with you. There are so many people, working hard, stress dreaming to have a very well payed job, to afford a house with garden, and to struggle to have the time to plant it. And it’s much easier to have a small garden and feed from it.