BK 68: (Mar 5, 2024) Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution

Our Mar 5th meeting we will be discussing the book Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution by Peter Kalmus (Jul 10, 2017). With 300 reading pages it is approximately 10 pages a day. 

Check out the Bio, links and videos below: 

"We all want to be happy. Yet as we consume ever more in a frantic bid for happiness, global warming worsens.

Alarmed by drastic changes now occurring in the Earth's climate systems, the author, a climate scientist and suburban father of two, embarked on a journey to change his life and the world. He began by bicycling, growing food, meditating, and making other simple, fulfilling changes. Ultimately, he slashed his climate impact to under a tenth of the US average and became happier in the process.

Being the Change explores the connections between our individual daily actions and our collective predicament. It merges science, spirituality, and practical action to develop a satisfying and appropriate response to global warming.

Part one exposes our interconnected predicament: overpopulation, global warming, industrial agriculture, growth-addicted economics, a sold-out political system, and a mindset of separation from nature. It also includes a readable but authoritative overview of climate science. Part two offers a response at once obvious and unprecedented: mindfully opting out of this broken system and aligning our daily lives with the biosphere.

The core message is deeply optimistic: living without fossil fuels is not only possible, it can be better.

AWARDS

• GOLD (tie) | 2017 IPPY Awards: Books Most Likely to Save the Planet
• SILVER | 2017 Nautilus Book Awards: Green Living / Sustainability
• BRONZE | 2017 Foreword INDIES: Ecology & Environment"
  

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This is what we discussed at the meeting...

* General Impressions of the book

* Section of the Preface

* Language: "Environment" to "Biosphere - dualism vs competition 

* Sustainable Time Scale Object

* Self-Reliance vs Self-Dependence

* Community-Reliance

* Silence not absence but sound of Everything

* Book: It's Ok Your Not Ok

* Meditating

* Soil Enriched

* Biking

* Steady State Economy

* Qi Gong, Tai Chi

* 1700s 5% of Corporation to the community

* Facts in the book

* The Factory in Back of the Yards

* Mindset: World View. 

* Good Footnotes

** If there is anything I have forgotten please let me know.