If you want clean water, then stop buying plastic bottled water.

As much as bottle water seems like a pristine source of clean water. Is it really? First of isn't it a way of monopolizing our precious yet abundant source of water. And by bottling them it is creating plastic waste. Why? Because plastic bottle can only be recycled 7 times after which they become so down graded that they are no longer suitable for use, and of course they end up at the dump. polluting our environment.

Also much of the plastic bottles leaches hormone disrupting chemicals into the water. So they are actually not very healthy.


Water would be clean if we didn't dump so much junk into it.

I remember growing up there were faucets for drinking water in public parks, hallways of bldgs, department stores, etc.
Whatever happened to them. I rarely see them.

Maybe some people would find find carrying water bottle too bulky. Here's an intermediate solution for such:

Platypus collapsible water bottle:
www.rei.com/product/617927

I can think of a zero waste solution other than carrying a glass jar that is 100% recyclable.
The next best thing would be to find a durable enough water container that can be bought, and used almost indefinitely hence not becoming a waste.

Status of tribe...

Still buggy, can't even delete old emails without arriving to the error page.

I wish there was a social network that looked simpler without the over load of graphics,
or videos... that works smoothly.

Here's AMAZING!!

First off,.... Hurray, finally we have a president, that CAN speak intelligently,
and with such rare humility and warmth towards his oppositions.
I think we've a new era coming on.

There's shit loads of work to be done, but we have hope at last!

Anyway aside from that here's something that I find as amazing:

Dr. John Hagelin
www.hagelin.org/

Talking about peace on quantum level:
www.youtube.com/watch

John Hagelin is a quantum physicist that has done some research on "Peace"
from a scientific perspective. I found this guy to be nothing but amazing.

(There are some sketisism surrounding his works. But then think,
who has ever succeeded in anything with having faith in themselves?
If you say you can't, then surely that will be the result that you will draw.)

There are quite a few people that are on to this kinds of work out there.
I picked this particular clip, because I like the way he explains it without getting too complicated

Finally!!

I finally managed to track down a Tibetan national flag in Berkeley.
I had to ask around.
And the OM store on Shattuck had it.
The significance of this is that it is BANNED by the Chinese authority!

Om
2270 Shattuck @ Allstone Way.

TANC.Org

Wake up SF, the Progressive city!!!

I walked down Haight street today, and amongst the many ethnic shops carrying Tibetan stuff,
there was only one store out of maybe or more that carried any massage
about the current affair of Tibet, China, Darfur... I was shocked!
How could these people be so apathetic, and/or ignorant...
I also noticed that they didn't carry any Tibetan flags,
a possession in Tibet can land one in jail.

FreeTibet Myspace Blogger
blog.myspace.com/index.cfm

Tibetans Have Had Enough, Clearly

The Tibetans have been oppressed by the Chinese government since 1950,
they're endured rape, torture, and murder.

Now with the talks about 2008 Chinese World Olympic, thing aren't looking exactly great...

www.freetibet.org/

www.freetibet.org/info/facts/fact1.html

After 50 years, the Tibetans have had enough, and are revolting:
www.youtube.com/watch

They've done peaceful protests in the past, but only to be crushed
by the Chinese authorities... and guess what things reaches a breaking point sometimes

moving to myspace...

It seems that when ever things gets bigger like tribe.net,
it must go through painful growth period.
And finding new ways to accommodate more things.

The page upload takes forever, so I'm moving to myspace.
Myspace has its own issues too, being uber commercial and
owned by the guy who owns Fox news network... evil works.
But I haven't found a anything that works at the moment...
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I'm sure there a better solution... but all I can think of a
good one right now.

Mercury retro grade is upon me

My phone service is mostly dead... it says "No network coverage"

My internet connection is down too.

Everything seems to happen at the same time. I'm just not sure why.

plants - and its season

Here's another thoughts to play with.
I went to Rainbow today and got this herb that I enjoyed making tea with. And I read upon it to see what drew me to it, and it happens to bloom right around my birthday. So the question here is: Does plants fruition/blooming season coincide with people's birth dates as well?

Perhaps botanists and astrologers would be able to come up with a much stronger conclusion than mine, but maybe you can do the same, and pay attention to it's season and how you body reacts to it.

Other factors to consider.
I'm sure there's a cultural aspects too like what you were brought up with(habits, and the body evolving/adapting to diet that your ancestor has gotten used to consuming through many generations.)

Friday the 13th

Speaking of the next Friday the 13th... it happens fall on the dark of the Moon.
Dark of the Moon has always brought interesting things to me
Things seems to calm down quite a bit.