Zweistein

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  6. Posted

    The world's leading resource for climate change solutions: 
    https://www.drawdown.org/solutions-summary-by-rank

    Summary of Solutions by Overall Rank:
    (If you are unsure, what the terms actually mean - through the link above you can click on each term for an explanation.)

    1 Refrigerant Management

    2 Wind Turbines (Onshore)

    3 Reduced Food Waste 

    4 Plant-Rich Diet

    5 Tropical Forests 

    6 Educating Girls 

    7 Family Planning 

    8 Solar Farms 

    9 Silvopasture 

    10 Rooftop Solar Electricity 

    11 Regenerative Agriculture 

    12 Temperate Forests 

    13 Peatlands 

    14 Tropical Staple Trees 

    15 Afforestation 

    16 Conservation Agriculture 

    17 Tree Intercropping 

    18 Geothermal Electricity Generation

    19 Managed Grazing 

    20 Nuclear Electricity Generation

    21 Clean Cookstoves 

    22 Wind Turbines (Offshore) 

    23 Farmland Restoration 

    24 Improved Rice Cultivation 

    25 Concentrated Solar Electricity Generation

    26 Electric Vehicles 

    27 District Heating 

    28 Multistrata Agroforestry

    29 Wave and Tidal (Electricity Generation) 

    30 Methane Digesters (Large) - Electricity Generation 

    31 Insulation Buildings and Cities 

    32 ShipsTransport 

    33 LED Lighting (Household) 

    34 Biomass (Electricity Generation) 

    35 Bamboo 

    36 Alternative Cement 

    37 Mass Transit 

    38 Forest Protection 

    39 Indigenous Peoples’ Land Management 

    40 Trucks 

    41 Solar Water (Electricity Generation) 

    42 Heat Pumps 

    43 Airplanes 

    44 LED Lighting (Commercial) 

    45 Building Automation 

    46 Water Saving 

    47 Bioplastic Materials 

    48 In-Stream Hydro (Electricity Generation) 

    49 Cars 

    50 Cogeneration (Electricity Generation) 

    51 Perennial Biomass 

    52 Coastal Wetlands

    53 System of Rice Intensification

    54 Walkable Cities 

    55 Household Recycling 

    56 Industrial Recycling 

    57 Smart Thermostats 

    58 Landfill Methane 

    59 Bike Infrastructure 

    60 Composting Food 

    61 Smart Glass (Buildings and Cities) 

    62 Women Smallholders 

    63 Telepresence 

    64 Methane Digesters (Small) 

    65 Nutrient Management 

    66 High-speed Rail 

    67 Farmland Irrigation 

    68 Waste-to-Energy 

    69 Electric Bikes 

    70 Recycled Paper 

    71 Water Distribution 

    72 Biochar 

    73 Green Roofs 

    74 Trains 

    75 Ridesharing

    76 Micro Wind (Electricity Generation) 

    77 Energy Storage (Distributed)

    77 Energy Storage (Utilities) 

    77 Grid Flexibility (Electricity Generation)

    78 Microgrids (Electricity Generation) 

    79 Net Zero Buildings 

    80 Retrofitting (Buildings and Cities) 


     

    More info here:
    https://globalclimatestrike.net/?fbclid=IwAR0P6mPgL12jyw8Zr20ORAosNqUqP1sKrlOumHlkxvlH75iFILH2EmihXpk

  9. Posted

    Lately, I have been observing and contemplating what it is that makes Eckardt Tolle, Byron Katie and Marshall Rosenberg such inspiring communicators and how they tend to intuite the questions it "needs" to get to the core of a problem. There is so much to learn from them just by watching ... for those of you who don't know Marshall Rosenberg:

    Have you noticed how they make people laugh? ??

  13. Posted

    @now is foreverforeverforevforeverforeforforeverforeverforevforeverforever  ⬅ ???

    There are definetely too many reasons to not stick around here for too long, aren't there?

     

    Hi @mandyjw

    Can you explain? Looks like I missed a lot while I was away and I'm afraid I won't have the time to read it all tonight...

    I'm tempted to delete all my content, too, though. ?

     

     

  17. Posted

    5 hours ago, Serotoninluv said:

    This is such a key point. . . 

    It’s easy to get lulled into a sense of “I’ve pretty much got it figured out”. I often remind myself I know an infinitesimal amount in the big picture. Less than one quadrillionth of one quadrillionth. Yet, the mind can subconsciously assume that infinitesimal amount is pretty much it. Many minds can be aware of this happening in others, yet lack awareness  of it happening within their own mind. 

    In the Ox analogy, it maight be like catching a look at the tail and assuming that’s pretty much it. Eith this assumption, the mind may argue against others that are trying to describe other aspects of the Ox.

    ? Yep, and then one realizes that the Ox is much much bigger than previously thought... 

  18. Posted · Edited by Zweistein

    @How to be wise

    P.S. what I don't agree with is how you need to write your original statement. 

    Would you mind trying The Work with your sentence "Leo, you seem rather dogmatic about this"?

    Is that true? Is that really true? How does it make you feel if you believe this thought?

    Sorry for putting you on the spot - I can't help it ? ahhhhh

  19. Posted

    @How to be wise Ok, so maybe we can agree that The Work is helpful, if one is actually stuck in typical "victim thinking", which is basically mostly due to the fact that one actually is judging others to start with. So then, The Work helps to get out of this victim thinking, right? And yes, it helps to take full responsibility for your thoughts and actions. I totally agree. And I also totally agree that you get to a point where you can discard the turnarounds or at least not take them so seriously. But I'm not sure if I communicated my line of thoughts well enough so you understood what I was trying to say... 

     

  20. Posted · Edited by Zweistein

    @How to be wise Hmm, how do I explain this better without sounding arrogant? ? Let me try... but I apologize in advance, if it does sound arrogant after all.

    After asking the 4 questions, you turn your original thought (e.g. "Leo, you seem rather dogmatic") around into e.g. "I seem rather dogmatic" or "Leo does not seem dogmatic at all" and find evidence why that would also be true, right?

    So, once The Work concept is "grained into" your monkeymind, you don't even need to ask the 4 questions, but simply take any statement made by whoever and turn it around and I could, for example, come to the conclusion that your opinion sounds rather dogmatic, right? ? So, you can end up reading all sorts of posts here and keep judging and judging .... until you finally observe that that's what you are doing. ? At least that's how I observed it in my development. (and here we go again, lol ?)

     

    1 hour ago, How to be wise said:

    It always is. The Work has clearly shown me that. Why are you afraid to open yourself up to this?

    Reality is perfect - does this statement have to be true to be at peace with the present moment?

  21. Posted

    19 hours ago, How to be wise said:

    @Leo Gura 

    The Work is a non-mechanical technique. You must answer each of the questions right away. That’s why it’s so powerful.

    I found The Work very powerful, too ( @Leo Gura maybe you can tell us why you don't discuss it much?)

    @How to be wise  I have been doing The Work for several years now and it wasn't until this summer that I realized some drawbacks (actually, I realized them during my discussions  here in the forum).

    For example, one can easily get a bit stuck in "turning it around" thoughts - so you think you can easily see other people's projections but one fails to see how arrogant one gets because you feel like you figured it all out. 

    So, yes - you can easily work away through nasty thoughts/judgements/emotions that pull down your mood (especially when it comes to other people's behavior or situations) and you can get into a state where you rather watch the thoughts fly by, but with that you could also easily fall into the extreme that everything is perfect as it is, when sometimes it just isn't. Nowadays, I find reality somewhere in between - it's hard to describe, hope it makes sense.

  22. Posted

    More and more people are starting to "wake up" ? ? Look, now there are even articles about wrapping paper:

    https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5c1d5c12e4b0407e907af36c?utm_source=qv_fb&utm_campaign=hp_fb_pages&utm_medium=facebook&ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000050&fbclid=IwAR3o07nmMM6b_YTbnWKuBE4Cu9Dcg-l4peOdgfPxghWSbNUNgGIUkQoZTUA&ec_carp=5572750574831427531&guccounter=1

    Significant changes are coming as soon as the number of people (who agree, care and share) is significant enough. ?

     

  23. Posted

    On 19.12.2018 at 6:13 PM, Shiva said:

    A simple change in regulation can fix this. No need for new technology or change in consumer behaviour. 

    Darn, I feel totally triggered :ph34r:

    It definitely needs both, changes in regulations and changes in consumer behaviour.
    How can people in power make more conscious regulations when they are personally stuck in unconscious and/or less conscious behavior patterns?

  25. Posted

    53 minutes ago, Aquarius said:

    Careful with the guidelines tho. :) 

    I know :ph34r: I was just kidding ;-) I promised myself to minimize my pollution in effective altruistic ways, so I will do it here, too.
     

    57 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    We are going to pass the 28th Constitutional Amendment:

    "The right to eat with plastic fork shall not be abridged!"

    As long as it's BPA-free ;-)

    https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jun/16/eu-moves-to-restrict-hormone-disrupting-chemical-found-in-plastics