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Phantom loads, sometimes called vampire loads or standby loss, are all those little things around your house that are on 24/7. Even though the watts may be low, it's the watt-hours that count. For example, the clock on most people's microwave consumes more energy in a day than the actual microwave oven use itself. The average U.S. household has about 40 - 60 Watts of continuous phantom loads running day in and day out. This equals about 4 percent of the total electricity use of the average U.S.… Continue

So too, music has power to ease tension within the heart and to loosen the grip of obscure emotions. The enthusiasm of the heart expresses itself involuntarily in a burst of song, in dance and rhythmic movement of the body. From immemorial times the inspiring effect of the invisible sound that moves all hearts, and draws them together, has mystified mankind.

(#16 "Enthusiasm" from the I Ching, Bollingen Edition)

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This is a somewhat random listing of some of the most interesting and informative resources for sustainability that I have come across. Make your own lists, or add your feedback to anything I post. Think of it as the beginning of an eventual "wiki" based resources guide - a virally created internet version of the Whole Earth Catalogue.

So, in no particular order -

Urban/Community Organic Gardening:

City Slicker Farms in West Oakland,… Continue

" . . . that there is from the beginning nothing requiring explanation or commentary; and further, that Mind is not a somewhat belonging to the realm of empirical consciousness, and therefore not an object of mental comprehension."
- D. T. Suzuki

"For sin means finite beings' helplessness of transcending themselves. And if this be the case, to get rid of sin will be to abandon themselves to the care of an infinite being; that is, to desist from attempti… Continue