Oh, dear, Del, who said it was okay to eat carrots??
Vegetables have feelings, also, I am sure, but we just don't know it yet because the research is still in its infancy. We do know for a fact that they prefer classical music!! Unfortunately, though, looking at life that way would quickly lead to starvation!!
We all have to eat something, and fish are really healthy, unless they are a species either at risk of being fished out, or which have been contaminated by pollution of some kind. I know that there are advisories that San Francisco Bay fish and shellfish should be only eaten on a very limited schedule, and not at all by pregnant women, because of the contamination.
I am just trying not to eat fish because I am on a long and sometimes frustrating spiritual journey of some sort, raising my consciousness and trying to be responsible for the death of as few animals as possible.
A nuclear furnace in my old stone house? I don't think so!!! I am trying once more to explain my feelings about this issue, so that you don't think I am a major source of ozone depletion or something. Here is my logic. While I am confident that you can build beautiful, energy efficient houses, I just don't like modern houses at all!!! Well, okay, I like the famous faded redwood houses okay at Sea Ranch, on the Sonoma Coast of California, but they are very special.
I like old houses because they make me feel happy and peaceful. Since I do try to be environmentally aware, who is better to live in an old house than me?? I keep energy usage to reasonable levels, and would rather wear one of those thermal body bags all winter than cause global warming.
In other words, I am exactly the best kind of person you would want living in an old house. Realistically, many houses on earth are hundreds of years old, and people WILL continue to live in them!!! Think of the damage to the landscape and culture and aesthetics if your construction crew came in and just bulldozed them!!! It would be sad, and ugly, from my point of view. The soul of many places would vanish completely.
So while you can furiously build houses for the new multitudes, and I am glad they are solar and efficient and everything, leave me in my old stone house, once I find one, and I promise to be minimally invasive on the earth with it. Okay??
Incidentally, from a technological point of view, I would be curious to find out what you CAN do to modernize an old stone house, and make it as environmentally sound as possible.
Oh, this particular old stone house is funny. I don't like it, but thought you might get a chuckle. I think that when they planted a stone yard, they carried the whole concept too far or something!!!!!!!! Unremitting stone is not beautiful!!!!!!
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Now just one more. This house is modern, and is boxy and exactly what I do not like about most recent architecture. But the funniest thing about it is the backyard--click on "paved garden" and see what I mean:
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These are both totally unclear on the concept of landscaping softening and visually enriching buildings. Can you imagine how weird people would think you were if you constructed a garden in the backyard of the first house, looking like the "paved garden" of the second one? I suspect in small towns, you might be perceived as quite bizarre. |
