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Going green, however media and marketing driven it may be, is both an environmental responsibility and a financial burden. As a biology student, I’v been both amused and infuriated at the reaction of people to the wealth of information concerning global warming’s impact on our world’s biodiversity. At best, I’v been told that, although people want to go green they just can’t handle the initial financial impact. At worst, they write it off as liberal antics. As this video shows, solar panels can be quite expensive. But hope is on the horizon with a solar ink that, hopefully, can be printed on rolls of solar luvin’ that will not only reduce our carbon footprint but, will save the consumer some seriously needed dough in a tough economic downtime. It seems we could be in a unique position that could pacify the economic concerns of the consumer and ecological concerns of the tree hugin’ hippies.
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So, I recently came across this whole 2012 fiasco and I decided to do a little research on it. The year 2012 and specifically December 21, 2012 is the abrupt end of the Mayan astronomical calendar - sited to be THE most accurate calendar to date, no pun intended. The Mayan people were obsessive sky watchers and based there calendar on the cyclic nature of the cosmos. What interested me in this abrupt end to their calendar was that the I Ching - one of the oldest chinese text and set of predictions represented by a set of 64 abstract line arrangements called hexagrams - came to the same abrupt end on December 21, 2012. How did two cultures on separate sides of the planet come to this same conclusion? What is going to happen to life on this winter solstice in 2012? No one knows - does NASA? Well, it turns out 2012 is a pretty significant date for our little solar system. On 2012, our solar system is scheduled to intersect the galactic equator of the Milky Way galaxy which could lead to a polar shift - north becomes south and vice versa. There will also be four lunar eclipses, also known as blood moons, and two solar eclipses. All of the eclipses fall on the start of jewish religious feasts. An interesting verse in Revelations evokes an erie foreboding - “I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red…” Revelation 6:12 (emphasis mine). CRAZAY!!! I know, it freaked me out to. What is of the most concern is the expected polar shift that in some way is already under way and expected to culminate as we pass the galactic equator. This polar shift coupled with a predicted intense solar storm cycle could lead to some massive global disasters. Check out the video to get some interesting info on the polar shift and solar storms.
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My initial reactions to this information concerned me and made me examine life a little closer. First, I was oddly excited about the end of the planet. This strange human characteristic is predicated in the fact that we approach life in finite terms. We have a beginning and an end and we simply want to know what happens at the end. We see this same phenomena in the Y2K scare. People, on some level, wanted to see what happens to life after impending doom. Second, the idea made me ask, “What I would do If there was only four years left to live?”. This changes everything from love to work. Material wants lose any significance they once had. I started to hold an outward focus rather than a hedonistic inward ambition. The jury is still out on whether life is over in 2012 and I will continue to post as info becomes available, but for now consider the deeper questions that the apocalypse concept evokes.
