The idea of saving the world's economy through chocolate appealed to me. Here's another crazy idea from Thomas Friedman's column in the NY Times.
He's writing about a ride through the Indian countryside in a plug-in car with a solar-powered road show thrown in. One of the comments from a witness to the trip goes like this:
“Why this mad, insane plan to travel across India in a caravan of solar electric cars and jatropha [a bio fuel] trucks with solar music, art, dance and a potent message for climate solutions? Well ... the world needs crazy ideas to change things, because the conventional way of thinking is not working anymore.”
*** At the end of the month I'm going to Okinawa and will look at their wind powered electricity farm and fresh water from the ocean desalination station.
*** Here in Hino, about one house in ten already has solar water heating equipment on the roof.
*** Out in Yamanashi, I have a friend who gets money from the electric company--they buy his extra solar power from his roof top generator.
Okinawa Looks Like This
Peaceful: a beautiful place for a walk
自己紹介
- Chura
- Born and raised in the USA (NJ), I’ve spent most of my adult life in Japan. One of my favorite places in Japan is Okinawa. To me, Okinawa is a land of stories and an island of music, magic and mystery. The music is shima-uta, songs sung to the rhythm of a three-stringed lute called a sanshin. The magic is in the colors of land, sea and sky. The mystery? Mystery begins where the line between legend and verifiable human memories begins to blur. I am a member of the Archaeological Institute of America, chapter chief of a sanshin study society, and a founding member of the Marine Culture Research Association of Okinawa.