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People should not be forced to live indoors. Blanket Laws prohibiting "illegal lodging" and similar non-housing "crimes" must be eliminated and replaced by those listing specific areas only. Housing is extremely costly on every level from time-exchange to habitat destruction and human alienation from our natural world. People, who for whatever reason, prefer to live outside in contact with their surroundings must not be criminalized. To do so only damages their capacity to create and jams up the system.

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• A comment on Conversation: Anticipating that we are in the Anthropocene, How shall we proceed?

  Apr 18 2012: The clerics tell us that Armaggedon
  Is where this earthly worlds ahead'n
  It seems that prophets (e)schatological,
  And fiery preachers rhetorical,
  And even mystics poetical,
  Must all be antithetical.
  Apparently all the blood and theft and war
  Burning homes and children dying out of doors
  Is going to be resolved at last-
  By more of the same, hot and fast!

• A reply on Conversation: Anticipating that we are in the Anthropocene, How shall we proceed?

  Apr 17 2012: Now that I have garage band I can put it to music.(when I figure it out!) I'll work on a chorus. I studied enough hymnology it's second nature. Fell free to use it how you want.(just give me credit!)

• A comment on Conversation: Anticipating that we are in the Anthropocene, How shall we proceed?

  Apr 16 2012: Can't resist giving you another poem from the same lot of ten years ago
  
  Illegal Lodgiing
  Illegal lodging, So they say
  Is what a bum does
  When he has no place to stay
  
  (It would be alright
  In a motorhome all shiny-brite,
  For a rich man to sleep wherever he might)
  
  But one who hasn't got the cash to pay
  Some landlord who hasn't found a way
  To collect a fat fire insurance Christmas day
  
  Will find himself in a dingy cell
  (just one step up from hell)
  Paid for him by someone who yells,
  He's costing us a fortune!

• A comment on Conversation: Anticipating that we are in the Anthropocene, How shall we proceed?

  Apr 16 2012: Found some poetry I wrote ten years ago-it fits!
  Do you remember when old Bellamy
  Spoke a new date for you and me-
  
  An earth with neither slave nor hell?
  He got it wrong-we got Orwell!
  
  I think he was innocent in the telling
  But now we know- so why the Selling?
  The truth we sought is now a lie
  Forget the sky- I want my pie!
  
  Lease and riot in the buy and buy
  (I hope I get it all before I die)
  Looking back they had it right
  All hail the neo-luddite!

• A reply on Conversation: Anticipating that we are in the Anthropocene, How shall we proceed?

  Apr 16 2012: Got the jagged edge ground down so at least I can eat! Had to approach dangerously close to large urban population center however. (ha!) you have to experience the heavy hand of police surveillance to appreciate it. I don't mean to lay a heavy " you straight people don't know what it's like trip" but the "cops"(border patrol, local sherries, park rangers,etc) have a profile (prejudice) and if you fit it they just never lay off. It was rain turning to snow as I left the dentist so I set out for a site on BLM land about 5 miles away that I had camped on many times over 8 years ago. In less than 24 hours I was accosted 5 times by border patrol and was finally told it was OK to stay there! Of course it was OK it's a legal camping area. They also spotlighted me repeatedly all night. Why couldn't they just check the plates( thereby knowing me, my non record,etc) and go on their way? Did they really think I was going to load up illegals in a bright blue 33 ft school bus? I'd
  Love to live in a more urbanized area for a while to take advantage of the interactions but I can't take the harassment. Why isnt there some place for those of us on the road to go in the city without worrying about losing it all? Back to the desert for me.

• A reply on Conversation: Anticipating that we are in the Anthropocene, How shall we proceed?

  Apr 11 2012: Just broke a tooth so ill get back to you;(

• A reply on Conversation: Anticipating that we are in the Anthropocene, How shall we proceed?

  Apr 11 2012: I suppose thats what most religions and philosophies have proposed. I like the saying, "be the change you wish to see". I don't know if "tough love" is the same!

• A reply on Conversation: Anticipating that we are in the Anthropocene, How shall we proceed?

  Apr 11 2012: Or someone from slab city to close the loop:). Having lived in two distinct dystopian communities(religious fundamentalism and anarcho-nihilism) I have to believe that nothing beats an ideology and ideologies are almost indestructible. As I sit here I am not optimistic except in the vaguely mystical sense of "well, I guess it will all work out somehow". With half the worlds population following religions that don't predict a good ending it seems futile to expect them to "get on board" with ANY proposal to improve things! "technology", the application of "science" , is relatively free of ideology, but science itself gets filtered through ideology and whatever doesn't fit is just thrown out. I need more time to consider the three futures, but like mark they seem too narrow. Very likely all three ( and more?) will occur at the same time for quite a while. These futures will as likely be distributed geographically. Why have an enormous military except to keep the others systems away?
  I don't like the title of "liberal" for the first option but since that is the path we appear to be on now, and because that is where the money and power is now it seems likely that it will be the dominant outlook unless some large force changes it. The ecological is opposed by the other two extremely powerful forces and so might be in the weakest position and the least likely to win out.
  It occurs to me that I've experienced the dystopian, the ecological, and I've been tending towards the "liberal". It might be a case of if you can't beat em, join em. There is no doubt that the L ( shouldn't it be more properly called the Technological?) is the big guy in the room. Im a self trained designer having read 10,000 books, a third of them technical. I have boxes and boxes of tools in the bus and I know how to use most of them.

• A comment on Conversation: Why has "green consumption" of sustainable products (e.g. Whole Foods, Toyota Prius) not permeated electricity consumption?

  Apr 9 2012: 16) There may be lower profit margin on green products(fewer products sold, more costly materials and processes, need to change consumer, etc)
  17) manufacturers dont want their other products to appear inferior in comparison.
  18) manufacuries market them as specialty products(not for ordinary people)
  19) people promoting green products are perceived as goofballs.
  20) talk radio

• A comment on Conversation: Why has "green consumption" of sustainable products (e.g. Whole Foods, Toyota Prius) not permeated electricity consumption?

  Apr 9 2012: 11)there arent any green options(jacuzzi pumps, power tools,toasters,etc
  12) they dont care or believe the green movement is sinister.
  13) they dont believe their actions will make any difference
  14)Theyre tired of being lectured andwant to do what they want at home.
  15)they just buy more products with their savi ngs. "look, imdoing more with same amt")