16 Jun 2008

This one will get me noticed...

A philosophical musing on the subject of energy.

I’m reading this book. It’s bloody good and I’d recommend it to anyone – including you Grandad, there’s a part in it that made me think of you. (Revenge of Gaia - link on the left). Among other things, it talks clearly about the different energy options we have and our relationship to electricity. On Saturday, I had a timely reminder of my relationship with it when I was meant to be teaching 2 computer classes and “no hay luz” – no electricity from 3 am until the afternoon. That was quite a long one, but every week in some way or another we have an outage and I’m starting to understand: just how much we take for granted, how we feel in control over our energy, and how it affects a nation’s psyche – You can’t hold anyone to anything, and with good reason frankly. Constant outages lead to this feeling of impotence and lack of control – you never know when, or how long. And when the water goes too that’s when you start to feel they’re doing it on purpose…

I’ll be honest, I’ve been surprised thus far that the blog’s not been head hunted by the Guardian and I’ve not been offered all sorts of money for serialising my experiences… isn’t that what happens with blogs? I reckon this one’s the clincher though. I’ll let you know

1 comment:

sudders said...

Don't get your hopes up just yet...
http://technorati.com/search/http://rebsnicaragua.blogspot.com/

Although, you got some stuff through from NCB yesterday, and you feature in Associate News (more about that on the phone) and http://www.citizenship-pieces.org.uk/archive/story/?ID=214 and
http://www.thpct.nhs.uk/news/index.aspx?pid=125&newsid=354
took an interest in the Fair Trade angle. Any more coffee news?

L x