Call me unrealistic, call me naïve: I dream that Palestinians can rebuild their community with sustainable technologies on land that they securely call their own.
First, may every Palestinian have nutrient dense food and clean water, immediately and every day.
May your clinics have sufficient supplies, physicians and nurses. May your children become healers.
May you generate your own energy, access your own water and grow your own nutrient-dense food. Your communications, transportation and banking systems will not depend on Israel’s leaders, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg or international supply chains. Palestinians will control these systems, and they’ll be biodegradable. They will not be toxic or emit electromagnetic radiation.
May the late Jerry Mander’s eight attitudes toward technology support your designs.
May forums with Palestinian homemakers, engineers, architects, construction workers and physicians who welcome questions and observations guide what you create. May the world watch in awe as you build a sustainable society.
ENERGY
Avoid large-scale generation (and distribution) powered by fossil fuels, solar PVs or industrial wind turbines. Avoid large-scale battery storage. Go for small systems that keep power and distribution local.
If you electrify homes by solar energy, keep to low-voltage direct current (LVDC) with a 48-volt battery. With direct current, you don’t need inverters to alternating current (AC)—and that saves energy. Use DC appliances commonly used by boats and motor homes.
Solar photo voltaics (PVs) are not perfect. Beware of their drawbacks.
May every household have a biodigester. A biodigester turns kitchen scraps and human or animal manure into liquid fertilizer and methane gas. 20 million Chinese families (and some American schools) use this waste-generated methane for cooking fuel and/or to power generators. One day of one household’s waste can generate enough methane to cook for two hours.
See How to make biogas at home with a biogas digester, Mother Earth News; Building a Biodigester with T.H. Culhane, and Food waste audit at the University of Florida BioEnergy Summer School 2007.
Biodigesters work for households and school cafeterias.
For industrial applications, I don’t know of an ecologically-sound energy system.
FOOD
May every household have at least two insulated raised garden beds with soil that’s 40% compost and 60% amendments (coconut coir, perlite, pumice, rice hulls, expanded shale, humus, worm castings, biochar, feather meal, fishbone meal, blood meal, alfalfa meal, oyster shell, metamorphosed evaporite, flax seed meal, cotton seed meal, dried molasses, kelp meal, azomite, potassium sulfate, limestone, yucca extract, and mycorrhizae). In winter, water condenses within the tents. The garden needs water only once every two weeks.
Consider geothermal-powered greenhouses.
May the midwives and herbalists among you grow herbs for your community—and make them into tinctures and salves.
May teenagers build solar ovens. May they learn to cook grains, beans, chicken and bread in them. Check out solar cookers & greenhouses in Gaza. Check out Solar Cookers International.
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Go for wired telecom infrastructure to every household. Go for infrastructure that you control—not Pelephone, not Cellcom, not Israel’s prime minister, not Elon Musk (who controls lots of satellites). You cannot localize mobile, wireless systems. I know, I know—people love their smartphones. But if you want control of your communications, use copper wires or fiber optics. Wired systems are much simpler than mobile systems: you can keep them local.
Manufacturing mobile devices and operating access networks and data storage centers demand multiple extractions, guzzle energy, guzzle water and generate toxic waste.
Mobile devices and cellular antennas generate electromagnetic radiation that harms public health and wildlife.
Mobile devices are vulnerable to hacking.
Mobile devices are addictive. Children are especially vulnerable to behavioral problems from too much screen-time. (Instead of social media, may they build insulated raised beds and solar ovens. May they plant gardens.)
TRANSPORTATION
Focus on bicycles powered by human muscle. Nothing electric—because manufacturing e-vehicles requires extractions and smelting and water. Charging EVs demands outrageous amounts of power and overheats nearby transformers. Plus, EVs generate hazardous waste. They don’t biodegrade, and they’re fire hazards.
STORIES
May you have book and tool-lending libraries.
May the world learn Palestinian history. I’ve learned from documentaries includeng: 1948: Creation and Catastrophe: A Documentary about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.
Tantura: about one alleged massacre (of 300-400) committed in 1948 in one Palestinian village—and the Jewish researcher who wrote about it. “If you love Israel,” filmmaker Alon Schwartz said in 2022, “hold it accountable.”
Palestine 1920: The Other Side of the Palestinian Story shows that a century ago, Palestine was a thriving economic and cultural center.
Have a good laugh with Palestinian-American comedian Sammy Obeid.
The Long Way Home tells the story of Holocaust survivors’ efforts, from 1945-1948, to make a home for themselves—and most countries did not welcome them. When the UK and the UN turned Palestine into a Jewish state (and 750,000 Palestinians suddenly became refugees), layers of generational trauma added to the European Holocaust.
May everyone who wants to tell their stories have paper and pens, canvas and paint, theaters and drums and musical instruments of all kinds.
RE-CONSTRUCTION
Palestinian architect Yara Sharif imagines using Gaza’s rubble to rebuild.
May the mechanically-inclined among you restore discarded devices and appliances.
May your engineers build biodegradable tools. May they turn discarded and unused batteries into generators.
TRANSFORMED SOCIETIES
Abandoned as a child, Kenyan Charles Mully adopted 2000 African children, found water and turned a dusty plot into an oasis.
When the USSR suddenly stopped exporting oil to Cuba in 1989, the country spent three years learning how to grow food and use much less energy. They stopped using cars, turned parking lots into farms and bought bicycles. Watch “The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil.”
Good farming generates water! Read Understanding Soil Health and Watershed Function: A Teacher’s Manual by Didi Pershouse, 2017.
May the world’s gardeners send you heirloom flower and vegetable seeds.
Thank you, dear Sister, for laying out how it should be everywhere. You are not naive, you are articulating our sacred responsibility to care for peace, for the perpetual well-being of children, and elders, and Mother Earth before all else. To the best of your ability, you are walking the path that your dear friend and guide Jerry Mander laid out for us in his brilliant, 'In The Absence Of The Sacred' (1991). I recognize many of the people he thanked for guiding him during his 10 years in writing that book, mostly Indigenous knowledge-holders, many of whom are still with us today. Jerry articulated the contrast between Peoples who hold sacred their Life-affirming kinship with one another and All That Is versus people with the mindset loyal to the system of domination and its patterns of dehumanization, slaughter, slavery, starvation, removal, erasure, control, hierarchy, plunder, and extraction, that, for hundreds of years, has been carried out across continents against populations they deem inferior or subhuman. The horror we are witnessing today is an old story of unspeakable atrocities, but also the story of the survival, resilience, and perseverance of people. Inspiring stories are emerging alongside a very familiar self-destructive story - the fall of empires - nations and peoples paying the price for thinking they could dominate other people and the planet, fools disconnected from reality and the Life-affirming values and ethics and timeless ways of knowing required to thrive in perpetuity.
Wish this dream for Palestine would come true everywhere!
Reiterating for the sake of newbies and to support this post.
I have a landline and a wired laptop and a wired monitor screen, all the tech anyone should ever want or need. I never had and refuse to ever have one of those infernal mobile devices that are designed to enslave you.
THEY want you dead or a slave every which way from Sunday and AI, wireless gadgets and 5G/6G are major components in THEIR arsenal.
A vast majority of so-called leaders and Public 'Serpents' around the world have been bribed, blackmailed/coerced into serving the interests of their technocratic New World Ordure parasite masters and not We the People.
GREED is behind every evil assailing us in the world!
We the People must try harder to live by The Golden Rule, doing so would solve most problems!
Everything is much worse and certainly including 'deaths of despair', all by malicious calculated design.
The demonic despots of Davos at it again! They are behind everything bad! At it for decades and cronies like The Rothschilds and the Black Nobility and The Khazarian Mafia have been plotting planetary domination for centuries! ALL BECAUSE OF AVARICE!
Apoplectic livid rage hardly describes the intensity of emotions I have had and am having over what these malignant parasites are perpetrating!
There is no noxious crime that the evildoers desiring to lord it over us won't commit to maintain their stranglehold on power. A groundswell critical mass resistance to their murderous enslavement plans is needed urgently!
THEY can't get rid of the 'useless eaters' fast enough! Mistakes were not made, it was always malice aforethought.
CLIMATE CHANGE IS AN EVEN WORSE FRAUD THAN THE PLANSCAMDEMIC! SO-CALLED GREEN TECH IS A GIGANTIC SCAM! MINING AND MANUFACTURING 'GREEN' PRODUCTS NEEDS COAL, GAS AND OIL AND MINING RARE MINERALS IS MORE ENVIRONMENTALLY TOXIC AND DESTRUCTIVE THAN LEGACY PRODUCTS. SCREW YOUR DAMNED AGENDA! https://climateviewer.com
Too many 'sheeple' are brainwashed to blindly obey authority figures on the media or in daily life in corrupt system ruled by control freak psychopaths who use propaganda lies to enslave their subjects and they are dumbed down to be obedient by 'education' institutions. Fortunately I was raised to question everything. This transcends party lines. We need a system that punishes psychopaths and rewards compassion and sharing, we need a system that actually follows The Constitution in reality.
I DO NOT COMPLY! NEVER HAVE, NEVER WILL!
My loathing of AI and all things NANO and digital knows no bounds!
There is no noxious crime that the evildoers desiring to lord it over us won't commit to maintain their stranglehold on power. A groundswell critical mass resistance to their murderous enslavement plans is needed urgently!
Kudos to Katie Singer's heroic efforts and success in the struggle. We the People must always be aware of the existential threats lurking behind this fight!
There is a fate worse than death - I would rather die than be a robotized slave of technocratic overlords! This is my hill to die on!
How I stick my thumb in the eyes of the grotesque billionaire bastards pushing their enslavement agenda and how I embrace being fully human.
Fighting the globalist predator technocrat psychopath megalomaniac TOTAL SLAVERY AGENDA one performance at a time!
Amazing Amy: Eccentric Yoga Entertainer!
As an entertainer, I have been devastated and practically destroyed by the closure of all performance venues and then when they reopened, because MY BODY, MY CHOICE - being made a total untermenschen pariah outcast in NAZI NIGHTMARE LAWLESS 'SHOW ME YOUR PAPERS' JAB CROW APARTHEID/DISCRIMINATION/SEGREGATION HELL NYC WHERE THE MAD/DRUNK WITH POWER TYRANT POLS DOUBLE DOWN ON THEIR ILLEGAL MANDATES. I am trapped here with zero financial resources to leave or do anything else about this 'wish I were dead' endless misery life has become. The tragic irony is that my SPREAD THE YOGA LOVE performances are all about health, miraculously overcoming age (68) and injury to achieve feats of flexibility few can attain at any age. So BIG PHARMA who wants to addict every person on the planet to their toxic products hate people like me who prove that we do not need them if we eat healthy organic food and exercise daily!
https://www.reverbnation.com/artist/amazingamycontortionistuniqueyogadancer
I try and live and embody the creative performing artistic world and life I so fervently want existence to be about.
They can stick their f*cking damned NANO, Digital IDs, AI, jabs and chips up their asses where the sun don't shine!
All manner of lies and propaganda spew forth from the upper echelons in governments worldwide who are completely intertwined with the global criminal ruling class that wants to commit the worst atrocities imaginable and suffer no consequences. And their corruption slithers down the chain of command creating petty tyrants everywhere.
Supporting this excellent post with a statement and useful links. https://virustruth.net
We the People are facing HORRIFYING TECHNOCRATIC PSYCHOPATHY TO DESTROY HUMANITY AND ALL NATURAL LIFE!
It was NEVER about health! The Powers That Should Not Be were ALWAYS about they want you DEAD or a SLAVE! This is a painful truth to accept but we the people must wake up and fight back!
We must never lose sight of the larger picture of the vile malignance we are fighting against.
CLIMATE CHANGE IS AN EVEN WORSE FRAUD THAN THE PLANSCAMDEMIC! SO-CALLED GREEN TECH IS A GIGANTIC SCAM! MINING AND MANUFACTURING 'GREEN' PRODUCTS NEEDS COAL, GAS AND OIL AND MINING RARE MINERALS IS MORE ENVIRONMENTALLY TOXIC AND DESTRUCTIVE THAN LEGACY PRODUCTS. SCREW YOUR DAMNED AGENDA!
There is an insidious global ruling class plot to enslave all life on earth behind all the madness and suffering inflicted on We the People.
How to fight back against this TOTAL SLAVERY!
RESIST! DO NOT COMPLY! DITCH THE DAMNED 'SMART' PHONES AND THE DAMNED QR CODES AND GO BACK TO LANDLINES OR FLIP PHONES AND USE CASH AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE! INSIST ON CASH! CBDC IS TOTAL SLAVERY!
Other than getting rid of nuclear weapons which I support 100% the rest of the anti-nuclear peace movement and CLIMATE CRISIS propaganda is parroting UN utter GARBAGE, a complete surrender to the ENSLAVEMENT AGENDA by the diabolical despots of Davos - ruling class criminals who lust for total power and control and all of whom should be tried and jailed for life and their malign organizations dismantled: the UN, the WEF, the IMF, the WHO, the BIS, NATO, Blackrock, Vanguard, The Rockefellers, the Rothschilds, The Bilderbergers, the CFR et al.
There is an evil predator globalist technocratic elite agenda of eugenics/depopulation/genocide using bioweapon poison jabs, war, geoengineering, EMF radiation, starvation and economic collapse - THE GREAT RESET/AGENDA 2030/4TH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION to get rid of billions of 'useless eaters' and to use nano tech to turn the survivors into ROBOTIZED COMPLIANT SLAVES! WAKE UP AND RESIST! DO NOT COMPLY! These are psychopath megalomaniacs who want to play god by turning all life into digitized metaverse mechanistic synthetic biology to be manipulated by their AI algorithms. A more demonic sickening idea is nearly impossible to imagine!
APPALLED AND HORRIFIED AT INSANE TYRANNICAL PROTOCOLS THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH HEALTH AND EVERYTHING TO DO WITH TOTALITARIAN CONTROL! REVERSE THIS NOW!
MAKE THE WORLD AND AMERICA 2019 (comparatively speaking), AND FREE AGAIN!
NO, I AM NOT AFRAID OF THE MORONIC SCARIANT SHMARIANT MONKEYSHINES! WAKE UP ALREADY!
TOTALLY CONDEMN BIDEN AND ALL OTHER POLS WHO HAVE NO POWER TO LAWLESSLY ACT LIKE AN EMPEROR OR DICTATOR AND DECREE JAB CROW 'SHOW ME YOUR PAPERS' FASCIST SEGREGATION/DISCRIMINATION/APARTHEID VIOLATIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION, THE NUREMBERG CODES AND EVERY CIVIL RIGHT IMAGINABLE.
NO GREEN NEW DEALS OR BUILD BACK BETTER FROM THE CRIMINAL TECHNOCRAT TYRANTS KLAUS SCHWAB AND HIS CRONIES FROM THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM.
STOP THE TERRIBLE TYRANNY OF THE TECHNOCRATS GLOBAL AGENDA OF TOTAL SURVEILLANCE AND CONTROL USING THE VIRUS AS EXCUSE AND PROPAGANDA TOOL!
NO MUZZLING STIFLING MASK MANDATES! NO FORCED VACCINES! END TORTUROUS DEVASTATING LOCK DOWNS NOW! I WANT MY LIFE BACK.
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