XBOX 360, VoIP and Hemp
What do these have in common?
All three are new technologies, all are offering a way of expanding your mind and all three can be expensive.

Wait a minute. Hemp??? A new technology? Well yes and no. Hemp has been around as long or longer than farming and there is a bit of cloth made from hemp that is 8000 years old, so there is nothing new there. What is new is our ability to grow enough hempseed to get enough oil to be made into gasoline and alcohol made from the rest of the plant to replace fossil(dirty oil) fuel.

Climate changes, asthma, endangered wildlife, urban sprawl,soil depletion, ozone depletion,diabetes,obese children,obese adults,heart attacks and a whole host of other ills can be traced back to using cheap fossil fuel to run cars. More cars means more roads, more roads mean wider spacing of people, wider spacing of people means more cars. The loop is closed. The entire loop is run on cheap, but dirty oil. Now that we know it will not last forever we are panicking ( just look at the latest spike in gas prices). Our survival depends on breaking the loop and making it more accountable and sustainable. We can continue to drive vehicles, but if I had my way , they would all be radically changed.
First off, the fuel would be renewable and not quite as cheap, the vehicles would be smaller, light-weight and made from hemp. They would be strong and impact resistant and safe. Next I would incorporate fuel and solar hybrid motors to run them and they would be closer to enclosed motorcycles than the cars we have today If they ran out of gas the could be pedaled to next station. Think of an enclosed 4 wheeled bike with a gas/alcohol/solar motor assist and the body made out of fibregrass instead of fibreglass. The wheels would have to be made stronger than a regular bike to handle the highway and still be durable enough to carry 4 adults and luggage as well as the body and motor and still not weigh alot. Hitch-hiking would be encouraged because laws would be beefed up to allow only vehicles with 2 or more people on the highway. In-city travel could be allowed only for electric vehicles, hence the need for a multi-fuel motor. That would encourage walking, mass transit and cycling (in all it forms)in the large urban centres.
The result would be cleaner air and healthier people (not to mention quieter cities).

Here is the list of things need to pull this off.
1)Laws changed to allow for unlimited hemp production.
2)Laws changed for cities and highway users.
3)A good working vehicle as described and the facilities to produce it.
4)Facilities to process the hemp.
5)Most importantly- the political will to do it.

It is no longer a matter of can we do it, but, will we do it.

Michael J. Kaer, President of Kaer Enterprises (.com) and www.mikesworms.com

Busy!!!

I have been so busy this year, I think I am going crazy. We just finished tearing out the walls of my girlfriend's front room, put new insulation in, put up new drywall , painted it , wired in new plugs and a lighted fan and moved some furniture in whille the carpet was still a little damp from the steam cleaner. I have had all kinds of contractors over to my place and I am going to be tearing my house apart to put it back together better. A federal ellection is going to be called soon here in Canada and I am a delegate for one of the political parties. I have had to travel all over the place to get that work started. When do I have time for finishing up the book and getting it out to the waiting public? I have to run into a slow time soon or it may not be ready till my birthday(Dec.31). With all the other stuff and 4 blogs to feed, I still find time to do a little research.

On my way over to this blog, I ran into a site that has all kinds of equipment that any person looking to prepare for the future would drool over. I will not give out the name of the site till I have had a chance to look it over and email them to see if it is ok to use their name. I don't see why they would not, it's free publicity for them, but still I have to ask.

Here is a small list of things that keep me going when I am busy.

1)Kisses- the holloween type with black strap molasses.
2)kisses- the chocolate type.
3)KISSES- the kind I get from my girlfriend.
4) K.I.S.S.'s from my friends (Keep It Simple Stupid), when I make things complicated.

My girlfriend and my family feed me often because I forget to eat when I am busy.
My spiritual books and groups I belong to keep me sane and productive. I feed myself sweets because I need to treat myself well.
As long as I keep balance in all I do I will be O.K. That should be my motto when I am in a crisis situation. Hope that helps someone.

Michael J. Kaer, President of Kaer Enterprises (.com)and www.mikesworms.com

Change for Survival!

That could sound like a plea from a street-bum and in a sense, that is what a person begging on the streets is actually saying. I am not a bum and I am not living on the streets, but I am asking for a donation from you to me. The donation would be of your time it takes to learn all this "survival-stuff" and the money to set aside to buy some basics right now. If you really want to donate to me, you can. I am looking for equipment and MRE's to test as well as freeze-dried foods. The equipment can be new, like one of those LED lights that I can test for you, and the MRE's and freeze-dried food could be old (like all the stuff you bought for the year 2000). Money is also good. You can send it to my paypal email address at b4kaerbear@hotmail.com .

Here is a list of things I think needs to be changed.

1) Government micro-managing every aspect of our lives.
2) Laws around the growing of industial hemp.
3) Our dependance on big (non-renewable) oil to renewable oil like hemp oil.
4) Our minds from a competitive frame of mind to a co-operative one.

A simple yet powerful list Eh!

Michael J. Kaer ,President of Kaer Enterprises (.com) and www.mikesworms.com