Little Green Lies

Today has been interesting. It was my last 12 hour night shift before a well deserved week off. Today is also my travel day, so after working all night I get to sleep for an hour or two before I have to pack up my belongings and head for the airport. I do not have a vehicle in Fort McMurray so I use transit, taxi or my own two feet. It works and is way less hassle than you might think. Suncor provides our transportation to and from site, this helps alleviate much of the traffic on the highway north of town. Once again I find myself going of track...
To make a long story short the airstrip in Comox was fogged in so my homeward flight was diverted to Victoria.  Now I am riding a bus north to Comox.  I spend alot of time on the bus! What a green way to travel right? Well maybe not so much.
Throughout the last couple years I have been interested in and studying the way we live. Let me tell you, the more I learn the more disgusted I become. Green tech is all the rage right? CFL, low flush toilets, low-e windows, high eff gas furnaces and water heaters, fuel efficient trucks with ecoboost 400hp engines, plant based water bottles, green detergents, green cosmetics, the list goes on. Guess what? All that stuff, all that new, cutting edge tech, it's all bullshit. It's all a consumerist fucking lie and society is buying it hook, line and sinker.
All these innovations are patches on a ship that has already sunk.
What I ask of you now is to go to youtube and search a man named Michael Reynolds.  Alternatively type in earthship. You will find some short videos, Ted talks and most importantly a full length video called "Garbage Warrior". Once you have watched a few of these videos you will begin to form an understanding of what real green tech is. We're talking permaculture living. Biotecture. It's an art of passion. It's almost too easy to believe. Total freedom. What a way to live. My dream. A necessity.