mending not ending

1) As I was reading it felt as if I was going along with the narrator on a journey in both Mexico  and Brazil, speaking to me the reader and showing adding images  instead of boring descriptions helped me understand and interpret these passages better.

2) What makes our lives meaningful?

" Here ,on this tiny parcel of land you discover that there are bicycle powered machines, solar ovens, dry compost toilets, humanure and vermicomposting, rain water catchment systems , small scale urban agriculture, and ecobuilding projects, recycled alternative fuels and even a bit of wind power.pg 27" personal I think this answers the question pretty well, for a small place in San Pablo Etla  they are basically living off the grid, they don't need to go to markets, they have all the power they need, no water from big corporations, no power from privatized power plants, its personally what I would want to be able to do except here in America, this place is a wonderland of going green and recycling, mending instead of ending.


Why is information power?

Information is powerful in so many ways, to some it can start a revolution, to others it can open doors to new technologies." We dont want to waste time reinventing the wheel. but we do need to reinvent the wheel.pg 46" sure living in one uniform way  makes living life simple, you wake up , you follow a certain guided plan invented long ago for living a successful , meaning full life. But what if you don't need to follow the herd, in this bit of the story they are working together with lots of other communities and learning, by communicating ideas, the way humans evolved from simple apes.


how do we use information for social change?

In a world filled with consumerism, we use many of the earth resources with out thinking twice about what goes in to your every day products, and then we just throw them away, but it all goes somewhere.we find it easier to just throw something away if it is broken then to just fix it," Up-cycling is the practice of inventing beautiful, and useful , and surprising products out of waste materials. pg 65" if every one practiced this it would make the earth a better place to live in for  OUR future generations. Learning and inventing ways to reuse old stuff is an interesting idea and can easily change everybody ways if they only knew how they could reuse old waste.