[Greenbuilding] Martha Stewart

Fri Feb 11 12:23:17 CST 2011

Hey Gennaro,

Just ran across a picture of the neatest living wall, and I'd like to share 
it with you. How about your e-mail address?

Ron

roncascio at verizon.net

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gennaro Brooks-Church" <info at ecobrooklyn.com>
To: "Green Building" <greenbuilding at lists.bioenergylists.org>
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 7:52 AM
Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] Martha Stewart

> Ron,
> This conversation is moot since we are trying to predict the future.
> So it's anyone's opinion.
> I really don't care if the human race lives in space. But to say it
> isn't going to happen in my opinion puts you in the long line of
> people who said planes wouldn't fly, CD's wouldn't work, and
> telephones wouldn't last.
> You comment reminds me of when the steam engine was first used in a
> train. There were doctors who seriously worried that the human body
> would rattle apart at such high speeds. We just weren't built for
> those speeds.
>
> My main point here is that the human race and life in general is WAY
> to complex for us to simply dismiss a possibility as cooky. And the
> fact that we regularly go into space, that the human culture openly
> accepts space travel as normal, and that people are investing
> trillions into it makes me think it is going to happen. But go ahead,
> call us kooky. You won't be the first to call me that. My success in
> life is actually very much founded on doing what others think is kooky
> until the rest of the world realizes it's not that kooky after all. By
> that time I'm the ticket seller both financially and authoritatively.
> Since I'm driven by idealism it is always a nice feeling at the end of
> the day.
>
> Gennaro Brooks-Church
>
> Cell: 1 347 244 3016 USA
> www.EcoBrooklyn.com
> 22 2nd St; Brooklyn, NY 11231
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 6:08 AM, Ron Cascio <roncascio at verizon.net> wrote:
>> So you put living walls, green roofs, salvaging bricks, and moving humans
>> (who have evolved to the certain specs of this specific planet) 
>> permanently
>> to other planets in the same box?
>>
>> Pardon me Gennaro, but that's just kooky. ;-)
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gennaro Brooks-Church"
>> <info at ecobrooklyn.com>
>> To: "Green Building" <greenbuilding at lists.bioenergylists.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 9:44 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] Martha Stewart
>>
>>
>> I've had living walls and space travel labeled a joke this week on
>> this list. I remember being told green roofs were a joke. I got called
>> an idiot just three years ago for salvaging bricks from a dumpster.
>> Laugh on.
>>
>> Gennaro Brooks-Church
>>
>> Cell: 1 347 244 3016 USA
>> www.EcoBrooklyn.com
>> 22 2nd St; Brooklyn, NY 11231
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Racheli Gai
>> <racheli at sonoracohousing.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> It's a joke, but a sinister one. It keeps many people's gaze on places 
>>> far
>>> away, rather than caring
>>> for the ground under their feet. It also means that lots of money is 
>>> spent
>>> chasing BS dreams, while
>>> we have homeless people; untold numbers with not enough to eat, etc. 
>>> etc.
>>>
>>> Racheli.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Feb 10, 2011, at 5:48 PM, Ron Cascio wrote:
>>>
>>>> Any kind of escape to another planet is simply a joke. Nothing more.
>>>> Let's
>>>> move on to something accomplishable.
>>>>
>>>> Ron
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Corwyn" <corwyn at midcoast.com>
>>>> To: "Green Building" <greenbuilding at lists.bioenergylists.org>
>>>> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 6:25 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] Martha Stewart
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On 2/10/2011 1:47 PM, Gennaro Brooks-Church wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Corwyn my opinion is that we are not at the point where we can
>>>>>> calculate numbers or make any conclusion about whether we can or can
>>>>>> not colonize other planets. The technology is not there. But if the
>>>>>> last century is any indication we could be at a very different
>>>>>> technological point in another 100 years (whether we are space
>>>>>> travelling or living in caves is another question).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Also, I never said anything about saving the people on earth. I 
>>>>>> simply
>>>>>> said the survival of the human race.
>>>>>
>>>>> Perhaps I just think that the idea of murdering 6 Billion people so 
>>>>> that
>>>>> a few elitist humans can escape their self-made Armageddon to go live 
>>>>> in
>>>>> a hell-hole of another planet, isn't worth hoping for.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any technology insufficient to help this planet, won't allow anyone to
>>>>> live on another one.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank You Kindly,
>>>>>
>>>>> Corwyn
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Topher Belknap
>>>>> Green Fret Consulting
>>>>> Kermit didn't know the half of it...
>>>>> http://www.greenfret.com/
>>>>> topher at greenfret.com
>>>>> (207) 882-7652
>>>>>
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