"The
appearance of things change according to the emotions, and thus we see magic
and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves."
- Khalil Gibran
Take home – Go Green Guy – Josh Tickell
Josh Tickell is a thought leader in the green
industrial space whose career spans a mix of journalism, innovation and design.
In 1997, after traveling across the United States in a van powered by biodiesel
that he processed in a self-made refinery, he penned the world's best selling
book on biofuel, From the Fryer to the Fuel Tank, which has been sold in over
30 countries and has been credited with the creation of hundreds of successful
large scale biorefineries. His first feature movie, FUEL won the Sundance
Audience Award for Best Documentary, was released theatrically in the United
States and became a global sensation gaining over 1 million viewers on Netflix,
iTunes, Hulu and CNBC.
He consults on issues ranging from new greentech
product launches, to consumer attitudes toward batteries, to legislative
strategies, to operations-wide waste to energy technology installations for
companies such as Green Mountain Energy Resources, Clif Bar, Yum Brands, Audi,
General Motors and William Morris Endeavour. Tickell has been a featured guest
on Jay Leno's The Tonight Show and Good Morning America. He is a regularly
featured opinion leader in news stories on CNN, Discovery, Reuters, NBC, Fox
and NPR. Articles on Tickell, his films, and green energy work have appeared in
the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, USA Today, The Huffington Post, Hustler
Magazine, Maxim Magazine, Popular Mechanics and thousands of international
newspapers and magazines.
Having grown up in and around the oil industry in
Louisiana, Josh Tickell remains actively engaged in the role that oil and gas
operations play in the fate of Louisiana's delicate wetlands. In the aftermath
of Hurricane Katrina, Tickell lead a disaster relief project for which his
nonprofit organization was selected by President William J. Clinton as part of
the Inaugural Clinton Global Initiative on Climate Change.
With his wife Rebecca Harrell Tickell, he co-directed
the recent Cannes Film Festival movie, The Big Fix. The film explores possible
connections between corporate and political malfeasance and the 2010 Gulf of
Mexico oil spill. The filmmaking duo then completed their third film, FREEDOM,
the first movie ever to include a complete road map to wean America off of oil
using affordable, available, scalable and actionable energy solutions.
Picture for the day
Angel Falls, the world’s highest waterfall, is on the
table-top mountain of Auyantepui which means “Mountain of Evil” or “Devil’s
Mountain” in the native Pemon people’s language. This amazing waterfall is
3,212 feet high and plunges 2,648 ft over the edge of the Auyantepui mountain
in the Canaima National Park. It is a UNESCO World Heritage site. Angel Falls
is 19 times higher than Niagria Falls and is one of the 28
finalists in the New 7 Wonders
of Nature competition — in fact it is considered to be a highly
probable winner. Although this famous waterfall is one of Venezuela’s top
tourist attractions, it’s not so easy for the faint of heart to reach.
Traversing through the jungle is a surreal adventure in itself and has been
compared to traveling through a ‘Lost World.’ There is an isolated jungle to
trek, a flight to reach Canaima camp, and then a river trip to reach the base
of the falls. Some adrenaline junkies make this journey for one reason,
adventurous ‘angels’ come to fall off Devil’s Mountain
Wisdom Message
Man is awake and yet not Awake. His wakefulness is
very thin, his wakefulness is almost of no use. He is not asleep, that is true,
but he is not awake either — he is in limbo, in the middle. He has awakened
from the world of animals, but he is fast asleep to the world of gods. Man is a
transitory period. Man is not a being but a becoming — on the way. The past is
left behind and the future is not attained yet. Hence the agony, the anguish:
man is torn apart. The past pulls him back. To be an animal again seems to be
pleasant, and it is, because it has not the agony of man and the anguish and
the anxiety of man.
If you watch the animals you will feel jealous. Walt
Whitman has written it exactly in his diaries that: “Whenever I see animals, I
feel jealous. We have missed something.” We have not missed really, but the
peace, the calm, the collectedness of the animal is lost. The animal is happy
because he is unaware — unaware of death, unaware of the problems of life. The
animal is happy because there is no consciousness. Consciousness first brings
pain, because suddenly you become aware of a thousand and one problems facing
you. You have to encounter them, you have to solve them or dissolve them. All
peace disappears. But human consciousness is still worthwhile. And I don’t
agree with Walt Whitman, I agree with Socrates who say.: “I would like to be a
discontented Socrates rather than a contented pig.” The statement of Socrates
is of immense value. It has to be understood by every seeker, because the goal
is ahead; there is no going back. The pig may look contented — because he is
not aware, not really because he is contented. But to know discontent one needs
consciousness .Josh Tickell holds an undergraduate degree in Sustainable Living
from the New College of South Florida and a Masters in Film from Florida State
University's School of Motion Picture, Television and Recording Arts. --- Osho
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