GOOD NEWS: I have moving footage shot with a digital camcorder backed up on tapes.
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I woke up in a terrible mood. It was raining and the wind blew loudly outside of my window.
I snapped out of my funk after few of Solheimar´s residents performed in a recital after lunch.
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I spent several hours creating my ´Vision of Sustainability,´ which expresses what I have learned while staying in Iceland. I made a sculpture that represents a sustainable community with objects I found as litter. The items are litter no longer.
The written information around sculpture explains concepts behind voluntary simplicity, or living in a minimalistic manner in reverence of environmental issues.
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Quote from Pali when we were on a 20 kilometer hike in 40 degree weather:
´Are you cold (question mark) Cold is a state of mind.´
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I had a conversation with a bearded fellow named Hrannar who studies forestry and a Dutch volunteer named Selene who stays in the house with me at Solheimar. Hrannar told me how clovers and certain trees put nitrogen into soil to make it rich with nutrients to grow other plants.
He also told me about how mushrooms compare to humans in that fungus is more like us than it is like plants.
Hrannar says a typical American makes enough waste to equal 70 other people´s waste.
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