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My Power Station

My new sales and energy management web site is up and running. Take a look at http://www.mypowerstation.biz/

My Power Station concerns internal (personal) and external (relationships, electricity) energy. Both of these types of energy are renewable, ie can and should be renewed.

Renewed implies a time limit. The time limit should be reasonably short, eg 1 month to 10 years. Fossil fuel energies are "renewable" in the sense that it takes millions of years for trees to become coal and oil, but this stored energy is being released far too quickly into our atmosphere and the 20th Century Process is causing environmental destruction.

We need a new process for the 21st Century. We don't want our children to think of us as living in The Age of Stupid. "Why didn't we save ourselves when we had the chance" is the question asked in the video.

I believe we live in The Age of Procrastination. We don't understand something so we leave it for someone else. Or we believe something will take us too long, so we rather watch sport and let other "green" people handle these problems. But these "green people" are not "green" (stupid) anymore. We are waking up and using our knowledge to make changes. Some of us are business people and we are helping this movement take shape. We need your help.

So ...

In the internal section, we will explore:

Tai Chi
Reiki
Meditation
Djembe Drumming
Walking
Nature
Saving Ourselves
The external section will explore:

Relationships
Business Energy
Renewable Energy: energy from the sun, wind, water, underground, etc
Ideas for 21st Century Energy
We'll be updating this part of the site in the next few weeks.

In the meantime you can start saving money, saving the environment and saving yourselves (with our creator's help) by reading our Reduce section.

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