{"id":5158,"date":"2016-05-15T14:14:30","date_gmt":"2016-05-15T18:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=5158"},"modified":"2019-05-17T13:45:03","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T17:45:03","slug":"this-changes-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=5158","title":{"rendered":"THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw the film &#8220;This Changes Everything&#8221; and it gave me hope for the first time in a long time. \u00a0It&#8217;s about the marginalized people: indigenous, poor, living on the fringe, who are staking their lives to stop the destruction of their livings, their habitat.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING | Int&#039;l Trailer\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IpuSt_ST4_U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve done my best: I drive a Prius with a bumpersticker that says &#8220;I&#8217;m a clean energy voter,&#8221; I have a solar panel and solar hot water, I recycle vegetable waste in the compost, I recycle everything my town can recycle and still I take a big bag of garbage to the dump every few weeks. \u00a0I use as little water as possible, I buy organic and local as much as I can, I have a wood stove \u2014 actually a &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Masonry_heater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Masonry Heater<\/a>&#8216; \u2014 the wood burns flat out and heats up the stone which re-radiates it for hours, but there&#8217;s so much more I could do if the community were supporting my efforts.<\/p>\n<p>I had an epiphany when I went to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.findhorn.org\/about-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Findhorn<\/a> a number of years ago. \u00a0I was spending the night in a big house before going off on a &#8220;Pilgrimage through Scotland.&#8221; \u00a0While brewing my cup of tea in the morning, I noticed that under the counter were bins labeled: paper, plastic, metal, glass. \u00a0There was a compost jar on the counter. \u00a0There was NO garbage can. \u00a0If you had (God forbid) some garbage you had to take it yourself to a designated shed. \u00a0When I went to the bathroom there was a sign on the wall that said &#8220;The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toddecological.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">living machine<\/a> thanks you for your contribution. \u00a0Please do not put anything in the toilet except human excrement and toilet paper. \u00a0The living machine can&#8217;t digest it.&#8221; \u00a0While walking outside I noticed a windmill. \u00a0I was told it generated enough electricity for half the community and they were raising money to build a second.<\/p>\n<p>I best remember what happened to me as I stood in the kitchen looking at those labeled bins. \u00a0I felt a huge relief and relaxation in my body. \u00a0I realized how\u00a0much energy it took to live against the current in the USA.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=2265\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A previous post about living lightly on the earth.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw the film &#8220;This Changes Everything&#8221; and it gave me hope for the first time in a long time. \u00a0It&#8217;s about the marginalized people: indigenous, poor, living on the fringe, who are staking their lives to stop the destruction &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=5158\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,19,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-interesting-link","category-spirit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}