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I've been
on the web since 1996, when my local public
library got its first computer. I experienced
the birth pangs of the medium, and was spending 2
hours or more a day surfing around with a Hotmail
account. Back then I was the only one
using the machine all day, so every time there was a problem, the head
librarian blamed me for it. I didn't get my own PC at home until
1998, even though I sold Macs when they first came
out in the late 70's.
Instead I moved to Manhattan
in 1989 to create
the Eco-Saloon at Wetlands
in Tribeca with Larry Bloch who
owned the club back then. He gave me the
opportunity to apply most of the ideas I had
formulated in my M&M's business plan; a
center for activist youth I wanted to open in
Westport, Connecticut. But I quickly grew weary
of the loud music and the smoke, the long hours
and sleepless nights. Too old I guess. I wanted
to move on to a more productive trendy coffee shop
environment. I tried to sell the idea to the
Audubon Society who was opening their new HQ in
SoHo, but they didn't grok the concept. So I moved
back to Connecticut.
In 1995, at a solar
energy conference in Stamford, I discovered a
little zine called Electrifying Times, a wonderful mix of wacky free
energy stuff and down-to-earth electric car stories. I
fell in love. I'd been Mike Gunderloy's New Age
researcher at Factsheet 5 practically since day
one. You know, that intense directory of the
underground press that fueled the zine revolution
before the Internet took over and people got bored losing money printing
paper. So I knew the alternative press distribution scene in and
out. Bit by bit I gravitated to doing more and
more. Bruce Meland and I have brought ET up to
the point now where it's THE industry trade
publication for the EV industry, but it's still
not making any money...
The Econolodge of Zebulon is my online zine. This will
be its home. A print issue is in the works, but don't hold your
breath. I like doing research a lot more than writing myself. So
I tend to just hand over everything I find to other writers
and go on to something else... As the hunting dog cartoon said:
He's a good pointer, but he has a short attention
span. I contribute research, photography, book reviews or
articles on a regular basis to zines like Paranoia, Adventures
Unlimited's World Explorer, Earth Island Journal, Planet°, In
Business, New Energy News, Infinite Energy, UFO magazine,
Secret, etc... I'm a member of the Society of Environmental
Journalists.
I collect
environmental books, periodicals, etc... in the
hopes of one day opening an environmental
reference library for green marketing in
Fairfield County. The project goes under the name
of the Environmental Library Fund, or ELF for
short. I've been using that acronym since the early 80's...
absolutely NO relation to the Earth Liberation Front! E magazine has been donating all
its
excess materials to this effort.
I posted some of my photography. My dad was a
famous photographer, so I always resisted walking
into his footsteps. But I regret that decision,
and if I could blend fashion photography with fanatical environmental activism, I would do
so in a NY minute! That's what Project
Lü is all about.
Big
Igloo has been a dream of mine ever since I
experienced a laserium show at the Griffith Park
Observatory planetarium in the Hollywood Hills
back in 1974. I worked with the laserists in
residence on some breakthrough brain entrainment
techniques which have not been used since. Big
Igloo would remedy this in a traveling structure,
much like Cirque Du Soleil, but high techno.
Hemp
Protein is self-explanatory. Up until delinquent hemp advertisers
sank the hemp press, I was on
staff at Hemp Mag and wrote about producing and
marketing hemp protein isolate, the kind
bodybuilders binge on to put on muscle. Protein deficiency is the number one cause of
malnutrition in the world today. Hemp seed used to be the number one
food staple in poor countries before Hearst and Dupont
banned the plant. You do the math...
In 1998 I took on the impossible task
of helping stage a protest in DC. The Rally To End Secrecy turned out to be an exercise in
futility. Conflicting interest among the organizers doomed the
project to a low turn out from the start. But it served to
network secrecy issues on the web. To date you can search a
growing database of nearly
4000 relevant articles posted in the End Secrecy message archive.
Well that's
it in a nut shell. Right now I build these
pages with Front Page 2000, thank you Mr. Gates
for standardizing the web and saving humanity decades of fish-or-cut-bate
agony. Nothing fancy, but effective. I dream of Flash & Dreamweaver,
but this will do.
If you plan on staying awhile, put on a good CD, or log on to
your favorite web radio station, click back
and read on...
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