Stressed ecoWarrior? Depressive Tree ecoWorrier? AnxietyAttacked Bee&Frog Activist? ProcessedFoodSuicide no answer! ! ! !

The fate of every living thing and our progeny is under threat, if you're stressed by the lack of real action this article can only help by helping you fight on.. (I have started working on a series of blog posts regarding the need to ban processed foods - if you can wait these articles will give you pointers on how not to commit suicide by processed food!)

As we evolved, so did a short lived stress response that might have had us ready to run away, hide or fight. Today, this biological reaction switches in because of intense, ongoing stress and can be impossible to turn off!

Our responsibilities, needs and love anchor us in a mixed array of possibilities and situations, making it impossible to avoid others whose own issues and behaviour impact on us.

Our quality and enjoyment of life is impaired and we will likely carry on accepting stressful circumstances or some form of harassment, until we suffer mental and physical ill health. So beware this can kill you or at the very least shorten your lifespan - act decisively now!

If you have experiencing some of life's traumas, then your now highly susceptable to stress. When biological change in the brain kicks-in you cannot deal with any situation without a confusion of feelings.

So day after day, we will continue to be pulled in different and varied directions, with our reactions to situations and individuals creating yet more stress.

Then we start to experience real anxiety together with that mixed bag of feelings such as inferiority, uselessness, guilt, worthlessness etc We are sliding into a deep depression. Although at times we can maddened or driven to get our own back, such that we seethe with the desire for revenge, becoming unreasonable and socially dangerous.

So, stress and the brain's functioning lack of harmony has resulted in mental illness. Now also lacking self confidence we become highly sensitive to social issues and threats - a whirlpool of vicious circles drawing you down deeper and deeper. Ongoing biological change may now leave us knocked out, ceasing to function and living in helpless dread with thoughts of suicide! To be hospitalised or put on drugs for life.

Yet, if we act early enough, self treatment techniques hold a promise of our acting normally again.

To get better we also need to distance ourselves from the causes of stress, albeit a partner, work or life's challenges. Change, that may involve taking time away, divorce, a change of direction....

Self treatment can empower an individual to challenge depression without the use of drugs. This is reliant on your growing recognition of depressive thoughts and processes.

This toolbox of strategies is called 'Cognitive Behavioural Techniques', to retrain thought processes and help the brain come back into balance.

So take early action when suffering stress, seek a medical opinion, involve a Psychotherapist and get Friend's support.

Next, begin to make real Changes to your Life Style, consider Personal Transitions, chat to Friends daily, eat a healthy nutrient rich Real Food Diet and take Exercise - all these actions will help speed your recovery....


(Stroudy's Synopsis of the Self Help Guide to Cognitive Behavioural Techniques for Depression ISBN I-84119-125-6)

Low global oil production will lead to increased oil price levels even at demand levels below 2008.

The oil rig count is expected to increase as drill bits ordering rises, as the oil industry forecast an increase in oil prices with some high spikes!

Will this further fuel green business and the development of alternatve energy technology?

Is Zero Carbonista's faster than a Ferrari electric car testing revolutionary technologies to save our World?

Is Zero Carbonista's faster than a Ferrari electric car testing revolutionary technologies to save our World?

Perhaps it does not need a heavy battery because of a revolutionary generator that develops up to 5 times the electricity you input! Impossible! Probably?!

If it was true Stroud's green outlaw hero and eco-entrepreneur Vince Dale would already be actively establishing an even larger European network of home micro generators and microgrids whilst investing hugely in new Ecotricity's Wind Parks - Well, Vince is!?

Dreaming on, because if it worked and the first stage electric supply was from a wind turbine or solar energy, the only choice then would be to invest in eco micro-generation and gain income as an exporter of power to the grid!

So eco-warriors and eco-worriers, this is a dream that would allow us activists to concentrate all our efforts on the major criminal impact to the Earth's ecology, the farming and consumption of meat! Whilst leaving everything else to Zero Carbonista!

A proven Magniwork technology would also revolutionise the design of space vehicles and might help thaw the control over politicians that eco-criminal big business has... Wake up, stop dreaming and act!

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If it gets popular, where will it go?

Wind driven

Zero Carbonista has done it, is doing it, is sponsoring it, is enjoying the ride and has both politicians and big business taking more care with those false green claims.

Now Stroud's own green hero and eco-entrepreneur tweets as zerocarbonista, blogs and talks on a hydrogen fuel monopoly, meat farming and consumers destroying our planet etc. etc. etc..

Vince Dale also started to plant an eco-forest where as a new age traveller he used to live in an old military vehicle. His being just a little less diplomatic and usually more casually dressed than our other local green hero Prince Charles is thought of as a very good thing by us Stroudies!

A bike for rural Africa

No, this is a long wheelbase Surly Big Dummy with its choice of slip-in bolt-on raised rear carrier systems has a 180 kg maximum loaded weight and a few have taken it off-road trekking?!

Xtracycle Inc also do bolt-on long wheelbase extensions for any full size bike that take the same seperate carrier systems. As I have previously said, you can find niche markets for some interesting bicycles in North America.

Now I have a re-geared GT Mountain Bike with standard front and rear panniers, that I toured France with this June with an all up load of 160 Kg - it gets you fit!

In Africa, you simply load up and then passengers climb on. So this long wheelbase Surly Big Dummy large rear carrier would invite a sagging bang-crash-wallop of a load!

The bike frame and drive are the key factors in producing an African Cargo Bike.

Through good design, a single sized, smaller, sturdier and much lighter frame incorporating the carrier, might easily carry a 50 odd kg sack on each side with at least one passenger on top, in addition to the weight of the bike and cyclist.

But don't you just want to race a Surly Big Dummy or a Kopenhagen Bullitt across America?

World Naked Bike Movement

Another fashionable, green and peaceful major bike advocacy movement is WNBR, so ride naked with others somewhere around the globe.

The Cycle Chic or Velo Chic bicycle culture...

is a growing Fashionista Bike Advocacy movement, that can mean almost anything to those that participate through choice and others who just do it naturally. Most often riding dress friendly classic and retro town bikes.

A free original international fashion show on two wheels that is best observed in bike friendly cities or if you wish on the web by visiting 'Cycle Chic from Copenhagen for The Original Streetstyle and Bike Advocacy in High Heels' and link worldwide.

The other fashionable, green and peaceful major bike advocacy movement is WNBR, which stands for the World Naked Bike Movement. To ride naked with others visit http://wiki.worldnakedbikeride.org/index.php?title=Links

I really should own up, well come out with it, well what I mean is.....‏

This is hard, how do you say it and why do it now, its not if anyone should care is it? Best to start with something different, perhaps leave it till tomorrow or another day.. Today I could just mention good stuff, like I gave up driving nearly three years ago and cycle everywhere; that I have really tried to leave the rocknroll erotic stuff alone for a little while saving it for the one I love and that I am succeeding.. So who cares if I am a Hash House Harrier, run in circles, drink beer in circles and sing rugby songs.. I might ride with the QUAFF and thecranks bashes, be setting the MTB / VTT singletrack trails for NashBash 2010 near Sherwood Forest.. this is the good stuff, Oh did I mention I am in love, yes I did and it was something I really should have told you at the start..

MTB / VTT Trail Riding Frustration

Our mountain bikes take a lot of hammering with the drive train being subject to catastrophic damage in the middle of nowhere. I and my friends have more chain drive problems and expense than anything else.

We know and accept the sport of mountain biking is expensive as are great mountain bikes.

Other than good maintenance, there exist exciting solutions that stop the frustration of drive train damage, add to our riding ability and the enjoyment of every trail!

I plan a series of blog postings on these solutions and the huge benefits a trail rider obtains, but now I am off on a testing test ride!

God have mercy..

..save the Vulcan, a campaign to save the oldest pub in Cardiff has had their prayers answered with a three year extension.

Back on the first of April I mooted and reported a sound commercial and imaginative (of course) architectural engineering solution via the Brewery to the Developer.

The suggestion is and was to incorporate the Vulcan frontage into the new 20 storey building, but at least one floor up!

This would create huge visual impact! Whilst allowing the Vulcan public and service areas, plus current fittings, to be built into the building and remain the pub we love!

Everybody gains, nobody loses and Cardiff has an extraordinary architectural art piece - sorry no artists impression?

I did also contact Rachel Thomas of the campaign via facebook, who confirmed that: The Vulcan must stay where it is and that there is no reason at all why the developers can't incorporate it into their plans!

Mercy indeed, with a floating Vulcan high over the streets of Cardiff still possible - because Stroudy likes the Vulcan in Cardiff

Growing a following..

It will take me time, effort, care or fame to have the reward of a real Following of interested or amused Twitters.

Care particularly, as when launching yourself into the world of Twitter, early Follower relationships can start out by being not one of actual interest but possibly commercial interest; Or sadly a mutual ego trip contracted between two Twitters i.e. 'You follow me and I follow you.

The WORST Twitter relationships will be manufactured by web sites like AddFollowers who by deceit obtain control of your Twitter Account to promote themselves by Twittering on in your name and adding more sites to those you are already Following.... a service they seem to get paid for by over eager entrepreneurs or egotistic Twitters!

The BEST Twitter relationships will always be those based on a mutual interest or friendship.