international energy efficiency

it's not a website, conference, or email....it's an experience i just had in my travels to the coba ruins near cancun, mexico. after climbing the tallest mayan temple and hiking our way past vendors, bicyclists and locals we took in the local crafts. much like you can see anywhere in mexico, hand crafted wooden masks, dolls, plaques, etc...but what caught my surprise what the lighting. EVERY BULB IN THE PLACE WAS A LOW ENERGY "SQUIGGLY" BULB! i cant even say that about my own house in atlanta. i am ashamed. to make me feel even more guilty, all the bulbs were run off of solar power. okay okay, what if there are a string of cloudy days? well, then they pull energy from their wind generating field of propellers. WHA?!? or more so WTF-AID?!?!?! (what the fruitloop am i doing?) i completely rely on "the atlanta grid" and not on what is freely given to me.... enough said, change needs to happen and oh yeah, i am trying to buy myself a little mexican villa (300k, leverage the atlanta davis estate for capital...HA)

here is where i am staying...casa behla, run completely off of solar power (until the battery runs dead, then it's a generator)

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connections....

ritesh lead me to the thought of connections (bringing the beach to piedmont part) and recently i came across something i am sure y'all have already seen on core77. mark ovenden's book, transit maps of the world has a london underground feel to it, mapping out the entire world on one simple transit system. if it is this easy to think of connecting the world, or connecting a community (beach), why hasn't something this drastic occured? are our current "escapes" places like ice rinks? the botanical garden? high museum? maybe it has and i dont know / utilize its potential (internet, email, blogging, mass information sharing, and lets not forget the telephone and written LETTERS!)

my rhetorical question...how do i bring experiences closer to me without sacrificing too much quality/detail AND without breaking the bank?? how do i fully appreciate the lourve even if i cannot visit it this weekend? how do i experience the beach without going? we have successfully brought too much information to our fingertips...now how do we synthesize it?