http://www.healingsociety.net/2009/02/18/tao-fellowship/ Heal our society altogether Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:11:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.healingsociety.net/2009/02/18/tao-fellowship/#comment-30 Frank Lee Confused Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:41:39 +0000 http://www.healingsociety.net/?p=55#comment-30 I live next door to these very nice, but misguided folks. I am a Buddhist and an engineer with specific training in energy efficiency, storage, transfer and alternative energy technology. I have taken a tour of their facility and carefully read your marketing message. Please allow me to address your points: 1. The thousands of gallons of waste which are composted are the result of thousands of human beings traveling by petroleum fueled planes and SUV’s to their secluded resort in the desert. They have drilled four 1000 foot+ deep wells into the aquifer to supply fresh water for two swimming pools, landscape watering and a man made pond as well as the toilet flushing and showers for their resort guests. 2. Serving fish in the desert is not ‘green’. And eating any animals is suspect. 3. Everything else you mention is either ‘being planned’ or ‘under consideration’. Those particular ideas while interesting, are not difficult to accomplish – certainly easier than drilling four $50,000 wells and building a pond in the desert. The fact that those ideas have not been yet implemented in many years of operation indicates to me that a business decision has been made by resort management to not implement these ideas because they will cut into profit. Perhaps you have never been there; that would explain your enthusiastic ignorance of the truth. I live next door to these very nice, but misguided folks. I am a Buddhist and an engineer with specific training in energy efficiency, storage, transfer and alternative energy technology. I have taken a tour of their facility and carefully read your marketing message. Please allow me to address your points: 1. The thousands of gallons of waste which are composted are the result of thousands of human beings traveling by petroleum fueled planes and SUV’s to their secluded resort in the desert. They have drilled four 1000 foot+ deep wells into the aquifer to supply fresh water for two swimming pools, landscape watering and a man made pond as well as the toilet flushing and showers for their resort guests. 2. Serving fish in the desert is not ‘green’. And eating any animals is suspect. 3. Everything else you mention is either ‘being planned’ or ‘under consideration’. Those particular ideas while interesting, are not difficult to accomplish – certainly easier than drilling four $50,000 wells and building a pond in the desert. The fact that those ideas have not been yet implemented in many years of operation indicates to me that a business decision has been made by resort management to not implement these ideas because they will cut into profit. Perhaps you have never been there; that would explain your enthusiastic ignorance of the truth.

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