Energy Independence

"Zabaleen" is the Arabic term for those visionary and enterprising people whose culture revolves around recycling. The Zabaleen are experts at "transforming one man's garbage into another man's gold" and aspire toward a net zero-waste economy. Applied and supported this could lead to true energy independence, not only by radically reducing our demand for "raw materials" and hard to extract natural resources but by recycling other less obvious phenomena and materials that are now wasted.

Friday, March 5, 2010

Chapulines Con Queso

They don't advertise them on the website, but if you go in and order "Chapulines con Queso" they will serve you the delicious "grasshoppers with Cheese" that makes a trip to Oaxaca such a joy (in Oaxaca women come by in the square with baskets of two different species, large and small; in L.A. they only serve the large.... You can also get a delicious fried Nopal salad -- attention all my Syrian and Egyptian friends who only know "Teen Showki", the fruit known as "tuna" in Spanish, yes, the paddles of cacti are delicious!

Guelaguetza Restaurante - Dish

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Guelaguetza Restaurante - Dish

March 5 at 6:21pm

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The Zabaleen ethic

There is no such thing as "garbage". Nothing should be wasted. A Zabaleen looks around him or her and asks, "what new use or value can I find in this object, this environment, this moment." The Zabaleen ethic, if properly applied and supported, could lead to true energy independence by making use not only of what we traditionally call "trash" but of other wasted commodities: embedded solar radiation found in light, heat, wind, hydrological cycles, geothermal mass and biomass and from the synergistic behavior of microbes, plants, fungi and non-human animals. We can all be Zabaleen...

Energy Independence

Friday, March 5, 2010

Chapulines Con Queso

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