“Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold." Maurice Setter
I have rarely approved of government programs as I believe that they are put into place as a way to control the citizens of this, or any, country. If it were not so these programs would end when the project was completed. There are some programs which can not end, defense, government itself, etc. but that should be a rarity.
In the last article I talked about the state of New York working with individuals to make their homes energy independent. I also brought up the idea that the state should work together with schools and install solar panels on these buildings to relieve taxes payers of some of the cost of the school buy selling excess power, as well as provide electric power to homes and businesses in the area
Well what about other institutions? There is a men’s homeless shelter located in a poorer section of town that uses what is basically a warehouse to provide these men with a place to sleep. For all of those organizations who want to stop global warming, for all of those charities that support those in need why not find something that they can work on together?
If the men’s shelter was covered with solar panels what effect would that have on this charitable organization? Would they be able to eliminate expenditures for heating and lighting of the facility? Would they be able to free up money to provide more and improved services for those in need?
Sell the excess electricity to the water treatment plant and homes around it and what would that mean to the community? The money earned from the excess power could be used to improve the lives of these homeless men as well as provide them and the community at large with additional services.
"Genius is there in all of us, just waiting for us to tap into it." Robert R. Toth
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Friday, March 28, 2008
Friday, February 22, 2008
Instead of Chili’s
"As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it." Buddy Hackett
Have you seen the commercial where some friends are in a car and trying to decide what they should do? They are looking for something that would be different and they final decide that in order to do something different they should go out to dinner at Chili’s. But is that really something different? You want to try something different, here is a suggestion.
When you and your friends get together and are looking for something different why not cook or prepare a meal(s) for someone else. Find a shelter that hand out prepared meals. Where I live there are plenty of these organizations, one handing out up to 10,000 sandwiches a month and the homeless shelter we help serves about 50 homeless men a night and that is on a slow night.
“When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor were hungry, they called me a communist.” Dom Helder Camara
When we bring sandwiches to the shelter we simply drop them off, but when we bring a hot meal we stay. Usually the meals are simple, ziti, chili, etc. along with a bread or muffin and some fruit. All of this food cost me less than a dollar a person. You want to see a group of happy people bring them a hot meal, when they are used simply to sandwiches, on a cold Syracuse night.
"If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger" Buzz Aldrin
How did we do that? Use the Buy One Give One idea of which I wrote of earlier. Since we knew we were going to provide a meal to those in need we would buy items along the way and designate them to that purpose. We also let friends of ours know in advance that we were going to make a meal and they make the bread or muffins. Sometimes we get together to make the meals and other times we meet and combine the meal into bags to make it easier to hand out.
How many meals could you make for the same cost as what you would spend for a night out?
Have you seen the commercial where some friends are in a car and trying to decide what they should do? They are looking for something that would be different and they final decide that in order to do something different they should go out to dinner at Chili’s. But is that really something different? You want to try something different, here is a suggestion.
When you and your friends get together and are looking for something different why not cook or prepare a meal(s) for someone else. Find a shelter that hand out prepared meals. Where I live there are plenty of these organizations, one handing out up to 10,000 sandwiches a month and the homeless shelter we help serves about 50 homeless men a night and that is on a slow night.
“When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor were hungry, they called me a communist.” Dom Helder Camara
When we bring sandwiches to the shelter we simply drop them off, but when we bring a hot meal we stay. Usually the meals are simple, ziti, chili, etc. along with a bread or muffin and some fruit. All of this food cost me less than a dollar a person. You want to see a group of happy people bring them a hot meal, when they are used simply to sandwiches, on a cold Syracuse night.
"If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger" Buzz Aldrin
How did we do that? Use the Buy One Give One idea of which I wrote of earlier. Since we knew we were going to provide a meal to those in need we would buy items along the way and designate them to that purpose. We also let friends of ours know in advance that we were going to make a meal and they make the bread or muffins. Sometimes we get together to make the meals and other times we meet and combine the meal into bags to make it easier to hand out.
How many meals could you make for the same cost as what you would spend for a night out?
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