Here's the latest for everyone's consideration.

Compact florescent light bulbs. 95% of the light bulbs in my house was changed to CF. I have one track light with those little quartz lamps in it and I don't turn it one unless I have to. The lamp above the dinning room table has those little candle flame shaped bulbs that are 60 watts each, a 240 watt draw when it's on, so I don't turn that one on very often too. Every conventional bulb in the house was changed to CF. I bought all of them at dollar stores. The best deal for $.99 cents was two CF bulbs and a night light.

The big investment, that could no longer be avoided was to junk the old frig and purchase an Energy Star compliant refrigerator.

My average electric bill was $65.00 per month. My electric bill just arrived for the previous 30 days. The total was $35.00. This was far more savings than I expected.

You may not be able to buy a new refrigerator, (I finally had no choice) but everyone can go to a dollar store and buy enough CF bulbs to convert your home and save electricity.

Do it now. Do it today.  Don't just talk about it, do it.

Namaste and Peace

Yesterday, I emailed everyone in my network about my intention to stop talking about Changing the World and start doing it. My dear friend Jackie and I are moving forward. I have just uploaded our web site

www.humanitasworldwide.org

There is not much there yet, but it will grow daily. There is much to do and the needs are great. We need help. This is my commitment.

This is the most important part of the email I sent to everyone in my group.

Good Day ______

Here's the short version of the latest.

• I have  a Pay Pal account with a zero balance. I plan to put some money in it ASAP. We will be looking for others to contribute what they can to achieve our first goal. As soon as there is about $600.00 we can form a non-profit organization
• We will use the services legelzoom.com to form the Corp. Their services will cost about $600.00
• Once we have the NPO established, we can open a bank account and seek out regular monthly supporters. No contribution is too small. The needs are great.
  
• We will need a Board of Directors. Since there are only 3 of us, me, Jackie and you (if you care to become involved at this level) means we will need 3-4 more people to fill the seats on the Board of Directors.
• We will need a small office, somewhere where the cost is very low.
• We will need a name for this non-profit organization, a name that reflects what we do; a World-Wide Humanitarian Organization. We will start in Honduras, for the one reason that it is the poorest and most financially challenged country of the Americas. We might as well start where the need is the greatest.

Some of the ideas we have had so far are:

• Construct affordable housing. Most people outside the big cities live in shacks made of scrap metal, wood and cardboard.
• Drill water wells to provide villages with fresh, safe, drinking water
• Build septic systems to keep human waste from contaminating the ground water.
• Build schools and hire teachers and financially support families so their children can stay in school. 25% of all kids under 12, never go to school and 52% of kids over 12 never go beyond the 6th grade. Education is one of the greatest needs to break this perpetual cycle of poverty.
• Seek out donations of anything that the people need and can't afford to buy; toothpaste, tooth brushes, shampoo, soap, vitamins, over the counter painrelievers, clothing and shoes and hand tools, the list is endless
• We will help the people to help themselves. We believe in the old saying, “Give a man a fish and he can feed his family for one day, teach a man to fish and he can feed his family everyday”.
• This list is also endless.

If this sounds good and you want to really make a difference in your life by transforming the lives of others for the better, then I welcome you openly. You can be as active as you want to. We will not be traveling to Honduras till after the summer ends. Better to travel in the winter.

Please forward this email to anyone you think would be interested in making a real difference in their life by lifting others from the despair and depression of extreme poverty.

Like Zaadz, we are not associating ourselves with any particular faith or religion.

We are not a Christian relief agency, although we are Christians
We are not a Buddhist relief agency, although we are Buddhists
We are not a Jewish relief agency, although we are Jewish
We are all things to all people.

May your life be blessed, so you can share your blessings with others.

Jeff

I wrote before about how I cut my electricity bill in half by replacing every light in my house with a CF bulb. I have one light above the dinning room table and one track light in a bathroom that are not CF and they are the only exceptions.


My electric bill was cut in half by switching to CF lighting and by purchasing an Energy Star refrigerator.

I have now taken the next step and gone Solar, at least on a small scale.

I have an 18 watt, 26 Amp, solar power station. This means that every night in my humble home office, I am completely "off the grid". My solar power station will support my laptop, a fan to keep me cool and two lights to see what I'm doing. I can post blogs on Zaadz, like this one and I can read and even turn on a radio or portable DVD player and watch a movie.

The system will not power up my whole house, but it's a start. I am building and testing this system primarily for use in towns and villages in Honduras where electricity is only a distant dream.  In many parts of Honduras, when the sun goes down everything stops and it gets dark fast.

If you want to know how I built this system go to our web site at

www.humanitasworldwide.org

and find the Solar Power link on the home page.