Category: Great Outdoors
Green Plans Blueprint For A Sustainable Earth
Welcome back. Yeah. Time for a new box.
We have Come Sunday. Let’s see what’s in here. It’s like what it says. It’s just pictures. So that’s a no-go. I mean, great pictures though.
Ferdinand de Saussure. No.
Manufacturing or Managing Uncertainty While Blazing a Trail to Success. Progressive Manufacturing, co-published… Yeah, baby. Let’s see. Yeah. Well, that’s an interesting one.
We got the Czech Yearbook of International Law. Be interested in the future. Not too much at the moment.
The New Tenant by E. Phillips Oppenheim, something like that. How old is this bad boy? 1910.
The Walking Dead. No.
The Human Comedy. What’s this? I mean, it’s a 1943 book. It’s a really old book. I don’t know what that news article was, but it was old. But not for what we’re doing. Right?
More stories of famous operas. Probably really interesting. Not for the topics of what I want to talk about right now.
Fish on Friday. No.
Peace of Soul. Frustration of philosophical anxiety, the origin of conflicts and their redemption is guard hard to find, morbidity and denial of guilt, sex and love of God. Yeah, we’ll do that Peace of the Soul.
Let’s see. Let’s see here. Charles. Don’t believe it. Rainy day friends by his own hand, when the men were gone. It’s a reader digest. Nah, it’ll stay in the box for now.
Green Plans: Blueprint of Sustainable Earth. Oh look, I even get a bookmark. So yeah, this is coming with us. That’s a good one to discuss. All right. We found three in this box.
We’ve got a good Michael Jackson book, The Final Years. Do we have… Oh, we got pictures. We’re not going to go over Michael Jackson.
Tobruk: A Raid Too Far. Soldiers of the desert, New breed of soldier, Role for a suicide squad, Marines embark. Is this true? The new breed of soldier. Churchill was furious that the … Two days as we were ready to engineer. So this is like the one that we… If you’ve been paying attention, you kind of learn about these people, the soldiers of the desert and the other one. We’re going to keep this on the back burner in my head. I’m not going to do it right now.
We found three books out of this box. It’s still, if you think about it, that’s not that bad. The opera one would be really interesting, but it’s just not my cup of tea at the moment. I got other things to talk about. There’s too many books right now to be… For opera because maybe when I get older in life, I’ll be able to stop and appreciate the opera more than I would at this moment now in my life. So that’s why we’re not going to go over it. However, I don’t think I’m not cultured. I would love to learn more about the opera and you know, the pictures and all that kind of stuff. However, we’re not in it today.
So that box got us three books, not that bad. You know what I’m saying? So on average, we’ve gotten a minimum of three… One of the boxes was gold. It was like seven books in one. Now that was just… That was too massive and it’s fun. It’s great to find great books and interesting things. But at the same time, doing seven books before you can take a break is a long time.
All right. So we got Huey D. Johnson, Green Plans: Blueprint for a Sustainable Earth. See what we’ve got in here. Okay. We got part one to finding the problem and its solution. Excuse me. Part two, assessing green plans in action. That’s basically it.
Let’s check out Green Plans that are in action right now. It’s well, no. Let’s… Yeah, no. So I’m thinking, all right, do we want the towards a sustainable Singapore or the Netherlands or New Zealand? I’m going to have to go Singapore, just for the simple fact the Netherlands is freezing cold. New Zealand, I would love to go vacation, but living, never going to live there. But Singapore is like in the middle of everything. So I see, like for my own personal self, I see more of a opportunity to learn more about what they’re doing over there for my own personal sense. Because there’s a lot of people in Singapore and then around that area, 155.
All right, by Lim Swee Say. He’s probably really important person. I’m going to admit I’m very ignorant and I have no idea who that is, but we’re going to read what he had to say. “We do not allow the lack of nature endowment to determine our fate. Instead, we look ahead.” He’s probably the president or the founder. “For the future, set clear targets and pursue the necessary policies head-on with clear thinking and concrete strategies. However, the successful implementation of SGP2012 will not happen overnight. All of us must be prepared to play our part and commit ourselves to act in a timely and responsible way.” He can talk the talk.
Okay. “Singapore, a city-state characterizing the last few decades by rapid industrial growth and essentially no natural resources may seem like an unlikely candidate for Green Planning.” That’s part of the reason why we are doing the research on Singapore, because there’s a lot of people in those space. That’s very interesting about how they’re going to plan to do that.
“Yet it may have been precisely the limitations of its small, highly developed land area, aided by its highly centralized government in which all the departments work in concert, that prompted Singapore to adopt in 1992, a comprehensive environmental program, the Singapore Green Plan (SGP2012).”
So they started this in 2000 and… Or excuse me, 1992. Wow. “The country’s space limitations have forced it to practice careful land-use planning for many years. For example, since the city’s master plan was drawn in the 1950s, all land has been zoned, and environmental impact assessments have been required for all development. By the time the 1992 Green Plan was drawn up, Singapore was already known for having some of the world’s strictest pollution control standards, including particularly impressive air-quality standards and a moderate, congestion-free, cheap mass transit. At this writing, some 15 years into the plan, Singapore is proud to be successfully achieving economic social growth while not neglecting the environment. Although a small country, it is one of the Asia’s leaders in economic or environmental technologies and services.”
That’s very interesting. I was reading kind of underneath the breath because I’m reading a little bit faster, but what they basically are saying is that like Singapore is a city-state. Is it a country? Yes, but it’s also basically just a big city, right? It’s very small. I mean, it is a city or it’s a country, but they don’t have very many natural resources. So what they’ve had to do is really think outside the box on every last little thing. That’s part of the reason why Singapore is just like a phenomenon that it actually worked. Right?
So what they’ve been saying since it almost works synonymous with saying Singapore. Like green and Singapore, because of the lack of space that Singapore’s had. So since the beginning of Singapore in the 50s, they’ve had to draw up on how to not only sustain the little resources that they do have, but to maximize their growth in a responsible manner. Like I said, I’m not going to read the whole thing. I’m going to do it for myself and then we’ll go over it in my essay.
However, it’s very interesting to think about how they were able to carry this out. You know, SPG 2012. It seems like, okay, they’ve only been around for eight years, but they started in 1992 to be green, while the rest of the world is still kind of on fossil fuels and it’s just now starting to become like a thing of the future. Right? So through this, we can… How does it relate? We can think through like books like this and educational systems and just thinking outside the box and like, what are they doing? It’s amazing for us because what that allows us to do is think of opportunities to capitalize.
Alaska High Roads to Adventure
Alright. As you see over here, we have box number two. Unc’ Billy Possum. Yeah, no. Nancy drew. No. The Boxcar Kids, no. Royce’s Sailing. What is this? Okay. Okay. I can learn something from that. Chemical Cycle of Forma… logically for the busy pre [inaudible 00:00:47]. What in a world? I can’t even pronounce this. Yeah. It got me to stop that long goes in. We’ll talk about that one out of this book, or this box. This box has a whole bunch of books in here. What is this? The Return? The Return. No, it’s a story.
Was is this? Go Down Moses by William Faulkner. Nope. So the novels are, I mean there’s no, I’m not going to read a novel to you. That just doesn’t make any sense. What is this? Korea Handbook the Complex Operating… Oh yeah, if this is in English, we’re going to read this one. Yep. There we go. That’s so far three interesting books that I want to read out of this book.
What is this? No. Getting to know India. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I want to get to know India. Is it quick? It looks like we’re going to get pictures in this one.
No, it’s a story book.
Early Man: Prehistory and the Civilizations of the Ancient Near East. Yes. We can look at pictures and find some interesting stuff out of there. So, that’s four books out of here. I mean, we also got Alaska. Let me see what else we got here. I mean, come on now, The Raiders Desert Strike Forces. What is this? Yeah. I want to talk about that one because we got, I liked the Army stuff, sorry.
So this is, what? The Bloody what?! The reason I said that. Alright.. So, The Nigger of the Narcissus Typhoon.
Look, The Nigger of the Narcissist Typhoon. I, what book is this? The Viking Portable Library. Just, I’m super interested of what the…
What book is this, right? It looks like it’s a whole story. I’m sorry. I got to tell the story. Alright. Got to tell the story. Oh, no, I ain’t mean it. Got to tell the story, that goes over here. Cause it’s, cause I’m super interested.
What is this? When we do go through every single book in this box? Alright. Man. Cause then we use, man this box is too much.
Alright. Well, we’re going to do this since I got five minutes to discuss one of these books. And then, so I picked a lot of these books out of this box. Why? Because, they’re all bloody interesting. Alright. Besides the little [inaudible 00:05:33]. So, since in this video, I still have to go over a book. Alright. So, we’re going to go over Alaska. The book, the high road to adventure. This is from the seventies. The Northern giant. No, no glacier carved majesty city of the Southeast 44.
Oh, okay. I’m not going to, I’m just trying to find, some key points out of here. So, what that artifact is face the abstract faces pier from horn, hand woven till cat robe, made of mountain goat wool and cedar bark. Chiefs and leaders of high social rank of the get Tlingat Indian Nation, the predominant native group in South Eastern Alaska, wore such robes in ceremonial dances. This blanket personifies hearing rock, a sacred natural formation near a hearing spawning area in CIC top.
So, when we’re discussing the South Eastern Alaska, we’re discussing this part, this portion right here. So, right there in the map. Let me give it a nice little description. A picture of icy wilderness, unspeakably pure, and sublime, wrote naturalist, John Muir of the glacier form, rawness of Southeastern Alaska, but out of the cold darkness in glacier crushing and grinding, he recorded comes its warm, abundantly beauty in life. Today forest of spruce and hemlock and meadows decked with the wild flowers, bordered the glaciers and jutting peaks of the region. Malaspina Glacier, North America’s largest, score’s a path as wide as 50 miles from heights of the Saint Elias mountains. A warm ocean current brings a temperate climate to the Southeast, but fog and rain often shroud the lush rainforest islands and the snowy peaks of the coast mountains. Is Southeast to look [inaudible 00:08:54] in Haida Indians have rekindled their cultural heritage, preserving crafts and condition and traditions and communities like Cawlawa and Sitka. So, Sitka is right here, and Cawlawa? I don’t know where that is, but my question is… So Juneau Alaska is, there it is.
Juneau Alaska’s in this area is really next to Canada, so majority of Alaska, like the frontiers over here, cause this is just a small little skinny part, you see? The small little skinny part. Majority of Alaska is up here, which is probably, I mean, wow. What a huge, huge range. Hmm.
Well we’re, I’m out of time for this video, but I will be reading and letting you guys know about the… Like, look at that. That’s cool. What is he throwing down there? What is that? Where’s the pictures, man.
Oh, it’s shrimp. From Thomas Bay. 2,500 pounds of shrimp in a 14 hour day. In 1955, the waters of South Eastern Alaska yielded some 55 million pounds of fish and shellfish in 1975. Wow.
Alright, Alaska. Can’t wait to read more about Alaska. Read that little article Southeast Alaska, really interesting. Didn’t know, well, I didn’t know much of anything about Alaska, so… Excuse me. It’ll be fun and interesting to get to know more about Alaska. Alright. Don’t forget, we got out of this one box and we got this book, we got this book, We got this one, this one, this one, this one. They’re everywhere! Alright. So we’ll be talking about the next one now.
The Total Outdoorsman Skills & Tools
All right, let’s see, what do we have today? What do we have today… “Skills and Tools”, you see it.
“The Total Outdoorsman.” Excuse me, that’s just gross. I apologize. Excuse me. But you know, I don’t want to get sick. All right. So we got camping. Wow, a whole bunch of camping stuff. Fishing. What is that? Oh, look at that. Aren’t you going to burn- I would swear up and down that you’d burn the sticks, but whatever. Hunting. Survival. Yeah, wow. This is way more intense than I thought.
Okay. We’re going to do the survival. I’m a firm believer… You don’t need to know everything in life, but you got to need to know a little bit of something. Right? So yes. The probability of us being stuck in the middle of nowhere and we going to have to survive to stay alive, it’s not probable, right.
The chance that’s happening, it’s probably one in 1 billion. Right? But in that one in 1 billion chance, it’s good to halfway kind of know what you’re talking about. Right? I mean, look at “Walking Dead.” “Walking Dead” could have happened to anybody. All right. We got the Corona Virus going out, can convert into turning zombies. No, just kidding, but you understand what I’m talking about. That sometimes you just kind of need to know what’s going on. I mean, this is all, it’s not a lie. This is pretty interesting. “Pack a one-day survival kit, pack a one-week, multiperson survival kit, beat the bugs, make waterproof matches, shave the day, reuse a shotshell, stay alive with toilet paper.” Okay. I’m sorry. That’s the one we’re going to just cause that got me. Where did it- Where was it? I know you guys seen it, “stay alive with toilet paper.” Here we go, three one two.
Yeah. This is actually really interesting. Wow.
Well, we’re supposed to go like 300 or something, but this is important. This is “rate an insect sting.”
Just cause you know, sometimes you’re outside. I got stung by a bee one time and had to go straight to the hospital. Cause I almost died. I said, “if you didn’t make it to the hospital within like the 30 minute…” Oh, I made it to the ambulance station, cause I was kind of in the boonies and then the ambulance had to shoot me with some something and he said if he didn’t shoot it to me right then and there then I probably would have suffocated myself cause of the swelling. I think I got stung in the leg. So this is very important. Zero, you didn’t know you got stung, so that’s kind of like a mosquito. One, sweat bee or a single fire ant, aggravating, swat-worthy, continue your normal activity.
If you get bit by a whole bunch of fire ants, you’re not going to continue. You’re going to be screaming and crying and cussing and trying to get them off of you. And then you might be able to start. But yeah, those little guys bite and they bite a lot at one time. The honeybee’s signature sting, involuntary jerking of limb, howl of pain, application of wet tobacco. So if you didn’t know, I thought that was more of a Southern thing. I didn’t know it was a worldwide thing. So if you get stung by a bee or maybe even a spider, not everybody has tobacco on them. If you so happen to have tobacco, if you have a cigarette, break the cigarette in your mouth, put some of it in your mouth, get it all nice and wet where it’s nice and basically gross. And then you stick it on wherever you were stung. Right? It helps. It sucks out the poison or the stinger, one of the two. We’re talking a harvester ant. Okay, wait a minute now.
So I’ve always thought that when I get stung, it’s just a single fire ant, but we’re talking about a harvester ant pain that endures for four to eight hours, associated with snarling obscenities, much hopping up and down. There could be tears. Your fishing trip is over. Wow. Maybe I haven’t been hit by a harvest ant, but I have been hit where it’s like, “Man, this is ridiculous. This thing won’t stop hurting.” Here you go.
Only three critters are known to be capable of delivering such life-changing wallop: the tarantula hawk- Well, if it’s a bloody hawk, yeah, that makes sense. The warrior wasp and the bullet ant. That doesn’t even sound good. A warrior wasp, gosh, of course. Of the three only the- pictured right. So there it is. No, that does not look like a hawk at all. That looks like a monster bee, man. That thing looks huge. “It’s found in North America. Schmidt described level four pain as ‘running hair dryer has just been dropped in your bubble bath.'” Yeah, I can imagine. Look at that. If this is the thing he’s stabbing you with- where’s my finger. If that’s the thing he’s stabbing him with. Oh, man. Yeah, I could see how that would hurt. You know what I’m saying? We didn’t really get very far into this survival guide, but that was really interesting. I don’t know if maybe it wasn’t for you guys, but it was for me.
“Make a Slingshot.” What if you don’t have any of this stuff with you? Hold up, that is cool.
This looks miserable. It tells you how to get it out, construct a fish weir-
Oh yeah, buddy. What I’m going to do- Just cause it’s not like a whole bunch of them. They’re like a paragraph, a piece. I could be asked you for a lot on getting a hook out of your finger, but at the end I can only get to the point so far, or deviate from the point so much to get filler words. So, what I’m going to do- I liked this two or three different fishing to stopping the bleeding. I like all that. So what I’m going to do is I’m going to have a little- Wait a minute. “Here are suggestions for choosing, Altoid Survival Kit, choose how many you think you may need and can fit with the…”
What I’ll do is, is I will kind of go over more in depth later on, and go through more than just one thing. Just cause one’s not enough.
Subline Nature
See, that was my little theme music. What’d you guys think? Do not expect me to be able to do that theme music for a second time. ‘Cause I don’t remember, but it’s all good. I hope you liked this first time and only time. All right. I like this, this Sublime Nature. Just like, look through the artists. “Photographs in that awe and inspire.” and that’s what I’m talking about. All right. Let’s look for… Excuse me. It’s natural, right? It’s nature. Look at the buffalo running. Why is he…? Why? How come you only got two of him running. Him and him are running. The other ones kind of look like they’re kind of just moseying around, any which way. Look at. Oh, look at the penguins.
This is cool, man. Whoa. Try and get just the pictures in there for you. Those were the beginning pictures. All right. Now let’s… “Give, grace, joy, peace.” I mean, literally you guys see that the, we have four different things to choose from. Yeah. As we know this, isn’t going to be any in-depth article.
What is this? What the…?
Those are people. Where is that? Cave of Crystals in Chihuahua, Mexico. Oh, I know how to solve this problem. Well, I’m going to do is I’m just going to take like a small little picture for you guys of something and… Well, no, I’ll just do some research on them. If I find something, oh look at that guy that… That’s that’s an iguana eye.
Wait, wait a minute. Just the… What do you mean, an island collapses? Where does it go? So right here, it says, “After a small atoll island collapses, a magnificent azure sink hole remains surrounded by coral in the Blue Hole National Moment Lighthouse in Belize.” So wait a minute. There’s a sink hole, why is it? What do you mean? I don’t understand that. Why doesn’t the water just fill it up? That is very confusing. I will have to… We’re talking about the… So we got a couple of different ones, but we’re going to have to, I’m going to have to do some research on that. [inaudible 00:03:17]
I liked that Leonardo da Vinci said that simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication. Going to go further. Oh, that’s that’s a beautiful picture.
That’s an awesome one. I like the picture holding the… Or the bird holding the butterfly.
Oh, it’s dolphins. Look at that, that’s majestic. Is that even real? What is that?
“The twisted and contoured branches of an ancient bristlecone pine lie silently amid a snowy wooded landscape in California White Mountains.” That is a cool tree.
Lao-Tzu. “Nature does not hurry. Yet everything is accomplished.”
Oh, that’s beautiful.
That’s beautiful on the picture, when you’re there, it’s probably freezing. You can see all the snow. But with the moon and the day. Yeah. That’s what I’m talking about. “All nature… Wears one universal grin.”
Oh, that’s a nice rainbow.
It’s really defined over here. Look at that. And then over here, it’s a little, it’s not quite as much, but that’s awesome.
Oh, look. He’s doing a dance. Do a little dance. Make a little love. Get down tonight. Yeah. “Find out where joy resides and give it a voice far beyond singing, for to miss the joy is to miss all.” Robert Louis Stevenson.
This is a… Verreaux’s. Sifaka. “Hops from tree to tree across open ground in the spiny desert of Southern Madagascar.”
All right. Well, I mean, honestly, I think you guys seen enough pictures. Hopefully these pictures incited you a little bit and more like, look at some of them for yourself. What’s this? “One touch of nature makes the world, or the whole world kin.” All right, William. Oh, wow. Look at that picture. Let’s keep going.
Emily Dickinson said, “Hope is the one thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without words and never stops at all.” That can be a very dangerous statement. Very dangerous.
What is that? And some kind of animal, look at that. Look at that. Oh, it’s a seal. I would have never guessed it was a seal, but yeah, it’s a seal. Look at his nose. You got to see him, see it over here. It says… I can’t get it into focus, whatever. I’ll let you guys look at this and I’ll read it to you. “Sensitive the whiskers twist and curl on the snout of a bearded seal in Svalbard, in Norway.” In Norway.
And this is the last one. Then we’re going. By William Blake: “To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour.”
Horse Packing
Well, hello. Welcome to another episode of Erik picks a random book. All right. Yesterday, we picked from this side of the library. This time, we’re going to go across the hall on to the other side of the library and see what we have over here. (silence).
You know what? We’re going to do something completely random. Wait a minute. I mean, like I said, there’s some great ones. This is just random. Horse Packing. All right.
For whenever we go on a trail and we’re going to be cowboys, we’re going to learn how to pack a horse. All right. There it is. Now, again, let’s go through the chapters. I’m going to have to figure out how to do this a better way. So, yeah. Much better way. This upside down? No. It’s not upside down. It just seems like this is easier.
So, we have the introduction. Organization for military purposes, general rules, marching, records of endurance, standard pack mules, cross sling, one-man cargo sling. Oh, wow. These are a lot of different hitches and things. I’m curious because I’m not in the military anymore, or I never was. Organization for military purposes. All right. Let’s look at that. Page 15. All right. How old is this book? It’s not even old at all. It’s 2007. They must have tooken it from someone from a very long time ago.
Originally published by Long Riders Guild Press. All right. Because the way that… Let me show you. All right. So they got the chapter right in the middle of the book. See standard of organization for military purposes. So, all right. So, this is what we need for the military purposes. “A pack train consists of 50 pack mules, one bell horse, and 14 riding mules, one pack master, one Cargador, one blacksmith, one cook, and 14 packers. With the complete outfit for camp and substance and the requisite number of riding saddles and aparejos.”
I guess we need to take that chapter and figure out what that is. Well, that’s it. All right. So, we know if we wanted to go ahead and pack some horses with the military, we’re going to reiterate, we need 50 pack mules, one bell horse, 14 riding mules, one pack master, one Cargador, one blacksmith, one cook, and 14 packers. All right, whatever that means. All right. Horse packing 101. Oh, this is interesting. Look at this.
On the road or trail in any country a packing mule with a load of 250 can make 25 miles a day without… Wow. Wow. That’s longer than what I can walk. I’m not trying to walk 25 miles a day. So, what it’s saying is… This is actually really interesting, is one pack mule can hold 250 pounds a day for 25 miles a day without difficulty. So, that’s what it says is that’s 250 pounds and 25 miles a day was basically normal for the military and the march. (silence).
All right. Well, this is actually got interesting. I was making fun of it at the beginning, but not anymore. I started reading a little bit, and it’s actually pretty interesting. So, what I’m going to do is… Wait a minute. Are we just keep on going through chapters? What’s going on? Well, now I actually want to read the whole thing. There’s 172 pages. I’m not going to do that, but I will eventually. Then it’ll be a much larger class. I don’t know.