Blue Economy in Lent (Part 1)

Hey!! Blue ones!! How are you?

I have become blue, since I knew about this, and I’m in that process, I expect that you too could consider it, not just to focus on preservation, but regeneration.

Can you imagine a world with full employment, with hospitals that get closed because there are no patients, with free water, in a place full of trees and or beautiful species traveling via bike?

When I heard about the Blue Economy of Gunter Pauli, I was surprised a lot. How could we be so slow, that we haven’t taken advantage of the millenary wisdom that God lets us discover in his creation, and from that point contribute our co-creator talent. There are solutions for our problems, but always there is one better among others, one more efficient, more generous, that gives more, that delivers the better solution.

Imagine that instead of using air conditioning and heating, we used a natural body regulation system like that used by the zebra, or if we cultivated edible mushrooms with almost the same level of protein as chicken from coffee waste. Imagine if we could talk and talk by phone without charging it because it absorbs the waves of sound of the voice as energy source or we if used an electric microcomponent like the whale that doesn’t need maintenance for it’s 70 years of life, that pumps enormous quantities of blood without rest, without technical failure. Imagine anti-odor clothes made of coffee waste and plastic bottles. Imagine stone paper made of stone waste and pet. Imagine fruit trees spread with diapers, or using silk to regenerate the humus, the land, that can replace the steel, the titanium and various products. Imagine houses made of steel bamboo,that are seismic resistant, and super cheap. Imagine, imagine and imagine. It is real, and it isn’t necessary to imagine much!

The Blue Economy proposes two things: act with what we have, what we possess; and secondly, use a lot from less by needing less each time to multiply supplies. These examples have already been implemented, I wish to access the book Blue Economy version 2.0 in which they have documented more than 3 million examples that are already created; because it is possible to get the social equilibrium, and to get that it is necessary to reconfigure the industry, the business.

I have tried to think of myself as a scientist and think I live daily with this natural wise logic, and I have configured the following ideas, that obviously even now exist in some place in the world. However, I share these ideas with you: when we take a bath some turbines or little propellers receive the water that falls and generates that energy into electricity, as in the walls of our houses and apartments that take advantage of the force of the rain and generate more energy. Little ones profit from the low air flows that pass all the time around us, Vegetable gardens and fruit trees in the residential complex supply the local demand for energy. Electric energy is generated from the mechanical movements of the gym machines. Electric energy from our walking and daily movements sustain watches that works without battery because they charge with the movements of the arm throughout the whole day.

This generation of energy is similar with Catholicism, with Lent. We have to work with what we have, and what we always have had is GOD, and those who have him, do not lack anything. So why have we left behind what we always have had? With God everything multiplies, the loaves and the fishes, just 2 loaves, just 5 fish fed crowds of people. And even what is left is recycled and gets to multiply again. God was the first recycler in recycling us. He recycles our sins and turns them into grace through his sacraments, with his powerful hand.

Our fasting, charity, prayers, penitence and repentance are not little acts, as these create a lot of changes, turning into generosity that transforms lives, and rebuilds families.

A hug is also a little act that can create a lot of change in a person, as it raises the heart beat, comforts the myocardium. A day to day kiss between husband and wife can be “small", but is grand because it keeps generating love, and it invites other families to the truth. We always have had this, love in God. A seed of mustard that is small, is where then the birds repose to build their houses. If we are loyal in creating through the small things, and use less, God will trust us more.

We have to live in Material and Spiritual Blue Economy, cause is possible to build the blue sky house here on the earth, with the ramparts and towers of emeralds, and Jesus and the Eucharist as our center.

Wait for the second part. Blue one.