SuperForest

Gooooood Morning SuperForest!

It is early morning here in NYC. I can imagine everyone who reads this blog at the various stages of their days all over the planet. Some of us are waking up, some haven’t yet gone to bed.

Late nights like this get me to thinking. And I haven’t posted much in a while, so forgive me if I ramble.

Sometimes it is easy for me to take this blog for granted. I’m so much in the thick of it, I lose perspective sometimes on just how special what we have here actually is. For me, SuperForest is like this little oasis of goodness and stability in a wild and jungly terrain. I know that I can come on this blog and someone will have written a post about something I’ll find interesting, or uplifting, or that makes me smile.

SuperForest is a positivity blog. And the world needs positivity. I don’t know anywhere else that radiates so much positivity. If you read SuperForest, you begin to understand that all is well. That all will be well. There are amazing people of all ages all over the planet, all working together to keep our species and our planet alive. To try to tell you about all of them would be impossible. But they are there, working together, forming partnerships, and the newest and most exciting topic of conversation is: How are we all going to save the world?

We try to live as though we were already doing it. We try to live sustainably, and lessen our impact on the Earth. Most importantly we try to be aware of our impact on each other, how our words and actions have power, escpecially the power to inspire and make glad. We live as though the whole world was interconnected in a global web of positivity and idea-sharing. We live as though all wars were over, all fighting ceased.

If it is possible for us to live in this reality, one where we cleverly utilize every available human technology to provide and care for the greatest number of human beings, where we share ideas freely for the good of ideas themselves, and where racism and hatred and thoughts of revenge are a dimming concept, then it is possible for everyone to share that reality with us. One by one we try to uplift and inspire.

SuperForest recently passed its quarter million views mark, and we let it slide by with nary a whimper. I’ve been working so hard on getting Eco-Tech School to shimmer into reality, that I’ve missed out on some great SuperForesting…

Or have I?

In my mind all of the work I have been doing lately is part of the same project. Eco-Tech School’s mission is to spread the joy of nature, technology and human interaction with those that need it. SuperForest the blog is meant to do the same exact thing. If we work together and flip scarcity into abundance, we all succeed. I feel like my work is to tell everyone that a grand life is possible for all humans. Whatever form that takes is the adventure.

SuperForester Carla, (who has been doing a darn fine job of running the blog as of late) said something the other day that I thought quite poetic. She said (I paraphrase) that SuperForest is the document of the journey. I love that. That works perfectly.

I myself am trying to live like Jackson SuperForest. I try to live a life that is in alignment with what I believe. And it can be challenging and difficult, but in the end it is for me the most fun I could possibly have.

I believe in water recycling, so I spent a week half-assedly showering while standing in a bucket and then using the leftover shower water to flush my toilet. It was hilariousness in its utmost. It totally worked, but shower water is gross looking, so your bowl never looks totally clean.
Excercises like this make me think: “Hrrmmm. I bet I could design a system that collected and filtered used shower water and I could make it all white and clean and gleamy and easy to use.”

I find so much inspiration in how difficult it is trying to live a normal life and still lessen my impact on the planet. This is such a thrilling time to be alive and experimenting with all the new technology. I write these words on my cool, Minority Report-like tablet screen computer. I just downloaded Google SketchUp and I can’t wait to get to know it.

It is amazing, free software like google SketchUp that will make it much easier for all of us to experiment with eco-tech living, to plot out ones dreams and desires in silicon, and then use the net to spread the ideas around to see if they grow.

I was recently thrilled to see that Britta and Rebecca of Windowfarms have put up a swank new site with 2 downloadable pdfs for windowfarms you can build on your own. The easier of the two projects is Britta and Rebecca’s own version of the Jackpot! They use a one gallon jug for the main bucket, which makes for a lighter and easier to use system. This is exactly what I hoped would happen. I had an idea. I put it online. Rebecca and Britta saw it and refined it. I can now refine their refinements. Everybody wins.

Isn’t this rad?! Idea win!

Pay a visit to windowfarms.org
They are radical people.

We SuperForesters have a ton of projects heading down the pipeline. Henners the Sea Lion! Upcoming interviews! New comics!

I’m sorry if my SuperForesting has lessened of late. It is all in preparation for Eco-Tech School which will be so much fun and really entertaining. And soon enough Bee and I will be back in Brooklyn at P.S. 58 for the further adventures with the 4fives. Yessir, 4fives Season 2 is bound to be a doozy.

As things progress and various projects reach completion and are brought to light, I shall try to post more. There is so much good stuff going on. Everywhere I look these days I see growth and interest and a renewed sense of mission to change the world and remake it into something brighter and better. Something built to last longer.

A better, more exciting world is poking its nose out of the ground like a little shoot.

Here we will share the stories of the climb.

I am so grateful to this blog, all the members of Team SuperForest for all of their hard work, all of my friends and family, and everyone reading this around the world.

I feel like I’ve been away too long. It’s time to get to posting again.

Love to All,

Jackson