If you or one of your friends or family members are going to build a new home please make it energy efficient and use alternate energy. It is estimated that will only increase the price of the house by about 10% on average. Yes it sounds like a lot of money but think of it this way. If the house will cost you $200,000 to build without the energy efficiency, it will cost you only $20,000 extra to build it energy efficient. Now look at what the $20,000 will cost you with a 4.5% mortgage amortized over 15 years (I only recommend a mortgage no longer than 15 years). That is only $153 per month. On average you could easily save that much money each month.
This is the first blog entry in Doc's VEGAN Blog. I will try to blog once a week. In these blogs I will be covering topics that represents what VEGAN 2050 is all about. At least 50% of the blogs will cover vegan, environmental, animal protection, and health. I am hoping that some of these topics will stimulate discussions on VEGAN Mailing List. I am no longer a subscriber to the list and it is not because I do not like the list. I ran it for about 12.5 years. I just had to leave the list because I am writing a book and it takes a lot of time when I add it to my other business ventures. In some of my future blogs I will be talking about some business tips on how to become debt free and how to become rich. I will not go off topic more than 50% of the time.
I want to say something about VEGAN 2050. On 17 June 2010 VEGAN 2050 will be 13 years old. During that time it has evolved from Vegan Mailing List to VEGAN Mailing List to VEGAN to VEGAN 2050. It now has VEGAN Mailing List, VEGAN Resource Library, VEGAN Q & A, VEGAN Ads, and now this blog. VEGAN 2050 will contiune growing and will continue helping people to see the value of becoming vegan and staying vegan. I hope you will enjoy this blog every week.
Doc
The Constitution is a very well written document. To think that over 225 years ago "men" got together to write something that they all could agree with. It dissolved the Federation of States and created the United States of American. It was signed on 17 September 1787. In December 1787 the first three States ratified it. In 1788 eight more States ratified it. In 1789 North Carolina ratified it and finally in May 1790 Rhode Island ratified it. It was the most advanced move that any country ever made prior to that date.
Here is something that will help convince others why veganism will help them. I have two leaky heart valves! My cardiologist stated that I would have to have mechanical heart valves if I was not on a vegan diet. You might ask why a vegan diet will keep me from having to have mechanical heart valves. That is a valid question. I will tell you why.
Can a vegan be in favor of war? Here is what I believe:
It is estimated that over 30,000 people were killed in the war in Libya and over 50,000 people were injured. Less than a thousand people were killed under Qaddafi during the uprising before NATO entered the war. I am not saying that he was a good man. Actually he was a horrible dictator.
I discovered a company that makes fantastic vegan meals. The company is Macro Vegetarian. So far I have tried four of their meals. They were all great. Their meals are distributed by One Stop Natural.