Dear Blue Ridge Commission Members,

I am distressed by the prospect of the shipping of nuclear waist from Germany to Tennessee for processing.   Asheville is one of the proposed routes from Virginia Beach. Not only that , Our “new energy future ” proposed by Obama’s administration includes starting up the building of more nuclear power plants after a 30 year nuclear freeze.

In light of the continued meltdown of the Japanese nuclear plant after the tsunami, the almost same scenario after the mississippi flooded this past spring, and the “cracks” discovered and not yet discovered in the Virginia nuclear plant after the recent east coast earth quake, It is time we pay attention. Nuclear Power is not safe and remains a risk to civilization as we know it.

Have our elected officials been blinded by the nuclear industry?  Are you blinded?  It is a ‘no win’ situation, as not only does the cost of producing the uranium for a plant greater than the power the plant produces, there is still no way to satisfactorily handle the waste. The percentage that nuclear power contributes to our energy needs is I believe below 20%. Solar energy can easily make up that small percentage from daytime usage even with out storage. I know this as I have solar panels on my house that reduced our consumption by 33%!

Also, I am not interested in a tax surcharge on my electric bill to cover the costs of production and “clean up” as if satisfactory clean up was possible. If the people of Germany can choose to close down their nuclear plants, so can we. It is time for all of us to make our voices heard. Why have these meetings not been better publicized?

And we need alternative power options now.

Lillah

Helpful links;

No nuclear waste in WNC!

Local non-profit creating awareness about nuclear waste and WNC

Did you know infant mortality rates were up by 35% in 5 major west coast cities 4 months after the nuclear accident started? Go ahead Google it. Fukushima – worst nuclear accident in history.

For great understandable information visit: Nuclear Information and Resource Service

For opportunities to give public input  two links:

Blue Ribbon Commission on Americas Nuclear future – many meetings in October – Make a comment Please! You can also simple copy and email my letter to them directly here: CommissionDFO@nuclear.energy.gov.

Send your Representatives an email through http://www.house.gov/   ’Find your Representative’ , type in email , click go.

Thank you! – May all Beings be Happy… Safe and Healthy. Namaste, Lillah

The promise of the machine age was freedom. Freedom from a stresses of farming and milking, freedom from the bondage of cleaning and washing, freedom from walking and bicycling. The assurance of more time.

The promise of the computer age was even more free time. Computers will do everything, we were told. They will take care of all the details, so that we can have more time for ourselves, more time with family, more time to explore, more time to meditate.

Yet where has all of this free time gone? Do you have any? Our lives are more and more busy, more and more full, more and more tense. Alas, the promise has been, at least so far, a charade, a chimera, a sham. There will always be things to do which no machine or computer can, so only those of us who take the time to care for ourselves, will feel taken care of. The truth is that machines can not nurture us, only we can nurture ourselves.

The promises made to us where untrue and remain unfulfilled. We have neither more time nor more freedom. The lesson is that true promises cannot be made nor fulfilled by society, but others, by institutions, by governments. Rather, the true promise that leads to fulfillment can only come from us to ourselves.

Yoga has a time-tested methodology for fulfilling these promises to ourselves. The asanas fine-tune, restore and revitalized the body — the physical promise fulfilled. The pranayamas (breath work) refine, strengthen and calm the mind — the mental promise fulfilled. The meditations unveil and resolve the inner hidden feelings — the emotional promise fulfilled.

As the world becomes more complex it behooves us to take even more time out from the hectic tumult for quiet time, for our practice, for ourselves. The power to be well, the power to enjoy life, the power to be in a constant state of joyous fulfillment dwells within us.

When we have no time for yoga, that’s the time for yoga!

Aadil B. Palkhivala is the director of Yoga Centers in Bellevue, Washington, and provides ongoing training for yoga teachers nationwide at Yoga Centers. He holds a rare Advanced Iyengar Yoga Teachers Certificate, as well as degrees in law, physics, mathematics and clinical hypnotherapy. www.yogacenters.com