Just got back from Ireland, we were taking a part in activities with "Irish Bees Conservation Project"

In this pic is traditional beekeeper, but our activities were about solitary bees, or wild bees. The one who don't make honey, but are much
more effective pollinators than a honey bees, therefore more important for biodiversity. But since there are no profit or advantage to be taking from them, they are often are forgotten.

Also Ireland is about "Guinness" :) It's everywhere there, beer brand. We tried one alcohol free in Irish pub. It was ok... Interesting that looks like it's forbidden to advertise alcohol in Ireland, but everywhere billboards with beer breweries and beer brands advertising "non alcoholic" beer :)

And most importantly Ireland is about Tea with Biscuits and very friendly and chatty people
That's Pat, pouring us 15th cup of tea :) They also have hats for tea pots :)

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The project was actually in Netherlands. But it was very expensive to stay and fly there. Luckily we have a friend Matthias who lives in Belgium and it turned out that he is quite close to the Netherlands border. Matthias also our Patreon and super kind and generous guy, so we stayed at his place. Sometimes that's the only option to film and volunteer is to stay at friends and save as much as we can. Because otherwise it won't be possible to participate in a projects so frequently. Kind of similar to the life of underground musician :)

Anyway, we rented a tiny car in Charleroi airport, because there was no other way to get to the different locations in Netherlands + during the night.
It was ok, but super tiny :)

And during day we were at Matthias and Belgium and in the evenings went to Netherlands.

Traditional Belgium fries :) That's the way they do it, you order large portion, they put a lot of fries, really a lot of them in the tiny box. It was o much fries, we took them with us, and still couldn't finish them in 2 days :)

Mara really wanted to see tulips and we were driving around Zeeland (an area in Netherlands) to search for them, and we found them

Anyway the project was about Glass eels, and it's very complex situation and topic. We were fishing them with a net, then inject color tags on them and later release them back. In short their population had declined in Northern see for 99% !!!!!! In the last 40 or so years.

So we were on a mission to save them. It was night work, dirty, cold and slippery, but it was worth it.

So now I will start making the video, and meanwhile we have another projects lined up.
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Do not forget that the internet, youtube, netflix, cars and supermarkets, lightbulbs and modern medicine, do not make our society "civilized". These are a result of often enslaved humans producing "stuff" in a trade-based society. Technologically we, as a society, are quite advanced, but morally we are primitive.

Despite all of this technological progress humans are still forcing ALL of their billions of members to trade in order to survive, despite being able to feed, house, and take care of everyone on Earth. This means we are still primitive and have no greater goals such as exploration, the advancement of technology and science, understanding where we came from and where we are heading... All that humans do is trade, day in, day out.

Slaves and slave owners. Simple minds. Robots.

If you take away the electrification, internet, the gadgets, the hot water and the mass produced products - stuff - you are left with the "naked" humans who all they want is to acquire more, get "married", work, have kids, drink, and cheer up for their tribe.

It is the environment who creates these behaviors so if we do not change the "mental" environment, nothing will happen. We do not need new tech, new science, new materials. We need new lives for the individuals of this species. Lives that are relaxed and taken care of. Scientific, globally oriented, and to live in a non competitive environment.

So the UN or other institutions, if they ever want to solve any global issues, they need to first propose that we should take care of people and create a decent life for them. All of them, not just the very poor. We are all trapped in this trade-prison. You can't expect for a different society to emerge when all humans do is to slave away and compete with each other. Dog eats dog world.

Happy 1st of May to all of the slaves who got a day off. What a disgrace of a society.

#may #fistofmay #worker #capitalism #money #1may #trade

Hey guys! Just want to tell you that my book has FINALLY been published!

bigworldsmallsasha.com/book

“Big World Small Sasha” is a true story detailing my years of traveling continuously on a shoestring budget—from Hawaii to Siberia, from New Zealand to Nicaragua, and many places in between—couchsurfing, hitchhiking, and budgeting every way possible. The book also describes my reckless childhood years, my growth as a human being, and my growing awareness of our global world and global problems.

It is primarily a memoir, but it is also full of facts about our world, and criticism of our society.

It is hard for me to describe how much work I put into this book, I can only say that it is 470 pages long, it has been my main project for the past five years, and it took nearly all my strength and energy to write, edit, format, design, and publish this book.

It is also a deeply personal story, and telling it broke me down several times, put me on an emotional roller coaster, and eventually burned me out entirely. This is why it took me so long to release it, and why I haven't written any blogs in a while.

Now, however, I am ready to let it go—and I am very happy to share it.

There is a PDF that you can download for free, or read directly on my website, and there are also some options to buy a paperback copy.

Thank you to everyone who has supported me throughout my seemingly-never-ending writing endeavor. And a big special thanks to @Tio and @Roma . I don’t think I could have done it without you. Thank you, thank you, thank you! 🙏🙏🙏😊😊😊

I appreciate you all very much!