Welcome to Journey to the East home page,having to do
with the eclectic exploits and musings of yours truly, Stan Kahn
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Y3K Order a copy from Amazon.com
also available at other online bookstores
Read Introit and First Three Chapters
Read Review Published in Communal Societies Magazine
Y3K is primarily a look back from the year 2999 at the world’s
looming social/ecological crisis from the viewpoint of Max and
his extended family; thirtieth century hippie communards. Inspired by my own five years of living communally, the beginning of the book unveils an evolved form of that lifestyle in the old growth forests of America’s Pacific Northwest.
Loosely based on the biblical ‘1000 years of peace’ subsequent
to ‘Entropy Gaia,’ the earth’s near death experience, it describes
an ecotopian world where society has advanced far beyond war,
exploitation and deprivation; where humanity has learned to
live lightly on the earth and allowed a natural Eden to
regenerate.
However, their hip earthly paradise is under threat—Satan
returns—from the very same callous and disrespectful attitudes
towards life and the environment that we are dealing with today.
Y3K is a road novel that nearly circles the world. Travel along
with Max through a fascinating and flourishing communal
movement as he plays his part in trying to protect the world’s
forests and counter the destructive new mania for growth.
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Parallel
U - Living and Working in
Slice of Life
If you really can’t get
enough of this
And there's more. I've recently written three articles for a Cambo-expat-oriented magazine called Bayon Pearnik on buying, owning and driving a car in Cambodia.
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New Market, Phnom Penh
Overloaded Pickup, Rural Cambodia |
The Blog Has Arrived - Go to stansrant.blogspot.com
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Tidbits
I’ve
been having a hard time thinking about what to write lately. I started out with
a
Copenhagen
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Waste
It isn’t just the superwealthy who tend to be mindless about their impact
on the environment. It’s also the comparatively wealthy. The one billion people
who live in the developed world or enjoy that lifestyle in the developing world
are rich enough to not have to think about how much they are spending on energy.
They don’t need to conserve to save money but are free to use as much as they
want.
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blog
JOURNEY TO
THE EAST
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North of Kathmandu at 13,000 feet
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Goa, on India's West Coast |
Guangxi Province |
FAR OUT AND AWAY On the Asia Travelers Trail - 1992
First time out at the age of fifty, join me on a year's journey through eight countries.
GLOBAL
DEMOCRATIC
This is somewhat dated after
12
years, but the essence is the same: We will eventually have a single
world
government.
Introduction,
Table of Contents and Chapter 1. The Inspiration
Instant Runoff Voting for Oregon
Fair
Vote Oregon
STRUCTURAL LEGISLATIVE REFORM
Ideas for a radical restructuring of America's electoral systems
STAN
KAHN for District 14 November
1998
Oregon State House of Representatives Pacific Green Party
ELECTORAL
CHANGES
submitted to the 1999 Oregon
Legislature
And finally a few favorite
Links
stan at tripeast . com(put them together to send an email; they’ve been separated to foil email spammers)