Lessons from Nature Podcast

Honey Creates Money. Observation 52. Energy Transfer. 2026

June 12, 2024 Mark Rubin Season 1 Episode 52
Honey Creates Money. Observation 52. Energy Transfer. 2026
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Lessons from Nature Podcast
Honey Creates Money. Observation 52. Energy Transfer. 2026
Jun 12, 2024 Season 1 Episode 52
Mark Rubin

Observation:

The most important observation in this story is the interconnectedness of natural energy processes and economic systems. It highlights how solar energy, transformed into sugar through photosynthesis, powers life and, metaphorically, creates money. This illustrates the cycle of energy transfer from the sun to plants, animals, and humans, underlining the importance of understanding these natural processes.

The Lesson:

The essential lesson of this story is the significance of recognizing and valuing the fundamental role of natural energy cycles in sustaining life and driving economic activities.

How this is Helpful:

  1. Understanding Ecosystems: It encourages awareness of how natural systems support life and economies.
  2. Economic Insights: Offers a unique perspective on how energy transfer underpins economic transactions.
  3. Environmental Responsibility: Promotes the importance of sustainable practices for maintaining natural habitats and energy cycles.


Questions for Reflection:

  1. Energy Sources: How do the sun's energy and natural processes like photosynthesis impact my daily life?
  2. Economic Connections: In what ways do my economic choices relate to natural energy cycles?
  3. Sustainable Living: What can I do to contribute to a more sustainable balance between economic activities and natural energy processes?


For more ‘Practical Dreaming’, visit https://www.markianrubin.life/practical-dreaming 

Show Notes Transcript

Observation:

The most important observation in this story is the interconnectedness of natural energy processes and economic systems. It highlights how solar energy, transformed into sugar through photosynthesis, powers life and, metaphorically, creates money. This illustrates the cycle of energy transfer from the sun to plants, animals, and humans, underlining the importance of understanding these natural processes.

The Lesson:

The essential lesson of this story is the significance of recognizing and valuing the fundamental role of natural energy cycles in sustaining life and driving economic activities.

How this is Helpful:

  1. Understanding Ecosystems: It encourages awareness of how natural systems support life and economies.
  2. Economic Insights: Offers a unique perspective on how energy transfer underpins economic transactions.
  3. Environmental Responsibility: Promotes the importance of sustainable practices for maintaining natural habitats and energy cycles.


Questions for Reflection:

  1. Energy Sources: How do the sun's energy and natural processes like photosynthesis impact my daily life?
  2. Economic Connections: In what ways do my economic choices relate to natural energy cycles?
  3. Sustainable Living: What can I do to contribute to a more sustainable balance between economic activities and natural energy processes?


For more ‘Practical Dreaming’, visit https://www.markianrubin.life/practical-dreaming 

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My name is Mark Rubin, and I'm a dream weaver. I hope these widgets help you weave your dreams into reality. This story is about energy transfer. And the idea that honey creates money. And this is something I'm demonstrating throughout projects on the late on the regenerative business model, when I say honey creates money, if you go upstream of that, you get to nectar creates money. And if you go upstream of that, you get to sugar creates money, and shows energy. It's stored chemical energy. And that's stored chemical energy, the calories in the sugar, were in the sun. A few days before it became sugar, it takes eight minutes and 20 seconds for the energy from the sun to make it to Earth. And when it strikes the Earth, a small percentage of it is converted into sugar. And that sugar powers all living things. And it powers this concept called work. There's all kinds of work, there's different kinds of work, there's nuclear work in the sun, then that nuclear work is radiated to Earth with light, that's energy. Because that's just something you see is actually energy, it's heat. And caring in that light, in different wavelengths is the energy from the sun. And when that light strikes the Earth, biological processes called plant work. And photosynthesis, convert that light into sugar. Through a process that combines air with light and water, what's happening is it's storing the solar energy in a hexagon, in the form of sugar, and the hexagon earlier stories is the most efficient shape for storing this energy. And that energy, it's stored in plants gets moved around by all living things. When living things eat plants, the energy, the calories that are powering them are in the sun from that sugar. And then some animals eat the plants and some animals eat other animals. And human beings are omnivores. So human beings can eat plants and animals. And that's very adaptable. And that allows us to consume this energy and do work. And so in this in this quick story about energy transfer, where we're honey creates money, it's that light creates money. And before that hydrogen atoms create money, because it's what's powering our work that we're trading with each other. So demonstrating the idea that hunting creates money is the same thing as growing anything and converting it into money. But it's also the same idea as trading money for food. So you can do work so you can trade it for money. So you can buy energy in different forms. And this is the invisible game that we're playing as human beings simply that we are doing work to tray, the tokenization of sunlight, which is money with each other in an efficient way. And this enables us to specialize. And so by explaining like what what money is, and we could call it honey, if we just use if you bought a car with honey, if you if you if you bought gasoline with honey, if you bought a house with honey, there'd be a lot more flowers on the planet Earth. And we would be a lot more in tune with this energy source that's powering everything which is sugar and the cycles around us and our behaviors as it relates to creating either more habitat and more honey or less habitat and less honey. And this is part of the invisible game of energy transfer.