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If Documented fact can be put into action then Grammy recognized Skyler Jett may have the answer to healing the world.
Social Conscious Humanitarian Skyler Jett known for his contributions in the entertainment
world of music as the most sought after songwriter/vocalist and background producer has taken time off to follow his hearts desire being active in his pursuit of world peace and environment preservation among other social causes.
Skyler who wrote'Think Green' for Al Gore after seeing him receive the 'Nobel Peace Prize'
took his pursuit a little further with the idea that has been documented to be fact.
In studies of hospital patients who receive trauma that caused unconsciousness that music was the healer. That being the case is it possible that music being the universal language all mankind can identify with can be the prescription for Social Consciousness bring awareness to all mankind that will bring empathy enough to cause the positive action of 'Positive Social Change'.
If this is the case then 2011 is about to witness award winning music that will send the
message that 'Peace is the answer' and that the world needs to 'Think green' so we can heal 'Eternally' while listening to the powerful messages that 'Music can save the world'.
All titles of songs to be presented at the 'Music Can Save The World Tour World Wide'
2011. visit www.consciousmusicentertainment.biz
For further details and updates to this story.
I for one would love to see the chain begin with Current TV documenting the story updates and how Al Gore inspired a Grammy
award winner to take action for positve change.If Documented fact can be put into action then Grammy recognized Skyler Jett may have... more
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I never knew that those seats are reserved. Never noticed the stickers. They look similar to all the other stickers. There needs to be a new form of signage that makes people aware of these seats and their purpose.
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I automatically get up for people who need to sit down.I never knew that those seats are reserved. Never noticed the stickers. They look... more
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A small look into homelessness in San Diego, CA.
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Short video commercial for bringing public awareness for the national compassion holiday petition. A national petition for bringing the issue of senior and disabled citizens who are being forgotten by family and loved ones in retirement homes and health care facilities. We need to be reminded to support and visit our elders and do something to honor them and bring light and love to those less fortunate then ourselves. Please support and sign the petition at www.nationalcompassionholiday.com.
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(Newser) - The mini-missives that online friends send each other create what experts call "ambient awareness" a form of contact akin to picking up a friend's body language or asides in the same room. Alone they add up to little, "but taken together, over time, the little snippets coalesce into a surprisingly sophisticated portrait of your friends and family members lives, like thousands of dots making a pointillist painting," Clive Thompson writes in the New York Times.
It's like I can distantly read everyones mind; one user told Thompson. I love that. I feel like Im getting to something raw about my friends." The messages can also spark social contact when friends read about each other's plans. But there are possible downsides to online friendship too, like losing sight of the real thing. At one point I realized I had a friend whose child I had seen, via photos on Flickr, grow from birth to 1 year old, one user said. I thought, I really should go meet her in person.
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A day in the life of 9 people who frequent the St. Vincent De Paul Soup Kitchen in Clearwater, FL, for their daily meal. They all have different stories to tell as to why they ended up at the soup kitchen.A day in the life of 9 people who frequent the St. Vincent De Paul Soup Kitchen in... more
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More than a dozen people, some wearing orange protective gear, pulled rakes and shovels from a dingy shopping cart and started working on a parched patch of land along a busy off-ramp of the Hollywood Freeway.
It was a Saturday night and drivers whooshed past on their way to the Sunset Strip club scene.
But the crew was undeterred, and by the wee hours, they had transformed the blight into bloom with green bushes and an array of colorful flowers.
City workers on overtime? Nope, no budget for that. These were ''guerrilla gardeners,'' a global movement of the grass-roots variety where people seek to beautify empty or overgrown public space, usually under the cover of darkness and without the permission of municipal officials.
''What we're fighting is neglect,'' said guerrilla gardening guru Richard Reynolds of London, founder of the Web site guerillagardening.org.
Getting approval to beautify public property can be cumbersome, so guerrilla gardeners in cities worldwide take matters into their own dirt-caked hands.
''We try not to let bureaucracy stand in the way,'' said accountant Steven Coker, who maintains an unsanctioned garden across from his house near an exit of the Santa Monica Freeway in West Los Angeles.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City will spend $2.3 billion to slice greenhouse gases put out by municipal buildings and operations to cut this pollution by 30 percent in 2017, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Monday.
Most of the reductions, 57 percent of the total, will be achieved by upgrading city buildings with improved heating, cooling and ventilation systems, the mayor said in a statement.
Firehouses, police precincts, offices, court houses and sanitation garages will also get lots of repairs, from leaky pipes to inefficient pumps, and wasteful systems will be corrected.
Improving water plants that treat sewage and storm water runoff, fixing their methane leaks and using that gas to run electric generation equipment, will account for 17 percent of the greenhouse gas reductions.
Other steps include buying more vehicles that get better gas mileage. And Bloomberg, who jests with reporters about replacing the light bulbs at his Upper East Side townhouse with more efficient ones, plans to do the same with street lights.
These and other measures should help the city meet its goal of cutting 1.68 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents a year from 2006 levels.
"The City is doing its part, I hope the private sector follows our example and finds conservation savings of their own," Bloomberg said. New York City's government consumes about 6.5 percent of the city's total energy use, and 10 percent of its peak electricity demand.
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KABUL\NEW DELHI: Over 40 people, including four Indians, were killed when a suicide bomber rammed his bomb-laden car into the gates of the Indian Embassy on Monday morning, diplomatic sources said here.
Others killed in the attack, the first of this magnitude on an Indian mission, were local security personnel and Afghans who had queued up for visas to travel to India.
An Indian diplomat, V. Venkateswara Rao, and the military attaché, Brigadier Ravi Datt Mehra, were killed as their car was entering the compound while jawans of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police were questioning the suicide bomber at 10 a.m. The two jawans, Ajai Pathaniya and Roop Singh, were also killed on the spot along with Niamatullah, an Afghan employee of the embassy, Minister of External Affairs Pranab Mukherjee told newspersons in New Delhi.
“The government of India strongly condemns this cowardly terrorist attack on its diplomatic mission in Afghanistan. Such acts of terror will not deter us from fulfilling our commitments to the government and the people of Afghanistan,” Mr. Mukherjee said.
About 10 Afghan security personnel were among those dead or injured. Several shops across the road, including the Indian Airlines office, were damaged and many Afghan shopkeepers injured.
An Indian Air Force transport plane left for Kabul in the evening to bring back the bodies of the Indian victims. A special team led by senior diplomat Nalin Suri has rushed to the Afghan capital to review security measures and interact with local officials to improve safety measures for the nearly 3,000 Indians working at missions and development projects in the country.
It includes representatives from the Foreign Office and the Ministry of Home Affairs besides trauma specialists.
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SAN ONOFRE -- A battle nearly 40 years in the making is coming to a head at one of Southern California's most iconic beaches, pitting the suits against the people who don't wear any.
Swimsuits, that is.
After decades of looking the other way, officials at San Onofre State Beach in north San Diego County are set to crack down on a clothing-optional stretch of sand where people soak up the sun without fear of tan lines.
Citing ongoing complaints from park visitors and the fear of workplace harassment lawsuits from employees, officials say they will begin citing skinny dippers who refuse to cover up after Labor Day. New large signs warning that nudity is prohibited have recently sprouted up throughout the park, and rangers are telling nude sunbathers that their endless summer is about to end.
"Times have changed," said Rich Haydon, acting superintendent of the California Parks and Recreation Department's Orange Coast District. "The population growth within a two-hour drive of San Onofre has grown tremendously through the years. It can no long be considered a remote beach."
Angered naturists say they intend to fight the move lying down -- in the sand, as hundreds of nude sunbathers do every summer weekend.
"Do you think one or two rangers could cite all those people? No way," said R. Allen Baylis, who heads Friends of San Onofre Beach, a naturist group. "There's going to be no way to effectively enforce this policy."
Haydon responded with a chuckle. "It will be enforced," he said. "We've already been in discussion with other law enforcement agencies."
San Onofre's surf breaks are internationally known, in particular the perfectly shaped lines at Trestles and the easygoing 1960s time warp at the longboarders' hub known as Old Man's Beach.
Naturists worldwide know San Onofre for Trail 6, a dirt path that snakes down from sandstone bluffs to the beach's southern end, where it meets Camp Pendleton.
When President Nixon transferred part of the Marine Corps base to the state for use as a park, he told a reporter, "This is a great sunning beach."
James Healey agrees, but probably not in the way Nixon envisioned.
"The vibe is very mellow down here. People mind their own business," said Healy, 49, of Oceanside, who was lying on a towel naked one recent afternoon. "I don't understand why this is a problem. Who cares?"
At issue is a murky combination of regulations and policies that park rangers have used for years to deal with nudity.
State law forbids nudity in state parks "except in authorized areas set aside for that purpose." But there are no such areas. In the late 1970s, Russell Cahill, then-director of the state parks department, proposed establishing "clothing optional" areas but dropped the idea in the face of opposition and concerns over the enforcement costs.
Instead, he issued what's become known as the Cahill Policy, under which citations or arrests are made only after a complaint from the public and attempts to "elicit voluntary compliance."
Beachgoers have been baring it all at Trail 6 since the park opened in 1973. Back then, San Onofre was about as isolated as a place could be in Southern California, a strip of sand that was a long drive from a creeping metropolis that had not yet reached it.
"There's a mystique to San Onofre, even today," said Haydon, who first went to work there more than 20 years ago as a seasonal lifeguard. "It's a throwback to what California looked like 100 years ago."
In some respects, though, San Onofre isn't what it was even a decade ago.
The beach had 2.5 million visitors in 2007, up from 1.6 million in 2000. Some of the newcomers are upending San Onofre's cherished informality: Bonfires, beers and longboards evoked a California beach culture a generation ago that exists today only on Super 8 film.
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What will it take to make this generation passionate about change?
Call it wrath if you like,
or righteous anger.
Rage is good.
When it wells up from deep inside you, it is immediate, compelling, real. It is the only emotion strong enough to start a war – or stop one. Rage can change laws, take down corporations and topple governments.
Rage drives revolutions.
In the sixties, black America raised its fist and refused to take any more abuse from white society. In the seventies, women turned the age-old masculine order on its head. In the eighties, environmentalists mobilized en masse against the death of nature. But what about today? What is this generation up to? Is there any fire burning inside their guts?
At the Battle in Seattle, I asked people, “Why are you here?”
The answers ranged from Buddhist homilies to anarchist rants. But one man said something I’ll never forget: “Ever since I was a baby, crawling around the TV, I’ve been lied to. I’ve been propagandized. I’ve been told all my life that I’ll be happy if I buy stuff and worship the cool. Now I feel diminished, warped. I’m a pale version of what I could have been. I’ve been mindfucked. And now it’s payback time.”
Three generations have now been raised not as a part of the natural world – like the 30,000 generations before – but in a synthetic reality. A reality defined by advertising, media and consumer-driven culture. These generations have been hyped, suckered, aroused, thrilled – their fears, needs and desires manipulated in the most grotesque ways. Capitalist hype is the music of their anxiety, the gray noise of their depression, the muzak of their despair.
Now, finally, a rage is beginning to stir deep within. And out of this discordant rage, the movement of our information age will be born.
What will it take to make this generation passionate about change?
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What if design stood up for itself? What if instead of bowing immediately to our demands, design gently pushed back?
Psychodesign
Design has always submitted to our will. Design’s immediate and unwavering compliance to our demands defines our relationship. It does what we ask of it. Any design refusing to conform to its purpose is discarded or rebuilt, its insolence ruled a defect or a flaw. But what if design stood up for itself? What if instead of bowing immediately to our demands, design gently pushed back?
Square Toilet Paper
For a 2000 exhibition entitled Re-Design: Daily Products of the 21st Century, architect Shigeru Ban re-conceptualized one of the most ubiquitous aspects of daily life – toilet paper. Traditionally structured around a rounded tube, toilet paper is designed to yield abundant amounts with minimal effort. A small tug sets the roll in motion and it gives, gives, gives – inevitably offering more paper than we really need. By changing the shape of the tube – making it square rather than circular – Ban changed both the shape and the nature of the paper molded around it. A tug is met with resistance as the roll’s squared corner encounters the edge of the metal dispenser. “Kata,” says the roll. “Kata-kata-kata,” each corner voicing protest as it passes. Need is no longer met by silent compliance. The roll will yield, but not without dissent. The result, hopefully, is a heightened consciousness of use.
Gel Remote
Inert and lifeless, design is animated only through human use. It exists only by virtue of its functionality, possessing no reality independent of its purpose in our world. Would we think of it differently if it were alive? Constructed of a soft, flesh-like gel, the remote appears cold and dead when off. Once turned on, however, it seems to come to life. A soft light emanates somewhere from within as the center of the device begins to slowly rise and fall, mimicking the tranquil motions of breath. Left undisturbed, the remote will slumber peacefully. But should a human hand approach, sensors inside alert it to the imminent touch. It stops breathing, grows rigid – the light from within is extinguished. A remote is the ideal metaphor for the disturbance electronic distraction poses to life. If we had to interrupt its life before it could interrupt ours, we may think twice before picking it up.
Light Cord
Developed by STATIC!, an energy-awareness project in Sweden, the Power Aware cord visualizes energy rather than concealing it from sight. Represented by a pale blue light, energy begins to flow through the cord from the moment its plugged in. The longer the cord is in use, the more vibrant the light becomes. Eventually the light begins to pulse, then throb, demanding that we become conscious of the energy flowing beneath. Consumption ceases to be abstract – it becomes visible, quantifiable, real. The energy won’t resist use – quietly and obediently, it will continue to flow. But at the edge of our consciousness, the light will persistently throb.
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When street artist Banky’s pictures appeared on the West Bank “partition wall,” they drew the world’s attention to the barrier in ways that protest and op-ed pieces could not.
When street artist Banksy’s pictures mysteriously appeared on the West Bank “partition wall” in 2005, they drew the world’s attention to the barrier in ways that dozens of protests and op-ed pieces could not.
Proposed in 1992 by former Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, the concrete and razor-wire wall was originally planned to follow the 350-kilometer Green Line (the 1949 armistice line from the Arab-Israeli war). Currently, the barrier runs over 600 kilometers as it winds to encapsulate Israeli settlements in the West Bank. For the Israelis, the wall represents increased security from terrorist attacks, as well as a way to consolidate the legitimacy of settlements. For the Palestinians, the wall symbolizes apartheid and economic oppression, separating thousands of West Bank residents from their workplaces, their schools, and their former farmlands. To the rest of the world, the wall represents a geopolitical impasse in the heart of the Middle East.
Banksy returned to the West Bank in December 2007, leaving six new drawings on the wall near Bethlehem. In the same month, Dutch activist group Sendamessage invited people from around the world to leave their own mark: for a fee of €30, Sendamessage commissions locals to spray-paint requested messages on the wall, sending snapshots of the finished text via email.
This publicity comes at a critical time. The disastrous war in Lebanon left Israel in a fragile position, its myth of invincibility shattered and the credibility of its leaders deeply undermined. The seven-year silence between Israel and Palestine was finally broken by peace talks in Annapolis last year. And in January, President Bush made his strongest public statement yet pushing Israel to give up land for an independent Palestine.
Timing is key. The wall is only two years from completion. Already, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has announced that Israel’s borders will be expanded and redrawn around the partition wall in 2010, jeopardizing what little hope remains for peace. Artists and activists around the world are putting a spotlight on the barrier to prevent this from taking place. Whether it be stencil drawings or a graffiti scrawl, their message is the same: “Tear this wall down!”
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M.I.A. meets child rights leader Kimmie Weeks. They visit with Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, fix a playground and throw an block party in Monrovia.
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