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In an effort to maintain the original vision of Current and to also be a vocal advocate for environmental issues and information we need to know, I am going to be launching a program to be uploaded to the Current Earth Care Community within the next week. Biorhythms is a term usually associated with the physical, intellectual and emotional cycles of humans. I will attempt to extend this term to cover the cycles of Earth and human impacts on them from pollution to climate change (biodistress) and their affects on quality of life.
A healthy environment is crucial to a healthy economy and healthy humans. We are nothing without it and well, I simply believe that to know about the Earth is to learn to respect her and that hopefully leads to actions to preserve her.
I hope for the program to be bi-weekly and will be discussing pressing environmental issues as well as disseminating information we aren't seeing on the MSM and trying to connect the dots we need connected. And I won't pull any punches in placing accountability where it belongs. This will not be a politically partisan program, but make no mistake, politics will be challenged when it threatens this Earth regardless of party.
Our environment is under attack from all angles by interests that care not for the destruction they bring. Therefore, my programs will have a set schedule. A discussion of one pressing environmental issue followed by a commentary. Then a few mintues of news you need to know, any inspirational stories I come across and they are out here, any action items I can find and finally a question for thought and discussion that you can participate in by typing your response or posting a video. I also hope to select a few members of the Current Community who would be willing to give contributions, interviews, etc. and maybe a couple of surprises.
And to end, I don't want the program to be a downer. I want you to walk away with truth and with also realizing that as a species we have great potential and the capacity to live in harmony with Earth. But only in knowing the reality of what we are doing to our only home can we begin to heal her and ourselves.
More information will be coming and I hope you will check out Biorhythms.
Thanks,
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This Thursday April 22, will be the fourtieth Earth Day I have lived through. But I have lived on this Earth approximately 18,697 days and there has not been one day where this Earth has failed to provide for all of my needs in every sense. And because of this, I pledged a long time ago to do my part as a citizen of this Earth to do all I can to preserve its beauty, mystery, and the systems that provide for our sustenance. That is what Earth Day is all about. It is about remembering all our Earth gives to us and paying homage to her and pledging to do all we can to do the same for her.
However, on this Earth Day as on many other days before I am filled with hope yet sadness at seeing how we humans on the whole do not understand this message. Climate change combined with pollution now threaten to place our Earth on a collision course with catastrophe as we push the limitations of the very systems that give us life. We have become detached from Earth even though we live here. The beauty of a sunrise, a clear mountain stream, a tree, and now even the soul satisfying practice of tilling our own soil have been depraved by those who care little for the essence of Earth beyond what they can sell it for.
So on this Earth Day as I have for almost every other of the approxomate 18,697 days I have lived here, I will pay homage to the magnificence of a planet unlike any other. A planet of unsurpassed beauty and potential.
And I will never give up in doing all I can to preserve this giver of all life.
And I will blog. And I will speak out. And I will take action. And I will fight.
For our Earth. Our home.
For without her, there is nothing else.
P.S. to Mother Earth: Thank you.
Happy Earth Day.This Thursday April 22, will be the fourtieth Earth Day I have lived through. But I... more
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Vague language in Clean Water Act allows thousands of nation’s largest polluters to avoid Environmental Protection Agency regulations. As many as half of the nation’s largest water polluters might be exempt from the Clean Water Act’s requirements because Supreme Court decisions never clarified what waterways the act protects, The New York Times reports.
Vague language has allowed certain companies to not be prosecuted, which could be contributing to rising pollution rates in the U.S. Thousands of known polluters have contaminated waterways by spilling oil, carcinogens and dangerous bacteria, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials.
“We are, in essence, shutting down our Clean Water programs in some states,” Douglas F. Mundrick, an EPA lawyer in Atlanta, told the Times. “This is a huge step backward. When companies figure out the cops can’t operate, they start remembering how much cheaper it is to just dump stuff in a nearby creek.”
The Clean Water Act is supposed to end dangerous water pollution by regulating every major polluter. But thousands of known polluters have skirted punishment because regulators lack or have difficulty obtaining jurisdiction, according to officials.
The EPA estimated that in the past four years more than 1,500 major pollution investigations have not reached fruition.
Regulatory ambiguity comes from language that limits the Clean Water Act’s jurisdiction to “the discharge of pollutants into the navigable waters” of the United States. The Supreme Court has interpreted that language broadly to mean large wetlands and streams that are connected to major rivers.
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As legislators and EPA officials pursue alternative regulations, state and federal regulators told the Times they cannot protect important waterways.
EPA reports state that about 117 million Americans get their drinking water from sources fed by waters that are in danger of exclusion from the Clean Water Act.Vague language in Clean Water Act allows thousands of nation’s largest polluters... more
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They say music is the universal language. If so, perhaps music is the one way to get across the urgency of what this planet and the species that inhabit it face if we do not pull together to take urgent action on climate change and pollution now.
Just a side comment: i really wish Current would work out the kinks here that keep pictures from showing on posts.They say music is the universal language. If so, perhaps music is the one way to get... more
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National Geographic shows us through a progression of videos from one to six degrees what we will do to this planet if we continue to ignore the warning signs all around us. National Geographic shows us through a progression of videos from one to six degrees... more
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