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i think we can imagine our way out of our problems, yes , i think thats the way it...
lets change this world in to the jewel it is, the jewel of our eye,
ideas people lets come up with some ideas.
i have some if you would like to look at them.
stop by any time and chat,
gentjim
p.s. we are that smart ! lets change this world in to the jewel it is, the jewel of our eye, ideas people lets come up with some ideas. ... more -
the trash cronicles
insted of just throwing news around ....
let us folow it with our own conversation ,
let us learn,
let us find solutions ,
what can we do?????
we can create awareness .........!!!!!!!!
let us create a trash interest area on current and ask people to take pictures with naritives of trash in there area , posting them to ''the trash cronicles''.
let us start a conversation , now ,we may discover a solution in the conversation. insted of just throwing news around .... let us folow it with our own conversation , let us learn, let us find solutions , ... more -
trash why ?
insted of just throwing news around ,
let us folow it with our own conversation
let us learn,
let us find solutions,
what can we do ????
we can create awareness......!!!!!!!! insted of just throwing news around , let us folow it with our own conversation let us learn, let us find solutions, ... more -
lots of tools , no macanic , all this and more on the internet.
the internet is piled high with tools and trends ,but no macanic to use the tools to create
enriching planitary change , head-heart - change , solutions for the sake of solutions ,
eficency for the sake of eficency, chang ,good chang.
i will not go away,
i am such a macanic , but i have limatation , i am 1, it will take many
stop by when you can ,
gent jim / eco1mindstorm / the traveler the internet is piled high with tools and trends ,but no macanic to use the tools to create ... more -
Paul Ehrlich talks about Earth's dominant animal
To track how humans became Earth's dominant animal, Ehrlich began
with a photo of a tarsier in a tree. The little primate had a
predator's binocular vision and an insect-grabber's fingers. When
(possibly) climate change drove some primates out of the trees, they
developed a two-legged stance to get around on the savannah. Then
the brain swoll up, and the first major dominance tool
emerged---language with syntax.
About 2.5 million years ago, the beginnings of human culture became
evident with stone tools. "We don't have a Darwin of cultural
evolution yet," said Ehrlich. He defined cultural evolution as
everything we pass on in a non-genetic way. Human culture developed
slowly-the stone tools little changed from millennium to millennium,
but it accelerated. There was a big leap about 50,000 years ago,
after which culture took over human evolution---our brain hasn't
changed in size since then.
With agriculture's food surplus, specialization took off. Inuits
that Ehrlich once studied had a culture that was totally shared;
everyone knew how everything was done. In high civilization, no one
grasps a millionth of current cultural knowledge. Physicists can't
build a TV set.
Writing freed culture from the limitations of memory, and burning old
solar energy (coal and oil) empowered vast global population growth.
Our dominance was complete. Ehrlich regretted that we followed the
competitive practices of chimps instead of bonobos, who resolve all
their disputes with genital rubbing.
"The human economy is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Earth's
natural systems," said Ehrlich, and when our dominance threatens the
ecosystem services we depend on, we have to understand the workings
of the cultural evolution that gave us that dominance. The current
two greatest threats that Ehrlich sees are climate change (10 percent
chance of civilization ending, and rising) and chemical toxification
of the biosphere. "Every cubic centimeter of the biosphere has been
modified by human activity."
The main climate threat he sees is not rising sea levels ("You can
outwalk that one") but the melting of the snowpack that drives the
world's hydraulic civilizations--- California agriculture totally
dependent on the Sierra snowpack, the Andes running much of Latin
America, the Himalayan snows in charge of southeast Asia. With
climate in flux, Ehrlich said, we may be facing a millennium of
constant change. Already we see the outbreak of resource wars over
water and oil.
He noted with satisfaction that human population appears to be
leveling off at 9 to 10 billion in this century, though the remaining
increase puts enormous pressure on ecosystem services. He's not
worried about depopulation problems, because "population can always
be increased by unskilled laborers who love their work."
The major hopeful element he sees is that cultural evolution can move
very quickly at times. The Soviet Union disappeared overnight. The
liberation of women is a profound cultural shift that occurs in
decades. Facing dire times, we need to understand how cultural
evolution works in order to shift our dominance away from malignant
and toward the benign.
In the Q & A, Ehrlich described work he's been doing on cultural
evolution. He and a graduate student in her fifties at Stanford have
been studying the progress of Polynesian canoe practices as their
population fanned out across the Pacific. What was more conserved,
they wondered, practical matters or decoration? Did the shape of a
canoe paddle change constantly, driven by the survival pressure of
greater efficiency, or did the carving and paint on the paddles
change more, driven by the cultural need of each group to distinguish
itself from the others.
Practical won. Once a paddle shape proved really effective, it
became a cultural constant.
--Stewart Brand
-- To track how humans became Earth's dominant animal, Ehrlich began ... more -
nearly-free energy from water — is this for real?
Stories like this are popping up every day. One of these ideas is bound to push us into a better direction.
Blacklight Power, a company founded by a Harvard medical doctor called Randell Mills, says it can push hydrogen atoms into a state that most scientists deny exists.
The company claims that energy this atomic push releases can create electricity for a single cent per kilowatt hour, less than any known process, including burning cheap, dirty coal. The company says it can do so with a non-polluting, self-perpetuating process that mostly feeds itself with common water. Stories like this are popping up every day. One of these ideas is bound to push us into a better direction. ... more -
Is humanity suicidal?
Is humanity suicidal? Eminent U.S. zoologist and author, E.O. Wilson, first asked himself that question more than a decade ago. And today?
Ecologists like to make this point with the French riddle of the lily pond. At first there is only one lily pad in the pond, but the next day there are two, and thereafter each of its descendants doubles. The pond completely fills with lily pads in 30 days.
When is the pond exactly half full? Answer: on the 29th day.
Yet, mathematical exercises aside, who can safely measure the human capacity to overcome the perceived limits of Earth? The question of central interest is this: are we racing to the brink of an abyss, or are we just gathering speed for a take off to a wonderful future?
The crystal ball is clouded; the human condition baffles all the more because it is both unprecedented and bizarre, almost beyond understanding. Is humanity suicidal? Eminent U.S. zoologist and author, E.O. Wilson, first asked himself that question more than a decade ago. And to... more -
The World's Hardest Working Shaman
Western Shoshone leader, Corbin Harney talks about his prophetic conversation with the water
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World peace at quantum physics level
Peace is real and comes from the Unified Field.... Dr John Hagland explains this in this 5 minute video in one of the most scientific and amazingly believable and very real way. And, it makes a lot of sense. If we all follow what he says, World Peace can proliferate faster than you can think!
We are all part of this Universe and all our atoms and molecules are governed by Quantum Physics. We can use this universal law to change the world!
Who's for it? Let's do it! Peace is real and comes from the Unified Field.... Dr John Hagland explains this in this 5 minute video in one of the most scientific ... more -
Sturgeon | Native Harvest
Sturgeon are ancient beings whose presence graced the stories, songs and memories of countless generations of people. Then they were banished by greed. Today, with the dreams and hands of fisheries biologists, and tribal members, the sturgeon are returning to the rivers and lakes of the forest country just west of the Great Lakes, returning in all their glory. They are returning to the White Earth Reservation, and as they return, they teach us a lesson of connectivity and our own relationships with each other. That lesson, we believe, is one we that we can begin undoing some of what we have done to each other and with the realization that we are all ultimately connected.
Working in collaboration with the White Earth Biology Department, the White Earth Land Recovery Project has seen another successful release of sturgeon back into the waters of the reservation. On a sunny day in September, Randy Zortman of the WE Biology Dept. and his staff released 8000 sturgeon into White Earth Lake and 5000 into Round Lake.
This is my one of my favorite of Winona's stories. Winona and the folks at White Earth Land Recovery Project (W.E.L.R.P.) and Native Harvest, now about 35 people are devoted to the earth and sustainability. Up at East Round Lake in White Earth Earth Day has been every day since time immemorial.
From your friends at TouchArt and One Earth Blog. Sturgeon are ancient beings whose presence graced the stories, songs and memories of countless generations of people. Then they were b... more -
Indigenous Women's Network
The Indigenous Women's Network (IWN) was established in as a grass roots initiative at a gathering of over 200 Indigenous women at Yelm, Washington in 1985. The (Founding Mothers ) were and continue to be strong, committed Indigenous women activists who dedicate themselves to generating a global movement that achieves sustainable change for our communities. Under their visionary leadership, IWN has become known for inspiring, strategic, pro-active and affirming events that facilitates the inter-generational transfer of traditional knowledge to young, Indigenous women. Our training programs and publications reach and link Indigenous women around the world in a network of support that includes award winning artists, activists, authors, community leaders, educators, attorneys and traditional healers. The Indigenous Women's Network (IWN) was established in as a grass roots initiative at a gathering of over 200 Indigenous women a... more
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One Earth Blog: Women, Feminism and Hillary and Chelsea Clinton
Read today's One Earth Blog from Charleen Touchette at TouchArt in Santa Fe.
Women's issues are every one's issues.
Includes link to Chelsea Clinton explains why equal pay, reproductive rights, stopping teenage pregnancy and ensuring girls worldwide get educated is crucial to democracy and how her mom has worked to achieve gains for women in America and around the world.
And link to and text of Hillary Clinton's historic speech "Women's Rights are Human Rights" in 1995 in Beijing.
Read this to learn how Hillary Clinton understands that healthy families are the foundation of peace and prosperity for all. Hillary Clinton has been walking her talk for a long time when it comes to understanding that by lifting up every one, we all rise. Read today's One Earth Blog from Charleen Touchette at TouchArt in Santa Fe. Women's issues are every one's issues. ... more -
Chelsea Clinton on Women's Rights and Hillary Clinton's Contributions
Chelsea Clinton answers a question about her mom's commitment to women's issues. Her articulate answer about Hillary Clinton's concrete contributions to fight for Equal Pay, Reproductive Choice and Reduction of Teen Pregnancy by 1/2, and worldwide to work against school fees that prevent girls from equal access to education to empower women, promote democracy and enhance the good will of the United States is testimony to the many reasons why Hillary Clinton would be a great president for America and the world.
Hillary and Bill Clinton raised an extraordinary human being.
Photo above by Alfred Chicken.
Hillary Clinton has long championed the rights of women and families.
Go to http://www.famousquotes.me.uk/speeches/Hillary-Clinton/
for Hillary Clinton's "Women's Rights are Human Rights" Speech to the UN Gathering on Women's Rights in Beijing on September 5, 1995.
"By gathering in Beijing, we are focusing world attention on issues that matter most in the lives of women and their families: access to education, health care, jobs and credit, the chance to enjoy basic legal and human rights and participate fully in the political life of their countries."
What we are learning around the world is that if women are healthy and educated, their families will flourish. If women are free from violence, their families will flourish. If women have a chance to work and earn as full and equal partners in society, their families will flourish.
And when families flourish, communities and nations will flourish.
That is why every woman, every man, every child, every family, and every nation on our planet has a stake in the discussion that takes place here.
Over the past 25 years, I have worked persistently on issues relating to women, children and families. Over the past two-and-a-half years, I have had the opportunity to learn more about the challenges facing women in my own country and around the world.
Women comprise more than half the world's population. Women are 70% percent of the world's poor, and two-thirds of those who are not taught to read and write.
Women are the primary caretakers for most of the world's children and elderly. Yet much of the work we do is not valued - not by economists, not by historians, not by popular culture, not by government leaders.
Those of us who have the opportunity to be here have the responsibility to speak for those who could not.
As an American, I want to speak up for women in my own country - women who are raising children on the minimum wage, women who can't afford health care or child care, women whose lives are threatened by violence, including violence in their own homes.
We also must recognize that women will never gain full dignity until their human rights are respected and protected.
Our goals for this Conference, to strengthen families and societies by empowering women to take greater control over their own destinies, cannot be fully achieved unless all governments - here and around the world - accept their responsibility to protect and promote internationally recognized human rights.
No one should be forced to remain silent for fear of religious or political persecution, arrest, abuse or torture.
Tragically, women are most often the ones whose human rights are violated.
and,
Now it is time to act on behalf of women everywhere. If we take bold steps to better the lives of women, we will be taking bold steps to better the lives of children and families too.
Let this Conference be our - and the world's - call to action.
And let us heed the call so that we can create a world in which every woman is treated with respect and dignity, every boy and girl is loved and cared for equally, and every family has the hope of a strong and stable future." Chelsea Clinton answers a question about her mom's commitment to women's issues. Her articulate answer about Hillary Clinton... more -
Don't believe nuclear energy can be safe
Los Alamos Study Group document explains why nuclear anything on earth is insane. This is what it did and continues to do to our state of New Mexico. Los Alamos Study Group document explains why nuclear anything on earth is insane. This is what it did and continues to do to our stat... more
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One Earth Blog: Money Rock
Can uranium mining be safe? NO. NO. NO. from TouchArt.net and OneEarthBlog.
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One Earth Blog: Making Decisions for the 7th Generation
Hi ma belles,
There is plenty of reason for feeling blue about the environment nowadays.
In today's One Earth Blog, I share some pretty scary video on what mercury does to the brain, another of a scientist explaining the connection between mercury and neurological diseases.
Okay, that's the bad news.
But here's a link to a speech in Shiprock, New Mexico last summer where Winona LaDuke tells why coal fired electric plants are bad, but also how we can replace them with renewable energy technologies like wind and solar for a lot less.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xlF6hh0Emf0
But, there's also the good news from Jenny McCarthy who shows us how 8 or 10 vaccines went to nearly 40 in the last few years. If we recognize that's too much mercury unless the baby weighs 4 hundred pounds. We can give fewer vaccines, over a greater period of time and encourage breastfeeding for natural immunity for infants. See the video of Jenny McCarthy to learn all she did to help her son heal from autism.
On another thread that solves bottle waste problems and homes for our poorest families at the same time. See what can communities do to recycle glass and plastic bottles, cans and tires, teach home building skills, employ and train people, and provide beautiful, affordable and amazing homes for women, children and families in our urban, rural and reservation communities.
Collect bottles, cans and tires and build houses for our nearly 38 million in poverty.
Just see how Maria Jesus's Casa a la Botteilles was built in Bolivia and the Earthships in Taos, New Mexico built of bottles, cans and tires that have modern conveniences, even wifi.
TouchArt sends out a call to Dean Kamen to share his water generating engines for homes for our communities that still lack potable water in Navajo Nation, in Northern New Mexico and other communities in need across America. A good start would be Martin Luther King III's Realizing the Dream Poverty Initiative in America Network of 50 beloved communities.
Like the Hopi Elders said the prophecy reminds us, "We are the ones we are waiting for."
Check out today's blog and join the conversation here, and go to www.current.com/earthday to join in more conversations about things you can do to heal the earth and what makes you hope. See you there. TouchArt Hi ma belles, There is plenty of reason for feeling blue about the environment nowadays. ... more -
Make your Prius an electric car
Hymotion has finally made these available to the public. If you own a Prius and are able to put another $10,000 into it this may be worth it. Throw a few solar panels on your roof and you're set. Bye bye gas stations. Go to their new website and read all about it.
I would get one for my Ford Escape Hybrid but that version is not out yet. :(
Through the increased use of electric drive, the Hymotion Plug-in Conversion Module enables the Prius to achieve in excess of up to 100 mpg for 30-40 miles* over a range of up to 40 miles, dependent upon driving conditions. Once the L5 module is depleted, the vehicle reverts to the normal drive cycle of a stock Toyota Prius.
Hymotion plug-in hybrids save more energy and produce less pollution than standard hybrids on the road today. Hymotion has finally made these available to the public. If you own a Prius and are able to put another $10,000 into it this may be w... more -
The Next President's First Task: Politics & Power by Robert F. Kennedy, J...
Our friend Bill Brown up in Taos at www.nmglobalwarming.org sent this link to an important message on the earth from our eco hero Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Bill Brown writes:
Greetings, All -- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., writing in the May issue of Vanity Fair, makes the salient point that our woefully inefficient, old-technology, backward looking fossil fuel economy "...has eroded our economic power, destroyed our moral authority, diminished our international influence and prestige, endangered our national security, and damaged our health and landscapes. It is subverting everything we value."
Importantly, this is happening whether or not we consider fossil fuel impacts on global warming and climate change. A new clean energy economy that relies on abundant, essentially unlimited resources and technologies that already exist to exploit these resources is a better idea than trying to struggle in vain to maintain an obsolescent fossil fuel economy that has pretty much run its course after a century or so of dominance.
Encapsulating an early 2007 statement by Jeremy Grantham, Chairman, GMO LLC [Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo, Boston/San Francisco] -- financial advisor to Vice-President Dick Cheney and Senator John Kerry, among others -- "...taking steps to reduce carbon emissions through conservation, efficiency, alternatives, and generally moving away from fossil fuels makes enormous sense. These steps will solve a a huge number of social and environmental problems that now exist, and these steps will save mega-billions in the long run even if global warming was not occurring. There is no rational downside to this effort."
-----Bill Brown in Taos, NM
This bears repeating -"A new clean energy economy that relies on abundant, essentially unlimited resources and technologies that already exist to exploit these resources is a better idea."
Brought to you via your friends at TouchArt.net and OneEarthBlog.blogspot.com
Every day is Earth Day. Our friend Bill Brown up in Taos at www.nmglobalwarming.org sent this link to an important message on the earth from our eco hero Robe... more -
Twodee recommends ODE Magazine
We have been getting this mag. for about a year now. It is always full of interesting and positive little stories and insights. Great if you need a few minutes to sit down and have your spirit lifted. There is change happening. There is forward thinking. This magazine is a great introduction to all of that.
We have nothing to do with this publication. We just like it!
this from the website:
"Ode is a print and online publication about positive news, about the people and ideas that are changing our world for the better" We have been getting this mag. for about a year now. It is always full of interesting and positive little stories and insights. Great... more -
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Not just as individuals with strong beliefs but as part of a group where our strength makes governments and corporations change.
WE can put our planet on a new path. Clean energy solutions are out there waiting. Solutions that will not only save our planet but help rebuild our economy.
WE can lead. WE is a growing number of people who believe we can solve this. ... more
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