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Post by michelle on Feb 14, 2008 13:32:21 GMT 4
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! Be socially responsible when buying flowers, chocolate, and wine for your sweetie; today and every day!....Buy organic: raised/produced without pesticides or worker exploitation.... MichelleSUCCESS STORY OF THE WEEK: ECO-FRIENDLY FLOWERS ARE BUDDING ACROSS U.S. THIS VALENTINES More than three years ago, the OCA and its allies launched alerts against leading flower purveyors, like Dole, highlighting the fact that the majority of the flowers from these companies come from plantations in countries like Colombia, where workers put in as many as 18 hours per day and douse the flowers with toxic pesticides that aren't legal in the United States. This month, Dole announced that its entire Colombian crop of cut flowers is now Florverde Certified, which requires better treatment of workers and more sustainable farming practices. Nearly half of Colombia's acreage is now Florverde Certified, which is positive news, considering 70% of cut flowers in the U.S. are from Colombia. This certification comes nowhere near meeting the criteria met by USDA Organic Certified products, but it is a step in the right direction, and is now so widespread and affordable, 300 million flowers sold this Valentines will have the certification. In other words, pretty much anyone who sells multiple varieties of flowers will have them. Although Floreverde Certification could stand to elevate its criteria, it has resulted in a 50% reduction of pesticides on conventional cut flowers and is beginning to improve working conditions. Now OCA has shifted its focus to improving the evolving Florverde program, which needs to continue boosting its standards in protecting workers' rights. Keep the good news rolling by taking part in OCA's Valentine's Alert. Check out our buying guide to find ethical goodies for your sweetie, watch our Valentines video and take part in our alert to "Break the Chains of Toxic Pesticides and Farm Worker Exploitation". alerts.organicconsumers.org/trk/click?ref=zqtbkk3um_1-10bx321ex3249492&ORGANIC BYTES READERS TALK BACK: HOW TO SHOW YOUR LOVE WITHOUT BREAKING THE BANK COMMENT FROM READER (Regarding Organic Bytes Issue #27): I love OB, but I can't afford to spend $50 for a dozen organic roses. I'm sure many of your subscribers are, like me, living on a little. Who can afford such things? Maybe you should urge folks to get flowers from their local farmers market or to barter with flower-growing neighbors or to give potted plants instead. OCA RESPONSE: Thanks for this great input. For those looking for organic flowers, check out alerts.organicconsumers.org/trk/click?ref=zqtbkk3um_1-10bx321bx3249492&. They sell only USDA organic certified flowers, guarantee overnight delivery anywhere in the U.S., and have some options for under $40. If your budget is limited, another option, in addition to the excellent ideas recommended by our reader, is to ask your local shop for flowers that are Florverde Certified (see below for more information). We've also put together a buying guide to help you find Fair Trade and organic chocolate and wine. www.organicconsumers.org/valentines/index.cfm#buyguide Of course, the greatest gift you can give your beloved this Valentines is Love, which we can all afford.
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Post by michelle on Apr 22, 2008 14:06:09 GMT 4
Happy Earth Day!!!!!!!I have never felt so positive on Earth Day as I have this year. This past weekend as I drove through various communities surrounding me, I witnessed people of all ages cleaning up their properties, streets, and towns. One small town had posters everywhere stating: Reddy Up! 'Reddy up' is a piece of dialect particular to the Pittsburgh area; it means to clean [or to get ready] as in: "Let's redd up the house." If you've ever visited the area, you might have heard this expression, along with other verbal gems such as: "Give me a 'gumband.' , "Where are 'yins' going?"[our form of the South's, ya all], and my favorite: "You're such a 'jag off'!" [sorry, I had to put that one in!]
It actually brought tears to my eyes to see so many taking care of and loving our Earth. Today and this week, my son and I are planting trees and will clean up from a neighborhood stream carelessly tossed items, most of which comes from a local gas station/convenience store....I should ask them to donate the garbage bags!
Here's some background on Earth Day and where you can find more info to share with your kids as part of their education.....don't expect their schools to do much.Earth DayFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Earth Day is a name used for two different observances, both held annually during spring in the northern hemisphere, and autumn in the southern hemisphere. These are intended to inspire awareness of and appreciation for the Earth's environment. The United Nations celebrates Earth Day, which was founded by John McConnell in 1969, each year on the March equinox, while a global observance originated by Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in, and since January 1970 also called Earth Day, is celebrated in many countries each year on April 22, including the U.S. More: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_DayHere's a link for Earth Day events around the world and this message from the folks at the Earth Day Network:Earth Day 2008 Events WorldwideWalk, Bike, Row to a major Earth Day event around the world! Earth Day 2008: A Call for ClimateEarth Day 2008 is expected to be the biggest yet! From Tokyo to Togo, to our flagship event on the National Mall in Washington, DC and 7 other U.S. cities, we will be galvanizing millions of people around the world behind a Call for Climate, our global warming action theme. Hundreds of events are popping up all over the globe and April 22 should be a most memorable Earth Day. We will be asking people to call their government and urge significant and equitable action on climate change.More at: ww2.earthday.net/node/80This year, I've decided to share with you two pieces which envision our future world where humans have stopped their polluting, warring, and separation insanity to create a garden spot in our Universe. After you read here, won't you please take a look at today's post at the Solutions thread, where I have been posting articles on how to change our reality and Co-create a beautiful future on Earth and in your own personal lives. Here's the link:Re: Solutions« Reply #26 Today at 12:49pm » Perceiving our FutureGo to: tinyurl.com/6rugnqNow on to our featured essays.....
Hugs to ALL on Earth! MichelleFuture Gaian Speaks
I come from a future Earth. Our world has been totally purified and everything is in total harmonic balance. Lush green forests lie where once there were deserts. Rivers and streams glisten with clear, pure water teeming with life. The mighty oceans are not such a mystery to us as we can live in chambers below the surface of the water.We telepathically communicate with the intelligent life forms that live there. Many of our kind communicate with the whales and dolphins learning technologies of consciousness that can aid both our species. The planet Gaia is totally honoured and respected as a living, intelligent, co-creative entity. All of our kind have their own unique connection to the planet. We have a new level of connection. We no longer consider ourselves separate to her. We now realise we are an intricate part of her consciousness. Gaia's dream has been accessed by our kind and all are expressing their unique part of the dream. We live on a planet that is ecologically balanced and harmonious. The planet is heavenly with stable, pleasant weather patterns and gentle climates. This enables all life to blossom. Food is in abundance and all the needs of the whole are brought forth from Gaia.
We are all in alignment with the love that is permeating this planet. Many of us communicate with the Devic kingdoms helping us to work in harmony, gardening Gaia. All of us are free of mind and have our Spirits totally grounded within our physical bodies. We have all regained our connection to the ALL THAT IS. We all love and live within the realm of universal love. We grow and learn within this realm of existence. We live in communities which house many. We spend much of our time outdoors due to the pleasant weather conditions. We all live in peace and harmony. We work and live as a whole evolutionary synergy. I live in a crystal structure, made up of sheets of harmonious crystals geometrically formed to harmonise, balance, and accelerate energies. This transforms the occupant whilst inside. They are beautiful to behold and help to anchor the love energy into the surrounding countryside. They are very simple and spacious. The structure of the building and the light reflections created please the senses. Inside is a reflection of the outside, containing large plants, indoor waterfalls and pools. Large cushions are used for seating and sleeping. There is a small area for the preparation of food but we live off the energy of Spirit. We only partake in high raw foods and fruits. We have a bathing area used for cleansing, sexual pleasure and relaxation. A large round pool is submerged into the floor. On our bodies, we use only natural rinses that contain herbs and essences that are in harmony with our energies. The main feature of the house is an organic, telepathically linked intelligent computer. It controls and regulates the lighting, temperature, atmospheric and energetic conditions. It telepathically links to produce the music that you have in mind. It is responsible for maintaining the home. Cleaning is made simple by a new invention that magnetises all dust and dirt particles and filters them back outside. This then minimises cleaning duties. We bathe often and take pride in our beautiful ritualised bathing ceremonies. We fully utilise the use of water when bathing and employ the help of the elements to heal us. This beautiful abode is a complete embodiment of my vision of 'Heaven on Earth'. I do not live far from the central structures which house the communal activities. Beautiful crystal citadels sparkle at the centre of this incredible pattern that our homes create across the landscape. There are places of learning where all can be both teachers and students. I study technologies of raising consciousness. I also explore off-planetary energies that can be balanced within our system to aid our evolution. I study the mind and use mind technologies to travel to other worlds and meet other levels of consciousness. I channel other dimensional energies for those in my community. I also teach technologies for consciousness expansion. All my work is operated on an intuitive level with those with whom I am in synergy. There is no real authority. It has been a long time since we have needed laws and punishment. There are places of art with visual and audible expression, bringing creative joy to all who enter. All are encouraged and guided to creative expression, bringing creative joy to all who enter. All are encouraged and guided to a creative expression that reflects their divine pattern. We have found advanced technologies which enable us to provide all that we need without polluting or degrading the Earth. We have a limitless source of energy which allows many manufacturing places to be fully automatic. This allows all of us to follow the vocation that we love. No one does anything that he or she is not ecstatic about. Our needs materially are simple. We dress in light energetically empowered clothing. These clothes allow us to remain centred within our being, and we use colours to express our energies. Much clothing and jewelry is created by those who excel in such crafts. Amazing jewels can be created by using light and the co-operation of the mineral beings. We do not have disease in our society as there are communal centres of healing. These centres balance by using colour, sound, and water to heal. There are great places of knowledge that are connected to all the organic computer systems. There are great communal baths and swimming facilities. All the recreation you could imagine is provided. There are great halls which allow us all to gather together to share and celebrate. All buildings are aesthetic and energetically correct which helps to express the beauty of the planetary design. The animal kingdoms are in harmony and balance with us. They may choose to come and communicate telepathically with us, but there is no killing or captivity. ALL is in harmony. There are great parks and places of beauty. There are marble fountains and pools, great crystal sculptures and grottoes of natural beauty. These places provide people with breathtaking sights and sounds. On the perimeter of our community are the manufacturing structures. Dotted around in correct energetic placement are the dwellings for people. Some are in small communal patterns and others are singular points of light. Transport is not needed as teleportation is available for all because of our advanced technologies. We can travel to anywhere on the planet and may visit other such centres of light. We have much contact and communication with extraterrestrials. We balance and advance together. I have an extraterrestrial master who shares his knowledge with me on mind expansion and in return he learns about my level of consciousness. My life is complete and free. I grow in joy, trust and ecstasy, traveling back to the Source in love. I wish you all luck on your journey. Love, From a future GaianSource: www.eboards4all.com/360514/messages/21073.html------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE WORLD OF 2070Joyce A. Kovelman, Ph.D.The world of 2070 A.D. is a vision of a new way of being in the world. It is a world filled with hope, promise and opportunity. Its people have achieved a sustainable economy and a sustainable ecology. They live in balance and harmony with the cycles and rhythms of the cosmos and respect all forms of life and consciousness. They recognize that all is One.
The world of 2070 A.D. is founded upon the integration and Sacred Marriage of masculine and feminine elements in our psyches, and a new spiritual covenant with Universe. The citizens of 2070 A.D. know the inner paths of soul. They are equally at home in the worlds of matter and non-matter, for they have long recognized that they are One.
Balance in population, food supply, and energy resources ensure that every child is a wanted child and is properly cared for. Parenting is considered the most noble of vocations. The "Mothering Ones" are esteemed and cherished along with the children they nurture.
More mature and humane solutions to conflict and discord have been discovered and are practiced. The world of 2070 A.D. knows no honor, glory or profit through war.
Elders are valued for their abilities and experiences. Their presence and gifts enrich the entire community in which they dwell. The Wisdom age is the culmination and gift of a life well lived. Advancing age affords an opportunity to more fully embrace and explore the inner paths of transcendence. Indeed, the Wisdom Age calls out to us to deepen our connection with other realms of existence.
Creativity and the willingness to grow are prized attributes in the land of 2070 A.D. People of all ages are encouraged to create, to risk, to fail, and to succeed. Essentially, they are free to simply BE. Black, white, yellow, red or brown, all citizens are equal and all are cherished. This is a world that honors and respects diversity. Value fulfillment is everyone's privilege; it is freely offered to all who dwell in this peaceful realm.
2070 A.D. inspires and encourages its citizens to become dreamers, seers and prophets. They have learned that their dreams and their future emanate from the invisible archetypal realms of the collective unconscious and beyond. The seeds of inspiration and wisdom are transmitted to 2070 A. D. through its visionaries and enlightened ones. No society can long endure without the arts, music, literature and visions that reflect its highest aspirations and potential. Archetypal 2070 A.D. already dwells in the hearts and souls of humankind. It symbolizes our promise as well as our birthright.
The enlightened, peaceful land of 2070 A. D. sharply contrasts with the shadowy, dark world we presently know. In our current world, we experience violence, despair, greed, hate, abuse, violation of human rights, and the desecration of Mother Earth. It seems unlikely, even futile, to believe that we could ever realize and attain such a reality.
We are like the people in Plato's Cave, seeing only the shadows and hints of another reality. Like Plato's people, we are faced with an awesome choice. We can refuse to believe and change or, instead, we can embrace the Light and leave our Darkness behind. Humanity must successfully accomplish an inner reconciliation of masculine and feminine principles, and claim its own shadow if we are to realize our true potential and to embrace the One and the Many. In this way, humankind becomes a noble species and once again knows itself as part of All That Is. 2070 A. D. already exists within the realms of possibility. It is humanity's destiny and future. Carpe Diem. Dare we seize the opportunity?
Sadly our present world finds us in the midst of war and recession. Let us, instead, imagine the reality and world we wish to experience in 2070? It is up to each of us to envision the world we wish to realize, and then to do all within our power to make our dream come true. To change the world, we must first change ourselves! Collectively we can make an impact, and each voice and each dream will enhance everyone else's dreams of goodwill. I have shared my vision for the future that I fervently wish to bestow upon my children, and my children's children. I invite all of you to share your ideas and dreams with me as well.We all have a dream of a better world. Please share you Vision for the World of 2070 A. D. through www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=225275488547900712&postID=7362304812295688290 and help Source: www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=225275488547900712&postID=7362304812295688290
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Post by michelle on May 9, 2008 14:56:32 GMT 4
Alternatives to Plastic Here's an article I want to share with you; one which I do appreciate. I detest plastic! The following is mostly concerned with plastic and your food supply. Folks, there is no form of plastic that won't leach into your food and drink. When shopping, I always look for glass containers and cardboard. Many times, plastic packaging is the only game in town [think what it's made of and you'll understand why]. In this case, I have been experimenting with making my own products straight from nature. I grow what I can squeeze into my limited yard space. Here I encourage help from nature herself concerning pollination and fertilizing....I will later work up a post on that and provide you with useful links.
After reading this article, be sure to click on the source to view the author's collection of containers and cookware......all glass, cast iron, and stainless steel...for our animal friends too! I save many glass jars for canning and storage. My most treasured kitchen ware has been passed down from my grandmother and great-grandmother: carbon steel knives and vegetable peelers, cast iron skillets and griddles; I bake my bread in my great-grandmother's blackened tins and the quality of this bake-ware is unsurpassed by newer items I may use. My 14 year old son has started his own collection of cast iron cookery and assorted household items, I suspect, for the time when he begins his own household....What a lucky wife he'll have!
The author has much to say about technology and its negative impact upon our planet and whether it can save us or not. Again, I agree with his statements; I am a rat race drop-out and live as bare bones as I can. This is not done solely out of necessity. There is a real beauty in living this way and I derive much satisfaction from it. I look at the items I own, much which would be thrown away by most in favor for new, and I see wonderful form and function in each item. Plus, they give me a connection to my ancestors as I prepare our food
Enough from me and my enthusiasm for the following.
Live and eat mindfully, MichelleAlternatives to Plastic PAUL GOETTLICH 3aug2005 rev.23nov2007 Over the past few of years, many people asked me for help in getting plastic out of their lives. It is hoped that this article guides you to a cleaner lifestyle. While it is presently impossible to actually remove all plastic from one's life, it is definitely worth reducing it to a minimum. Being my age is greater than 50 years, I came into a world that was nearly free of the scourge that has come to fruition since then. My own attitude contrasts greatly with pretty much all anti-plastic activists — I am considerably more adamant about removing all plastics from his life and not so concerned about the type of plastic it is or every single chemical within each. It is through years of research that I have seen that all plastics must be stopped rather than one or even many. As you approach this subject, please do so at a pace that doesn’t overburden you into dropping the issue altogether. But do keep moving along as quickly as is practical. Below are images of the my container collection used in contact with food and drink. Each is labeled and some have suggestions for other uses and sources. These are most likely what you came to this article for. However, getting plastic out of your life is more about a change in lifestyle than merely removing a few plastic containers in your home. I am working on a book that will include suggestions for a lifestyle change. What it requires is simply using common sense and a healthy disrespect for status quo. Stop worrying about looking out of place in a world injected and coated with plastic. Start your lifestyle change by disconnecting from consumerism and commercials. Disconnect the TV cable — 500 stations with little truth or logic on any station is a crime. Stop your newspaper subscription. Considering that newspapers are more 50% advertising and the other 50% a lie, it's a crime to use new or recycled paper for this purpose.Lifestyle changes are things that I have taken on gradually over the years. Nobody told me what to do. The norm never had much appeal for me because it takes too much energy — financial, physical, psychological and so on. And it's all to keep up with the Joneses. What it took to learn was to think logically about what I was doing and to decide whether I cared about keeping up appearances. I'd identify things of this nature that should be done differently and find ways to accomplish the changes. One of my latest changes was making and bottling my own ketchup. I used to purchase organic ketchup in glass bottles. Over the last few years, there were fewer manufacturers that packed it in glass bottles. Then the last one to pack ketchup in glass was the company Seeds Of Change. After it was purchased and controlled by M&M/Mars, the ketchup got packaged in plastic bottles. We all know what type of health food that M&M/Mars is famous for — vitamin C (candy, chocolate). [Read "The Green Machine"] So, the day they stopped packing ketchup in glass, I started cooking my own. After all, what sense does it make to eat organic foods that are packaged in plastic? And my homemade ketchup is substantially better than any store-bought on the market now or in the past because I make it to please my own taste instead of blindly buying whatever some scientist advised the company to make. I make a few quarts at a time and can it in pint-size glass canning jars. For the purest, there are canning jars with glass lids. They too have a plastic seal. But plastic exposure is greatly reduced. Regulatory System in the USA Because our regulatory system was created to protect the interests of the corporate producers, it seems that one of the best ways to regulate them is to first be forewarned of the environmental and social toxicity they produce and just refuse to buy it. If we can do this, then they will change or be run out of business. But whatever we do, we must produce and consume less; eat lower on the food chain; transport food shorter distances; and replace most machines with manual labor. This is the making of small sustainable organic farms, which still produce more food per acre than most large corporate monoculture farms. [Read "Small Is Bountiful by Peter Rosset / The Ecologist, v.29, i.8, Dec99] The Organic Standards that so many of us fought so hard to correct and maintain, for the most part, have been taken over by corporations. As such those standards are not at all what many people assume. They have been diluted and polluted to the point where we are once again better off doing it ourselves. This falls into line with the desire to have as little to do with corporations as possible when it comes to food and other things. There is a growing number of organic farmers who do not bother getting certified by the FDA as "organic" anymore because they hold higher standards and know better than the FDA [Read "Kristie and Rick Knoll Rebel Against Corporate-Controlled USDA Regulation of Organic," by Will Harper 5jan04.] It has been stated by many wise people that if a deal seems too good to be true, then it is too good to be true. The same thing applies to almost everything we have taken for granted when the "experts" and authorities have told us to do so. With regards to food, until you can grow your own independent of corporations, you will not be free of the toxic way of life they sell. But between where you are now and where you need to be, there's a lot of work to be done on the way you think. And it is never to early to begin. Some of the values of the 1960s are useful in ridding your mind of the corporate ways. But as we all know, many of those hippies went on to the board rooms that are wreaking havoc upon us all now. This is not about inventing machines or products or technologies. But rather it is about leaving those false values behind and doing with as little technology as possible. Instead of a workout room, take on a garden — a large one. Whether it is located in an inner-city lot or in the middle of nowhere. . . just do it. Can Technology Save the Planet? For me, that's just another rhetorical question. The answer is, of course, not. Lately, I have seen some sort of biodegradable plates, cups and utensils for sale at the small grocery I shop at, as well as The Hole (aka Whole Foods). It matters not what the material is or who makes it. I see them as just another ploy to maintain the consumerist status quo. We really don't need such stuff except for "emergencies." And materials that have had unnatural acts perpetrated on them cannot return to the earth in their original state. Single-use containers, bags and other products should not be used. Their use can never be a sustainable act, no matter what the manufacturer claims. These products are counterproductive, making the purchaser feel as if they are doing some good in the world, when in fact they are not. Sorry for the let-down if you use this stuff. But you didn't come here for the usual nonsense that you get from the mega-sized environmental nonprofits starting with the Sierra Club. In his article in the July/August 2005 issue of his Sierra Magazine, Carl Pope, the Sierra Club's executive director ['Ways & Means: Let's Get Technical: Time to put the engineers to work'], "[e]ngineers are natural allies of environmentalists. We point out problems in the world; engineers solve them — at least when they're allowed to." I find it incredibly horrifying that the director of the largest environmental organization in the USA — more than 3/4 of a million members — thinks that engineers will solve the mess we're all in. It was the engineers who got us into this mess and they've not learned a thing about sustainability in the mean time. Another article in that same issue, 'Can Technology Save the Planet?' by the futurist and science fiction writer Bruce Sterling states that "[o]ur opposable thumbs got us into this mess, and they can help get us out." The combination of technological fixes in this issue of Sierra Magazine were quite annoying because they illustrated the severe lack of understanding of the very technologies they hawk as solutions, when in fact they are the problems. The articles on technology in that issue are severely flawed and must be disregarded. As each new layer of technology is added, going back to a sustainable lifestyle becomes increasingly more difficult. How many times have we all heard someone proclaim that they can't live without one technology or another? This is an amazingly paradoxical statement when a person claims that they would perish without the very items that are in fact killing them, albeit at relatively slow rates — generational declines in overall health and well-being. The answer to the question of Can Technology Save the Planet? is emphatically and resoundingly NO. But then the question is flawed because the planet will indeed survive long after we destroy life as we know it. So, if we ask the correct question — Can Technology Save Us? — the answer is still NO. We need to buy less technology as well as less of everything if we are to survive. If we've gotten to the point where we cannot survive without technology, then we are all in a very sad predicament. For the only direction is down from there. Consider the prospect of having your brain uploaded into a computer. That may seem a bit drastic. But if your physical body is worn out, then that would be the only option — if it truly existed. And if you're comfortable with "living" in a computer, then you'd better find a whole new set of scientists to take stock in because the ones who are running the show at present couldn't argue their way out of a worn out paper bag. And I wear them out quite well before recycling them. However, recycling the constant stream of scientists would be a much more difficult task as it requires total reprogramming of a lifetime of mis- and dis-information. It would essentially take another lifetime. They would first need to experience the error of their present knowledge before rebuilding a new set of information. The world as they see it does not exist. That's a neat trick, eh? It's rather like sawing of the limb of a tree that one is standing on. Sincerely, PaulSource:www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Alternatives/Alternatives-Plastic-Goettlich3aug05.htm
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Post by michelle on Jul 8, 2008 9:14:59 GMT 4
[glow=red,2,300]Action Alert [/glow] Ronnie Cummins to Organic Consumers: Press the Politicians to Confront the Crisis Take Action Please personalize the following letter and click Send below to have it delivered to each of the state and federal elected officials and candidates in your area. Click here to contact local candidates and elected officials. The letter includes a link to the Grassroots Netroots Alliance Survey, a questionnaire for elected officials and candidates that asks whether they support strict organic standards, mandatory labels for genetically engineered food, and the conversion of U.S. farmland to organic, among other issues. When politicians answer the survey, their answers on the organic questions are posted here. Let the politicians know how you would like them to answer the survey. If there's an issue that the survey fails to address that you want the politicians to respond to, please let them know. Thanks! Your feedback and ideas are important to us. Please feel free to contact Alexis Baden-Mayer directly at alexis grassrootsnetroots.org. 1 Compose Message Message Recipients: Cynthia McKinney, Candidate for US President (G) Bob Barr, Candidate for US President (L) Kat Swift, Candidate for US President (G) John McCain, Candidate for US President (R) Chuck Baldwin, Candidate for US President (Cst) Ralph Nader, Candidate for US President (I) Barack Obama, Candidate for US President (D) Your U.S. Senators Your U.S. Senate Candidate Your U.S. House Representative Your U.S. House Candidate Your Governor Your Governor Candidate Your Lieutenant Governor Your Lieutenant Governor Candidate Your Attorney General Candidate Your State Upper Chamber Representatives Your State Upper Chamber Candidate Your State Lower Chamber Representatives Your State Lower Chamber Candidate
Subject: GNA Survey: Do you support organic food & farming? Editable text: Before I give you my support I would like to know whether you support strict organic standards, mandatory labels for genetically engineered food, and the conversion of U.S. farmland to organic.
I would like to read your answers to the Grassroots Netroots Alliance questionnaire. Please fill it out online at: www.grassrootsnetroots.org/survey2008/gnasurvey.cfmI'm concerned because food safety is decreasing even as food gets more expensive. I believe that supporting local organic food production is the best way to create a safe, healthy, affordable, and sustainable food supply. The current crisis requires politicians like you to address all of the interconnected life-and-death issues that face us from the crises related to food, jobs, housing, health and energy to climate change and war. Local organic food production is an important part of the solution, providing jobs, healthy food, and food safety, while conserving energy, reducing pollution and increasing carbon sequestration. Thank you for taking time to complete the survey. I hope this will serve as a valuable tool in communicating your positions to voters like myself. To take Action, Go to: capwiz.com/grassrootsnetroots/issues/alert/?alertid=11585936&type=ML------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ GM will not solve current food crisis, says industry bossDavid Adam guardian.co.uk, Friday June 27, 2008 Genetically modified crops will not solve the current food crisis, according to the head of one of the world's largest agricultural biotechnology companies. Martin Taylor, chairman of Syngenta, said the current industry focus on farmers in rich countries meant it would take 20 years to launch crop varieties designed to address the problems of the developing world. He told the Guardian: "GM won't solve the food crisis, at least not in the short term." His words appear to contradict statements from UK politicians, industry bodies and the European Commission that GM technology should be considered as a way to address chronic shortages and soaring prices of basic staples across the world. Recently, the environment minister, Phil Woolas, said Britain was rethinking its position on GM for that reason. He told the Independent newspaper: "There is a growing question of whether GM crops can help the developing world out of the current food crisis. It is a question that we as a nation need to ask ourselves. Many people concerned about poverty in the developing world and the environment are wrestling with this issue." A European Commission briefing documents says that GM crops can "play an important role in mitigating the effects of the food 'crisis'". Syngenta is a member of the Agricultural Biotechnology Council, along with other GM companies such as Monsanto and BASF. The council has said the technology "has to be seen as part of the solution" to combat rising food prices. Supporters say that GM technology can boost crop yields and reduce losses caused by pests. Groups opposed to GM technology argue that companies are exploiting the current food crisis to win approval for their products. Taylor told an agricultural conference in London this week that, because it was so expensive to win regulatory approval for a GM crop, the industry has been forced to focus on a few lucrative "blockbuster" varieties, which could be sold to western farmers but had "hardly any environmental benefits". He called for looser, cheaper regulations that would allow companies to develop thousands of GM crops for smaller, more diverse markets, including those in poorer countries. But he said it would take up to 20 years for them to be developed and tested. Existing varieties, largely designed for the climate, chemicals and pests of the northern hemisphere, would be unsuitable. Most GM crops grown commercially are soya bean, maize, cotton and oilseed rape. Most goes into animal feed. None are grown commercially in Britain, though significant amounts are planted across Europe. The EU has an unofficial moratorium on approving new varieties – no new GM crop has been approved for commercial production since 1998 – but is coming under increasing pressure to review its stance. Taylor said its opposition was based on a "superstitious fear among supposedly educated people about new technology". Earlier this year, a major report from UN experts said there was little role for GM, as it is currently practised, in feeding the poor on a large scale. The report from the International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD) said: "Assessment of the [GM] technology lags behind its development, information is anecdotal and contradictory, and uncertainty about possible benefits and damage is unavoidable." The GM industry, which helped to fund the report, pulled out before it was published. Bob Watson, director of the assessment, and chief scientist to the UK environment department Defra, said on the report's publication: "The short answer to whether transgenic crops can feed the world is 'no'. But they could contribute. We must understand their costs and benefits." A leading British plant scientist told the London conference that the UK needed to set up a dedicated site to test GM crops under secure conditions. Howard Atkinson, of the University of Leeds, said Europe should establish "secure vandal-proof national testing centres". Atkinson's field scale trial of GM potatoes near Tadcaster was destroyed this month, though nobody has claimed responsibility. The crops were designed to test technology that could make important African crops resistant to a nematode pest. Atkinson compared the trial's destruction to "burning university books 75 years ago". Source:www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jun/27/gmcrops.food------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: ORGANIC FARMING CAN FEED THE WORLD "The $1.2 billion the World Bank says will solve the food crisis in Africa is a $1.2 billion subsidy to the chemical industry. Countries are made dependent on chemical fertilizers when their prices have tripled in the last year due to rising oil prices. I say to governments: spend a quarter of that on organic farming and you've solved your problems." ----Vandana Shiva, an Indian physics professor and Organic Consumers Association Advisory board Member, speaking in Italy in response to the the U.N. food summit in Rome last month, where the World Bank pledged $1.2 billion in grants to help with the food crisis, most of which is earmarked for chemical fertilizers, pesticides and genetically modified (GM) crops.Small farms best for environment: organic groupFri Jun 20, 2008 3:42pm BST MODENA, Italy (Reuters) - Small-scale, not industrial farming, is the answer to food shortages and climate change, organic farmers argued this week. Meeting at the Organic World Congress this week, the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements IFOAM -- www.ifoam.org -- criticized a recent U.N. food summit for touting chemical fertilizers and genetically modified (GM) crops rather than organic solutions to tackle world hunger. The World Bank says an extra 100 million people worldwide could go hungry as a result of the sharp rise in the price of food staples in the last year. At the U.N. food summit in Rome this month, the World Bank pledged $1.2 billion in grants to help with the food crisis. "The $1.2 billion the World Bank says will solve the food crisis in Africa is a $1.2 billion subsidy to the chemical industry," said Vandana Shiva, an Indian physics professor and environmental activist speaking at the forum in Modena. "Countries are made dependent on chemical fertilizers when their prices have tripled in the last year due to rising oil prices," she said. "I say to governments: spend a quarter of that on organic farming and you've solved your problems." She said industrial farming was based on planting a single crop on vast surfaces and heavy use of chemical fertilizers, a process that used 10 times more energy than it produced. "The rest turns into waste as greenhouse gases, chemical runoffs and pesticide residues in our food," she said. In contrast, organic farms could increase output by 10 times by growing many different species of plants at the same time, which helped retain soil and water, she said. "In a one-acre farm in India they can grow 250 species of plants," she said. FEEDING 9 BILLION PEOPLE The U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization Director General Jacques Diouf said last December there was no reason to believe that organic agriculture can substitute conventional farming systems in ensuring the world's food security. "You cannot feed six billion people today and nine billion in 2050 without judicious use of chemical fertilizers." Shiva has began a civil disobedience campaign in India against the patenting of natural seeds, particularly of crops that resist flooding and drought and can better withstand climate change. "We need this worldwide. Seeds are for everyone," she said. According to IFOAM, a quarter of greenhouse gases are emitted by industrially farmed crops and livestock. The proportion rises to 40 percent when including the emissions caused by transporting commodities around the world. IFOAM members also criticized the production of fuel from grains, citing a U.S. university study that it took 1.3 gallons of fossil fuel to make 1 gallon of ethanol from corn. The United States and Brazil defended their use of corn and sugar cane to make ethanol to fuel cars at the UN food summit saying it was a minor factor in food price inflation. Source:uk.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUKL1962261720080620?pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=0&sp=true
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Post by michelle on Jul 16, 2008 16:28:20 GMT 4
4 Ways to Reduce E-WasteHere's something that I wish ALL who read here would take appropriate action on. The FCC has mandated that all television broadcasters switch to digital in February 2009, rendering millions of old televisions obsolete. Did you know, that when you throw out your old TV, you'll be dumping 2000 chemicals into the environment? Years ago, I saw a program where kids and adults from China climbed on MOUNTAINS of our E-Waste to recover parts....they were becoming serious ill from the toxins.You don't want to be responsible for that, right? Here's an article you might consider forwarding to your local paper's letters to the editor page, friends, and neighbors, followed by action you can take, plus recycling info and how to convert your older TV to digital. Many thanks, MichelleCombatting the E-Waste Deluge July 17, 2008 It’s the beginning of the 28th century, and the Earth is so over-run by garbage as to be uninhabitable for humankind. It’s the beginning of the 21st century, and the United Nations Environmental Program estimates that we generate up to 50 million tons of e-waste (televisions, computers, and other electronics) every year. That’s almost 70 tons a minute. The first scenario is fictional, the plot of Disney’s summer blockbuster movie Wall-E. The second is scenario is real -- our actual e-waste situation right now. Is it so hard to imagine the reality of 2008 leading to the dystopia of 2700? In short, the bad news is that we’re discarding an ever-increasing volume of toxic e-waste. For example, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Americans trashed 47 million computers in 2005, up from 20 million in 1998. The worse news is that while our lawmakers should be figuring out ways to reverse this trend, they’ve actually passed legislation that will accelerate it. Congress passed legislation last year shifting the nation’s television signals from analog to digital without any requirement to recycle the millions of analog TV sets that will be made obsolete by the switch.
Electronics companies (whose lobbyists argued in favor of the switch) will see increased sales, when up to 20 percent of analog-only households see their screens go dark in February 2009. Congress should have coupled the switch with a requirement for manufacturers to responsibly recycle their products – not just abandon the useless sets to landfills.For those concerned about electronic waste, we have three signs of hope:Converter boxes – If you are one of the 20 million households that will lose your television signal in 2009, you do not have to purchase a brand new television. Converter boxes, costing from $50 - $70, can keep your TV working. The government offers free $40 vouchers for these boxes. (Visit www.dtv.gov to get one.) Sony – Alone among the large electronics manufacturers, Sony offers free television recycling. Sony’s program, which makes good business sense, can serve as a model for other companies. “The price of copper has quadrupled,” Sony Environmental Affairs Director Douglas Smith told the International Herald Tribune. By recycling, “we can get the copper back to our factory and make new circuit boards.” The states – Even if the federal government has been lax in dealing with e-waste, the states are taking the lead. According to the Electronics Takeback Coalition, thirteen states have passed “producer responsibility laws,” mandating that manufacturers pay for the recycling of their products. What’s more, seven states have banned e-waste from landfills, and 35 more states are considering such laws. Still, there’s a downside to the states’ desire to keep e-waste from accumulating within their borders, and that’s the unfortunate reality that many electronics recyclers simply send our e-waste overseas. There the toxic components (lead, cadmium, mercury, beryllium, arsenic, and much more) can still poison workers and the environment. India, China, and Nigeria are all likely destinations for e-waste shipped overseas, and there, according to Forbes.com: “… [C]hildren making pennies a day troll mounds of garbage in search of computers and TVs. Lacking tools to tear open computer shells, they burn the plastic … breathing noxious fumes. They dip circuit boards in acid and melt lead in the same pans they use to cook their meager meals. They toss remains back on the pile where toxins seep into water supplies.”Here again, the federal government has not embraced its role in mitigating the dangers of e-waste.
Since 1995, Congress has had the opportunity to ratify the Basel Convention, a treaty that outlaws developed countries dumping hazardous waste on developing countries, but has not yet done so. In the meantime, you can take action on your own. If you wish to discard your analog TV responsibly, the Basel Action Network provides a list of responsible recyclers that refuse to dump our e-waste on developing nations. And demand that the Federal Communications Commission, charged with implementing the analog to digital switch, require television manufacturers to recycle (send them a message here). You can do your part to avoid the toxic future predicted by Wall-E. --Andrew Korfhage MEDIA INQUIRIES
Please contact Todd Larsen by email or by phone at 202-872-5307. ©2005 Co-op America. All rights reserved. Source: www.coopamerica.org/about/newsroom/editorials/ewaste.cfm------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: 4 Ways to Reduce E-Waste Date: 7/15/2008 12:49:48 PM Eastern Daylight Time From: coopamericanews@coopamerica.org Imagine 20 million televisions pitched into a landfill. It's an e-waste nightmare, right?Especially when you consider that a single cathode-ray tube television can contain hundreds of highly toxic chemicals, including mercury, brominated-flame-retardants, and PVC plastics, as well as up to eight pounds of lead. That's why, in our fall 2007 Co-op America Quarterly ("Getting to Zero Waste"), we invited our readers to write to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), urging them to get serious about combating e-waste. It's the FCC that has mandated that all television broadcasters switch to digital in February 2009, rendering millions of old televisions obsolete. We're still working to convince the FCC and television manufacturers to take responsibility for recycling the components of their products. You can take our action now to send an e-mail to the FCC about your e-waste concerns. Take action now » While we wait for the FCC and manufacturers to take action, we've also taken matters into our own hands, and put together a short list of steps that you as a consumer can take to minimize the impact of the digital switch. Check your television. – Many TVs made after 2003 were equipped with digital tuners. Look for a label that says "Integrated Digital Tuner," "Integrated Digital Receiver," "Digital Receiver Built-in," or "Digital Receiver Built-in." If you have a digital tuner already, you're all set. Use a converter box. – If you don't have a digital tuner, a set-top converter box can still keep your TV from becoming e-waste. Each household is eligible to receive two vouchers, valued at $40 each, to use toward purchase of a converter. Check out www.dtv.gov/ for more information. Recycle your television – If you must purchase a new television, make sure your old one isn't simply carted to a landfill. The Basel Action Network www.ban.org/ provides a list of recyclers who have pledged not to export hazardous e-waste. Also, Sony tinyurl.com/5n63b2 is offering a free take-back program for all Sony electronics in the US. Speak out about the e-waste nightmare -- Finally, take our action to tell the FCC that you're concerned about the coming deluge of e-waste that may be triggered by the digital switch. Tell the FCC to require manufacturers to follow Sony's lead and take responsibility for their products throughout their entire life cycles. [See letter and link to sign below...M] BONUS ENERGY-SAVING STEPS: If you must purchase a new television, look for an LCD (liquid crystal display) model, marked with the Energy Star label. LCDs use six times less energy than plasma screen models. You can cut your energy use further by unplugging your TV (and its attached appliances) when you're not watching it; this prevents your electronics from consuming electricity even while not in use. Please forward this e-mail to all your friends and family. We need as many people as possible to understand how to reduce the impact of the digital switch, and we need a groundswell of pressure on the FCC and the electronics companies to manage the e-waste problem better. Send an e-mail to the FCC today and visit our Responsible Shopper.org to find contact information for major electronics manufacturers, and links to the TV TakeBack campaign.Thanks for all you do. Alisa Gravitz, Executive Director, Co-op America ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [glow=red,2,300]ACTION[/glow] Tell the FCC to Stop an E-Waste NightmareThe FCC has mandated that all television broadcasters switch to digital in February 2009. As a result, millions of old televisions will no longer be able to receive broadcasts unless a convertor box is installed. Millions of people will likely discard their old televisions to upgrade to newer, digital models. These old televisions will mostly end up in landfills and many will be sent oversees where workers will be paid low wages and exposed to hazardous wastes as they dismantle them. Since a cathode ray tube television can contain eight pounds of lead, as well as mercury, PVCs, and hundreds of other toxic chemicals, the FCC needs to ensure that every television is recycled in a way that protects the public and the environment. Television manufacturers also have an enormous responsibility in making sure that old televisions are recycled correctly. These manufacturers sold these toxic TVs to consumers and now stand to make billions of dollars selling new, digital TVs to the same consumers. Clearly, these manufacturers need to take back old TVs for free, and need to ensure that the TVs they take back are recycled in a way that won’t release toxins into the soil, water and air. So far, only Sony has established a takeback program for its electronics; the other manufacturers need to follow Sony’s lead. Please send the following email to the FCC telling them to address the e-waste nightmare they’ve created by creating recycling programs nationwide and getting manufacturers to take back their old TVs and other electronics. Then, please join Co-op America’s ally Electronics Takeback Coalition in calling on all television manufacturers to take back old TVs. SEND YOUR LETTER NOW! Feel free to edit this sample letter. Subject: Tell the FCC to Solve an E-Waste NightmareDear Chairman Martin: I am deeply concerned that the transition to digital television broadcasting in 2009 will become an electronic waste nightmare, and I am writing to urge you to act. When analog broadcasting stops, the 20 million American households who rely on over-the-air signals will be faced with purchasing a set-top converter box or a new digital TV set, and millions of televisions will likely be discarded. A cathode-ray tube television monitor can contain 8 pounds of lead, in addition to hundreds of other highly toxic chemicals, including mercury, brominated-flame retardants, and PVC plastics. Since less than 15 percent of the 2.63 million tons of e-waste in the US is recycled, the DTV transition threatens to put these harmful chemicals into our air, soil, and water. The resources on the FCC’s website devoted to digital television recycling (at DTV.gov) clearly demonstrate the need for the FCC to do more. Your website directs people to the MyGreenElectronics website, an industry-sponsored website that offers consumers, few if any resources for free TV recycling, with no guarantees that toxics will be kept out of our land, water, and air. The FCC inadvertently set this e-waste nightmare into motion. It is imperative that the FCC require manufacturers—who stand to make millions from the transition—to take back TV sets made obsolete by the DTV transition. Sony is taking back its electronics for recycling—the others can as well. It is also crucial that the FCC launch a program to educate consumers about the importance of recycling electronics, while working with local governments to help set up electronics recycling drop-offs as the DTV transition nears. Thank you for taking this matter seriously. To sign and send: www.coopamerica.org/takeaction/fcc/
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Post by michelle on Aug 15, 2008 14:25:14 GMT 4
Message To Homosapiens:Sixth Species Extinction Can Still Be AvoidedI couldn't come up with a better plea for humans to change their behavior and ways of living on Gaia than what is stated in the following article.
The article states: ...we must instill a profound change in mentality to look at nature in a different way.
How true!
As suggested, I plant pollination by insects and birds through encouraging the growth of numerous indigenous plants, trees and wildflowers in my garden....never using chemicals....My rabbits supply fertilizer.
I have also started buying as much meat and produce as I can from local farmers. Their prices are becoming very competitive. In today's world this is such a logical thing to do. The Agri-business has proved its negative impact on the environment and it costs much and demands petro fuels for shipping. Plus, local support of farmers is good for all involved. I know the methods used in the rearing of the animal and growing of produce when I buy local. Sixth Species Extinction Can Still Be AvoidedWednesday 13 August 2008 by: Christiane Galus, Le Monde The human species, 6.7 billion individuals strong, has modified its environment to such a degree that it is now hurting the biodiversity of terrestrial and marine species and, ultimately, its own survival. This to the point that an ever-growing number of scientists unhesitatingly talk about a sixth extinction, successor to the five others - all due to important natural modifications of the environment - that have punctuated life on Earth. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which focuses on over 41,415 species (of the roughly 1.75 million known) to establish its annual red list, estimates that 16,306 are threatened. One mammal species out of four, one bird species out of eight, a third of all amphibians and 70 percent of all plants assessed are in danger, the IUCN observes. Is it still possible to curb this species decline, which is likely to intensify when our planet carries 9.3 billion humans in 2050? American biologists Paul Ehrlich and Robert Pringle (Stanford University, California) think so, as long as several radical measures are undertaken at a global level. They present these in the August 12 Proceedings in the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) which devotes a special section to the sixth extinction. In their preamble, the two researchers declare outright that, "The fate of biodiversity for next ten million years will almost certainly be determined in the next fifty to one hundred years by the activity of a single species. That species, Homo sapiens, is about 200,000 years old." If one considers that mammalian species - of which we are one - last a million years on average, that places Homo sapiens in the middle of adolescence. Now we, this "spoiled teenager," "narcissistic and presupposing our own immortality, (...) mistreat the ecosystems that produced us and support us, mindless of the consequences," Paul Ehrlich and Robert Pringle add severely. Excess Consumption Consequently, according to the authors, we must instill a profound change in mentality to look at nature in a different way. Since, they say, "the idea that economic growth is independent of the health of the environment and that humanity may indefinitely extend its economy is a dangerous illusion." To counter that deviance, we must begin by mastering demographic expansion and reducing our excess consumption of natural resources, a good part of which serves to satisfy superfluous tastes and not fundamental needs. Pisciculture and aviculture, for example, cost less for transport and in fuel oil than raising pigs and beef, combined in the sacrosanct bacon cheeseburger... Another angle of attack: the services the biosphere offers are numerous and free. It supplies raw materials, natural water filtration systems, carbon storage in forests, prevention of erosion and floods by vegetation, plant pollination by insects and birds. That last activity alone weighs in at $1.5 billion dollars in the United States. So, it would be desirable to evaluate the cost of the services nature offers and to integrate it into economic calculations to assure the protection of those services. To finance the development of protected areas - now too few and too fragmented - Paul Ehrlich and Robert Pringle propose to appeal to private foundations dedicated to conservation. Which costs the taxpayer less and allows significant sums to be generated. In Costa Rica, a fund of this type, Paz con la naturaleza, raised 500 million dollars, a sum that will serve to finance the country's conservation system. We may also associate shepherds and farmers more closely with the preservation of biodiversity by avoiding imposing decisions on them over which they have no control and on the condition that they personally benefit from that preservation. That end may be reached through explanations and better education in the field. But there is nothing to prevent the restoration of damaged habitats as well. However, the two researchers worry about the growing divorce in industrialized countries between the population and nature, a divorce due to intensive multimedia use. They remark that, "in the United States, the rise of electronic media has coincided with a significant reduction in visits to national parks after fifty years of uninterrupted growth." And it seems that similar phenomena have occurred in other developed countries. Thus, with a definite sense of the right moment, Paul Ehrlich and Robert Pringle propose to add an ecological dimension to the best-known virtual worlds, such as Second Life. The Great Extinctions of the Past The beginnings of life go back 3.7 billion years. But it took until the explosion of the Cambrian, 500 million years ago, before the first complex marine organisms appeared. Since that time, five great extinctions have taken place. The First, 440 million years ago, caused the disappearance of 65 percent of all species, all marines. Significant glaciations followed by warming had provoked great fluctuations in sea levels. The Second, 380 million years ago, caused the death of 72 percent of - essentially marine - species. The catastrophe would have been due to a global chilling, following the fall of several meteorites. The Third, 250 million years ago, was so vast that life almost didn't recover from it. It is estimated that 90 percent of all species (marine and terrestrial) disappeared. The causes of the catastrophe are still being debated, but people think that immense lava flows in Siberia, perhaps provoked by an asteroid fall, profoundly changed the climate and reduced the amount of oxygen dissolved in the seas' waters. The Fourth, 200 million years ago, is associated with the opening of the Atlantic Ocean and significant lava flows that warmed the climate. Sixty-five percent of all species perished. The Fifth, 65 million years ago, is the best known because it is associated with the disappearance of the dinosaurs and of 62 percent of species. The causes proposed are an asteroid fall in the Gulf of Mexico and significant lava flows in India. Closer to us, during a period from 50,000 to 3,000 years ago, half the great mammal species weighing over 44 kg. disappeared. Some researchers primarily incriminate humans and consider that the sixth extinction, the one due to Homo sapiens's behavior, has already begun. Translation: Truthout French language editor Leslie Thatcher. Source: www.truthout.org/article/sixth-species-extinction-can-still-be-avoided------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Yes, we are the 'Naked Ape!' Me and you sir Homosapien too Homosuperior In my interior But from the skin out I'm homosapien too And you're homosapien too And I'm homosapien like you And we're homosapien too!
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Post by michelle on Nov 2, 2008 18:15:39 GMT 4
Why Is the Economy Collapsing? Because mindlessly chasing economic growth is not compatible with sustainability!!!! We now stand on the threshold of an unprecedented expansion of consciousness that will render obsolete most past visions, ideologies and paradigms that will soon be relegated to the drawers of incompatible instruments of self-understanding and harmonious living on and with Mother Earth. Post-history is about to begin: "The field of collective human consciousness is now entering the final stage of the awakening process, congealing into awareness of itself as the organ of consciousness (similar in function to a brain) of a single planetary being, a being with internal organs of oceans, forests, ecosystems, and atmosphere." by Ken Carey [received in 1988] Excerpted from his book Starseed: The Third Millennium : Living in the Posthistoric World [HarperSanFrancisco, 1991] Here's a couple of articles for you to read. The first represents true progress arising from the ashes of failed monetary systems. The second represents the unwillingness of many world leaders to join in our expansion of consciousness....our innate natural sense of Oneness and trust in the benevolence of Life. Current world leaders who continue with their death grip on ideologies that have supported them in the past will find themselves without public support.....they and their kind will fade out of existence; for as Ken Carey's transmitting intelligences so rightly indicated: "Ideologies are toxic. They poison perception and happiness. They block access to the intelligence that is designed to guide people's lives." Now, on with your reading folks..... Michelle PS: Here's the link to our look at Ken Carey's book:Re: "The Deciding Point" « Reply #1 Today at 5:53pm » More on Our Moment of Quantum Awakeningairdance.proboards50.com/index.cgi?board=oneness&action=display&thread=207&page=1#3177 *************** FEATURE - Crunch May Spur Rethink Of Nature As 'Free'SPAIN: October 22, 2008 BARCELONA - The worst financial crisis since the 1930s may be a chance to put price tags on nature in a radical economic rethink to protect everything from coral reefs to rainforests, environmental experts say.Farmers know the value of land from the amount of crops they can produce but large parts of the natural world -- such as wetlands that purify water, oceans that produce fish or trees that soak up greenhouse gases -- are usually viewed as "free". "Most of our valuable assets are not on the books," said Robert Costanza, professor of ecological economics at the University of Vermont. "We need to reinvent economics. The financial crisis is an opportunity." Advocates of "eco-nomics" say that valuing "natural capital" could help protect nature from rising human populations, pollution and climate change that do not figure in conventional measures of wealth such as gross domestic product (GDP) or gross national product (GNP). "I believe the 21st century will be dominated by the concept of natural capital, just as the 20th was dominated by financial capital," Achim Steiner, head of the UN Environment Programme, told Reuters at the International Union for Conservation of Nature congress in Barcelona earlier this month. "We are reaching a point...at which the very system that supports us is threatened," he said. Conventional economists often object it is impossible to value an Andean valley or the Caribbean. "We have struggled with nature-based services: how does a market begin to value them?" Steiner said. Costanza helped get international debate underway a decade ago with a widely quoted estimate that the value of natural services was $33 trillion a year -- almost twice world gross domestic product at the time. INFINITY Some economists dismissed Costanza's $33 trillion as an overestimate. Others pointed out that no one would be alive without nature, so its value to humans is infinite. "There is little that can be usefully be done with a serious underestimate of infinity," economist Michael Toman said at the time. But with the seizure of world money-markets bringing -- for some, at least -- an opportunity to rethink modern capitalism's basic tenet that greed and self-interest can counterbalance each other, more environmental experts hope to revisit nature's role in producing food, water, fuels, fibres or building materials. "The financial crisis is just another nail in the coffin" of a system that seeks economic growth while ignoring wider human wellbeing, said Johan Rockstrom, executive director of the Stockholm Environment Institute. Under standard economics, nations can boost their GDP -- briefly -- by chopping down all their forests and selling the timber, or by dynamiting coral reefs to catch all the fish. A rethink would stress the value of keeping nature intact. Rockstrom said bank bailouts totalling hundreds of billions of dollars might "change the mindset of the public...if we are willing to save investment banks, why not spend a similar amount on saving the planet?" he said. And there are ever more attempts to mix prices and nature. The European Union set up a carbon trading market in 2005 to get industries such as steel makers or oil refineries to cut emissions of greenhouse gases, blamed for global warming. Ecuador has asked rich countries to pay it $350 million a year in exchange for not extracting 1 billion barrels of oil in the Amazon rainforest. BHUTAN The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan has shifted from traditional gross national product to a goal of "gross national happiness", which includes respect for nature. And in UN talks on a new climate treaty, more than 190 nations are considering a plan to pay tropical nations billions of dollars a year to leave forests alone to slow deforestation and combat global warming. "We want to see a shift to valuing ecosystems," Norwegian Environment Minister Erik Solheim said. Oslo has led donor efforts by pledging $500 million a year to tropical nations for abandoning the chainsaw and letting trees stand. Deforestation accounts for about a fifth of all greenhouse gas emissions by mankind. Trees soak up carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, as they grow, and release it when they rot or are burnt, usually to clear land for farming. UNEP's Steiner said long-standing objections that it is too hard to value ecosystems were dwindling as economists' ability to assess risks improved. A report sponsored by the European Commission and Germany in May estimated that humanity was causing 50 billion euros ($67.35 billion) in damage to the planet's land areas every year. And a 2006 report by former World Bank chief economist Nicholas Stern said that unchecked global warming could cost 5 to 20 percent of world GDP, damaging the economy on the scale of the world wars or the Great Depression. Steiner said stock market plunges, or a halving of oil prices since peaks of $147 a barrel in July, showed that environmental experts were not the only ones who had trouble valuing assets. A 2005 Millennium Ecosystem Report also said that natural systems were worth more intact than if converted. It said a Canadian wetland was worth $6,000 a year per hectare, and just $2,000 if converted to farmland. A hectare of mangrove in Thailand was worth $1,000 a year -- producing fish or protecting against coastal erosion -- against $200 if uprooted and converted to a shrimp farm. Costanza, in a letter to the journal Science with a colleague earlier this year, said one way to value nature would be to set up a government-backed system to trade all greenhouse gas emissions and channel the revenues, estimated at $0.9-$3.6 trillion a year, into an "Earth Atmospheric Trust". If half the cash were shared out, each person on the planet would get $71-$285 a year, a big step towards ending poverty. The rest could go to renewable energy and clean technology. -- For Reuters latest environment blogs click on: blogs.reuters.com/environment/ (Editing by Sara Ledwith)
Story by Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent Source: www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/50704/newsDate/22-Oct-2008/story.htm********************* From New Scientist Print Edition. Special report: Why politicians dare not limit economic growth15 October 2008 Tim Jackson SCRATCH the surface of free-market capitalism and you discover something close to visceral fear. Recent events provide a good example: the US treasury's extraordinary $800 billion rescue package was an enormous comfort blanket designed to restore confidence in the ailing financial markets. By forcing the taxpayer to pick up the "toxic debts" that plunged the system into crisis, it aims to protect our ability to go on behaving similarly in the future. This is a short-term and deeply regressive solution, but economic growth must be protected at all costs. As economics commissioner on the UK's Sustainable Development Commission, I found this response depressingly familiar. At the launch last year of our "Redefining Prosperity" project (which attempts to instil some environmental and social caution into the relentless pursuit of economic growth), a UK treasury official stood up and accused my colleagues and I of wanting to "go back and live in caves". After a recent meeting convened to explore how the UK treasury's financial policies might be made more sustainable, a high-ranking official was heard to mutter: "Well, that is all very interesting, perhaps now we can get back to the real job of growing the economy." The message from all this is clear: any alternative to growth remains unthinkable, even 40 years after the American ecologists Paul Ehrlich and John Holdren made some blindingly obvious points about the arithmetic of relentless consumption. The Ehrlich equation, I = PAT, says simply that the impact (I) of human activity on the planet is the product of three factors: the size of the population (P), its level of affluence (A) expressed as income per person, and a technology factor (T), which is a measure of the impact on the planet associated with each dollar we spend. Take climate change, for example. The global population is just under 7 billion and the average level of affluence is around $8000 per person. The T factor is just over 0.5 tonnes of carbon dioxide per thousand dollars of GDP - in other words, every $1000 worth of goods and services produced using today's technology releases 0.5 tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere. So today's global CO2 emissions work out at 7 billion × 8 × 0.5 = 28 billion tonnes per year. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has stated that to stabilise greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere at a reasonably safe 450 parts per million, we need to reduce annual global CO2 emissions to less than 5 billion tonnes by 2050. With a global population of 9 billion thought inevitable by the middle of this century, that works out at an average carbon footprint of less than 0.6 tonnes per person - considerably lower than in India today. The conventional view is that we will achieve this by increasing energy efficiency and developing green technology without economic growth taking a serious hit. Can this really work? With today's global income, achieving the necessary carbon footprint would mean getting the T factor for CO2 down to 0.1 tonnes of CO2 per thousand US dollars - a fivefold improvement. While that is no walk in the park, it is probably doable with state-of-the-art technology and a robust policy commitment. There is one big thing missing from this picture, however: economic growth. Factor it in, and the idea that technological ingenuity can save us from climate disaster looks an awful lot more challenging. First, let us suppose that the world economy carries on as usual. GDP per capita will grow at a steady 2 or 3 per cent per year in developed countries, while the rest of the world tries to catch up - China and India leaping ahead at 5 to 10 per cent per year, at least for a while, with Africa languishing in the doldrums for decades to come. In this (deeply inequitable) world, to meet the IPCC target we would have to push the carbon content of consumption down to less than 0.03 tonnes for every thousand US dollars spent - a daunting 11-fold reduction on the current western European average. Now, let's suppose we are serious about eradicating global poverty. Imagine a world whose 9 billion people can all aspire to a level of income compatible with a 2.5 per cent growth in European income between now and 2050. In this scenario, the carbon content of economic output must be reduced to just 2 per cent of the best currently achieved anywhere in the European Union. In short, if we insist on growing the economy endlessly, then we will have to reduce the carbon intensity of our spending to a tiny fraction of what it is now. If growth is to continue beyond 2050, so must improvements in efficiency. Growth at 2.5 per cent per year from 2050 to the end of the century would more than triple the global economy beyond the 2050 level, requiring almost complete decarbonisation of every last dollar. The potential for technological improvements, renewable energy, carbon sequestration and, ultimately perhaps, a hydrogen-based economy has not been exhausted. But what politicians will not admit is that we have no idea if such a radical transformation is even possible, or if so what it would look like. Where will the investment and resources come from? Where will the wastes and the emissions go? What might it feel like to live in a world with 10 times as much economic activity as we have today? Instead, they bombard us with adverts cajoling us to insulate our homes, turn down our thermostats, drive a little less, walk a little more. The one piece of advice you will not see on a government list is "buy less stuff". Buying an energy-efficient TV is to be applauded; not buying one at all is a crime against society. Agreeing reluctantly to advertising standards is the sign of a mature society; banning advertising altogether (even to children) is condemned as "culture jamming". Consuming less may be the single biggest thing you can do to save carbon emissions, and yet no one dares to mention it. Because if we did, it would threaten economic growth, the very thing that is causing the problem in the first place.Visceral fear is not without foundation. If we do not go out shopping, then factories stop producing, and if factories stop producing then people get laid off. If people get laid off, then they do not have any money. And if they don't have any money they cannot go shopping. A falling economy has no money in the public purse and no way to service public debt. It struggles to maintain competitiveness and it puts people's jobs at risk. A government that fails to respond appropriately will soon find itself out of office. This is the logic of free-market capitalism: the economy must grow continuously or face an unpalatable collapse. With the environmental situation reaching crisis point, however, it is time to stop pretending that mindlessly chasing economic growth is compatible with sustainability. We need something more robust than a comfort blanket to protect us from the damage we are wreaking on the planet. Figuring out an alternative to this doomed model is now a priority before a global recession, an unstable climate, or a combination of the two forces itself upon us. Read more about sustainable growth in our special report
From issue 2678 of New Scientist magazine, 15 October 2008, page 42-43 Profile Tim Jackson is professor of sustainable development at the University of Surrey, UK. His research focuses on understanding the social, psychological and structural dimensions of sustainable living. He is also a member of the Sustainable Development Commission, which advises the UK government.Source: www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg20026786.100-special-report-why-politicians-dare-not-limit-economic-growth.html
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Develop & Implement a National Strategy for Sustainability The Obama Administration should adopt Sustainable Change as an Organizing Principle for the federal government. With only 5% of the world’s population, the US consumes 1/4 of the natural resources. Meanwhile humanity uses 30% more of the earth’s bio-capacity than can be sustained. At this rate, we’ll need two planets to meet everyone's needs by 2030. We know the catastrophes that could result from global warming. The only answer, short of total disaster, is to make a rapid transition to full sustainability. The US agreed, along with the other UN Member States, to create a National Strategy for Sustainability - at the Rio Earth Summit Conference in 1992 and World Summit in 2002. The Obama Administration can lead our country in developing and implementing such a National Strategy Plan by starting with the reports and recommendations from the President's Council on Sustainable Development under Clinton. See: clinton5.nara.gov/PCSD The National Strategy could encourage such things as Green Building Practices, transitioning to renewable energy, protecting and restoring the natural environment, limiting toxic chemicals, investing in Green Jobs throughout the economy, adopting sustainable business practices, educating for sustainable development, and ensuring that all people’s basic human needs can be met. I am also working with a team of sustainability practitioners in contacting Obama's top energy and environment advisors. We've given them more detailed recommendations for how the Obama Administration can adopt Sustainable Change as an organizing principle and lead our country to a more sustainable future. Please vote for this proposal and join us in creating a Sustainable America. Rob Wheeler, Working Group for Sustainable Change, US Citizens Network for Sustainable Development www.citnet.org/leadership 717-264-5036 robineagle@worldcitizen.org - Rob Wheeler (Organizer - Campaign for a Sustainable America), Scotland, PA Nov 28 @ 07:45PM PST What is Ideas for Change in America?Ideas for Change in America is a citizen-driven effort to identify and create momentum around the best ideas for how the Obama Administration and Congress can turn the broad call for "change" across the country into specific policies. You can help by submitting an idea for how you would change America, discussing ideas with others, and/or voting for your favorites. Read More Promote this Idea!This idea is currently in 1st Place in Environmental Conservation and is in position to make it into the second round Support this idea? Here's how you can help: 1. Email friends » 2. Share it on social networking sites 3. Post a Widget on Your Webpage Source: www.change.org/ideas/view/develop_implement_a_national_strategy_for_sustainability
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BLESSINGS FOR SYMBIOTIC RELATIONS AND SELF-SUSTAINING PRACTICES
Here's a message to Ascending Humans from the Sea Anemone Kingdom, provided for your information, through the good folks at the Spiritual School of Ascension.
May it be so, Michelle THE SEA ANEMONE SWAYING IN THE SEA
The Sea Anemone Kingdom through Karen Danrich “Mila”
September 19, 2004
BLESSINGS FOR SYMBIOTIC RELATIONS AND SELF-SUSTAINING PRACTICES
Dear Beloved Ascending Human,
It is with great honor that the Sea Anemone Kingdom has an opportunity to share of our knowledge. We are the small underwater flower whose tendrils sway in the moving water of most coral reefs. Our roots are similar to a snail’s bottom but without the ability to move from one location to another. At another time in history some of our kingdom had the ability to crawl like a snail from one place unto another; over time we lost such ability due to our own species falls in consciousness.
Our kingdom is not really “plant” in nature, although your scientists might associate our shape and nature as having similar qualities unto a plant. Much like jellyfish or whale, we consume plankton made available unto us through the movement of the sea. The plankton catches in our sticky tendrils and then small hairs upon each branch move the “catch” to our digestive system in the center of our bodies. Much like the “fly catcher” plant, enzymes then digest the catch to feed our forms.
We have a special relationship to many small fish that play and hide in our tendrils. Such fish also provide nutrition unto us in the form of their waste matter; we in exchange provide protection from the larger fish that prey upon them. The fish help move our tendrils which causes more plankton to catch upon their hairs. One would call this a symbiotic relationship in which the dance together serves in the sustenance of each species.
Many have heard of the “food chain” in which one species consumes another species, which is then consumed by a larger species, which is then consumed by yet another larger species, and so on. All of nature participates in the food chain, except humanity. Humans are not food to any other species in the physical. However humans are food unto nonphysical forces that utilize the collective human field to gather grid work, moving energy systems and chi along with etheric blood to sustain another humanoid form upon another dimension. You see humanity has not escaped being “food’ for another really in this.
All falls in consciousness experienced by humanity over time has been the result of something feeding off of the human species in a parasitic relationship and in the nonphysical. Parasites take and give nothing in return; due to this fact any parasitic relationship creates deterioration on the part of the species that is taken from. Humans have fallen in consciousness due to the nonphysical parasites that feed off of them. Humans in turn have become parasites towards nature, taking and giving nothing in return. This in turn has caused deterioration of nature or in other terms, the fall of earth.
Humans arrived upon earth 75,000 years ago and some of the tribes were non-parasitic in nature in their original genetic materials. The seven root races held a humanoid form that lived in balance with nature, or they would not have survived. The eleven root races that perished were out of balance and either took too much or gave to much; it is always taking or giving too much that leads to extinction. The one who takes too much causes extinction in another or other species; the one who gives too much goes extinct oneself.
Eleven root races perished as they either gave or took too much. Those that gave too much tried to save another root race by providing too much chi to their existence and ultimately went extinct. Those root races that took too much from nature found that nature then failed to supply enough food over time as over harvesting destroyed the possibility of regeneration; this led to starvation and extinction. The seven root races that survived learned to only take what was required for today’s meal, leaving some of what was gathered to replenish itself, becoming their food source for future generations.
Humans today operate much like the tribes who went extinct in ancient times. Humans often harvest to a point of no return for the associated species. Trees are removed to such an extent that the forest cannot regenerate. So this is happening in the rainforests of South America and pine forests of North America. Humans at this time of awakening are beginning to perceive the damage done, and are learning to replant some of such forests so that a return to life is the end result rather than extinction of the forest.
Extinction does not have to occur; extinction only occurs if there is no balance. Balance occurs in symbiotic relationships rather than parasitic relationships. The forest consciousness has no problem with humans taking trees for their homes, furniture, paper and other byproducts. If humans blessed the land in return and replanted the trees, leaving enough mature trees to provide the protection of the young to grow, this dance of the lumber industry would become a symbiotic relationship instead of a parasitic one. In the symbiotic relationship, humans would clear out the old dead wood in the forest allowing new trees to come forth that would not otherwise. This would in time replenish the forest allowing the trees to become stronger and healthier overall.
Failing to remove the dead wood will call a fire to the region to allow for the birth of the young trees. Many have been unprepared for the large number of fires that have raged in Australia and the Western US and Canada in recent years. Many parks do not allow forestry within them, and have laws that prevent the clearing of old dead wood, particularly in Canada. The consciousness of the forest will call in the fire for the job of clearing out the old dead wood so that the young trees may grow; which causes firemen in human form to strive to put out the fire. This dynamic creates a tug of war between the needs of the forest and the needs of humans to preserve their homes or parklands. The young trees enter the world crystalline and support global ascension by providing a higher frequency to the region; they are also necessary to the health of the forests now and into the future.
If humans were in balance, perhaps they would take the dead wood and use it along with some of the older trees for the production of their paper rather than destroying healthy trees for such a purpose. This would allow new life to be born within the forest. The Native Americans rarely cut down living trees for their construction or tee pees or cooking fires; instead they used the wood that was freely available, as it had already died and collapsed to the forest floor. The Native Americans perceived the life in the trees and called them “standing people”. They did not choose to destroy the life of the standing people any more than they would kill a friend or spouse or family member.
The forests provided much food for the native people in exchange; mushrooms were gathered from the forest floor along with certain plants, herbs and spices for their cooking and healing practices; berries were collected from the bushes; roots of certain plants were taken and roasted as a form of starch; and pine cones provided nuts known as “pine nuts”. Northwestern natives also ate of the acorns that fell from the redwood trees; this provided another form of starch that was freely available to accompany their fish and other gatherings.
Current humans find wild forests “dangerous” as they are filled with bears and other creatures. The Natives learned to honor the bears and were not disturbed in their presence. Both the bears and humans would be found catching salmon as they came up stream to spawn during this era. Each respected the other's “hunting” territories and all had enough to survive the coming winter.
If a bear attacked a human, the natives believed that they were out of balance and this was a reflection of their own state of being. They then strove to come back to balance, honoring the mirror of the attack. Bear was honored as a brother of the forest, a healer, and only hunted for the fur for the warmth in winter. As the natives blessed and requested the life of the deer or bear, the deer or bear gave of the life to provide for the human working in balance with their kingdoms. There was an exchange of honor that prevailed and this allowed each kingdom to survive over time.
Humans today are in great confusion about how to survive with nature. They overrun nature in the construction of the cities, which are nothing but cement and the land therefore cannot provide or grow any food source. Those living in more rural areas try and pacify nature by building fences and other structures to separate humans from the forests and open space. The fences humans’ build is symbolic of the separation between nature and humanity at this time in history.
Recently Mila heard of a problem with the bears in Banff, Canada. The city of Banff is considering constructing an electric fence to keep the bears out due to recurrent attacks upon humans. However Park Wardens had removed the bear’s food in recent years. In recent years, some of the elk were found to have a liver disorder. These elk were removed from the herds by human hands, as they were diseased. Alas nature provides food for all kingdoms; the diseased elk were to become the food for the bears. As the humans removed the bear’s food, now the bears must come to town attacking human garbage cans and campgrounds in order to have enough provisions to survive. Humans do not understand nature and in their misunderstanding cause problems wherever they live or visit in large enough numbers; in so doing they throw nature out of balance; which is only ultimately a mirror for the out of balance nature of mankind.
In the Northwest of Canada and the US, the wild herds of bison (buffalo), antelope and deer have been replaced primarily with fenced acres and cattle, except in the parklands. Alas the cattle will not survive the coming times of cleansing, as this is a non-ascending species, except for those reserved for the production of milk. Those cows utilized for milk production is currently ensouled by the Bison Species until humanity ceases to require milk to survive. Milk is deemed necessary to the crystalline structure and therefore nature will make sure that all provisions necessary for ascension are available for the ascending children of the future.
What will humans do if their farm animals perish? They will not know what to do as humanity has by in large separated itself from the dance of nature. If humanity is to survive, they will need to remember what their ancestors once knew who worked with and lived from the land. This information Mila and Oa shall strive to make available in a new section upon their web site known as “Creating Community”. Community is symbolic of tribal relations; in tribal relations humans pulled together to survive, hunting and gathering or farming the provisions necessary to assure the birth and sustenance of each successive generation.
In parallel to humanities imbalance upon the land, human waste has thrown the ocean into a vast state of imbalance at this time in history. The imbalance has caused many ocean species to dwindle to near extinction. The coral reefs are by in large dying at this time global wide. Certain strains of fish are disappearing. The cause? The wrong pH of the water to sustain life due to the toxic substances poured into your oceans via big business. Nature is evolving, but not rapidly enough perhaps to offset the extinction due to human mismanagement of their own wastes.
At another time, the numbers of Sea Anemone species was 400% greater than in present time. We too have died due to toxic substances or over fishing of coastal regions where large populations of humans reside. Some cultures such as those in the Philippines fish a reef until there is not enough life remaining to regenerate. This leaves dead reef after dead reef surrounding such islands. So this has also occurred in Hawaii, much to Mila and Oa’s dismay. Much like the root races that perished long ago, this is a sign that these humans are out of balance; they take too much and then there is not enough provisions left in the long haul in return.
The fish in Hawaii has also been affected. For as the coral reefs die, so do the larger fish that would feed upon the smaller fish sustained by the reefs also die, or have to relocate. So high is the demand for fresh tuna in Hawaii that fishermen have had to travel hundreds of miles further than in decades past to find the fish. At another time and in the 1800's, the fish were so plentiful in many of the bays in Hawaii that the boats had a hard time navigating to shore. Natives could stand in shallow water and pick up the fish with their bare hands. This is no longer so.
Sea Anemone states that it does not have to be this way. The ocean can regenerate. Humans could assist by stocking new fish and sea life, much as over fished lakes in Europe have been restocked. The fish and sea life can be bred in captivity; then returned to the wild when old enough, living the remainder of their life in their natural habitat. Humans could then find balance with the sea in so doing, by giving back the life that they stole over time. If this were to occur, there would be a re-balancing of chi between humanity and the sea, which would then be reflected in the regeneration of the coral reefs and all sea life associated.
Humans are awakening to this truth, however it is unclear that human leadership will awaken fast enough to make decisions fast enough to balance the scales. Without balancing the scales of how greatly humanity has taken from nature, the scales will balance themselves. What does Sea Anemone mean by this? Balancing the scales will translate into a dance in which to the degree that humanity has taken too much from nature, to such a degree humanity will also find themselves without enough to sustain themselves into the future. This is the karma ahead unless humanity chooses a different path and chooses to rebalance the imbalance with nature.
How might this occur? We see vast diseases coming down the dreamtime planes for all forms of food that is non-organic. GMO foods or those crops heavily fertilized with chemical pesticides cannot ascend; anything that cannot ascend will become diseased as the vibration of the land exceeds the vibration of the plant enough to allow imbalance to occur in the energy field. With enough energetic imbalances in the crops, viruses and pests will enter the dance causing humanities food source to dwindle to next to nothing. This is the future ahead unless humanity chooses to alter their course in the near future and balance the scales by giving back unto nature.
It is karma that calls any dream into physicality. The collective karma of humanity for taking too much from nature that calls the dream of deprivation through failed crops into physicality as settlement of the original cause. In taking too much from nature, nature has not only been deprived, but staved. Nature has died and starved as humans in the form of the Pleiadian Anu bartered away too many minerals causing the ice shields to crumble creating earth’s oceans. Since that time weather has altered drastically creating deserts and frozen tundra in which there is little provisions to support life. This leads to ongoing regions upon earth’s surface in which day to day life is a great struggle and sometimes there is starvation of some members of the animal kingdoms; this is in contrast to the tropics and rainforests where there is so much life that each kingdom thrives in ease.
Nature starves in regions inhabited greatly by humans. In your cities, nature is starving. In your suburbs, there is greater balance where more of nature can continue to thrive alongside humans. In the country, nature does its best perhaps in relation to humans, except if the land is divided up for the grazing of cows or growth of crops. There are some places that are completely devoid of humans and this is where the greatest balance in giving and receiving occurs within nature. In such places, there is an ongoing symbiotic relationship between all species.
Humans must enter the dream for symbiosis or become a symbiotic counterpart to nature or cease to exist in the coming cycle. The dream of the Great Central Sun is founded upon symbiosis or self-sustaining thought-form. A symbiotic relationship gives as much as it receives. Humans must learn to give as much unto nature as they take; in so doing, enough balance can remain in nature and human life together in association with holographic energy flow.
Holographic energy flow requires the development of symbiotic relations in which one kingdom's waste is another’s food source. This is the foundation of self-sustaining thought-form. Humans currently tend to pile their waste in one place and then dump it into nature and are surprised when the life around such “treatment plants” or “dump sites” dies. If each human put their waste into the garden, or recycled the old into something new, a symbiotic relationship between one’s food sustenance and waste would be fulfilled upon.
Not long ago, except within the cities, this was the dance between humans and the land. All waste was recycled into the land again and utilized to feed the crops up through the 1930’s. Some countries have developed better recycling in present time, including England. Mila was surprised to discover that English crop fields were covered in treated human waste during her visit in the year 2000. This is a good sign to Sea Anemone that the human species is beginning to awaken to their collective imbalance.
Mila ponders why each apartment complex or home does not have a “mulch bin” where food wastes could be placed and turned into fertilizer for the plants upon the property. Instead, artificial fertilizers with harmful chemical substances are purchased and used, and the waste goes down the drain with the water and into treatment plants. Human waste becomes harmless as long as it sits long enough in the septic tank; then after enough time it becomes the right pH and set of nutrients to be placed directly on the garden as fertilizer. These are simple changes that could be orchestrated in each home or apartment that would allow the waste to be used for positive purposes to sustain life, or if there is a garden, also to provide food.
Why has humanity gotten so out of sync that their waste piles up to create toxicity in one region, and then artificial fertilizers have to be created to sustain plant life in another area? The cause of this is technological laziness. It is perhaps easier to order a bag of chemical fertilizer and spray this upon the fields or the backyard landscape than collect enough cow or human dung for this purpose; and yet humans are poisoning themselves out of such laziness. Why has it become the dance of the farmer to poison the populace through such practices? The farmer is the reflection of the collective desire of humanity to go extinct beloved.
Now in this time of awakening, humans are becoming aware of the nutritional lack in their food source. Recently Mila saw an ad upon he Big Island for a film called “The Future of Food”. This film explores the atrocities of the farming practices in the US along with the problems with GMO (genetically modified) foods. This is a sign that humans are really beginning to notice the problems in the farming industry and shall begin to take a stand for change. Humans are also beginning to demand more organic produce that are not only filled with the vitamins and minerals that one may need to sustain life, but also soul to commune with as an ascending being.
Over time and as consciousness rises enough, the current farming practices might fade away as a distant memory, and humanity begin to enter a symbiotic relationship again with nature again upon a collective basis. If this were to occur, the potential dream of mass starvation would fade into a new dream of just enough for each that lives to witness the coming golden era ahead. This Sea Anemone wishes for the human species. As Mila would say, let us make it so, Ho!
Mila has had only a few experiences with Sea Anemone. Although she would love to spend more time in the ocean snorkeling, the reality is that event the oceans of Hawaii are too toxic for her form. In 2001, she was guided to no longer swim in the ocean until the ocean transmuted itself to a safer level of vibration into the distant future. Mila always does what is best for her body, as ascension is hard enough without adding unnecessary toxins through the environment or food.
Mila recalls watching Sea Anemone in tide pools in California and Hawaii along with the salt-water tanks of public aquariums. One of the restaurants frequented in Honolulu had a large two-story aquarium with many species represented. Mila would watch all the kingdoms for hours over a Sunday brunch. She was most fascinated with the Manta Ray Kingdom and their graceful movements in the water. Mila felt refreshed through her communion with the sea creatures and this experience would call her back again and again.
Another restaurant Mila and Oa frequented had an exquisite salt-water tank, and if one received a table next to it, one could really connect with each kingdom therein. Here Mila has had a close-up look at Sea Anemone and the small fish that frolic in our tendrils. The beauty of the sea is inspirational; and our species understands how fascinating this is to humans. Perhaps this is why aquariums have been popular many times in human history.
Mila is not a believer in having pets. However early in her ascension, she was guided to purchase two beautiful “Chinese Fighting Fish”. These fish entered her life to teach her something important. First she placed the two fish into a single bowl and intended to reprogram them not to fight. Alas this did not work and one fish killed the other, and the remaining fish had a large bite out of its tail. She learned she could not so easily reprogram the fish and that it would take more than she understood to alter their inherent nature at that time in her ascent.
However there was another lesson in all of this, and Mila was guided to make agreements to feed the one remaining fish energetically. As soon as this agreement was made, the fish ceased to eat, and she never fed the fish again. Much to Mila’s surprise, the fish re-grew the missing portion of its tail without food consumption. The fish went on to live for a year and a half without food. Then upon moving to Hawaii, the fish was given away to a student. The student did not know how to keep the energetic agreements, and the fish died shortly thereafter. However the fish had taught Mila that there is no requirement for any species to eat as long as there is enough energy to sustain the etheric body.
The problem with life upon earth is that there is not enough energy to sustain the etheric; this results in one kingdom requiring to feast upon another kingdom to sustain themselves. As earth enters the Great Central Sun, there will be so much chi that many underwater species will cease to eat anything ever again, much like Mila’s Chinese Fighting Fish. So this may be so for many species upon the land.
Call upon us to master symbiotic relations with others and the self-sustaining thought-form necessary to enter the Great Central Sun. We are in service to all ascending species at this time in history.
Namaste
The Sea Anemone KingdomSource:www.ascendpress.org/articles/creepy-crawlers/SeaAnenome.htm
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