A beautiful inspired Native Spirit video with a message of Love and Oneness. Music:  Northern Cree Round Dance - produced by Quiet Buck Productions. A similar message was given to Hottidownunda (Stephanie) who wrote a song called YHWH the Spirit. Awe filled!

~Bonnee Klein Gilligan

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“World leaders and philanthropists have pledged nearly $3bn (£1.6bn) to fight malaria at a summit in New York.”

The meeting, at the UN, is looking at ways of meeting the Millennium Development Goals — targets on reducing global poverty by the year 2015.

Donors hope the money will be enough to eradicate malaria by that time.

Malaria still kills more than a million people each year, according to the World Health Organization.

- BBC News, 26 September 2008: Link.

See also:

• Roll Back Malaria
• Global Malaria Programme @ WHO
• Malaria @ CDC

~ Karl Jones

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Ling, the Dragon by Bonnee Klein Gilligan

Ling is a dragon of the sky and clouds. He is an Azure Dragon (lung) the highest among dragons… vital spirit, celestial power and  infinite supernatural power. The lung, or Imperial Dragon represents the East and fertilizing rain. I was told the kanji says ‘Great Spirit’. The original 9" x 12" pastel drawing was commissioned in 1999.

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a poem by Bonnee Klein Gilligan

God whispers to you

   night and day

   in wind and rain

   and storms

   and sparkling dew

   upon the lawn.

God’s song of life

   sings, "I’m with you

   I’m all around

   just look and see

   for I AM you

   and you are me."

God whispers to you

   all the time

   in thoughts and words

   and deeds

   of self and others

   kindnesses.

God’s song of love

   sings, "I’m with you

   and you’re with me

   I’m everyone

   and all you see."

God whispers to you

   this moment

   in all that is

   and all you see

   of miracles

   and majesty.

God’s song of peace

   sings "I hear you

   and heal your wounds

   and fill your heart

   just stop and be."

God whispers to you

   night and day

   through everything

   you gaze upon

   in happiness

   in sorrow too

   life’s poignant as

   it’s meant to be.

God’s song of truth

   sings, " Listen now

   slow down your life

   quiet your thoughts

   just stop and be

   then you’ll hear me."

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As ever I seem to be stumbling upon a lot of wonderful and exciting concepts and actions being taken for environmental change. Here are a few of the coolest….

Carrot Mob - consumer mobs for environmental change

Consumers have the power to make change. Carrot Mob located in San Francisco, CA, the brain child of Brent Schulkin is proving that by organizing consuming mobs for environmental change. They interview businesses and pick one that offers the most toward change. Then organize a large group of consumers to mob the store and buy something. The first mob in March 2008 called ‘We Make it Rain’ was a resounding success. The mob spent $9,276.00 at K & D Market in a couple of hours. The store committed to spend 22% of the money on greening their store with guidance from the San Francisco Energy Watch Program. And the local SF Food Bank received 366 pounds of food. Carrot Mob has taken off, is growing and has lots of great ideas for the future. The second mob of a Cafe in downtown is currently being organized. You can find out more at Facebook Carrot Mob.

A mob is also being planned in Kansas City at World of Spirits on October 21, 2008. This great new idea is expanding worldwide too. The UK has jumped on board. The first UK Carrot Mob took place September 16, 2008 in London at Redchurch bar. It was a resounding success. A second UK Carrot Mob called ‘Maddness in the Minimarket‘ event is planned for November 6, 2008. According to CarrotMob.org facebook all of Finland has jumped on board and 2 mobs are currently in the works. This is exciting… grass roots activism at its best!

HelpingOthers.org - Random acts of environmental kindness

HelpingOthers.org is a website dedicated to offering ideas and stories of people helping each other. They suggest the following ways we can help the environment…

Practice kindness towards the environment. Participate in beach or park cleanups. Reduce air pollution by carpooling, taking public transportation, biking, or walking. Recycle all aluminum, plastic, and paper materials. Cut down on the energy you use by lowering the heat and turning off lights and unused appliances. Learn more about solar energy. As gifts, give houseplants to teachers, friends, or coworkers. Plant a tree in your neighborhood. What a terrific website based on the concept of ‘Pay it Forward’. How cool is that!

Sheryl Crow singing in environmental change

Sheryl Crow, singer/song writer and environmental activist is singing about change. Her latest album Detours is her most out-spoken record to date. She says about the album, “the most honest record I’ve ever made. It’s about being forced to wake up.”

About.com Sheryl Crow Interview: Can "Detours" Help Pave the Way to a Better World? by Larry West. Sheryl says, "Although I hate that a movement can be inspired by fear, at least people are talking about it, talking about ways they can incorporate green living into their homes and workplaces. If the IPCC reports are right, then we’ll see a third of our species, counting man, become extinct, a thing of the past. It’s very worrisome, but I have to believe that there is hope and that we can incite a sense of urgency in everyone. Our farming community [in Tennessee] is trying to go wind and solar, to remove ourselves completely from the grid. If we’re successful, hopefully we can be an example to other communities of how they can come together, work as a community, and become part of the solution." Thanks for your great work Sheryl!

UK’s Big Green Challenge working together for change 

Big Green Challenge, the people-powered innovation prize from NESTA. The £1 million prize fund is designed to encourage and reward people who work together to develop new ways to save energy and lower CO2 emissions by 60% in their communities. 350 projects were entered, of them 10 finalists were selected. Each team of finalists were given £20,000 to develop their ideas further over the next year. Here is a list of the finalists.

Mirror News (12 September 2008) Big Green Challenge: Finalists up for £1million environmental prize. Nesta chief executive Jonathan Kestenbaum told the Mirror: "The fact that we had over 350 communities submitting strong ideas demonstrates there is the passion and knowledge across the UK to devise imaginative responses to climate change. "We are confident the 10 finalists will step up to the challenge of tackling the biggest single issue facing the planet." A very exciting contest can’t wait to read who the winners will be. Yahoo!

A few interesting environmental links:

People & Planet an online global resource for environmental issues and solutions and their impact on the peoples of the world.

E - the environmental magazine - online and print magazine which provides independent coverage on a wide range of environmental issues.

Grist, environmental news and commentary - “Grist: it’s gloom and doom with a sense of humor. So laugh now – or the planet gets it.” An online environmental magazine with a sense of humor and a little seriousness thrown in for good measure.

~Bonnee Klein Gilligan

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KABUL, Afghanistan:

The U.N. said guns fell silent across much of Afghanistan yesterday for an International Peace Day that saw pledges by the United States, NATO, the Afghan government and the Taliban to halt attacks.

Violence still marred the day. A Taliban attack killed two guards in one province, while in another a battle that began Saturday continued.

Still, the U.N. said tens of thousands of international troops, Afghan soldiers and Taliban militants “all stood down from offensive military operations in support of the biggest International Peace Day effort that Afghanistan has known.”

Most government officials around the country reported no violence, and several credited Peace Day efforts.

- Boston Herald: September 22, 2008: Link.

~ Karl Jones

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A lovely, sweet animated creation. Journey with the traveler, the soul, to rejoin Creator. The traveler is you who says, ‘Be still and know thyself’.  Created by  Geoff. 

~Bonnee Klein Gilligan

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a poem by Bonnee Klein Gilligan

No matter what religion

   Creator dwells within

   and God has never left us

   he can’t… you see, he is us

   and all Creation too.

You say that God made pain

   I reply he didn’t, he made

   emotions, mind and spirit.

It’s we who choose the outcome

   of how we feel and what we think

   our happy, sad or worried

   comes from us alone.

How I respond to others

  or even to myself

   is my responsibility

   not God’s, not yours nor others

   it is mine alone my friend

   and yours alone as well.

God called us ‘human beings’

   he says ‘Just be… my children… play’.

But we take that play and twist it

   and call each other names

   we poke and hit and banter

   until we feel the shame.

We hurt ourselves my friend

   not God nor other either.

God called us ‘human beings’.

   we call us ‘human doings’

   for the being part escapes us

   in our daily life of doing.

God’s gone missing in existence

  from our minds, and words and lives

   and we blame God for our suffering

   and we blame God for our pain

  and we blame God for every other thing

    in life that brings us shame.

It is we who have created that

   not God nor other either

   we put everything outside of self

   when it’s us that’s the creator.

God loves us beyond reason

  and allows our will and folly.

For this is how we grow and change

  and choose again a different play

  a different game, a new response.

It can’t remain the same for long

   for this is how we grow our soul.

It’s through our pain we change

   or stay the same and suffer.

So it’s a choice to stay the same

   as well a choice to change.

God loves us and supports our choice

   with majesty and might

   he doesn’t even mind it much

  if we only choose to fight.

For he knows one day we’ll get it

   and we’ll change our haughty ways

  and move back again to love and peace

   for our eternal days.

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The Angel Sophi El by Bonnee Klein Gilligan

Sophi El is from the angelic order of Thrones. She is the Angel of water and of the silver ray. Sophi El works with emotional issues purifying and cleansing them from the energetic/physical system. Call upon her anytime you want additional energy to help rid yourself or another of emotional baggage. Original 9 x 12 pastel drawing was commissioned in 1997.

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The girl who silenced the world at the UN for 5 minutes.

Severn Suzuki a 13 year old Canadian who formed ECHO (Environmental Children’s Organization) speaks from her heart to the UN. Her message is powerful and thought provoking.

Severn says, ‘I’m frightened for my future. I’m here to speak for all generations to come. I’m afraid to go out in the sun now because of the holes in our ozone. I’m afraid to breathe the air because I don’t know what chemicals are in it. You don’t know how to fix the holes in our ozone layer. If you don’t know how to fix it, please stop breaking it."

But she says so much more. It leaves one pondering if indeed our children’s children will even have a habitable planet to live upon.

In the late 1960s I joined with tens of thousands of other young people in Pittsburgh, PA in a peaceful demonstration. We chanted and sang for several hours with exuberant naive hopes of ending the war. Because of our efforts the park was renamed ‘Peace Park’. Our message wasn’t just about the end of war. It was also about love and respect for each other. The Vietnam war did come to an end eventually. But war didn’t! How many wars have there been since? Our message of peace was forgotten. Peace is a collective worldwide vision. It’s about love for all of humanity and a peaceful worldwide coexistence. Peace sustains us. It is something we carry forward through generations. Peace is a lifestyle. If we don’t live in peace we could ultimately destroy all of humanity and the planet.

As I see it the same message is brought forward again in our Green movement. Living green is about love and respect for ourselves and the planet. Green is a collective worldwide vision which sustains us. It is something we carry forward through generations. Respect for humanity and our eco-system. Green is a lifestyle. If we don’t live with this respect we will destroy our eco-system and ourselves ultimately.

Severn’s message was given in 1992, 16 years later have we got it? In 2008 we have powerful spokespeople for climate change and perhaps we can turn things around. But we’ll only do that if we all jump on board and make changes in our world, governments, societies, businesses and family.

Change begins with me… so I’m doing what I can at home and at work and writing this blog to let you know what I’ve discovered.  And I trust my little bit is enough…

~Bonnee Klein Gilligan

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“They stood up for the hillbillies who worked beside them to design and build the Saturn V, the only rocket of its kind that flew the first time and never failed.”

Len Bullard recently posted a moving account of man’s humanity to man:

I grew up in a town where I was born and to which 200000 people came in a period of a few years to build rocket ships. I was one of the 15000 aborigines, a native, a redneck if you will. The first group were former enemies, German rocket scientists. My uncle who was pulled from a pile of dead bodies after the battle of the bulge wouldn’t even come to our house because our neighbors were former Nazis. Do you know what they did? They created the symphony. They created one of the best technical universities in America. They created the German language club, the public observatory where Mercury astronauts trained.

And they were the first most vocal group to demand the signs over the water fountains and the bathrooms come down. They by experience had come to understand the crime against humanity of apartheid, of the sub-human other. And they would not stand for it. When the government demanded they move to California to work on the Moon project, they told them they were citizens, this was their home, and the government could go screw themselves.

They stood up for the hillbillies who worked beside them to design and build the Saturn V, the only rocket of its kind that flew the first time and never failed.

In the bad, you may find the good. In the good, some go bad. You can’t just require people to stay in their stereotype. It’s like demanding that The Beatles once established as a pop-blues band remain that.

Mark Twain wrote in his story of the old man who died and went to heaven about the woman who had come to heaven looking for her baby who had died many years before, except the baby had elected to grow up and she not recognizing the baby she was looking for couldn’t see what the baby had become. He said they would come together by and by, but it would take a long time.

It may take a long time for the reds and the blues to find each other, but they will, by and by in a heaven of their own making, or a hell.

Choose wisely.

- Len Bullard @ Jon Taplin’s Blog: “Redneck Pride”

I believe that the town in question is Huntsville, Alabama.

~ Karl Jones

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Beautifully animated and produced. This work of art leads one on a journey of awakening through the chakra and energy system.

The segment shown is the 7th or crown chakra. It it part of a 28 minute video called ‘The Illuminated Chakras‘ produced by Anodea Judith and animated by Alex Wayne. Won best animation at the 2004 New York Independent Film Festival. Spectacular!Hope you enjoy the journey.

~Bonnee

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~a poem by Bonnee Klein Gilligan

Your face is hidden by a book

   a picture of the cover.

Which holds inside a group of thoughts

  about a time, about a place

   but not about the man himself.

Perhaps the surface… not the depth

   the fullness, sense or feeling.

There are no words, which can describe

   the tactile sense, inside the mind

   inside the soul, inside the being.

Inside the fullness of the man

   that’s who you are indeed.

 

A face describes itself with life

  of all it’s seen and all it’s done.

It scribes upon it lines of age

  sweet misery, sweet joy.

Every hair of snowy white

   is honor that is earned in life.

Age is wisdom, color, flavor

  experience itself to savor.

Wear it proudly, fly it high

   this flag of story, let none deny.

 

A place in time, describes an age

  a youth or man and now a sage.

All slots in time, placeholders only

   filled up with life, sweet love or sorrow.

Experienced within a moment

   for this is all we have… right now.

Life’s never over, until you claim it

  be what you want, live it, name it.

It is our clay, modeled with desires

   and shaped with every choice.

Choose life my friend, and live it well

   with laugher filled and dancing joy.

Alive, awake and in sweet dreams

   For life is what we make it.

Will you show your face to me?

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Spectral Light - Trefoil Series by Bonnee Klein Gilligan

Peaceful, meditative, Buddhic. Essential Knowing brings one to the inner-self and expresses one’s ‘True Nature’. Energy impact: calming, contemplative, compassion. Spectral Pastel drawing with computer enhancement. Original 9" x 12" drawing was commissioned.

Giclee prints are available at my Spirit Art Gallery.

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I just read the latest issue of The McKinsey Quarterly entitled ‘Business strategies for climate change’. The report says, "Climate change is top of mind for many executives. We believe that the shift to low-carbon economy is already underway and that businesses must get ready for it, especially in energy, transport and heavy industry." The report suggests that businesses utilize existing methods to lower carbon output and suggests that it will be necessary to develop new low-carbon technologies to meet carbon reduction goals. It also suggests methods for implementation including reducing trash output, utilizing power from alternative sources like solar, wind and water, improving insulation and utilizing enzymes.

Have any businesses jumped on the Green bandwagon and made positive changes to the way they do business, manufacture products or handle waste? The answer is, absolutely, yes!

Here are some who are zero waste leaders…

Boulder Outlook Hotel - Zero waste program

Boulder Outlook Hotel in Boulder, Colorado is actively working toward Zero waste. Currently it recycles or composts 80% of it’s waste. The current goal is 90%. They hold weekly brainstorm sessions to generate ideas on how they can become even greener. They utilize cornstarch based straws, cups and to-go containers which are compostable, utilize enviro-friendly cleaning products and give all frying oils to a bio-diesel firm. Their slogan is ‘The cure for the common hotel’. They even have allergy friendly rooms with air filtration and other features. How cool is that!!

 

General Motors - landfill free program

GM’s Transmission Facility in White Marsh, Maryland Achieves Landfill Free Status (28, August 2008). It eliminates 8,000 tons of trash by smart plant design, recycling, reusing, or removing and unique partnerships.

General Motors’ goal is to have 1/2 of it’s major manufacturing operations landfill free by 2010. Go GM go!!

Goodwill Industries works with GM disassembling obsolete containers. Then selling them to recyclers and compounders who turn the materials back into usable parts for the auto industry.

 

Anheuser Busch - Work Green program

Anheuser Busch Brewery in Baldwinsville, NY institutes numerous eco-friendly changes. The brewery recycles 99.9% of solid materials. They have also under taken measures to further reduce their carbon foot print. This was done by  changing lighting -which led to a 40% savings, reclaiming heat, and utilizing an anaerobic digestion system (bio-energy) for waste - producing methane gas for 19% of their fuel needs.

15 other Anheuser Busch plants have bio-energy, some also utilize solar and one is brewing organic beer. You rock AB!!

 

Subaru - WasteWise program

Since 2004 Subaru Indiana Automotive (SIA) has achieved zero waste by recycling 99.3% of its’ excess / leftover steel, plastic, wood, paper, glass and other materials. The remaining 0.7% is utilized by the city of Indianapolis to help generate steam.  SIA was awarded EPA’s Gold Achievement AwardOne in 2006 for its’ long-standing environmental program ‘Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics’. It has heightened awareness for a clean environment by taking it’s Leave No Trace program on the road reaching over 8 million individuals, in 48 states. Thanks Subaru you’re leading the pack!!!

Other auto companies are greening their manufacturing facilities too…

Subaru’s "Zero Landfill Waste" Auto Plant Raises the Bar by John DiPietro says, "In the automotive high-jump event known as environmental safeguarding, Subaru set a world record of sorts by being the first automaker to achieve "zero waste to landfill" status. Indeed, the company set the bar very high, and it’s great to see that others have been inspired to start clearing that bar as well. Honda’s Alabama plant is also a zero-landfill plant. Rolls-Royce’s Goodwood, England plant (opened in 2003) boasts an 8-acre "living roof." Covered with sedum plants, this roof provides insulation from the heat and the cold; of course, as is the case with all green plants, these sedum plants also clean the air by ingesting carbon dioxide and producing oxygen. The Rolls plant also sends waste leather (from the upholstery division) to shoe and clothing makers, and filters run-off water from the roof and parking lots before it enters an on-site lake. Ford’s Rouge plant also employs a living roof and similar water-saving measures."

This is great!!! Now if we could only get all businesses, plants and products zero emissions too. Am I crazy to think that’s possible?

~Bonnee Klein Gilligan

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An artistic short, primarily black and white video created by Ted Chambers. Doesn’t remind me of gnomes or fairies, feels more like innerspace or transdimensional travel.

Whatever it is, it’s very artsy and creative…

~Bonnee Klein Gilligan

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by: James Schwartz

STR8

In this time and at this rate
The world prefers its assassins str8
Heroes for heteros to relate
Comfort for their grieving mate.

In this time and in their bed
Every queer is left for dead
Heroes for heteros are always fed
Our hungry eyes are always red.

In this time and in their shame
Shadows eclipse our vigil flame
Graffiti obscures our spat upon name
Our bodies are bashed, beaten, lame.

In another time and in future age
Of pink revolution and lavender rage
Heroes for heteros will stumble and fall
And we shall feast on bones and all.

MIDNIGHT

I love the hours after midnight
After his eleventh shot
When he becomes what
Before he was not.

I loathe the hours after dawn
Before he’s out the door
Having put on again
What he was before.

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“We can now shed light on one of the most intriguing mysteries of that period — how the Khazars actually lived.”

MOSCOW (AFP) — Russian archaeologists said Wednesday they had found the long-lost capital of the Khazar kingdom in southern Russia, a breakthrough for research on the ancient Jewish state.

“This is a hugely important discovery,” expedition organiser Dmitry Vasilyev told AFP by telephone from Astrakhan State University after returning from excavations near the village of Samosdelka, just north of the Caspian Sea.

“We can now shed light on one of the most intriguing mysteries of that period — how the Khazars actually lived. We know very little about the Khazars — about their traditions, their funerary rites, their culture,” he said.

The city was the capital of the Khazars, a semi-nomadic Turkic peoples who adopted Judaism as a state religion, from between the 8th and the 10th centuries, when it was captured and sacked by the rulers of ancient Russia.

At its height, the Khazar state and its tributaries controlled much of what is now southern Russia, western Kazakhstan, eastern Ukraine, Azerbaijan and large parts of Russia’s North Caucasus region.

- Yahoo.com.

See also Khazars @ Wikipedia.

~ Karl Jones

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a poem by Bonnee Klein Gilligan

Ah Paris ’tis the city of love

    a beautiful place indeed.

Enjoy yourself and if you like

    have a pastry for me.

A croissant, pasty or a tart

    with cream, and fruit, and crust.

Such a delight with every bite 

    is sinful, and a must.

Have an espresso at a street cafe

   and watch the passersby

In thought, or talk, or steadfast walk

    so busy with their lives.

Enjoy a walk along the Seine

    or boat ride to the Louvre.

With easy access everywhere

    you can also ride the Tube.

Enjoy your trip to Paris

    have a glass of wine for me.

And over here I’ll taste it

    on my lips, just wait and see.

I taste a red, hardy and full

    it’s peppery and smooth.

Oh no it’s white, a crisp delight

   it’s flowery… oh no it’s bright.

Did you have two, or maybe three

   I’m so confused it must be me.

I taste a tart, and coffee too

    my senses don’t know what to do.

Enjoy your trip to Paris

    and I’ll be here with you

Or is it there, I just don’t know

    with you I’m split in two.

I don’t know what I’m doing

   and I don’t know what I see

All I know that I like you

    and you’ll have the best from me.

Enjoy your trip to Paris friend

    best wishes, bon voyage

I don’t know how to end this

   so I’ll just press the pause…

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A beautiful video about being, flowing, oneness and now.  The Zen Way. Produced by Jon Braeley and Empty Mind Films. Hope you enjoy the space of peace Zen creates.

~Bonnee Klein Gilligan

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“I’m slightly afraid that fewer and fewer people will want to devote their whole life to one experiment. This may be a problem.”

- Michal Tomášek

One experiment, one life

The scale and complexity of the LHC [Large Hadron Collider] can only be rivaled by some of the greatest scientific efforts ever made, such as the race to the moon or the development of the atomic bomb. More so than those efforts, the LHC is truly international, which is made clear on a visit to its outdoor cafeteria, where, in the shadow of Mont Blanc, a multitude of languages can be heard.

The duration of the experiment — about two decades on, it is only about to begin, and it could likely operate for 20 years — means that some physicists will spend their whole careers devoted solely to the LHC. This concerns Michal Tomášek, a Czech physicist who works on Atlas.

“Back when I was a student,” he says, “there were 20 to 40 experiments that lasted five to six years, and you had an opportunity to go from one to another. … [Now] it’s really one experiment for one life.

“I’m slightly afraid that fewer and fewer people will want to devote their whole life to one experiment. This may be a problem.”

- Paul Voosen @ The Prague Post - September 3rd, 2008.

Large Hadron Collider @ Wikipedia

~ Karl Jones

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I was wondering if there were actually people out there who have changed their lifestyles to be more eco-friendly. I searched the internet to see who was doing what. Are people Makin’ it Green? The answer is a resounding… Yes!!!

One man moved to the New Mexico wilderness to live without oil. Another family in California changes their urban yard into a farm complete with animals. And a Canadian couple goes off the grid but keeps their middle class lifestyle. And there are a lot more. All wonderful stories which inspired me. 

Inspirational stories of folks ‘Makin’ it Green’…

Farewell my Subaru - a greener life in New Mexico, USA

Doug Fine is the   author of ‘Farewell my Subaru’ a book about  his life without oil. Doug moved to New Mexico, USA with his girl friend. They built a green sustainable home, are raising goats, chickens, ducks and growing much of their own food. You can read the continuing story of his new greener life at his blog. He is funny, charming and actually doing it… well. Amazing!!!

 

 

Path to Freedom - urban homesteaders in California, USA

An eco-pioneering lifestyle in Pasadena, CA. This is a story of a family who turned their lot into a 1/10th acre  farm which, produces 6,000 lbs. of organic food annually. On a path to self-sufficiency the Dervaes grow and preserve 99% of their own food, recycle, make bio-diesel, utilize solar power and more. You can read their blog or watch more videos at Dervaes’ channel on youtube.com. Awesome!!!

 

 Off Grid Living - with renewable resources in Canada

Bill and Lorraine Kemp live a normal middle class lifestyle in an average home with all the things you’d expect like a big screen TV, home office filled with computers and other equipment, washer / dryer, and even a cappuccino machine. But the thing that makes them unique is that they live completely off the grid. They have wood heat, solar/wind power for electricity, a well and waste water reclamation system. You can read their blog or watch more videos at aztextpress channel on youtube.com.

We can make it green living well and inexpensively. So exciting and inspirational!

Some wonderful sustainable resources…

Peak Moment TV - A network dedicated to sustainability and issues of our changing world. There are 23 interesting 28-minute episodes hosted by Janaia Donaldson (photo left) you can watch at Global Media. You can also read Janaia’s blog about the latest goings on at Peak Moment too.

Natural Life Magazine - A paper and online magazine that is about how to create a greener, healthier and more sustainable lifestyle.

Your Backyard Farmer Located in Portland, OR. A great concept people who love to farm, do it for you and it’s all organic.

~Bonnee Klein Gilligan

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Moon Walker is a Shamanic Heart Healer.

Spiritual, Esoteric. Opening, loving, allowing. He has so much compassion that hate dissolves into love. Singer, dancer, healer and spiritual facilitator. Original 9" x 12" pastel drawing was commissioned in 1997.

Giclee prints of my work are available at Spirit Art Gallery.

~Bonnee Klein Gilligan

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Mister Glasses: Episode Two @ YouTube

Strong production values and loving attention to detail make Mister Glasses more fun than the rigors of Modern Architecture.

See also Philip Johnson @ Wikipedia.

~ Karl Jones

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Interested in talking shop about the wonders of classical music?  Check out this forum, then!

- Rudy Carrera.

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