We are escalating our efforts at out collective to go further off grid, building new rain water and gray water systems, have established a community garden on our site and are disseminating information regarding this movement each time we speak in public, on our forums at our website and will soon be publishing an entirely new page on our website about this movement and its source backed up by anthropological sources and information about the origins of the indigenous peoples behind this all. I have been fortunate enough to have studied them at the graduate level and aware of this coming for since the advent of the new century.

We are escalating our efforts at out collective to go further off grid, building new rain water and gray water systems, have established a community garden on our site and are disseminating information regarding this movement each time we speak in public, on our forums at our website and will soon be publishing an entirely new page on our website about this movement and its source backed up by anthropological sources and information about the origins of the indigenous peoples behind this all. I have been fortunate enough to have studied them at the graduate level and aware of this coming for since the advent of the new century.

This year, I am going to change my electricity supplier. This is a very easy thing to do, and the electricity doesn’t even cost more money. If every German person changes to sustainable energy (wind, solar), we can stop the nuklear power sooner and spread much less CO2.

This year, I am going to change my electricity supplier. This is a very easy thing to do, and the electricity doesn’t even cost more money. If every German person changes to sustainable energy (wind, solar), we can stop the nuklear power sooner and spread much less CO2.

This morning I made a decision regarding my work: to focus exclusively on showing tourism how it can become a healing agent and bring about an environmentally responsible, socially just and spiritually fulfilling on the planet. While this theme has been a subtext of my work for many years, it’s now front and central. The global tourism industry cannot be sustainable until it “changes its mind” and moves off an obsolete industrial model to a self-organizing, community and values based model that harnesses the power of networks. See: http://bit.ly/czN53K
The synchrony is inspiring. Go For It Pachamama team and we’ll get there in four years!

This morning I made a decision regarding my work: to focus exclusively on showing tourism how it can become a healing agent and bring about an environmentally responsible, socially just and spiritually fulfilling on the planet. While this theme has been a subtext of my work for many years, it’s now front and central. The global tourism industry cannot be sustainable until it “changes its mind” and moves off an obsolete industrial model to a self-organizing, community and values based model that harnesses the power of networks. See: http://bit.ly/czN53K
The synchrony is inspiring. Go For It Pachamama team and we’ll get there in four years!

I will start immediately refusing plastic bags, using only cloth bags. I will trade in my car for a more fuel efficient hybrid model.

I will start immediately refusing plastic bags, using only cloth bags. I will trade in my car for a more fuel efficient hybrid model.

It is the beginning of the next 1000 years,….beginning with a 1000 first steps. My first step was to join and commit,…then act. As one of the newest facilitators of the Pachamama Alliance story, I feel especially grateful that I am a part of an organization that is dedicated to such an altruistic ideal, that has empowered me by considering me the most important member of their group.

Yet I am simply a foot soldier in the greater battle, a foxhole occupant attempting to determine which way the bullets are coming from, whose heart and will are my weapon and protection. The greater cause will never know my name or my contribution. I merely want to be patriotic to my planet, to the sentient beings I share it with, and the future generations who will come that I am willing to die for, so that they have a planet which is as good or better than the one I found when I incarnated here, at the beginning of this lifetime.

Please join me in sharing your dedication and commitment to the four years go cause. More than dying for, ….. it’s worth living for.

It is the beginning of the next 1000 years,….beginning with a 1000 first steps. My first step was to join and commit,…then act. As one of the newest facilitators of the Pachamama Alliance story, I feel especially grateful that I am a part of an organization that is dedicated to such an altruistic ideal, that has empowered me by considering me the most important member of their group.

Yet I am simply a foot soldier in the greater battle, a foxhole occupant attempting to determine which way the bullets are coming from, whose heart and will are my weapon and protection. The greater cause will never know my name or my contribution. I merely want to be patriotic to my planet, to the sentient beings I share it with, and the future generations who will come that I am willing to die for, so that they have a planet which is as good or better than the one I found when I incarnated here, at the beginning of this lifetime.

Please join me in sharing your dedication and commitment to the four years go cause. More than dying for, ….. it’s worth living for.

Walk more, bike more, turn my heating down, recycle even more, grow more, re-use more, love more, laugh more, give more, help more, forgive more and be more!

Walk more, bike more, turn my heating down, recycle even more, grow more, re-use more, love more, laugh more, give more, help more, forgive more and be more!

I will try to love and help create a heaven on earth. I will strive to help build peace, security, freedom, democracies, prosperity, spiritual harmony, racial harmony, ecological harmony, health, as well as moral purpose and meaning for the whole world.

Sincerely,

John E. Wade II
Editor,
“How to Achieve a Heaven on Earth”

I will try to love and help create a heaven on earth. I will strive to help build peace, security, freedom, democracies, prosperity, spiritual harmony, racial harmony, ecological harmony, health, as well as moral purpose and meaning for the whole world.

Sincerely,

John E. Wade II
Editor,
“How to Achieve a Heaven on Earth”

I will help lead my generation to make a conscious CHOICE to design a healthy and fulfilling future for them and this planet rather than defaulting into the matrix, pressured by school or society.

I will do this by adapting my speeches and workshops to focus on how young leaders can take action and find organizations needing their unique strengths. I will coach them through the strengths finder activity and also help them uncover what change they are most inspired to see in the world.

When they leave they will have discovered their strengths and be empowered to make a conscious choice to contribute those strengths to a change they wish to see in the world.

What an exciting time to be alive!

Much Love to All!

Andrew Hewitt

I will help lead my generation to make a conscious CHOICE to design a healthy and fulfilling future for them and this planet rather than defaulting into the matrix, pressured by school or society.

I will do this by adapting my speeches and workshops to focus on how young leaders can take action and find organizations needing their unique strengths. I will coach them through the strengths finder activity and also help them uncover what change they are most inspired to see in the world.

When they leave they will have discovered their strengths and be empowered to make a conscious choice to contribute those strengths to a change they wish to see in the world.

What an exciting time to be alive!

Much Love to All!

Andrew Hewitt

I have installed a solar hot water system in my house. I have also cut back on air travel, traveling overseas every two years or more, rather than every year. This is a major contribution to our excessive carbon footprints, and it’s probably the most important decision I’ve made. Now I plan to get involved with Greening Australia and plant more trees.

I have installed a solar hot water system in my house. I have also cut back on air travel, traveling overseas every two years or more, rather than every year. This is a major contribution to our excessive carbon footprints, and it’s probably the most important decision I’ve made. Now I plan to get involved with Greening Australia and plant more trees.

I am expanding my ability and the abilities of all whom I reach, to see the world as a single wholeness made up of endless polarities and paradoxes. In doing so, I am expanding capacity to appreciate ALL differences while also seeing how, together, they make up a perfect whole. We need both.

I am expanding my ability and the abilities of all whom I reach, to see the world as a single wholeness made up of endless polarities and paradoxes. In doing so, I am expanding capacity to appreciate ALL differences while also seeing how, together, they make up a perfect whole. We need both.

I’m going to love all my global neighbors as myself, love life in deep gratitude, and consume much much less.

I’m going to love all my global neighbors as myself, love life in deep gratitude, and consume much much less.

I will continue to create awareness and support for the growing numbers of young people ages 16 to 25 who are at-risk without family or resources in their transition to adulthood. These youth are at-risk for chronic homelessness, incarceration and a life of dependency on the system – if they do not receive a hand up by age 25, according to the latest research.

Check out http://www.ahoproject.org to see what we are doing to make a difference. In 2000 there were 1.8 mil young people in the US at risk and homeless. In 2008, those numbers grew to 4.mil …….a 45% increase. Marin County, one of the wealthiest in the nation has over 2,000 young people in this situation.

I will continue to create awareness and support for the growing numbers of young people ages 16 to 25 who are at-risk without family or resources in their transition to adulthood. These youth are at-risk for chronic homelessness, incarceration and a life of dependency on the system – if they do not receive a hand up by age 25, according to the latest research.

Check out http://www.ahoproject.org to see what we are doing to make a difference. In 2000 there were 1.8 mil young people in the US at risk and homeless. In 2008, those numbers grew to 4.mil …….a 45% increase. Marin County, one of the wealthiest in the nation has over 2,000 young people in this situation.

I will continue to work towards Zero Waste in Marin County.

I will continue to work towards Zero Waste in Marin County.

My Dear Human Family,

This is a beatiful and vitally important idea who’s origin should have been put into action several years ago, at least. We don’t have as much time as is called for in this campaigne for saving ourselves and this planet from the coming trials it will face both natural and manmade. We need to increase the pace and urgency to meet a much earlier goal of October 2012. The solar devastation alone will alter life on this planet as we know it for some 60 years. There are powerful people that know this and are preparing to survive it by building underground communities for a few privilaged rich patrons.
Most importantly is the clearing of Upsets between humans and the healing of our relationships with each other – this means everyone!! Love yourself and all others as your Self. This is where i feel is the most important place to start. namaste.
Peace

My Dear Human Family,

This is a beatiful and vitally important idea who’s origin should have been put into action several years ago, at least. We don’t have as much time as is called for in this campaigne for saving ourselves and this planet from the coming trials it will face both natural and manmade. We need to increase the pace and urgency to meet a much earlier goal of October 2012. The solar devastation alone will alter life on this planet as we know it for some 60 years. There are powerful people that know this and are preparing to survive it by building underground communities for a few privilaged rich patrons.
Most importantly is the clearing of Upsets between humans and the healing of our relationships with each other – this means everyone!! Love yourself and all others as your Self. This is where i feel is the most important place to start. namaste.
Peace

It Takes a Village 1/21/2008 by John Bailey

You may have seen the book. It tells of how many of each race/ethnicity would live in this village of 100 people representing the world population. It’s not just for kids. It visualizes something important, at a scale that is manageable to the mind. Six billion does not work. The human mind was built, layer by layer, over millions of years and has built–in references to accommodate all fundamental concepts. The recent developments of the last few thousands of years have not had time to be integrated into our physiology. And, our physiology still drives our emotions and learning and intellect.

IT TAKES A VILLAGE. We can’t fully comprehend the dynamics of love and maturity and Eldering and dedication and community and security at even the City level, let alone national or global. It’s too big.

IT TAKES A VILLAGE.

WE need to change the world. We need to change it back to the way it was given to us. We were given a world that supplied our needs, a world that was able to heal itself and recover from damage, up to a limit that we reached a while ago.

We have damaged it beyond its ability to recover in a time short enough to accommodate humans. We need to heal ourselves of the thinking that has done so much damage. We need to remember who we are in relation to the planet that holds us. And, we need to remind others by our example.

We need a new vision and a new experience of the village that we were meant to grow up in and learn the truth in. The truth cannot be taught in words. It is learned through experience. Think about what our children are learning in the unrecognizable “villages” that they are growing up in. What truths are they building their minds around? You should be crying if you sit quietly and think deeply about that. Think about what passes for truth in your own heart and mind. We must bring our children back to the village for healing.

WE MUST BUILD THE VILLAGE that will teach the changes we want for the world through the experience of living in it. In our village we will not use more resources than can be replaced. We will not steal from others so that our lives will be more luxurious. In our village everyone will be known and cared for and held accountable to their commitments. In our village we will measure our worth by how much we can give away rather than by how much we can accumulate. In our village we will grow food, teach and learn together. In our village we will play, work and grow together. We will celebrate and mourn together. We will become the changes that we want for the world and we will support others to build other villages that will support them similarly.

The building of our village will bring the best thinking available today about best use of material, best use of water, best use of the sun, best use of the earth and best use of the energy that we will require to live comfortably without abuse of the world or one another.

Bring your wisdom and consult your Elders that we may become a shining light for all the world to see.

We desparately need financial support to keep from losing the 23 acre solar site in Greenfield, MA on which we are planning a zero-energy, atrs integrated, organic farming Coop Village that will be a short walk to downtown and the NYC to Montreal train and bus station.
Call John at 413-210-0197

I want to partner with anyone who is working on cleaning up the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch)that is floating around in the north-central pacific ocean the size of Texas!
I want to design floating recovery devices from pontoon boats and salvage craft that will spare the eco systems attached to this monstrocity and recover the plastic and recycle it into more recovery vehicles.
The oceans may end up being our last resort after we damage all the land so this is a priority of the highest category.

I want to partner with anyone who is working on cleaning up the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch)that is floating around in the north-central pacific ocean the size of Texas!
I want to design floating recovery devices from pontoon boats and salvage craft that will spare the eco systems attached to this monstrocity and recover the plastic and recycle it into more recovery vehicles.
The oceans may end up being our last resort after we damage all the land so this is a priority of the highest category.

I plan to do a save all my garbage for 30 days in my home (smelly scraps outside) and see just how much garbage I (one person) am creating. Will I still be able to walk from my living room to my kitchen in a straight line???

I plan to do a save all my garbage for 30 days in my home (smelly scraps outside) and see just how much garbage I (one person) am creating. Will I still be able to walk from my living room to my kitchen in a straight line???

Through my website I try to educate my website visitors how to live in harmony with the natural environment. Health & Wealth Centre encourages people to reconnect to the joy in life and foster self expression, creativity and personal responsibility. With the right information we hope to empower people, promote prosperous economies and thriving local and global businesses and communities that embrace a deeper appreciation for our planet and all life.
I will support and share your vision through my website
Thank You Pachamama for giving all of us the opportunity to participate in your vision

Bozena

Through my website I try to educate my website visitors how to live in harmony with the natural environment. Health & Wealth Centre encourages people to reconnect to the joy in life and foster self expression, creativity and personal responsibility. With the right information we hope to empower people, promote prosperous economies and thriving local and global businesses and communities that embrace a deeper appreciation for our planet and all life.
I will support and share your vision through my website
Thank You Pachamama for giving all of us the opportunity to participate in your vision

Bozena

We must not get confused by socialism and Democracy. First of all they are not the same. Democracy has never had a real opportunity to bloom; yet Democracy is the catalyst for a truly Human Society and Civilization. Democracy is a government, a society “of”, “for”, and “by” the people. What more do we need to be human and humane and live in a society that maintains and perpetuates humanity.
We need to see the value of social-economic equality for all. It is because of a state govern by principles of social-economic inequality that people of the world experience many of the social and economics of today. poverty, discrimination, homelessness, broken homes, slavery, etc, etc, etc. In order for social-economic inequality to exist, we must compete to live as the primary focus for our development and sustenance. People should not have to compete to live, any form of competition means that some must lose for others to win. What are the characteristics of a person that loses in the competition to live?
Be mindful that people anywhere on this Earth are not pr\poor because they want to be poor. When there exists 1% of the total human population controlling 40% of the wealth of this world. There is a serious problem being imposed on the Human Race by the governments of the Human Race. Poverty as such is not a burden of government; poverty is a product of government needed to sustain a society on unequal distribution of wealth, and to maintain discord among the citizens of society.
I look forward to being a part of this effort as I have been perpetuating Humanity, and Human Rights for nearly a half century, or since I was 22 years old. Blessed be!

I pledge to bring healthy, alkaline, pure water to thousands of thirsty people over the next four years. Our bodies and all living things are fueled by water. Put the energy of love and gratitude into your H2O and discover the healing power of these molecules.

I will also continue my personal evolution by living more and more in the 4th and 5th dimensions…present and accounted for. As the material world gives way to the spiritual, all BEings are capable of sharing their light. It is this light that will guide us through these next four years. Let us all shine like the stars that we are!

I pledge to bring healthy, alkaline, pure water to thousands of thirsty people over the next four years. Our bodies and all living things are fueled by water. Put the energy of love and gratitude into your H2O and discover the healing power of these molecules.

I will also continue my personal evolution by living more and more in the 4th and 5th dimensions…present and accounted for. As the material world gives way to the spiritual, all BEings are capable of sharing their light. It is this light that will guide us through these next four years. Let us all shine like the stars that we are!

Three years ago I found myself needing to flee from a place I had felt called to steward and love. Although I always believed myself to be a gypsy by nature, this time I felt like a native plant uprooted or an old oak blown over.

Perhaps that’s why I’ve been called willingly to put so much care and energy into the forest that has since become my haven for personal recovery. A year ago, a derecho (straightline wind of hurricane intensity) swept through this quiet place.

Around the cabin where I live thousands of trees were uprooted and then thrown into a tangle. It’s strange but, though violent and shocking, the storm may have opened the forest to new life.

And yet, the forest has also been endangered by the human desire to tidy up or profit or otherwise return things to ‘normal’. The situation is not normal, our ignorance about forest care for the forest’s sake is all too clear.

Nothing makes more sense now than when I work outside in the forest.

My next step? To continue to stand by the trees and to try to sense what is needed for recovery. I believe there is a strong message in this that spans the personal and the global.

Three years ago I found myself needing to flee from a place I had felt called to steward and love. Although I always believed myself to be a gypsy by nature, this time I felt like a native plant uprooted or an old oak blown over.

Perhaps that’s why I’ve been called willingly to put so much care and energy into the forest that has since become my haven for personal recovery. A year ago, a derecho (straightline wind of hurricane intensity) swept through this quiet place.

Around the cabin where I live thousands of trees were uprooted and then thrown into a tangle. It’s strange but, though violent and shocking, the storm may have opened the forest to new life.

And yet, the forest has also been endangered by the human desire to tidy up or profit or otherwise return things to ‘normal’. The situation is not normal, our ignorance about forest care for the forest’s sake is all too clear.

Nothing makes more sense now than when I work outside in the forest.

My next step? To continue to stand by the trees and to try to sense what is needed for recovery. I believe there is a strong message in this that spans the personal and the global.

One year ago I helped start a Transition Town Initiative in my hometown, where I am active in developing and strengthening our local food system. I have also been assistant farming to show folks that we are all responsible for our food, and we can all make good change. My town is learning about peak oil, peak climate, peak civilization through my friends and co-activists.

So, I think my next step is to spark neighborhood connections. To help shift our world view from something TV and Wall Street decide to something loving people decide. It’ll be a lot easier to face the coming tsunami with joined hands if we KNOW to join hands first.

Peace–Angel

One year ago I helped start a Transition Town Initiative in my hometown, where I am active in developing and strengthening our local food system. I have also been assistant farming to show folks that we are all responsible for our food, and we can all make good change. My town is learning about peak oil, peak climate, peak civilization through my friends and co-activists.

So, I think my next step is to spark neighborhood connections. To help shift our world view from something TV and Wall Street decide to something loving people decide. It’ll be a lot easier to face the coming tsunami with joined hands if we KNOW to join hands first.

Peace–Angel

Imagine 5 million healthy, green, sustainable individuals, businesses, clubs and organizations all working together … that’s the vision I developed twelve years ago and it is called Your Healthy Planet.com. A grass roots movement based on many of Buckminster Fuller’s principles and philosophies. Fuller, considered by many as one of the most important human beings of the twentieth century said that as soon as we started working together we would transform this beautiful planet within as short a time as ten years and we would all be living the lifestyle of billionaires, there is so much wealth (life support) available here.

Imagine 5 million healthy, green, sustainable individuals, businesses, clubs and organizations all working together … that’s the vision I developed twelve years ago and it is called Your Healthy Planet.com. A grass roots movement based on many of Buckminster Fuller’s principles and philosophies. Fuller, considered by many as one of the most important human beings of the twentieth century said that as soon as we started working together we would transform this beautiful planet within as short a time as ten years and we would all be living the lifestyle of billionaires, there is so much wealth (life support) available here.

Friends,

I have spent the last 12 years participating in the UN Commission on Sustainable Development and other UN processes. The UN has made so many commitments that have not been met. If the governments would fulfill the UN Charter, the Universal Declaration and Conventions on Human Rights, and the other international agreements they have made, we would have no more problems on our planet. Unfortunately the UN is structured and operates in such a way that it is very difficult to do these things. All this could change however if the UN would simply change how it works, how it makes decisions, agree to put in place means and mechanisms to achieve every goal and agreement it makes, fully fund all of the programs it creates, etc.

This is all easily achievable with sufficient political will. The UN has agreed that everyone has the right to a good job, clean water and sanitation, food, shelter, healthcare, and education. It has agreed that it is every individual and every organ of society’s responsibility to take progressive measures, both national and international to fulfill these goals. Let us then insist that the governments in fact do so.

I am the Chairperson of the World Alliance to Transform the United Nations. We invite everyone to join us in insisting that the UN fulfill all of the agreements that it makes. You can become a member or find out more about WATUN by going to http://www.watun.org and/or http://www.transformun.org. Or write to me, Rob Wheeler, at robwheeler22 @ gmail.com.

We are organizing a UN Charter Review Conference in San Francisco this year on UN Charter Day (June 25 & 26) and again on UN Day (October 20 – 24) to commemorate the 65th Anniversary of the UN. We will look at what can and must be done for the UN to be able to fulfill the mandates and obligations of the UN Charter and all of the other agreements it makes. In the next month or so we will be posting all of the information about the Conference on the WATUN website.

One thing that needs to be done is to significantly strengthen UNEP, the UN Environment Program, or transform it into a World Environment Organization – an idea that is already supported by more than 50 countries, including France, Germany, and Brazil. UNEP currently has one of the smallest budgets of any UN agency. The entire UN operates on just a fraction of what the US spends on the war in Iraq each year. And less than half the cost of the additional US troops that are being put into Afghanistan. This is totally crazy.

The governments are talking about what can be done to strengthen UNEP right now and to increase its funding base. This is essential considering all of the global environmental challenges we face. This will be discussed during the lead up to the UN Earth Summit +20 Conference which will again be held in Brazil in 2012. We will also discuss all of this and make our own recommendations at WATUN’s UN Charter Review Conference in October in San Francisco; and at our Preparatory Conference in June.

Please support WATUN and together we can fulfill the opening preamble of the UN Charter, where it is proclaimed that We the People are determined to end the Scourge of War, to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, maintain international peace and security, promote economic and social well being, and respect the obligations arising from international treaties and law. Again for more information you can go to: http://www.watun.org and/or http://www.transformun.org. Or write to me, Rob Wheeler, at robwheeler22 @ gmail.com. Thank you,

Rob Wheeler
Chair of the Executive Committee, WATUN

Friends,

I have spent the last 12 years participating in the UN Commission on Sustainable Development and other UN processes. The UN has made so many commitments that have not been met. If the governments would fulfill the UN Charter, the Universal Declaration and Conventions on Human Rights, and the other international agreements they have made, we would have no more problems on our planet. Unfortunately the UN is structured and operates in such a way that it is very difficult to do these things. All this could change however if the UN would simply change how it works, how it makes decisions, agree to put in place means and mechanisms to achieve every goal and agreement it makes, fully fund all of the programs it creates, etc.

This is all easily achievable with sufficient political will. The UN has agreed that everyone has the right to a good job, clean water and sanitation, food, shelter, healthcare, and education. It has agreed that it is every individual and every organ of society’s responsibility to take progressive measures, both national and international to fulfill these goals. Let us then insist that the governments in fact do so.

I am the Chairperson of the World Alliance to Transform the United Nations. We invite everyone to join us in insisting that the UN fulfill all of the agreements that it makes. You can become a member or find out more about WATUN by going to http://www.watun.org and/or http://www.transformun.org. Or write to me, Rob Wheeler, at robwheeler22 @ gmail.com.

We are organizing a UN Charter Review Conference in San Francisco this year on UN Charter Day (June 25 & 26) and again on UN Day (October 20 – 24) to commemorate the 65th Anniversary of the UN. We will look at what can and must be done for the UN to be able to fulfill the mandates and obligations of the UN Charter and all of the other agreements it makes. In the next month or so we will be posting all of the information about the Conference on the WATUN website.

One thing that needs to be done is to significantly strengthen UNEP, the UN Environment Program, or transform it into a World Environment Organization – an idea that is already supported by more than 50 countries, including France, Germany, and Brazil. UNEP currently has one of the smallest budgets of any UN agency. The entire UN operates on just a fraction of what the US spends on the war in Iraq each year. And less than half the cost of the additional US troops that are being put into Afghanistan. This is totally crazy.

The governments are talking about what can be done to strengthen UNEP right now and to increase its funding base. This is essential considering all of the global environmental challenges we face. This will be discussed during the lead up to the UN Earth Summit +20 Conference which will again be held in Brazil in 2012. We will also discuss all of this and make our own recommendations at WATUN’s UN Charter Review Conference in October in San Francisco; and at our Preparatory Conference in June.

Please support WATUN and together we can fulfill the opening preamble of the UN Charter, where it is proclaimed that We the People are determined to end the Scourge of War, to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, maintain international peace and security, promote economic and social well being, and respect the obligations arising from international treaties and law. Again for more information you can go to: http://www.watun.org and/or http://www.transformun.org. Or write to me, Rob Wheeler, at robwheeler22 @ gmail.com. Thank you,

Rob Wheeler
Chair of the Executive Committee, WATUN

FROM BRAZIL : MY CONTRIBUTION TO CHANGE THE WORLD
A MESSAGE IN PORTUGUESE :

Estou aborrecido com o tempo gasto por centenas de pessoas argumentando que o aquecimento global não é causado pelo homem.

O tecnicismo para provar que o aumento do CO2 na atmosfera se deve, principalmente, a causas naturais (vulcões, aumento da temperatura nos oceanos, etc.) e não pela atividade humana, afasta-nos da discussão crucial: nosso estilo de vida.

Não importa que a humanidade seja a causadora de somente 20% do aumento das emissões do CO2. Não importa que não sejamos o principal responsável.

A discussão sobre o aquecimento global deve ser direcionada para fatores que podemos controlar. Não podemos perder o foco de que estamos poluindo e destruindo a natureza irresponsavelmente. Estamos devastando nossas florestas, estamos impermeabilizando demais o solo dos grandes cidades, estamos gerando resíduos tóxicos não-degradáveis num ritmo suicida, estamos consumindo recursos naturais numa proporção que a natureza não consegue repor.

O problema não é técnico. O problema do aquecimento global é filosófico. Representa muito mais do que o aumento da emissão de CO2. Simboliza nosso estilo de vida irresponsável.

Deveríamos gastar mais tempo para provar que podemos reduzir nossa contribuição de aumento de CO2 na atmosfera. Deveríamos gastar mais tempo para reciclar, reutilizar e reduzir o consumo. Deveríamos gastar mais tempo agindo em defesa da natureza. Deveríamos gastar mais tempo provando que cada atitude, por menor que seja, fará a diferença, ao invés de discutirmos quem é o grande vilão.

Seremos 7 bilhões em pouco tempo! Precisamos agir.

Que atividades farei para dar minha contribuição?

· 1-Ser menos complacente com erros e ineficiências, pois toda vez que corrigimos algo estamos consumindo mais energia e materiais do que o necessário para fazer certo da primeira vez).
· 2-Andar a pé o mais que puder. Evitar dirigir.
· 3-Reduzir o uso de embalagens plásticas.
· 4-Reduzir o consumo de alimentos industrializados e carnes.
· 5-Trocar de celular e equipamento eletrônico somente em caso de necessidade (não por modismo).
· 6-Usar lâmpadas e equipamentos ecológicos (eficientes, de baixo consumo de energia, feitos de materiais recicláveis e reutilizáveis)
· 6-Tomar banhos mais curtos e com água mais fria.
· 7-Imprimir somente o absolutamente necessário.
· 8-Reduzir o consumo de bens e utilizá-los pelo maior tempo possível.
· 9-Plantar uma árvore, fazer um jardim, fazer um canteiro ou que for possível em casa.
· 10-Reciclar e Incentivar outros a reciclarem.
· 11-Divulgar a necessidade da mudança do nosso comportamento quanto ao consumo.
· 12-Votar e incentivar outros a votarem em políticos honestos e ambientalmente ativos . No Brasil, muita energia é desperdiçada pela corrupção. Ruas e obras públicas feitas com baixa qualidade são “refeitas” inúmeras vezes. O consumo de materiais e energia, a longo prazo, acaba sendo muito maior do que o necessário para corretamente da primeira vez.
Políticos corruptos e ineficazes são anti-ecológicos. Devem ser banidos pelo nosso voto.

FROM BRAZIL : MY CONTRIBUTION TO CHANGE THE WORLD
A MESSAGE IN PORTUGUESE :

Estou aborrecido com o tempo gasto por centenas de pessoas argumentando que o aquecimento global não é causado pelo homem.

O tecnicismo para provar que o aumento do CO2 na atmosfera se deve, principalmente, a causas naturais (vulcões, aumento da temperatura nos oceanos, etc.) e não pela atividade humana, afasta-nos da discussão crucial: nosso estilo de vida.

Não importa que a humanidade seja a causadora de somente 20% do aumento das emissões do CO2. Não importa que não sejamos o principal responsável.

A discussão sobre o aquecimento global deve ser direcionada para fatores que podemos controlar. Não podemos perder o foco de que estamos poluindo e destruindo a natureza irresponsavelmente. Estamos devastando nossas florestas, estamos impermeabilizando demais o solo dos grandes cidades, estamos gerando resíduos tóxicos não-degradáveis num ritmo suicida, estamos consumindo recursos naturais numa proporção que a natureza não consegue repor.

O problema não é técnico. O problema do aquecimento global é filosófico. Representa muito mais do que o aumento da emissão de CO2. Simboliza nosso estilo de vida irresponsável.

Deveríamos gastar mais tempo para provar que podemos reduzir nossa contribuição de aumento de CO2 na atmosfera. Deveríamos gastar mais tempo para reciclar, reutilizar e reduzir o consumo. Deveríamos gastar mais tempo agindo em defesa da natureza. Deveríamos gastar mais tempo provando que cada atitude, por menor que seja, fará a diferença, ao invés de discutirmos quem é o grande vilão.

Seremos 7 bilhões em pouco tempo! Precisamos agir.

Que atividades farei para dar minha contribuição?

· 1-Ser menos complacente com erros e ineficiências, pois toda vez que corrigimos algo estamos consumindo mais energia e materiais do que o necessário para fazer certo da primeira vez).
· 2-Andar a pé o mais que puder. Evitar dirigir.
· 3-Reduzir o uso de embalagens plásticas.
· 4-Reduzir o consumo de alimentos industrializados e carnes.
· 5-Trocar de celular e equipamento eletrônico somente em caso de necessidade (não por modismo).
· 6-Usar lâmpadas e equipamentos ecológicos (eficientes, de baixo consumo de energia, feitos de materiais recicláveis e reutilizáveis)
· 6-Tomar banhos mais curtos e com água mais fria.
· 7-Imprimir somente o absolutamente necessário.
· 8-Reduzir o consumo de bens e utilizá-los pelo maior tempo possível.
· 9-Plantar uma árvore, fazer um jardim, fazer um canteiro ou que for possível em casa.
· 10-Reciclar e Incentivar outros a reciclarem.
· 11-Divulgar a necessidade da mudança do nosso comportamento quanto ao consumo.
· 12-Votar e incentivar outros a votarem em políticos honestos e ambientalmente ativos . No Brasil, muita energia é desperdiçada pela corrupção. Ruas e obras públicas feitas com baixa qualidade são “refeitas” inúmeras vezes. O consumo de materiais e energia, a longo prazo, acaba sendo muito maior do que o necessário para corretamente da primeira vez.
Políticos corruptos e ineficazes são anti-ecológicos. Devem ser banidos pelo nosso voto.

Dear friends,

FourYearsGo (4YG) is a planetary effort to draw together people and organizations working to shift civilization in positive directions, with the intention to make clear progress by 2014. Their view is that the next four years will determine the quality of life on earth for the next thousand years. I believe there is tremendous truth and power in that perspective.

I’ve seen many wildly ambitious visions like this. They tend to remain fringe. It seems clear to me now that 4YG is not destined to be fringe. With its combination of light organizational touch, laser-focused intention and professional support, I expect it will expand quite rapidly. Only months into its existence, over 500 organizations have joined, including both mainstream and leading edge. I sense this is something very real. Heaven knows, we need it.

I have decided to put time into helping the 4YG campaign become a force for innovation, coherence, influence, and co-evolution among the many individuals and groups who are getting involved in it. I see tremendous potential here and I invite you to both join it and support its evolution into potency. I know many members of this list could play a significant role in that.

On the surface, 4YG can seem like just a loose collection of people and organizations who have pledged to upgrade their separate efforts in the next four years in the hope that together they can add up to the needed global shift. This, in itself, is commendable. But it would not be revolutionary.

There is, however, more to it than that and, with a little effort, I believe this initiative could attain unprecedented potency. Here are a few areas of evolutionary leverage I see:

1. With the volunteer help of social networks and one of the top ad agencies in the world (whose founder was profoundly impacted by a trip to the Peruvian rainforest), it may be possible to create an operating environment in which the public, officials, philanthropists, and various other players “get” the 4YG vision and increasingly support ALL efforts to create meaningful shift. The more this happens, the more it will inspire the ambitions of those working for change, creating a positive feedback loop that could lead to unforeseen breakthroughs.

2. Wherever diverse people or groups gather together with a shared intention, there is potential for tremendous synergy. There are no guarantees this potential will be realized, of course: Participants can also get in each other’s way — for example, by competing for limited resources rather than building a larger common pool of resources or supporting each other in getting more mileage out of whatever resources they have. Or they can keep their activities separate and unchanging so that new collaborations cannot emerge. They can fight and argue endlessly about the “right way” to do things. We’ve all seen this kind of thing. However, we also know a lot collectively about how to avoid such pitfalls — particularly using powerful conversational methods and online collaborative tools. In the case of 4YG, the promise of productive synergies, collaborations, and co-evolution are so tantalizing that I believe it offers tremendous returns on whatever world-evolving effort, time, attention, or money we decide to invest in it.

3. Whatever we learn about working together and co-evolving in such a massive planetary grassroots undertaking could inform — and even become — the workings of the wiser civilization we are trying to bring about. Anything that supports FourYearsGo to become a well-networked “learning community of practice” could serve not only its own efforts, but also help form the DNA of a new civilization.

I have my own ways of participating in this. I encourage you to find ways that fit your own perspective, vision, gifts and style of work. If this initiative speaks to you, I encourage you to go to the FourYearsGo website
http://www.fouryearsgo.org where you can learn more about it and sign up. Let your own networks know about it., in your own way, as I am doing in this message. Watch the 4YG video at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_6iTCo5Ci8 and offer your vote and comments. If you are on Facebook, join the 4YG group
http://www.facebook.com/fouryearsgo and recommend it to friends. Social networking activities like this will raise the visibility of FourYearsGo to online communities so those who might resonate with it can join in.

If you have special skills, ideas or resources you would like to volunteer to this effort, let me know and I’ll try to channel them to those who can best use them to help this activity blossom and bear fruit.

We are entering interesting rapids, filled with possibility. Blessings on the Journey.

Co-heartedly,
Tom

Dear friends,

FourYearsGo (4YG) is a planetary effort to draw together people and organizations working to shift civilization in positive directions, with the intention to make clear progress by 2014. Their view is that the next four years will determine the quality of life on earth for the next thousand years. I believe there is tremendous truth and power in that perspective.

I’ve seen many wildly ambitious visions like this. They tend to remain fringe. It seems clear to me now that 4YG is not destined to be fringe. With its combination of light organizational touch, laser-focused intention and professional support, I expect it will expand quite rapidly. Only months into its existence, over 500 organizations have joined, including both mainstream and leading edge. I sense this is something very real. Heaven knows, we need it.

I have decided to put time into helping the 4YG campaign become a force for innovation, coherence, influence, and co-evolution among the many individuals and groups who are getting involved in it. I see tremendous potential here and I invite you to both join it and support its evolution into potency. I know many members of this list could play a significant role in that.

On the surface, 4YG can seem like just a loose collection of people and organizations who have pledged to upgrade their separate efforts in the next four years in the hope that together they can add up to the needed global shift. This, in itself, is commendable. But it would not be revolutionary.

There is, however, more to it than that and, with a little effort, I believe this initiative could attain unprecedented potency. Here are a few areas of evolutionary leverage I see:

1. With the volunteer help of social networks and one of the top ad agencies in the world (whose founder was profoundly impacted by a trip to the Peruvian rainforest), it may be possible to create an operating environment in which the public, officials, philanthropists, and various other players “get” the 4YG vision and increasingly support ALL efforts to create meaningful shift. The more this happens, the more it will inspire the ambitions of those working for change, creating a positive feedback loop that could lead to unforeseen breakthroughs.

2. Wherever diverse people or groups gather together with a shared intention, there is potential for tremendous synergy. There are no guarantees this potential will be realized, of course: Participants can also get in each other’s way — for example, by competing for limited resources rather than building a larger common pool of resources or supporting each other in getting more mileage out of whatever resources they have. Or they can keep their activities separate and unchanging so that new collaborations cannot emerge. They can fight and argue endlessly about the “right way” to do things. We’ve all seen this kind of thing. However, we also know a lot collectively about how to avoid such pitfalls — particularly using powerful conversational methods and online collaborative tools. In the case of 4YG, the promise of productive synergies, collaborations, and co-evolution are so tantalizing that I believe it offers tremendous returns on whatever world-evolving effort, time, attention, or money we decide to invest in it.

3. Whatever we learn about working together and co-evolving in such a massive planetary grassroots undertaking could inform — and even become — the workings of the wiser civilization we are trying to bring about. Anything that supports FourYearsGo to become a well-networked “learning community of practice” could serve not only its own efforts, but also help form the DNA of a new civilization.

I have my own ways of participating in this. I encourage you to find ways that fit your own perspective, vision, gifts and style of work. If this initiative speaks to you, I encourage you to go to the FourYearsGo website
http://www.fouryearsgo.org where you can learn more about it and sign up. Let your own networks know about it., in your own way, as I am doing in this message. Watch the 4YG video at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_6iTCo5Ci8 and offer your vote and comments. If you are on Facebook, join the 4YG group
http://www.facebook.com/fouryearsgo and recommend it to friends. Social networking activities like this will raise the visibility of FourYearsGo to online communities so those who might resonate with it can join in.

If you have special skills, ideas or resources you would like to volunteer to this effort, let me know and I’ll try to channel them to those who can best use them to help this activity blossom and bear fruit.

We are entering interesting rapids, filled with possibility. Blessings on the Journey.

Co-heartedly,
Tom

Greetings!
We (myself and co-director of A Whole New World, Woods Elliott) are tremendously excited to see this initiative and network coming together. I agree that the next few years is an unprecedented window of opportunity for global transformation and there is no time to waste. I also know the new consciousness is awakening very rapidly and our job now is to bring this new consciousness of peace, justice, co-creativity and unity down to Earth; to plant our visions in physical reality and in all our relationships.

I am very interested in all the contributions made so far and particularly in John Bailey’s, It Takes a Village (no contact details for you John!) and Tom Atlee’s Learning Communities of Practice. As a lifelong educator I have been visioning and creating approaches to transformational learning for several years now. My book, “Living your Passion: How Love in action is seeding a Whole New World” is based on “ordinary extraordinary people” who are changing the world from the grassroots in NZ, where I lived for 12 years, and which I see as a potential role model for a peaceful sustainable culture. I am now living in VA, USA and realizing that we can build models of this culture anywhere. After running a very successful 22 Days of Transformation, we are now about to create AWNW as a non profit and seek funding for a one year experimental project in new culture building with the view to creating a physical center, a Soul Sanctuary and Transformational Learning Center, as soon as possible . I am also starting a mentoring program for Women Leaders who are living their passion and making a difference as a way to support individuals and their local communities, as well as growing understandings of the new leadership that is required as we evolve. I would love to connect with others who could benefit from these services and those involved in similar work.

I know there are individuals,groups and organisations all over the world who are working for a new peaceful world and have been working for years and as we connect our energies, visions and higher consciousness, we will change our physical reality and how we live together on the planet. The time is truly Now and we are the People. Our motto for AWNW is “Each one of us makes a difference and together we can do what seems impossible”. And may it be so.

Rose Diamond

Greetings!
We (myself and co-director of A Whole New World, Woods Elliott) are tremendously excited to see this initiative and network coming together. I agree that the next few years is an unprecedented window of opportunity for global transformation and there is no time to waste. I also know the new consciousness is awakening very rapidly and our job now is to bring this new consciousness of peace, justice, co-creativity and unity down to Earth; to plant our visions in physical reality and in all our relationships.

I am very interested in all the contributions made so far and particularly in John Bailey’s, It Takes a Village (no contact details for you John!) and Tom Atlee’s Learning Communities of Practice. As a lifelong educator I have been visioning and creating approaches to transformational learning for several years now. My book, “Living your Passion: How Love in action is seeding a Whole New World” is based on “ordinary extraordinary people” who are changing the world from the grassroots in NZ, where I lived for 12 years, and which I see as a potential role model for a peaceful sustainable culture. I am now living in VA, USA and realizing that we can build models of this culture anywhere. After running a very successful 22 Days of Transformation, we are now about to create AWNW as a non profit and seek funding for a one year experimental project in new culture building with the view to creating a physical center, a Soul Sanctuary and Transformational Learning Center, as soon as possible . I am also starting a mentoring program for Women Leaders who are living their passion and making a difference as a way to support individuals and their local communities, as well as growing understandings of the new leadership that is required as we evolve. I would love to connect with others who could benefit from these services and those involved in similar work.

I know there are individuals,groups and organisations all over the world who are working for a new peaceful world and have been working for years and as we connect our energies, visions and higher consciousness, we will change our physical reality and how we live together on the planet. The time is truly Now and we are the People. Our motto for AWNW is “Each one of us makes a difference and together we can do what seems impossible”. And may it be so.

Rose Diamond

Our “next” step will be a continuation of our many-decades long walk toward introducing an advanced, fundamentally just and democratic socioeconomic system, referred to as Socioeconomic Democracy, without which, all efforts, admirable as they may be, will not make the fundamental change that is absolutely necessary. But certainly don’t take our word for it; you are respectfully invited to visit our website and decide for yourself.

Rob George

Our “next” step will be a continuation of our many-decades long walk toward introducing an advanced, fundamentally just and democratic socioeconomic system, referred to as Socioeconomic Democracy, without which, all efforts, admirable as they may be, will not make the fundamental change that is absolutely necessary. But certainly don’t take our word for it; you are respectfully invited to visit our website and decide for yourself.

Rob George

I am really believing in Inspiration Alive to serve as that platform for young people and focus on three fundamental issues that can be tackled within the next four years.

These three issues are:

Environmental Awareness: Protecting the future today

Purity in Politics: What does it really take to lead?

Evolution of Advocacy: The world is waiting for change…

I would really like input from the Four Years Go. forum to really help guide these discussions and implementation of them.

I am really believing in Inspiration Alive to serve as that platform for young people and focus on three fundamental issues that can be tackled within the next four years.

These three issues are:

Environmental Awareness: Protecting the future today

Purity in Politics: What does it really take to lead?

Evolution of Advocacy: The world is waiting for change…

I would really like input from the Four Years Go. forum to really help guide these discussions and implementation of them.

I will work to provide sustainable housing for millions who don’t have it today.

I will work to provide sustainable housing for millions who don’t have it today.

I will continue to grow in my awareness that animals have feelings, intelligence and a desire to live. Therefore, I will not eat them as doing so pollutes our air and waterways, causes unnecessary suffering, and negatively impacts my desire to live an ethically consistent life to the fullest extent possible.

I will continue to grow in my awareness that animals have feelings, intelligence and a desire to live. Therefore, I will not eat them as doing so pollutes our air and waterways, causes unnecessary suffering, and negatively impacts my desire to live an ethically consistent life to the fullest extent possible.

I am really excited by the potential of this movement! I don’t have any great ideas or initiatives at the moment, but I am going to be thinking hard about this the next couple weeks. As I’m on a road trip right now, I’ll start by driving slower, which will consume less gas. I’ll continue to refuse plastic grocery bags when I buy only a few items and forget to bring a reusable bag into the store with me. I will support organic and locally grown food. And I’ll spread the word about Four Years. Go. Small steps for now, which will hopefully turn into larger steps in the future.

I am really excited by the potential of this movement! I don’t have any great ideas or initiatives at the moment, but I am going to be thinking hard about this the next couple weeks. As I’m on a road trip right now, I’ll start by driving slower, which will consume less gas. I’ll continue to refuse plastic grocery bags when I buy only a few items and forget to bring a reusable bag into the store with me. I will support organic and locally grown food. And I’ll spread the word about Four Years. Go. Small steps for now, which will hopefully turn into larger steps in the future.

I will do something incredibly insignificant like reuse plastic bags, tell everyone in teh intarwebs about it, feel great about myself and then sit back and expect “a tipping point in the trajectory of mankind”.

I will do all of this even though I’m an unshaven college kid with gobs of student loan debt getting a degree in something totally useless like History or English. I won’t bother doing anything substantive or have any influence beyond my circle of loser-friends either. I’ll forget about this weeks later unless I leverage this bit of arcana to try and use it to have intercourse.

Yep, reusing bags, eating local food and telling everyone to do log on to this website to engage in trivial behavior shifts will create a “tipping point in the trajectory of mankind”. Yesssssir.

I also promise to pledge to masturbate more since that makes me feel terrific and it will solve about as much as this website!

I will do something incredibly insignificant like reuse plastic bags, tell everyone in teh intarwebs about it, feel great about myself and then sit back and expect “a tipping point in the trajectory of mankind”.

I will do all of this even though I’m an unshaven college kid with gobs of student loan debt getting a degree in something totally useless like History or English. I won’t bother doing anything substantive or have any influence beyond my circle of loser-friends either. I’ll forget about this weeks later unless I leverage this bit of arcana to try and use it to have intercourse.

Yep, reusing bags, eating local food and telling everyone to do log on to this website to engage in trivial behavior shifts will create a “tipping point in the trajectory of mankind”. Yesssssir.

I also promise to pledge to masturbate more since that makes me feel terrific and it will solve about as much as this website!

This truly one blessed person, have been many places in my life within the military and out of it and have learned many lessons in my 81 years on planet earth. My learning lessons have been many and thru the grace have actually learned from most of them with the privilige of change. Can remember most of my life from the beginning and see a lot of which I was numbed too fo quite awhile. but thanks to My Higher Power (God) have come to realize the truth in everything. Makes me rather sad to see or listen to people still trying to dress it up in fantasy just to appease to whom they are talking too. Such a waste.
Too me the truth is the only way to go and I believe I learned that many years ago as a mere child, one of the reasons I was blessed with guilt, ha you say, but tis true.
All those reasons we held so close were only our escape from something and had no reason.
Seek ye the truth and the truth will set you free. Yes that is all we need, of course we need to help to let the truth be seen in our actiions as well, for if we are wielding a two edged sword it can never be.
My deepest intention for planet earth and all who dwell within is just to find and wrap yourself in love and light, from then continue to shine with brightest light ever to all you meet, always speaking the truth and imagining our beautiful planet as a pristine garden with enough for all for all will be willing to share equally always and forever.
We are truly not war mongers, we all desire peace and love in our lives and truly wish to share it, at least I can speak for myself and hopefully others too.
I am supposed to be here, I know that now, but of course I don’t realize the total outcome yet, but soon.
Blessings to all in love and light forever.
JackieO

This truly one blessed person, have been many places in my life within the military and out of it and have learned many lessons in my 81 years on planet earth. My learning lessons have been many and thru the grace have actually learned from most of them with the privilige of change. Can remember most of my life from the beginning and see a lot of which I was numbed too fo quite awhile. but thanks to My Higher Power (God) have come to realize the truth in everything. Makes me rather sad to see or listen to people still trying to dress it up in fantasy just to appease to whom they are talking too. Such a waste.
Too me the truth is the only way to go and I believe I learned that many years ago as a mere child, one of the reasons I was blessed with guilt, ha you say, but tis true.
All those reasons we held so close were only our escape from something and had no reason.
Seek ye the truth and the truth will set you free. Yes that is all we need, of course we need to help to let the truth be seen in our actiions as well, for if we are wielding a two edged sword it can never be.
My deepest intention for planet earth and all who dwell within is just to find and wrap yourself in love and light, from then continue to shine with brightest light ever to all you meet, always speaking the truth and imagining our beautiful planet as a pristine garden with enough for all for all will be willing to share equally always and forever.
We are truly not war mongers, we all desire peace and love in our lives and truly wish to share it, at least I can speak for myself and hopefully others too.
I am supposed to be here, I know that now, but of course I don’t realize the total outcome yet, but soon.
Blessings to all in love and light forever.
JackieO

I will do what I can to rehibitate the importance of the conept of Wisdom … see:

http://www.valuesbasedleadershipjournal.com/current_issue/power_responsibility_wisdom.php

I will do what I can to rehibitate the importance of the conept of Wisdom … see:

http://www.valuesbasedleadershipjournal.com/current_issue/power_responsibility_wisdom.php

I plan to stop misusing resources of any kind by myself or my immediate world.
I also plan to start an NGO at Kolkata, India and work for the less fortunate.

I plan to stop misusing resources of any kind by myself or my immediate world.
I also plan to start an NGO at Kolkata, India and work for the less fortunate.

I pledge to keep following my big huge heart, to all the places it calls me, to Africa, to end Female Genital Mutilation, managing a college scholarship fund for Maassai FGM refugees; managing a project to “Bring Water, End Violence.” In Haiti, bringing fresh water. I pledge to be a change agent in every situation, and find i can’t help myself. I pledge to change myself wherever possible to be closer to divinity. I pledge to be a vessel for grace at the 11th hour. I honor our indigenous brothers and sisters who hold wisdoms that are important at this time. I honor a strong heart married to a strong mind, in peace and balance. I call myself into radical change, to “be the change i wish to see in the world.” Cheers!! I am available to facilitate Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream symposiums! E mail me: azlanwhite@gmail.com with SYMPOSIUM in the subject line. Lets be the change together.

I pledge to keep following my big huge heart, to all the places it calls me, to Africa, to end Female Genital Mutilation, managing a college scholarship fund for Maassai FGM refugees; managing a project to “Bring Water, End Violence.” In Haiti, bringing fresh water. I pledge to be a change agent in every situation, and find i can’t help myself. I pledge to change myself wherever possible to be closer to divinity. I pledge to be a vessel for grace at the 11th hour. I honor our indigenous brothers and sisters who hold wisdoms that are important at this time. I honor a strong heart married to a strong mind, in peace and balance. I call myself into radical change, to “be the change i wish to see in the world.” Cheers!! I am available to facilitate Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream symposiums! E mail me: azlanwhite@gmail.com with SYMPOSIUM in the subject line. Lets be the change together.

my next step, to continue my work as a mother to the children that are to be the guardians of this earth. continue to be a mirror of love and wise choices. to ensure their inner genius is protected and growing towards their full potential.
to be a reminder that our ancestors once knew what we need to know now…. and act with reverence for the rest of our days.
thank you for bringing us together!
mamaluna

my next step, to continue my work as a mother to the children that are to be the guardians of this earth. continue to be a mirror of love and wise choices. to ensure their inner genius is protected and growing towards their full potential.
to be a reminder that our ancestors once knew what we need to know now…. and act with reverence for the rest of our days.
thank you for bringing us together!
mamaluna

We’re starting a new project called “PeaceVillages”. The goal is to expand awareness of people, organizations and communities living lives of passion and purpose, focusing on sustainable lifestyles, healthy relationships, and spiritually fulfilling relationships. The means of the project is to utilize media, social networking and storytelling to motivate and inspire people to activate as agents of change.

We’re starting a new project called “PeaceVillages”. The goal is to expand awareness of people, organizations and communities living lives of passion and purpose, focusing on sustainable lifestyles, healthy relationships, and spiritually fulfilling relationships. The means of the project is to utilize media, social networking and storytelling to motivate and inspire people to activate as agents of change.

Your site wont let me in to join

Your site wont let me in to join

The city I live in recently started a green bin composting service. It’s more than just the usual compost I have in my back yard – - it includes pretty much anything that can be broken down eventually. (meat, scrapings off your plate, hair, dust, dryer lint, food scraps, tissue paper etc…). In addition to that, we have plastic/tin/glass and paper products reclying. SO, that means, that I haven’t had any garbage for 3 weeks now! This is good. Less in the landfil. At some point in time, the city hopes to sell back the compost, to raise money to support the programme! I hope these types of initiatives continue to evolve.

FourYear.Go. wird von mir weiter erzählt. Links gestzt und promoted. Mit meiner Praxiskollegin an einem Glücksunterricht für Kinder arbeiten und Menschen helfen den Blick auf die guten Dinge im Leben zu richten, um so positive und warme Energie in die Herzen fließen lassen.
Herzlichst Martina

FourYear.Go. wird von mir weiter erzählt. Links gestzt und promoted. Mit meiner Praxiskollegin an einem Glücksunterricht für Kinder arbeiten und Menschen helfen den Blick auf die guten Dinge im Leben zu richten, um so positive und warme Energie in die Herzen fließen lassen.
Herzlichst Martina

Did my last comment and next steps get recorded? there wasn’t a submit box …

Did my last comment and next steps get recorded? there wasn’t a submit box …

http://www.topp.no/phpf/forum/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=32002

http://www.topp.no/phpf/forum/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=32002

I have started my own personal commitment called 365give. I give back to my community, my family, friends and the planet every day and blog about it. It’s easy to do, anyone can give every day big or small. Follow along and be part of the commitment to create the change we need.

Jacqueline / Founder / http://www.365give.ca

As a new member for my introduction, I wish to submit the following to FOUR YEARS AGO. If we are to process a Structural Reform Plan regarding a more sustainable future, then local cosmetic changes are not the answer, however, a more fundamental change would bring about positive achievement. I am now retired to Monmouth UK and a member of the Permaculture association, having spent over 30 years as an International Aid worker. My work involved environmental health, community development, Renewable Resource Energies/Technologies, Permaculture and lecturing at various schools, universities, and government departments in Africa and Asia. The following extracts are from a pre-feasibility study of which I presented to Asian NGO’s in my attempt to justify the urgent need for sustainability. Although the following presentation was specific to African & Asian organizations, much of the contents are relevant to and show potential for positive sustainability in developed societies.
10:08:2000 A feasibility study: for the promotion of sustainable communities
SUSTAINABLE EXISTENCE GLOBAL INTRODUCTION——–
The characteristics, ramifications, and divaricating processes of politics, religion, nationalism, and commerce, are exponentially fragmentary, divisive, and provocative. Excesses of which destroy the stability of environmental eco-systems and social structures, creating an unsustainable and unstable world.
For many years, we have witnessed evidence of social and environmental degradation, which should leave us in no doubt that human co-evolution towards global unity and sustainability has a long way to go.
Our rapidly expanding socioeconomic and unconstrained monetary system imposes massive pressures upon the environment, governments, and of its peoples, forcing 50% of the human population to live in highly dependent cities. These pressures create a serious threat to our ecosphere from the destructive forces of pollution, resource exploitation, and community disintegration caused by our irresponsible consumptive material lifestyles.
Toxic Lifestyles Our earth is an integrated and interdependent living system of which we are an integral part. However, our addictions to profit, power, and the consumptive lifestyles we sustain are turning the world TOXIC. A cocktail of our pollutants is causing acidification of soil, water, and atmosphere, hence the degradation of all that depend on these elements for their survival. Our illusion is that we exist in a world of unlimited resource exploitation where nature is always giving, but in reality, we are destroying ourselves from our own lack of personal responsibility to life, and to our eco-systems. We can feed clothe and shelter everyone in the world, yet 200 BILLION people have died in the last 20 years from starvation and associated problems, where 10 children die every minute from malnutrition. We live in a world population of 6 Billion, over 1 Billion live in absolute poverty, 841 Million undernourished, and 1.3 Billion have no access to safe drinking water (2000).
WEATHER OF MASS DESTRUCTION:
Anthropogenic climate change the ‘new security problem’ Documented reports by the United Nations in Sudan’s “Post –Conflict Environmental Assessment” reported; “Impacts of climate change were closely linked to conflict.” The University of Hong Kong reports that; “It was the oscillations of agricultural production brought about by long-term climate change that drove China’s historical war-peace cycles.” A report by the international NGO “International Alert” identifies forty-six countries at risk of violent conflict and instability because of anthropogenic climate change.
Climatic change, atmospheric warming, pollution, destruction of rain forests, threats to biodiversity, land degradation and desertification, population resource imbalances, urban decay, bio-piracy, nuclear accidents, toxic waste disposals, global inequalities, regional conflicts, droughts and famine, suppression of minorities and indigenous peoples, foreign debt, hunger, malnutrition.
Paying the price The poor, our biosphere, eco-systems, earth, and atmosphere are now paying a heavy price for the developed countries greed and their disregard for all life in our global environment.
We have forgotten, or are too ignorant or mercenary, to consider sustainable lifestyles, with self-regulating agricultural systems supported by renewable resource energies and technologies. We fail to recognize and support the development of local sustainable self-sufficient communities with democratically organized management structures. Such communities serve as a safety net from poverty, and economic system crashes, and provide mutual benefit to local and major economies.
Trade and environment No long-term strategy to alleviate poverty can succeed if we continue with environmental forces that promote unsustainable erosion of our natural resource bases upon which we all depend.
No environmental protection programme can succeed if we continue with sustained pressures that promote an invasive socioeconomic system or the poverty that force people to exploit their local environmental resource base for their survival at the expense of their children’s future.
Today’s luxuries are tomorrow’s disasters, and for national and global security, countries must develop sustainable lifestyle systems that balance their populations with their resources or we ourselves will become humanities final global plague.
Fair trade — Free trade — or No trade
While the rich grow richer, six of the ten poorest countries in the world are less prosperous than they were twenty years ago (2000). The main reason is that they have become reliant on exports of basic commodities, such as coffee, cotton and cocoa, where controlled fluctuating pricing has plummeted. Poor countries are being trapped and manipulated into a world trade system where the rules on International commodity pricing are rigged in favour of the rich countries.
Traditional v Transgenic Agriculture

INDIGENOUS TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE
Biological diversity encompasses all species of plants, animals, and microorganisms including the variation between them, and the levels of eco-systems of which they form.

Species level: ——— includes the number and kinds of living organisms.
Genetic level: ——— includes the genetic variation within a species.
Eco-system level: — includes the variety of habitats, biological communities, ecological processes, pressures, and evolutions that occur within these habitats.
Indigenous traditional knowledge with inextricable links between human and natural biodiversity has fed, and clothed the world for thousands of years. India is one of the twelve mega-biodiversity countries of the world, rich in agricultural biodiversity and one of the twelve primary centres, of the origin of cultivated plants, and is equally rich in traditional and indigenous knowledge.
TRANSGENIC AGRICULTURE
International patent protected corporate monopoly on food, genes, cells, and grains, to control global food production and the assumption that transgenic (GM) food is essential for global food security, will in effect create global famine.
Principal academic institutions also play a major role, becoming facilitating conduits in bio piracy.
The exploitation of sovereign resources and the commercialization of indigenous knowledge from the developing countries by international Bio-prospectors and the practice of patenting and owning bio-resources should be opposed by all global cultures.
If traditional knowledge and reproductive resources, such as seeds, become obstructed, farmers in the poorer developing countries, who constitute our global food security, will be devastated.
Transgenic agricultural practices obstruct the implementation of sustainable eco-agriculture practiced by traditional communities through experience and knowledge of their indigenous eco-systems.
THE CHALLENGE
It is ethically wrong to use politically deceitful green phrases such as, Eco-towns, Eco-cities, and recycling. Cities and towns by their nature are, polluting centres of externally dependent mass populace. It is also wrong to assume that recycling is an eco-friendly act, in realty, if we are recycling, then we have already caused the ecological damage; we are merely applying a self-polluting band-aid to a self-inflicted wound.
If we are to challenge the destructive effects of human excesses, we must reassess our global community systems, and to consider the promotion of sustainable alternative global communities. These communities must be recognized, and supported by their governments, aided by university research and development, with multi NGO and school involvement. However, alternative sustainable communities such as Permaculture are less likely to be accepted by developed countries. The misguided reasons are that such communities pose a potential threat to monetary immersed leading economies, in reality; these communities relieve the destructive exponential costly effects that world societies in excess create.
Application of a sustainable eco-agricultural community
The application of a community’s program would be established on a progressive introductory scale, dealing firstly with the greatest need, “abject poverty,” (unless introduced to existing communities at other levels who may wish to change to a sustainable eco-system.)
Following the establishment of the first level, achieved through cooperation, information, and education through practice of basic subsistence agriculture, technology, water and lands management techniques, the community would progress into the transitional level.
When sustainably is established, such communities would become mutually alternative community systems. These changes can be made in an ethical non-threatening way either to sensitive cultures or to the conventional capitalist based system. Such communities offer people in society a lifestyle choice, reducing the unsustainable destructive pressures ensuing from the socio-economic excess’s upon our global resources.
These strategies induce personal and regional security, sustainable food, health, and environmental thinking and practices, which inspire positive confidence and independence.
PROPOSED PROJECT for the economic amalgamation of NGOs
Most aspects of humanity have expanded into dangerous excesses, and we now witness the threatening global degradation from climate change to terrorism. Therefore, NGOs can no longer waste time, funds, or efforts, by fragmenting their genuine aid efforts into singular issues, (unless concealing covert agendas.)
India for example has many fragmented NGO’s with similar aims. The amalgamation of various NGOs into an extensive sustainable community project, by pooling of labour, resources, and expertise, etc, would become a more cost effective, economic proposition. The community would encompass various villages and would be an example of a functioning alternative sustainable society, supported by sustainable agriculture, technology, and energies. Universities would be involved in management of research, development, and expertise, whereas, NGOs would be involved in management of community development plus resource control marketing and applications. (It is hoped however that the universities and NGO’s would participate on an ethical and integral basis rather than on personal agendas contrary to the global integrity of the communities aims.)
Principle aspects
Sustainable eco-community principles are globally universal; however, additional national adaptations through custom, culture, climate, and environment would ensure its success.
The project would consist of four core educational modules, contents of which are working successfully (although individually) in various parts of the world. The project would comprise adjunct experts in all fields with support teams for out-reach community problem solving, including buses equipped with mobile staff sleeping facilities information and computers linked to the projects website.
Although the proposed project would be substantial in size and initial funding, we have no choice but to challenge our precarious unsustainable global existence with a more comprehensive and determined effort.
SUSTAINABLE ECO-COMMUNITY AIMS:

The aim of sustainable eco-communities is to challenge and relieve those global pressures outlined above, which pose a serious threat to local regional and global societies, and to our eco-systems and environment.
To demonstrate and teach the strategies, ethics and resource management practices of sustainable existence, extending aid and education wherever needed.
To help landless people acquire or have access to land for the above purpose.
To encourage the methods of sustainable agriculture, technology, and regional land management practices to prevent poverty, impoverishment and natural resource depletions.
To create decentralized regional democratic non-hierarchical community systems with a basic set of rules and procedures accepted by all communities.
To demonstrate nature’s compatible eco-system interconnections and evolutions, demonstrating that eco-agriculture is economically viable, sustainable, and is more diversely productive than modern conventional systems.

The Sustainable eco-community project should consist of two main components apart from its social community structure and the four core educational modules: AGRICULTURE and TECHNOLOGY
AGRICULTURE: POLY-AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS
To challenge destructive non-sustainable agriculture, the proposal is that the central feature be a single large evolving “POLY-AQUA-CULTURAL Flow System,” constructed in cascading pond systems with mutually compatible food producing tree and plant eco-systems. This system would embed all the principles of sustainability and would involve livestock, poultry, fish stock, horticulture, fruit, nut, and vegetable farming. Further herb, medicinal, and floral products would be grown including Poly-tree-cultures and eco-garden constructions.
The aim of this agricultural component is to:
 -Relieve poverty
 -Create sustainable agricultural practices and employment
 -Organize Community development, bioregional management and community structures.
 -Distance our dependence from exponentially expensive and polluting fossil fuel oils.
 -Provide school education and participation
 -Provide teaching facilities and courses on site.
 -Facilitate University research development and analysis (Many faculties could be involved)
 -Produce products for the local and greater economy with products for export.
 -Create a cooperative harmonious environment between human community & environment.

TECHNOLOGY: ALTERNATIVE RENEWABLE RESOURCE ENERGIES & TECHNOLOGIES. To challenge destructive technologies, a science & technology workshop and research facility would provide for education and activities based on renewable resource material technology & energy systems. This facility would provide technological solutions from low tech do it yourself affordable systems to advanced environmentally compatible high tech systems.
The aim of this technology project is to:
 -Provide examples of Alternative Renewable Resource Energies and Technologies.-
 -Distance our dependence from exponentially expensive and polluting fossil fuel oils and dangerous technologies.
 -Provide school education and participation.
 -Facilitate University research, development and analysis (Many faculties could be involved)
 -Produce clean environmental engineering products for the markets.
 -Create employment.
 -Provide education courses on site for all.
 -Avoid the need of Re-cycling.
 -Provide our children with a healthier sustainable world.
Completion of the sustainable eco-agricultural community project

When established, the community products should self-finance the community, and it is possible for the development of small associated satellite cottage industries.
The combined universities would be involved in overall management of the Community Project research and development, and the NGOs would be involved in overall management of community development plus resource control marketing and applications.
An appended section should be added to this feasibility study to include national variations. Following a positive outcome to the feasibility study, a prospectus outlining the basic principles, project illustrations, details, costs, components, plus technical data and information would be designed for presentation to potential supporters.
Education “A sustainable community projects overall principle aim”
The proposed project would be a visitor’s centre for all grade level schools, student groups, village representatives, farmers, and technologists, who would come for experience and training in a sustainable working community.
The principle aim of this community project is for the education of children, employing “out of classroom” applied natural real life based educational methodologies, to induce awareness for their more sustainable future world. All syllabi within the national school’s curriculum correlate to the projects modules, and therefore, can be taught in real life situations, rather than in the alien closed environment of the school classroom.
SUSTAINABLE SYSTEMS: Primary Systems
Expanding global pressures
Our rapidly expanding socioeconomic global system imposes massive pressures upon the environment, governments, and to its peoples. Poor rural communities are often seen as unproductive or drain upon the national economy rather than an asset.
Many villages around the world become abandoned because of economic pressures imposed by large national and international producers. Rural young generations see no future hope, becoming city migrants where 50% of the world’s populations live. Non-monetary based rural sustainable eco-community systems offer the first step of purposeful hope, of people based cooperation, with land, crop, and water, management, and local economic trading systems. These Bioregional eco-community systems, with non-hierarchical management structures, create sustainable alternative wealth with long-term investments and security. These alternative eco- communities are unaffected by national or world market recessions, fluctuating economies, or restrictive unreal commodity pricing. Such community systems revitalize rural economies, ease city migrations and the tensions of social disorders, derived from poverty and unemployment. They also ameliorate poor soils and environments degraded by mono-crop and poor agricultural practices; improve natural bio-diversity, improving the health of rural environments, reducing food miles and dependency budgets for NGOs and governments,
PROTECTION OF TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE and BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES
Sustainable communities must support the “Peoples Biodiversity Registers,” “Biodiversity Conservation Orders”, “Community Biodiversity Registers” and contribute to Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions based in Biodiversity Register Programs.
REGENERATING AGRICULTURE
The transitional changes involved from a conventional agricultural system to a sustainable agro-ecological system are complex; demanding new ways of universal thinking, and working practices. Sustainable ecological systems are multidisciplinary, and based upon structured communal cooperation and participatory research, development, skills, and activities.
PERMACULTURE
PERMACULTURE is an alternative existential system, which embodies permanent solutions for most of the global problems outlined above. Permaculture is the solution for permanent sustainable agriculture, a sustainability based on values, and ethics, which demands our own personal responsibility for earth care. Permaculture promotes care for our human society, and setting limits to our population and consumption. It presents the strategies for an alternative nation, alternatives to political systems, village development and trusts, and much more. The Permaculture system for human existence is our only chance of returning from the brink of human ecological and social disaster, and the responsibility for that decision is in our own interdependent hands.
THE ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES OF A NEW SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY
The majority of our global nation seeks peace, an un-eroded and forested earth, cessation of torture, malnutrition, and oppression. Such changes require that individuals, groups, and societies for social responsibility bring shared resources in a humane alliance through cooperation, information, and education for a sustainable world. The organizational structures of a new sustainable community are complex, involving: developmental structures, ethical trading, investment, property trust structures, and legal strategies. The informal economy involves L.E.Ts, S.H.A.R.E, and C.E.L.T systems, in addition to cooperatives, credit unions, revolving loan funds, levies, local currencies, community barter accreditations, and ethical investments.
Politics
Political awareness should be considered when presenting a proposition for the establishment of independent self-sufficient eco-community projects to political or planning authorities. Established systems of modern society are based upon the principles of a capitalist and profit motivated system. For people to sustain their needs by non-monetarist communal customs within an alternative community system independent of the prevailing society would be seen as a threat to that society and their way of life. This fear is unjustified as such communities even in global abundance, could only partly relieve the pressures of human excesses, unemployment, pollution, ecological damage, diminishing global resources, etc. Modern societies seem not to be aware of the existential threat from living their precarious unsustainable lifestyle.
Neutrality
It is important to stress that the foundations of such sustainable community projects should not be created nor function based upon any political or religious principles. Therefore, the fundamental principles should remain distant from the divisive natures of politics, religion, monetarism, and nationalism, and must remain always globally neutral.
Education “A sustainable community projects overall principle aim”
Children are the root source of humanities future, and so humanities greatest resource.
The principle aim of any sustainable eco-community project is to educate children of all social and economic classes, to the awareness of their unsustainable society, and to the awareness of their options for pursuing a more safe, co-evolutionary, sustainable and secure future world for them. Influences would also need to be asserted upon educators to effect changes to national curriculums.
CONCLUSIONS
The minimal cost to any national authority would be for their understanding regarding the vital need for global sustainability (and the economic costs of not doing so,) and for their educational school curriculum support. It is a small price to pay for a community program that seriously challenges diminishing ecological resources, sociological degeneration, environmental degradation, all of which contribute toward global insecurity.

Contact:
Author and feasibility study project designer: peterbere@yahoo.com

My method is active blogging on the Tumblr platform. I have a few pages. My main page is onepagemanifesto.tumblr.com. On this page I invite participation in the form of short essay submissions. Users of tumblr are, I believe, very demographically similar to users of facebook et alia. I wish to inspire readers to become writers, as I see this as a very helpful and therapeutic step in the reflection and awareness process. I try to make it friendly and inviting with low pressure so that people can read, write, and submit at their own pace.

So far the pace is slow and I am considering another (additional) approach soon, such as with a list of questions to be answered in short paragraphs. Your participation is welcome.

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I’ve always been the queen of reuse and recycle – even before it was a popular notion. I use things to death. Something I got from my grandfather. I’m not much of a consumer.

My first personal goal is to be better about tithing. Imagine how the world would change if everyone did that.

My second personal goal is to live off the grid as much as possible. That one will take a little time – and a lot of money – at least upfront. But that is the goal.

The world would change pretty quickly if people would just start living consciously and quit financially supporting the companies and products that are destroying us.