Sustainable
solutions everywhere
Inviting you to join in creating regeneration
and
sustainability through community
What are you doing to strengthen your being in ways that are supported by love and science with practical solutions and can bring you to your highest potential? How then will you use this potential to lead and participate in the next step toward a life that is lived with purpose and service? Live your best self! We are all here to love and support one another. All things are possible.
i'm Don
For what purpose has Mother Earth enabled me here at this time?
Regeneration with Sustainable consciousness is increasing and there are more resources for enabling it in ways
that speak to cooperation, coordination, collaboration and reciprocity. It is an exciting time where physics is
now providing the
proof that we can move forward with solutions that are in resonance instead of continuing our history of
disonance.
I have experienced many purposes in this life, many of them totally unconscious.
At this time I know that my purpose is to share solutions that are leading us towards regenerating where needed,
and enabling a sustainable future that will support life! We cannot sustain the status quo. Sustainability
through regeneration
is required to bring us back to what was truly sustainable before humans intervened in erroneous ways.
I love regeneration and sustainablilty. Our Planet supports us with life in abundance. How do we maintain our responsibility to long-term survival of the eco-system? I would like to support a continuing evolution of being in balance with; whether it be our own personal issues, how we are treating each other, or how we treat our mother Earth and all of our fellow species.
Look at my Why page to see more on what I believe.
The second law of thermodynamics states that any part of a system that is isolated will naturally degrade into chaos. By isolating ourselves from the environment, and each other, we experience continuing breakdown of our personal relationships as well as the habitat that supports our very being. We come from nature at inception and birth; we return to it at death. Environmental nutrients support our growth throughout our lifetime.
Many times we look at symptoms and then look for a bandaid solution that masks the symptom. This is true in our relationships, medicine and other disciplines as well as environmental issues. We need to take the time to look at the whole and determine root cause so we can move to results that enable for the long term. In other words how do we look at cause and effect and determine our needed shift to reach a desired sustainable change that will last.
All problems are personal and all solutions are also. Nature provides the answers, it is our destiny to lean into earth, our source, to discover who we truly are! Choice makes a problem; choice makes a solution!
There are many working hard at providing solutions that are in sync. These solutions need to be put forth and supported so that they can be more widely used and enable recovery and long term balance. This site provides insights into solutions. You will only see contextual information here about the problems as they are so apparant and easily researchable elsewhere. Let us come together to enable solutions.
Investigate what is not working.
Determine the root cause.
Seek solutions to the
problem.
Educate to bring change.
Take Action.
"The destiny of humans cannot be separated from the destiny of earth." -- "The question is not what do I want the earth to be, but what does the earth want me to be?" ~ Thomas Berry
Since humans stepped out of our hunter gatherer domain into agriculture and city dwelling, we have been
augmenting our life style through inventions that are primarily in dissonance. In other words, not in
balance with nature. We started
burning coal for heat, cooking, etc., and later oil and gas. This is just one example of where we enable
disonance instead of resonance. Air, soil, water, all living things are affected by our pollution in the
name of enhancing our
comforts and is now largely driven by profit motivation rather than safety.There is a
growing number of areas where the latest
physics supports bringing our lifestyles back into resonance and enabling a better outcome. Nassim Haramein
of Resonance Science is now educating on the new physics that enables many areas return to resonance.
Resonance Science
Resonance Science Foundation has started a new endeavor to bring the technologies from their research
into
existence. They have started a new organizaiton called International Space Federation to develop and bring
the technologies to humanity from the research done at Resonance Science Foundation. To find out more
information visit the website at
International Space Federation
A company
that is following these ideas and developing a number of products that enable our higher purpose is Resonant
Technologies Group.
Impacting Humanity - Resonant Technologies Group
Beth McDougall M.D.
is bringing new and exciting energy solutions to treating patients with difficult health issues. She is
continually looking for ways to bring about revolutionary healing through energy and resonant methods.
Beth McDougall M.D.
Dr. McDougall's clinic is:
Clear Center of health
Dr. McDourgall's latest addition to her treatment environment is Jyzen, a membership facility which provides
services in Integrative Medicne, Regenerative Health Services, Adaptive Performance Training, NeuroFit®.
Integrative Bodywork Center, IV Lounge & laboratoty, BioResonance, and Biometrics Lab. It is located in Mill
Valley, CA
Jyzen
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There are a number of resources that do not fit within the subjects I have chosen to discuss individually,
or are of high enough interest to list in this separate section.
Recently David Attenborough released a new film (A Life On Our Planet) about his life and what he has seen
happen since he started his work. It is a chronical of the devastaion he has seen, with a call to action
that shows we have time
to fix much of this if we act quickly. It is currently available on Netflix and well worth watching.
A Life On Our Planet
Stepping back and viewing life on planet earth from a systems view provides a clear case for why we must
reemerge ourselves in working with nature rather than extracting from it. Each extraction needs a plan to
reuse, recycle, with
support for life.
The book by Fritjof Capra and Pier Luigi Luisi "The Systems View of Life - A Unifying Vision" provides an in
depth case for our participation in that which we come from and will go back to. This book is also available
on iBooks.
The Systems
View of Life
Resurgence is a website that has a multitude of subjects discussed around sustainable
alternatives. It provides positive, informed and original perspectives on environmental issues activism,
social justice, arts and
ethical living.
Resurgence
Schumacher College is a school in england that supports education at all levels around
innovative learning for Ecological and Social Change.
Schumacher College
Braiding Sweetgrass is a delightful book by Robin Wall Kimmerer. It brings Indigenous
Wisdom to us with entertaining stories of how we can better respect and care for our planet.
Braiding
Sweetgrass
Charisse Sydoriak has over 35 years of experience managing fires and cultural resources in
national parks and on public lands. She has developed a Wildfire Risk Assessment process that inspects homes
on an individual basis and makes recommendations that will make the property more fire resistant.
Visit her site Living with Fire to see information on major
fires
etc.
From a
sustainability and nutrition perspective I believe that the area we can get the most bank for the buck is
through soil regeneration.
The
United
States experienced the dust Bowl 1920's due to among other things over tilling, lack of crop rotation and
composting for regenerating soil.
Petroleum products were
introduced after WWII. Nitrogen and phosphates to green crops in 50's, but with
loss of nutrients. As I was growing up in the 1950's in an agricultural area I observed the start of large
corporations taking over family farms and introducing herbacides and various other sprays to the crops to
control insects as
well. By the late 60's we were having conversations about how the cancer rates were so much higher than what
we experienced in our youth. As I have continued to observe the evolution of GMO plants and herbacides, I
continue to
see the
reduction in the overall health of the population, along with the associated higher healthcare costs. I
believe there is a direct coorelation between the use of GMO plants along with the herbacides / pesticides
and the health
issues we
are experiencing.
Research
has shown that the GMO, herbacide model is not working as the crop yields are dropping each year. There are
farmers that are now changing that paradigm back towards healthy soil and organic methods that produce much
higher crop
yield.
Another reason we need to restore our soil is that it is the key to Environmental Health. Soil that is restored to its natural state is the most effective carbon sequestration. There is no way to draw carbon out of the atmoshphere that is more practical than the regeneration of soil and the move towards regenerative agriculture.
Resources for Soil Regeneration:
The Biggest Little Farm The following movie is about Apricot Lane Farms: a traditional
foods farm started by John and Molly Chester, a husband and wife team, who left their jobs in Los Angeles to
become farmers
and pursue their dream vision of starting
Apricot Lane
Farms in 2011. Located 40 miles north of Los Angeles, the farm is dedicated to the mission of creating a
well-balanced eco-system and rich soils that produce nutrient-dense foods while treating the environment and
the animals with
respect.
Apricot Lane farm residents include pigs, goats, sheep, chickens, ducks, guinea hens, horses, highland
cattle, and one brown swiss dairy cow named “Maggie.” Many of which, you will meet in the BIGGEST LITTLE
FARM. The land consists
of
Biodynamic Certified avocado and lemon orchards, a vegetable garden, pastures, and over 75 varieties of
stone fruit. (Above explanation lifted from The Biggest Little Farm website)
I am so excited by this clear example of the ability to turn our entire food production system to healthy
sustainbable nutrient dense foods within seven years. (Highly recommend this movie / documentary with great
cinematography).
The Biggest Little Farm Movie
Soil Regeneration Explanation at Wikipedia a particular form of ecological
regeneration.
Wikipedia Soil Regeneration
Dr. Zach Bush is passionate about regenerating our soil to bring back health to produce
nutrient dense foods without the need for genetically modified organisms and no herbacides or pesticides.
Dr. Zach Bush
The Need To Grow is a new documentary on technologies and projects that are educating on the need for sustainable soil that is healthy to produce high nutrition food. Search for this film as it is currently does not seem to have a website that is static.
is a unique, no till, ecologically beneficial, high intensive vegetable farm in Sonoma County California.
This farm has more than quadrupled the organic material in their soil (which means more nutrient dense food)
- all while
producing
over six times the state average of harvest revenue per acre per year. They have brought back tremendous
populations of pollinators, beneficial insects, and vertabrates (natural pest control). They use less water
to produce their to
produce their vegetables because of the supercharged soil organic matter. They use no sprays of any kind,
not even organic sprays. They have year around employees with job security.
In a presentation I watched by one of the owners; they claim to have revenue of $145,000 per acre.
Note: The above was paraphrased from Singing Frogs Farm Website.
Singing Frogs Farm
Exciting news, there is a new certification for food that
encoourages it's healthy nutrition. Regenerative Organic Alliance imagines a world where,
farmers, brands, policymakers, educators, researchers and individuals work together to create a healthy food
system that respects land, animals, empowers people, and restores communities and ecosystems through
regenerative organic farming.
Regenerative Organic Alliance
Oak Mountain Farm is a farm in Lake Creek Oregon that is committed to working with the
land to enable the best from it to support the best in humans. See how they are continuously working on that
at:
Oak Mountain Farm
Polyface Farms has been in the Shenandoah Valley of
Virginia since 1961. Today they are known for their premier non-industrial food production and claim to be
your Clean Meat
Connection. The Salatin family enables ecological balance with high quality results.
Polyface Farms
Vesper Meadows is a
Southern Oregon restoration program that is educating on what it takes to return an enviroment to its
original purpose. Community
engagement in science, restoration, wild food cultivation, and nature-inspired art.
Vesper Meadow
Regeneration International is
a website with many resources that show how farming techniques can help in reversing climate change by
rebuilding soil
organic
matter and restoring biodiversity.
Regeneration
International
Understanding Ag is a consulting company that provides education and support for farmers
so that they may family farmer future with a balanced ecosystem.
Understanding Ag
Kiss the Ground is and organization with much the same purpose as my wesite
(sustainability and regeneration). They are starting with soil. They have produced a film that shows
solutions that enable soil regeneration
for healthy crops and animals. This regenerated soil captures carbon from the air and has the potential to
reverse all climate change. I highly recommend watching:
Kiss The Ground Movie
Kiss The Ground Website
Parker Pastures is Colorado based farm raising grass fed beef and lamb with regenerative
techniques.
Parker Pastures
Article at NANP Regenerative
Ranching Article
Green Bronx Machine is educating and training students in building an agriculture system
that is supportive of the health and well being of the local communities in which they live and serve.
Green Bronx Machine
Unfortunately,
NW Raw Organic Juice Bar in Ashland Oregon and Bend Oregon has closed. They were a great
example of providing clean results from
the above efforts to clean our soil and provide nutrient dense foods. They were energetic outposts in todays
culture where fast
food is king. It was a delight to experience juices, salads, bowls, cleanse programs, espresso and more. I
am sad to see them go as they provided a goto for immune boosts when the body was challenged.
Baker Creek carries one of the largest selection of seeds from the 19th century.
Baker Creek Seeds
As stated on their web site, Seed
Savers Exchange
aims to conserve and promote America’s culturally diverse but endangered garden and food crop heritage for
future generations by collecting, growing, and sharing heirloom seeds and plants.
Seed
Savers Exchange
Humans have polluted most of the water on the planet. It is time for us to take this matter seriously and
provide the restoration processes that have been tested with success. Additionally, we need to cease the use
of toxic
elements
that pollute our source of life.
Resources for Clean Water:
SeaHugger: The ocean is vitally
Important to the health of our planet and protecting it should be our highest priority.
FOUNDER Shell
Cleave:
After witnessing first hand the devastation of human impact on the Great Barrier Reef, the coasts of Asia
and Mexico, and increased plastic on the beaches at home in California, Shell Cleave decided she could no
longer idly stand
by
and watch her beloved Mama Ocean being used as a dumping ground. She closed down her Technical Writing
Business of 25 years and founded Sea Hugger in 2017 with the help and support of her family. (Above
explanation lifted from
seahugger website).
Sea Hugger
Upterra water Revitalizing water
for agriculture, people, and the planet. Using biomimicry and innovative irrigation technologies, UpTerra
brings water to its
optimum state — fully aligned and bioavailable — so that all organic life can benefit.
Upterra Water
ECOsmarte water: Want
clean chemical free, salt free water for your home and pool? Check out this system which removes all
chemicals and delivers
drinkable
water throughout your property.
ECOsmarte Water
Clean Water Action:
To protect our environment, health, economic well-being and community quality of life. Clean Water Action
organizes strong
grassroots groups and coalitions, and campaigns to elect environmental candidates and to solve environmental
and community problems. (Above explanation lifted from clean water action website).
On their website
you can check clean water projects and progress at the national level as well as the state level.
Clean Water Action
The Water Project: Every day in rural communities throughout sub-Saharan Africa, millions
of people suffer from a lack of access to clean, safe water. For school-aged children it's a burden that
traps them in
poverty.
(The above was lifted from the
water project website).
The Water Project
Save the San Francisco Bay - Delta estuary for our children and future generations.
Save The California Delta
C4
Communicate
Cooperate
Collaborate
Commitment
We don't have to agree on every subject. We need to look for areas where we agree and work together to build bridges. Then as we educate each other, search for and implement solutions that serve the greater good. Be respectful!
It is exciting that there are a number of organizations now picking up the baton to promote a sustainable
future. While a number of these organizations are using methods posing enemies to draw attention to their
cause there is
still a
process of raising awareness that adds value. I would prefer that organizations promote inclusive
discussions with the associations they are opposing as the first step to provide collaborative activism.
Rather than being against
anything I would like everyone to ask the question: "Is what I am about to do providing or promoting
a sustainable solution for myself, my loved ones and everyone else on the planet?"
Resources for Climate Change:
UN Global Compact a United Nations organization with a call to companies to align
strategies and operations with universal principles on human rights, labour, environment and
anti-corruption, and take actions that
advance societal goals.
United Nations Sustainablility
Education
The Global Interdependence Coalition is a gathering of leaders, world-shapers, and
innovators from all parts of the world and walks of life. We believe that humanity and all life on Earth are
fundamentally
interdependent.
One Shared
World
Aclima a data driven platform built on years of R&D combining breakthrough mobile and
stationary sensing technology, climate science and machine learning to provide next-generation diagnostics
of critical air
pollutants
— from CO2 and methane to particulate matter.
aclima
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change The IPCC was created to provide policymakers
with regular scientific assessments on climate change, its implication and potential future risks, as well
as to put
forward adaptation and mitigation options.
ipcc
How to Talk To a Climate Skeptic A series of responses to the most common skeptical
arguments on global warming.
grist Climate Skeptic
American Forest Foundation works on-the-ground with family forest owners, partners and
elected officials to promote stewardship and protect our nation's forest heritage.
American
Forest Foundation
Fridays For Future an organization founded by Greta Thunberg to stop global warming.
Fridays For Future
Extinction Rebellion is raising awareness of our need to address the climate breadown.
Extinction Rebellion
On Fire Naomi Kleins new book is raising awareness of our need to address the climate
breadown.
On
Fire*
The Green New Deal by Jeremy Rifkin - Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by
2028, and the Bold Economic Plan to Save Life on Earth
Green
New Deal Book*
Sunrise Movement is raising awareness to stop climate change and create millions of good
jobs in the process. This organization is behind the political "Green New Deal".
Sunrise
Movement
It is time for IMMEDIATE and POWERFUL action NOW on climate change at the level of response we had to World War II in the U.S. We can lead the way. We are capable of great things and the United States has proven that in the past. Now is the time. Lets do it.
Quantum Physics shows that everything is energy. We are one. There is a baseline of energy that works throughout the Universe and connects everything.
Resources for Energy:
Mind To Matter book:
Mind
to Matter: The Astonishing Science of How Your Brain Creates Material Reality*
The Reality We Create book:
The
Reality We Create: The Influence of Beliefs and Consciousness on Our Health and Longevity*
Effortless Mind book:
Effortless
Mind: Meditate with Ease - Calm Your Mind, Connect with Your Heart, and Revitalize Your Life*
The Way of Vastu book:
The
Way of Vastu: Creating Prosperity Through the Power of the Vedas : Achieve Success Through Indian Feng
Shui*
Alters of Power and Grace book:
Altars of
Power and
Grace:
Create the Life You Desire--Achieve Harmony, Health, Fulfillment and Prosperity with Personal Altars Based
on Vastu Shastra*
Celebrate Your Divinity book:
Celebrate
Your Divinity: The Nature of God and the Theory of Everything*
The Greatest Achievement book:
The
Greatest Achievement: Miracle after Miracle the Easy Way*
Institute Of Noetic Sciences Bridging scientific exploration and experiential discovery to
better understand a timeless truth — that humanity is deeply interconnected.
Institute
Of
Noetic Sciences
We are in an exciting time! The expected life span has continued to rise for most of the last one hundred years. Today we face the challenges presented by toxins and processed foods which are reducing our ability to sustain an active healthy life in these added years. We are on the verge of being able to regenerate in natural ways vital organs in the body and using stem cells to enable the body to heal itself in many cases. An active nutrient dense lifestyle free of toxins, along with multigenerational interactions is what has been shown to enable vitality into advanced age. Blue zones have clean healthy diets, along with meals shared with multi ages from young to old.
Resources for Healthy Aging:
Hugs - the most healing modality!
In 2011 I learned the healing power of hugs.
After a bicycle accident that left me with 14 broken bones and a mild concussion, I spent 5 days in a trauma
unit, and 2 weeks
in a
rehab facility. Several weeks later I had surgery to have a plate put on top of my left collar bone.
During recovery as I encountered others in the community I would get many hugs each day. I became convinced
that these were indeed healing. My accident was on April 11, and during the second week of September I was
able to do the
Five
Lakes
Hike at Alpine Meadows in the Sierras. A five mile roundtrip hike with 1000 ft elevation gain.
8 Reasons Why We Need at
Least 8
Hugs
a Day
are areas around the world that were investigated by Dan Buettner originally in conjunction with National
Geographic where people have a longer life span. Many areas have multiple centurians with a high degree of
mobility and are healthy. Dan is experimenting with creating additional Blue Zones in the United States.
To investigate this further visit:
Blue Zones
"Aging is natural, getting old is a result of the choices we make. ~ Kerry McClure"
Kerry McClure Practical Wellness
Kerry's Book "Beyond Meditation"*
Kerry's
Gratitude Journal*
Interviews where Kerry expresses some of her practical
ideas
Attitudinal
Healing
Mederi Foundation
Book:
"Adaptogens In Medical Herbalism"*
NW Raw Organic Juice Bar in Bend is a great example of providing clean results and
provide nutrient dense foods. It is and energetic outpost in todays culture where fast food is king. It is a
delight to
experience
juices, salads, bowls, cleanse programs, espresso and more. Check out their website here to see what is
possible:
NW Raw
Cancer Vitamin C Adjunct IV Protocol - Riordan Clinic
IVC Protocol Article
The EPA delineates Green Building as: Green, or sustainable, building is the practice of creating and using
healthier and more resource-efficient models of construction, renovation, operation, maintenance and
demolition.
Resources for Green Building
USGBC created the LEED 20
years ago to measure and define green building and to provide a roadmap for developing sustainable
buildings.
USGBC is committed
to transforming buildings, because they believe that every person deserves a better more sustainable life.
USGBC
World Green Building Council
WGBC
Nano Shield Technology -- Fires
are a major problem globally. Extreme temperatures are exacerbating conditions everywhere.
Nano Shield
has developed an enviromentally friendly, long lasting, technology that fire proofs and insulates in the
same technology.
The Off Grid Guy Michael
Moss has
retrofitted a house in the heart of Sydney AU that demonstrates the potential for
minimizing resource
usage, even in the middle of a large metropolitan area. Off grid solar with batteries, rain capture, treated
waste, etc.
When thinking about Sustainability I often consider things like climate, renewable energy, water, and conditions that are mostly physical. When I began to move through this exercise of providing resources for understanding and sustaining that which we all hold dear, I realized upon reflection, that this needs to go beyond the traditional and consider those things that can assist us in bridging the gaps we are experiencing in todays world. Divisions need to be crossed. The best way I can think of at this point is to consider how we can sustain Love and Compassion. Some projects that I believe are assisting in those efforts follow.
Resources for Love and Compassion:
Heart
Math is an experience science-based technology that enables individuals to measure their heart
coherence for taking
charge of our lives. It is proven to help reduce stress and anxiety by increasing inner balance and
self-security. Learn to access your heat's intuition and become the best version of yourself more
often.
Heart
Math Institute
Revolutionary Love is building the movement to ground our lives and
politics in Love! They produce stories, tools,
curricula, conferences, films, and mass mobilizations rooted in the ethic of love. Because
love is not just a feeling but a form of sweet labor — fierce, bloody, imperfect, and life-giving. In this
era of enormous rage, Revolutionary Love is the call of our times. Valarie Kaur and her team are doing
amazing things!
I am so excited by the potential of resolving issues through love and compassion and how Revolutionary Love
Project is moving us closer to that with practical suggestions for resolution.
The Revolutionary Love Project
Valarie
Kaur Ted Talk
Valarie's
Book "See No Stranger"
🌏 💫 🌟 Summer Mayne is a writer, yoga teacher, philosopher, and seeker of truth in higher
consciousness with integrity based intent.
She writes with insights that touch others souls and enables new views of our potential and desired outcomes
for peace and balance in the world. I consider Summer a being of light with messages of hope in these
challenging times. I am honored to call her a friend.
Summer's Writing
Compassion Education The Compassion projects mission: To ensure that every primary school
student in the US understands what compassion is and how to practice it in their lives. A national
initiative to provide
compassion education to elementary school students across the US.
The Compassion Project
Compassion international has been making a difference in the lives of children growing up
in some of the most impoverished places on earth for over 60 years. Every child who'd have the opportunity
to achieve their
highest potential.
Compassion International
On Being Explores the intersection of spiritual inquiry, science, social healing, community, poetry, and the arts. Through content, experiences and practical tools, The On Being Project tends the human change that makes social transformation possible.
The On Being Project
Tara Brach's teachings blend Western psychology and Eastern spiritual practices, mindful
attention to our inner life, and a full, compassionate engagement with our world. The result is a
distinctive voice in Western
Buddhism, one that offers a wise and caring approach to freeing ourselves and society from
suffering.
Her new book Radical Compassion offers a lifeline for difficult times with
the RAIN (Recognize, Allow,
Investigate, Nurture) meditation. Tara's book can be found here:
Radical
Compassion Book
Marianne Williamson entered the 2020 and 2024 presidential campaigns with a platform of
"The Politics of
Love". Her campaign had to be quiesced due to financial reasons. Her depth of understanding of the issues
along with proposed
solutions from the heart provides yet another perspective on how we can move our society towards more
compassionate interaction. Her book can be found here:
A
Politics of Love*
To get an update on the issues you can visit her website at
The Issues
Factfulness is a book about the world and how it really is. It points out that most people
do not know the what the true state of the world is.
Resources for Factfulness
The facts of income and its relationship to health point out where we all have gaps in our current thinking.
Gapminder presents tools for educating us.
While I am hopeful based on what is presented here, I believe
we must be diligent
in not enabling hope where more work is still required.
Gapminder
The book Factfulness can be purchased here:
Factfulness
Some Auto Makers, Some Boat Makers, Some Airplanes, etc.
Tesla
Mercedes
Electric
Ford
Electric Offerings
Why
Go Plugin - Plugin America
Electrek Newsletter - All Things EV
Correct Craft produced an electric Ski Nautique in 2011 and tested it in tournament conditions.
Electric Ski Nautique
e-Genius a test electric airplane built by engineers at the University of Stuttgart.
e-Genius
Clean alternatives that can replace fossil fuels and lower carbon emmisions. AGallup poll in March of 2019 shows that most of the U.S. population supports reducing fossil fuel use.
Resources for Renewable Energy:
Rocky Mountain Institute and Amory B. Lovins book
"Reinventing Fire" shows a way forward that provides a clean sustainable environment by 2050 while saving
trillions.
Rocky Mountain
Institute
Reinventing
Fire*
Internet technology and renewable energy are merging. Jeremy Rifkin explains how the five-pillars of the
Third Industrial Revolution will create thousands of businesses, millions of jobs, and usher
in a fundamental
reordering of human relationships, from hierarchical to lateral power,
that will impact the way we conduct commerce, govern society, educate our children, and engage in civic life.
(Lifted from the expanation of the book.)
The Third Industrial Revolution
In 2007 global energy usage was (all forms) 16.1 TW, with global electricity being 1.8 TW. It is possible to
generate all of our energy needs from clean renewable sources. Stanford Professor Mark
Jacobson has done
research and mapped
out how we might use renewables exclusively.
Renewable by
2050
Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), focuses on creative answers to today's energy challenges.
From breakthroughs in fundamental science to new clean technologies to integrated energy systems that power
our lives,
NREL researchers are transforming the way the nation and the world use energy.
NREL
We only need to look out the window at nature to see that diversity produces the strongest solutions. This
seems true at the universe level as well as the micro level. Yet as humans we separate ourselves and diminish
the strength
of
diversity. At this time we need to embrace diversity in all forms to enable our ability to collaborate.
In my experience one of the best examples of this realization is:
Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today...
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one
Michelle Obama's book Becoming is an excellent read. Her intelligence, candor, wit, and
exellent ability to tell a story while educating is a great example of diversity that supports our higher
purpose. Plus it
is a
fun read!
Becoming -
Michelle Obama*
The political divide has disabled our ability to seek solutions that are beneficial for
everyone. Us vs. them
does nothing to move us forward. One of the organizations trying to overcome that is Building Bridgers.
Marla Estes a psychologist is trying to address the political divide by starting
conversations where each side
has a chance to voice their views and hopefully there is a mutual understanding that enables each side to
provide a better solution for all concerned.
Find out more at her site.
Building Bridgers
None of the above subjects will ever come to complete fruition unless we somehow bring a state of amity to all
reaches of the planet.
"We Are One" It is time for a new way of thinking!
In the last 100 years or so the human species has developed methods of destruction that threatens our very
survival. Chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons all have the potential to end life on this planet.
We must all work together to bring a new response to each potential confrontation. When something
controversial happens we often get defensive and experience the desire to lash out in reaction. In each of
these instances there lies
an
opportunity to decide in favor of what is best for all.
In other words:
“Mindfulness is a pause. It’s the space between reaction and response. That is
where choice lives.”
~ Kerry McClure
How are you choosing to pause and respond?
Resources for Peace:
Lets start with the need to keep our home (Planet Earth) safe.
The Deep Time Walk app provides a listening experience and ‘walk within’ the latest
scientific evidence for Earth history and its self-sustaining nature, you experience the living quality of our
Earth and begin to
recognize the long geological processes and self-regulating patterns that have produced the conditions for the
evolution of life.
Deep Time Walk Check out the apps
for both
Apple and Android.
KAREN HARWELL: Never Been Here Before is an inspiring and wonderfully illustrated film by
Nancy Margulies where Karen is speaking of her concerns regarding the challenges to the eco system, and she
shares her
experiences regarding the need to move beyond war. She is continually asking the questions from the heart that
help us see the hope for finding ways that enable solutions.
Never
Been Here
Before
The Beyond War organization is a continuation of work started in the 1980's to educate on the
need for humankind to adopt "A New Way of Thinking" due to weapons where the destructive
potential is total annihilation.
Beyond War
Northwest
"Breakthrough: Emerging New Thinking" is a book published by Beyond War in the late
80's
Breakthrough
Book at Amazon
A
PDF version of this out of print book can also be found here.
Additionally Portland State University has a class at where students learn the principles and assist in
reviewing materials that fit the Beyond War philosophy.
BW
Class Portland State University
The Compassionate Listening Project is A
non-profit organization dedicated to empowering individuals and communities to transform conflict and
strengthen cultures of
peace.
Compassionate Listening Project
Radical Compassion offers tools and practices of Nonviolent Communication to help you more
fully integrate compassion and joy into your life and to support a world where everyone has access to
resources to meet their
needs.
Radical Compassion
The M. K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence is dedicated to teaching nonviolence as a way to
create a sustainable and just world for all.
Institute For
Nonviolence
Talking Across The Divide Book provides tools for having discussions with others where there
might be disagreement.
Talking Across the Divide*
International Cities of Peace> There are nearly 400 cities across the globe that are
committed to examining opportunities for peace in their own communities as well as working with others to
bring about a culture of peace on a grander scale.
Find out more about these cities and their evolution to a commitment for peace.
International Cities of Peace
Pysicians for Social Responsibility - PSR mobilizes physicians and health professionals to
advocate for climate solutions and a nuclear-weapons-free world. PSR’s health advocates contribute a health
voice to energy, environmental health, and nuclear weapons policy at the local, federal and international
levels.
Resources for Nuclear information can be found here:
PSR
Nuclear Resources
Education is a key component of any forward plan as it is necessary to pass lessons learned to the next
generation.
"Life Essentials".
The downside's of not acting on the subjects presented here are enormous and potentially life threatening.
Education is key. How do we expand our education process to teach vital information? How do we collaborate
across
generational
divides to assure continuity on essential solutions?
Resources for Education:
A creative way of assuring that education is available to the masses without high expenses.
Khan
Academy
A high variety of courses at relatively low cost.
Udemy Online
Courses
For anyone looking to upgrade their reasoning abilities. Higher cost.
The Foundation for Critical Thinking
Schumaker College is a school in england that supports education at all levels around innovative learning for
Ecological and Social Change.
Schumacher College
One of the key principles for long term survival is for humanity to realize that each of us comes from the environment which surrounds us and we shall return to it. This leads us to the realization that if we support the environment, it will support us. Each new product that we develop needs to be designed with this in mind. Whatever resources we consume must in some way be recycled after use. One products waste becomes another product that eventually cycles to a return to a natural state that supports all life.
Resources for Zero Waste:
Zero Emissions Research Initiatives ZERI strives to eliminate the very idea of waste.
The website is at zeri.org, but it is not secure.
Iceland is now producing 100% of their energy from renewable resources. They are aware that the more they
enable zero waste the more likely it enables long term survival. Netflix has a series "Down to Earth with Zac
Efron" which has an
episode on Iceland that highlights a number of efforts at zero waste in the country.
Another resource from the Down To Earth series, season 2, is a home in Melbourne Australia created by
Joost Bakker, an environmental activist, that demonstrates a self sustaining, zero waste,
productive house and shows the potential of our homes to provide shelter, produce food and generate energy.
Future Food System - Zero Waste
An economy based on just dollars as a measurement of growth is one of the reasons we are having the ecological challenges we are facing. A new way of thinking is required where we encapsulate all aspects of any activity to ensure that its outcome has a aspect of potential for balance.
Resources for Economy:
Hazel Henderson is a futurist and evolutionary economist that provides an integrated view of economic
measurment and considerations for balancing the potential ecological harm (if any).
More information regarding Hazel can be found at
Hazel
Henderson
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