3.19.2012
Brazil delays vote on bill regulating deforestation CNN International
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Over the past decade, Brazil has cracked down on clear-cutting, especially in the biodiverse Amazon rain forest, reducing the rate of deforestation by 80%. Environmentalists are concerned that some of those gains could be threatened if the new ...
In Africa's Vanishing Forests, the Benefits of Bamboo New York Times
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Bamboo may provide a solution to a very serious problem: deforestation. In sub-Saharan Africa, 70 percent of the people cook their meals over wood fires.
Green: Death of the Forests Aljazeera.com
Aljazeera.com -
A visual essay about the impact of deforestation in Indonesia as seen through the eyes of a dying orangutan. A visual essay about deforestation in Indonesia as experienced by a dying orangutan whose habitat has been destroyed.
Climate change could increase fires, logging, and hunting in rainforests Mongabay.com
Mongabay.com -
The combined impacts of deforestation and climate change will bring a host of new troubles for the world's tropical rainforests argues a new study in Trends in Ecology and Evolution.
Surging demand for vegetable oil drives rainforest destruction Mongabay.com
Mongabay.com -
Surging demand for vegetable oil has emerged as an important driver of tropical deforestation over the past two decades and is threatening biodiversity, carbon stocks, and other ecosystem functions in some of the world's most critical forest areas, ...
Monarch Butterflies Drop 28 Percent in Mexico ABC News
ABC News -
Others say damage to wintering grounds in central Mexico's mountains remains a factor in the decline, citing deforestation of the fir and pine forests they favor. The numbers of butterflies spending the winter in Mexico have varied wildly in recent ...
Indigenous communities help prevent deforestation better than conservation Women News Network
Women News Network -
Their coordinated care with the land helps prevent deforestation. Image: Ferrari/LPFN (WNN/LPFN) GLOBAL: Two peer-reviewed studies published recently by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the World Bank show that strict ...
v. THIS Is what Activism Looks Like! What Occupy must, MUST become.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDdgu71oaC8&feature=share
My comment:
OH MY GOD. THIS IS SO HOPEFUL. OH MY GOD. OCCUPY FROM WHAT I CAN SEE HAS BEEN A SELF-CENTERED, INFANTILE, 'ME' CENTERED PIECE OF SH*T. BUT THIS IS THE OPPOSITE!!! OMG. FOCUSED ON THE GLOBAL NEEDIEST?!?!?!?!? AMERICANS DON'T DO THAT! BUT YOU ARE! GOD BLESS YOUR HEARTS. GOD BLESS YOUR HEARTS.
My comment:
OH MY GOD. THIS IS SO HOPEFUL. OH MY GOD. OCCUPY FROM WHAT I CAN SEE HAS BEEN A SELF-CENTERED, INFANTILE, 'ME' CENTERED PIECE OF SH*T. BUT THIS IS THE OPPOSITE!!! OMG. FOCUSED ON THE GLOBAL NEEDIEST?!?!?!?!? AMERICANS DON'T DO THAT! BUT YOU ARE! GOD BLESS YOUR HEARTS. GOD BLESS YOUR HEARTS.
3.18.2012
det. 'You are to be called 'Loving,' now. There's no more time for 'Start.'' sLoving
I totally didn't see 'Start Loving,' coming. Wham, one morning, early February, 6am or so, in front of the White House, deep in pondering, wham - 'Start Loving' is what you are, I 'hear;' there is no time for you to waste being called otherwise. 'OK,' was my response.
I'm now understanding that there is no more time to be called 'Start.' What's that, anyway? Well, I wasn't 'Loving' 5 years ago when 'Start Loving' emerged as my name. I was a 'Start' toward that. When it became clear that 'Start Loving' was who I was, what I was, what I stood for, what I believed in, what I yearned for, obviously 'Start Loving' is what would serve my work the best. That there would be a further change never occurred to me.
But here it is. I wasn't 'Loving' 5 years ago. I didn't think of it like that, but looking back, I was a 'Start' toward 'Loving,' but I wasn't 'Loving.' I couldn't be under that name.
But I can now. I must, now. There's no time for anything else.
Loving
I'm now understanding that there is no more time to be called 'Start.' What's that, anyway? Well, I wasn't 'Loving' 5 years ago when 'Start Loving' emerged as my name. I was a 'Start' toward that. When it became clear that 'Start Loving' was who I was, what I was, what I stood for, what I believed in, what I yearned for, obviously 'Start Loving' is what would serve my work the best. That there would be a further change never occurred to me.
But here it is. I wasn't 'Loving' 5 years ago. I didn't think of it like that, but looking back, I was a 'Start' toward 'Loving,' but I wasn't 'Loving.' I couldn't be under that name.
But I can now. I must, now. There's no time for anything else.
Loving
det. 'Establishing the 'other side:' Luke Skywalker did, French Resistance did, etc, etc.' sLoving
I never saw this before. How infinitely easier to become an opposition, an effective [unviolent] warrior, when one can see a True, Righteous, Goodly, Noble... 'side' to join. 'Be the change the world needs to be.' They show a 'different way to be.' That's the Start. That's the beginning.
All hope springs from that. Be the person fighting unviolently, as a way of Life, as a way of Being, for our Global Neediest. Just being that, holding the position, being the position, being the 'way,' if the position is held long enough, despite overwhelming odds, THAT ALONE, makes it real, makes it something evident, something possible, something that can be joined - I can do that, I will do that.
At the end, when Luke is fighting the Emperor, I always saw that as Darth facing, seeing for the first time, really, the choice between his son, and Empire. I now see it in a much better light. Darth saw that there was a different side, a different way to be, a different direction to fight for, and he saw that it was preferable.
In the movie Iron Jawed Angels, we saw in the beginning, Alice Paul and her sergeant at arms, organizing outside a mill. A thin, eastern European immigrant woman, a poor mill worker, dismissed them, at least that was her intention, but when she saw that they didn't brush aside, she saw they were substantial, that they stood for something, they became material, they became a real alternative way of being, and she made that choice. Later in the movie, spoiler alert, a hideous matron guard, cruel, brutal, mean..., well, things changed.
'Be what the world needs to be.' This is the work. If you walk the 'Path,' you establish the Path, you make it real, visible, a choice, that others didn't have before, but they do now.
All hope springs from that. Be the person fighting unviolently, as a way of Life, as a way of Being, for our Global Neediest. Just being that, holding the position, being the position, being the 'way,' if the position is held long enough, despite overwhelming odds, THAT ALONE, makes it real, makes it something evident, something possible, something that can be joined - I can do that, I will do that.
At the end, when Luke is fighting the Emperor, I always saw that as Darth facing, seeing for the first time, really, the choice between his son, and Empire. I now see it in a much better light. Darth saw that there was a different side, a different way to be, a different direction to fight for, and he saw that it was preferable.
In the movie Iron Jawed Angels, we saw in the beginning, Alice Paul and her sergeant at arms, organizing outside a mill. A thin, eastern European immigrant woman, a poor mill worker, dismissed them, at least that was her intention, but when she saw that they didn't brush aside, she saw they were substantial, that they stood for something, they became material, they became a real alternative way of being, and she made that choice. Later in the movie, spoiler alert, a hideous matron guard, cruel, brutal, mean..., well, things changed.
'Be what the world needs to be.' This is the work. If you walk the 'Path,' you establish the Path, you make it real, visible, a choice, that others didn't have before, but they do now.
Straightening Titanic's Chairs: Solar power growth jumps to new record Reuters
Reuters -
Solar installers built 1855 megawatts of photovoltaic projects in 2011 for a total of $8.4 billion, up from 887 MW in 2010, according to a report released by GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). The growth in US demand comes ...
Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: David Brooks: Population implosion is taking a global toll Post-Bulletin
Post-Bulletin -
If the 20th century was the century of the population explosion, the 21st century, as Eberstadt notes, is looking like the century of the fertility implosion.
Condition of Bahrain hunger striker seen worsening Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune -
DUBAI (Reuters) - The condition of a jailed Bahraini activist who has been on hunger strike for over a month is deteriorating and prison authorities may force-feed him, a lawyer who visited him this week said on Wednesday.
Self Immolations in Tibet, Hunger Strikers in New York Huffington Post
Huffington Post -
It is day 21 of an "Indefinite Hunger Strike." They do so in solidarity and representation of the suffering their fellow Tibetans bear under the Chinese regime, on the Tibetan plateau.
Palestine children traumatized by Israeli jail-report Reuters
Reuters -
By Jihan Abdalla | RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Of the hundreds of Palestinian children locked in Israeli jails each year, the vast majority suffer nightmares, bed-wetting and anxiety after their release, Save the Children said in a report published ...
NaziIsrael: Israel calls for dismissal of UN agency tweeter Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Jewish Telegraphic Agency -
Khulood Badawi, the information and media coordinator for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Jerusalem, on March 10 tweeted a photo showing a dead Palestinian girl covered in blood in the arms of her father, ...
Tibetan protest erupts after farmer burns self Hindustan Times
Hindustan Times -
A protest calling for the return of the Dalai Lama and an end to Chinese rule has erupted as thousands of Tibetans gathered to mourn a farmer who burned himself to death, according to rights groups.
METEORIC: Israelis Agree Iran Hasn't Decided on Atom Bomb ABC News
ABC News -
Despite saber-rattling from Jerusalem, Israeli officials now agree with the US assessment that Tehran has not yet decided on the actual construction of a nuclear bomb, according to senior Israeli government and defense figures.
Global warming: Early snowmelt hits Colorado butterflies Summit County Citizens Voice
Summit County Citizens Voice -
But as the climate warms - April temps in particular have increased dramatically - it may become a much less common sight. A trend toward earlier snowmelt, documented at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Crested Butte, means the common ...
Making heretics of scientists casts a shadow Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning Herald -
Photo: Paul Jones Recent revelations that several prominent global warming sceptics are in the pay of the free-market American think tank the Heartland Institute come as no surprise to many who have witnessed the slow descent of the debate from the ...
Study says global warming could push DC's cherry blossoms to one day bloom in ... The Republic
The Republic -
According to the more dire global warming scenario the scientists used - one with unchecked global population growth - the District's cherry trees could be blooming 29 days earlier by 2080 and 13 days earlier by 2050.
Global Warming: Flood Risk Rising For Coastal Residents, Reports Say Huffington Post
Huffington Post -
By Deborah Zabarenko WASHINGTON, March 14 (Reuters) - For the nearly 5 million people who live along the US coasts from Maine to the Gulf of Mexico and the West Coast, rising seas fueled by global warming have doubled the risk of so-called ...
Global warming: Doctors foresee major health impacts Summit County Citizens Voice
Summit County Citizens Voice -
Pinkerton said that some of the prospective respiratory health impacts from global climate change will be direct, such as more asthma due to increases in particulate matter in the atmosphere because of desertification, or increases in pollen because of ...
GOPigs, DEMparasites - kill baby kill: More severe droughts and floods The Australian
The Australian -
Furthermore, with climate change now in the mix, it is even more important to take a broader, long-term perspective. Climate change is influencing more than just droughts, as the recent CSIRO-Bureau of Meteorology State of the Climate 2012 report ...
GOPigs, soooo Christlike: "Don't Re-Nig 2012.” Seller of Controversial Anti-Obama Sticker Says It's Not Racist Forbes
Forbes -
And they're selling their own version of an anti-Obama bumper sticker that reads “Don't Re-Nig 2012.” Ms. Smith told me in a telephone conversation on Saturday afternoon that the bumper sticker has been in their inventory since June 2010, ...
Ah, the Pedophile Gang: Santorum Defends Attacking Obama on Pornography, Iran Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal (blog) -
By Kristina Peterson GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum on Sunday defended his escalating attacks against President Barack Obama, who he said was going easy on pornographers and the government of Iran. The former Pennsylvania senator backed up his ...
GOP War on God (Truth): Obama Sets Gas Prices? Just Another GOP Myth New York Times
New York Times -
Bobby Jindal of Louisiana or Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma - does not flay President Obama for driving up oil prices by denying the industry access to oil and gas deposits and imposing ruinous environmental rules.
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