3.20.2012
3.19.2012
WOW: Germany's $263 Billion Renewables Shift Biggest Since War BusinessWeek
BusinessWeek -
By Stefan Nicola on March 19, 2012 Not since the allies leveled Germany in World War II has Europe's biggest economy undertaken a reconstruction of its energy market on this scale. Chancellor Angela Merkel is planning to build offshore wind farms that ...
Hope? The Great Renewable Energy Race Bloomberg
Bloomberg -
Global investment in renewable energy climbed to a record $260 billion last year, and the race for clean power is just getting started.
US Dirty Oil on Public Lands. Guess why Oil Co's vote Republican? valuewalk
ValueWalk -
Roughly two-thirds of the US's oil shale fields in Colorado, Wyoming and Utah are in federally-protected areas and closed to development.
Keystone pipeline will spill, study predicts Salon
Salon -
Tar sands oil - known in energy circles as diluted bitumen - may be more damaging to environments and communities than regular crude.
Natural Gas a Weak Weapon Against Climate Change, New Study Asserts Boulder Weekly
Boulder Weekly -
Although natural gas burns more cleanly than coal, a new study argues that replacing all the world's coal power plants with natural gas would do little to slow global warming this century. "There are lots of reasons to like natural gas, but climate ...
HOPE: ND Democrats ready to 'fight back' in 2012Grand Forks Herald
Jamestown Sun -
... North Dakota Democrats hope 2012 will be the year voters here finally elect a woman - and maybe two - to the US Congress.
'Jesus said, 'Love your Enemies.' He did NOT say, 'Ignore,' 'Deny,' 'Unoppose' them!!!' sLoving
Relative to 'Enemies' I am recognizing two deadly pitfalls I've been in all my days, at least, typical pitfalls for one raised in the Light of Jesus, as I was:
1. Not recognizing Enemies. Jesus clearly teaches to Love the enemy, and for me, that has meant being 'blind,' in 'denial,' to their existence.
2. Mis-Representing 'Enemies' to oneself. NEVER can they be the person. NEVER. BUT THEY MUST BE SEEN AS THE EVIL (OPPOSITE OF 'LIVE,' LIFE PRODUCING) WITHIN THE PERSON, PERSONS, ORGANIZATIONS....
3. Not Warring, Unviolently, against them with every particle of being.
1. Not recognizing Enemies. Jesus clearly teaches to Love the enemy, and for me, that has meant being 'blind,' in 'denial,' to their existence.
2. Mis-Representing 'Enemies' to oneself. NEVER can they be the person. NEVER. BUT THEY MUST BE SEEN AS THE EVIL (OPPOSITE OF 'LIVE,' LIFE PRODUCING) WITHIN THE PERSON, PERSONS, ORGANIZATIONS....
3. Not Warring, Unviolently, against them with every particle of being.
URGENT. Loving Here: I may need Funding Help, Manpower help, Immediately. Circulate This.
YOU NEED TO SERIOUSLY CONSIDER HELPING WITH THIS - $$$$, FUNDRAISING, MANPOWER FOR RESEARCH. FOR GOD'S SAKE, DON'T BLOW THIS OFF. LET ME KNOW. CIRCULATE TO YOUR FRIENDS. NOW. Tomorrow, is too late.
I envision my role three fold going forward the next 3 months or so:
1. Continuing to 'be' opposition, 'the' opposition with every breath. To be the other 'side,' the alternative to living with the status quo of environmental armageddon. This is the most important thing that I, you or anyone can do.
2. Filling the Planning/Progress Report Void. Would you have a crucial flight to catch, yet not know - where the airport is, what time the plane leaves, how to get there, what time it is now, how fast you are traveling, what the wait time at check-in is...???? No. Yet this is precisely the situation regarding environmental armageddon. There are literally dozens if not thousands of articles every day on the environment, but no plan, no status report, no benchmark, no reference mark to judge what they mean! 'Brazil has reduced forest destruction 80%,' for example. So what? It that 80% of what we need, or .0001%? 'Wind power growth doubled last year.' So what? Is that twice what we needed to be on track to reducing the use of carbon 80% by 2020, or is it .00001% of what we needed. NO ONE KNOWS, RIGHT NOW. What the Hell do we need all these articles for, if they don't tell us anything?!?!? If, IF I devote myself, I can begin to move us out of this total darkness. Correction. I can begin to move ME out of this total darkness. I have every reason so far to expect that just as my efforts thus far have been carefully ignored, they will be ignored going forward. But that isn't my responsibility. And no, I am not feeling sorry for me. I'm feeling sorry for Humanity.
3. Filling a crucial 'visibility' void - in front of the White House. The Hope for Saving HomeEarth is that the Children, the Youth will wake up to what we are doing to their home. The next possibility isn't one millionth as hopeful. 10,000 kids or more from all over the country, and world, will go thru the WH park this spring. I want to be there 12 hours per clement day blaring KIDS VOICES like these - http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/2012/03/i-beg-you-get-this-seen-nick-news.html . But I'm under massive constraints - I live on the streets for the privilege of devoting 100%, not 99% of my Life to these issues; hence, I am massively constrained on where, when, and how I can power sound equipment, and my computer. I need sound power loud enough to get noticed in that massive park, and that lasts 14 hours. And, it needs to fit in my already bulging suitcase. I have no home. I have no storage. I have much experience with this, and massive practice. I know the batteries. I know the PA systems. I have tech question emails out to several vendors, but it looks like: A. I have the loudspeaker (but the criminally shoddy, international vendor, Beringer (epa40), has neglected to import replacement batteries for over a year. Literally, and mine's dead. Wish I had a lawyer.). B. The Battery I need must be able to fully recharge in 8 hours, and then last 12, every day. The one battery that can do that is this, and it needs an inverter http://www.amazon.com/Goal0-Ranger-Battery-Universal-Inverter/dp/B004FT5OIA/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1332166307&sr=8-4 .
3. Streamlining Start Loving blog to be more of an environmental resource center. For weeks now I've devoted many hours per day culling the articles that apply to the 4-prongued Plan B 3.0, and posting them. But Start Loving blog's main page is crammed with much, much, much stuff, diminishing it's ability to be a readily searchable resource center. I envision re-orienting the site, breaking it into sub-pages / tabs, so that the main page is clear as a searchable resource center.
I'm already throwing myself at this. But I haven't a fraction of the resources necessary. You need to step up, yourself, with friends, with acquaintances....
I envision my role three fold going forward the next 3 months or so:
1. Continuing to 'be' opposition, 'the' opposition with every breath. To be the other 'side,' the alternative to living with the status quo of environmental armageddon. This is the most important thing that I, you or anyone can do.
2. Filling the Planning/Progress Report Void. Would you have a crucial flight to catch, yet not know - where the airport is, what time the plane leaves, how to get there, what time it is now, how fast you are traveling, what the wait time at check-in is...???? No. Yet this is precisely the situation regarding environmental armageddon. There are literally dozens if not thousands of articles every day on the environment, but no plan, no status report, no benchmark, no reference mark to judge what they mean! 'Brazil has reduced forest destruction 80%,' for example. So what? It that 80% of what we need, or .0001%? 'Wind power growth doubled last year.' So what? Is that twice what we needed to be on track to reducing the use of carbon 80% by 2020, or is it .00001% of what we needed. NO ONE KNOWS, RIGHT NOW. What the Hell do we need all these articles for, if they don't tell us anything?!?!? If, IF I devote myself, I can begin to move us out of this total darkness. Correction. I can begin to move ME out of this total darkness. I have every reason so far to expect that just as my efforts thus far have been carefully ignored, they will be ignored going forward. But that isn't my responsibility. And no, I am not feeling sorry for me. I'm feeling sorry for Humanity.
3. Filling a crucial 'visibility' void - in front of the White House. The Hope for Saving HomeEarth is that the Children, the Youth will wake up to what we are doing to their home. The next possibility isn't one millionth as hopeful. 10,000 kids or more from all over the country, and world, will go thru the WH park this spring. I want to be there 12 hours per clement day blaring KIDS VOICES like these - http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/2012/03/i-beg-you-get-this-seen-nick-news.html . But I'm under massive constraints - I live on the streets for the privilege of devoting 100%, not 99% of my Life to these issues; hence, I am massively constrained on where, when, and how I can power sound equipment, and my computer. I need sound power loud enough to get noticed in that massive park, and that lasts 14 hours. And, it needs to fit in my already bulging suitcase. I have no home. I have no storage. I have much experience with this, and massive practice. I know the batteries. I know the PA systems. I have tech question emails out to several vendors, but it looks like: A. I have the loudspeaker (but the criminally shoddy, international vendor, Beringer (epa40), has neglected to import replacement batteries for over a year. Literally, and mine's dead. Wish I had a lawyer.). B. The Battery I need must be able to fully recharge in 8 hours, and then last 12, every day. The one battery that can do that is this, and it needs an inverter http://www.amazon.com/Goal0-Ranger-Battery-Universal-Inverter/dp/B004FT5OIA/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1332166307&sr=8-4 .
3. Streamlining Start Loving blog to be more of an environmental resource center. For weeks now I've devoted many hours per day culling the articles that apply to the 4-prongued Plan B 3.0, and posting them. But Start Loving blog's main page is crammed with much, much, much stuff, diminishing it's ability to be a readily searchable resource center. I envision re-orienting the site, breaking it into sub-pages / tabs, so that the main page is clear as a searchable resource center.
I'm already throwing myself at this. But I haven't a fraction of the resources necessary. You need to step up, yourself, with friends, with acquaintances....
Brazil delays vote on bill regulating deforestation CNN International
CNN International -
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
New York Times (blog) -
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, ...
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