We are all ONE!

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Only Earth

Definitely not there yet. We need to be more of who we are.

The Story of Solutions

Love this.

Back to the land

Vandana Shiva speaks about the crises of today and the two most important things we can and must do to solve them. Clips taken from the documentary HOME & "131 Years of Global Warming in 26 Seconds" Music is from the Terminator 2 soundtrack.

What would you add to the new story?

Kindness, inclusion, happiness, gentle action. These are all things I'm acting on lately.

"What did you do once you knew?"

Watch this. Take action. Vote. Join other's who are part of the solution.

UNsustainable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Externalities

"Externalities" from Sustainable Man on Vimeo.

These are not really out of the reality. They are where we live!

We are so WOW!!!!!

So beautiful. If we can only allow it in our own lives.

This is what "WE ARE ALL ONE" means

I'm attending an intuition class at the Center for Spiritual Living with Veronica Valles on Wed. evenings. You might enjoy it.

REAL Economics

A New Paradigm

Loved this.

What we can do about climate change......

This is long but worth the listen if you want to know how we can heal our damaged planet.

Alan Watts Worth the Listen

Stay Close to Your God

If you are one of the 1,036,563 people looking for work in Texas, you are not alone. And I have some thoughts for you. I am on my own journey of finding my place in the world of “right livelihood”. It’s not an easy path.

According to the Texas Department of Numbers, that total has increased since August of 2010 by 46,492 unemployed people and I’m not even on their list.

You might not be on their list either. If you were like me and not even illegible for Unemployment Insurance for the work you were doing or have taken a low-paying job, below your experience level, just to survive, you’re not on their list either.

After more than two years, I have found some ways to keep going. I’m very grateful that I’m surrounded by loving family and friends and connected to a strong church community. I hope some of these thoughts will help you. Pass them along if they do.

■See your friends – even if you don’t want to, stay connected. Just their smile will lift you up.
■Make sure you know what employment you want, so you can tell them. They can’t refer you if they don’t know what you do.
■Meet others in your situation – you are not the only one. Networking groups (emphasis on “working”) abound.
■Prepare many resumes, from all angles, where you list only the bare facts to one that includes all your grand accomplishments. Always play to their job description.
■Keep your family in the loop – interviews, possibilities, good leads. They can only support what they know about.
■Seek help from organizations and agencies designed to help you in this time of need.
Agency Website Phone
211 Texas www.211texas.org/211 211
Child and Family Guidance Center www.childrenandfamilies.info 214.351.3490
Dallas County www.dallascounty.org/departments.php 214.653.7011
Family Study Center www8.utsouthwestern.edu/utsw/cda/dept28702/files/186779.html 214.648.6945
Food stamps www.hhsc.state.tx.us/help/food/foodstamps/index.html 877.541.7905
LDS Jobs www.ldsjobs.org/ers/ct/home.jsf 972-446-3733
MetroCare www.metrocareservices.org 214.743.1200
Metrocrest Family Clinic www.mfmclinic.com 972.484.8444
Metrocrest Services www.metrocrestsocialservices.org 972.446.2100
Texas Workforce www.twc.state.tx.us 214.920.3663

■Keep your spiritual community close and attend services. Let them know your situation so they can support you.
■Focus on what you want and how you will feel when you get it. Focusing on the past and how bad it was will get you more of the SAME.

Only when you realize that you deserve a place where you can use your gifts and talents while being generously compensated, will that employer and that position be drawn to you. Keep on keeping on - focusing on where you want to be employed and what you want your new job to be like. The more “visualizing” you do today, the more your tomorrows will look like your dreams.

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Sharon Goddard is Green Lady, a "green" marketing and sustainability leader. She is a consultant, speaker and writer. Her website (https://sites.google.com/site/greenladybiz/Welcome) addresses simple solutions for making a difference for the planet. Sharon lives in Carrollton where, since 2003, she has plugged-in 8,212 individual citizens to community service with programs she created, orchestrated and funded. That didn’t stop her from being unemployed. Share your story with Sharon at sharonspersonal@yahoo.com.

She's Alive, Beautiful, Finite, Hurting, Worth Saving...........

Don't miss this. We all need to do something.....TODAY!

Turn the plastic "trash" into oil !!!!!!!

Put plastic back into the oil it came from.

Not surprised by this at all, just a case of Japanese ingenuity and perseverance. What a concept to have one in every home instead of a trash compactor! Better yet, find a way to stop packaging everything in plastic.

The audio is in Japanese but reading the subtitles explains everything. What a great discovery!

Let's Do It!

What a wonderful example of how we should be getting everything done. There are so many people who want to help. All we have to do is show them the issue and make a plan to make it happen. They'll do the rest.

Art on Planetary Scale Shines Spotlight on Climate Change

This hurricane has a positive spin. The devastating hurricanes that hit the Mexican states of Nuevo Leon and Veracruz earlier this year were an all too somber indicator of Mexico's vulnerability to climate change and to the sad reality that more frequent and more intense hurricanes are already happening in many countries. Today 3,500 schoolchildren and members of the community came together in Mexico City's Venustiano Carranza plaza to form a "human hurricane" to send a more beautifully packaged version of the same message. In the lead up to the UN Climate Negotiations, which will begin next week in Cancun, participants are sending a message to global leaders that the time to act on climate is now and Mexico does not have time to waste. See more photos at http://earth.350.org/big-pictures

LOS ANGELES — The first global art show on climate change kicked off this weekend, launching several symbolic performances seen from space that bring people and planet together to highlight the hazards of global warming.

From the US southwest to spots in countries like China, Egypt, India and Spain, thousands of volunteers were coming together for the weeklong photo-performance project that ends November 27, just ahead of UN climate talks in Cancun, Mexico.

Using human bodies as the main media, the show was organized by US environmentalist Bill McKibben and his 350 Earth advocacy group, whose name points to the number of parts per million that most scientists agree is an acceptable upper level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Currently, that level is about 390 parts per million.

The group brought the global project into focus Saturday in the United States and Spain.

In Santa Fe, New Mexico, more than 1,000 Girl Scouts and other residents holding blue posters crammed into a dry riverbed to form a human "flash flood" depicting where the Santa Fe River should be flowing.

"It's hot in here, there's too much carbon in the atmosphere!" the volunteers chanted.

At 10:53 am, participants flipped their cardboard posters to the blue side so a passing satellite could photograph them from orbit.

People also gathered in Delta Del Ebro, Spain to walk through a huge maze conceived by artist Jorge Rodriguez Gerada, while in New York a painting depicting the New York and New Jersey coastline after a seven-meter (23-foot) rise in sea levels was unveiled on a rooftop and photographed from space.

Thom Yorke, lead singer of rock supergroup Radiohead and an advocate of climate action, put a succinct message about the 350 Earth project on his band's website.

"The plan is to make images visible from the skies to remind those in Cancun that we are running out of time. We can't keep putting this off," Yorke wrote.

On Sunday thousands were gathering at a state park outside Los Angeles to form a giant image of an eagle taking flight over a field of solar panels, while on Monday in Mexico City, thousands of children will create a huge hurricane, with the number 350 depicted in the eye of the storm.

Mumbai will see schoolchildren group together in the shape of an elephant to represent the "elephant in the room" that is climate change.

In Australia, a torch display will form the number "350," in a warning about the risk of more wildfires if global warming is not halted.

And in Iceland, artists at the foot of a receding glacier plan to arrange red rescue tents in the shape of a giant polar bear.

McKibben acknowledged before the project that technical terms can be weak when it comes to inspiring people to change, but he was confident the images photographed from space would resonate with those who see them.

"One of the things I hope this achieves is to remind people that we live on a planet. Just like Venus and Mars, we are a hunk of rock out in space and our future depends on, among other things, the gaseous composition of our atmosphere," McKibben said.

The UN forum has made dismal progress toward a global deal to reduce harmful emissions, and McKibben said was he not optimistic about the Cancun talks.

"I think it is going to be a longer process than everyone has hoped."

Parliament of World Religions

2009 Parliament Slideshow from Parliament of Religions on Vimeo.

The Council for the Parliament of the World’s Religions’ mission promotes inter-religious harmony, rather than unity, an approach enriched by the particularities of each tradition. Its goal is a just, peaceful and sustainable world where religious and cultural fears and hatreds are replaced with understanding and respect based on mutual values, and the earth and all life are cherished, protected, healed and restored for the common good. CPWR holds a PWR every five years. More than 6,000 people attended the December 2009 PWR in Melbourne, Australia.

Dallas-Fort Worth is one of three official bid cities for the 2014 Parliament of the World’s Religions. A coalition of local spiritual and religious organizations are working together in this effort to be the host city. It is the only US city being considered. The two other candidates are Brussels, Belgium, and Guadalajara, Mexico. A final decision won’t be announced until October 2011.