Earth Sings

The Basis of Sustainability

I certainly proved it in my garden this year.

REAL Economics

Water is a human right

Of Forests and Men

To commemorate 2011 as the International Year of Forests, the United Nations appointed Yann Arthus-Bertrand to create a short video to raise consciousness about forests. Using stunning aerial photography and video footage, the producer (whose previous online movie was seen by 400 million people) has done it again.

Video from KarmaTube

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

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

Climate Change 101

If you don't already know this, please watch. We all need to get on a REAL page together. I want this planet to work for my children's children's children. Don't you?

CLIMATE 101 from The Climate Reality Project on Vimeo.

The Beauty of Planet Earth

SAVING VALENTINE

When Gershon Cohen and Michael Fishbach set out for a Baja fishing expedition on Valentine's Day, they did not expect to encounter a creature that would change their lives.
The Humpback whale was so entangled in fishing nets that he could hardly move and faced imminent death. Armed only with a fishing knife, Fishbach, Cohen and friends worked diligently for three hours to free the imprisoned Caetecean. The process and result was extraordinary, hardly able to be captured in words. The video linked below says it all.
I learned about Valentine’s liberation minutes before going on the air for my weekly radio show Get Real on Hay House Radio. The show’s theme for the day was “Living Your Expanded Self.” I was inspired by the parallel between Valentine’s liberation and our own: Each of us has a contracted self that feels limited and imprisoned. We also have a greater self that is expansive and free. Like Valentine, we were born magnificent creatures with a vast ocean as our playground; in many ways we are rulers of that domain. Yet we have all been captured in other people’s nets, to the point that our fins are penned in and we cannot negotiate the movement we desire and deserve. Some of us may even feel suffocated to the point of near-death.
Yet this may require but a penknife of sharp intention and a period of focused attention to free us and return us to our natural expanded state. This summer might be a great opportunity for each of us to step back and consider whose nets we have gotten trapped in and the pen(etrating) knife of truth that can liberate us. Perhaps we inherited fears about money or safety from our parents. Or teachers taught us that we are incompetent. Or religious figures told us we are sinful and must spend our lives in guilt and struggle to redeem ourselves from our iniquities. Or we had a relationship or series of relationships that left us feeling wounded, guilty, or deficient. Or we absorbed our minds in media blaring statistics of lack, loss, crime, and disaster. All of these voices formed the twine of fear, guilt, and separateness that crimp our fins. Yet who we are is far greater and stronger than any external bindings, all of which are founded in illusion.
When your desire for freedom exceeds your willingness to accept the nets of the world, nothing outside you can encase you, and the vast ocean of possibility will once again be your domain of choice.
Alan Cohen

We Are All One

This short film shares an Indigenous Native American Prophecy that links all of life and the future of our planet.

Visit the website... Upload the file and spread the word!
http://www.weareallone-support.org/

Our purpose
We want to change the global markets to protect the future of our beautiful world. Every single person should make aware choices to contribute to help our environment.

We want to encourage everyone!
Spread the understanding that everyone has an individual power to make a difference, we are the consumers in this world, what we don't buy, doesn't sell.

Take action!
Please help us carry this message to various media, including the major TV networks. This is the lesson we all must learn and pass on to our children. We are privileged to put your compassion into action.

Oren Lyons, Floyd Red Crow Westerman, Native American, indigenous rights, united nations, Indian, Prophecy, Planet earth, nature, we are all one, activist

http://www.weareallone-support.org/

Do it for your planet, do it for your yard

Too Many Plastic Bottles

The water's not better and we have way too many plastic bottles already!

Everyone Must Act...........Now

For The Next 7 Generations Trailer from Laughing Willow on Vimeo.

Our Oceans Need You

Everybody knows that our atmosphere is absorbing all the tons of carbon dioxide(CO2) we create. What we might not think about is that the oceans do the same. The CO2 causes the oceans’ acid level to rise, dissolving the exoskeleton of marine life. “Ocean acidification is particularly harmful to surface and deep-water corals, plankton, snails, lobsters, clams, oysters and other mollusks” says The Ocean Conservancy. As these sea creatures make their “shells” they actually trap (sequester) CO2; without them CO2 will not be absorbed.

And when our oceans have sequestered as much CO2 as they can, every living thing in the ocean will die. “The ocean is the engine that drives our planet’s climate. It is our life support system, providing much of the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the resources we depend on for life every day. The ocean is essential for life. Unfortunately, the ocean will be the first ecosystem to suffer widespread effects of global climate change.” (Ocean Conservancy news) When the oceans die, we aren’t far behind.

Are you producing more CO2 than you need to? Have you taken measures to cut back on your consumption? Have you streamlined your energy use? Are you wasting water? These are questions that some people don’t think are very important right now; but they’re wrong. If we are to leave a sustainable planet (one that will live on) for our children, we all need to do our part.

We can all take easy steps to cut down our use of precious natural resources by turning off electronics and lights when not in use, by programming our thermostat to only power-up when we are there and by reducing our car travel. All these simple measures go a long way to reduce our carbon footprint.

Saving water isn’t hard either. By drinking water from a pitcher or a reusable water bottle, by only running a full dishwasher or washer, and by using rainwater to water your yard - you can save a lot of water.

Remember that that single use plastic bottle you buy becomes the reason for all the plastic pellets starving the wildlife…the fertilizer you put on your yard becomes the reason for all the algae blooms killing out the oxygen in our waterways…that plastic bag becomes the noose that drowns our sea creatures…that unfiltered stormwater becomes the reason for all the silt killing our creeks, rivers and deltas. Remember and make another choice.

We are all intelligent people. We want to do what’s right for our children. We just have to remember what’s right for them is what’s right for the planet. You can make the difference. Start today.
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Sharon Goddard is the Green Lady (http://sites.google.com/site/greenladybiz), providing home and business energy audits, energy efficiency overhauls for homes, and green builder marketing. She has spent most of her life working for the planet. Most recently she put more than 8,000 individuals to work serving the community with programs she created. Sharon believes that we all have to do our part to stop climate change. If you’d like to follow her progress go to http://greenladyaudits.blogspot.com.

Alexander Selby is an amazing videographer!