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It is undeniable that the world wants to change Chevron. People from all over the globe are signing this petition, people young and old, from so many backgrounds. We’ve had celebrities, musicians, investors, and Chevron employees standing up and demanding change from one of the largest corporations on the planet.

As the new leader of the 3rd largest oil company in the world, CEO John Watson can right the wrongs of his predecessors and transform his company into one that cares.

150,000+ are saying “Enough is enough. Energy shouldn’t cost lives.”

From Ecuador to Richmond,CA to Burma and everywhere the oil giant operates in-between they leave a trail of environmental devastation, human rights abuses, and a legacy of health problems.

150,000+ say ENOUGH to Big Oil destroying our environment and the health of our communities.

Chevron, and their Big Oil cohorts, spend hundreds of millions of dollars on lobbyists and political contributions to buy off politicians and destroy policies that would be good for our climate and our future.

150,000+ people say ENOUGH to Chevron’s control of our government and our democracy.

To truly change Chevron and the oil industry, we are going to need to be 150,000 x stronger and louder and more powerful than we ever have been before. Our communities, our climate, our planet, and our future depend on it.

You in?

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And now, still learning educating and training the younger generation’s to involve individually and collectively in all eco-development activities and decision makings  I have individually conducted hundreds of seminars and converted them to eco-actions,

24 hour x 7 days Snake Rescues along with a trained team,

Free seminars, slid shows and movie for the all local and surrounded educational institutions,

Conservation based weed removal action for Tribal livelihood development trainings

Clean renewable energy solar lamp implementation to rural and tribal those not accessed with power,

And many innovative initiatives like craft from the plant lantana camera which is considered as a weed destroying native forest and farm lands, GREEN CROSS eco action clubs, and more to bring a change in the un-mind full living of the most populace   even though we find very tuff and hard to move every step without any support, I believe that we can make it, I also swear that what ever happens I am not going to quit my duty towards nature, of conserving the only home at least in this 11 hour... 

This time of the year there is a single word that none of us want to hear – FLU. But there are three words that will help protect you and your family from the flu and other viruses – Strengthen Immune System. Avoid infection by building immunity, think preventive by using herbs for immune booster.

Arcozon features herbs from the Rainforest that are the most potent immune booster herbs. Arcozon supports the immune system, fights virus, fungus, bacteria, yeast, clears lungs and reduces mucus. Key ingredients are Pau d’arco, Una de Gato, (Cats Claw) Espinheira Santa, Suma, Muira Puama, Catuaba, Alfalfa.

Many are calling Una de Gato (Cats Claw) the Miracle Herb from the Rainforest of Peru, is probably the most powerful immune booster. Other healing properties of Una de Gato, (Cats Claw) reduces pain and inflammation, protects cells, fights free radicals, kills viruses and cleanses bowel.

Pau d’arco contains a chemical called lapachol, which may provide nutritional support to strengthen immune system. Pau d’arco is also used to treat a wide range of conditions, such as, kills bacteria, kills fungi, kills viruses, relieves pain, reduces inflammation, kills parasites and fights free radicals.

Jatoba has been used as a system energizer, helps with yeast infections, urinary tract infections and for treating respiratory problems.

Espinheira Santa supports the adrenal glands, which may help to improve energy levels and immune system.

Muira Puama is mainly used as herbal remedies that promotes healthy sexual function, other healing properties are calms nerves, relieves depression, protects brain cells, enhances memory, relieves pain and reduces fatigue.

Suma enhances energy and vitality and shows great promise to strengthen immune system, it is an adaptogenic herb.

Catuaba herb has been traditionally used to calms nerves, reduces anxiety, kills viruses and kills bacteria.

Alfalfa contains protein and vitamin A, vitamin B1, vitamin B6, vitamin C, vitamin E, and vitamin K. It also
contains calcium, potassium, carotene, iron, and zinc. Contains 8 essential enzymes that are great to aid the body with digestion.

Save The Rainforest with Herbal Relief

My grandfather had bow from riding a horse.  He had been foreman of an orchard in San Jose, where he met my Swedish grandmother whose family owned the orchard.  They planted trees, and reaped the rewards of their efforts.  My mother was a teacher in Santa Barbara.  After the fires had destroyed many of the trees in the hills of Santa Barbara, my grandfather and her took her class into the hills and planted trees.  I was a geologist who studied the nature of the earth and it's systems.  After Hurricane Katrina, I joined 11th hour seeking a method to curb global warming.

I found the most effective way to do this is to do what my grandfather, and mother did, plant trees.  Once awareness of the problem is clear, the solution becomes clear.  At ten cents per tree, this is the best solution I have found to curb the effects of Global Warming:  http://www.treesftf.org/

Politics, science, etc do absolutely nothing unless action is taken.  Putting trees into the dirt and actually growing them is more valuable than all the action groups raising awareness, but producing no action.  While there are many noble causes and actions taking place in the world at many different levels, I find planting trees at ten cents per tree the most productive use of money for the world community.

Planting trees now will help moderate weather conditions until advanced technical solutions are established to replace the fossil fuels we currently burn to run the world economies on.  

So if you can take ten minutes from surfing the web, and check out this one website, perhaps you will see the profound effects planting trees can have on community, livelihood, preserving and restoring habitat, and a host of other benefits...at just ten cents per tree. 

It's not rocket science and ten trees can be planted for the cost of one soda.  I don't see how this will break the piggy bank of most Americans.

My ten cents worth,

Steve

Trees for the future link. 

http://www.treesftf.org/ 

My Facebook cause link:

http://apps.facebook.com/causes/313496/63755765?m=12d3bddc 

Here's a link on how to plant trees for about ten cents per tree:

 http://apps.facebook.com/causes/313496/63755765?m=12d3bddc 

Michael Jackson's album Off the Wall came out 21 days after my 17th birthday, and at the time thanks to ABBA, I really did think I was a Dancing Queen. (lol) My 8-track of Off the Wall was played and danced to over and over and over again. That album and Michael Jackson have made an ever lasting impression on me. Music, art, and film always have the greatest impact on you when you are open to receiving the message.

Michael Jackson's Earth Song which came out in 1995 was his first single that overtly dealt with the environment and animal welfare. I was not completely surprised when I read this past week how Earth Song was a top five hit in most European countries, and in the UK, it remains Jackson's best-selling single. Sadly, Earth Song was not even released as a single in the United States. I wonder why? Maybe the reason was the US was not open to receiving this message at the time.

Earth Song was accompanied by a lavish music video which had an environmental theme, showing images of animal cruelty, deforestation, pollution and war. Jackson and the world's people unite in a spiritual chant Earth Song which summons a force that heals the world. Using special effects, time is reversed so that life returns, war ends and the forests regrow.

The video was filmed in four geographic regions. The first location was the Amazon Rainforest, where a large part was destroyed a week after the video's completion. Natives of the region appeared in the video and were not actors. The second scene was a war zone in Croatia, with residents of the area. The third location was Tanzania, which incorporated scenes of illegal poaching and hunting into the video. No animals were harmed in the making of the Earth Song, as the footage came from documentary archives. However, a poacher killed an elephant within a mile of the shot. The final location was in Warwick, New York, where a safe forest fire was simulated in a corn field.

Michael said this about Earth Song:

"I remember writing Earth Song when I was in Austria, in a hotel. And I was feeling so much pain and so much suffering of the plight of the Planet Earth. And for me, this is Earth's Song, because I think nature is trying so hard to compensate for man's mismanagement of the Earth. And with the ecological unbalance going on, and a lot of the problems in the environment, I think earth feels the pain, and she has wounds, and it's about some of the joys of the planet as well. But this is my chance to pretty much let people hear the voice of the planet. And this is "Earth Song." And that's what inspired it."

I was happy I came across so many eco-bloggers like Treehugger, Ecorazzie and many others blogging about this song since Michael Jackson's transition last week. I hope this music video gets shown all over the world and especially here in the United States.  Here's wishing that we are now more open to receiving this message and the wonderful gift of music and video from a true genius.

You can view Michael Jackson's Earth Song video HERE.

Purpose: The purpose of the Paulownia Reforestation Project (“PRP”) is the achievement of global reforestation through Project Partnering in the application and development of environmentally sustainable agro-forestry and silviculture practices that demonstrate economic self-sufficiency. Additionally, we offer a viable solution to Global Warming via the miracle Paulownia Tree.

Method:

Regionalized Propagation Nurseries

The heart of the PRP plant genetics and propagation technology was originally developed over two decades at a research and development Paulownia nursery in Rosedale, California. The propagation stocks, which are cloned from tissue cultures developed in California, will be produced at regional propagation nurseries such as our Kauai, Hawaii headquarters. All of the new starts required within a region will be produced in close proximity to where reforestation projects are being established. Stocks from regional propagation nurseries will then be transferred for planting to the PRP Field Services group assisting a non-profit or commercial alliance partner.

The PRP headquarter nursery, and SAFE training facility has been established in the South Pacific with a fully functioning propagation nursery. PRP envisions establishing numerous regional propagation nurseries within the first 2 years of the program, established through it's partner project S.A.F.E. (Sustainable Alternative Farming Experience) with a minimum of seven in the United States and a minimum of eight international facilities.

Regionalized Field Services

Once the tree stocks have been prepared for planting at the regional nurseries, it is essential that a qualified team is on-site to assure the success of reforestation efforts. PRP will assemble regionalized on-site teams under the heading of Field Services. These teams will be responsible for the shoulder-to-shoulder relationships with growers, providing hands-on training as well as organizational support.

Proactive Reforestation

Our reforestation goals will be achieved through myriad applications of the Paulownia tree, an extraordinary natural resource with a recorded history dating back to 500 BC in China .

The techniques used by the PRP will reclaim deforested, desert, and degraded lands while simultaneously relieving pressure upon local and indigenous forests. Additionally, jobs will be created that invigorate the environment through the production of sustainable sources of wood and food (via inter-cropping with Paulownia). Paulownia is applied in two areas where efforts of reforestation are mutually beneficial to the local and global communities. These areas are:

1. Non-Profit Alliances ~ 15+ Million Trees: PRP Paulownia tree stocks, produced at regionalized propagation nurseries, and training programs, timber farm and native reforestation technologies, provided by PRP Field Services, will be donated to strategic planting partners worldwide in order to accelerate global reforestation.

Additionally, PRP tree stocks and technical services will be donated directly to tragedy relief groups through the UN and other organizations dedicated to land remediation through reforestation. Our relationship with Peace Portal, P3, and Worldwide Developers Foundation provides the organic benefit to PRP of ongoing alliances with like-minded, globally active, non-profit partners.

Many of our alliance partners have a proven track record in reforestation and maintain an active presence in the geographic and cultural area(s) of their interest.

Initially, via these alliances, PRP will export and donate inventory, facilities, and expertise, as in-kind goods and services, to areas of need worldwide.

Ultimately, the same PRP Paulownia tree stocks, training programs, nurseries, timber farm and native reforestation technologies will be provided to other groups, such as, Amerindians, their indigenous global counterparts, as well as inner-city programs.

2. Commercial Alliances (RLP Fund) ~ 10+ Million Trees: The impetus for introducing reforestation into the commerce of a region is based upon the need to produce timber products locally, thus stimulating local economics and removing pressure from native and reclaimed forestry preserves.

PRP will stimulate proactive reforestation efforts by providing a Revolving Loan Program (“RLP”) in areas where indigenous people have limited or no timber resources and where farmers contend with depressed agricultural conditions. The self-liquidating RLP loans will be applied to preparing lands and providing training where commercial joint-venture timber farms and plantations consist of fast-growing Paulownia.

As may be appropriate in individual regions, inter-cropping with Paulownia may be applied to the development of fruit and nut orchards as well as more traditional food-source crops. Loan recipients begin repayment with their first timber harvest, often occurring after the first year’s growth due to Paulownia’s ability to regenerate with straighter, faster growth after coppicing (cutting at ground level).

These repayments will be used to maintain the RLP Fund and to produce additional tree stocks, thereby enabling additional RLP allotments and expanding the program to other regions. This process offers significant cultural and economic gains to local communities and their farmers, and simultaneously, increases the number of trees on the planet, heals localized environmental scars, and provides a path toward environmental sustainability.

Our goal is to respond to global warming emergency and build toward a sustainable future. Greenhouse gas emissions are on the rise and concentration of CO2 and other thermally active gases in the atmosphere are increasing. If the warming trend continues and CO2 emissions are not addressed global climate change could result.

Several types of policy instruments have been offered for consideration in the attempt to exercise control over this threat.

Examples include: CO2 taxes for big CO2 producing corporations, CO2 credits and subsidies for the use of non-fossil fuels, etc. Many of these are directed toward national emission reductions to fulfill the requirements of the Kyoto Protocol. Global scale reductions in greenhouse gases and CO2 emissions are the aim of policies to achieve abatement of the potent impacts of global warming.

"This is a good step however counties that have excessively high emissions are not responding and reduction is simply not enough to call the Kyoto protocol a solution for global warming."

CO2 credits do not accomplish the actual sequestration of CO2 and other harmful gases and dusts emitted into the our daily air supply and atmosphere.

We understand the process of CO2 sequestration and feel the Kyoto protocol is at best a valiant effort towards our global urgency to reduce and sequester CO2 and other harmful gases and dusts.

To further the CO2 credits frenzy is to mask the problem. (This is simply not enough) We need a global reforestation initiation and a global protocol that works.

The only solution is to sequester the CO2 and harmful gases and dusts directly out of the air through tree planting and production of low emission fuels. We need to direct the attention toward high CO2 sink points and out put areas around the globe.

Initiate global reforestation and cut Global emissions A.S.A.P.

Paulownia is the highest CO2 exchange tree available.

We are networking and conducting a complete study of planetary thermodynamics (heat studies) and meteorology (weather studies) to find specific locations for paulownia tree planting projects.

And we invite anyone with knowledge in these fields to help this process develop into a strategic plan.

   HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

This is one of my favorite Happy Birthday cartoons that I have sent via e-mail over the past year to people who would think it was funny.  I am gladly retiring this cartoon as of today.

The Hallmark greeting card company has never made much money on me when it comes to sending holiday greetings, birthday wishes, or to remember and honor a special occasion. Instead I choose to show I care in an environmentally friendly way by sending e-cards and cartoons. In the past I would usually find a funny cartoon or picture like the one above to e-mail because most of the e-cards were pretty lame. But I found wonderful free e-cards on Rattlebox. These e-cards are funny, smart, and unique because many e-cards use vintage movies.

Thanksgiving and the holidays will be upon us soon, so send an e-card to family and friends and reduce your carbon footprint.

Today, November 11th is also Veterans Day, and Rattlebox has e-cards you can send to the special veteran in your life.

LEXUS Challenges Kids to Perform

The Lexus Eco Challenge is a life-changing opportunity for teens across the nation to make a difference in the environmental health of our planet, one community at a time.

The annual Lexus Eco Challenge just began its second year, and it's not too late to participate. Developed with Scholastic, the Challenge is a national competition that invites middle and high school students to devise solutions to environmental problems in their communities through a series of challenge categories: water, land, and air/climate. The student team with the best idea in each category will win $10,000 in scholarships and grants, which go to the students, their schools, and their teachers. The winning teams will then compete for a $50,000 grand prize in a Final Challenge - in all, $1 million in grants and scholarships will be awarded.

Parents, teachers, and students interested in participating should visit http://www.scholastic.com/lexus/to learn more.