Email your Senators and tell them to VOTE YES on Clean Energy Jobs for America.

There's a clean energy bill sitting, waiting in Congress.

A bill that the Natural Resources Defense Council Action Fund says "will break foreign oil's stranglehold on our country, reduce carbon pollution, and create jobs right here in America--good jobs that pay well and can't be outsourced."

And the NRDC Action Fund wants you to do something about it. It's simple enough-- visit thisisourmoment.org to email your senators and ask them to pass the Clean Energy Jobs & American Power Act. They even got an all-star cast including Leonardo DiCaprio, Jason Bateman and Edward Norton cracking jokes and urging you to do this one, simple thing.

"Flood the inboxes of your senators, it freaks them out," Bateman says. "They don't even know how to use e-mail, then they see a bunch of stuff in the inbox, they know they gotta do something."

Let's hope so. Justin Long even takes off his pants to get the point across.

Watch this great video here.  thisisourmoment.org

SOURCE:  The Huffington Post   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/28/nrdc-clean-energy-bill-ce_n_440104.html

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4. Tweet ThisIsOurMoment.org and tell your followers to take action today!

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This is GREAT and gave me a good belly laugh. 

The spirit of Christmas is all about LOVE, and not how much lighting one has in front of their home. I find it refreshing when people don't try to keep up with the neighbors. You can have a Less is More attitude about Christmas lighting and still be in the spirit of Christmas.


The Ditto house owners are very clever, creative and obviously have a great sense of humor.

 

 

Greenbuild 2009 International Conference and Expo is being held in Phoenix, Arizona from November 11th - 13th.

Former Vice President Al Gore will be the opening Keynote speaker tonight, November 11th at the Greenbuild conference. You can watch his speech and other keynote speakers live or as archived video later here at GreenbuildExpo.org.

WOW! Bill McKibben's 350.org International Day of Climate Action was a huge success. According to their website people in 181 countries came together for the most widespread day of environmental action in the planet's history. At over 5200 events around the world, people gathered to call for strong action and bold leadership on the climate crisis.

I have just spent the last hour marveling over all the phenomenal pictures and videos that people sent in from all over the world. Check them out HERE.

There were several events planned in my area of Phoenix, Arizona like climbing up a mountain with Arizona State University students and bike rides. My husband and I met up on Thursday, October 22nd with some local members of 1Sky to take a 350.org photo in Old Town Scottsdale by the big LOVE sculpture in the park to signify our love of home, community, and our planet. Here is our picture.

We were in the park for about an hour taking photos and of course people walking by would question us about what we were doing. I had printed up small cards with what 350.org is all about and what it means. So when asked I would just pull out a card from my pocket and give it to them.

After the photos were taken some of the group went on for a bike ride, but my husband and I went to the Scottsdale ArtWalk where the local art galleries open their doors to the public and show off their work. This particular ArtWalk was a Taste of Art ArtWalk where you could sample food and wine as you stroll and look at art. So we opted out of the long bike ride in order to eat, drink wine and look at art which is more to our liking. (lol) I kept my 350.org gear on while at the ArtWalk and of course I was asked numerous times what does 350 mean, so I would whip out one of those printed cards and hand it to them. I had printed up 24 cards and only came home with three.

When you are in love with your home, and I don't mean your house, but where you live, for me it's the glorious Sonoran Desert, then you are always happy to support any organization that wants to protect it and keep it pristine, beautiful and healthy.

I noticed a new action today that needs attention. If anyone is available in England or Wales, maybe you can join them!

As part of Eco Bro, a local action group, there will be a climb up Snowdon, the highest mountain in England and Wales, on the 24th of October 2009 as our contribution to the 350.0rg campaign.  We will gather 350 feet below the summit and form a ring around the top of the mountain to symbolize the importantance of 350ppm of C02.  Anyone in our area of North Wales would be welcome to join us as we are hoping for over three hundred people up the summit.  Meeting at 13.00 at Summit Cafe

http://11thhouraction.com/node/3258

 

I am a member of the Global Coherence Initiative which is a science-based initiative to unite millions of people in heart-focused care and intention to shift global consciousness from instability and discord to balance, cooperation and enduring peace.

The Global Coherence Initiative is designed to help individuals and groups work together, synchronistically and strategically to increase the impact of their efforts to create positive global change.

Together we will:

1) Increase personal coherence for the benefit of ourselves and the planet
2) Help shift the planetary consciousness baseline from self-centeredness to wholeness care
3) Increase connection and social harmony
4) Empower our ability to navigate through global changes with less stress and more ease
5) Empower environmental responsibility and stewardship of the planet

This project has been initiated because millions of people sense that this is an extraordinary time; that a paradigm shift of human consciousness is now under way; that we are at the crossroads of change and must move toward the healing of ourselves and our planet. Many people are feeling a strong desire to help change our present and future conditions and are looking for ways to use their heart, spirit-aligned wisdom and care to make a meaningful difference.

The Global Coherence Initiative is one of many care and compassion initiatives taking place on the planet. Each year, an increasing number of groups and online communities are radiating compassion and care to the planet in these times of need. We and others feel that these collective heart-based initiatives, rather than being a trend, represent the proactive consciousness platform of the future, in which individuals and communities take responsibility for shaping a new world by increasing love, care and compassion for the global whole.

I recently volunteered to participate in a 6-month GCI Interconnectedness Study on the relationship between human consciousness, Earth’s energetic activity and other planetary factors. (I have a lot of free time on my hands these days, lol) Anyway, I do receive e-mail alerts and I thought I would pass this one on to the members of this community. This alert is about the upcoming International Day of Peace.

Envisioning the Peaceful World You Want to Live In
"For the International Day of Peace, September 21, align with the spirit of all who are sending prayers, meditations and positive intentions for world peace."

Creation starts with thought, desire and imagination….the same as desiring a new house, job, etc. Thoughts, desires and imagination create an energetic blueprint for what we want; then taking action steps towards our goal helps to create the building blocks for intentions to manifest.

In honor of International Peace Day, let’s take five minutes a day (or what’s convenient for you) to envision the world as we would want it to be: A world that respects individual human rights and authentic communication, has balanced, conscious leadership and compassionate governing systems worldwide, values the preservation of resources, has love and respect for animals and environmental balance. A world that provides food, pure water, shelter and world peace for all. Create your own additions and remember to enrich your vision with genuine feelings from your heart’s desire so as to give it life. Close with a moment of gratitude and the request that whatever manifests only be the highest best for the whole."  

UPDATE:  HeartMath in honor of International Peace Day, Sept. 21st, created a beautiful video called At the Heart of Peace. You can watch it HERE.

I noticed a new action posted today that helps schools raise funds, but they do it green.  For more check out:

http://11thhouraction.com/node/3092

Love is the New Religion (The Spiritual Conspiracy) by Brian Piergrossi

I was first introduced to this poem on 11th Hour expert Wallace J. Nichols website who blogged about this poem back in June. Since then the author Brian Piergrossi has made a video to go along with his poem.

This video contains a series of images, with a voice-over of author Brian Piergrossi reading the poem from his book The Big Glow, along with background native tribal music.

This poem has struck a nerve in the human consciousness and, over the last few months, has now been spontaneously forwarded, via emails and blogs, to tens of thousands of people around the world by various titles.

It is becoming the catalyst... the rallying cry around the planet.

This poem in video form, however, has the chance to make an even larger impact in bringing us together toward the world we want to create.

If it inspires you...if it makes you realize that your dreams are shared with others around the world then please pass it on.

Together lets create the world of our dreams.

Please take a few minutes from your day to watch this video.    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mndsMqz54aA&feature=player_embedde

 

So we left off when all the great trees have been logged out. Coconut trees replaced the forests on th more gentle slopes, but on the upper reaches there is really nothing to hold the soil. The vegatation, grasses and shrubs, will be cut and burnt annually and the land planted to maize and peanuts. The annual clearing takes place in Jan / Feb with planting around April and harvest in June/ July as the monsoons hit, this leaves the hills bare of plants to hoild the soil and the cycle continues, each year less and less soil, lower and lower harvests. There are systems such as alley farming which we practice which can holt this cycle but the up take in our area is Zero. On our farm we are having to keep neighbours from cutting our trees for firewood and grazing...I explain that they need to plant their own trees on there land instead of clearing there land.

We have applied to World Fair Trade Organisation for provisional membership, which is very exciting for us.

The rains this years are most strange..we really began to notice this 3 years ago. May / June is the start of the monsson rains which peak in Aug / Sept. We used to get rain every day from May to Sept. Building from a hour a day in May to maybe 8 days non-stop rain in Aug then declining back to and hour a day in Sept. This is the cycle that our neigbours have farmed tofor the last 70+ years. The last 3 years we have noticed the big change. Aug now and we have not had rain for 6 days, then working backwards 3 days very heavy winds and rain, then 8 days no rain. Our Luffa do not mind this so much but for the rice farmers it is hitting them hard. These people live off the land, low rice harvest, less to eat, less to sell, less to sell less money for schooling kids and medicines. Horrible cycle.

El Nino next year or has it come now?

Our UK sales are still growing which is great for us all here. Nancy has finally got all our team to open savings accounts..not a normal custom in these parts, they all have savings now..pads their future a bit. Well done to them all.

Next mission Nancy is getting them signed up to the health care system. This may be tricky as birth certificates and various forms of ID are required...

 

At the age of 16, Erica Fernandez took on a major multinational corporation in her city of Oxnard, California. As Earth Island Institute said, "When Fernandez learned that a liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility was proposed for the coast of Oxnard and Malibu that would include a 36-inch pipeline routed through low-income neighborhoods, she was outraged. She worked in concert with the Sierra Club and the Latino No on LNG group to mobilize the youth and Latino voices in protests and public meetings. She organized weekly protests at the BHP Billiton offices in Oxnard, met regularly with community members, marched through neighborhoods that would be most impacted, and brought more than 250 high school students to a critical rally. Her passionate testimony at the California State Lands Commission meeting was widely quoted in news articles, and helped convince the Commission to vote to deny the project. Next, she helped convince the California Coastal Commission to vote 12–0 against the project, and worked on a campaign to the governor asking him to veto the project. Fernandez’s dogged determination played a crucial role in helping her community to resist a multinational corporation. The company listened, and four years later, the pipeline idea was dead.

Keep a watch on Erica,  there is certainly more to come.