Leonardo DiCaprio's "The 11th Hour" is a documentary concerning the environmental crises caused by human actions and calls for restorative action through a reshaping of human activity.
The mission of our community is to inspire action at every level: from
individual action, up through our communities, to the state, national
and international level. The actions are all shifting our civilization
to a sustainable future. Let's work and take action together. The time is now. The hope is you. Let's begin.
Our action this year is to launch Phase Two, the charity fund raising portion of Peace Portal, called Free Digital Universe.
Free Digital Universe (FDU) non-violent Virtual Fair serving as an equal human rights forum, social community, charitable fund raiser, and personal wealth tool for thriving in the Information Age. Each
user is provided an account called a Digital Soule, using their
"Avatar" the Soule is rewarded for co-creating the Free Digital
Universe.
The holistic design produces an Information Age
commerce system allowing greater wealth and freedom for everyone, while
also responding to ever-growing pressures on our natural environment.
Prosperity Program,
a cooperative plan of Peace Portal, Free Digital Universe, and
Worldwide Developers Foundation designed as a virtual fair and charity
fund raiser is one plan to accomplish this goal.
Once a Information Age economic system
is in place, the rest of the infrastructure can be addressed by
leveraging those tools. Compliments to a digital economy include local
sustainable development of trees, clean water solutions, health care,
food security, education, and social justice systems. This is accomplished locally through installation of Access Points.
Access Point Project connects partners on the
ground (such as One Laptop per Child, Inveneo or Room to Read) with the
FDU Games private global commerce platform for empowering the poor to
improve their lives by accessing Information Age opportunities such as
equal compensation for their labor using Life Force Points as a unencumbered virtual currency.
We utilize the increasing availability of Information Age technologies
with Internet based market opportunities designed specifically to meet
the needs of people who are economically dis-enfranchised and whom are
regularly excluded from mainstream consideration.
Providing Internet Access is achieved by supporting installation of
clean energy (solar, wind, water) powered ICT Systems , donated
computers, and additional technology by integrating our efforts with
those established charities already providing Access, such as: ECHO,
Doctors Without Borders, and efforts of missionaries.
“Information technology will create equivalent opportunities for
competitive choice in domiciling economic activities, but with
important differences. One is that unlike the medieval frontier
societies, cyberspace is likely to be in due course the richest of
economic realms. It will therefore tend to be a growing rather than a
receding frontier.”
With the tools of the Information Age we can achieve our goals. With
the help of the independent peer partners whom have chosen to implement
the Free Digital Universe concept, perhaps we can relieve pressure on
individuals, communities, and governments.
“If you don’t like the way to the world is, you change it. You have an
obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time. ~ Marian
Wright Edelman
Hello!
I run a small, but growing subsistence farm, that provides local farmers and artisans, with a place to sell their produce and goods. We also have a walk through home micro farm, and composting lecture, to teach people how to grow most, or all of their own seasonal produce for free! Along with organic composting,
from apartments, to large scale farms. The farm also does tours and
lessons on using spent crop, and flower waste, household garbage, waste
paper to grow beautiful, organic mushrooms, turning the spent material into composted fertilizer for the following crop season! Things could not be going better since starting my vision of a fully "off the grid"
subsistence farm, that I could draw people to with beautiful, cheap,
LOCAL, produce, and goods, then show them how make a difference in the
environment, our communities, and our economy all at the same time, and
be able to offer this service for free!
We even give out free kettle corn to the kids on sundays! lol Anyways,
I am very excited to let people know more about what we do, and
hopefully will be able to answer many questions about how I did it, how
you can do it, or how you can do any of the wonderful things are staff
love to talk about day to day. We live our lives in devotion to this
planet, and all of the wonderful creatures living here along side us.
We know people want to make a change, but sometimes it is just hard to
know where to begin. What better place to start, than at home, and in
your own towns and cities. Let's bring good organic farming back to
this country, and put high fructose corn syrup, and Chinese imported
vegetables to the side, and make a real difference together! Did you
know that the average food item on your table traveled 2,200 miles to
get there. How does that carbon footprint taste? Health care
skyrocketing from obesity, diabetes, weight loss, heart disease, BAD
EATING HABITS, because America doesn't even know what is in the food
they are eating half of the time. This is something you and I can do to
make a difference. Importing of food from other countries is so cheap,
that they will pay for thousands of gallons of diesel fuel to get it
here to stock our local grocery store. Most of the food in your grocery
didn't even come from the U.S. Which means it took tons of carbon to
get that food here, and yet our American farmers resort to growing corn
for the refined sugar industry. It is found in every needless soft
drink, complete with non-biodegradable plastic bottle, that are
consumed in the hundreds of thousands a day in this country, and for
what? Do we really need to drink, and eat this garbage, when it
provides no nutrition, and only negatively impacts our health. Waste
packaging, food importing pollution, health care failure, economic
failure is all avoidable simply by growing local, buying local,
thinking about what you eat, and what is really important in your life.
I welcome any and all questions, and hope to share some of what we have
learned along with way in the most amazing journey.. down on the farm.
i have started long ago to talk with my friends about global heat, to recycle and to try to find help for small but strong solutions that i can follow and i can communicate with other individuals
I am a member of Freecycle Preston County and Monongalia County Freecycle, it is a website that you can use to offer things to others for free, so it doesn't end up in a landfill. Most big cities have a chapter in their area, so it would be great for you to find one to join and keep alot more things out of our landfills. Go to Yahoo groups and sign up today for one in your area!! Ones trash is anothers treasure. You can offer anything of no use to you anymore.
I sell on Ebay, so things I can no longer use go to another person and not in the trash.
I am in the process of changing all of my lightbulbs in our home to the ones that use less energy. This is a very easy step all of us can take to help out !!
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