On this post-COP 17 Sunday, with its indecisive outcome and the sad truth which that outcome reveals about the industrialized world’s myopia and its potentially lethal addiction to fossil fuels, let’s look to Albert Einstein for some wisdom. He said: We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if
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350 or bust: COP 17 in Durban – Day 1
Today is the first day of the U.N. climate talks in Durban South Africa. As I wrote earlier, many people’s expectations (including mine) for a meaningful and binding international climate treaty coming out of these 10 days is low. It seems, sadly, that unbridled capitalism will triumph over humanity’s need
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“If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” ~ Vincent Van Gogh
Continue reading350 or bust: Poet For the Planet, Drew Dellinger, At Occupy Oakland
“It’s time to rock the nation, rock this occupation! Our communities need us. We are all leaders. How could we ask for anything less than the future?“ A powerful video of the Occupy poem by acclaimed spoken word artist Drew Dellinger, by award winning filmmaker Velcrow Ripper, set to the
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“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” ~ Albert Einstein
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“It is understandable that a realist would despair. And if I was to retreat into self-absorption I would find a small plot of land where I would never have to hear another leaf blower, and find what comfort I could in my family, my books and the …
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This is just cool – a “permaculture” house: Learn more at Simondale.net
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A magical chance encounter with an amazing natural phenomena, a “murmuration” of starlings:
Continue reading350 or bust: In The Face Of Winter, A Movement Blossoms
Despite the police harassment, the arrests, the confiscation of tents and supplies, as well as the imminent arrival of winter, the Occupy movement continues to grow. Although the mainstream media continually under-reports what is happening, thanks to s…
Continue reading350 or bust: Witch’s Fingers And Night Of The Living Duck
Who says climate hawks don’t have any fun? For years I have made “Witch’s Fingers” with my daughters and their friends for Halloween. Now both are university students living away from home, but each of them recently sent home pi…
Continue reading350 or bust: Saturday At The Movies
“Lord” Christopher Monckton, climate skeptic and scientific ignoramus, shown up to be the pompous idiot that he is by the British comedy show “The Hamster Wheel”:
Continue reading350 or bust: Mr Burns Stands Up For the 1%
Here’s a comic that is making the rounds these days (I found it on Think Progress): More links: Graph: 147 Companies Control 40% of Global Corporate Wealth Occupy Wall Street Movement Energizes Climate Protestors, But Also Highlights Contradictions
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Exhale…. Underworld – Oblivion with Bells
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We can create a world as yet unimagined, a world undreamed, yet dimly felt. We are like the corn. Mysteriously hidden within each of us are the seeds that can germinate into a new society, a new planet. Like the corn, we have hidden deep within our liv…
Continue reading350 or bust: Hello My Baby
September is shaping up to be a potential game-changer for the climate movement, with Al Gore’s 24 Hours of Climate Reality just over, and now 350.org’s Global Day of Action to move away from fossil fuels coming up next weekend. But it̵…
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John Lennon’s anthem for peace:
Continue reading350 or bust: Dear Prime Minister Harper: Please Stop Blacklisting Environmental Artists and Scientists
Blacklisted Canadian artist Franke James is becoming a mosquito in the ears of the Harper government. Several weeks ago, I wrote about the Harper government’s interference in the European tour of Canadian environmental artist, writer, and educato…
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O Lord My God When I In Awesome Wonder performed at the Winner’s Concert of the 2008 International Praise Festival:
Continue reading350 or bust: Climate Change – Lite
Some Saturday fun – a cat caught barking until she notices the human:
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There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see. ~ Leonardo da Vinci
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