There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. ~Elie Wiesel
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350 or bust: Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
My frustration with religion is people who think it’s about four walls: You go in and are righteous and leave church and it doesn’t go with you. I love the great theologian who said, “Everywhere I go I preach the gospel, but only some…
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Exhale…. Underworld – Oblivion with Bells
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Those who wish to play a meaningful role in influencing public policy or changing its institutional base must begin with honest inquiry, in community with others if it is to be effective. Whether one sees oneself as dedicated to reform or revolution, t…
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“Action is the antidote for despair.” ~ Joan Baez Monday, September 26, 2001: Ottawa Tar Sands Action There comes a time when you need to take a stand. When sending letters and signing petitions isn’t enough. When together we must say…
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We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well – for we will not fight to save what we do not love. ~Stephen Jay Gould
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John Lennon’s anthem for peace:
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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. ~John F. Kennedy
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I believe a blade of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. ~ Walt Whitman
Continue reading350 or bust: Civilization Isn’t That Civilized
Those of you who follow this blog will know that my family and I spent last week canoeing in the Woodland Caribou Provincial Park in northern Ontario’s boreal forest. It seems that the world has done as well (or poorly) as usual without my dail…
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“A good friend is a connection to life, a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.” ~Lois Whyse
Continue reading350 or bust: A Week Without Fossil Fuels
Woodland Caribou Provincial Park is a wilderness park located between Red Lake, Ontario and the Manitoba border. As Ontario’s 5th largest provincial park, covering 1.2 million acres (that’s 486,235 hectares) it offers over 1,600 kilometres …
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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: From Passive, Helpless Spectator To Creating Positive Change: “You Can’t Help Being An Optimist”
“You can’t help but be an optimist when you are contributing to positive change. Believe in your own power and then to be bold enough to use it. Together we will create a better world.” Marianne Schnall, writing in today’s Huffi…
Continue reading350 or bust: Business As Usual Is Over: Value Change Required For Survival
Today’s blog posting was initially posted on 350orbust on June 30, 2010: Chief Oren Lyons said, when speaking about Climate Change at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at the UN Headquarters in 2007: We’re talking abou…
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. ~Frederick Douglass
Continue reading350 or bust: Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.” ~ Albert Einstein
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“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” ~ Winston Churchill
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