This is what democracy looks like
We are not going to be able to operate our spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody."
- R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)
http://famousquoteshomepage.com/R_Buckminster_Fuller_Quotes.htm
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At a time of quantum change, this is what catastrophe looks like -
From:
'Unexpected growth' in CO2 found
Carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the atmosphere have risen 35% faster than expected since 2000, says a study.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7058074.stm
...decline in the natural ability of land and oceans to soak up CO2 from the atmosphere.
About half of emissions from human activity are absorbed by natural "sinks" but the efficiency of these sinks has fallen, the study suggests.
...significant contributions to the growth of atmospheric CO2 arise from the slow-down of natural sinks...
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Maquilapolis (City of Factories) [film, 2006]
http://maquilapolis.com
http://newsreel.org/nav/title.asp?tc=CN0192
...six million women around the world who labor for poverty wages in the factories of transnational corporations. After making television components all night, Carmen comes home to a dirt-floor shack she built out of cast-off garage doors from the U.S., in a neighborhood with no sewage lines or electricity. She suffers from on-the-job kidney damage and lead poisoning from her years of exposure to toxic chemicals. She earns six dollars a day on which she must support herself and her three children.
Starting in the 1960s the U.S. and Mexican governments initiated a trade agreement allowing components for everything from batteries, IV tubes, toys to clothes to be imported duty-free into Mexico, assembled there and then exported back duty-free as finished consumer goods for sale in the U.S. Tijuana became known as the television capital of the world, “TV-juana.” Globalization promised jobs, and working class Mexicans uprooted their lives to flock to the northern frontier in search of better paying work. After a decades long boom in 2001, Tijuana suffered a recession as corporations chased after even cheaper labor in Asia...
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U.S. Composting Council
http://compostingcouncil.org
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compost discussion list
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Plants for a Future
edible, medicinal and useful plants for a healthier world
http://pfaf.org
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International Rescue Committee
http://theirc.org
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Bee Not Afraid [history of pollinator industry problems]
by Heather Smith 7/13/7
http://slate.com/id/2170305/?GT1=10238
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excerpt from:
This Moment on Earth
by Teresa and John Kerry 2007
http://books.aol.com/booklists/excerpt/_a/this-moment-on-earth-excerpt/20070629151809990002
...A few decades ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) tried to end a malaria epidemic in Borneo by using DDT to wipe out the local mosquito population. Unfortunately, there were unintended consequences, just as Rachel Carson had described in Silent Spring. In the case of Borneo, the DDT also wiped out the wasps that controlled the local thatch-eating insects, with the result that many of the roofs on the Bornean homes started to cave in. Meanwhile, the DDT accumulated in the local lizard population, which caused the cats that ate the lizards to die, thereby unleashing a ferocious infestation of rats. Ultimately, WHO was forced to parachute in 14,000 new cats to control the rats in what was known officially as Operation Cat Drop.
The story illustrates the high price of linear thinking...
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The lady who should be in the White House
http://vbdems.org/?p=951
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Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment
http://heinzctr.org
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http://mcdonough.com
http://kerryblog.blogspot.com
http://greenfiles.org
http://barringtoncollective.org/FreeSkoolWhatIs
http://geocities.com/appliedpiracy/links.html
http://mountaingardensherbs.com
http://peppersprayproductions.org/links.htm
http://corrugate.org/corrugate/links
http://reclaimthemedia.org
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http://scantv.org
http://myspace.com/scantv
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- R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)
http://famousquoteshomepage.com/R_Buckminster_Fuller_Quotes.htm
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At a time of quantum change, this is what catastrophe looks like -
From:
'Unexpected growth' in CO2 found
Carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the atmosphere have risen 35% faster than expected since 2000, says a study.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7058074.stm
...decline in the natural ability of land and oceans to soak up CO2 from the atmosphere.
About half of emissions from human activity are absorbed by natural "sinks" but the efficiency of these sinks has fallen, the study suggests.
...significant contributions to the growth of atmospheric CO2 arise from the slow-down of natural sinks...
======
Maquilapolis (City of Factories) [film, 2006]
http://maquilapolis.com
http://newsreel.org/nav/title.asp?tc=CN0192
...six million women around the world who labor for poverty wages in the factories of transnational corporations. After making television components all night, Carmen comes home to a dirt-floor shack she built out of cast-off garage doors from the U.S., in a neighborhood with no sewage lines or electricity. She suffers from on-the-job kidney damage and lead poisoning from her years of exposure to toxic chemicals. She earns six dollars a day on which she must support herself and her three children.
Starting in the 1960s the U.S. and Mexican governments initiated a trade agreement allowing components for everything from batteries, IV tubes, toys to clothes to be imported duty-free into Mexico, assembled there and then exported back duty-free as finished consumer goods for sale in the U.S. Tijuana became known as the television capital of the world, “TV-juana.” Globalization promised jobs, and working class Mexicans uprooted their lives to flock to the northern frontier in search of better paying work. After a decades long boom in 2001, Tijuana suffered a recession as corporations chased after even cheaper labor in Asia...
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U.S. Composting Council
http://compostingcouncil.org
======
compost discussion list
http://mailman.cloudnet.com/pipermail/compost
======
Plants for a Future
edible, medicinal and useful plants for a healthier world
http://pfaf.org
======
International Rescue Committee
http://theirc.org
======
Bee Not Afraid [history of pollinator industry problems]
by Heather Smith 7/13/7
http://slate.com/id/2170305/?GT1=10238
======
excerpt from:
This Moment on Earth
by Teresa and John Kerry 2007
http://books.aol.com/booklists/excerpt/_a/this-moment-on-earth-excerpt/20070629151809990002
...A few decades ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) tried to end a malaria epidemic in Borneo by using DDT to wipe out the local mosquito population. Unfortunately, there were unintended consequences, just as Rachel Carson had described in Silent Spring. In the case of Borneo, the DDT also wiped out the wasps that controlled the local thatch-eating insects, with the result that many of the roofs on the Bornean homes started to cave in. Meanwhile, the DDT accumulated in the local lizard population, which caused the cats that ate the lizards to die, thereby unleashing a ferocious infestation of rats. Ultimately, WHO was forced to parachute in 14,000 new cats to control the rats in what was known officially as Operation Cat Drop.
The story illustrates the high price of linear thinking...
======
The lady who should be in the White House
http://vbdems.org/?p=951
======
Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment
http://heinzctr.org
======
http://mcdonough.com
http://kerryblog.blogspot.com
http://greenfiles.org
http://barringtoncollective.org/FreeSkoolWhatIs
http://geocities.com/appliedpiracy/links.html
http://mountaingardensherbs.com
http://peppersprayproductions.org/links.htm
http://corrugate.org/corrugate/links
http://reclaimthemedia.org
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http://scantv.org
http://myspace.com/scantv
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