the power of optimism/faith

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From:
What economic crisis?
by Ragan Sutterfield 7/24/8
plentymag.com/blogs/notebook/2008/07/what_economic_crisis.php
...Working on the farm reminds me that the economy of the nightly news is only one economy, an overly simple economy that has long ignored what it could not incorporate into dollars and cents and markets. As that economy spirals out of control and meets its natural limits, I am not worried. I only hope that all of us will readjust our sense of value to a more complete system of reckoning, before the economy of mean value collapses against the firm surface of the earth.
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"In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce and brave man, hated and scorned.
When his cause succeeds however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot."
~Mark Twain
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"Fear not the path of truth
for the lack of people walking on it."
RobertFKennedy.net
standdown.net
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We've at most ten years to shift the whole world from fossil fuels and nuclear. These two industries have become subsidized global scams which profit from actively hindering renewable, distributed energy - not by successfully competing in the free market. These concerns have way more money than good sense or morality. It's becoming clear they don't even have good business sense, as is evidenced by the fact that they are leading humanity in an epochal extinction crisis.
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The 11th Hour: Turn Mankind's Darkest Hour into its Finest
produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio
11thhouraction.com
Some scientists, activists, government officials featured in the film:
James Hansen
Stephen Schneider
Michelle Herndon
Kenny Ausebel
Wangari Maathai
Sandra Postel
David Orr
Michael McDonough
Chief Oren Lyons
Andy Revkin
Sylvia Earle
Janine Benyus
Stuart Pimm
Paolo Soleri, architect/designer/visionary
James Hillman
James Parks Morton
Wes Jackson, The Land Institute
Richard Heinberg
James Woolsey, former CIA director
Brock Dolman
Peter Demenocal
Sheila Wall-Coutier
Ray Henderson
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breakthematrix.com/node/7917
"...when The Dooms Day Parade slowed to a stop and then began marching in the opposite direction..."
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"...It's time to end the blackout and shine the light on our precious right to vote..."
~Cynthia McKinney
gnn.tv/videos/64/American_Blackout
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From:
A Shortage of Democracy, Not Food
by Frances Moore Lappe
gettingagrip.net/2008/07/21/how-can-we-end-world-hunger-frances-explains-in-this-issue-of-the-progressive
progressive.org/mag/lappe0708
...Food production has kept ahead of population growth, but now not only do we feed a third of grain and most of soy to livestock, but we’ve turned more than a third of the global fish catch into feed as well. Of course, I couldn’t have guessed we’d also be “feeding” crops to cars via ethanol...
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Living lightly in breadth and depth
scn.org/earth/lightly/vslinks.htm
... Are you sacrificing quality of life (i.e. happiness) in order to get to a higher standard of living? Consider a New Road Map for financial independence...
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City OKs 20-cent fee on plastic, paper bags
Council also outlaws foam food and drink containers
by Kathy Mulady 7/28/8
seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/372566_bags29.html
...Seattle became on Monday one of the first major American cities to discourage the use of paper and plastic shopping bags by requiring grocery, drug and convenience stores to charge 20 cents per bag...
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xerces.org/Pollinator_Insect_Conservation/index.htm
Protecting pollinator insects to secure
healthy ecosystems and bountiful harvests
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Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation
xerces.org/Endangered/why_protect.htm
...The number of endangered invertebrates is large and growing. The current rate of destruction and degradation of natural habitats is so great that there are not nearly enough biologists to even catalog, much less study, the species suddenly on the edge of extinction. Now is the time for agencies, scientists, conservationists, and land managers to promote the conservation of imperiled insects.
Although Aldo Leopold was not an entomologist he summed it up well in his book Round River:

"If the land mechanism as a whole is good, then every part is good, whether we understand it or not. If the biota, in the course of eons, has built something we like but do not understand, then who but a fool would discard seemingly useless parts? To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering."...
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Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good
catholicsinalliance.org
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Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund
celdf.org
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Occidental Arts and Ecology Center
oaec.org
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Environmental News Network
enn.com
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fairtradedc.blogspot.com/2008/07/stick-it-to-palm-oil-august-13.html
...stop destroying rainforests for palm oil...
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nowarblog.org
hudsonriverfilm.org
highboldtage.wordpress.com
rememberinghiroshima.org
theoceanproject.org
communitycurrency.org
ratical.org
brew-house.org
aprovecho.net/pg/link.htm
coalitionforcleanair.org/links.html
oceanconservancy.org
unreasonablewomen.blogspot.com
endocrinedisruption.com/resources/links.html