Thursday, April 21, 2011

101 Meditation Quotes
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
Bruce Lee

"Your favorite image"

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
Swami Sivananda

After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn't it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked-as I am surprisingly often-why I bother to get up in the mornings.
Richard Dawkins

Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
Buddha

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.
William Cowper

Thus meditating you will no longer strive to build yourself up in your prejudices, but, forgetting self, you will remember only that you are seeking the Truth.
James Allen

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.
Jeremy Taylor

I still practice Transcendental Meditation and I think it's great. Marharishi only ever did good for us, and although I have not been with him physically, I never left him.
George Harrison

My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel
Edward Abbey

Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.
Francis Quarles

What is this true meditation? It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, action, the evil and the good, prosperity and shame, gain and loss, right and wrong, into one single koan.
Hakuin

I meditate and put on a rubber tire with three bottles of beer. Most of the time I just sit picking my nose and thinking.
James Gould Cozzens

We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or doesn't have a purpose. In this respect it's unlike almost all other things we do except perhaps making music and dancing. When we make music we don't do it in order to reach a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Also, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a journey. When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
Alan Watts

You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you too.
Shrii Shrii Anandamurti

Jesus brooded upon the Divine imminence until at last he could declare, 'I and my Father are One.'
James Allen

What's encouraging about meditation is that even if we shut down, we can no longer shut down in ignorance. We see very clearly that we're closing off. That in itself begins to illuminate the darkness of ignorance.
Pema Chodron

If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your thoughts.
Alan Cohen

Some people think that meditation takes time away from physical accomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people, however, find that meditation creates more time than it takes.
Peter McWilliams

Too many composers become involved in intellectual speculation which seems to matter more to them than the sound that comes out of all this speculation.
Louise Talma

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Buddha

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
Buddha

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.
Buddha

The mind is everything. What you think you become.
Buddha

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
Buddha

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
Buddha

There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...not going all the way, and not starting.
Buddha

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
Buddha

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
Buddha

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
Buddha

Be quick to do good. If you are slow, The mind, delighting in mischief, Will catch you. Turn away from mischief. Again and again, turn away. Before sorrow befalls you. Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, And you will be filled with joy. A fool is happy Until his mischief turns against him. And a good man may suffer Until his goodness flowers. Do not make light of your failings, Saying, 'What are they to me?' A jug fills drop by drop.
Buddha

The masters only point the way. But if you meditate And follow the dharma You will free yourself from desire. 'Everything arises and passes away.' When you see this, you are above sorrow. This is the shining way.
Buddha
If a man's thoughts are muddy, If he is reckless and full of deceit, How can he wear the yellow robe? Whoever is master of his own nature, Bright, clear and true, He may indeed wear the yellow robe.
Buddha

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.
Buddha

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
Buddha

We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.
Buddha

You are as the yellow leaf. The messengers of death are at hand. You are to travel far away. What will you take with you? You are the lamp To lighten the way. Then hurry, hurry. When your light shines.
Buddha

Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.
Buddha

Conquer a liar with truth.
Buddha

People cleave to their worldly possessions and selfish passions so blindly as to sacrifice their own lives for them. They are like a child who tries to eat a little, honey smeared on the edge of a knife. The amount is by no means sufficient to appease his appetite, but he runs the risk of wounding his tongue.
Buddha

It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind. Therefore, it is foolish to guard against misfortunes from the external world and leave the inner mind uncontrolled.
Buddha

To abstain from lying is essentially wholesome.
Buddha

How can a troubled mind Understand the way? If a man is disturbed He will never be filled with knowledge. An untroubled mind, No longer seeking to consider What is right and what is wrong, A mind beyond judgements, Watches and understands. Know that the body is a fragile jar, And make a castle of your mind. In every trial Let understanding fight for you To defend what you have won.
Buddha

For soon the body is discarded, Then what does it feel? A useless log of wood, it lies on the ground, Then what does it know? Your worst enemy cannot harm you As much as your own thoughts, unguarded. But once mastered, No one can help you as much, Not even your father or your mother.
Buddha

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.
Buddha

Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
Buddha

Avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.
Buddha

If you endeavor to embrace the Way through much learning, the Way will not be understood. If you observe the Way with simplicity of heart, great indeed is this Way.
Buddha

One should strive to understand what underlies sufferings and diseases - and aim for health and well-being while gaining in the Path.
Buddha

From the passions arise worry, and from worry arises fear. Away with the passions, and no fear, no worry.
Buddha

Wakefulness is the way to life. The fool sleeps As if he were already dead, But the master is awake And he lives forever.
Buddha

Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.
Buddha

Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.
Buddha

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Buddha

You cannot travel on the path until you become the path itself.
Buddha

Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.
Buddha

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.
Buddha

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
Buddha

A great gift - a gift of Dharma conquers all gifts.
Buddha

When an evil-doer, seeing you practise goodness, comes and maliciously insults you, you should patiently endure it and not feel angry with him, for the evil-doer is insulting himself by trying to insult you.
Buddha

Evil-doers who denounce the wise resemble a person who spits against the sky; the spittle will never reach the sky, but comes down on himself. Evil-doers again resemble a man who stirs the dust against the wind; the dust is never raised without doing him injury. Thus, the wise will never be hurt, but the curse is sure to destroy the evil-doers themselves.
Buddha

Moved by their selfish desires, people seek after fame and glory. But when they have acquired it, they are already stricken in years. If you hanker after worldly fame and practise not the Way, your labors are wrongfully applied and your energy is wasted. It is like unto burning an incense stick. However much its pleasing odor be admired, the fire that consumes is steadily burning up the stick.
Buddha

The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task.
Buddha

When a man makes utensils out of a metal which has been thoroughly cleansed of dross, the utensils will be excellent. You monks, who wish to follow the Way, make your own hearts clean from the dirt of evil passion, and your conduct will be unimpeachable.
Buddha

Death is not to be feared so much by one who has lived wisely.
Buddha

Those who are pure in heart and single in purpose are able to understand the most supreme Way. It is like polishing a mirror, which becomes bright when the dust is removed. Remove your passions, and have no hankering.
Buddha

If a man who has committed many a misdemeanor does not repent and cleanse his heart of the evil, retribution will come upon his person as sure as the streams run into the ocean which becomes ever deeper and wider. If a man who has committed a misdemeanor come to the knowledge of it, reform himself, and practise goodness, the force of retribution will gradually exhaust itself as a disease gradually loses its baneful influence when the patient perspires.
Buddha

Few cross over the river. Most are stranded on this side. On the riverbank they run up and down. But the wise man, following the way, Crosses over, beyond the reach of death. He leaves the dark way For the way of light.
Buddha

An unreflective mind is a poor roof. Passion, like the rain, floods the house. But if the roof is strong, there is shelter. Whoever follows impure thoughts Suffers in this world and the next. In both worlds he suffers And how greatly.
Buddha

Let go of anger. Let go of pride. When you are bound by nothing You go beyond sorrow.
Buddha

Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred -- this is the law of eternal.
Buddha

Those who walk in the Way should avoid sensualism as those who carry hay would avoid coming near the fire.
Buddha

If the traveller can find A virtuous and wise companion Let him go with him joyfully And overcome the dangers of the way. But if you cannot find Friend or master to go with you, Travel on alone.
Buddha

If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.
Buddha

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
Buddha

We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
Buddha

If you sleep, Desire grows in you Like a vine in the forest. Like a monkey in the forest You jump from tree to tree, Never finding the fruit - From life to life, Never finding peace. If you are filled with desire Your sorrows swell Like the grass after the rain. But if you subdue desire Your sorrows shall fall from you Like drops of water from a lotus flower.
Buddha

There is pleasure And there is bliss. Forgo the first to possess the second. If you are happy At the expense of another man's happiness, You are forever bound.
Buddha

One should refrain from intoxicating drinks and drugs.
Buddha

There is nothing like lust. Lust may be said to be the most powerful passion. Fortunately, we have but one thing which is more powerful. If the thirst for truth were weaker than passion, how many of us in the world would be able to follow the way of righteous?
Buddha

How easy it is to see your brother's faults, How hard it is to face your own. You winnow his in the wind like chaff, But yours you hide, Like a cheat covering up an unlucky throw. Dwelling on your brother's faults Multiplies your own. You are far from the end of your journey. The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. See how you love.
Buddha

If you determine your course With force or speed, You miss the way of the dharma. Quietly consider What is right and what is wrong. Receiving all opinions equally, Without haste, wisely, Observe the dharma.
Buddha

Better than a thousand hollow words Is one word that brings peace. Better than a thousand hollow verses Is one verse that brings peace. Better than a hundred hollow lines Is one line of the dharma, bringing peace. It is better to conquer yourself Than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, Not by angels or by demons, Heaven or hell.
Buddha

Seeker! Do not be restless. Meditate constantly. Or you will swallow fire And cry out: "No more!' If you are not wise, How can you steady the mind? If you cannot quieten yourself, What will you ever learn?
Buddha

How will you become free? With a quiet mind Come into that empty house, your heart, And feel the joy of the way Beyond the world. Look within - The rising and the falling.
Buddha
How long the night to the watchman, How long the road to the weary traveller, How long the wandering of many lives To the fool who misses the way.
Buddha

Thought-habits can harden into character. So watch your thoughts.
Buddha

Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.
Buddha

Seeing the Way is like going into a dark room with a torch; the darkness instantly departs, while the light alone remains. When the Way is attained and the truth is seen, ignorance vanishes and enlightenment abides forever.
Buddha

Men who are addicted to the passions are like the torch-carrier running against the wind; his hands are sure to be burned.
Buddha

Meditation is the art of staying in this present moment. A sleepy person either lives in the past moment or is dreaming about the future life. But a meditator stays in this present moment and is alert about his thoughts and actions.
Unknown

Any action done with awareness is meditation. Meditation means to be fully aware of our actions, thoughts, feelings and emotions. Another name of meditation is passive awareness.
Unknown

Meditation is not concerned with any activity but it is concerned with our alertness while doing any action. Meditation means to add awareness and alertness in our actions.
Unknown

Meditation is not thinking about any god, chanting any mantra or practicing any concentration exercise. Meditation is to be passively aware of our thoughts and feelings.
Unknown

Concentration exercises makes the mind stronger. Meditation does not make the mind strong but it takes us beyond the mind. Meditation is all about dis-identifying with the mind. Meditation is to be alert about our thoughts and witnessing our desires rather than indulging in them.
Unknown

Meditation is to know oneself as one is. It is see our real face with out any mask. When we practice meditation then we are bound to come across dark side of our nature which we are suppressing in our unconscious mind. But through meditation we can transform these desires by being a passive watcher of them.
Unknown

Passive witnessing of thoughts and desires transforms them. Witnessing means to watch the thoughts with out interpreting, interfering or analyzing them. Witnessing is the art of just watching the thoughts coming and going.
Unknown

Meditation is not concentration. Concentration makes the mind strong and one pointed. Whereas meditation makes the mind weaker and with constant meditation mind loses its grip on us. Meditation takes us beyond the mind and it is an process of dis-identifying with the mind.
Unknown

Meditation is an twenty hour affair. One hour of meditation can not tackle the unconsciousness of rest of the day. Slowly we should bring our meditative quality in all our actions.
Unknown

Meditation can be practiced all the time and even in a market place. Meditation is all about being conscious and aware of our actions, thoughts and feelings.
Unknown

Meditation is not an goal or achievement. Meditation has no seeking or desire. In meditation we become aware of our desires and goals. If some one is seeking any goal through meditation then it is another game of mind and not worth pursuing it.
Unknown

Il n'est pas de raison que ca finisse.
~A.

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Visualization for Forgiveness

Find a quiet place where you wont be disturbed for awhile.
Sit with your spine straight and your shoulders relaxed.
‘Relax’ the front of your body, allowing a ‘softening’ of your heart area without dropping your shoulders.
Bring to your mind’s eye an image of the person you want to forgive.
Now you’re going to ‘mentally broadcast’ your message. Like this:
“[Imaged person] I forgive you and set you free. Your actions no longer have power over me. I acknowledge that you are doing the best that you can, and I honor you in your process of unfoldment. You are free and I am free. All is well between us. Peace is the order of the day.”

Monday, April 18, 2011

Everything's Amazing and Nobody's Happy!?

Get some Wonder!

Thanks, Wimmer!

Saturday, April 16, 2011

I have been wondering about anything outside the US vortex...

for example, about Germany's power: they're having real discussions. We have an intelligence barrier, not a language stile. That would be fun.

Friday, April 15, 2011

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facebook. I love them and am pleased to share the experience. ~A.

Sunday, April 10, 2011

Nests!

Friday, April 08, 2011

Behind the Scenes with MysticShops.TV: Our friends in Mystic

Thursday, April 07, 2011

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Tuesday, April 05, 2011

Student designers at work

Sunday, April 03, 2011

The World Exploded Into Love - click through it.......

Make your own.....

Energy!

Saturday, April 02, 2011

NUCLEAR ENERGY FACTS REPORT – APRIL 2010

This is the latest edition of the Nuclear Energy Facts Report. The Facts Report itself contains only facts that manifest in the physical world; no opinions, conclusions, recommendations, or attempts at consensus-building. But we have found it helpful to precede the Facts Report with some explanatory material on energy production, and conclude with some comments on the historical context.

As always, we welcome input from readers. This is not intended to be public relations document for the general public, but an interactive reference document, for people who work in, or report on, the energy production field.

Ted Rockwell

http://tedrockwell.typepad.com/energy/

sky pilots

LIVE Japan Earthquake Map - Amazing!

Here’s a fascinating bit of infographic which I’ve been watching for the past few days. The Japan Quake Map is a satellite view of Japan including a sub-oceanic view of its surrounding faultlines. The map is animated to give you a time-lapse view of exactly what the Japanese people are going through. It’s horrific—there have been, so far, 855 quakes since the 11th of March. If you turn on sticky dots, you can watch these build over time and plot them on the map.

This is a fantastic macro-view tool built by Paul Nichols of the University of Canterbury’s Digital Media Group, who also built one for the recent Christchurch quake (which is still happening, and up to 5782 quakes) in New Zealand.

Read more: Today's Obsession: Quake Mapping — Imprint-The Online Community for Graphic Designers
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Waste In Space

Currently, a thick band of levitating space junk—composed primarily of broken satellite pieces and discarded rocket boosters—skirts the Earth. Two or three times a day, a satellite circling our planet narrowly misses a torrent of the orbital debris. This phenomenon has jeopardized not only current space travelers, but future missions as well.

A collaboration between GOOD and Column Five Media

Sources: NASA, Wall Street Journal, U.S. Space Surveillance Network,Space.com, Universe Today, National Geographic, ESA Debris Office

Friday, March 25, 2011

Hu2!

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Clean Air Campaign

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Monday, March 21, 2011

TED | Ads Worth Spreading | Changing Our Future

Il n'est pas de raison que ce finisse

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Saturday, March 19, 2011

Money Bags 2011

This year's July has 5 Fridays
   5 Saturdays &
   5 Sundays.
This apparently happens once every 823 years.
This is called money bags.
So send this on
and money will arrive in 5 days.
Based on Chinese feng shui the one who
does not pass this on will have money troubles
for the rest of the year...

Calendar for July 2011 (United States)

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Sunday, March 13, 2011

Next Season on Survivor

Next Season on Survivor

Have you heard about the next planned "Survivor" show?

Three businessmen and three businesswomen will be dropped in an elementary school classroom for 1 school year. Each business person will be provided with a copy of his/her school district's curriculum, and a class of 20-25 students.

Each class will have a minimum of five learning-disabled children, three with A.D.H.D., one gifted child, and two who speak limited English. Three students will be labeled with severe behavior problems.

Each business person must complete lesson plans at least 3 days in advance, with annotations for curriculum objectives and modify, organize, or create their materials accordingly. They will be required to teach students, handle misconduct, implement technology, document attendance, write referrals, correct homework, make bulletin boards, compute grades, complete report cards, document benchmarks, communicate with parents, and arrange parent conferences. They must also stand in their doorway between class changes to monitor the hallways.

In addition, they will complete fire drills, tornado drills, and drills for shooting attacks each month.

They must attend workshops, faculty meetings, and attend curriculum development meetings. They must also tutor students who are behind and strive to get their 2 non-English speaking children proficient enough to take the SOLS tests. If they are sick or having a bad day they must not let it show.

Each day they must incorporate reading, writing, math, science, and social studies into the program. They must maintain discipline and provide an educationally stimulating environment to motivate students at all times. If all students do not wish to cooperate, work, or learn, the teacher will be held responsible.

The business people will only have access to the public golf course on the weekends, but with their new salary, they will not be able to afford it. There will be no access to vendors who want to take them out to lunch, and lunch will be limited to thirty minutes, which is not counted as part of their work day. The business people will be permitted to use a student restroom, as long as another survival candidate can supervise their class.

If the copier is operable, they may make copies of necessary materials before, or after, school. However, they cannot surpass their monthly limit of copies. The business people must continually advance their education, at their expense, and on their own time.

The winner of this Season of Survivor will be allowed to return to their job.

Pass this to your friends who think teaching is easy, and to the ones that know it is hard.

(I found this on democraticunderground.com)

Friday, March 11, 2011

Air - Alone in Kyoto

Thursday, March 10, 2011

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Wednesday, March 09, 2011

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Cleaning Up Power Plants and Refineries

Posted on March 9, 2011

By Christina Simeone, Policy Director

Did you know that fossil fuel-fired power plants and petroleum refineries are two of the U.S.’s largest sources of global warming pollution? In fact, these two industries are responsible for 40% of America’s greenhouse gas emissions. So it makes sense that the EPA is planning to develop rules to limit global warming pollution from power plants and refineries.

The science is clear that human activities are changing our climate. EPA notes that average global CO2 concentrations have increased 38% from pre-industrial levels to 2009, and almost all of this is due to human activity. Global temperatures have risen by 1.3*F over the last 100 years. Since power plants and refineries are major contributors to climate change, reducing pollution from these sources is urgent.

EPA’s rules will be developed under the ‘New Source Performance Standard’ (NSPS) program, which was established in 1970 under the Clean Air Act. This program is intended to reduce pollution from specific industrial sources — such as steel plants, incinerators, electric power plants, lead smelters and others — in order to protect human health and the environment. For decades, the EPA has set NSPS standards for other types of air pollution. These new rules will be part of the EPA’s overall effort to address the greenhouse gas pollution that causes global warming.

EPA’s plan is actually the result of legal action by several states and environmental organizations that have challenged the EPA for failing to address global warming in its NSPS rules. In order to prevent another lawsuit, EPA and the organizations agreed on a timeline to develop the NSPS rules that EPA must follow in order to avoid further legal action. EPA needs to issue a proposal for a power plant standard by July 26, 2011, and finalize the rule by May 26, 2012. The refinery rule must be proposed by December 10, 2011, and finalized by November 10, 2012.

EPA is seeking input from the general public, including representatives from the oil and electric utility industries, on the proposed timeline. Industry will pressure EPA to ask the courts for extensions on the deadlines, and will claim that significant pollution reductions are too expensive or are technically impossible to achieve. In order to counter the input from industry, EPA needs to hear from you by March 18, 2011 that strong global warming pollution limits need to be developed swiftly! Click here to file a public comment with the EPA.

Tuesday, March 08, 2011

There's still Space for Rover!

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Monday, March 07, 2011

We Think

Thanks Brad!

Friday, March 04, 2011

Just DO it!!!

Earth Hour Campaigns To Shut Down Facebook, World Shudders In Fear (not really!)

Perhaps no environmental campaign has more global reach than Earth Hour, which calls for cities around the globe to shut off as many lights and electronic equipment as possible for one hour each year. But Toronto resident and Earth Hour enthusiast Angie Bird has an idea to expand Earth Hour awareness even further: shut down Facebook.

Just reading those three words might send a chill up the spine of some of the bigger Facebook addicts out there. An hour without Facebook? How will the world survive? How?!

But Bird might be on to something: Facebook has over 500 million users worldwide, having passed that milestone back in July of 2010. What better way could there be to alert the world to the message of Earth Hour than to shut down Facebook? The powering down of the social media giant’s custom server center would save a massive amount of energy of course (there are thousands of servers at the center that keep Facebook running that use coal power for some of their energy use), but the biggest benefit would simply be the publicity, especially if Facebook put up a custom 404 page explaining the reason for the service outage.

Bird doesn’t think that she’s asking a lot from the average Facebook user: “It’ll be character-building,” said the native Australian. “They’ll have amazing things to update their status about, if they get through it.”

But Jackie Cohen, editor of allfacebook.com, raises an important point: advertisers would have to agree to the idea, and they’re not too likely to do so. “No way are they going to say yes to that. It’s so bad for business,” said Cohen. As of yet, Mark Zuckerberg and his Facebook team have not responded.

Earth Hour will be taking place this year at 8:30pm on Saturday, March 26th. Be sure to mark your calendars and switch off as many lights and other energy-using devices as you can for that hour if you want to be a part of the international campaign participated in over more than 120 countries worldwide. For more Earth Hour photos or to learn more about the event, be sure to check out their website or our very own slideshow of before and after photos from 2010.

Early Futures: Resources on futures for and by young children

Early Futures is a continually updated source of research, projects and notes regarding ideas that provide necessary alternatives for and by young children. The focus is on advocating futures oriented approaches for children which include: alternative institutions, play spaces, utopian visions and education. Future studies for children focuses also on major questions concerning our futures: What will the citizens of Earth need to know for the year 2050, 2100, etc? What are the most important skills for sustaining Earth and its citizens, sentient and non-sentient, in the near and far future? From the business perspective: how do we prepare ourselves and our children for the near future where 8 out of every 10 jobs have not been invented yet?

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Research on Causal Layered Analysis (CLA)

Causal layered analysis (CLA) is offered as a new research theory (drawing from poststructuralism, Tantric epistemology and futures studies) and method. As a theory it seeks to integrate empiricist, interpretive, critical, and action learning modes of knowing at inner and outer levels. As a method, its utility is not in predicting the future but in creating transformative spaces for the creation of alternative futures. It is also likely to be useful in developing more effective — deeper, inclusive, longer term — policy.

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Wednesday, March 02, 2011

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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Africa’s Moringa Revolution: A Plant Phenomenon to Fight Malnutrition

Moringa is nothing short of a miracle plant. Drought-resistant and capable of growing quickly in a wide variety of poor soils, much of the plant is edible by both humans and livestock.

The leaves have more betacarotene than carrots, more protein than peas, more vitamin C than oranges, more calcium than milk, more iron than spinach, and as much potassium as bananas. The seeds can be eaten like a peanut, or used to create oil. With all of its valuable properties, moringa is being touted as a means to combat malnutrition and poverty in the developing world.

Pastor Joseph Brenyah knows moringa well. In 2008, he initiated that Productive Agricultural Linkages and Market Systems (PALMS)program in response to perceived needs by some Ghanaian women’s groups for agricultural advice and assistance. PALMS teaches women to use modern farming technologies and grow moringa in a sustainable manner.

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