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Rise Up or Die
I’m not a fan of Cornel West, nor do I think Eric Holder should be fired over the AP “scandal.” However, everything else about this article is right on time. It’s an EXCELLENT READ and a call to ACTION!!
Native Americans KNEW the air, land, mountains, rivers, oceans, animals, birds…everything is SACRED. Sacred to our well-being and lives. The greed of the wealthy, corporations and politicians is destroying us all, including them. How evil and stupid is it to think removing mountaintops in poor areas — that break the wind and help control climate — would not cause extreme disaster weather around the globe?
The winds begin in the West Coast. The beautiful mountain ranges here BREAK THE WIND as it reaches turbulent weather in the Mid West and tornado alley. These storms continue to the East Coast. With nothing to break their weather, the East Coast can expect horrendous hurricanes and colder weather. You can see that in your area. The seasons are changing and are extreme.
Native Americans KNEW that the oil and jewels deep in the ground are the VEINS aka the blood of the earth. It takes hundreds, even thousands of years for fossil fuels to regenerate. Trees too. The Rain Forests of Brazil have been a buffer for the entire planet. It too, has been decimated. The ice caps in Antarctica have melted, animals are migrating to areas they’ve never been before, while we are worried about Dancing With The Stars and the latest soap opera on the idiot tube.
Native Americans blessed the animals and food they ate because they KNEW it was for our sustenance and without it we could not live. Our food is being controlled and manipulated in labs to the point where we call it MONSTER FOOD. You wouldn’t want to give these GMO foods/seeds to a dog. It is changing our DNA.
Native Americans knew the water is PRECIOUS. We can go weeks without food, but only a few days without water. It is the MOST CRITICAL need for all life. Corporations have polluted our drinking water. Water is about to be privatized…and it will be expensive.
As this article says, it is time to rebel. ~MY
Joe Sacco and I spent two years reporting from the poorest pockets of the United States for our book “Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt.” We went into our nation’s impoverished “sacrifice zones” — the first areas forced to kneel before the dictates of the marketplace — to show what happens when unfettered corporate capitalism and ceaseless economic expansion no longer have external impediments. We wanted to illustrate what unrestrained corporate exploitation does to families, communities and the natural world. We wanted to challenge the reigning ideology of globalization and laissez-faire capitalism to illustrate what life becomes when human beings and the ecosystem are ruthlessly turned into commodities to exploit until exhaustion or collapse. And we wanted to expose as impotent the formal liberal and governmental institutions that once made reform possible, institutions no longer equipped with enough authority to check the assault of corporate power.
What has taken place in these sacrifice zones — in postindustrial cities such as Camden, N.J., and Detroit, in coalfields of southern West Virginia where mining companies blast off mountaintops, in Indian reservations where the demented project of limitless economic expansion and exploitation worked some of its earliest evil, and in produce fields where laborers often endure conditions that replicate slavery — is now happening to much of the rest of the country. These sacrifice zones succumbed first. You and I are next.
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NYC is turning 12,000 old parking meters into bike racks
Love this story! I wonder what I can retrofit around the home…
Via SmartPlanet
In 2011, New York City decommissioned its last single-space parking meter. Many of the parking meters were sold, but discontinuing the use of single-space parking meters meant that there were thousands of iron poles sticking out of the sidewalks. Now the city has a plan for them: bike parking.
The city’s department of transportation has signed a $2 million contract to turn 12,000 old parking meter poles into bike racks. But is it worth the money? You bet, the New York Post reports:
Although the $1.9 million contract might seem like a lot, officials say that using existing infrastructure saves money because they don’t have to rip out the poles.
And because they’re made out of sturdy old parking meters, they are more difficult to steal.
The city already has about 200 parking meters that have been retrofit as bike racks. But with this new plan, the city will more than double its current number of bike racks.
Photo: Flickr/nycstreets
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50 Creative Ways to Repurpose, Reuse and Upcycle Old Things
I love this site! I’m always looking for ways to recycle and reuse old items. Thanks, Twisted Sifter!
If you’re like me, you probably have a lot of old stuff just lying around your house. It’s not doing anything but taking up space, but you’re either too busy (or lazy), sentimental or just have more important things to deal with. Well if you’re looking for a little inspiration or a new DIY project, here are 50 creative ways to repurpose, reues and upcycle old things.
There’s a pretty broad range in this list but hopefully a handful jump out and spark an idea for you and your home!
1. Reuse Toilet Paper Rolls to Organize Cables and Chords
2. Turn Old Credit Cards Into Guitar Picks
3. Create a Window Cover Using Old Picture Slides
4. Upcycle Old Light Bulbs Into Candles
5. Repurpose Old CD Holders Into Bagel…
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Toxic Chem-Trails are real not a wild conspiracy theory!
I’ve been following this “theory” for years and know it is true as well. On days when the trails are in the sky, I stay indoors. Inside, I have air filters that hopefully clear some of the inside air. Yes, we ARE being poisoned!
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Environment :: Sifaka Lemur teetering on the brink of extinction
Hanging out: A Sifaka Lemur mother sits back on the branch of a tree as her baby pokes its head tentatively from behind her back. Since the first humans arrived on the island a third of the lemur species have become extinct and more teeter on the brink.
More than nine in ten of the Island’s 103 known lemur species are threatened making lemurs the most endangered animal compared to all other mamm
als, reptiles, amphibians, birds and bony fish.
More than 600 new species, including the world’s smallest primate and a colour-changing gecko, have been found in Madagascar in just over a decade.
But many of these newly discovered plants and creatures are under threat, particularly from the destruction of the island’s forests, a report by conservation charity WWF warned.
Experts identified more than 615 new species on Madagascar between 1999 and 2010 – 41 mammals, 385 plants, 69 amphibians, 61 reptiles, 17 fish and 42 invertebrates.
According to the World Wildlife Fund, Madagascar has lost more than a million hectares of forest in the past 20 years, and in the aftermath of a coup in March 2009 and the subsequent political turmoil tens of thousands of hectares were raided for hardwoods.
For more of the Magic of Madagascar: Staggering landscapes and breathtaking natural beauty in the world’s most unique ecosystem, visit…
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Earth Day: 9 Films That Will Change the Way You Think About the World
This Earth Day consider adding a few of these these mainstream and indie documentaries to your must-see list.
In an apocalyptic 2012, is there a better time than Earth Day to remind ourselves just how lucky we are to be spinning through the void of space on this life-giving rock? From rapidly acidifying oceans and shortsighted deforestation to perpetually pollutive wars and the propping up of obsolete markets, Earth is taking killer blows that we’re going to seriously regret delivering.
Like the worsening news about the future of our planet, the following films have recently arrived in short bursts. They deal out often visually spectacular but emotionally devastating losses of sea ice, as well as the unheard voices of nations beneath the rising waves. Some consider the double-edged sword of technological innovation, whose parasitic profit motive has compromised its earthly host. Others analyze those natural resources that so-called progress continues to exhaust in search of the new shiny.
But these Earth Day offerings are timely snapshots, because the slow-dawning realization that we’ve unplugged from a lethal, consensual hallucination can be screened far and wide in our pop-cultural productions. You’ve seen it in the post-apocalyptic allegory of The Hunger Games, last seen slaying the box office, whose forthcoming king will no doubt be The Hobbit, which takes place in a bucolic Middle-Earth bouncing its way toward an epochal world war. You can throw in Game of Thrones’ murderous power grabs, Don Draper’s advertising fetishism and plenty more.
But the mainstream and indie documentaries below pull away that fictional prism for convincing think pieces on sustainability and survival. Thanks to the death of appointment viewing, you’ll get to watch them anytime, most likely on any platform, sometime this year.
The movies are:
1. Surviving Progress
2. The Island President
3. Bidder 70
4. Chasing Ice
5. To the Arctic
6. Facing the Storm: Story of the American Bison
7. The Pruitt-Igoe Myth
8. Windfall
9. Dirty Energy
Visit the links for the movie reviews
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Truth Vibrations…Awakening of the Great Spirit
Depending on our level of awareness, we are all experiencing physical, mental and spiritual changes. Our world is changing rapidly and causing much confusion, some chaos and disorientation in many of us. Know that you are not coming apart. All is as it should be. Go with the flow. Trying to force or control your environment to be familiar as you once knew will no longer work.
Native American Indians and other indigenous peoples around the world have been aware of this for thousands of years. Our “controllers” wanted this information to remain hidden from us so they could continue controlling the world. It’s over. This video will explain so much for you. Enjoy!
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The Road We’ve Traveled
This is the MUST SEE movie on the economic crisis President Obama faced coming into office in 2009 and where we are today. Please share this 16 minute movie widely. Unless you are a millionaire or part of the 1% who is doing well in this nation, you need to see this. And you need to share it. Widely.
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Jasper Hall…blueprint for communal, organic, sustainable living
Hat tip to my dear friend, Laleh Tohidi, for sharing this!
Jasper Hall in South Wales is an AMAZING organic, permaculture community farm that could very well serve as a blueprint for self-sustaining, communal living that preserves the earth for years down the road, rather than pollutes it.
Whether or not it is clear to you, our world is rapidly changing…for the better, I think. Walls are tumbling down…corruption, worldwide banking…and with it will come a clean slate (I hope) to build our new world. What will that world be? Another capitalistic society bent of serving the needs of 1% and destroy the rest of us — people, animals, land, sea and air to serve those people? I think not.
It’s time for us to consider a better, healthier way. Enjoy!
Permaculture communities like Jasper Hall are just what our Mother Earth needs.
Jasper Hall is a living ground for a social experiment.
Permaculture
=
Sustainable
“permanent agriculture,”
as opposed to unsustainable
single-crop monoculture
Permaculture
=
the creation of
agriculturally
productive ecosystems
that mimic
natural ecosystems
“I came to learn about permaculture because I learned the world is in a pretty bad spot right now, and the only way to do anything about it was to learn how to grow food.”
“I think we can look at Jasper Hall for what is possible.”
“As a young child, I always wanted to work on the land. I never wanted a job working for someone else. I wanted to grow my own food and live self-sustaining, and build my own hut where I can live. Jasper Hall makes sense. I want to look at my grandchildren in the eyes one day when they ask ‘Well, what were you doing when the shit was hitting the fan?'”
“We capture water and run it all through the landscape. This is how we’re healing the earth, to aerate the soil and give it life again.”
“We try to become energy efficient, by producing more energy than we consume with solar and wind power. Waterfall provides water. Waterways are the arteries of the world. The water quality is so good, they have endangered fish swimming in the river. All vegetation is replaced with native vegetation to rehabilitate the land.”
“Jasper Hall is what is possible where land is not owned, but freely used for a more sustainable world, a more sustainable way. Not just in the sense of growing things, but also in the sense of community.”
Here is the complete video. It’s beautifully done and shows the stages of growth in building this community. Enjoy!
Jasper Hall – permaculture community
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