Consuming Our Way To Extinction, Will We Break Away?
This information below focusses on the ecological footprint and living beyond our means through over-consumption.
http://gen.ecovillage.org/ross/166.html?lang=en
Breakaway – Living Beyond Our Means
By: Ross Jackson, PhD
“Breakaway” is a code word for what has been occupying most of my thoughts over the past several years and is also the working title of the forthcoming book… Continue reading
Recreate Nurturing as a Tribe – Reconnects the World
I’ve always felt intuitively that children need to be held close and not suffering the pain of separation until they are ready and choosing it themselves. I sense the deep insecurity of our world comes from inadequate nurturing as children. Moreover, the nuclear family or single parent family is so removed from the village where… Continue reading
Bill Mollison: I Want To Leave Our Children Gardens Not Deserts
Foundations of Permaculture is premised on the Ethics of Permaculture
1. Care of the Earth: Provision for all life systems to continue and multiply
2. Care of the People: Provision for people to access those resources necessary to their existence
3. Setting Limits to Population and Consumption: By governing our own needs, we can set… Continue reading
Peak Oil: Collapse Or Carrying Capacity of an Evolved Society?
I came across the article whilst looking for a permaculture course. I have to organise myself to be self sufficient. It is time to stop my addiction to the grid. I found this article interesting, another wake up call. Wakey wakey 🙂
http://permaculture.com.au/online/articles/peak-energy-climate-change-and-the-collapse-of-global-civilisation-the-curent-peak-oil-crisis
“We are in a crisis in the evolution of human society. It’s… Continue reading
The Crucifixion of Our True Nature
My former partner was a painter and he painted a tree nailed to a cross. I wrote this poem and together we gave them to David Suzuki. In truth, we crucify ourselves by our blindness.
THE CRUCIFIXION OF NATURE
Crucifixion
the human addiction,
massacred, uprooted and retired in waste,
cast aside in favour of the… Continue reading
US Visit: Pine Gap to Athenian Tragedy – Virtue or Vice?
I wasn’t going to write anything about the visit of US President Obama to Australia, although my eye brows did rise with the announced Uranium sales to India, the number one nuclear flash point in the world and a non signatory to the UN Non Proliferation Treaty (nuclear weapons). Interestingly the build up of Marines… Continue reading