Pass it on…. In case you are in Copenhagen/have friends who go, sense that it is about more than the climate, and want to use the opportunity to share+connect: www.culturalrevolutionaries.org / Declaration of Cultural Revolutionaries – Find it in 10 languages, post it, email it, but a button on your blog/campaign – Declare Interdependence… Let [...]
This is a youtube series. (10 episodes altogether) This is profound and very valuable info… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=523bXlK5t34[/youtube]
I just found this book again in a used bookshop and, in case you did not read into it, yet, I recommend it highly…What also struck me was that it was first published in 1975. – My deepest respect to Fritjof Capra (http://www.fritjofcapra.net/). This is from Chapter 2 Knowing and Seeing: …The natural world, on [...]
Sadly, this is no joke. ‘In the name of science’ this friday (tomorrow) Nasa will intentionally crash a satellite onto the moon. How do you feel about that? Is this what should be done? What is your connection to the moon? Do you know how intimately we are linked to its rhythms and dynamics? And [...]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ96y_yOkI0[/youtube] What if the world embodied our highest potential? What would it look like? As the structures of modern society crumble, is it enough to respond with the same tired solutions? Or are we being called to question a set of unexamined assumptions that form the very basis of our civilization? This 25-minute retrospective asks [...]
I think I will post Derrick Jensen’s questions again. The way I feel now, I think I will do this at the beginning of every post. – I mean, this blog is called Sound Of Sirens, isn’t it: Do you believe that this culture is going to undergo a voluntary transformation to a sane and [...]
I already posted something on him, but I thought you might just enjoy a talk… [googlevideo]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8649250863235826256[/googlevideo]
Do you believe that this culture is going to undergo a voluntary transformation to a sane and sustainable way of living? What if you live in the most destructive culture ever to exist? What if that culture refuses to change? What do you do about it? ‘When he was on trial for his life in [...]
Next reality check (taken from The Guardian, 19.6.09) …Europe plans to hunt more whales than Japan for the first time in many years, dividing EU countries and dismaying conservationists who say that whaling is escalating in response to the worldwide recession. Figures seen by the Guardian before a meeting of more than 80 countries next [...]
Just received this through avaaz.org: The Peruvian government has pushed through legislation that could allow extractive and large-scale farming companies to rapidly destroy their Amazon rainforest. Indigenous peoples have peacefully protested for two months demanding their lawful say in decrees that will contribute to the devastation of the Amazon’s ecology and peoples, and be disastrous [...]
