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Saturday Surprise — Happy World Bee Day!!! 🐝
Originally posted on Filosofa's Word:
I reprise this post every year on this day, and today it just happens to fall on Saturday, so I can make World Bee Day our Saturday Surprise!? Today is World Bee Day and…
Posted in Core thought, Environment, Food, Health, Reblogs, Strategy
Tagged bees, World Bee Day
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One of the numerous effects of a warming climate.
Originally posted on Learning from Dogs:
An article that I wanted to share with you! There is no question that we are warming the world, and in my mind, there’s very little doubt that it is us older persons who…
Posted in ... wait, what?, Education, Environment, GCD: Global climate disruption, Health, Reblogs, Science, Strategy
Tagged climate change, Climate Emergency, global warming, IPCC
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Grieving is something you do
One of my current projects is a book on grief. Here is the latest little section: Grieving is something you do It is all too easy to identify with our suffering. Before I learned mindfulness-based pain management, I dealt with … Continue reading
Shell knew (half a century ago!) that CO2 was a problem
Fossil fuels are the very bedrock of our global civilization; but oil and gas ‘production’ is nothing of the sort: it’s not production, it’s extraction. Those who ‘produce’ these resources are profiteering from their historic control of them, and actually … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, Climate, Communication, Education, Energy, Environment, GCD: Global climate disruption, Health, History, Phlyarology
Tagged climate change, denial, Justice, lies, Shell
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Nonviolent living
At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled. Marshall Rosenberg (1934–2015) This video by Marshall Rosenberg is less than 6 minutes long, but in that short time it packs a message that would change … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, balance, collaboration, Communication, Core thought, Culture, Health, People, perception, Phlyarology, Strategy
Tagged Giving, love, Marshall Rosenberg, nonviolent communication
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Is it only a dream that there’ll be no more turning away
There are now eight billion of us on Spaceship Earth (and counting), and although it’s only a relatively small proportion of the total, a great many of our fellow travellers are undergoing tremendous suffering while the rest of us turn … Continue reading
Posted in balance, Climate, Core thought, crowdsourcing, GCD: Global climate disruption, Health, Music, News and politics
Tagged Avaaz, Famine, On the turning away, Pink Floyd, Somalia
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There are far too many people on Spaceship Earth
… who lack basic essentials such as water, food, shelter, friends – and empathy. Especially that last. (Human) population is a serious problem; mainly because it’s crowding out the other residents of ‘our’ planet. The more serious issue, though, is … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, balance, Biodiversity, Core thought, Environment, Health, Strategy
Tagged overconsumption, overpopulation, overshoot
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Don’t trash our future
It’s not just the big things; the little things matter, too. The UK is suffering from a litter epidemic. 226 million cigarette butts are discarded in England every year. £1 billion – the estimated cost of picking up litter in … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, Core thought, Culture, Environment, Health, Phlyarology, Strategy
Tagged Justice, litter, litter-louts, rubbish, trash
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Too hot? Too cold?
by Dr Bob Rich Don’t reach for the thermostat yet. You can save a huge amount of electricity, gas, firewood or whatever your temperature-control energy source is and yet live a good life. Let me tell you a story. After … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, balance, collaboration, Core thought, Environment, GCD: Global climate disruption, Health, Strategy
Tagged cold, coolth, frostbite, heatstroke, hot, temperature
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Earth Day ft. The Candy
Devang told me that he had a special post lined up for Earth Day, and I had intended to reblog it then but it slipped my mind until now. It’s still Earth Month, though… and, after all, every day really … Continue reading
Posted in Biodiversity, Core thought, Environment, Health, Reblogs, Strategy
Tagged Change, Earth Day, environment
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Wibble 