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The Greenpeace 25 Mile Challenge – will you sponsor me, please?
I always enjoy killing two birds with one stone (not literally, naturally; after all, I am a Life Fellow of the RSPB). My GP admonished me some years ago to exercise more. So I began walking, exploring my neighbourhood – … Continue reading
Posted in collaboration, crowdsourcing, Environment, Health
Tagged charity, Greenpeace, litter, RSPB
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How to turn climate anxiety into action
A TED talk by Renée Lertzman, climate psychologist It’s deeply painful to face what’s happening on our planet right now. From forests burning, ocean plastic, species just gone each day, displacement. It’s easy to feel totally overwhelmed. Maybe a bit … Continue reading
Posted in balance, Climate, Communication, GCD: Global climate disruption, Health, Strategy
Tagged AGW, Change, climate change, climate disruption, cognition, cognitive dissonance
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Politicians: we demand better!
My bro sent me a link to this ‘open letter to (UK) politicians’ this morning. I agree wholeheartedly with every word, and, though I don’t believe that petitions do very much (or voting, for that matter, given that our political … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Economics, Energy, Environment, Food, GCD: Global climate disruption, Health, News and politics, Strategy
Tagged climate action, fossil fuels, leadership, petition, politics, pollution
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Why on Earth is there laughter in slaughterhouses?
The vast amount of land used to rear animals for the meat industry is a major contributor to climate change. You might think that it therefore makes sense to minimise land use by employing factory farming techniques. If you’re comfortable … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, Core thought, Culture, Food, Health, perception, Phlyarology, Strategy
Tagged bacon, belief, chicks, climate change, factory farming, horror, inhumane
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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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