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True Freedom

No one is free when others are oppressed. No one is free when human activities are destroying the conditions for human life. True freedom exists in ecological sustainability and social justice.

True freedom exists in a harmonious relationship between humanity and nature.

If there is to be any peace...

If there is to be any peace, it will come through being, not having. - Henry Miller

We Face a Stark Choice

Vandana Shiva (Founder of Navdanya):

"Regulating by carbon trading is like fiddling as Rome burns. Governments and the UN should impose a carbon tax on corporations, both for production - wherever their facilities are located - and for transport, which the Kyoto Protocol does not account for directly. Incentives for renewable energy are also essential. We face a stark choice: we can destroy the conditions for human life on the planet by clinging to 'free-market' fundamentalism, or we can secure our future by bringing commerce within the laws of ecological sustainability and social justice." [emphasis added]

How can I live in a way that is truly happy, secure, and peaceful when I know that the ways of human societies are ruining the conditions for human life on Earth and dooming future generations to poverty?

...Earth democracy...transition...put nature first...

...respect and protect wilderness...nurture broken ecosystems, repair them, bring them back to health...restore ecological and economic balance...

Vandana Shiva scheduled to speak in Olympia, October 15: Vandana Shiva visit to Olympia, Washington

Fall Foliage

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Fall Foliage dancing leaves

Tall Trees

Know Your Farmer

I like this. Moving toward sustainability and a truly peaceful set of policies and behaviors of international relationships will require changing the ways of America's food systems. Localization, elimination of fossil fuel dependency, agro-chemicals, etc... Close the loop!

Good way to go. A call for conversation. What a breath of fresh air.

Sunset Lake Shore, Water, Sky

Global Dominance, The Cremation of Care, The Bohemian Grove, and Missing Children

Beginning to connect the problem of missing children to policies of global dominance, the Bohemian Grove, and the Cremation of Care Ceremony:
olyblog.net/missing-children-global-dominance-bohemian-grove-and-cremation-care

Lake Powell

The former Glen Canyon

This landscape reminds me of the planet Tatooine, from the film Star Wars.