Worth a Look: Nature Ethics & EcoFeminism

Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Worth A Look
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“Nature Ethics provides a comprehensive and fair-minded account of the contrasting positions, particularly with respect to animals, between ecofeminist nature ethics and the celebrated holistic views of Theodore Roosevelt, Aldo Leopold, Holmes Rolston III, and Warwick Fox. Anyone interested in women's studies, animal advocacy, hunting, vegetarianism, or environmental ethics will find this impressive book helpful and challenging.”

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How are the unjustified dominations of women and other humans connected to the unjustified domination of animals and nonhuman nature? What are the characteristics of oppressive conceptual frameworks and systems of unjustified domination? How does an ecofeminist perspective help one understand issues of environmental and social justice? In this important new work Karen J. Warren answers these and other questions from a Western perspective. Warren looks at the variety of positions in ecofeminism, the distinctive nature of ecofeminist philosophy, ecofeminism as an ecological position, and other aspects of the movement to reveal its significance to both understanding and creatively changing patriarchal (and other) systems of unjustified domination.

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This is a comprehensive and important discussion of three main myths of creation, destruction, and domination. Ruether ( Mary: The Feminine Face of the Church , Westminster/John Knox Pr., 1977) shows how these patriarchal stories still permeate the culture and social structure of the Western world today. She eloquently critiques these values from an ecological and feminist point of view, exploring how male domination of women and of nature are interconnected. Arguing that these values must be changed, she develops potential ways for healing ourselves and our planet from within existing religious traditions. This work is useful for special collections in religion, woman's studies, and ecology. It assumes some relevant knowledge on the part of the reader but is highly relevant for this specialized audience.

“Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor” represents Leonardo Boff's most systematic effort to date to link the spirit of liberation theology with the urgent challenge of ecology. Focusing on the threatened Amazon of his native Brazil, Boff traces the ties that bind the fate of the rain forests with the fate of the Indians and the poor of the land. In this book, readers will find the keys to a new, liberating faith.

Journal: Christ in the Sights, Glaciers Not Melting, Natural Gas Galore–Another Day in America

03 Environmental Degradation, 05 Energy, Cultural Intelligence, Military
Chuck Spinney

U.S. Military Weapons Inscribed With Secret ‘Jesus' Bible Codes

Pentagon Supplier for Rifle Sights Says It Has ‘Always' Added New Testament References

By JOSEPH RHEE, TAHMAN BRADLEY and BRIAN ROSS

Jan. 18, 2010

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Note: the below report, which appears to be well sourced, does not rebut the Global Warming hypothesis per se, but it highlights the shoddy political character of the IPCC, together with its bias to hype the threat of global warming.

It also makes the revelations in the hacked emails all the more salient to the GW debate, especially those emails which reveal the organized efforts of suppress the opposing views of those scientists labeled disparagingly as “climate deniers” (an obscene, almost subliminal, reference to holocaust deniers) in peer reviewed journals.

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Reference: Protecting the Force–Lessons from Fort Hood

Cultural Intelligence, DoD, True Cost
Full Report Online

Phi Beta Iota: The report observes that we lack both indicators and the ability to share information about indicators across boundaries.  More disturbing to us from a public intelligence perspective is the report's unwillingess to address the cognitive dissonance that led to the break-down of an educated multi-cultural field grade officer in the U.S. Army.

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Worth a Look: Water Footprint

12 Water, Earth Intelligence, True Cost, Worth A Look

Waterfootprint Network Manual
http://www.waterfootprint.org/downloads/WaterFootprintManual2009.pdf

A PILOT IN CORPORATE WATER FOOTPRINT ACCOUNTING AND IMPACT ASSESSMENT:
THE WATER FOOTPRINT OF A SUGAR-CONTAINING CARBONATED BEVERAGE
http://www.waterfootprint.org/Reports/Report39-WaterFootprintCarbonatedBeverage.pdf

THE WATER FOOTPRINT OF SWEETENERS AND BIO-ETHANOL FROM SUGAR CANE,
SUGAR BEET AND MAIZE
http://www.waterfootprint.org/Reports/Report38-WaterFootprint-sweeteners-ethanol.pdf

Homepage: http://www.waterfootprint.org

Journal: Tea Party Express Rolls Along

11 Society, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Government, Reform
Tea Party Express III National Route

Welcome to the Tea Party Express III: Just Vote Them Out!

All throughout the recent Tea Party Express national bus tour we kept receiving calls from people around the nation who lived far away from the route our buses took across America. We vowed at the time to keep the Tea Party Express effort alive – and that’s exactly what we are doing.

Join us from March 27th to April 15th, 2010
as we tell Congress and the White House: “Enough!”

Let’s stand up and stop the bailouts, cap and trade, out-of-control spending, government-run healthcare, and higher taxes! We’re back and determined to take our country back!

Phi Beta Iota: We do not believe that a Civil War is coming for the simple reason that there are not enough organized guns to put down the public if the public is united.  The Tea Party Express is more authentic in many ways than the Committee for a Unified Independent Party (CUIP), which is much more like organized politics as operated by the two parties that have corrupted the electoral system and block out the other 63 parties from actual participation.

Journal: Strong Signals from the Heartland

Collaboration Zones, Communities of Practice, Ethics, Reform

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U.S. Heading for Hyperinflationary Collapse, Ruling Elite Preparing for Civil War

Jan 18, 2010 – 12:21 AM

By: James_Quinn

Americans have a choice. They can allow their government to bully and threaten them into conforming to their view of reality like Winston Smith or they can go down swinging like Cool Hand Luke and Randall McMurphy. The cowboy spirit of the Old West is what is required today. We need tough hardened individualists who are willing to say enough is enough. Our government has been corrupted by weak men slithering around the halls of Congress soliciting for money, an evil banking cartel creating fiat money, corporate fascists paying off criminals in Washington DC, and the military industrial complex enforcing Washington’s power across the globe. The country longs for an Andrew Jackson or a Dwight Eisenhower. Instead we are stuck with Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. The citizens of the country have chosen a false security in place of liberty and freedom.

Phi Beta Iota: We monitor the Independent press and above is the beginning of one of the most extraordinary statements by a simple US citizen interested in the truth and in upholding the Republic's traditions.

Worth a Look: InSTEDD Emergency Support to Emergencies, Diseases, and Disasters

Gift Intelligence, Peace Intelligence, Worth A Look

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