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Jean Lievens: Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth

Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Peace Intelligence, Worth A Look
Jean Lievens
Jean Lievens

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A Collection of Essays
Edited by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

The Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh was asked what we need to do to save our world.

“What we most need to do,” he replied,

“is to hear within us the sound of the earth crying.” 

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Our present ecological crisis is the greatest man-made disaster this planet has ever faced—its accelerating climate change, species depletion, pollution and acidification of the oceans. A central but rarely addressed aspect of this crisis is our forgetfulness of the sacred nature of creation, and how this affects our relationship to the environment. There is a pressing need to articulate a spiritual response to this ecological crisis. This is vital and necessary if we are to help bring the world as a living whole back into balance.

Contributors include: Chief Oren Lyons, Thich Nhat Hanh, Sandra Ingerman, Joanna Macy, Sister Miriam MacGillis, Satish Kumar, Vandana Shiva, Fr. Richard Rohr, Bill Plotkin, Jules Cashford, Wendell Berry, Winona LaDuke, Mary Evelyn Tucker, Brian Swimme, and others.

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Worth a Look: Books by Folk-Hero Farmer Joel Salatin

6 Star Top 10%, America (Founders, Current Situation), Best Practices in Management, Change & Innovation, Complexity & Resilience, Culture, Research, Economics, Environment (Solutions), Health, Intelligence (Public), Nature, Diet, Memetics, Design, Philosophy, Survival & Sustainment, True Cost & Toxicity, Worth A Look
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Drawing upon 40 years' experience as an ecological farmer and marketer, Joel Salatin explains with humor and passion why Americans do not have the freedom to choose the food they purchase and eat. From child labor regulations to food inspection, bureaucrats provide themselves sole discretion over what food is available in the local marketplace. Their system favors industrial, global corporate food systems and discourages community-based food commerce, resulting in homogenized selection, mediocre quality, and exposure to non-organic farming practices. Salatin's expert insight explains why local food is expensive and difficult to find and will illuminate for the reader a deeper understanding of the industrial food complex.

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From farmer Joel Salatin's point of view, life in the 21st century just ain't normal. In FOLKS, THIS AIN'T NORMAL, he discusses how far removed we are from the simple, sustainable joy that comes from living close to the land and the people we love. Salatin has many thoughts on what normal is and shares practical and philosophical ideas for changing our lives in small ways that have big impact.  Salatin, hailed by the New York Times as “Virginia's most multifaceted agrarian since Thomas Jefferson [and] the high priest of the pasture” and profiled in the Academy Award nominated documentary Food, Inc. and the bestselling book The Omnivore's Dilemma, understands what food should be: Wholesome, seasonal, raised naturally, procured locally, prepared lovingly, and eaten with a profound reverence for the circle of life. And his message doesn't stop there. From child-rearing, to creating quality family time, to respecting the environment, Salatin writes with a wicked sense of humor and true storyteller's knack for the revealing anecdote.

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Berto Jongman: Free Book Online – Forecasting Principles and Practice

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Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

[Book] Forecasting: principles and practice

An online textbook by Rob J Hyndman and George Athanasopoulos.

A print ver­sion of this book will be made avail­able via Ama­zon in the sec­ond half of 2013. This online ver­sion will remain freely avail­able. If you have any com­ments or sug­ges­tions on the book, feel free to add them to the com­ments at the end of the Pref­ace.

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Worth a Look: Galactic Diplomacy: Getting to Yes with ET (Routing Around Secretive Governments)

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This book is a comprehensive source for individuals who think that sufficient evidence merits acceptance of the premise that intelligent extraterrestrials are already interacting with humanity and who are already asking what an appropriate, democratic, political response might be (even if an unsupervised shadow government maintains negotiations, exchanges and de facto agreements not only detached from common democratic processes but with the extraterrestrial groups it finds more appropriate. Galactic Diplomacy: Getting to Yes with ET is a seminal book written to offer a leading edge analysis of the nature of different extraterrestrial groups so that mindful citizens willing to represent their vital interests and even those of humanity, the Earth and even of all planetary sentient beings acquire basic, general information to intelligently proceed with a peaceful, track two, complementary, citizen s Galactic Diplomacy. … Galactic Diplomacy: Getting to Yes with ET showed me that it was possible to treat the complex and startling exopolitical situation with fairness, academic distinction and a form of reasonableness that includes an objective analysis and qualitative assessment suitable to a useful, normal and moral human standpoint. It succeeds in presenting a necessarily challenging overview of various unique categories that must be inclusively studied to practice exopolitics and to responsibly launch a new stage in real-world human-ET interacting with a vital and extraordinary political situation. –Giorgio Piacenza Cabrera

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Worth a Look: The Good Life Lab: Radical Experiments in Hands-On Living

5 Star, Complexity & Resilience, Consciousness & Social IQ, Worth A Look
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Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,871 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

#2 in Books > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Home Improvement & Design > How-to & Home Improvements > Do-It-Yourself
#12 in Books > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Sustainable Living
#34 in Books > History > Americas > United States > State & Local

This is the inspirational story of how one couple ditched their careers and high-pressure life in New York City to move to rural New Mexico, where they made, built, invented, foraged, and grew all they needed to live self-sufficiently, discovering a new sense of value and abundance in the process. Alongside their personal story are tips and tutorials to guide readers in the discovery of a fulfilling new lifestyle that relies less on money. Tremayne wholeheartedly believes that everyone has the skill, imagination and creativity to make it work.

Tremayne not only teaches the art of making biofuel, appliances, structures, gardens, food, and medicine but also presents reasons for makers to share their innovations and ideas through open source and creative commons licenses. She shares the joys of creating out of waste, home manufacture, and reconnecting with nature, and she teaches readers how to live off the grid. Practical, contemplative, and action-oriented, The Good Life Lab is the manual for life in a post-consumer age.

In addition, The Good Life Lab is filled with illustrations contributed by a community of artists — Alethea Morrison, Allegra Lockstadt, Andrew Saeger, Bert van Wijk, Christopher Silas Neal, Gina Triplett, Grady McFerrin, Joel Holland, Josh Cochran, Julia Rothman, Kate Bingaman Burt, Katie Scott, Kristian Olson, Mattias Adolfsson, Meg Hunt, Melinda Beck, Miyuki Sakai, Rachel Salomon, and Sasha Prood — making the book itself a work of art.

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Worth a Look: The Promise and Limits of Private Power: Promoting Labor Standards in a Global Economy

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This book examines and evaluates various private initiatives to enforce fair labor standards within global supply chains. Using unique data (internal audit reports, and access to more than 120 supply chain factories and 700 interviews in 14 countries) from several major global brands, including NIKE, HP, and the International Labor Organization's Factory Improvement Programme in Vietnam, this book examines both the promise and the limitations of different approaches to actually improve working conditions, wages, and working hours for the millions of workers employed in today's global supply chains. Through a careful, empirically grounded analysis of these programs, this book illustrates the mix of private and public regulation needed to address these complex issues in a global economy.

Forum:  Can Global Brands Create Just Supply Chains?

A forum on corporate responsibility for factory workers

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Worth a Look: 15-17 December 2013 New York City Global Summit introducing the Reclaim Movement and the Open Source Imperative

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global summitIn the new global economy, innovation happens in diverse sectors.

More than an event, The Global Summit is a Catalyst for Collaboration throughout the Year.

The Global Summit series is a citizen-driven solution-making forum crowd-sourcing the most effective social and technological innovations for a sustainable future – an opportunity to create rippling social and economic impact.

Facilitated by US 501c3 tax-exempt organization, Empowerment WORKS (EW) since 2007, The Global Summit (TGS) was launched in San Francisco, CA in 2008. Uniting people hands-on, and online in shaping solutions to the issues that most affect them, The Global Summit advances a whole system approach to social, economic and environmental change.

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