January 26, 2014 - ExopermacultureExopermaculture

Excerpts from new book by intensive care nurse: The Wisdom of Near Death Experiences

“Back in 1995, I began to wonder: is death so terrible that we must do everything in our power to delay it with powerful drugs and machines? What is death, anyway? What happens when we die? Why are we so afraid of it?” Is this proof near-death experiences ARE real? Extraordinary new book by intensive […]

India’s “Forest Man” has planted a few saplings a day for 34 years

Imagine: if each of us does the one thing that is ours to do, beginning with what moves us into action, discovering over time the larger meaning and value of our instinctive desire — then the world will be changed. India’s forest man Lauded for growing an entire forest over thirty years, Jadav Payeng shows […]

David and Goliath Film Review Department: Captain Phillips

So. We have the Goliath, a giant ship, the Maersk Alabama, with 17,000 tons of cargo, 5,000 tons of which destined as “relief supplies” for Africa, hijacked by a tiny group of young, quarreling, skinny, hungry Somali “pirates,” forced by their overlords to hijack yet another ship. The ship was American, and like so much […]

Geo-engineering, and me: or, just who owns the sky, and why

I’ve gotten into the habit lately of checking the weather on my iphone each morning, it’s just been so very weird. Sometimes 30-40° drops or raises in temperature over literally hours. Then there’s the weirdness of named storms: the latest called “Janus.” Then “Polar Vortex” . . . OOOOOOOO . . . . so scarey, […]

Has Big Ag reached Peak?

This report, from the University of Nebraska, parallels the UN report: UN Report: Small Scale Organic Farming ONLY Way to Feed the World Now is when, were we not living on a tiny, already colonized, denatured planet, it would be time to go to war again to conquer more territory, so to put more virgin […]

Analysis: TPP likelihood shifts from “inevitable” to “uncertain”

Illustration: Jason Reid Is WikiLeaks turning the tide against the TPP? January 24, 2014 by Kevin Collier thedailydot A little over a year ago, it was easy, if you were one of the few people following the Trans-Pacific Partnership, to be pessimistic about the thing. A fortress of an international trade agreement, the TPP threatens […]

Goldie Hawn, at Davos, on Meditation

Question: can a reptilian shape-shifter meditate? Oops. Just kidding. A part of me wants to poo-poo this report. Another part of me feels grateful. Yes. I sit in meditation and the clanging dissonance within arises. Arises. Arises. Goldie Hawn Touts Meditation to Billionaires and World Leaders at Davos January 26, 2014 by Stephen Cook goldenageofgaia […]

Reminder to self. Change personal “habits” here. Now.

How often, in the midst of my obsessive thinking about how we are trashing our environment, do I decide, on my way home from a meeting with others on some aspect of saving our planet, to stop into Bloomingfoods, only to realize I have neglected to remember to put cloth bags back in the car? […]

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