From Witness for Peace, 3/2/2018: 2 Years Without Justice! Contact your Representative now and urge them to co-sponsor the Berta Cáceres Human Rights in Honduras Act, H.R. 1299! Today marks two years since Berta Cáceres, the beloved Lenca Indigenous, feminist, environmental leader and co-founder of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras … [Read more...] about Calls to Action: Urge Your Rep to Co-Sponsor the Berta Cáceres Act
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Calls To Action
Posts from organizations calling for action to either support specific sustainability projects and/or to fight against specific threats to sustainability. … [Read more...] about Calls To Action
Martin Boksenbaum: ‘A Re-Imagining of Passover’s Four Questions’
I'd written "A Re-Imagining of Passover's Four Questions" and wanted to post it here, but I decided to check first with some of my Jewish friends about whether they thought it was offensive. It was supposed to be generally thought-provoking, but it might be misconstrued. So I sent the piece out, asking for reactions and also if I should provide links in it to "Passover's Four … [Read more...] about Martin Boksenbaum: ‘A Re-Imagining of Passover’s Four Questions’
Sustainability Doings: November 27, 2015 – “Best/Worst of Times?”
A time to celebrate. A time to mourn. President Obama announced his rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline on November 6. Calls to celebrate the victory are in from 350.org; Sierra Club; CREDO Action; Berks Gas Truth; NRDC; and others. More than 200,000 people have been killed in the four-and-a-half-year Syrian civil war. The linked September 14, 2015 New York Times … [Read more...] about Sustainability Doings: November 27, 2015 – “Best/Worst of Times?”
Martin Boksenbaum: ‘Bonding with the Land’
"Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land", said Aldo Leopold in his classic A Sand County Almanac: With Essays on Conservation from Round River (1966: 189). But land is not just the land. At least not according to Aldo Leopold. He continued, "By land is meant all of the things on, over, or in the earth" (1966: 189). On page 190, he elaborated, "The outstanding … [Read more...] about Martin Boksenbaum: ‘Bonding with the Land’
Martin Boksenbaum: ‘Bonding With the Beauty of the Here and Now’
A major component of the Transition Movement's approach to bringing us away "from oil dependency to local resilience" is through "the heart", the title of Part Two of the Transition Handbook. How do we get an emotional buy-in to the changes needed? Well, Part Two is subtitled "Why Having a Positive Vision is Crucial." Rob Hopkins writes: "It is one thing to campaign against … [Read more...] about Martin Boksenbaum: ‘Bonding With the Beauty of the Here and Now’
Sustainability Doings: June 22, 2015 – “Doing Democracy”
Democracy: Easier Said Than Done Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. Climate Change, while wonderfully thoughtful, insightful, and useful-information packed book, is weak in several areas one of which is the pivotal one of engaging, empowering, and enabling people, communities, NGOs, to take action via democratic organizational structures. She says, after … [Read more...] about Sustainability Doings: June 22, 2015 – “Doing Democracy”
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Sustainability Doings, 3 February 2015: ‘It ain’t broke?!’
The system IS working?! In the last issue of Sustainability Doings, dated 1/5/15, I blithely asserted: "The system is broken. Everyone knows that." But then, bright and early on 1/6/15, Karen Henninger responded: . "I do not agree that the *system* is broken. I believe that understanding is a lack of understanding [of] the system. "The system IS working for what it was … [Read more...] about Sustainability Doings, 3 February 2015: ‘It ain’t broke?!’
Sustainability Doings – 5 January 2015 – “Riddle”
How is capitalism like an elephant? The system is broken. Everyone knows that. But do you know that no one knows what te hell the system is? We may be missing the obvious, like the proverbial elephant in the room, that we’re blanking out to, as if it weren’t there or was invisible to us. Or perhaps each of us is touching on only a small part of the whole system from our limited … [Read more...] about Sustainability Doings – 5 January 2015 – “Riddle”