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Embracing Permaculture Principles and Learning to Listen

Submitted by Zeratha on Sun, 05/21/2006 - 17:38.
Embracing Permaculture Principles and Learning to Listen

          Achieving sustainable development is the most important challenge facing all humans on this planet today.  Collectively we are living in a very unsustainable manner.  There are so many factors involved that we need to attempt to approach the situation from all angles; from a whole systems approach.  This means considering the economic factors, the cultural and societal factors, the political factors, the environmental factors, and of course present and future human needs.

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Environmental Writing: A Voice of Resistance

Submitted by Zeratha on Thu, 06/01/2006 - 23:18.

    Environmental Writing: A Spiritual Voice of Resistance

“Everyone of us is a crossroads of thousands of relations, links, influences, and communications – physical, chemical, biological, and others of which we know nothing…None of us knows how the quiver of a shrub in California affects the mental state of a coal miner in North Bohemia or how his mental state affects the quivering of the shrub” (Havel 15).
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Ode to the VBC

Submitted by Zeratha on Fri, 05/19/2006 - 21:25.

                                                       Ode to the VBC

The first law of thermodynamics states: “In all physical and chemical changes energy is neither created nor destroyed, but may be converted from one form to another.”
This is a great fundamental universal law to keep in mind as we go through our daily lives. It serves to remind us how connected we all are, from the daddy long legs crawling up the patio stairs to the freshly planted sunflower. It also serves to remind that what we do to the natural world around us and what we throw away does not just “go away”.  The atoms holding you and I together come from an infiinite variety of sources and are recycled over and over...Your form has been here forever. Wow, how smart you must be!  In honor of all this miraculous energy and potential and in honor of the upcoming Village Building Convergence:

In the heart of this space
skin of stars, eye of dinsoaur
beating and pulsing
atoms of yesterday
moons of tomorrow
the promise of a sustainable future

Remembering how to live as villagers
we mix amongst the tentacles, feathers and scales of life
learning how to balance and reciprocate
breathing in and letting go
old paradigms and constructs
in with the new and out with the old

It is time, it is time

to celebrate, to grow
this is a precious time
between you and I
between the space of possibility, inspiration and action
we are birthing together
this new reality
let us converge
and build this new village

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Paradigm Shifting: The Move to a Common Ecological Language

Submitted by Zeratha on Fri, 05/19/2006 - 20:16.

                         Paradigm Shifting: The Move to a Common Ecological Language

 

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Wild Wumoon

Submitted by Zeratha on Thu, 05/18/2006 - 16:19.

 

                         WILD WUMOON

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Tentacled glory

Submitted by Zeratha on Thu, 05/18/2006 - 16:06.

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Meeting Ygdrassil

Submitted by Zeratha on Fri, 01/27/2006 - 07:22.

~Meeting Ygdrassil~

My roots dig down, reaching for a warm space
Of stars beyond this loss

The super nebula breaks upon me
As I transcend earthly travel
Glittering soft marshmallow light

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