“Climate: A Crisis Averted” looks back from 2056 and recounts how ordinary citizens in 2006 — realizing that global warming was a scientific fact and not a climatic theory — take action to demand clean energy and other planet-friendly options. The movie describes how a movement called RenewUS effected real change with an action plan, or ‘call-to-arms’ on global warming.

StopGlobalWarming.org partner Reverb, worked with Maroon 5 and Counting Crows to “green up” last summers tour and engage fans to join in. Check out a video recap of their efforts.

There is a source above everyday thinking… that alows humanbeings to unite…

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Michael Pollan — Knight Professor of Journalism, UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism — explains why we need to transform our relationship with food: what we consume, how and where we produce it, and more. A radical new food policy is required if we are to resolve our energy, health, and environmental issues…

Serious Sustainability…

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Visualize world peace, plenty of water, and food for all.
-Bruce

Coming in early 2009, the new documentary “A Sea Change” will be having a world premiere.

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“Imagine a world without fish: It seems inconceivable. But top scientists warn that such a catastrophe may in fact play out in coming generations unless widespread awareness is raised to stop ocean acidification.

A Sea Change will focus public attention on this urgent but little-known crisis. It follows retired educator and concerned grandfather Sven Huseby back to stunning ancestral sites (Norway, Alaska the Pacific Northwest) where he finds cutting-edge ocean research underway. His journey of self-discovery brings adventure, surprise and revelation to the hard science of acidification. ”

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Here is the movie trailer:

A Sea Of Change

http://www.aseachange.net/about.html

The 2008 Clinton Global Initiative is happening now. September 23-26 in New York City.

Click here to watch the 2008 Plenary Session: Integrated Solutions: Water, Food and Energy by:

President Bill Clinton,

Senator John McCain,

Tom Brokaw

Mayor Gavin Newsom

President Shimon Peres

T. Boone Pickens

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

Robert Zoellick

Senator Barack Obama

Press Release -click here

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President Clinton describes how we all can make a difference in the lives of others, leading us through the broad spectrum of CGI’s efforts to enable and affect change. From the global leaders and CEOs of the Annual Meeting to the college students and future leaders of CGI U, CGI seeks to empower every citizen with the ability to take substantive action against the world’s most pressing problems.

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Plenary Session - “Economic Growth Face of Resource Scarcity and Climate Change”

This looks to be a wonderful film for re-connecting to our interdependence with the earth and each other…. well done! Can’t wait to see it!

-BMJ

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Director Kim Kindersley proudly announces the release of the long awaited film - Whaledreamers

With the current concerns over global warming and the future of humanity seemingly hanging in the balance comes a story of hope, awakening and reconciliation.

Whaledreamers is the heartfelt story of the return of an aboriginal whale dreaming tribe from the edge of extinction and the equally, long journey of the whales, not only to survive the slaughter by man, but to engage the human race into waking up in time.

At a time when our collective consciousness is focused on issues pertaining to our indigenous ancestors and the fragile state of our environment, comes a powerful film, which unites four people from very different cultures. One a song man from a dispossessed aboriginal tribe, Bunna Lawrie; another, a filmmaker from a distant land, British director, Kim Kindersley; the third, musician and activist, Julian Lennon, and lastly acclaimed Australian actor and story teller, Jack Thompson.

Over fifteen years in the making, across five continents and oceans, Whaledreamers is a personal odyssey for British filmmaker, Kim Kindersley in his quest to find his spiritual roots, while experiencing the extraordinary connection, both ancient and modern, between humanity and the cetaceans.

“Indigenous wisdom has never been more relevant for humanity than now” Julian Lennon
This thought provoking film makes its World Premiere at The Hayden Orpheum, Cremorne September 17

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CLICK HERE for the film trailer and website

These independent videos by the “globalonessprogect.org” are truly inspirational.

The Global Oneness Project is a web-based video initiative exploring how the simple notion of oneness can be lived in our increasingly complex world.

Their film subjects live and work with many of the following values, attitudes, and beliefs:
• We are responsible to each other, the earth, and future generations.
• There are enough resources for us all, if we share.
• Free exchanges of information allow for greater, collective creative potential.
• Love, care and compassion have the power to transform the fabric of society.

Hope you enjoy these,

Namasté,

-Bruce

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Global Oneness Project Trailer

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The Universe as a Living System
Duane Elgin, media activist and pioneer of the “Voluntary Simplicity” movement, describes the perception that the universe is dead as the root cause of the exploitative mindset. Duane asks, how can we shift cultural perception in order to see the universe as a living system?

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Dean Radin
Dean Radin, Ph.D., is a researcher and author in the field of parapsychology. His professional career has focused on experimentally exploring far reaches of human consciousness, primarily phenomena like intuition, gut feelings and psi phenomena. He is Senior Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, in Petaluma, California, and on the Adjunct Faculty at Sonoma State University. Dean’s research has been featured in numerous magazines and he has appeared on several radio and television programs. He is the author of Entangled Minds and The Conscious Universe.

An Electronic Membrane

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Knowing How to Nurture Ourselves
Stephan Fayon, director of an international seed bank in Auroville, India, explains how preserving the diversity of seeds insures against the breakdown of large-scale industrial agriculture. Today the supermarkets in the developed world are full; but if unsustainable systems of agriculture collapse, will we know how to nourish ourselves?

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Controversial environmental author Paul Ehrlich talks biofuels, offshore drilling, peak oil… video
Forty years ago, author Paul Ehrlich stirred up controversy by predicting that the world’s steady population growth would cause hundreds of millions of people to starve within a decade of publication of “The Population Bomb.” Though his predictions were wrong, he is often credited with having had a major influence on the environmental movement in the ’60s and ’70s. During today’s OnPoint, Paul Ehrlich, author of the new book “The Dominant Animal” and Bing professor of population studies and professor of biological sciences at Stanford University, gives his take on today’s top energy and environment issues. He also responds to critics who have accused him of using scare tactics.
If you prefer to read, here is the transcript.

Controversial, yes. But on point. This interview should get more of your little grey cells activated.

Peace,
Bruce

Luft calls for open fuel standard to break oil dependency, promote competition in fuel sector… video
Is an open fuel standard the answer to ending the United State’s dependency on foreign oil? Should the market be given the opportunity to choose which fuel to use? During today’s OnPoint, Gal Luft, executive director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security and co-founder of the Set America Free Coalition, explains why he believes an open fuel standard is the most viable option for our future transportation fuel policy. He discusses OPEC’s influence on current energy prices and analyzes the energy plan recently proposed by oilman T. Boone Pickens. Luft explains why he believes relying on natural gas to fuel our vehicles, as Pickens has suggested, would essentially create a new dependency issue for the U.S..
If you prefer to read, here is the transcript

Some very good points in this interview.

Peace,
Bruce