As you might figured there hasn’t been all that much activity lately on SOS. That is because things, including ourselves, are busy transitioning at the moment….

The info about why and how you’re quite likely to find on this blog. I suggest you browse through the articles via the topics. That’ll keep you busy for a while and eventually even inspire you…

If you are looking for more, selected info, check www.art-ecology-education.org

Until we’ll be back feeding you with info, I wish you moving times using the one that is already outthere.

Saludos!

The name Forestle is deducted from the word “forest”. Forestle is a “green Internet search engine”. We use our advertising revenue to protect endangered rainforest regions in order to keep our worlds most precious ecosystems intact and fight global warming.
Forestle earns advertising revenue from clicks on “sponsored links”. These are text links which are displayed next to the generic search results on the result page of our search engine. The sponsored links at Forestle are delivered by our partner Yahoo.

All of our income (minus about 10% administrative costs) is donated to the adopt an acre program, which is run by The Nature Conservancy – one of the most renowned environmental protection organizations in the world. They use the money, which is generated by Forestle, for the sustainable protection of the most precious rainforests on our planet.

As far as i can see, Forrestle works pretty well. Sometimes even more hits than elGoog. But i can’t say anything about the quality, so check it out yourself! Ah and spread the word! Great idea.

Forestle is availlabe in many languages and even offers a search plugin for every common browser. Click clack!

In case you are in Copenhagen/have friends who go, sense that it is about more than the climate, and want to use the opportunity to share+connect:
www.culturalrevolutionaries.org / Declaration of Cultural Revolutionaries -
Find it in 10 languages, post it, email it, but a button on your blog/campaign – Declare Interdependence…

Let it grow….

DECLARATION OF CULTURAL REVOLUTIONARIES 2009

Cultural revolutionaries in 2009…

_live, act, work with and not against nature
_know that life is too complex to understand it intellectually
_build and support local, self-governed economies
_value and safe-guard diversity of all kind
_value interdependence, since they know that nothing is separate
_regard themselves as equal to all life forms
_protect and support life
_love and support children unconditionally
_work on themselves towards greater awareness
_know about ecological principles and integrate them into their lifes
_see music and dance as an integral part of their expression and communication
_live on an animate earth and regard it as sacred
_know how to grow their own food
_appreciate their sensory awareness
_celebrate life
_cooperate
_make the shift from thinking ‘either, or’ to thinking ‘as well, as’
_share their knowledge
_understand and integrate process as a way of being
_are not identified with their body, thoughts or emotions
_see the mind as a tool
_realize that there is no right or wrong
_are not identified with any social tag, their past or their future
_are aware that the very essence of who they are is life itself
_take responsibility for their emotions
_are aware of and value their relationships to their living and seemingly non-living surroundings
_value and integrate the wisdom of women
_value and integrate the wisdom of indigenous cultures
_value generalist knowledge
_are aware of change as one of the core principles of evolution
_work towards diversification and decentralization
_engage in and create bonds to the place where they live
_turn from dependent consumers to responsible producers
_are looking for ways so that their interests and talents may unfold
_have the courage to resist and disobey laws that render self-rule, self-provisioning, and self-sustenance illegal
_are informed about the current money system and identify it as a contemporary form of enslavement
_identify and boycott biological, cultural, social and philosophical monocultures
_boycott monopolies of any kind
_question everyone who promotes one solution
_value environmental and human ethics over profit maximization
_boycott corporations and banks operating for profit maximization
_reclaim land and forests as common good
_reclaim water as common good
_reclaim biodiversity and knowledge as common good
_are aware that they participate in the process of co-creation at all time
_allow life to unfold through them

Berlin, 03/2009

Photo by Campact

Während sich die Bundesregierung in Kopenhagen auf internationalem Parkett als Klimavorreiter präsentiert, soll daheim möglichst lautlos der Klimaschutz aus dem Gesetz gestrichen werden: Noch während der Klimaverhandlungen wollen die schwarz-gelben Regierungsfraktionen in NRW die Klimaschutz-Ziele ersatzlos aus dem Gesetz zur Landesentwicklung tilgen. Einziges Ziel: Die Regierung von Jürgen Rüttgers will, dass der Energiekonzern Eon weiter am größten Kohlekraftwerksblock Europas bauen kann! Ein Gericht hatte den Bau wegen des Verstoßes gegen zahlreiche Gesetze gestoppt.
Dies würde ein fatales Signal nach Kopenhagen senden: Wie soll eine deutsche Bundesregierung glaubhaft China, Indien und Brasilien zu ambitionierten Klimaschutz-Zielen bewegen, wenn daheim Konzernprofiten statt Klimaschutz Vorfahrt gewährt wird! Jetzt müssen wir die Regierung Rüttgers von ihrer Klientelpolitik abbringen!

Mehr Hintergründe

Zu Campact kann ich nur sagen, dass ich bereits mehrere Petitionen unterzeichnet habe und daher guten Gewissens sagen kann, dass eure Daten nicht für Spam missbraucht werden. Macht also mit und spread the word! Denn wenn eine Sache sicher ist – der Neubau von Kohlekraftwerken geht mal so gar nicht klar. Erst recht nicht, wenn es sich um das größte Europas handeln sollte. Manchmal frag ich mich echt, ob gewisse Herrschaften wirklich so skurpellos sind oder schlicht noch nicht im Jahr 2009 angekommen sind. Wahnsinn.

Mitmachen!

With ten thousand daily visitors, participants from over 100 countries and a comprehensive programme of events, Klimaforum09 will be the biggest climate event in Copenhagen besides the official UN conference.

The programme features international guest speakers, over 150 open debates, 60 exhibitions, music, film and art.
Klimaforum09 is not an NGO (non-governmental organisation) we have no special causes, interests or agendas.

The Klimaforum09 programme offers you 190 inspiring talks, 50 exhibitions, 30 climate films and documentaries, global music, theater, invited guest speakers and much more.

Check the whole programme over here!

7-18 december 2009

http://www.klimaforum09.org/

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Wundert sich eigentlich noch jemand? Was wohl das Fazit des diesjährigen Gipfels sein wird?

Just sharing….have a look….

http://www.nrc.nl/redactie/foto/greenpeaceposters/index.html

Energy has not always been conceived the same way, at least by oil companies like Humble, a forefather of Exxon.

The copy below says:

This giant glacier has remained unmelted for centuries. Yet the petroleum energy Humble supples—if converted into heat—could melt it at the rate of 80 tons each second! To meet the nation’s growing needs for energy, Humble has applied science to nature’s resources to become America’s Leading Energy Company. Working wonders with oil through research, Humble provides energy in many forms — to help heat our homes, power our transportation, and to furnish industry with a great variety of versatile chemicals. Stop at a Humble station for new Enco Extra gasoline, and see why the “Happy Motoring” Sign is the World’s First Choice!

via

www.mundraub.org – freies Obst für  freie Bürger

Cheatneutral is about offsetting infidelity. We’re the only people doing it, and Cheatneutral is a joke.

Carbon offsetting is about paying for the right to carry on emitting carbon. The Carbon offset industry sold £60 million of offsets last year, and is rapidly growing. Carbon offsetting is also a joke.

Loyal and faithful? Are you a cheater? What is cheat offsetting? Find the answers at www.cheatneutral.com

Haha! :D

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Jean-Jacques Crèvecoeur, ein sympathischer, couragierter Mediziner, dem die Teilnahme der Konferenz in Frankreich durch die Regierung Sarkozy verboten wurde, schreibt in einem Rund-E-Mail auszugsweise: «Ich sende Ihnen diese E-Mail aus eigener Initiative. Ich diene niemandes Interessen und führe diese Aktion unentgeltlich und eigenmächtig durch. Es würde mich freuen, wenn Sie die nachfolgend von mir zitierten Fakten der breiten Öffentlichkeit zugänglich machen. Außerdem bitte ich Sie, mir nicht alles einfach zu glauben. Recherchieren Sie selbst. Ich lade Sie hier einfach ein, Ihr eigenes Denkvermögen einzusetzen und Ihre eigenen Schlußfolgerungen zu ziehen. Sollten Sie dieses E-Mail direkt erhalten haben, so bitte ich Sie sich in den Verteiler einzutragen, damit Sie auch die weiteren E-Mails von mir erhalten können»: promotthee@videotron.qc.ca

Langer Artikel, aber lest ihn euch bitte durch! Alles kein Akte-X Unfug, sondern Realität.

Photo by Monica Szczupider / NGM

Cameroon — At the Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue Center, more than a dozen residents form a gallery of grief, looking on as Dorothy — a beloved female felled in her late 40s by heart failure — is borne to her burial.

Each month, National Geographic magazine features breathtaking photographs in Visions of Earth. Browse through visions of the world as seen through a photographer’s eye.

Photo- and documentary lovers, check out National Geografic Magazine’s “Visions of Earth” series!

This is from Chapter 2 Knowing and Seeing:

…The natural world, on the other hand, is one of infinite varieties and complexities, a multidimensional world which contains no straight lines or completely regular shapes, where things do not happen in sequences, but all together; a world where—as modern physics tells us—even empty space is curved. It is clear that our abstract system of conceptual thinking can never describe or understand this reality completely. In thinking about the world we are faced with the same kind of problem as the cartographer who tries to cover the curved face of the Earth with a sequence of plane maps. We can only expect an approximate representation of reality from such a procedure, and all rational knowledge is therefore necessarily limited.

The realm of rational knowledge is, of course, the realm of science which measures and quantifies, classifies and analyses. The limitations of any knowledge obtained by these methods have become increasingly apparent in modern science, and in particular in modern physics which has taught us, in the words of Werner Heisenberg, ‘that every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability.’

For most of us it is very difficult to be constantly aware of the limitations and of the relativity of conceptual knowledge. Because our representation of reality is so much easier to grasp than reality itself, we tend to confuse the two and to take our concepts and symbols for reality. It is one of the main aims of Eastern mysticism to rid us of this confusion. Zen Buddhists say that a finger is needed to point at the moon, but that we should not trouble ourselves with the finger once the moon is recognized; the Taoist sage Chuang Tzu wrote:

Fishing baskets are employed to catch fish; but when the fish are got, the men forget the baskets; snares are employed to catch hares; but when the hares are got, men forget the snares. Words are employed to convey ideas; but when the ideas are grasped, men forget the words.

In the West, the semanticist Alfred Korzybski made exactly the same point with his powerful slogan, ‘The map is not the territory.’

What the Eastern mystics are concerned with is a direct experience of reality which transcends not only intellectual thinking but also sensory perception. In the words of the Upanishads,

What is soundless, touchless, formless, imperishable,
Likewise tasteless, constant, odourless,
Without beginning, without end, higher than the great, stable—
By discerning That, one is liberated from the mouth of death.

Knowledge which comes from such an experience is called ‘absolute knowledge’ by Buddhists because it does not rely on the discriminations, abstractions and classifications of the intellect which, as we have seen, are always relative and approximate. It is, so we are told by Buddhists, the direct experience of undifferentiated, undivided, indeterminate ’such-ness’. Complete apprehension of this suchness is not only the core of Eastern mysticism, but is the central characteristic of all mystical experience.

The Eastern mystics repeatedly insist on the fact that the ultimate reality can never be an object of reasoning or of demonstrable knowledge. It can never be adequately described by words, because it lies beyond the realms of the senses and of the intellect from which our words and concepts are derived. The Upanishads say about it:

There the eye goes not,
Speech goes not, nor the mind.
We know not, we understand not
How one would teach it.

Lao Tzu, who calls this reality the Tao, states the same fact in the opening line of the Tao Te Ching: ‘The Tao that can be expressed is not the eternal Tao.’ The fact—obvious from any reading of the newspapers—that humanity has not become much wiser over the past two thousand years, in spite of a prodigious increase in rational knowledge, is ample evidence of the impossibility of communicating absolute knowledge by words. As Chuang Tzu said, ‘If it could be talked about, everybody would have told their brother.’

Absolute knowledge is thus an entirely non-intellectual experience of reality, an experience arising in a non-ordinary state of consciousness which may be called a ‘meditative’ or mystical state. That such a state exists has not only been testified by numerous mystics in the East and West but is also indicated by psychological research. In the words of William James:

Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.

Although physicists are mainly concerned with rational knowledge and mystics with intuitive knowledge, both types of knowledge occur in both fields. This becomes apparent when we examine how knowledge is obtained and how it is expressed, both in physics and Eastern mysticism. …