Earth Spirit Action

Video below.

Dear Friends, We met last year when I was up your way and gave a climate change presentation.

Thought you might enjoy this short video that I recently completed, Earth Spirit Action, that you can view on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6jCpChUxOw.

The film features Starhawk, Vandana Shiva, Ruth Rosenhek, John Seed and Matthew Fox speaking on Deep Ecology, Living Democracy and Revolution in Consciousness in a fast moving discussion of the type of change that needs to take place for a Sustainable Future. An inspirational and stimulating film including beautiful nature footage and a colourful array of global action shots. (16mins21secs).

Enjoy. :-)

for the Earth
Ruth

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Environmental Cost of Shipping Groceries Around the World

April 26, 2008
From New York Times

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Box Fresh Organics, a popular British brand, advertises that 85 percent of its vegetables come from the British Midlands. But in winter, in its standard basket, only the potatoes and carrots are from Britain. The grapes are South African, the fennel is from Spain and the squash is Italian.

Today’s retailers could not survive if they failed to offer such variety, Mr. Moorehouse, the British food consultant, said.

“Unfortunately,” he said, “we’ve educated our customers to expect cheap food, that they can go to the market to get whatever they want, whenever they want it. All year. 24/7.”

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Read the article.

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Breaking Queensland's Coal Addiction

I attended a fantastic talk given by Dr John MacKenzie of Friends Of the Earth. It outlined how criminal the Australian Queensland Labor Government is in their approach to climate change. They are tripling the state's coal production - mostly for exports. At the same time they have increased the royalties paid to them by 40%.

The CO2 Emissions from the burning of this coal will increase from 378 million tonnes to 848 million tonnes.

How can Australia (or the world) justify this when many climate scientists say we need to reduce our emisions by 90% - even the conservative 60% figure is unreachable given these growths.

Check out the presentation.

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