It’s time for a real grass roots EnurgyShift…

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In this three part series: Death by Medicine, The Healthcare Monopoly, much is revealed about how special interest groups have been manipulating the healthcare industry. This is not new to many people, but the factual information in this movie is an eye opener.

Part one of three…

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part two of three…

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part three of three…

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I can’t belive I just found this amazing video of Yusuf (Cat Stevens). I grew up with Cat Stevens in college and his music had a profound impact on my vision of the world. In this special re-apperance, after many years of being away from performing, Yusuf performs “Peace Train” at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, Norway, December 11, 2006.

In-joy,
Bruce

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After seeing this I felt compelled to add this talk by Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of The Grameen Bank, speaks about his new book:
Creating a World Without Poverty.

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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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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Nicole Kuepper, 23 has won two Austrailian Museum Eureka Prizes for her scientific research. She also won the People’s Choice Award, in which almost 16,000 members of the public voted for their favourite scientist out of six finalists.

She has developed a simple and inexpensive way of producing solar cells using ink jet printers and pizza ovens. This could eventually bring light and power to the 2 billion people in the world who lack electricity. And at the same time improve their qualtity of life, health and air.

As an passionate researcher trying to find solutions to climate change and solutions for the poorest among us… Ms. Kuepper may be able to bring this inovative “solar pie” to the market within five years. It could also prove to lower the cost of solar power around the globe.

“I love working with passionate people who want to help address climate change and poverty by thinking and experimenting outside the square” - Nicole Kuepper

photo: Kate Beraghty

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I just love this kind of passionate and innovative push toward solutions.

Well done and congratulations on your well deserved awards Nicole!

-Bruce

Hopes to Power the World’s Poor
by Christine Lepisto, Berlin -TreeHugger.com

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Cheap Do-it-yourself Wind Turbine
Have you been putting off your dream of building a gadget that will change the world? Max Robson’s father knows how you feel. Ashley Robson seeded the desire to design a cheap, sustainable energy source. Now his son has made the dream reality.

Hopefully his big heart and can-do attitude will make a difference in the world.

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This wonderful article talks to how we can rethink our buildings and the way we thrive in them. Can your home be a Green castle that not only improves your health, but also gives back to the environment? Here are a couple of excerpts and the link.

In-joy,

Bruce

Structures so green they give back to the environment
By Lisa Selin Davis, Plenty Magazine

Forget simply cutting a building’s footprint. A new wave or architectural thinkers wants to create buildings that help regenerate the planet like living organisms.

“The building sector is really the largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions in the country and the world,” says Edward Mazria, founder of Architecture 2030, a nonprofit dedicated to reducing greenhouse gas emissions produced by new construction. Today, buildings consume up to 76 percent of the United States’ total electricity and emit 43 percent of our greenhouse gases. And the same mistakes are repeated in the 5 billion square feet of built space created nationwide every year.

Illustration credit to June Key Delta house

But now, the next phase in the history of green building is underway. A band of visionary architects, designers, engineers, and builders have recognized how far we’ve strayed from the principles that informed our earliest architecture. They’re harnessing both advanced and ancient technologies to dream up structures that make even the current standard of responsible building—the US Green Building Council’s (USGBC) Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system—pale in comparison. While LEED certification measures and rewards a reduction in energy use, for instance, the architects behind the next-generation, beyond-LEED structures, called “carbon neutral” or “regenerative,” are aiming for designs that use no energy at all—to be energy positive or net-zero. The green building of the future doesn’t just do less harm to the environment; it improves it. It won’t just use less water; it will collect and treat it. It won’t just force air; it will filter it. And it won’t just save energy; it will create it. Buildings are not only about to breathe like people—they’ll also give back like good Samaritans.

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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

These two videos show how our energy ebbs and flows in and throughout nature in a very moving, calming, awe-inspiring way. Well worth a moment of your day. We are all one… made from the Earth and the Earth is made of Star dust.

They show scenes from the actual exhibit hall that tours the world, but it mostly shows small bits from photographer Gregory Colbert’s extended films. There are more animals, and when you see someone swimming underwater with whales, that is Colbert himself, without breathing apparatus. (he has a ponytail, so that is not a woman) He did short stints underwater, a ballet of sorts with whales, and had a camera running. His photography and videos are all real, this is his incredible genius

Enjoy….

Ashes and Snow, Part 1

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Ashes and Snow, part 2

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