(July 25, 2012) In a story that conjures up visions of ostriches sticking their head in the sand, in June 2012, the Virginia General Assembly, egged on by climate-challenged Republican assembly members banned use of the words “sea level rise” and “climate change” in a study it commissioned on rising sea levels and their potential …

IPS Director Speaks Out at Pacific Rim’s Vancouver HQ June 3, 2012 · By Sarah Anderson (Source: reprinted from Institute for Policy Studies) With about 200 activists from several countries, John Cavanagh denounced the firm for suing the government of El Salvador in retaliation for the denial of a mining permit. Institute for Policy Studies Director John Cavanagh spoke …

June 11, 2012 · By Robin Broad and John Cavanagh (Source: reprinted from Institute for Policy Studies) Neither foreign investors nor unelected tribunals deserve the power to trump democratically elected leaders. A tribunal in Washington, D.C. that nobody elected recently issued a verdict that potentially hinders the democratic rights of millions of people. Its three members ruled that a …

Traffic congestion is a result of infrastructure that is incapable of meeting transportation demands.  When population exceeds planners projections, we get congestion. CNN did a report on traffic congestion in Africa here.  A regular commuter, Mxolishi Colossa, who works at a Johannesburg home furniture store, was interviewed. Every morning, Mxolishi leaves his home at 6 …

Alan Watts tribute to Carl Jung Jung saw that to truly admit and understand the evil in oneself one must accept one’s own dark side There can be Hitler’s but just because there are people unconscious of their own dark sides and they project it out to others and they claim because that darkness is …

Trying to see, trying to hear straining our senses taught to us in school does not accomplish what it is intended to   Thinking is linear, one thought after another When we see, however, we take in everything holistically all at once Nature is a volume  and we see it all at once Thoughts are …

You can’t force awakening …it just happens

Words arise from the same place that everything else does and split the world into categories. Words (Noun) arise (Verb) from (Preposition) the (Article) same (Adjective) place (Noun) that (Conjunction) everything (Noun) else (Adjective) does (Verb) and (Conjunction) split (Verb) the (Article) world (Noun) into (Preposition) categories (Noun) As we read or write in realtime …