Thursday, September 29, 2011

[GMW #2300] Cleanest Mile on Earth


[GMW #2300] Cleanest Mile On Earth
Thursday 6 October 2011, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500
~ Idea 1131 ~ 15 August 1997
Here in the hamlet of El Rodeo, the seat of the University for Peace, the schoolchildren collect aluminum cans for recycling against a small recompense. When I keep aluminum cans for them or pick them up during my cleaning up of "the cleanest mile on Earth" between my little farmhouse and the University for Peace, I remember this information on aluminum cans:

• When one tosses out one aluminum can one wastes as much energy as if one filled the same can half full of gasoline and poured it onto the ground.

• If one throws away an aluminum can, it will still litter the Earth up to 500 years.

• In 1988 alone, aluminum can recycling saved more than 11 billion kilowatt hours of electricity, enough to supply the residential needs of New York City for six months.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 5 - Of Love
We need not only philanthropy (phil, anthropos, love for humans), but also gaiaphily (gaia, the Greek goddess Earth, love for Mother Earth). And why not also familyphily (love of the family), egophily (love for the self) and ecophily or earthphily (love for Earth and of her nature)?
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Rights of: Children, Women, Indigenous People
To Be Written: Rights of Nature, Birds, Animals, Fish, etc.

WORD FOR THE DAY
Everyone needs beauty as well as bread,
places to play and pray,
where nature heals and gives strength
to body and soul alike.
John Muir

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[GMW #2299] Direct People to People, Family to Family Aid


[GMW #2299] Direct People to People, Family to Family Aid
Wednesday 5 October 2011, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500
~ Idea 1130 ~ 14 August 1997
The preceding idea leads me to propose that the United Nations conceive a World Plan of Direct People to People, Family to Family Aid. Now people in rich countries are taxed by governments to provide governmental foreign aid, which is costly to administer, cause of bureaucracy and often misdirected towards purchases of armaments and other goods which the giving government or big firms want to sell.

It reminds me of my mother, a poor milliner who was so happy whenever she looked at the photos of a poor African orphan whom she had adopted at the recommendation of a priest. She loved and supported that child with her modest means until she died without ever meeting the little boy.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 5 - Of Love
Do not go through life without smelling the fragrance of roses.
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Rights of: Children, Women, Indigenous People
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The integrity of beauty is that inner straining towards goodness and completion. - John O'Donohue

Why Does Beauty Exist?

"Why does beauty exist? What's the point of marveling at a Rembrandt self portrait or a Bach fugue? To paraphrase Auden, beauty makes nothing happen. Unlike our more primal indulgences, the pleasure of perceiving beauty doesn't ensure that we consume calories or procreate. Rather, the only thing beauty guarantees is that we'll stare for too long at some lovely looking thing. Museums are not exactly adaptive. Here's my (extremely speculative) theory: Beauty is a particularly potent and intense form of curiosity. [...] Put another way, beauty is a motivational force that helps modulate conscious awareness. The problem beauty solves is the problem of trying to figure out which sensations are worth making sense of and which ones can be easily ignored." This Wired Magazine article offers an insightful look into the neuroscience of beauty. { read more }

Be The Change

"There is a wonderful urgency within things to realize the dream of their individual fulfillment. Nothing is neutral, everything is on its way."
John O'Donohue shares beautifully in this short passage. { more }


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[GMW #2298] Environmental Family Adoptions: Invest in People and the Earth


[GMW #2298] Environmental Family Adoptions: Invest in People and the Earth
Tuesday 4 October 2011, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500
~ Idea 1129 ~ 13 August 1997
Proposal for environmental family adoptions:

As I fly over Nicaragua and other Latin American countries I am amazed how beautiful the land and the seacoasts are, and how sad I am when I read that farmers and families often struggle in vain to keep the land and finally decide to move to overcrowded cities.

What if in rich countries there would be an "adopt a family program" under which a US family would adopt a family and their land in Nicaragua or in another similar country. Families from overcrowded rich cities would go and spend vacations with their adopted family whose living conditions they could help improve and imitate.
Some of my fondest memories are of summers spent on a very rustic farm in Oregon, catching trout for breakfast, collecting eggs and gathering vegetables fresh from the garden, which you never get in a city.
- Barbara Gaughen Muller
The new Natural Law Party in which western scientists converge with eastern spiritualists can become the political arm of that ideology.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 5 - Of Love
There is a flame burning in the hearts of all human beings, a unique and precious gift of creation: love.
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Rights of: Children, Women, Indigenous People
To Be Written: Rights of Nature, Birds, Animals, Fish, etc.


Image by Steve Corey. Location: Silverton, OR
All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child. -- Marie Curie

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Tuesday, September 27, 2011

[GMW #2297] United Religions Leadership Role and Responsibility



Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500
~ Idea 1128 ~ 12 August 1997
The role and responsibility of the new United Religions Organization and of the World Parliament of Religions will be enormous at the end of this century: it will be no less than to give humanity a new spiritual, planetary, cosmic ideology to follow the demise of communism and capitalism.

The new Natural Law Party in which western scientists converge with eastern spiritualists can become the political arm of that ideology.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 5 - Of Love
Amor Dei
Amor mundi
Amor humanitatis
Amor pacem
Amor familiae
Amor sui
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References: Earth Charter, Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Rights of: Children, Women, Indigenous People
To Be Written: Rights of Nature, Birds, Animals, Fish, etc.


Image by Holly Callahan. Location: Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
HeartMath
When a deep injury is done to us,
we never recover until we forgive.
- Alan Paton

2011 Right Livelihood Awards announced

Huang Ming (China) receives the 2011 Honorary Award “for his outstanding success in the development and mass-deployment of cutting-edge technologies for harnessing solar energy, thereby showing how dynamic emerging economies can contribute to resolving the global crisis of anthropogenic climate change“.
The Jury awards Jacqueline Moudeina (Chad) "for her tireless efforts at great personal risk to win justice for the victims of the former dictatorship in Chad and to increase awareness and observance of human rights in Africa”.








The Jury awards GRAIN (International) “for their worldwide work to protect the livelihoods and rights of farming communities and to expose the massive purchases of farmland in developing countries by foreign financial interests”.
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 The Jury recognises Ina May Gaskin (USA) “for her whole-life’s work teaching and advocating safe, woman-centred childbirth methods that best promote the physical and mental health of mother and child“.


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Sunday, September 25, 2011

[GMW #2296] Peaceful Imaginative, Visionary Evolution


[GMW #2296] Peaceful Imaginative, Visionary Evolution
Friday 30 September 2011, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500
~ Idea 1122 ~ 6 August 1997
In the next century we will have a peaceful, imaginative, visionary evolution or a revolution on this planet. The choice is in the hands of today's leaders of nations and thinkers.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 5 - Of Love
Love is simply the realization of our cosmic nature, the joy of being and becoming fully what we are meant to be.
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To Be Written: Rights of Nature, Birds, Animals, Fish, etc.

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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth
lives on for all time to come.

Don't spend your life accumulating material objects
that will only turn to dust and ashes.

- Denis Waitley -

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[GMW #2295] Tenacity For Social Improvements, Justice, Better Governing Earth, Preserving Earth


[GMW #2295] Tenacity For Social Improvements, Justice, Better Governing Earth, Preserving Earth
Thursday 29 September 2011, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500
~ Idea 1121 ~ 5 August 1997
It will never get into my head that nations spend 1000 times more on armaments and the military than on the United Nations.

It will never get into my head that the people allow without protest or tax revolution, the colossal duplications of governmental expenses of 185 nations when so much could be saved if they would do things together. One example would be a security system for the entire world, the same way as there is one for each nation, which prevents the states or provinces from having each their own army. If they had, there would be hundreds of armies on this planet. We still have to replace 170 national armies by one world or United Nations Security System or Force.

It will never get into my head that so many humans spend their time and intelligence to invent new technologies, products and "services" to be marketed, and so little on ideas for social improvements, more justice, a better way of governing this planet and preserving it.

I cannot help concluding that the nation-state has reached a stage similar to the one that existed when George Washington exclaimed:
"The primary cause of all disorders lies in the different state governments and in the tenacity of that power which pervades the whole of their systems."

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 5 - Of Love
Our love must embrace the whole Creation, the whole Earth, the entire humanity and the heavens. That is the new supreme modern law.
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Rights of: Children, Women, Indigenous People
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HeartMath
"Character consists of what you do
on the third and fourth tries."
- James Michener

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