While researching and writing an environmental book in the mid-nineties, I came across studies indicating that the plastics we all are absorbing and storing in our bodies [ as well as triggering cancers and other ailments ] are probably altering our metabolisms - in ways are a part of the trend toward obesity.
The evidence for that has only strengthened since that time.
I have also seen that the political/economic world is structured so that actions to prevent that absorption are probably impossible on a national or global scale, for the moment - but people can take steps to reduce plastic exposures in their personal lives. Follow that link http://www.care2.com/greenlivi... to learn more.
A sweet aspect of the emergence of the internet is as a venue allowing far more people to express themselves to the world than had ever been possible before.
And increasingly popular user-friendly format is the web-hosted slide-show, and we welcome those with a positive message from anyone who wishes to post them here. It's easy once you get a feel for it, and here are two we love:
As much as melting glaciers around the world, these photos of regions of Australia tell the tale of the climate havoc the status quo is perpetuating on our world.
The site doesn't allow for embedding the photos here, but this link is worth following, and thank you L, for finding this for us.
These beautiful souls made this very colorful WFAP sign for the World For All People music video, but it wasn't quite in in time to be included there.
So here they are instead! All are members of Tree Musketeers, a California based group of youths that has been doing wonderful work for your environment since 1987. Check them out at:
This site will evolve as it will. Right now it is a mixture of poetry and hard news, music and art. All about humanity.
And that is the point, I think. Whatever we can show or do or say to help people see that they have friends. That there are people, everywhere, all over the world that care about people everywhere.
I love this beautiful work, created by the amazing artist Ilana Yahav. Titled: "You've got a friend."
Based on 2008 data from the International Institute of Strategic Studies, the World Bank, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute and United Nations sources, Vision of Humanity has listed New Zealand as the nation most peaceful to live in.
After New Zealand, the top 10 most peaceful nations are Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Austria, Sweden, Japan, Canada, Finland and Slovenia.
In the bottom 10 are Zimbabwe, Russia, Pakistan, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Israel, Somalia, Afghanistan and, in last place, Iraq.
Italy ranked 36, the US 83rd.
Rankings were compiled on data regarding 23 "indicators" - including gun sales, the number of homicides, the size of the military, the potential for terrorism and the number of people in jail.
The organization, Vision of Humanity, " groups together a number of interrelated initiatives focused on global peace. It brings a strategic approach to raising the world's attention and awareness around the importance of peacefulness to humanity's survival in the 21st century."
The automated passwords on this site are weird and not easy to remember.
But, you can easily change your password when you sign in the first time, or anytime.
First, sign in. If your name is globalproxy ( what ever your username is), on the right you will see globalproxy's page. Click that. Then click where you see 'profile'
There, you can add your home page or e mail or image or bio or comments. Anything, and/or, just click "email and password," and you can instantly change to a private password that you like.
World bank officially acknowledges climate change will harm the world's poor most of all, while subsidizing construction of huge new coal burning plants in poorer nations. click for more>
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