Give Earth A Hand

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Alberta Tar Sands Environmental Disaster

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http://www.tarsandswatch.org/

http://dirtyoilsands.org/visuals/category/videos/

Lifesaver Water Filter – Michael Prichard

LIFESAVER bottle uses a highly advanced ultra filtration system, originally developed for industrial applications. LIFESAVER bottle will remove bacteria, viruses, cysts, parasites, fungi and all other microbiological waterborne pathogens. It does all this without the aid of any foul tasting chemicals like iodine or chlorine. As I pointed out to a friend one day “using chemicals to kill bacteria is not always effective and anyway all you are doing is drinking a chemical cocktail with some dead pathogens in it.”

The Pachamama Alliance – Protecting the Heart of Everywhere

ThePachamamaAlliance — May 05, 2010 — The story of The Pachamama Alliance in both the North and the South inspiring a “New Dream” for our vision of the world to come.

November 19, 2008 — Paul Hawken speaks at the Nov. 2008 Pachamama Fundraising Luncheon and labels The Pachamama Alliance “the most important single NGO in the world right now.” Find out what Pachamama and the Awakening the Dreamer Initiative is doing to bring about an environmentally sustainable, socially just, and spiritually fulfilling human presence in the world today.

Conscious Capitalizm

The Shift Movie

Katherine Fulton: You are the future of philanthropy

Compounding Conscious Capitalizm

David S. Rose: 10 things to know before you pitch a VC

Transition to a world without oil

Rob Hopkins reminds us that the oil our world depends on is steadily running out. He proposes a unique solution to this problem — the Transition response, where we prepare ourselves for life without oil and sacrifice our luxuries to build systems and communities that are completely independent of fossil fuels. Rob Hopkins is the founder of the Transition movement, a radically hopeful and community-driven approach to creating societies independent of fossil fuel.

Energy Transformations and Revolutions – Paul Hawken

Here is an amazing talk about the energy revolutions happening throughout the planet. Paul Hawken’s talks about an energy movement without a name, lead by no one, that is the largest in recorded history, and is analogous to the complexity and function of our body’s natural immune system. He relates the ground swell of organizations addressing issues that benefit mankind and the planet and tries to connect the dots. He cites his new book “Natural Capitalism” which has received much attention. He speaks about everything to do with our connection to the earth and each other. From small community outreach groups to the formation of large NGO and Non-Profits. Including how the LEED certification program from USGBC is changing the way we interact and live in our buildings and cities.

In a recent 2009 Commencement speech Hawken’s said:
“The living world is not “out there” somewhere, but in your heart. What do we know about life? In the words of biologist Janine Benyus, life creates the conditions that are conducive to life. I can think of no better motto for a future economy. We have tens of thousands of abandoned homes without people and tens of thousands of abandoned people without homes. We have failed bankers advising failed regulators on how to save failed assets. Think about this: we are the only species on this planet without full employment. Brilliant. We have an economy that tells us that it is cheaper to destroy earth in real time than to renew, restore, and sustain it. You can print money to bail out a bank but you can’t print life to bail out a planet. At present we are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it gross domestic product. We can just as easily have an economy that is based on healing the future instead of stealing it. We can either create assets for the future or take the assets of the future. One is called restoration and the other exploitation. And whenever we exploit the earth we exploit people and cause untold suffering. Working for the earth is not a way to get rich, it is a way to be rich.”

WiserEarth — April 20, 2007 — Paul Hawken’s speech at the bioneers conference on the worlds largest movement, the hundreds of thousands of grassroots organizations that address social and environmental justice.