Buffy Ste Marie … Magic is Alive
Lynne Mctaggert … The Intention Experiment
Bruce Lipton … The Biology of Belief
Don Miguel Ruiz … The Four Agreements
As well as the website The Global Coherence Initiative.

Yes, imagine the beautiful world we are going to create post-climate change. Follow your passions and skills the Earth needs you now.

Green Jobs, Clean air, water and soil, Green Energy owned by many,
Healthy food, Eating sustainably, Less obesity, diabetes and heart disease, Strong Commnunities, Stable Families, happy children, less Materialism, More Spirituality

No more of the small number of greedy, socially disconnected, egotistical and environomental morons ruining it for the rest of us who want to live a meaningful life.

We are going to create a beautiful world.

We all saw the slide at the reunion of Martin Luther King, saying “I have a nightmare.” Possibly you are like me and do not need to see one more negative film or article about the scary reality of Climate Change. I posted the following on May 24 on our TCP Wiki.

That great slide of Martin Luther King saying “I have a Nightmare” woke me up. Now it is time for somebody to say, about Climate Change, “We have a Dream,” and make an appropriate positive film. I would just call the film “2112,” and release it in 2012.

Content – The film I have in mind needs to be a view of the future in 100 years if we do everything right and get entirely off of fossil fuels, renew our fresh water resources, and get away from chemical poisoning with pesticides, petroleum fertilizers, and toxic waste. It needs to show an idealized world with stabilized population, restored forests, rebuilt soils and support for small organic farms, renewed reefs, regenerated fisheries, renewal and safeguarding of fresh water sources, protection of species and plant diversity. In this film we need to learn about locally generated grid-tied alternative energy, new energy sources like wind, tide, waves, geothermal and solar and biofuels produced by algae. We need to see how we will be planting gardens in place of lawns, schools teaching scientifically based environmental sensibility from kindergarten up, zero emission transportation, buildings that can be heated and cooled without using outside sources of electrical energy, redesigned cities, bike paths everywhere, universal health care, well-distributed income and universal access to the means to enter the middle class. It should demonstrate true democracy in a world without religious or racial biases. The steady state economy needs to be designed and demonstrated in this landmark film. It needs to include an idealized society for every continent, not just for the US.

Distribution – The distribution of the film is easy. It goes to schools all over the world to show kids, teachers and parents what they are all working toward. It will not be a commercial success, because there is no sex or violence. If fear is needed there could be a flashback part way through the film where the kids who are the protagonists learn about how close we came to disaster, with resource wars of the 21st century, plagues, loss of hundreds of thousands of species, close calls where we almost lose the viability of the atmosphere and the oceans, the great “die-back” of the second half of the 21st century, that took the population from 9 billion back to a sustainable 3 billion humans, and the eventual imposition of world governance, the universal rule of no more than 2 children per woman, universal disarmament and peace based on the common goal of survival as a species.

The Lucas Film connection – Does anyone have a contact at Lucas Films or Edutopia? With all the implied computer generated material this is a perfect project for George Lucas and his Edutopia foundation. Please bring it to their attention. If you do, thanks for forwarding this idea up the line. Just keep me in the loop because I’ve got a treatment in mind.
Dave Finnigan

Just launched my website. Know you cannot see/link. Want to share one of the “definitions” I’ve given my garden design business name, begarden:
“To better our earth, growing one healthful garden at a time.”

Keep up the positive momentum! Am happy digging while you are happy rowing,
Janis

under a full moon until 3am … considered my insight … popped into my head — the words that had my skin all goosey. Just pure inspiration at work (play?)! God dropping it into you first … then through you into the world. It’s IT. Dwell only and work only toward what we WANT to happen, not what we DON’T WANT to have happen. Man … have we had it backwards or what? This is something I’m trying to practice in little ways every day … w/ friends/bosses/etc. lovers/etc. Relationships play out this cosmic “rule” with amazing accuracy: dwell on what one doesn’t want to show up in a relationship, and bam, there it is front and center showing up as a looming presence! What a discipline … to train our thoughts to crave and cling to ONLY that which we want to see evidenced in the world — in the larger world of ALL of us (i.e., earth) and in the smaller worlds of each of us (i.e., our relationships … at home, work, play) — not what we DON’T want to have happen!

“God is alive, magic is afoot” as Buffy St. Marie would sing. You’re on to something HUGE here, Roz. I look forward to how it will play out in your life as you step into even bigger shoes than you’re wearing now — and you’re wearing some mighty big ones now! — w/ regard to helping awaken folks in Copenhagen.

ps: I posted a comment on your post for yesterday, including the text of an angel card I pulled for you (methinks by inspiration, but you’ll have to be the judge of that), and realize that you may not have received it, as I posted it today and not yesterday. The card selected was “Earth Angel” (an apt description of you, imo) Hope you can somehow receive it.

It is true, there is another way to see the problem, it is to visualize the end result as you did with you obituary. The problem is depressing, a complete downer! And the blame game is useless – did we do this? Is it a natural cycle? Who cares! It’s happening and we need to act. And unlike any other species on Earth – We can act!! It’s like water rising on Tuvalu and the council of elders sitting around discussing how it got to that point while everyone around is drowning. The focus should be steered away from emotional and focus on economical values.

Only 200 years ago the World embarked (like the term ? on it’s greatest and fastest change when men adopted industrialization. They did it regardless of global problems, geography and political views. I don’t think they had a vision of where there thinking would lead the world today. They did it because it made economical sense one industry at the time. We are on the crisp of grasping that economical reality that green makes financial sense. I would bet the World is on the verge of experiencing it’s greatest and fastest change ever and that in 50 years the World will be green technology driven – Because it makes economical sense!
Our greatest achievement!

One big Hug

Sebastian from San Francisco

Don’t give up on Tuvalu, though.

Rozta’ Bill

3.40am. wind back in the east. sea anchor back on board.

For your early rise, another hug …

I will be out of touch until next Saturday. Heading up to a cabin near Lake Tahoe where there is no wifi and cell coverage is doubtful. Fallen Leaf Lake is tucked away in an ancient glacial canyon at the southwest “corner” of Lake Tahoe leading up to Desolation Wilderness where I plan to spend a few days enjoying rocks and trees near 7,000′ elevation. Thought will be with you. You will be near Howland when I return, carrots spread before you like a yellow [orange] brick road ;-D

I was poking around on your blog from the Atlantic row because I’m headed off to go visit my Mom today, and she’s having a rough time with bursitis in her hip. If memory serves, you had that trouble with your shoulder on the Atlantic (don’t think about it), so I was wondering if you’d written about it. I came across your casualty list from Day 90, and … wow. Talk about rough times. I think your book about the Atlantic crossing is going to be pretty exciting in parts, and I’m looking forward to reading it.

I’ll paste in an excerpt from that post for other readers to see. The post is dated Feb. 28, 2006, Day 90, but this bit starts out labeled Day 49, so I’m not sure how that was working. You’d lost the sat phone (I guess it had stopped working), so I’m not sure if any communication with land was happening at this point.

Here’s the excerpt:

(Day 49) When I told my mother about the latest casualties she commented, ‘The ocean is really stripping you down, isn’t it?’. And this is true, metaphorically as well as literally. As I’m left with less and less, it makes me realise how little I actually need, how little is actually important.

Updated Casualty List

New entries:

4th and final oar now damaged – so I have:
Magic bendy oar – irreparable
Oar with no spoon – irreparable
Oar with spoon almost broken off – Sikaflexed and splinted
Oar with shaft broken close to gate (rowlock) – splinted

I’m amazed and rather indignant about the two broken spoons. These oars were properly stowed alongside the guardrail oars, i.e. with the spoons 4ft clear of the water, and supposedly protected by the guardrail spoons – yet one broke clean off and the other nearly so. For this sort of pressure to be exerted, 4ft above the waterline, on both sides of the boat… That must have been some knockdown.

And more losses overboard:
Thermos mug #2 (1 remaining) with dinner inside
Drinks bottle #2 (1 remaining)
Lip salve #2 (2 remaining)
Bag for para-anchor line
2 buckets (1 remaining)
Alpaca skin seat cover #2 (1 remaining)

Plus flooded lockers:
#5 – beneath aft cabin. Relatively empty, fortunately, but cosy dry alpaca socks as special treat (courtesy of Alpaca Centre near Penrith) are cosy and dry no more
#7 – grab bags and lifejacket are swimming
#13 – jerrycans and cleaning materials. Deliberately left flooded for added ballast.

Plus previous casualties:
Petzl head torch (contacts rusted)
Camping stove – plunger jammed
Navigation instruments
Stereo
Thermos mug
Lid off thermos flask
Spoon
Drinks bottle
Storage jar
Alpaca skin seat cover
Lip salve
Milton fluid
…and a comfy foam cushion for sitting on.

And now since 17th February the satphone.
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(back to Joan again)
Just wow. That’s a lot of gear in the drink and lockers flooded and oars broken. I imagine about 99.9% of other people would have decided they’d had enough ocean rowing for one lifetime after that trip, but you learned from the experience and decided to tackle the biggest ocean.

Amazing. I’m sending positive thoughts for favorable winds and you reaching a desirable Island X. I wonder if you’ll see more birds as you get closer to Howland and Baker islands.

AMEN to no more petty political haggling! I think your epiphany is spot on. IMHO, we (the human race) definitely need to change our way of thinking. We all know that positive thinking really can generate positive action. Sadly, in general we seem to ‘default’ to negativity instead – or at least those seem to be the loudest voices.