Category: planet
We are spinning around on earth at 1,000 mph…
while we are orbiting the sun at 67,000 mph…
while we orbit the milky way galaxy at 483,000 mph…
are you dizzy yet?
Earth Day is a day designed to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth’s environment. It was founded by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in in 1970 and is celebrated in many countries every year.
John McConnell first introduced the idea of a global holiday called “Earth Day” at the 1969 UNESCO Conference on the Environment. The first Earth Day proclamation was issued by San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto on March 21, 1970. Celebrations were held in various cities, such as San Francisco and in Davis, California with a multi-day street party. UN Secretary-General U Thant supported McConnell’s global initiative to celebrate this annual event; and on February 26, 1971, he signed a proclamation to that effect, saying:
“May there be only peaceful and cheerful Earth Days to come for our beautiful Spaceship Earth as it continues to spin and circle in frigid space with its warm and fragile cargo of animate life.”
John McConnell’s concern for the environment grew in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He became moved when he saw the first picture of the Earth printed in Life magazine. Later that picture became the symbol on the Earth Day flag in which he designed and created. The Earth Day Flag was featured in “Whole Earth Catalogue” and was used, here and there around the world, to show support of efforts to help people and planet. The Earth Day Flag is a symbol of Earth Day and is still part of the Earth Day Ceremony each year at the United Nations.
On 22 April 1970, Earth Day marked the beginning of the modern environmental movement. Approximately 20 million Americans participated. Thousands of colleges and universities organized protests against the deterioration of the environment. Groups that had been fighting against oil spills, polluting factories and power plants, raw sewage, toxic dumps, pesticides, Freeway and expressway revolts, the loss of wilderness, and the extinction of wildlife suddenly realized they shared common values.
As Senator Nelson attests, the most impressive thing about this movement was how it had no central governing body and simply grew on its own:
“Earth Day worked because of the spontaneous response at the grassroots level. We had neither the time nor resources to organize 20 million demonstrators and the thousands of schools and local communities that participated. That was the remarkable thing about Earth Day…it organized itself.” (read more)
John McConnell in front of his home in Denver, Colorado with the Earth Flag he designed.
Altruism: unselfish interest in the welfare of others.
“In Tibet we say that many illness can be cured by the one medicine of love and compassion. These qualities are the ultimate source of human happiness, and need for them lies at the very core of our being. Unfortunately, love and compassion have been omitted from too many spheres of social interaction for too long. Usually confined to family and home, their practice in public life is considered impractical, even naive. This is tragic. In my view point, the practice of compassion is not just a symptom of unrealistic idealism but the most effective way to pursue the best interest of others as well as our own. The more we- as a nation, a group or as individuals – depend upon others, the more it is in our own best interests to ensure their well-being.”
“Practicing altruism is the real source of compromise and cooperation; merely recognizing our need for harmony is not enough. A mind committed to compassion is like an overflowing reservoir – a constant source of energy, determination and kindness. This is like a seed; when cultivated, gives rise to many other good qualities, such as forgiveness, tolerance, inner strength and the confidence to overcome fear and insecurity. The compassionate mind is like an elixir; it is capable of transforming bad situation into beneficial ones. Therefore, we should not limit our expressions of love and compassion to our family and friends. Nor is the compassion only the responsibility of clergy, health care and social workers. It is the necessary business of every part of the human community.”
The Dalai Lama
An eye for an eye
will make us all blind
Mahatma Gandhi
- Labels: earth, forgiveness, joy, love, peace, planet, spirituality
You
can do
anything,
what will
you do?
You are not content with
polluting your planet
Now you have made your
outer space a junk yard too
Within the vast debris field
there are tens of millions of
small fragments and an estimated
19,000 at 1 kilogram (2.2 lb) or heavier
The Kessler Syndrome will soon render
space exploration, and even the use of
satellites, infeasible for many generations
- Labels: environment, planet, poison, pollution, Space
This little piggy went to market,
This little piggy stayed at home,
This little piggy had roast beef,
This little piggy had none…
And this little piggy is an example
of what chemical and toxic pollution
is doing to biological life forms,
meaning us, the cause of it all,
we are the little guinea piggies,
and we will be the ones that go…
“Wee wee wee” all the way home.
- Labels: extinction, planet, poison, pollution, waste
We were here
before you were
Roz Savage is a British ocean rower, author, motivational speaker and environmental campaigner. She has rowed solo across the Atlantic Ocean and is now rowing across the Pacific Ocean.
Roz Savage rows near Diamond Head in Hawaii. You can see where Roz is at any time using “RozTracker.” (Roz & “Junk” meet…video.)
Roz Savage is my new hero. You can visit her website if you click on this post title. Godspeed and good luck to Roz. Wish I was there.
who… psychologicaly captive of the system, using that fucking illusion veil they’ve bought and… in (an also) self inflicted blindness, keep lying hard to themselves, using to: think A, say B and act C …thinking, pretending, playing or feeling as… independent, rebel, crazy, cool, special, better, smarter, different… only dumping out from their consciences all the shitness WE are causing to our world by being, at least, indiferent and/or silent to it, even if it’s to keep some feeling of sanity or something like that but in fact as simple excuse to take part on their own illusion, not bothering themselves on thinking to much about what is quite clear and evident to everyone who wants to see, to understand, and if a good one, try to really grow a beautiful flower in the mud. to say the less! …and no matter how this delusion came to their lives, nowadays deluded people just piss me off! as if they were so just because of their own mind lazyness, and this kind of lazyness is becoming, to me, not even possible to forgive. people would better actually be lazy to obey the masters, and get angry about this absolutely wrong system we live in. and make some good use of this beautiful anger! well…
i know how thinking can be painfull, however, it should hurt a lot more when i feel that something is quite wrong and, just to keep in shape my own protection mask (the so called ego) well enough to go thoroughly unharmed throughout this life, to pretend everything is alright… come on, it’s all wrong! …but anyone can know that this system is designed to, somehow, work like this: for every time i use my debit/credit card to buy any stupid thing, at least a hundred childrem is dying by starvation and ameneable diseases. period! and it’s simple like that! but we are mind manipulated, controlled and well encouraged to think that it’s not our problem, we are not the saviours of our world, we can do nothing to change it …and, in the end, i’m just one person and i can’t go against the system, it’s not my business and, no matter how bad it seems, the system is working as it is, and people have their own destiny, it’s in the good hands of god, that’s the way it is! those are the facts of life, c’est la vie!
p.s. well, …despite my childrem swimming pretty happy in their pool, and all the happiness that my loved ones and i can have and achieve by our own means, …as human beings we’re all already fucked! and there are no heroes coming up to save us, and neither will any mercifull god show up to save the poor deluded souls on earth, and even exactly those who are pissing me off! so… it must be the duty of any good human being, barely or well aware of those facts, to wake any other good one up, at least wake them up, to step out of the box, think about and get aware of what actually MUST BE CHANGED, …even if (at first) it can brings us to any chaotic situation… but then we will see what we can do! and i’m pretty sure it will be better to everyone, …and to this beautiful planet we live on as well!
- Labels: awakening, Life, mind control, people, planet