No government for the people - The Guardian Letter to the Editor

Is our right to peaceful protest disappearing? - Council of Canadians blog post

Global Chorus essay for January 25
Mark Reynolds

We can restore the climate of the 1980s by 2070. It won’t require a miracle or big sacrifices, just the will and policies to do it. Top climate scientists confirm this is possible. They haven’t proposed it before because it has appeared that we, as a society, would never muster the courage to do it.

Restoring the climate requires that we switch to carbon-free energy by 2030–2050, as described by Stanford’s Mark Z. Jacobson, and let the ocean continue absorbing the carbon dioxide we’ve emitted.

In 1961, President Kennedy declared: “We will send a man to the moon and bring him back safely by the end of the decade.” At the time, we had just sent a man into space for 15 minutes. We did not have the rockets, the navigation or the life support systems for a moon trip and most people, including my parents, thought it was complete folly. Seven years later we had developed and demonstrated the technology – ahead of schedule. We had a clear, ambitious goal and a deadline, and we rose to the occasion.

Twenty years is plenty of time to develop the missing links such as batteries, smart grids and domestic manufacturing capability. Compare that to the five years we spent building the 300,000 aircraft
 that helped us win the Second World War using 1940s technology, or the seven years developing the technology for the moon program with 1960s technology. We now have Google, computers, 3D printers and millions of highly educated engineers connected by the Internet.

Tell your children, your nation’s leaders and your representatives which legacy you want to give to our grandkids: restore the climate by 2070. That is our moon shot. Let’s commit to it.

      — Mark Reynolds,  executive director of the United States-based Citizens Climate Lobby

Info about Citizens' Climate Lobby CANADA (lots here)
Info about Citizens' Climate Lobby PEI

Earthshot Prize

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essay from Global Chorus: 365 Voices on the Future of the Planet
edited by Todd E. MacLean
copyright 2014 
http://globalchorus.ca/

"The only way to save this fast world is to slow down."  
       --- Carl Honore, from the Global Chorus essay, below

Clock Runs Out On Old Harry Licence - Fight to Protect the Gulf Continues - Sierra Club of Canada article by Gretchen Firtzgerald

Byrne Challenges King Government on Transparency on E-gaming File - NDPPEI post by Joe Byrne

Carl Honoré

There is always hope. If we work together and channel our better angels, we can fix this mess.

The first step is to forge a radically new definition of success. Consuming more should cease to be the measure of a good life. Instead, we must build a culture that prizes meaning and connection, that places on a pedestal those who make the world a better place.

The most powerful way to bring about this cultural revolution is to slow down. When we live in fast forward, we struggle to look beyond our own selfish, short-term desires. Decelerating can help us see the big picture. When we take time to live each moment fully, we start to notice and cherish other people and everything else around us.

Bottom line: the only way to save this fast world is to slow down.

     — Carl Honoré, advocate of the Slow Movement, author of In Praise of Slow, Under Pressure and The Slow Fix

essay from Global Chorus: 365 Voices on the Future of the Planet
edited by Todd E. MacLean
copyright 2014 
http://globalchorus.ca/

Tensions cooling over Boat Harbour - The Guardian article by Aaron Beswick

Cheryl Charles

We face an urgent need on a worldwide basis to reconnect people of all ages with Nature, beginning with children. That connection with Nature is at the heart of what I call “the ecology of hope.” By reconnecting people with Nature in their everyday lives, we will have helped to create the necessary nutrients for the health and well-being of children, families, communities and the whole of the Earth.

Worldwide efforts to bring peace, prosperity, health and well-being to all of the Earth’s people, wildlife and habitats are interconnected. Just as in Nature’s ecosystems, all parts are connected. They form an ecology of hope.

Among humans, hope derives in part from the exercise of will. Success in exercising will, on whatever scale, helps to develop a sense of efficacy – that is, a perceived belief that you or I can make a difference. Combine the exercise of will with the experience of efficacy and hope is the result.

Ecologies don’t talk about hope; they demonstrate it. So can we humans. Our actions will inspire and support others. We can exercise the will, we can make conscious choices, we can cultivate a sense of efficacy in ourselves and others – especially in children and youth – and we can create a positive, healthy and life-sustaining future.

If you are already among those helping to reconnect children with Nature, I thank you. If you are not yet doing so, please join the cause. Connecting with Nature is good for all of us and is a vital key to a healthy, peaceful and life-rich future. We can be the generation that left a legacy of leadership and an ecology of hope.

       — Cheryl Charles, PhD, co-founder, president and CEO emerita of Children & Nature Network  www.childrenandnature.org

"Life evolves and so should we.... We need to reconnect with Nature and commit urgently to the principles of sustainability. That is the next logical phase of our adaptation cycle in evolutionary terms." 
     --Sebastian Copeland, from his Global Chorus essay, below

House Inspection: A Retrospective on the 42nd Parliament

(It) measures how well the last Parliament scrutinized the Government, the extent of partisanship within and between parties, and the level of civil and constructive debate, and compares it to previous Parliaments.

Using multiple data sources and surveys of sitting MPs, House Inspection paints a rich picture of the 42nd Parliament. For example, the data shows:

·         They like big bills: Despite criticism of omnibus bills, the Government continued to introduce ever-larger bills, which can make serious scrutiny hard.

·         Time (allocation) after time (allocation): The Government continued a much-criticized practice of frequently shutting down debate through time allocation.

·         More tinkering: Parliament spent more time studying Government bills, and amended more bills, largely due to the Senate’s new assertiveness in considering bills and challenging the Government and House of Commons.

·         Herd behaviour: The average MP voted with their party 99.6% of the time. The most rebellious MP in the 42nd Parliament: 96.6%.

·         More collaboration, but things fell apart: Committees more often reached consensus across party lines. But according to MPs, cross-party collaboration declined over the course of the Parliament as unhealthy partisanship increased.

·         Trash talk: MPs see debate as empty, repetitive, and a waste of valuable time. Despite efforts to promote civility in the House, heckling did not decrease in the 42nd Parliament.

The report concludes with recommendations from MPs about how to exercise diligent scrutiny, overcome toxic partisanship, and strive for better, more substantive and civil debate.

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Global Chorus essay for January 22
Sebastian Copeland

Life evolves and so should we. Our planet has seen constant flux from its inception 4.5 billion years ago. Over the last 450 million years alone, the Earth has seen five mass extinction events. And today biologists believe that our period, the Holocene, is at the onset of the sixth mass extinction event, which could see upwards of 75 per cent of today’s species gone by the end of the century.

Only this time, floods and asteroids aren’t the culprits. Explosive demographic growth tied to a persistent disregard for sustainable development has placed exponential stress on the environment. Is it short-sighted? To put things in perspective, we have not been in existence for very long. In fact, it’s a miracle we are here in the first place. And the notion that we will be here forever is, from a paleontological perspective, almost absurd. Flowers appeared only 135 million years ago; anatomically modern humans, merely 175,000 years ago. This should serve to help us understand that the Earth is not here to see us through. That responsibility falls on us.

By 2050, 6.5 billion people will live in cities. A treacherous by-product of urban convenience is a false sense of security and the utter disconnect from our individual footprint. What is the actual cost of the resources we consume? How much trash do we generate? What is the environmental impact of the food we eat, and how far does it travel to reach us? We have conveniently removed ourselves from connecting with those issues by squeezing them all into a little envelope we call a bill. But paying for problems to go away does not make them disappear.

Ours is less an environmental problem than it is sociological and perceptual. More than ever our chances for survival, here in this biosphere, require an emotional bond with the ecosystem that sustains us. We need to reconnect with Nature and commit urgently to the principles of sustainability. That is the next logical phase of our adaptation cycle in evolutionary terms. Short of that, and if we’re lucky, we will end up exiting starship Earth in search of another planet to populate. And wouldn’t that be a shame: this one has been so good to us.

       — Sebastian Copeland, explorer, photographer, environmental advocate,  IPA Photographer of the Year (2007) for  the book Antarctica: The Global Warning,  filmmaker of Into The Cold: A Journey of the Soul 

Some of his stunning photography can be found on his website, here:
www.sebastiancopelandadventures.com

essay from Global Chorus: 365 Voices on the Future of the Planet
edited by Todd E. MacLean
copyright 2014 
http://globalchorus.ca/

Public Services, Free Trade, and the Green New Deal - Behind the Numbers article by Scott Sinclair

Global Chorus essay for January 21 

Mike Holmes

Most people think my job is dealing with hopeless situations. But after being a contractor for over 30 years, I’ve learned no situation is hopeless.

Everyone has a home. And housing has a huge impact on the global environment – from the materials used in building to the energy used in living in them.

As builders, we have a responsibility to construct homes that are sustainable, safe and with nothing but clean air inside to breathe. Homes that will keep you warm not only at night but also during the winter – using very little energy. Homes that improve the quality of life – inside and outside.

Every home should work with its environment. It just makes sense. Use the rainwater, the sunlight, the temperature in the ground. I’ve built these homes. Why? Because when you work with Mother Nature, she works for you. You live healthier. You live happier.

I have hope because we know how to build a healthy home. We know how to build a house that respects the environment and uses it to its advantage. And the more homes we build this way, the more we will be building and sustaining our environment. It’s all connected.

How we live today will impact how we will live tomorrow. And I’m seeing more and more people realize this and do something about it.

 — Mike Holmes, “North America’s most trusted contractor,”  co-creator and television host of Holmes on Homes® and Holmes Makes It Right

essay from Global Chorus: 365 Voices on the Future of the Planet
edited by Todd E. MacLean
copyright 2014 
http://globalchorus.ca/

Special climate committee briefed on vehicle-to-grid technoogy (sic) for P.E.I. - The Guardian article by Jim Day

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Global Chorus essay for January 20
Leilani Münter

I have hope for humanity because people are evolving and becoming a better species. We will adopt new technologies and ways of life so we can have a more harmonious relationship with this beautiful little blue-green planet of ours. It’s been a bumpy ride and there are certainly more bumps in our future, but it is time for us to adapt or die. Unfortunately if we don’t, we will take an incredible number of other species with us. I still have hope we will do the right thing.

Today is an exciting time to be alive, because we are the generation that must push the human race forward to solve our environmental crisis. Because we are witnessing the direct consequences of climate change, the urgency of changing is becoming clear. With every season that passes, this truth is more obvious. Charles Darwin once said, “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.” This generation has been called upon to answer to the most noble of duties: to ensure the survival of future generations with the most basic of survival mechanisms – adaptation.

Abandoning fossil fuels for renewable energy, greening buildings, becoming more energy efficient, passing environmental legislation that punishes polluters, adopting a plant-based diet and driving electric cars will all be key players in this adaptation. In addition, overpopulation is an issue many environmentalists often don’t talk about, but we need to. With seven billion people on the planet and a growth rate of over 200,000 per day, our demand on finite natural resources is unsustainable. We need to focus on education because it has been shown to play a key role in reducing population growth.

The rise in development of renewable energy projects and the success of electric car companies are a positive sign that the tides are changing, and this gives me hope. Be part of the solution – go vegan, buy an electric car, support companies with sustainable practices and vote people into office who support renewable energy!

      — Leilani Münter, race car driver, environmental activist 
http://www.leilani.green/

essay from Global Chorus: 365 Voices on the Future of the Planet
edited by Todd E. MacLean
copyright 2014 
http://globalchorus.ca/

How to Stop Freaking Out and Tackle Climate Change - The New York Times online article by Emma Harris

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Global Chorus essay for January 19
Fred Penner

My heritage is Mennonite. My grandparents came from Russia/Prussia in the late 19th century and I have often tried to imagine what it was like on the harsh Canadian Prairie back then and how they were able to survive. The same question can be applied to cultures in every corner of the world. We are all trying to find a way to make this life work. It is complex and challenging to say the least. Basic rights must be fulfilled and beyond that we have a fundamental need to communicate with one another on an emotional and spiritual plane.

We are resilient and adaptable human beings, there is no doubt, and we have proven this time and time again over the centuries. That doesn’t make the challenges we face now any easier, but it should give us some sense of optimism. Trust and belief in one another is where it starts. My perspective is blessed and specific to the generation raised with my music. Through recordings, concerts and a television series my creative life journey has allowed me to connect with that generation. The affirmation of my optimism comes from almost daily responses, both personal and through social media, from the children who are now the young adults making their own way through the insanity.

Finding a way to face our global challenges seems too vast and incomprehensible at times.

When I was taping Fred Penner’s Place, there were times when I felt overwhelmed by all the aspects I was juggling as I attempted to communicate through this medium. My eyes would glaze over for a moment and that was when my director sent The Message to the floor director: “One Child.” This was my reminder that the camera was really a portal to a single child who was watching and listening. This allowed me to communicate on a much more personal level with the viewer. We, the parents and leaders of this world, must do the same. We are in this together. If ever you doubt your ability to make this difference, look into the face of One Child.
     
         — Fred Penner, family entertainer for children of all ages, former host of Fred Penner’s Place on CBC television
https://fredpenner.com/

essay from Global Chorus: 365 Voices on the Future of the Planet
edited by Todd E. MacLean
copyright 2014 
http://globalchorus.ca/

Rooted in the Past--Sustainably Grown Root Vegetables Lead the Way for Our Future: An Ode to Turnip - by Jill MacCormack

Amidst the peeling of twenty plus pounds of potatoes, I pondered how that earthy, yet to be washed potato peel scent is such a grounding one, rooting so much of our existence and sustenance in earth.

And how, the quality of the earth that root vegetables are grown in both reflects and affects the quality of the civilization growing them.

How well the soil is determines how well we all are.

I thought about how so much depends on growing food and how keeping it local, as the new climate crisis demands of us, will increasingly require us to eat largely that which has been grown in our own bioregion which supports that food's growth.

I am largely Celtic in my ancestry, and therefore come from a long history of root vegetable eating fore bearers.

Potato, turnip and carrots are literally foods which I could and largely do, live on. These and winter squash and sweet potato too.

Last eve, in preparation for heading to my parent's for Christmas dinner leftovers two days following their sumptuous Christmas feast I knew that the only vegetable in low quantity following dinner was turnip and so I took a turnip from my veggie bin and promptly peeled and chopped it and set it in water to boil.

As my oldest daughter and I sat in the living room basking in the low light of our Christmas tree and in the quiet of a house largely unoccupied at that moment, I caught the wafting aroma of boiled turnip floating in from the kitchen and my heart became so glad. Gladdened by the soft, pungent aroma of a vegetable my ancestors would have eaten to sustain themselves through long cold winters both on PEI and years ago and far away in Ireland and Scotland.

I contemplated how I almost never get to enjoy just the turnip fragrance alone due to only cooking it in the company of so many other stove top root vegetables and alongside something roasting in the oven. Something roasting like red cabbage, peppers and chickpeas done in olive oil and sea salt.

Delicious and warming all!

Perhaps the turnip waft was so welcoming because I love mashed turnip so much yet never really notice it cooking.

Besides, who cooks turnip by itself?

Even though I especially love it mashed, I even eat turnip fried crisp with carrots sometimes as a leftover, well salted and peppered. And raw in summertime, the Japanese white turnip or Hakurei, my favourite, refreshing summertime vegetable crunch.

And so I bow in gratefulness for root veggies. The staple of so many winter meals and so humble as to hardly draw attention. I am thankful for these foods which keep us hearty and hale and store so well through winter's storms and cold.

As this decade comes to a close and a new one nears its dawning, may we all slow down our lives enough to contemplate how to better honour Earth and each other.

Eating organic, plastic wrap free, locally grown root vegetables more often is always a good place to begin.

Happy New Year!
In warmth and hopefulness,
Jill

Global Chorus essay for January 18

Aram Hur

At every moment, tears are falling.

It is because of the joie de vivre. Although the ground of life is somewhere dry and barren, I have a strong belief that the seed of hope would grow and finally bear good fruits.

If we think we can do it, we have to do it. It is a humbling principle of my life and perhaps of the hope. Where there is strong belief and good heart, we would be able to build the community of hope, where people don’t lose their dream for a better world, keep working to make our societies a little more humane, and carving out spaces of gentleness.
To meet people with this warm feeling of hope is to plant a seed of hope.

The obligations in our life might be challenging, probably most of the time, but we can still be hopeful when ordinary people bring out the best of human nature: courage, solidarity, altruism, generosity and love. And it must be the task of the living to keep hope alive.

Amidst the dark night of indifference, tragedy and disaster, it is possible for our extraordinary species to shine so magnificently.

And this is what I believe.

         — Aram Hur, South Korean educator, publisher, lecturer, social activist, founder of Indigo Sowo

essay from Global Chorus: 365 Voices on the Future of the Planet
edited by Todd E. MacLean
copyright 2014 
http://globalchorus.ca/

Strengthen P.E.I.'s Lands Protection Act, urges former justice minister - CBC News online artilce by Kerry Campbell

The act and the issues around land ownership it addresses flared up as a topic of debate during the 2019 provincial election campaign.

Promise to close 'loopholes'

Last fall P.E.I.'s Attorney General Bloyce Thompson promised to close any "loopholes" in the act after a controversial deal that saw farmland transferred to a corporation related to the Irving family, without coming before cabinet for approval.

A key issue is how government interprets and enforces a measure in the act to prevent corporations "directly or indirectly controlled by the same person, group or organization" from stacking up land limits in order to control more land.

Carver, a lawyer, said he's always understood the minister has the authority to deem corporations as related under the act, but other legal minds differ.  "If something isn't as firm as it needs to be, guess what? Put the firmness in there," he told MLAs, advising them they have the power to make whatever changes are necessary in the legislation.  "If we make the mistake the first time, do it the second time."

Carver said he didn't understand changes made under the MacLauchlan government that meant the province was no longer collecting information on the identities of shareholders of provincially-registered corporations.

The King government has already begun reversing those changes. Carver said it's "essential" that the minister of agriculture and land has "the power to compel answers to questions such as 'who owns the land?'"

"And if the minister feels that he doesn't have the legal authority to ask who owns the land, then give him the authority to get the answers that he needs."

Asked whether increasing land ownership limits would make it possible for Island farmers to become more profitable — a case made by Cavendish Farms president Robert Irving when he appeared before a P.E.I. standing committee in 2018 — Carver voiced concerns about increasing corporate land ownership in the province.  He said he was concerned while conducting his review "and even more so now — gravely concerned about the impact on rural communities in regards [to] large corporations and lots of land consolidation."

Recommendations not followed

Carver expressed disappointment talking about some recommendations from his report which have never been enacted by government including:

• That the Island Regulatory and Appeals Commission submit an annual report to cabinet on non-resident land ownership, and that the report be made available to the public.

• That the province establish a land bank to sell or lease land back to farmers (something government is now working toward).

• That the province establish a land trust to "preserve unique and cherished Island viewscapes," funded with a portion of land transfer taxes and IRAC fees.

Instead of funding the purchase of more public land, Carver said the province is "reaping millions and millions of dollars in land transfer fees and a significant amount of dollars in IRAC fees," with the money going to general revenues.

After speaking for close to two-and-a-half hours, Carver said he would resume his self-imposed silence on the legislation and his review of it, leaving MLAs to decide what changes are needed.

Opposition Leader Peter Bevan-Baker said a key for him will be to make sure corporate and land ownership become more transparent to Islanders.  "A regular and transparent reporting requirement — and that was one of the recommendations of the Carver report. We have not seen a report on land holdings since 2004. That's just not acceptable," Bevan-Baker said. 

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Video link for the Committee meeting: https://www.assembly.pe.ca/committee-archive?field_media_type_target_id=423&committee=485&year=528
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January 16, 2020

Take Time for What Matters
Here are some things that you might be interested in incorporating into your plan for 2020:

1. Invite a friend over for tea.
2. Donate blood.
3. Check on, or help out an elderly neighbour. (For those living in the north, shovel snow for them).
4. Support local artists; buy their music, art, books. Go to concerts, art galleries and book launches.
5. Buy local, and support businesses in your community.
6. Send a friend a handwritten postcard or letter. It is a wonderful feeling to get mail from a friend.
7. Bring your own reusable cups and containers.
8. Walk more. Drive less.

We’re at the Supreme Court of Canada this week - Ecojustice article by Kegan Pepper-Smith

(this week) ...my colleague Harry Wruck and I will appear in the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC).

We’re arguing that British Columbia has a right — and a constitutional duty — to protect communities and the environment from toxic diluted bitumen spills.

While the outcome of this case has the potential to impact the future of the Trans Mountain pipeline, it is about so much more than a single project. When dilbit spills into the environment, as it did in the 2010 Kalamazoo River oil spill, it seriously harms wildlife and communities. And it’s almost impossible to fully clean up.

We say governments at all levels, provincial and federal, must be able to pass laws that protect the environment and communities from hazardous dilbit disasters.

To support this, Harry and I will be making a novel argument when we appear before the court on Thursday. We’re arguing that, even though it isn’t explicitly written into the Constitution of Canada, environmental protection is an underlying constitutional principle.

In other words, the Constitution may not use the words “environmental protection,” but governments still have a constitutional duty to protect our air, water, and land.

We know what we’re saying is outside the box — but we live in unprecedented times. If we’re going to use the full power of the law to defend your right to a healthy environment, combat climate change, and protect nature, we must be prepared to stand in front of the country’s highest court and make bold arguments.

This type of innovative thinking is one reason I am so proud to work for Ecojustice.

As Canada’s largest environmental law charity, Ecojustice is uniquely positioned to bring groundbreaking arguments before the courts.

Consider donating at:
https://www.ecojustice.ca/

RCMP, let journalists witness Unist'ot'en Camp - The National Observer article by Linda Solomon Wood

Published on Tuesday, January 14th, 2020

Members of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation have fought for many years to keep three pipelines from running through their land in northern B.C. At stake, the protesters say, is their way of life, their culture and their system of governance which was recognized by the Supreme Court of Canada in the landmark Delgamuukw decision in 1997.

I remember when the Wet'suwet'en first erected the Unist'ot'en Camp to uphold the clans' decision to prevent Enbridge, Chevron and TransCanada from building pipelines on their unceded lands in 2010. Tensions rose as they built a blockade and confronted workers who attempted to cross it, saying they had no permission to be on their territory.

Last December, a report by the Guardian newspaper sent shock waves across Canada. The Guardian said it had uncovered documents showing that the RCMP discussed shooting Indigenous clan members and supporters, all in the service of gas and oil. "Notes from a strategy session for a militarized raid on ancestral lands of the Wet’suwet’en nation show that commanders of Canada’s national police force, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), argued that “lethal overwatch is req’d” — a term for deploying an officer who is prepared to use lethal force.

Is this reconciliation? Hardly.

Is this making amends for residential schools, colonialization, the taking of lands and wealth? You bet it's not.

Shockingly, a tweet from the Unist'ot'en Camp stated today the RCMP has blocked roads for 27 kilometers leading up to the site, barring media from witnessing and documenting their actions.

"We do not want to see a repeat of last year’s behaviour, when the RCMP used an exclusion zone to block journalists’ access, making it impossible to provide details on a police operation that was very much in the public interest,” Canadian Association of Journalists president Karyn Pugliese said in a tweet.

Pugliese has it right.

Even without the Guardian's report of the RCMP's apparent willingness to use lethal force to remove people from the blockade, the RCMP should not be allowed to stop journalists from witnessing their actions.

RCMP, let Canada's journalists in.
      --Linda Solomon Wood

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More details about the Wet'suwet'un people and the pipeline protest in B.C.:
https://unistoten.camp/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet%CA%BCsuwet%CA%BCen
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Global Chorus Essay for January 16
William McDonough

As a designer of things from the scale of a molecule to a region, I have great hope for our future. A designer’s purpose is to make life better – hopefully. Design is the first signal of human intention. We must ask if our species, by design, intends to destroy the quality of our home, because, if so, we are strategically and intentionally tragic.

To have a strategy of hope, we have a new design framework to adopt, one that celebrates the abundance of Earth and human creativity rather than bemoans limits. The chemist Michael Braungart and I have dedicated ourselves to articulating the Cradle to Cradle framework, in which everything is designed for continuous reuse in biological or technical cycles; everything is renewably powered, clean water is available to all, and we celebrate diversity. This allows us to joyfully become infinitely resourceful, physically and intellectually, led by profitable businesses that use currency on a mission to create intergenerational capital.

With commerce as the engine of change – looking to be more good, not just less bad – big ideas can be realized now. We know how to convert sewage plants to nutrient management systems, allowing us to grow safe, healthy food in, under and around our cities. Such strategies portend magnificent productivity and quality delivered both efficiently and effectively while we allow our ecosystems to heal. Our designs can focus on globally shared innovations and still reinforce and enhance local cultures, benefiting all scales of economic activity.

I find hope for the future in wisdom from the past. The 12th-century philosopher Hildegard of Bingen wrote, “Glance at the sun. See the moon and the stars. Gaze at the beauty of Earth’s greenings. Now, think.” In the 20th century, Albert Einstein wrote, “Our task must be to free ourselves … by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of Nature and its beauty.” In the 21st century, our design assignment is simple: how do we love all the children of all the species for all time? It is time to plant an orchard of Cradle to Cradle opportunity to honour present and future generations. We can move forward together – fiercely – with hope, not fear.

     — William McDonough, designer, architect, co-author of Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things  https://mcdonough.com/

essay from Global Chorus: 365 Voices on the Future of the Planet
edited by Todd E. MacLean
copyright 2014 
http://globalchorus.ca/

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January 15
Rachel Parent, a young person fighting for the right to know if GMOs are in our food, wrote the essay.

The corporate mentality of profit and growth at all costs is having a devastating impact on our planet, from the dying off of our marine life, bee colony collapse, the melting of our glaciers, the deforestation of our rainforests and dislocation of natives, the contamination of our water and soil, and even the loss of control of our seeds and safe food supply. The magnitude of the destruction can be overwhelming! But I believe we’re living in a time of historical change, a time of transformation where people finally realize they have the power to make change and bring about positive solutions for our planet and for our very survival.

It’s a time where people, especially our youth, are waking up, rising up and standing up together, regardless of race, colour or religion, to heal our planet. I feel empowered knowing that I am part of a massive global shift in thinking for a better tomorrow.

In order to fix the old problems, we need to find new solutions. As Albert Einstein once said, “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” We not only need to change the way we think, but also how we measure success.

Corporations’ short-sighted focus on greed and profit at any cost has to change. It’s time for them to become “socially responsible.” Fortunately, we can influence that change by boycotting their products and telling others through social media to do the same. General Mills’s recent agreement to remove GMOs from Cheerios after being swamped with emails and social media postings is a perfect example of that. We, as consumers, have the power!

As one of the youth, I can only allow myself to have hope for our future. To lose hope would mean giving up on the beauty of Nature and the miracle of life. Our goal must be to leave the Earth better than we found it. We owe this to ourselves and to the many generations that are yet to come.
— Rachel Parent, 14-year-old environmental global activist, founder of Kids Right to Know 

https://kidsrighttoknow.org/

essay from Global Chorus: 365 Voices on the Future of the Planet

edited by Todd E. MacLean

copyright 2014 

http://globalchorus.ca/

Significant green energy announcement expected Jan. 14 in Summerside - The Journal Pioneer article by Colin MacLean

How to spend P.E.I.'s carbon tax - CBC News online article by Kevin Yarr

Dr. Rajiv Shah

We live at an incredible moment in history. Around the world, human ingenuity and entrepreneurship have made tremendous progress against some of the greatest challenges in development, as child mortality rates have fallen by 42 per cent and poverty rates by 48 per cent over the last twenty years. At the same time, new technologies – perhaps most notably the mobile phone – have changed what’s possible, transforming how farmers compare market prices, citizens report corruption and nurses monitor the health of mothers and newborns in rural communities.

For the first time, we have the tools and knowledge to achieve goals that were simply unimaginable in the past: the eradication of extreme poverty and its most devastating consequences, including child hunger and preventable child death.

But the truth is that many people believe the opposite. They simply don’t realize that the solutions to great global challenges are within our reach. Every day, I find myself making this case, battling the perception that politics today cannot support great moral aspirations, or that the world cannot come together to achieve these goals.

But in the last four years as administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, I have seen just the opposite. Around the world, we are mobilizing the energy of a new generation of students, inventors and entrepreneurs to deliver results on a greater scale than ever before. From a church in inner-city Detroit that looks after an orphanage in Ghana to the nationwide response after super typhoon Haiyan, I have seen the depth of passion and support that communities everywhere have for global development. And from St. Louis to Dakar to Delhi, I have seen people from all walks of life stand together as champions for this global task.

      — Dr. Rajiv Shah, (former) administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, current president of the Rockefeller Foundation

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NORTHERN PULP RESPONDS: How Boat Harbour became a quagmire - The Guardian article by Brian Baarda

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The January 13 Global Chorus essay is by Archbishop Desmond Tutu
       I am a prisoner of hope. And I think that most of us would be that. Why? Well, simply because we have faced many other crises in the history of the world and have almost always, ultimately, survived and succeeded.
       For instance, look at the whole question of slavery. There must have been a time when people believed firmly that this was a social system that was totally unchangeable. But we’ve massively diminished slavery. We in South Africa have been able to overcome apartheid and racism. All the wars, conflict, gender/equality issues and even genocide of the past century, we have endured and overcome. So, it is clear that we have the capacity. What we often lack is the political will.
       Take our incapacity to feed everyone on Earth, for example. We have got the means. We can feed every single person on Earth. But we do not have the appropriate political will to do so. With regards to the whole question of the environment, people are campaigning very, very powerfully for us to adopt ways of life that are sustainable. But even though politicians buckle to certain pressures, they are beginning more and more to realize that it is far better to be looking for renewable ways of producing energy. And many people are beginning to see that it is not just healthier, it is the one way in which our Earth home is going to be preserved. If we don’t wake up to our responsibility, we won’t have a second chance. This is the only home we have. If we destroy it, we’re done for.
       A person is a person through other persons. None of us can survive just as solitary individuals. We are made for togetherness, we are made for co-operation, and we ultimately exist in a delicate network of interdependence. None of us comes fully formed into the world. In the same way, even the most powerful nation in the world depends ultimately on interconnectedness. You can’t just live within yourself; no country can do it, no community can do it, no person can do it. Our world must heed this truth to harmoniously move forward.
       — Archbishop Desmond Tutu (b. 1931), South African human rights activist, archbishop emeritus of Cape Town, 1984 Nobel Peace Prize laureate

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As the deadline to approve a massive oilsands project approaches, its economic benefit is up in the air - CBC Radio online posting

EDITORIAL: What should we do about the climate crisis? Everything we can - The Guardian Lead Editorial

Deborah Harford

Global Chorus essay for Janaury 12

    Humans are the most adaptable species on Earth, barring cockroaches. In our blink of historical time we have explored every inch of our globe. We have warded off hunger and cold and learned how to stave off illness. We are feeding seven billion people and leaving footprints on nearby planets. We can also predict the future through visualizing our effect on the planet. I call this the adaptive advantage, because it means we can forecast changes we need to make if we are to survive.

       Climate models are telling us that our success has a downside, a fact that is already evident in widespread extreme weather events. The ecosystems on which we depend are struggling as we encroach upon them to extract resources. As we look forward we can also remember the past; human populations have expanded before, those societies often failed, and we know why. They overstretched the capacity of the land to support their needs, and we are falling into the same pattern.

          Happily, the answers lie within and around us. We are treating the Earth as though civilization is a body that consumes goods and emits waste. But no body exists in a vacuum; waste has to go somewhere. Nature recycles waste to fuel the bodies within it. Our brilliant minds – all seven billion of them – have to collectively start thinking like the bodies within ecosystems that we are. All that is required is for us to recognize that we live in a circular system, not a linear one. This truth must percolate through all our realities, from economics to eating to energy production.

         If we can unite globally and meet this ultimatum, we stand a chance of adapting to climate change. If we instead give in to greed and conformity, Nature will choose against us. It’s up to us and our adaptive advantage to create a new paradigm that closes the loop, that feeds our future as an extraordinary species with unprecedented capabilities which, combined with the wisdom of our ancestors, can do anything it imagines.

   --- Deborah Harford, executive director of ACT (the Adaptation to Climate Change Team), at Simon Fraser University

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Global Chorus excerpt (full essay below):

LETTER: Upset with 'far-right' story - The Guardian to Letter to the Editor

3-party system on P.E.I. requires $1.55M renovation to Coles Building - CBC News online article by Kevin Yarr

      We are living through an age of ecological, social and personal crises, and the hour seems dark indeed. The issues involved are complex and run deep, all the way down to the cultural narratives that we’ve built our civilization and politico-economic models on. We have walked this path for so long now that we no longer recognize the stories that have woven themselves into the very fabric of our lives. But that is all they are – stories – and as we know, stories can change.
      Is there hope of us changing course before we join the rapidly growing list of species gone extinct? That I do not know, if I am honest. At this hour of the night, it is hard to see the dawn, inevitable as she is. What I do know is this: any hope we do have lies in our willingness to stand up to the challenges we face and the forces driving them, with skilfulness, intelligence, dignity, honour and great heart. Now is not the time for half-measures or cowardice. Now is the time for effective action.
      This will involve billions of people doing billions of different things. We need everyone courageously following their calling, and sharing their unique gift with the world as passionately as they dare. There is no one right way to act, no prescription. Simply do what you love and be of service to life.
      What is certain, however, is that we will need to localize our lives if we are to create healthy ecological systems, and we are going to have to radically alter the spirit in which we meet our needs if we want to create a world worth sustaining. Therefore, I believe that Permaculture values and gift culture principles must be at the heart of whatever comes next.
       We need a revolution – a revolution in consciousness, in the cultural myths we live our lives by, and in our politic and economic systems. Anything less than that will be an absolute disservice to the community of life we share Earth with and, ultimately, to ourselves.  
     — Mark Boyle, author of The Moneyless Manifesto
http://www.moneylessmanifesto.org/

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Natural gas pipeline company posts 72-hour notice to clear way in northern B.C. - CTV News article by Amy Smart, The Canadian Press

Morgan Spurlock wrote the essay for January 10th of Global Chorus.

I’m an optimist and I will always trust in the goodness of people above all else.

While governments or politicians may jockey and shift their values to get re-elected or to serve a corporate bottom line, I believe the power and influence of the common man will remain a constant. The collective wisdom and bravery of a society can stand the test of time and topple any tyranny.

We just need to continue to muster the courage to stand together for what’s right, versus what is easy.

We need to be willing to make sacrifices. We need to be willing to do more with less. We need to shake complacency and apathy. But most of all, we need to embrace the idea and reality of the living Earth as a member of our own family. We must treat  her with the same respect and love we would our own grandmother, and we have to bear the burden when we fail to do so.

When I was a child growing up in West Virginia, I looked at the mountains and trees and rivers that surrounded my house as part of my “home.” This … all of this … was where I lived. But as I grew older, I became blind to my surroundings and ignorant of my impact. It takes a wake-up call for us to understand a world bigger than ourselves. For me, that was the birth of my son.

And because of him, I believe we can take these blinders off and collectively make the changes we need to build and grow our home. To give him, and all of our children, the planet they deserve. At least, in my heart, that is my hope.
    --- Morgan Spurlock, humorist, television producer, screenwriter, political activist,  documentary filmmaker (Supersize Me and Supersize Me t2 -- Holy Chicken)

his website:
http://morganspurlock.com/
and an update on his career in the past two years, since admitting to sexual harassment of one of his employees:
https://www.thewrap.com/morgan-spurlock-attempting-a-comeback-after-harassment-admissions/

from Global Chorus: 365 Voices on the Future of the Planet
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copyright 2014 
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P.E.I. government launching $5 healthy school lunch program in January 2020 - The Guardian artilce by Stu Neatby

7-storey Charlottetown waterfront development to have hotel rooms, apartments and condos - CBC News online article by Natalia Goodwin

As a child, I spent countless afternoons on the ocean shore examining tide pools. Populated by many strange, mysterious – and exquisitely beautiful – creatures, the tide pools were like my own personal aquariums. Watching these miniature ecosystems thrive, I marvelled at how even a brackish puddle can serve as a cradle of life.

     A few years ago, I returned to the tide pools of my childhood, and I found them covered in algae and missing the diversity of life I once admired. My aquariums had transformed into dead zones in less than a generation.

Our planet is changing rapidly. From overpopulation and threats to global food security, to the water
crisis, deforestation, pollution and climate change – the world we will leave to our children is fundamentally different from the one we inherited from our parents. It will require new thinking, new expectations, new collaborations and, above all, ingenuity.

This is the moment in history when the choices we make as individuals and as a generation will shape the future we inhabit. I believe there is no greater aspiration than the one to protect our children and the quality of life they can expect from this uniquely beautiful place called Earth. We must never give up hope in our individual ability to find a way to change – and to leave this world a better place than we found it.
     — Alexandra Cousteau, explorer, filmmaker, water advocate, founder of Blue Legacy www.alexandracousteau.com

from Global Chorus: 365 Voices on the Future of the Planet
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Opportunities for a legacy - The Guardian Letter to the Editor

     There is always hope.
     Humans are wired to hope even in the most impossible circumstances. Sometimes it seems forlorn and foolish. Sometimes it is what gives us the energy to confront and survive the things which threaten us. I find myself wondering which kind I hold for the future.
     I go around with a heart full of hope which, much of the time, seems to defy logic. Look at the things we are doing to ourselves, to each other, to the planetary systems which sustain us! We are digging ourselves into a pretty big hole. I feel time speeding up. Everywhere there appears to be more collapse, more chaos. Brilliant people are trying to address the problems of environmental degradation and economic injustice. Some of them I’ve been blessed to know. Whenever I look around me, though, I see the world’s decision makers guided by, and steering their constituencies using, short-term self-interest, fear and greed. I see yet another piece of the Nature that is our inheritance squandered on “development.” I see rage, overt or subliminal, ruling our relations with one another. Even so, there are grace and dignity to be found in unexpected places. There are inspirational human beings. There is love! Can we fix things? Not sure. Much is already beyond repair. Can we slow the rush toward becoming part of the Great Extinction that seems to be occurring? I think so. Long enough to allow the brilliant among us to discover a remedy? Maybe.
     We think of survivalism as being all about stockpiling canned goods and guns. It’s not my idea, but it seems right to me that true survivalism has to be about building community  … creating strategies which if necessary can bypass the hierarchies of power.
     The universe will continue on its course. The planet will carry on. With us? Without us? I hope with. Which sort of hope is that?
     — Bruce Cockburn, OC, singer/songwriter, guitarist, social activist

from Global Chorus: 365 Voices on the Future of the Planet
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Islander Anna Keenan, originally from Australia, wrote on Sunday, January 5th, 2020, on social media:

To everyone asking me 'what can I do' about the Australian bushfires: the answer is to push your governments - local, provincial and national - for way more ambitious climate action.

I've been working on this issue since 2006. We knew then that fire danger would increase. We are now, in 2020, experiencing about 1 degree C of global warming. And we've got another half a degree locked in.

Australia's people and ecology are taking a HUGE climate hit this year. It will at least partially recover. This year is extreme, it's not a 'new normal' yet.

However, we know now that if we do nothing, then the earth is heading for 4-5 degrees of global warming. In that scenario, what we are seeing this season would become 'normal'. Every year or so. It's not OK.

Every part of the world has it's own impacts to consider: the melting arctic and alpine areas; the impacts of typhoons, hurricanes, cyclones and rising sea levels on the coasts; expanding deserts, floods. Farmers are often hit the hardest. And in every part of the world, what we are experiencing today is 'adaptable', at 1 degree of warming. Insurance can pay for it if you're lucky enough to have it.

4-5 degrees is not adaptable. Insurance premiums will become so unaffordable they'll make doing business impossible.

So what can we do?

We can avoid the most hellish scenarios if we put our best efforts in. And I don't mean just changing your lightbulbs. We need political action to:
1) regulate and phase out the fossil fuel industry,
2) invest in energy efficiency, including re-localizing key parts of our economies (food, leisure, manufacturing), and
3) rapidly scale up the new, sustainable energy systems for electricity, heat and transport

To get this done, we'll need to look after transitioning workers, with retraining programs, support for sustainable entrepreneurship, and a basic income guarantee. And we'll need to make it affordable for everyone to invest in the transition, with loan programs to cover the capital costs of things that pay for themselves in the long term: like insulation, solar and wind, electric vehicles.

This is the Green New Deal. Anything less is unacceptable.

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Jane MacAdam, P.E.I.'s auditor general, to retire - The Guardian article by Stu Neatby

"We think people can live more simply and peacefully if they want, but we don’t know if they want to."
     --— Moi Enomenga

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Clash of the Think Tanks - The Guardian column by Russell Wangersky

"My father was a man who could see the future. He told me that things would not be easy for us, that the strangers would destroy the forest with their machines. So I learned from him and that is why I have been working for so many years to find a way to keep our communities, our Huaorani people, together. Here, we have many problems with oil companies and the pollution they cause, as well as the impacts they have on our traditional way of life here in the Amazon forest.

The Huaorani people have always lived in the forest. We are the forest. It has been our home for thousands of years. It still is our home, even though now we know more about the cities and the things they offer. The young people in the community who saw these things were dazzled and wanted to leave, and I wondered what would be left of us and the way we used to live. My father told me that this would happen and I suppose that in some way I was prepared, maybe more prepared than the others. So we started to think of ways to keep people here in the community and not to lose our identity. People call it tourism, but what we see is a way to keep things from falling apart, of letting people see what is happening to us.

People tell me that this is happening all over the planet. The oil that the companies are taking out of the ground here in the Amazon is causing big problems, not just here but all around the world, and changing the climate. People say the forest will dry up and the world will collapse if we don’t change the way we live.

Here, we don’t have what other people in the world have: we don’t have televisions or Internet or cars, and if the cost of having them is that the world – our world – disappears, then we ask ourselves, “What good are they?” We think people can live more simply and peacefully if they want, but we don’t know if they want to.
     --— Moi Enomenga

You can keep up with him via his Facebook page.
Here is a 2013 National Geographic article which discusses these these plans, and an update from last summer from CNN.

from Global Chorus: 365 Voices on the Future of the Planet
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copyright 2014 
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Maintain Your Rage - The Tyee article by Ian Gill

Opinion: Mourning a disappearing world as Australia burns - The Globe and Mail article by Jessica Friedmann, Braidwood, Australia

     "The question before us is this: how do we create a sustainable future? Our solution is both simple and maybe the most difficult thing we have ever done. It is this: consume less, share more. If we consumed to meet our needs, not our wants, and remembered that true value is in noticing life rather than being noticed for what we own, we would chart a fully hopeful and sustainable future. Our societies would grow and contract where needed, depending on human and ecosystem needs and limits. If we consumed less we would have more to share. Sharing between people, communities and nations would provide where local ecosystems cannot fully do so. What would we share? Wealth, goods, healing, knowledge, community, tolerance, compassion, forgiveness, restoration and reconciliation.

    "What do we do to get to a 'consume less, share more' mindset? The first step is modest but absolutely critical: you must reconnect to the Earth. So, go outside. If you live in a city, find a green space. If you frequent green spaces, go farther out, into wilder spaces. Listen to the sounds of the ecosystem. It supports you. Breathe the air. Find water there, bend down to it and notice it. Indigenous elders say to introduce yourself to all the new water you meet. Run your fingers through it. Sustainability of the Earth requires us to remember we are in a relationship of reciprocity with all of Nature. We need to rebuild that relationship.

     "If this seems like too much, just recall: when we are silent and still in Nature, we feel the grace that resides there, in Nature and within us. That stillness is a wordless knowing of who we are, separate from all the chatter, demands, goals, thoughts, fears, emotions and experiences that are always roiling around in our minds. When we are there, in that calm, still space, one other important thing happens: we know – not we think, we know – that there is hope. So stay there. And then keep going."

       -- Merrell-Ann Phare, lawyer, writer, artist, environmentalist

"I’ve seen it time and time again – the youth of the world, whether they be affluent or on the ragged edge of survival, believe with all their heart that we can steer this Spaceship Earth of ours away from the iceberg dead ahead. They’ve inherited our problems and aren’t content to make do – they want to change course."

    -- Scott Kennedy

Prince William Launches Multimillion Dollar Earthshot Prize for Climate Action - EcoWatch article by Jordan Davidson

2020 is about putting substance to style - The Graphic Publications Editorial by Paul MacNeill

     "There’s no denying it. Things haven’t exactly gone according to plan. Climate change, over-commercialization, corruption, the destruction of habitat and the inability of the world to feed itself – yeah, we all could have done better. As a species our latest report card isn’t one that Mum would put up on the fridge.
     It would be easy to slip into a spiral of cynicism and embrace the overriding notion that we are just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic as the band plays on. I have to reject that. And the reason I reject the temptation to yank the ejection handle and give up has nothing to do with me. It’s all to do with what the future has in store for all of us. It’s all about who’s in the driver’s seat.
     I’ve seen it time and time again – the youth of the world, whether they be affluent or on the ragged edge of survival, believe with all their heart that we can steer this Spaceship Earth of ours away from the iceberg dead ahead. They’ve inherited our problems and aren’t content to make do – they want to change course.
     What’s the secret? Why can they fix this and we can’t seem to sort it out? The answer: they want to change the world. It’s not about needing to change, needs are banal and boring. Food, shelter, clothing – it’s all so 20th century. Smarter farming is cool, ecohouses made of innovative materials are cool, clothes made from recycled soft drink bottles are cool. Cool ideas with sexy outcomes are the salvation, and the practitioners are all around us.
    The youth of today are inspired to change the world because they want to, not because we all need to. The sooner we all get on the bandwagon of wanting to change the world, the closer we’ll all be to getting there. And that destination is a place we all need to get to. Besides, a little bit more cool and sexy is never a bad thing."
   ---Scott Kennedy, Canadian-born, New Zealand-based writer, photographer, filmmaker http://www.scottkennedy.nz/
(note link may not be working at this moment)

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"The dilemmas we face can seduce us into believing there is no future as we journey through darkness. The enormity of what is passing away is unspeakable. It is not merely species or ecosystems. It includes cultures, the seasons, civilization itself. When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic, my answer is always the same: if you look at the science about what is happening on Earth and aren’t pessimistic, you don’t understand data. However, if you meet the people who are restoring Earth and the lives of the poor and you aren’t optimistic, you haven’t got a pulse. I see everywhere ordinary people who are willing to confront despair, power and incalculable odds in order to restore grace, justice and beauty to the world. Humanity is coalescing. It is reconstituting the world, and the action is taking place in schoolrooms, farms, jungles, villages, campuses, companies, refugee camps, deserts, fisheries and slums.

No one knows how many groups and organizations are working on the salient issues of our day: climate change, poverty, deforestation, peace, water, hunger, conservation, human rights and more. It is the largest movement the world has ever seen. Rather than control, it seeks connection. Rather than dominance, it strives to disperse concentrations of power. It provides hope, support and meaning to billions of people in the world. Its clout resides in ideas, not in force. It is made up of teachers, children, peasants, businesspeople, rappers, organic farmers, nuns, artists, government workers, fisher folk, engineers, students, incorrigible writers, weeping Muslims, concerned mothers, poets, doctors without borders, grieving Christians, street musicians and all who love life. Forget that the task of planet-saving is not possible in the time required. Do what needs to be done, and check to see if it was impossible only after you are finished."
      -- Paul Hawken (b. 1946) author, innovative entrepreneur, environmentalist

whose website is here: http://www.janegoodall.ca/

"Can we save Planet Earth?  Of course we CAN.  The question is, will we?  We have indeed disturbed the balance of Nature everywhere, as environments are destroyed by the desperation of millions living in crippling poverty and the selfish unsustainable lifestyles of the rest of us.
...I am inspired by today’s youth. Once young people are aware of the problems around them and empowered to take action, their energy, determination and commitment are boundless. They are changing the world one problem at a time, encouraging each other, influencing their parents and grandparents. They will be the next doctors, lawyers, politicians and parents, and they know that while we need money to live, we should not live for money. The human spirit is indomitable. We shall not give up." 
                   -- Jane Goodall (b. 1934)

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