Climate change?

There is much debate goin on at the moment about climate change. but whatever you believe there is one thing that everyone would agree on and that is that we need to stop pollution.
With all the sudden interest in the enviroment, there are some issues that must be addressed.
Is this goin to create further inequality between the rich and the poor, where developing countries and poor people are made to carry the burden created by 20% of the world.
Poverty is linked to the exploitation of earth. If we are unable to care for others, then how are we able to care for earth. We need to make sure those who should be held accountable are.



Everyone has the freedom to make choices with where they are placed in this world, you can choose to do the best you can with the life your've been given. Every small but significant act counts, simply by reducing, reusing and recycling adds up. Everyone can make a difference and everyone should say that they done what they could. A question to ask yourself, is what attitude do you carry, victory or defeated.

T-Shirt Travels

This is a great doco.

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Yesterday we once again took action against Fonterra's climate crimes - this time painting the message Fonterra Climate Crime on a ship carrying palm kernel animal feed in the Port of Taranaki. The feed is destined for Fonterra dairy herds. Its next stop is Tauranga and we will meet it there.

Fonterra's use of palm kernel animal feed has been implicated in the destruction of Indonesia and Malaysia's rainforests for palm plantations. Rainforest clearance is one of the worst contributors to climate change and it destroys the last remaining habitat of the orangutan and Sumatran tiger so, as well as stopping palm kernel animal feed imports, New Zealand must also ensure that the timber we import isn't also contributing to rainforest destruction.

Over the next month the Government is working on a strategy for how it will deal with illegal timber imports, especially outdoor furniture and decking made from a popular tropical timber called kwila. Imports of kwila are contributing to the destruction of the rainforests of Indonesia, Malaysia and PNG.

The Green Party is to table a bill in parliament to amend the Customs Act so as to stop the import of illegal timber. We want this bill to get through its first reading. For this to happen the National government needs to support it.

You can help protect the rainforests by sending a message to the Minister of Forestry David Carter urging him to support the Greens bill as well as move quickly to stop the import of illegal timber imports. As a consumer country of products from the destruction of tropical rainforests such as timber or palm kernel, we need to act now to save the forests and the climate.

Nick Young
Greenpeace

http://www.greenpeace.org.nz/action/forests/?utm_source=MailingList&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=New+Plymouth+PKE+action+EX+TAURANGA

Start Freedom

October 14th 2009-live broadcast from the U.N







http://www.stopthetraffik.org/startfreedom/

Peace for the earth

Earth Song Lyrics

What about sunrise
What about rain
What about all the things
That you said we were to gain
What about killing fields
Is there a time
What about all the things
That you said was yours and mine...
Did you ever stop to notice
All the blood we've shed before
Did you ever stop to notice
This crying Earth this weeping shore?

Aaaaaaaah Oooooooh
Aaaaaaaah Oooooooh

What have we done to the world
Look what we've done
What about all the peace
That you pledge your only son...
What about flowering fields
Is there a time
What about all the dreams
That you said was yours and mine...
Did you ever stop to notice
All the children dead from war
Did you ever stop to notice
This crying Earth this weeping shore

Aaaaaaaah Oooooooh
Aaaaaaaah Oooooooh

I used to dream
I used to glance beyond the stars
Now I don't know where we are
Although I know we've drifted far

Aaaaaaaah Oooooooh
Aaaaaaaah Oooooooh

Aaaaaaaah Oooooooh
Aaaaaaaah Oooooooh

Hey, what about yesterday (what about us)
What about the seas (what about us)
The heavens are falling down (what about us)
I can't even breathe (what about us)
What about Africans (what about us)
I ain't even you (what about us)
What about nature's worth (ooh ooh)
It's our planet's womb (what about us)

What about animals (what about it)
We've turned kingdoms to dust (what about us)
What about elephants (what about us)
Have we lost their trust (what about us)
What about crying whales (what about us)
We're ravaging the seas (what about us)
What about forest trails (ooh ooh)
Burnt despite our pleas (what about us)

What about the holy land (what about it)
Torn apart by creed (what about us)
What about the common man (what about us)
Can't we set him free (what about us)
What about children dying (what about us)
Can't you hear them cry (what about us)
Where did we go wrong (ooh ooh)
Someone tell me why (what about us)

What about babies born (what about it)
What about the days (what about us)
What about all their joy (what about us)
What about the man (what about us)
What about the crying man (what about us)
What about Abraham (what about us)
What about death again (ooh ooh)
Do we give a damn

Aaaaaaaah Oooooooh
Aaaaaaaah Oooooooh

good Intentions

A funny incident happened the other day. As I was exiting the class room and since I was the first, I thought to prop the door open with a piece of wood left in front of it for this purpose. As I opened the door and went to slide the wood under to hold it open, a class mate walked out and kicked it to the side. The look on my face must have explained my shock and she quickily defended herself, by telling of her intention. While I saw the wood as something to prop the door open so others wouldn't have to hold it open to exit, she saw it as something in the way that someone would trip on. We both saw the funny side of it and since we are both social practitioners quickly saw the lesson in it. While both of us had good Intentions, they clashed. This is something that happens on a daily basis, people who have good intentions but which clash with someone else.
The moral of the story is good intentions sometimes clash.

Be careful with what you read

I recently read a book called the shack and what a great book I found it to be, I got totally swept up in it's story and have to say even found comfort in it. but be careful what you fill your head with, althogh it tells a story of who God is, it's just a story and many have been swept up in it believing this is what god is like. selling around a million copies. Be critical of what you read, you might just be decieved. here are the links:

http://www.theshackbook.com/

http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/08/shack.htm