The link between Mind and Social / Environmental-Issues.

The fast-paced, consumerist lifestyle of Industrial Society is causing exponential rise in psychological problems besides destroying the environment. All issues are interlinked. Our Minds cannot be peaceful when attention-spans are down to nanoseconds, microseconds and milliseconds. Our Minds cannot be peaceful if we destroy Nature.

Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment.

Subject : In a fast society slow emotions… Continue

I attended the Public Meeting on the State's Climate Change Impacts Response Strategy last night (November 30, 2009) and wanted to post some of my reactions and thoughts (not a summary of the meeting itself). So here they are!

1) Kudos to the organizers of the meeting, mainly the Department of Ecology with support from the University of Washington, and the Departments of Commerce, Natural Resources, Fish &am… Continue

Hello everyone,

For anyone who is interested, I wrote this paper for class - so it was not and will not be published anywhere - and thought I would share it with you all because I included a bit about Transitions and the October Salon. It's just a glance at the beginnings of the sustainability movement in Olympia.

Journalistic_Inquiry_Final.pdf

Cheers!

I got this from Jennifer Kenny this morning..... enjoy....

Cheers.... Karen

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Here Is Your Chance to Provide Input on the City’s 2010 Budget - Online

Balancing a budget in this environment is a difficult challenge - one that necessitates tough choices between public services and programs. Here is your opportunity to prioritize Olympia's programs and services. The Constrained Prioritization online survey is a simple tool to allow citizen… Continue

I was already THERE … in that place that we in the Transition Movement find ourselves. The place where we know that “modern” society is headed for a train wreck. The place where we pace our cages and silently rattle our bars, KNOWING that we’re trapped in a world where we are killing life on this Earth and ourselves, one drive-thru at a time.

And yet, watching “What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire” shook me to my core again.… Continue