Is the term for our new cultural operating system based on principles like integrity, peace and love. It is implicit in the many old and new progressive efforts that abound today, everything from The Sierra Club to Occupy Wall Street. It provides the common theme of Life for who we are and what we are about. Please Join us.
Today, behind closed doors in Charlotte, North Carolina, legislators from 15 states will meet with the oil and gas industry to discuss so-called “model legislation” as part of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). The result could be laws that handicap renewable energy targets — while creating loopholes for fossil fuels, written directly by the oil and gas industry itself.
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[This document was found on the computer of Ecotopia author Ernest Callenbach (1929-2012) after his death.]
To all brothers and sisters who hold the dream in their hearts of a future world in which humans and all other beings live in harmony and mutual support—a world of sustainability, stability and confidence. A world something like the one I described, so long ago, in Ecotopia and Ecotopia Emerging.
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Many conservatives swear on a stack of Bibles that they worship Jesus Christ when they really bow down to the philosophy of Ayn Rand.
Last week Paul Ryan said that his fondness for the philosophy of Ayn Rand is an "urban legend.” You have to give these wild and crazy Republicans credit for at least one thing: they have cojones the size of the elephants which are the mascots for the party.
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Jefferson called an educated citizenry "a vital requisite for our survival as a free people."
Madison warned that "A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy, or, perhaps both."
Jack Kennedy said "The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all."
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In the wake of the CoreChange summit in Cincinnati floats a network of breakout subgroups, each striving in their own way to make an impact on the transformation underway there. The group Jim Prues is with is all about establishing a new narrative; telling a different story through engagement and dialogue with people of all walks of life.
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The system is broken. We need a new system.
"World 5.0 - Healing Ourselves, Our Earth and Our Life Together" provides the foundation for a holistic, life-affirming, community-oriented system based on ethics and principles like peace and love.
We can reshape our lives and our world by letting go of the fears and beliefs that have kept us apart, and aligning with each other to reshape the power structure of our culture, ridding ourselves of corporate overlords.
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