2 things to inspire
Posted by BizzyBoots on June 3rd, 2009 filed in Earth, allies, food and drink, organicHowdy!
Here are my quick links of the week to some information that is designed to inspire. Red states and blue states, we can all use a little jolt of love to remind us to keep moving and working forward.
One about food (eat well!), one about the movement (live well!).
1- The Ocean Beach People’s Organic Co-op has provided this AWESOME list of reasons why GM (genetically-modified, not the failed auto giant!) food is not the bees knees:
http://obpeoplesfood.blogspot.com/2009/06/10-reasons-why-we-dont-need-genetically.html
Read a label today!
2- If you haven’t heard about Paul Hawken’s inspirational commencement speech at the University of Portland, you should check it out. The title is, “You are Brilliant, and the Earth is Hiring”
http://yesmagazine.org/article.asp?id=3559
(my favorite parts:
“When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, 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 the data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, and you aren’t optimistic, you haven’t got a pulse. What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world. The poet Adrienne Rich wrote, “So much has been destroyed I have cast my lot with those who, age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.” There could be no better description. Humanity is coalescing. It is reconstituting the world, and the action is taking place in schoolrooms, farms, jungles, villages, campuses, companies, refuge camps, deserts, fisheries, and slums.”
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“Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years. No one would sleep that night, of course. The world would create new religions overnight. We would be ecstatic, delirious, made rapturous by the glory of God. Instead, the stars come out every night and we watch television.”)
Be delicious!
BB
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June 8th, 2009 at 3:12 am
BB, life is a mixture of pessimistic and optimistic. It’s totally depends on our point of views and our perspective to judge it! By the way, thanks for the head up.
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June 11th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
Good day!
I added your site to my EC drop list -> http://booksonice.blogspot.com/2009/04/entrecard-links.html
Click on the “Reuse, Reduce, Recycle” icon and it will open other EcoFriendly sites including yours.
Have a nice day!
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June 13th, 2009 at 9:27 am
Optimism, a sign of the presence in a man of hope, it increases not only to you but also the mood of those around! It’s cool!
June 19th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
thanks for sharing your optimism, y’all!
a little good does a lot!
BB
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September 6th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
Your information was very useful. Hope you will come up with useful articles like this.