Environment
« Previous EntriesSay no to ocean mining
Sunday, March 14th, 2021I’m really concerned about the possibility and consequences of allowing deep sea mining of cobalt rich nodules on the ocean floor that are home to numerous species. Scroll down towards end of this interactive guide by the Guardian news. We don’t know enough about this sensitive habitat and the consequences of destroying it. Better these […]
What can we do to support life on our planet?
Sunday, March 14th, 2021Recently I listened to/watched this fascinating discussion between Dr Sylvia Earle of Mission Blue and the makers of the Octopus Teacher documentary, Craig Foster and Pippa Erlich and co-creator of Sea Change Foundation, mediated by Will Travis of The Elevation Barn A Discussion with Dr. Sylvia Earle and Craig Foster from My Octopus Teacher Something […]
Helping through entanglement
Monday, November 2nd, 2020The other day someone shared a powerful exercise in our small sangha that is really so simple but a complete game changer. This is about feeling gratitude on behalf of someone else even if their good fortune doesn’t apply to you and your current circumstances. For example, they get to do a course you wanted […]
storing carbon in the sky – as skyscrapers
Monday, June 24th, 2019Wooden skyscrapers. I love this idea! Even back in 2013 Michael Green was motivating it Now Tokyo’s bid to build the world’s tallest wood building – but only complete it in 2041! Hopefully other cities are faster! What can we do? – Lobby your local government – Dream up ways to extract and store carbon […]
Re-dreaming the future
Sunday, August 30th, 2015Here’s a bunch of sea daisies for you, a fragile gift of hope from Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. I took this close up photograph of living coral last month, near Cairns, after making a special trip out there to go see for myself. (The last time I dived in this region was in New Caledonia […]
Earth Day is every day
Thursday, April 23rd, 2015Last Sunday I went to visit Thomas Rippel on the farm where he is learning the craft of turning straw into gold. When I interviewed Thomas a few weeks ago he hold me that the secret to preserving cow manure, and preventing it from rotting, was not to remove any of it from the barn […]
Can cows save the planet?
Thursday, April 9th, 2015Normally we think of cows as being the problem rather than the solution. I spoke to innovative Swiss farmer, Thomas Rippel about how cows can help prevent acid rain, reduce global warming and enrich farm soils. read more about this – click here I think Thomas is onto something big. How about you? Here’s the […]
Can we cool the planet by thinking less?
Friday, January 30th, 2015Years a go I attended a lecture in Lichtenstein by Maseru Emoto, the water crystal man. Buried inside the rest of his message, about water being a carrier of information, he said something that I’ve been wondering about ever since. He said, since this is a water planet and water takes on the energetic frequency […]
What can you do to help combat global warming?
Thursday, September 25th, 2014Why isn’t global warming more obvious? This picture explains it. Our planet is mostly water. The ocean is absorbing the heat. The danger? Under the ocean and under Arctic ice there are huge reserves of methane. We need to harvest or freeze this methane before the ocean releases it into the atmosphere. What can you […]
What to do about climate Change – Operation Methane Harvest
Wednesday, July 9th, 2014Here’s a short video that effectively demonstrates what is right now pouring into our atmosphere in huge volumes wherever arctic ice is melting. Why should you be concerned? Why is this important? This is really dangerous for life on this planet because Methane (CH4) is much much more potent than CO2 in trapping heat in […]
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