Mother Earth
Like a loving mother, the earth gives unconditionally to us of her resources. Food. Clothing. Shelter. She is the support beneath our feet, no matter what we udertake. Like children, we are testing her limits. Please join us in healing our relationship with Mother Earth. Here, you may find new information, as well as simple ideas that you can incorporate into daily life, so that we can all enjoy clean air, water, and a vibrant planet.
“Presently, our peoples, our societies, our cultures, and lives are being uprooted from their ancestral homes, and the World is neogiating away based on “what is good for me” and not what is good for all of Humanity…To actually solve the climate problem, we must put ourselves in a situation where we desire to do more than we are doing. We at this table and the other nations of the world must all want to do more. After all, we are worth it.”
–Ambassador Masao Nakayama
Permanent Representative of
the Federated States of Micronesia
to the United Nations
View Conscience Call: Climate Change in the Pacific, a three-minute documentary film on the current effects of global warming. Produced by the Australian government and the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat.
“We propose discussion on the effects of the mass production of meat, known as factory farming, on global warming. Factory farming produces, arguably, more carbon dioxide emissions than do cars, on a global level. According to FAO studies meat production is responsible globally for at least 18 % of greenhouse gas emissions. This includes not only carbon dioxide, but also methane and nitrous oxides. The meat industry is also a direct cause of the decimation of forests, thereby reducing the earth’s natural mechanism to purify polluted air, through photosynthesis. On an individual level, reducing meat consumption has been compared, in a 2006 study at the University of Chicago, to switching from a car run by fossil fuels to one that is electric. On a global level, it is a key industry to address in meeting agreed upon standards for reduction of emissions and temperature.”
A talking point that was sent to the United Nations global summit on climate change in Copenhagen, December 2009.
What can we do?
Get off the grid. Use “green” energy.
Sun. Wind. Water…
www.sterlingplanet.com
www.communityenergy.com
Plant trees…
www.treepeople.org
www.americanforests.org
Keep our oceans clean…
www.healthebay.org
Be kind to animals.
Support organic famers…
www.truefoodnow.org
Conserve and recycle.
Let water be precious.
Walk softly.
Love our mother.