Now: A Report

7-7-7 !!!!

neriah@neriahlothamer.com (Neriah Lothamer) — Sat, 10 May 2008 03:38:07 PDT

Many people claim the world is coming to an end, others say a new world is just beginning; but on June 7th 2007, hundreds of millions internationally demonstrated their focus on healing the global warming, which humanity has created. Al Gore and a squadron of superstars hit major cities in the U.S. and more around the planet, with huge concert events for 24 hours--broadcast live.

From the Live Earth Press Release:

Live Earth is a 24-hour, 7-continent series of 9 concerts taking place on 7/7/07 that will bring together more than 100 music artists and 2 billion people to inspire a global movement to "Answer the Call" and combat the climate crisis.

Live Earth will reach this worldwide audience through an unprecedented global media architecture covering all media platforms – TV, radio, web and wireless channels. Live Earth will be the first-ever global event to be broadcast completely in High Definition (HD).

Live Earth will provide over 100 simple actions and tools that, if applied on a mass scale, will have a massive impact on combating the climate crisis. More importantly, Live Earth marks the beginning of a multi-year campaign led by the Alliance for Climate Protection and other international NGOs to drive individuals, corporations and governments to take action to solve global warming. Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore is the Chair of the Alliance for Climate Protection and Partner of Live Earth.

Live Earth was founded by Kevin Wall, the Worldwide Executive Producer of Live 8, an event that brought together one of the largest audiences in history to combat poverty. Wall formed a partnership with Al Gore and the Alliance to ensure that Live Earth inspires behavioral changes long after 7/7/07.

Live Earth will stage concerts at Giants Stadium in New York; Wembley Stadium in London; Aussie Stadium in Sydney; Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro; Maropeng at the Cradle of Humankind in Johannesburg; Makuhari Messe in Tokyo; the Steps of the Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai; HSH Nordbank Arena in Hamburg; and Inonu Stadium in Istanbul.

With support from the U.S. Green Building Council, creators of the LEED Green Building Rating System, Live Earth will implement new Green Event Guidelines. These green guidelines address the major areas of impact of live events, including recycling and composting, food and beverages, packaging, transportation, energy, water usage, and the event site itself. From power generation at the concerts to garbage generated by concert goers, Live Earth will seek to “design out” waste and become the model for live entertainment events in the future.

Official Live Earth concerts will be broadcast to a live worldwide audience by MSN at www.LiveEarth.MSN.com.

Live Earth is a project of the SOS (Save Our Selves) campaign, which is using a sweeping multimedia platform – films, television, radio, Internet, books, wireless and others – to move people to Answer the Call and combat the climate crisis.

Fore more information about Live Earth and the SOS campaign,
visit www.LiveEarth.MSN.com
or www.LiveEarth.org.

IT'S A NEW WORLD!

neriah@neriahlothamer.com (Neriah Lothamer) — Mon, 12 May 2008 21:23:25 PDT

Welcome to a world falling apart
yet coming together more than ever.
I am revitalizing this blog with new links and videos.

The video player below, when you click your mouse over the icon to the right of the bottom play button, will show the playlist of some of the most leading-edge presentations about the various realities involved now: the economy, green sustainability, poverty, hunger, oil etc..

The NEW links that follow are seriously worth checking out:
(the older links are on the left sidebar, check those out too)

I cannot stress enough that if you are not catching Democracy Now you should, it is the best news going, but some of the links below have some great stuff too.

Most of the videos in the player above come from the awesome TED TALKS

New Green Sustainable City In The Middle Of OILRABIA

Need real contract and biz Forms?

Want some REAL NEWS?

How about what's the Middle East got to on MOSAIC?

Have you met the STIMULATOR?

Need some EARTH FOCUS?

And you know about BILL MOYERS?

What's the gov think of Corporations?

Money as debt Video

Euro nations sovereignty at risk Article

Green builders Directory

The best social network is GAIA

United diversity Yahoo group

Ramana & Papaji Blog

Eva Pierrakos' Pathwork Lectures

Karen Bishop's What's Up On Planet Earth Ascension energy alerts

Global Energy Reports

Green sustainability Architectural software

The new solar cells--thinner

Article on new solar efficiency

Green fuel from Algae

New Paradigm Media

New Paradigm Media Services

Gas additive--Save $ & environment

Living off the grid Site

Hydrogen power Article

Ken Wilber inspired Site

Are you a positive Deviant?

Resources for inner and outer peace

Prophecy Keepers

Billy Jack Lives!

Mayan Teachings

Mobile Satellite Internet

Khosla Site

The real green ethanol is Cellulosic gassification!

The videos that show you how to help financially support Good Projects

Mayan Calendar Info

From Freedom to Fascism Video

Contemporary Indigenous Writings

Mark Joyner's SIMPLEOLOGY rules

History of the World Economy

Run your car On Water

LOHAS (acronym for Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability), a market segment focused on health and fitness, the environment, personal development, sustainable living, and social justice. on Videos

Thousands of green sustainability Links Here

Alliance for sustainability Site

another Water Fuel Site

Kosmos On Earth

Community building Books

Vision for a Sustainable World

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The Latest Report

neriah@neriahlothamer.com (Neriah Lothamer) — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:36:20 PST

Greetings,

Here you find the latest report from Neriah and the latest links, videos, or stories he recommends from his hundreds of hours researching online every month. From ascension process and green energy to great tools to use, Neriah will share his passion for saving Life on Earth, and invites you to sign up for being notified of new posts to the blog.

The most mind-blowing links this week:

http://www.timeofthesixthsun.com/

This site is beautifully put together, gives great information, is inspiring, and has a fantastic trailer to view of their upcoming movie about 2012 and all the changes/ A very professional crew with lots of talent and a project worth supporting. Copy and paste the link into your emails to friends. Tell everyone to pass the link around.

http://www.moi-ra.blogspot.com/

82 year old Moi-RA Stardove is sharing her inspired memories of the sophia wisdom schools and the theosphical society. THis is a blog of short reminisces of the deliciops morsels taught her. Beautifully inspiring and very relevant to what is happening today.

http://www.wildlywealthy.com/abundance.php
Sandy Forster gave a tele-conference guided channeling on wealth abundance with over a thousand ascension process people simultaneously participating from all over the world last Fall. It totally blew my mind and opened me up to what true manifesting of abundance takes. Sandy is giving another one for no charge either wed 18th or thrs 19th. The link is to sign up for the event and to get a link to the recording afterwords. well worth it.

http://www.urth.tv/

Urth TV goes public in a big way, kicking open their doors on Earth Day April 22nd with a whole bunch of green videos that will inspire and delight you. Keep an eye on this group, they are serious and talented. Definitely high class alternative media with forums.

http://www.democracynow.org
Speaking of which, this is still the best news anywhere. I list it here today because Amy Goodman's last few episodes are amazing. She is reporting about how deeply and definitely the administration lied and deceived the public. The proof is now undeniable and Internationally known. Leap up-to-date with this program, easily dowloaded, everyday, anytime, in audio and video. If you don't watch Democracy Now, then you don't really know what is happening in the world today.

My muse wants to share a quick metaphor:
Imagine if this moment now could be put into a room--or is a room. Everything temporary passes thru this room, but the room itself--this moment--is eternal. Now imagine the room is as big as the universe, and that, even as big as that is, it is surrounded by infinite space--emptiness. Yet within every temporary thing passing thru the room is even more empty space, known as "stillness" and that--it is always still--even in the midst of every disturbance. And here we are in the room, the eternal room of this present moment, grasping at every temporary thing passing thru, forgetting and ignoring the stillness within us and everything else. Until we wake up to the reality of stillness and its ever-pervasive universal energy, we stay locked in, unable to perceive really the infinite spirit we are. But you already knew that, huh?
Neriah

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Quick Important Message

neriah@neriahlothamer.com (Neriah Lothamer) — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:09:45 PST

Okay, forget all my philosophizing and preaching to the choir verbage. Those of you who know what to do with this info will pass it on to all you know for the information in these links. Sart the action ball rolling immediately--YOU have only a few days (1-1-09) to cast your vote on green sustainable communities being on the Obama administrtation agenda. DO IT NOW PLEASE!

click here TO VOTE NOW!

VOTING IS FREE!
BUT TIME IS LIMITED

You can get lots of great info and videos there at that link too--You can even click here to JOIN Change.org and begin to get on the info pipeline.

Here are some more super-vital links
with tons of resources on the subject:

http://www.withinreachmovie.com/

For several dozen videos from real sustainable communities here's the link to the sustainable communities playlist on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=AD7CB92AF86DE09E

BUT YOU CAN VIEW THEM HERE in this playlist:
(just put your mouse over the lower part of the screen to see the whole list of 48 videos on sustainable communities and click on the ones that interest you)
HAVE A HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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GREEN SUSTAINABILITY IS FLYING!

neriah@neriahlothamer.com (Neriah Lothamer) — Fri, 15 May 2009 19:34:01 PDT

Looking up in the world of solar
with this historical 1st solar-powered flight over the Alps!

Check out the link with all the details that TreeHugger sent us here:
FIRST SOLAR-POWER FLIGHT OVER THE ALPS

For All Graduates On The Earth!

neriah@neriahlothamer.com (Neriah Lothamer) — Sat, 23 May 2009 20:16:26 PDT

This is the most astute, insightful, and totally in-tune speech about what our young College graduates now have to face as they take the reins. I recommend that if there is only 1 thing you do to help the world, it is to read this speech given this month by Paul Hawken. Please make sure every graduate you know gets this message--IT IS OUR TRUE HOPE and the vision that we manifest from this step forward upon the Earth as those who embrace Life, this our prayer..to the Class of 2009.

University of Portland, May 3, 2009
Commencement Address by Paul Hawken
When I was invited to give this speech, I was asked if I could give a simple short talk that was “direct, naked, taut, honest, passionate, lean, shivering, startling, and graceful.” Boy, no pressure there.

But let’s begin with the startling part. Hey, Class of 2009: you are going to have to figure out what it means to be a human being on earth at a time when every living system is declining, and the rate of decline is accelerating. Kind of a mind-boggling situation… but not one peer-reviewed paper published in the last thirty years can refute that statement. Basically, the earth needs a new operating system, you are the programmers, and we need it within a few decades.

This planet came with a set of operating instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Important rules like don’t poison the water, soil, or air, and don’t let the earth get overcrowded, and don’t touch the thermostat have been broken. Buckminster Fuller said that spaceship earth was so ingeniously designed that no one has a clue that we are on one, flying through the universe at a million miles per hour, with no need for seatbelts, lots of room in coach, and really good food, but all that is changing.

There is invisible writing on the back of the diploma you will receive, and in case you didn’t bring lemon juice to decode it, I can tell you what it says: YOU ARE BRILLIANT, AND THE EARTH IS HIRING. The earth couldn’t afford to send any recruiters or limos to your school. It sent you rain, sunsets, ripe cherries, night blooming jasmine, and that unbelievably cute person you are dating. Take the hint. And here’s the deal: Forget that this task of planet-saving is not possible in the time required. Don’t be put off by people who know what is not possible. Do what needs to be done, and check to see if it was impossible only after you are done.

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 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.

You join a multitude of caring people. No one knows how many groups and organizations are working on the most salient issues of our day: climate change, poverty, deforestation, peace, water, hunger, conservation, human rights, and more. This is the largest movement the world has ever seen. Rather than control, it seeks connection. Rather than dominance, it strives to disperse concentrations of power. Like Mercy Corps, it works behind the scenes and gets the job done. Large as it is, no one knows the true size of this movement. It provides hope, support, and meaning to billions of people in the world. Its clout resides in idea, not in force. It is made up of teachers, children, peasants, businesspeople, rappers, organic farmers, nuns, artists, government workers, fisherfolk, engineers, students, incorrigible writers, weeping Muslims, concerned mothers, poets, doctors without borders, grieving Christians, street musicians, the President of the United States of America, and as the writer David James Duncan would say, the Creator, the One who loves us all in such a huge way.

There is a rabbinical teaching that says if the world is ending and the Messiah arrives, first plant a tree, and then see if the story is true. Inspiration is not garnered from the litanies of what may befall us; it resides in humanity’s willingness to restore, redress, reform, rebuild, recover, reimagine, and reconsider. “One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice,” is Mary Oliver’s description of moving away from the profane toward a deep sense of connectedness to the living world.

Millions of people are working on behalf of strangers, even if the evening news is usually about the death of strangers. This kindness of strangers has religious, even mythic origins, and very specific eighteenth-century roots. Abolitionists were the first people to create a national and global movement to defend the rights of those they did not know. Until that time, no group had filed a grievance except on behalf of itself. The founders of this movement were largely unknown Granville Clark, Thomas Clarkson, Josiah Wedgwood and their goal was ridiculous on the face of it: at that time three out of four people in the world were enslaved. Enslaving each other was what human beings had done for ages. And the abolitionist movement was greeted with incredulity. Conservative spokesmen ridiculed the abolitionists as liberals, progressives, do-gooders, meddlers, and activists. They were told they would ruin the economy and drive England into poverty. But for the first time in history a group of people organized themselves to help people they would never know, from whom they would never receive direct or indirect benefit.. And today tens of millions of people do this every day. It is called the world of non-profits, civil society, schools, social entrepreneurship, and non-governmental organizations, of companies who place social and environmental justice at the top of their strategic goals. The scope and scale of this effort is unparalleled in history.

The living world is not “out there” somewhere, but in your heart. What do we know about life? In the words of biologist Janine Benyus, life creates the conditions that are conducive to life. I can think of no better motto for a future economy. We have tens of thousands of abandoned homes without people and tens of thousands of abandoned people without homes. We have failed bankers advising failed regulators on how to save failed assets. Think about this: we are the only species on this planet without full employment. Brilliant. We have an economy that tells us that it is cheaper to destroy earth in real time than to renew, restore, and sustain it. You can print money to bail out a bank but you can’t print life to bail out a planet. At present we are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it gross domestic product. We can just as easily have an economy that is based on healing the future instead of stealing it. We can either create assets for the future or take the assets of the future. One is called restoration and the other exploitation. And whenever we exploit the earth we exploit people and cause untold suffering. Working for the earth is not a way to get rich, it is a way to be rich.

The first living cell came into being nearly 40 million centuries ago, and its direct descendants are in all of our bloodstreams. Literally you are breathing molecules this very second that were inhaled by Moses, Mother Teresa, and Bono. We are vastly interconnected. Our fates are inseparable. We are here because the dream of every cell is to become two cells. In each of you are one quadrillion cells, 90 percent of which are not human cells. Your body is a community, and without those other microorganisms you would perish in hours. Each human cell has 400 billion molecules conducting millions of processes between trillions of atoms. The total cellular activity in one human body is staggering: one septillion actions at any one moment, a one with twenty-four zeros after it. In a millisecond, our body has undergone ten times more processes than there are stars in the universe exactly what Charles Darwin foretold when he said science would discover that each living creature was a “little universe, formed of a host of self-propagating organisms, inconceivably minute and as numerous as the stars of heaven.”

So I have two questions for you all: First, can you feel your body? Stop for a moment. Feel your body. One septillion activities going on simultaneously, and your body does this so well you are free to ignore it, and wonder instead when this speech will end. Second question: who is in charge of your body? Who is managing those molecules? Hopefully not a political party. Life is creating the conditions that are conducive to life inside you, just as in all of nature. What I want you to imagine is that collectively humanity is evincing a deep innate wisdom in coming together to heal the wounds and insults of the past.

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 become religious overnight. We would be ecstatic, delirious, made rapturous by the glory of God. Instead the stars come out every night, and we watch television.

This extraordinary time when we are globally aware of each other and the multiple dangers that threaten civilization has never happened, not in a thousand years, not in ten thousand years. Each of us is as complex and beautiful as all the stars in the universe. We have done great things and we have gone way off course in terms of honoring creation. You are graduating to the most amazing and stupefying challenge ever bequested to any generation. The generations before you failed. They didn’t stay up all night. They got distracted and lost sight of the fact that life is a miracle every moment of your existence. Nature beckons you to be on her side. You couldn’t ask for a better boss. The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer. Hopefulness only makes sense when it doesn’t make sense to be hopeful. This is your century. Take it and run as if your life depends on it.

You can read more about Paul Hawken at his website.
You may know him from his most recent publication Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming. According to Culture Change, he was presented with an honorary doctorate of humane letters by University president Father Bill Beauchamp, C.S.C., in May, when he delivered this speech.

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