…we shape the world.
Watch this. I couldn find a flaw in this manś compelling argument. I challenge you. Go on. I dare you. Double dare. Whatever it takes to get you to watch.
You see, he asks a question at the very end - and I cannot answer it at all positively.
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…that gives meaning to our lives.
So, can’t think of a way to make a difference? A bit apathetic? Lazy? or just busy and worn out by life?
Sorry, no more excuses. Even you can make a difference, sitting in your chair.
So do it! Ten online ways to save the world.
…most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life is also known more simply as The Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin. This gave evolution to the world, a gift to science as wonderful and ground breaking as Newton’s Principia Mathematica, imho.
Well, now you can download it in its entirety as an audio book : The Origin of Species audio book, all thanks to a marvellous group of volunteers, Librivox, record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. They want to make all public domain books available as free audio books.Kudos to them for making this available.
…that if it weren’t for our lungs there’d be no place to put it all.
Freedom Fuels: FREE, Downloadable Alternative Fuels Documentary
Answer all your questions on whats out there. Share and enjoy!
… known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.
Apprently, comparison of car sales and bike sales in Australia has shown that, in 2006, Bicycles Outsell Cars - New Record! This is fantastic news, and as an advocate of the bike, it gladdens my heart:) There is also coverage of this news by Treehugger.
…the destroyer of worlds.
Watch this and weep. If you are not moved, if you are not outraged, where have you lost your humanity? Do not turn your back on these children. It is to our everlasting shame that we have learnt so little.
Chernobyl - a Journey of the Legacy
Next time someone asks me, “with all the society’s energy needs, why not nuclear?”, then this is what I will show them. There is a simple quote from it : “What man makes, can break”. This is the result.
at home.
Want to help make a difference? Not sure what to do? Comfy in that chair? Well, there ARE ways you can be the couch potato and still make a difference.
You can search with a search engine like GoodSearch : Search the Internet with GoodSearch and support your favorite charity or school.
The ultimate too easy act for the web surfer to help others. One click on a button, and the advertisers make a donation on your behalf. Thats it. No personal details recorded. Just one click a day. You can manage THAT!:
The Child Health Site : Help a Child in Need Lead a Healthy, Active Life. There are also tabs up the top of this page to other pages that have one click makes a donation to World Hunger, Breast Cancer, Conservation, Literacy, Animal Rescue, and others. (Many others are listed at Charity Click Donation - Give money to charity for free through charity clicks).
…moonworm.
This interview with one Albert Gore, maker of the doco movie An Inconvenient Truth, and in the minds of many people, the REAL President of the USA, is fascinating. Dayum, man has a conscience and passion and drive. Run for pres again, PLEASE!!!! AND he rode the moonworm! When I first saw him on Futurama, I thought to myself, “self”, I thought, “self - we need to elect people like this, that can poke such wicked fun at themselves.”
(Ok, enough raving. Its just he is such a contrast to the incompetent incumbent)
…to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
This is pretty awful stuff. Not that they refuse the free 50000 dvds of ‘An Inconvenient Truth‘, its the fact that they accept dvds from the fuel, oil, and petroleum industries without question - and the refusal looks a lot like they are hesitant to offend these groups. This is the education your kids get.
Think Progress » Science Teachers’ Organization Refuses To Accept Copies of Inconvenient Truth
The Conscious Earth: An Inconvenient Truth Squeezed from Classrooms
On a happier note: The Guardian has a list of Earthshakers: the top 100 green campaigners of all time
…mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Actually, look at that quote. Look at the last bit. Pray? No.
Act now. Pray later.
The Australian Lungfish is under threat from a proposed new dam, which will destroy its ONLY breeding habitat. This ancient fish deserves better.
WE deserve better. We all deserve a world where we haven’t raped and pillaged nature to extinction. Sign the online petition.
Read more at about this fight at Pharyngula: Australian Lungfish update
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