Topic: Green For All International = Dream Reborn
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Another resource for discussion is their group:
Green For All |
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Good point, I will "wisen up" and transfer the discussion there...
It would be great if International wiserearth participants / organizations / groups could all check out/ join the Green For All group as well... And... April 20th Hip Hop Summit is hosting "turn up the vote" = http://www.hsan.org/Content/Home.aspx?pageId=241 It would be great if that kind of work... could be expanded via Barack Obama co-operatively working with International sanctioned initatives like http://www.wiserearth.org/group/cpi... Just thinking of how Bono (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bono) and Bill Gates (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates) etc. cooperatively work together to fight the Aids epidemic... http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_story=c952d6682c267138b98dc9d25b1fff485336010f&rf=sitemap The snowflake thing; little Fifty Cent sitting on his bed in the basement talking into a taperecorder: emotional release via creative arts... That kind of cross -cultural human artistic expression... analogous to bacteria collecting water molecules; building regional/ localized-cultural 'weather pattern'/ gathering influence on the cultural 'climate'... art always works to reveal the TRUTH... Wiser Earth likened to a global immune system reaction, our current not-sustainable relationship to the earth likened to a disease overtaking the host... Artistic expression as the outlet that allows an individual - regardless of culture/ type of art - to survive (through adverse circumstances...); creative arts likened to therapy... If the Green For All vision could be implemented on the international scale, again -- with the aid of internationally influential hip hop artists... whose grass roots cross-cultural 'indigneous culture' influential/ reach empowerment of those without power, those without voice... is developing into something a million times more effective at influencing than political 'force'... Harness and cultivate that kind of creative genius / clean energy technology innovation to benefit the whole world...; an 'epidemic' of music influence to counter the epidemic of our existence on the planet: diseased/troubled mind finds outlet through creativity and subsequently becomes balanced... fight power with power... etc. Globalize sustainably while maintaining some degree of cultural integrity? Was thinking of how T Freedman wrote in the 'world is flat' about how the next U.S. president should initiate some sort of urgent 5 year plan for the development of an alternative fuel etc./ make U.S. energy independent... make the initiative a national co-operative comparable to what JFK did with the push to put a man on the moon... Why not make Green For All an International initiative with the same kind of cooperative spirit the U.S. used to put a man on the moon... ? peace- |
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If the world combine these two messages on the global scale.... global climate change / global cultural differences... while maintaining integrity of cultural diversity on the planet in the face of globalization... Mix it up with a thematic international application of the Green For All vision, while cultivating/encouraging more of a values-based consumerism... like with the RED campaign... The post is not meant to be political... I respect the civil movement of wiserearth... but Barack Obama seems to be an emerging champion of that movement. peace. |
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080503/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_yahoo
If Microsoft finalizes the Yahoo merger... wouldn't it be great for NCI to seize the oppurtunity and campaign / negotiate with Microsoft/Yahoo to expand their global philanthropic vision?; provide www.wiserearth.org some sort of part-time presence on yahoo.com homepages across the world?
Work together to give the global movement a more immediate presence in the mainstream?
Seems like there would be no better advertising/ marketing for either group?; participants/ members of www.wiserearth.org could in turn endorse microsoft/yahoo by organizing their networks to support microsoft/yahoo via concentrated use/ conscious consumerism etc..
Admittedly that could be a little bit of a niave/ reductionist thought process... |
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Just discovered Proffessor Michael Eric Dyson, his new book is ; http://www.michaelericdyson.com/april41968/
and than Steve Coll's new book; The Bin Ladens an Arabian Family in the American Century...
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=165852&title=steve-coll
and the disscussion http://www.wiserearth.org/forum/view/2786efc17791df160b78760ecde0e45c
When JFK was a sickly student in Harvard and wrote his thesis "why England slept' which evolved into a book... he spoke of how England needed to stand up to Hitler... of how the only thing that will stop power is power....
Frederick Douglas said; "Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will."
Martin Luther King said; "The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing."
It seems like the Green For All campaign on the international level/ blended with cultivation of cultural creative arts expression....
would have some potential.... to empower the disempowered, to spark grass roots change toward a just and sustainable world created by community that can resist the detrimental effects of globalization...