Hello All  Wayfarer doug sez: Although every day is Earth Day for many of us, as the calendar & public consciousness period of the NY area Earth Week winds up, with too many events to possibly get to, we see dramatic evidence of the quickening and as has been noted by many recently, the Mainstreaming of triple bottom line considerations in both the media, business realms and in the discourse in civil society.  As our team within the US Partnership [Decade of Education 4 Sustainability] has been learning to convey, we want people to gradually experience as the new normal, the integration of our oneness with the ecosystem/biosphere that is natural to those whose path has gifted and acquainted us with the fruits of the knowledge of the Wisdom Tradition.  Just as there is no 'away' as the in-the-know teachings about how humans have to know understand their relationship and attitude to the 'waste stream', we know  from the deeper places our paths have taken us, that there is of course no such place as 'outside'.  The other night at Satya Graha event at the Cathedral St. John someone i spoke to at the hot human pinball networking mosh pit gave me a copy of a classic and beautiful statement by Chief Seattle which i will assume many of you are familiar with.(Just FYI, i grew up in NJ/NY area but went to The Evergreen State College in Olympia Washington and lived there and in Seattle for 12 , coming of age as a young adult in the deep counter-culture, Holistic, Humanistic and transpersonal Mind-Body-Spirit explorers community which was an incredibly vital learning network in the great Pacific Northwest, where i lived  from 1975-1988, before returning to the greater NY area.)

Thanks so much Doug for getting up the information from Inspired Futures!  This is just a note to all those who are in the process of joining our Wiser Earth group, esp. the organzations that still need to post their profiles and add their initiatives to our "About" section.  We'll be watching for that and those of us with Administrator functions will responds ASAP when people apply to membership.  A recent meeting of our Group confirmed that it's best, for now, to keep our membership on an "Apply Basis".  That will continue at least until all of our founding and new members, who are in touch with us personally and in real time in NYC, complete their enrollments, profiles and so on.  Thanks to all again!   kurt