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If you missed the original showing of Leonardo diCaprio’s film, The Eleventh Hour, you needn’t miss out on humanity responding to the catalyst - to turn this world around. Here are some narrative excerpts from the film’s POWERFUL trailer - viewable on the warnerbrothers’ 11th hour web site: “Our project today is the welfare of all of life as a practical objective.” … “With existing technologies we could literally reduce the human footprint on Planet Earth by 90 %.” … “What a great time to be born! What a great time to be alive! Because THIS GENERATION gets to completely change this world…” www.11thhourfilm.com The web site for the follow up of Global Actions catalyzed by the film is www.11thhouraction.com

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“The call to become an effective agent of change” article by Robyn Francis of Permaculture Education, Djanbung Gardens, NSW, Australia, Nov 2007, edited by LTN :
There is a rising tide of awareness of an urgent need to change… A new terminology is infiltrating the media and people’s consciousness - like Foodmiles, Footprint, Peak Oil, Energy Descent, Relocalisation, Water Security, Post-carbon Age, Transition Society… What the global situation demands, for any form of sustainable future… is a major shift in lifestyle, thinking and expectations… The paradigm shift requires us… to effectively re-invent ourselves, and our relationship to the world around us; in our daily living, in our work, and the myriad interactions we constantly engage in - within our community and society at large. … Permaculture provides 3 decades of global experience at the cutting edge of sustainable living, development and design. Drawing on the lessons of history, the best of sustainable traditional and indigenous wisdoms, [Permaculture] weaves a fresh approach to eco-literacy, environmental science and social justice as a practical and realistic design system for a sustainable future. For the full article, see www.permaculture.com.au/web/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=74&Itemid=1

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The Rainforest Information Centre Inc. (RIC) is a non-profit, volunteer organisation dedicated to the protection of the Earth’s remaining rainforests and the indigenous people who depend on them. RIC’s activities include Projects in Ecuador and India, a Small Grants Program supporting environmental justice worldwide, Deep ecology workshops and the dissemination of information on deep ecology, Campaigns on gold mining, forest campaigns, oil palm…, rainforest roadshows and their informative web site. www.rainforestinfo.org.au

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World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is one of the world’s largest and most experienced independent conservation organizations, with almost 5 million supporters and a global network active in more than 100 countries. Its Mission is to stop the degradation of the planet’s natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature, by conserving the world’s biological diversity, ensuring that the use of renewable natural resources is sustainable and promoting the reduction of pollution and wasteful consumption. www.panda.org/

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Friends of the Earth International is the world’s largest grassroots environmental network, with over 2 million members and supporters in 70 nations and some 5,000 local activity groups. FOEI campaigns on today’s most urgent environmental and social issues, challenging the current model of economic and corporate globalization, and promoting solutions that will help to create environmentally sustainable and socially just societies. www.foei.org/

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Check out the GREAT Animated Introduction promoting SACRED BALANCE and Web Casts of David Suzuki and more. www.sacredbalance.com/web/portal/

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The biomimetic path as outlined by author Janine Benyus in her book, Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature, describes four steps: quieting human cleverness, listening to life’s genius, echoing what we learn, and giving thanks. This last all-important step, giving thanks, is embodied in the “Innovation for Conservation” Program - through which companies with biomimetic and biologically-inspired products, services, or savings have the opportunity to give back to the source of that innovation through nature conservation. In so doing, the circle of BENEFIT is made complete.
http://biomimicryinstitute.org/innovation-4-conservation/innovation-for-conservation/protecting-inspiration.html

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Amma says, ” The life force that pulsates in the trees, plants and animals is the same life force that pulsates within us. The same life energy that gives us the power to speak and to sing is the power behind the song of the bird and the roar of the lion. A sincere seeker or a true believer cannot harm nature because he or she sees nature as God. He doesn’t experience nature as separate from himself. He the real lover of nature. The Earth, trees, plants and animals are all manifestations of God. We should love them as we love our own self.” www.amma.org/humanitarian-activities/nature/index.html