This is the trailer for the DVD documentary Climate Engineers: War, Profit and Full Spectrum Dominance. It is a visual document of aerosol activity over New York City. We used it as a premium to raise money for Pacifica Radio. Listeners loved it. This is a 56 minute DVD with great footage and stills, stop and starts, etc. A must have for those who are dealing with debunkers and naysayers, in the family or with friends. More information at www.newyorkskywatch.com
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Never before in our lifetimes have we experienced such weather extremes and dramatic climate in a short period of time. The sudden climate change has the full attention of scientists and climate institutions around the world.
The debate is open as to what’s mainly driving extreme weather. It’s political, complex, ranging from earth and solar cycles to automobile and utility emissions. Numerous climate studies have weighed the manmade and the natural causes that could be contributors to global heating and changing weather patterns.
But, there’s a wild card not factored in to mainstream climate change analysis say researchers, these are the effects from deliberate weather modification and weather control.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 Film: “Climate Engineers: War, Profit, Full Spectrum Dominance”
The evening begins with an optional social hour and pot luck supper at 6pm, followed by the film at 7:30pm, followed by a discussion at the end of the film. This is a a Pacifica Documentary produced and written by Geoff Brady of Pacifica’s WBAI. The footage in this film is a video and photographic document of high atmospheric aircraft activity and related weather control programs conducted over New York City 2008-2009. The film describes how our weather has been silently stolen without permission for the purposes of scientific experimentation and use by the military as a weapon of war. Audio of NASA, U.C. Berkeley, and Stanford scientists reveals the disconnect in their thinking as they casually discuss manipulating the climate to solve “Climate Change” and for use as a weapon, while ignoring the effects that dumping massive quantities of metal aerosols into the atmosphere will have Earth’s life systems.
Time: 6pm pot luck, 7:30pm films.
Location: Humanist Hall, 390 27th St. & 411 28th St., Between Telegraph & Broadway, below Pill Hill, Oakland.
Cost: $5 donations are accepted.
Info: 510-681-8699, http://www.humanisthall.net/
Wheelchair accessible.
An effective training for communities to exercise local governance by passing ordinances to protect their environments from being destroyed by outside corporations. This schooling has helped hundreds of towns and municipalities to take control of their communities to successfully resist corporate “personhood” by educating and uniting people into true democratic action. A tool for powerful activism.
The Daniel Pennock Democracy School is a stimulating and illuminating course that teaches citizens and activists how to reframe exhausting and often discouraging single issue work (such as opposing toxic dumps, quarries, factory farms, etc.) in a way that we can confront corporate control on a powerful single front: people’s constitutional rights.
Democracy School explores the limits of conventional regulatory organizing and offers a new organizing model that helps citizens confront the usurpation by corporations of the rights of communities, people, and the earth. Lectures cover the history of people’s movements and corporate power, and the dramatic recent organizing in Pennsylvania by communities confronting agribusiness, sewage sludge, and quarry corporations. Included with enrollment in the Democracy School is a 300 plus-page notebook of background reading material, and a copy of Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy. For a historical review of the Pennsylvania work through the end of 2003, see a feature article that appeared in Orion Magazine.
Created by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) and Richard Grossman, co-founder of the Program on Corporations, Law, and Democracy (POCLAD), Democracy Schools were launched with five weekend sessions at Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania in 2003. Since then, the number of schools has grown rapidly. In 2006, there are over a dozen locations across the country offering Democracy Schools, so peruse our list and find a school near you!
Sued by the forest, Should nature be able to take you to court?
Last February, the town of Shapleigh, Maine, population 2,326, passed an unusual ordinance. Like nearby towns, Shapleigh sought to protect its aquifers from the Nestle Corporation, which draws heavily on the region for its Poland Spring bottled water. Some Maine towns had acquiesced, others had protested, and one was locked in a protracted legal battle.
Shapleigh tried something new – a move at once humble in its method and audacious in its ambition. At a town meeting, residents voted, 114-66, to endow all of the town’s natural assets with legal rights: “Natural communities and ecosystems possess inalienable and fundamental rights to exist, flourish and naturally evolve within the Town of Shapleigh.” It further decreed that any town resident had “standing” to seek relief for damages caused to nature – permitting, for example, a lawsuit on behalf of a stream.
Ecuador‘s new constitution of 2008 is the first in the world to recognize legally enforceable Rights of Nature, or ecosystem rights.[10]
The borough of Tamaqua, Pennsylvania passed a law giving ecosystems legal rights. The ordinance establishes that the municipal government or any Tamaqua resident can file a lawsuit on behalf of the local ecosystem.[11] Other townships, such as Rush, followed suit and passed their own laws.[12]
This is part of a growing body of legal opinion proposing ‘wild law‘. Wild law, a term coined by Cormac Cullinan (a lawyer based in South Africa), would cover birds and animals, rivers and deserts.[13][14]
Ecuador Approves New Constitution: Voters Approve Rights of Nature
Ecuador Follows Lead of U.S. Communities: First Country in the World to Shift to Rights-Based Environmental Protection, Working With Legal Defense Fund
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By an overwhelming margin, the people of Ecuador today voted for a new constitution that is the first in the world to recognize legally enforceable Rights of Nature, or ecosystem rights.
The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund is pioneering this work in the U.S., where it has assisted more than a dozen local municipalities with drafting and adopting local laws recognizing Rights of Nature.
Over the past year, the Legal Defense Fund was invited to assist the Ecuadorian Constituent Assembly to develop and draft provisions for the new constitution to put ecosystem rights directly into the Ecuadorian constitution. The elected Delegates to the Constituent Assembly requested that the Legal Defense Fund draft language based on ordinances developed and adopted by municipalities in the U.S.
“Ecuador is now the first country in the world to codify a new system of environmental protection based on rights,” stated Thomas Linzey, Executive Director of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund.
“With this vote, the people of Ecuador are leading the way for countries around the world to fundamentally change how we protect nature,” added Mari Margil, Associate Director of the Legal Defense Fund.
Article 1 of the new “Rights for Nature” chapter of the Ecuador constitution reads: “Nature or Pachamama, where life is reproduced and exists, has the right to exist, persist, maintain and regenerate its vital cycles, structure, functions and its processes in evolution. Every person, people, community or nationality, will be able to demand the recognitions of rights for nature before the public bodies.”
Co-originator of the permaculture concept, David Holmgren, presents the design principles as thinking tools that when used together allow us to creatively redesign our environment and our behaviour in a world of less energy and resources.
David Holmgren (born 1955) is an ecologist, ecological design engineer and writer. He is perhaps most well known as co-originator of the permaculture concept with Bill Mollison. Through the spread of permaculture around the world, his environmental principles have exerted a global influence.
(CNN) — It is midday and Geoff Lawton is hard at work at Zaytuna Farms in New South Wales, Australia. But the real work, he says, is going on inside the center of the compost.
Geoff Lawton says that permaculture “revs up” systems of soil creation.
“There’s lots of things breeding in there,” Lawton says.
Compost may not seem a sexy subject, but within this steaming pile, life is being created.
“There’s organisms breathing and dying and reproducing very quickly,” he says. “It’s all very hot and steamy.”
That rich soil lays the groundwork for Lawton’s revolutionary method of food production. It’s called permaculture.
Lawton’s friend and mentor, Bill Mollison, developed the process back in the 1970s. Since then he and Lawton have traveled the globe preaching the value of permaculture and its aim to create harmony between the landscape and the people who live on it.
Geoff Lawton, Wikipedia Biography
Geoff Lawton is a permaculture consultant, designer and teacher.
He holds a diploma in permaculture design. Since 1995 he has specialized in permaculture education, design, implementation, system establishment, administration and community development.[1]
Since 1985, Lawton has undertaken a large number of jobs consulting, designing, teaching and implementing in over thirty countries around the world.[2] Clients have included private individuals, groups, communities, governments, aid organizations, non-governmental organizations and multinational companies.[3]
Lawton’s aim is to establish self-replicating educational demonstration sites. He has currently educated over 6,000 students in permaculture worldwide. Lawton’s ‘master plan’ is see aid projects being replicated as fast as possible to help ameliorate the growing food and water crisis.
Maria Armoudian: How big is this economic movement in the United States?
Gar Alperovitz: It’s a huge development. But the president doesn’t cover it, and the press, on the surface, is not aware of it.
At the grassroots level, there is a lot of activity that is changing the ownership of wealth and making it benefit neighborhoods, workers, cities and communities, at large. There are 11,000 worker-owned companies in the United States, and more people involved in them than are members of unions in the private sector. There are also 120 million Americans who are members of co-operatives — a huge number, about a third of the population.
About 20 percent or 22 percent of our energy is done under public utilities of one kind or another. There are another 4,000 or 5,000 neighborhood corporations, in which neighborhoods own productive wealth to benefit the neighborhood. Much of that is related to housing and land development, but also stores, businesses and factories.
One estimate is that there are 4,500 of these. One, called Newark New Communities, does several million dollars a year in business and pours profits back into helping service the neighborhood — health care and nutrition, education and jobs. So when you really begin to take the lid off of what is emerging in society, there are many forms of decentralized public ownership, social ownership or democratized wealth
The top 5% of Americans own just under 70% of all financial wealth.
The top 1% of Americans now claim more income per year than the bottom 100 million Americans taken together.
The top 2/10th of 1% makes more on the sale of stocks and bonds in one year than everyone else combined.
The distribution of wealth ownership in America is truly feudal–and deeply corrosive of our democracy. Is the growing concentration of wealth inevitable, or are there innovative models and policies that begin to point the way toward more equitable ownership of wealth by individuals, workers, communities?
The coming November election could become a truly fundamental turning point for Democrats and progressives.
But new ideas and a new long term strategy are obviously needed if we are ever to regain serious positive momentum. This requires the kind of profound reassessment of first principles and broad vision which conservatives undertook when they were sidelined and out of power in the 1950s and 1960s.
In America Beyond Capitalism, noted political economist and historian Gar Alperovitz argues that the first decade of the 21st Century is producing conditions that will force the United States to undergo historic changes. Neither Democrats nor Republicans have until now had coherent responses to these challenges.
America Beyond Capitalism is not simply another indictment of our national ills. It builds upon the latest scholarship, theoretical and empirical as well as practical developments at the state and local level to produce systematic proposals for the progressive rebuilding of a democratic America.
Though times may get worse before they get better, major political realignments are the rule, not the exception, in American history, Alperovitz argues.
Gar Alperovitz (born May 5, 1936) is Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland, College Park Department of Government and Politics. He is a former Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge; a founding Fellow of Harvard’s Institute of Politics; a Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies; and a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution. Dr. Alperovitz also served as a Legislative Director in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, and as a Special Assistant in the Department of State.
community-based political-economic development, and in particular new institutions of community wealth ownership;
political-economic theory, including system-wide political-economic design particularly as related to normative issues of equality, democracy, liberty, community and ecological sustainability;
local, state and national policy approaches to community stability in the era of globalization;
the history and future of nuclear weapons; arms control and disarmament strategies, including work on the conditions of peace and related long term political economic structural change.
Seed balls are a method of propagation widely promoted byNatural Farminginnovator Masanobu Fukuoka.
Seed balls are simply seeds mixed with equal proportions of dried compost and clay, formed into small balls, and dried for later sowing.
To make them, simply select the seeds to be used – thick-skinned seeds will need to be scarified, and some seeds need heat or cold to bring them out of dormancy. Legumes will require inoculant if they are to fix nitrogen. Also, for species that can benefit frommycorrhizal relationships, adding the spores of mycorrhizal fungi such as the genusGlomusand/orRhizopogon, speciesGigaspora margarita, and/orPisolithus tinctoruswould be beneficial, though not necessary. [This list is not exhaustive, but these are readily available throughFungi Perfecti.]
The legendary broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough was long unsure about the causes of the observed climate warming. In his documentary, The Truth About Climate Change, he sheds doubt and explains what convinced him.
Climate models based on purely natural processes such as solar activity and volcanic eruptions fail to explain the observed change in Earth’s climate in the latter part of the 20th century. Models factoring in the human impact, that is, the increase of carbon dioxide in the athmosphere
(South Bronx, N.Y. – August 28, 2009) – For the second consecutive year, ReBuilders Source and Green Worker Cooperatives have teamed up to bring the Timpson Place Block & Barbecue Party on Saturday, September 12. This year’s theme: ReBuilders Source is the Construction Industry’s Resource.
Meet Our 2009 Graduates GWC is proud to announce the Spring 2009 Graduating class of Co-op Academy.
They are transitioning to become members of ReBuilder’s Source, Aquatechture (Solar Manufacturer) and La Obrera(Green Diner)
Janco Damas
Joel Frank
Don Butterfied
Advocating Zero Waste
GREEN WORKER COOPERATIVES is a South Bronx-based organization dedicated to incubating worker-owned and environmentally friendly cooperatives in the South Bronx. Our approach is a response to high unemployment and decades of environmental racism. We don’t have the luxury to wait for new alternatives. That’s why we’re creating them. We believe that in order to address our environmental and economic problems we need new ways to earn a living that don’t require polluting the earth or exploiting human labor.
Building an alternative green economy in the South Bronx is not a solo endeavor. Help support our work today by making a donation. All donations are tax-deductible and should be made out to Green Worker, Inc.
Green Worker Cooperatives Co-op Academy Graduates Create Green Businesses
Green Worker Cooperatives is proud to announce our Co-op Academy graduates, Eddie Charles, Don Butterfield, Chris Michaels, William Cerf, Joel Frank, Janco Damas, Jerry Kahn, and Jerome Villanueva.
Green Worker Cooperatives is a local, green, and democratic worker co-op business incubator. Its goal is to create jobs and keep Bronx communities clean for the people who live in them. The Green Worker Co- op Academy is a program that ran for 16 weeks. This intensive business program has taught participants how to develop South Bronx based environmentally-friendly businesses. Students learned about issues dealing with the most beneficial ways to run a worker co-op. In addition, the participants were taught how to prepare a real world business plan. Graduate Jerome Villanueva said, “As a worker-owner you are hands on, you help out and you get dirty, here the community will actually see the owner.”
Registration for the Fall 2009 Coop Academy class can be done if you attend an Open House at 461 Timpson Place in Bronx NY on August 22nd.
The graduates of the most recent Co-op Academy class have already started expanding their ideas into reality. Aquatecture and La Obrera are two worker co-ops currently in the incubation stage. Chris Michaels and William Cerf have begun steps to launch their 24/7 green diner in the South Bronx. Don Butterfield and Eddie Charles are the founders of Aquatecture, a worker-coop to introduce solar energy and renewable energy in the Bronx. Jerome Villanueva, Janco Damas, and Joel Frank are the new transitioning worker owners at ReBuilders Source.
Rebuilders Source is a re-use store that takes in donated used or new building materials and sells those materials for far below retail price. Rebuilders Source latest transitioning member, Janco Damas states, “We need to encourage responsible disposal of all these materials.” This is the first worker-owned building material center in the world. It is a viable alternative for contractors and homeowners from putting perfectly good building materials into the landfill.
Registration for the Fall 2009 Coop Academy class can be done if you attend an Open House at 461 Timpson Place in Bronx NY on August 22nd. Visit www.greeenworker.coop to register to attend the Open House or to view videos of our graduates.
GREEN WORKER COOPERATIVES is a South Bronx-based organization dedicated to incubating worker-owned and environmentally friendly cooperatives in the South Bronx. Our approach is a response to high unemployment and decades of environmental racism. We don’t have the luxury to wait for new alternatives. That’s why we’re creating them. We believe that in order to address our environmental and economic problems we need new ways to earn a living that does not require polluting the earth or exploiting human labor.
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