The Official new movie trailer for 2012: Time for Change.
http://2012timeforchange.com/
Also on Vimeo videos:
"2012: Time for Change"
Projects a radical alternative to apocalyptic doom and gloom. Directed by Emmy Award nominee Joao Amorim, the film follows journalist Daniel Pinchbeck, author of the bestselling 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, on a quest for a new paradigm that integrates the archaic wisdom of tribal cultures with the scientific method. As conscious agents of evolution, we can redesign post-industrial society on ecological principles to make a world that works for all. Rather than breakdown and barbarism, 2012 will herald the birth of a regenerative planetary culture, where collaboration replaces competition, where exploration of psyche and spirit becomes the new cutting edge, replacing the sterile materialism that has pushed our world to the brink.
Interviews with design scientists, anthropologists, physicists such as Dean Radin, Barbara Marx Hubbard, John Todd and Paul Stamets and celebrities such as Sting, Ellen Page and Gilberto Gil.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Monday, March 8, 2010
How to Build Community Poster!
Start a tradition
Turn off your TV
Mediate Conflict
Plant flowers
Plant food
Have Potlucks
For ideas on having your town be a Transition town model click here:
http://www.transitionnetwork.org/
So what exactly is a Transition Town?
A Transition Initiative (which could be a town, village, university or island etc) is a community-led response to the pressures of climate change, fossil fuel depletion and increasingly, economic contraction.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
NO MORE PLASTICS?
Can any of us really admit to having a life without plastics?
Is is even possible be be plastic free?
What are some of the best resources for living a plastic free existance?
Plastic bird deaths.. a photo series called Midway by Chris Jordan
http://www.chrisjordan.com/
A great quote about reducing plastics in our lives from the Fake Plastic Fish blog "... I didn't try to eliminate all plastics at once, and I would never recommend anyone else do it that way either. It's the road to burnout."
http://fakeplasticfish.com/
More online resources to check out:
http://lifewithoutplastic.com/
http://www.newdream.org/water/
http://freecycle.org/search
http://zenhabits.net/2009/05/55-ways-to-get-more-energy/
Top 10 plastic reducing actions:
1. Avoid the worst plastics: Polyvinyl Chloride (#3 PVC), Polystyrene (#6 PS), Polycarbonate (#7 Other). Good luck!
2. Carry reusable grocery bags. ChicoBag.com
3. Give up bottled water. Klean Kanteens
4. Say no to plastic shopping bags. Chicobag.com
5. Return the green plastic tomato baskets to the farmer’s market. They will love you.
6. Carry a stainless steel travel mug at all times for most drinks while out in the world. Rei.com
7. Buy from bulk bins as much as possible. Bring your old plastic bags even!
8. Cut out sodas, juices, and all other plastic-bottled beverages. Buy Glass or Aluminum!
9. Buy fresh artisanal bread which comes in either paper bags or no bags. Yeah no bag!
10. Carry reusable personal utensils, stainless containers and glass drinking straws. Bamboo even at Togoware.com
More than the top ten are listed here: http://fakeplasticfish.com/list/
Great body products in compostable, not recyclable plastics: http://www.organic-essence.com/
So enjoy the new found advice and good luck in reducing your plastic footprint on the world. Know is half the battle as G.I. Joe would always say.
Is is even possible be be plastic free?
What are some of the best resources for living a plastic free existance?
http://www.chrisjordan.com/
A great quote about reducing plastics in our lives from the Fake Plastic Fish blog "... I didn't try to eliminate all plastics at once, and I would never recommend anyone else do it that way either. It's the road to burnout."
http://fakeplasticfish.com/
More online resources to check out:
http://lifewithoutplastic.com/
http://www.newdream.org/water/
http://freecycle.org/search
http://zenhabits.net/2009/05/55-ways-to-get-more-energy/
Top 10 plastic reducing actions:
1. Avoid the worst plastics: Polyvinyl Chloride (#3 PVC), Polystyrene (#6 PS), Polycarbonate (#7 Other). Good luck!
2. Carry reusable grocery bags. ChicoBag.com
3. Give up bottled water. Klean Kanteens
4. Say no to plastic shopping bags. Chicobag.com
5. Return the green plastic tomato baskets to the farmer’s market. They will love you.
6. Carry a stainless steel travel mug at all times for most drinks while out in the world. Rei.com
7. Buy from bulk bins as much as possible. Bring your old plastic bags even!
8. Cut out sodas, juices, and all other plastic-bottled beverages. Buy Glass or Aluminum!
9. Buy fresh artisanal bread which comes in either paper bags or no bags. Yeah no bag!
10. Carry reusable personal utensils, stainless containers and glass drinking straws. Bamboo even at Togoware.com
More than the top ten are listed here: http://fakeplasticfish.com/list/
Great body products in compostable, not recyclable plastics: http://www.organic-essence.com/
So enjoy the new found advice and good luck in reducing your plastic footprint on the world. Know is half the battle as G.I. Joe would always say.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
My Sustainable MBA with Presidio!
In the Fall of 2010, Jared Brick (author) will begin his formal business career schooling with the new Presidio Graduate School with an MBA in Sustainable Management based in San Francisco, California. This two year full time program is a newly concentrated area of study benefiting all types of private/public business ventures, civic government bold entrepreneurship and sustainable management. It is my belief that the only business that will thrive in this new economy and even purely survive, will have dominant sustainable practices.
"Presidio is producing a new kind of leader in every area—from business management to public policy, from social entrepreneurship to global governance—with the courage and competence to manage, influence, develop, teach, and create."
Here is more about the Presidio Graduate School Sustainable MBA program:
"Presidio prepares MBA students to be skilled managers who are competitive and relevant in any field. Every business professional is challenged in today's marketplace to lead and manage successful organizations while understanding complex and interdependent issues such as greenhouse-gas emissions reduction, transportation planning, green building and procurement, waste management, and energy and water conservation. Navigating these challenges requires applying a new lens to traditional management practices.
Our degree in business administration connects rigorous management theory and practice with social responsibility, ecological awareness, systems thinking, and leadership within an integrated framework of sustainable management. As a unifying concept, sustainability weaves the core elements of the program together in ways that help students make connections, promote innovation, and create transformative solutions in service of a more sustainable future."
Please click Presidio Graduate School for an overview on their offerings altering the business world.
"Presidio is producing a new kind of leader in every area—from business management to public policy, from social entrepreneurship to global governance—with the courage and competence to manage, influence, develop, teach, and create."
Here is more about the Presidio Graduate School Sustainable MBA program:
Our degree in business administration connects rigorous management theory and practice with social responsibility, ecological awareness, systems thinking, and leadership within an integrated framework of sustainable management. As a unifying concept, sustainability weaves the core elements of the program together in ways that help students make connections, promote innovation, and create transformative solutions in service of a more sustainable future."
Please click Presidio Graduate School for an overview on their offerings altering the business world.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
10 Things the USA does NOT recycle well!
10 Things You Might Not Know About Recycling In The U.S.
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Avatar Green Lessons for us all?
So you finally saw the much anticipated and popular Avatar movie, hopefully in 3D! If like many of you, you felt envious of their pretty much perfect bond with their planet... then we learned something right?
Pandora was an amazing world to experience and thanks to James Cameron we were shown a variety of cultures including Native American, African, Mayan, Maoris as a blending of indigenous tribes of the Earth in the blue coloration of the Na'Vi. Even the chief of the village was a famous Native American actor (Wes Studi) in all the great Indian films.
What the film lacked in original storyline it made up for in visual effects, creative landscapes and a wonderous connection to their vivid intense home planet. Earthlings have come so far from their world that even the jungles scare them, as I can attest to living now in the jungles of Maui.
What have you taken away and learned from this new environmental film?
How has it changed your perception of your connection to your own planet?
Who is our Eywa?
Pandora was an amazing world to experience and thanks to James Cameron we were shown a variety of cultures including Native American, African, Mayan, Maoris as a blending of indigenous tribes of the Earth in the blue coloration of the Na'Vi. Even the chief of the village was a famous Native American actor (Wes Studi) in all the great Indian films.
What the film lacked in original storyline it made up for in visual effects, creative landscapes and a wonderous connection to their vivid intense home planet. Earthlings have come so far from their world that even the jungles scare them, as I can attest to living now in the jungles of Maui.
What have you taken away and learned from this new environmental film?
How has it changed your perception of your connection to your own planet?
Who is our Eywa?
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