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Water!
Did anyone hear Maude Barlow on Democracy Now! last week? Her forthcoming book is "Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water"? What are your thoughts on the state of fresh water in North America and how wantonly wasteful the western world is while developing countries are being squeezed by rapacious multi-national corporations charging usuriously for it.
Every 8 seconds a child dies due to poor/tainted/polluted drinking water.
And then there is bottled water: 8.8 Billion bottles sold around the world each year.
This is a massively large topic but is one that deserves to be here. March 16-22 is World Water Week.
I am teaching a class I call "Gaia's Body: Developing Intimacy with the Earth and Discovering the Magick of Ecology" which embraces Earth Science as a means of deeping earth based spirituality and moving one to activism. Each month we look at a different aspect of our biosphere: Geology/lithosphere and plate techtonics, weather/climate and the air we breath, the Waters of the world from the cryosphere to watersheds and the hydrological cycle, and Food/Energy/the plant world around us.
This month we are examining water.
Every 8 seconds a child dies due to poor/tainted/polluted drinking water.
And then there is bottled water: 8.8 Billion bottles sold around the world each year.
This is a massively large topic but is one that deserves to be here. March 16-22 is World Water Week.
I am teaching a class I call "Gaia's Body: Developing Intimacy with the Earth and Discovering the Magick of Ecology" which embraces Earth Science as a means of deeping earth based spirituality and moving one to activism. Each month we look at a different aspect of our biosphere: Geology/lithosphere and plate techtonics, weather/climate and the air we breath, the Waters of the world from the cryosphere to watersheds and the hydrological cycle, and Food/Energy/the plant world around us.
This month we are examining water.
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Permalink Reply by Jeffrey V. on -
3/21/2008 - The Santa Fe Watershed Association and the City of Santa Fe are looking for volunteers to help plant 2,000 willows along the Santa Fe River from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at San Ysidro Park in recognition of World Water Day
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Permalink Reply by Chantal on -
Hi everyone,
After several fruitless discussions on proper online etiquette, Paul has been removed from this online community.
This conversation thread may now seem odd with gaps where his comments were automatically deleted upon the removal of his profile.
Thanks for understanding.
Chantal
Bioneers webmaster
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Permalink Reply by Afriendof B on -
Thanks Chantal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is an important topic, but I had given up on this conversation. Hope we can get back to what we really need to talk about.
Cheers,
B
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Permalink Reply by Brenda on -
Happy to know there is proper "online etiquette" here at Bioneers. We all have mutural beliefs about taking care of our planet and making productive changes for our environment. Its a great place for ongoing communication and I've gathered insightful information from everyones conversations. Glad we can continue to do so and stay on the subject we're addressing.
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Permalink Reply by Melissa MoonGoddess on -
Merci beaucoup pour faire le tout, Chantal!!
Now back to our regularly scheduled discussion of Water: privitization, corporatization, dam(n)ification, usurpation, pollution, conservation, the list goes on...
and ...
How we can take it back and heal the waters, and claim the common right of all to water!!
Again, thank you, Chantal!
May all the waters run wild, pure and free!
Melissa
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Permalink Reply by teogr on
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Hi Melissa et al,
I just finished a post about the same topic and referenced the interview with Barlow on Alternet. I'll dig up her interview with Amy Goodman when I get a chance.
I hope your class is going well - it sounds interesting.
Teo
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