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William Paul, Owner and Executive Producer of PlanetShifter.com
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William Paul is Owner and Executive Producer of PlanetShifter.com and the upcoming eMagazine GreenCatcherUnion.com. Mr. Paul is Director of Sustainability for Zero Waste Solutions in Newark, CA. His Commentary and novel project can be read at http://www.articlegarden.com/sustainable-business-strategies/index.php and his professional portfolio is located here: willipaul.com
His recent consulting work includes:
Sustainable Ventures, Berkeley, CA
Project Manager for NPO Transition Team
Contribute to Columbia Foundation Grant
Design effective ways to work together
Online Forum Design and Moderation (phpBB)
Update Sustainable Knowledge Base
Design Press Release Template
Update Web Site
HBSC, Brisbane, CA
Web Content Editor and Illustration Designer for new Greentech consulting division
Advisory Board Positions
Shades of Green, Huntington Beach, CA (current)
GreenRock.org, Bermuda (current)
ZeroWasteSolutions.com
Memberships
Strategic Sustainability Consulting Network
LinkedIn.com Green Group
Sustainable Business Alliance
Open Sustainability Network
Bay Area Green Business Program
The Bay Area Alliance for Sustainable Communities
Education
Ph.D. Student - Environmental Design and Planning, Virginia Tech, 1998-1999
M.A. - Urban & Regional Studies, Urban & Regional Studies Institute, Mankato State University, May 1997
A.A. - Architectural Technology Certificate, Minneapolis Technical College, March 1995
B.S. - Biology / Environmental Law, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, December 1981
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Queries on Heart
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Why do we imagine? What is this energy? Is it a common pool, a loving transaction? How long has art been around?
What artifacts have you placed here? Are they ours?
Why are dolphins our "sea equals?" What function does this thought serve? Do your thoughts serve your heart?
Aliens are popular now, why? Are we making faces at God? with God? or are we calling up great change, in search of a cosmic template?
Why can't this template be you?
We do not have to resign and wait for our children's' children. The love that visualizes a better world for everyone is here, now.
Jesus, Buddha, Luke,... the Force has arrived, and it is us.
The art of imaging peace bonds our fragile spirit to a system of love. Love, Super Love, ...imagine this reach.
[ from the self-published book of poems called: billy sent me by william george paul, 1991 ]
Back in 1991, I could not foresee the pending green gloom of the Green Movement and it's cast of merry soil grinding characters like Gore, Palin, Bush and Begley, Jr.
We seem to be saying the same things over and over; we are re-runs that want to wallow in routine. Dumbed-down with SUV excuses, remote controlled attention spans, a fast food spirituality. Are we buying the same old green crap now: green soap and soy ham?
I sense that a dangerous wave of false creativity is now entrenched here – capped by our capricious capitalist bent for profit.
We are a dying human race, channeled by the negative, instead of simplifying, localizing and re-humanizing our children and their game boy visions and Facebook dart throw pinup on the Internet silliness.
How do we become imaginary beings again?
It's now 2008 and I call for Wonderment!
Wonderment is defined by Wiki as a state of awe, surprise or astonishment; a puzzle or curiosity; and arousal by something strange and surprising.
Where is this force called wonderment? What I called a cosmic template back in 1991?
Love.
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Comments
Despite the "Facts", Try to stay positive...
Graham Nash sang in the early 70's:
We can change the world
rearrange the world
it's dying...
it's dying...
it's dying...
to get better!
Jesse Jackson used to chant:
Keep hope alive!
I'm going to keep trying as long as there is a breath left in my body!
Mike Morin
bring balance back to the universe
I have contemplated all these things for a while.
Often times this feeling of "wonderment" or "realization" is of something that only makes sense but not many people want to hear or have time for.
Everything is connected. EVERYTHING!
I believe Human Beings play an essential role in bringing back the balance to the universe. Starting with our home earth.
We all have the power to do this, we just don't all know it yet.
why are we not in balance with our environment?
people say it's human nature.
we have discovered that we are animals, mammals, hot blooded organizms which evolved over millions of years to become this what we are now.
We always lived in balance with earth.
Animals live in balance with earth and when they begin to tip the balance, some how something else on earth regulates it.
When an animal from other continent far away from an environment gets introduced it causes in-balance.
However, no animal other than human beings change the nature of the earth's inventory in such a way that it becomes un-livable and completely toxic to it's own kind. This is not the behavior of a creature evolving and living in it's own environment.
Most animals do not make a conscious attempt to hang around where destructive materials to their species are present. Human beings surround ourselves with them in everything we do and then try to forget about it... WHY IS THAT?
Does it mean we are just absurd? Does it mean logic doesn't exist or that we are in fact the most least intelligent species on the planet?!
Do our big brains make us totally stupid?
Some 90% of people act like it.
But I don't think so.
And I certainly never just disregard any body's opinion as simply stupid.
So if we are not really just a completely idiotic species then what happened?
This brings me to the now obvious conclusion that something else must have been introduced into our culture. From some where else.
When, what exactly is it and why?
How did we manage to get this way?
The differences between us and other animal life that we currently are publicly aware of are not all necessarily negative. Not at all. We do one thing we often don't see in other species of life.
Make complicated tools.
This includes Art. ...