Essays

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The Big Myth - World Creation Mythology Resources for Our Sustainability Age. Presented by PlanetShifter.com Magazine

It's through myths that we can answer these and other fundamental questions:

* How was the universe created, and why?

* What is the purpose of evil in the world?

* Why is human society organized the way it is?

* How did natural features like rivers, mountains, and oceans emerge?

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Ursula Le Guin Channels Willi Paul: Xtra Imaginary Friends. Presented by PlanetShifter.com Magazine

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Benjamin Franklin joins Junto, mandates deeper tele-presence and understanding between Net citizens. By David Metcalfe, Sr. Writer at PlanetShifter.com Magazine

"Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers. " - Victor Hugo

“Junto is a discussion format originated by Benjamin Franklin which we have generously remixed ...for collaborative telepresent dialogue.” - Gabriel Shalom

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Earth First! - Deep Ecology is the spiritual and visceral recognition of the intrinsic, sacred value of every living thing. EcoAd by PlanetShifter.com Magazine

Are you tired of namby-pamby environmental groups? Are you tired of overpaid corporate environmentalists who suck up to bureaucrats and industry? Have you become disempowered by the reductionist approach of environmental professionals and scientists?

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Mixing alchemy and Mythology - Symbols and Spirit.
A PlanetShifter.com Magazine [ open myth source ]

I. Ancient Alchemy Signs and Symbols

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On Survival, Survivalists and the New Community Cook-out. Group Interview from the Sustainability Age with Rachel Kaplan, Jan Steinman, Catherine Walker, and Pride Wright by PlanetShifter.com Magazine

“Transition US is definitely NOT a survivalist group!” Raven Grey, Co-founder & President, Transitions US

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Introduction: Jan Steinman, EcoReality.org -

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Ocean Habitats and Recycled Plastic Islands - On the Beach with PlanetShifter.com at recycledisland.com

The main characteristics of the island are summarized:

1. Realized from the plastic waste in our Oceans. This will clean our Oceans intensely and it will change the character of the plastic waste from garbage to building material. The gathering of the plastic waste will become a lot more attractive.

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Water purification, nutritious food, mosquito netting, affordable housing, and a pair of shoes. PlanetShifter.com Magazine is down with Chicago Sustainability Designer Karen Kranz.

Generation Green is not an age group. It’s not about politics or personality, demographics or geography. It’s all of us. You are Generation Green, and we want to know:

What are you doing to redefine our future?
- USGBC

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Designing for ownership to designing for sharing

As designers, we are infatuated with well designed stuff, whatever medium; web, product, signage, marketing material. When we find stuff that is well designed, we have a moment of "I wish I designed that" and then we want to tell our friends and fellow designers -- and now our Twitter followers -- about it. It makes us feel less greedy, but also gratified since we found it first.

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Monsanto to Pay $2.5M Penalty for Misbranded Cotton Seed

Monsanto has agreed to pay a $2.5 million penalty for violating a U.S. pesticide law. The agreement resolves misbranding violations related to the sale and distribution of cotton seed products containing genetically engineered pesticides, reports the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

This is the largest civil administrative penalty settlement ever received under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), according to the EPA.

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How to End a Song: Branding Sacrifice - Willi Paul & PlanetShifter.com Magazine

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How to Design and Build Future Sustainable Cities Using BIM

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BP is burning sea turtles alive

A rare and endangered species of sea turtle is being burned alive in BP's controlled burns of the oil swirling around the Gulf of Mexico, and a boat captain tasked with saving them says the company has blocked rescue efforts.

Mike Ellis, a boat captain involved in a three-week effort to rescue as many sea turtles from unfolding disaster as possible, says BP effectively shut down the operation by preventing boats from coming out to rescue the turtles.

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Is your online community editing your blog posts to suit their profit motive after you submit them? This is common practice at SustainLane!

Yesterday I discovered that one of my several re-post blog communities, SustainLane, has been ripping-out content from my titles, namely "PlanetShifter.com" so as not to give me complete credit for my work. SustainLane is clearly getting their share of goodies from my 83 posts since March 2010 and has never sent me notice of this manipulation or Terms of Use Agreement.**

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Freedom From Limiting Beliefs

Here is a creative exercise to achieve freedom from limiting or highly-charged beliefs:

1. Isolate your negative belief.

2. Express your negative reality in art: write a poem, paint a painting, compose a musical piece, write a play or short story.

Allow it full expression, paint the darkest picture you can.

3. Write the essence of the belief (and history) you want to dump on small pieces of paper.

4. Keep these papers with you. Look at them every day.

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The Shaman in the Sea – Past Future PlanetShifter.com

Is there a Shaman within you?

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EPA announces $10 million for Communities to Combat Climate Change

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is making available up to $10 million in grants to local governments to establish and carry out initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Under the Climate Showcase Communities program, EPA expects to award approximately 25 cooperative agreements ranging from $100,000 to $500,000, with approximately five percent of the funds ($500,000) being made available specifically for tribal governments.

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NEW MYTHS FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM

If there is anything we have plenty of in the postmodern world, it is belief systems. But we also have something else: a growing suspicion that all belief systems -- all ideas about human reality -- are social constructions. This is a story about stories, a belief about belief, and in time -- probably a very short time -- it will become a central part of the worldview of most people.

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Assembling Larger Entities from Smaller Components: The PlanetShifter.com Magazine & Networks GreenBusiness Interview with West Coast Green Education Director Andy Mannle

Hi Willie, here's my answers. Looks like you've interviewed two friends of mine, Miguel Elliott and John Marshal Roberts.

Nice work. Cheers, Andy

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Throwing Away our R&D: Counterfeiting in China. BusinessNews from PlanetShifter.com Magazine & Networks

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Ralph Lauren’s Fading Jeans in our Sustainable Age. Commentary by Willi Paul - PlanetShifter.com Magazine & Networks

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Raising Capital for a CleanTech China: The PlanetShifter.com Magazine & Networks Interview with Mohamed Jarraya, Future Trends International

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“Is God a Green Woman?” Discussion from LinkedIn Think Green Group based on The PlanetShifter.com Network Interview with Rianne C. ten Veen, Islam & Environment Specialist - Faith & Climate Change Project

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KyotoUSA Communiqué: Energy and Power Politics, May 2010. GreenNews from PlanetShifter.com Networks

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China vs. India in the Global GreenTech Race: The PlanetShifter.com Networks Interview with Qatar Green Consultant Shamik Bhattacharya

Dear Willi, Greetings!!

Well let’s see the bigger picture. Does GREEN CHINA help all of us? The idea has to be a GREENER world for tomorrow. If ASIA has to be GREEN then it’s not just CHINA but all of them. Now among front running economies China along with India should lead the show. They are giants and investor has been fairly aggressive in both the countries until now.