How to End a Song: Branding Sacrifice - Willi Paul & PlanetShifter.com Magazine
Sacrifice (from a Middle English verb meaning "to make sacred", from Old French, from Latin sacrificium: sacr, "sacred" + facere, "to make") is commonly known as the practice of offering food, objects (typically valuables), or the lives of animals or people to the gods as an act of... Read more
Abraham Lincoln
1861-1865 http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/abrahamlincoln/ http://www.nps.gov/linc/ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/08/books/review/Safire-t.html?_r=1&ref=review Lincoln warned the South in his Inaugural Address: "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine,... Read more
The Reservoir: Rock Music and Mythology - by Willi Paul, PlanetShifter.com Magazine
The Reservoir: Rock Music and Mythology By Willi Paul, PlanetShifter.com Magazine "Evil hearted women, man they" will not let me be .... I love my baby, my baby don't love me..." "Kindhearted Woman Blues" is a piece of rock music history by wailin' Robert Johnson, one of rock's mythic heroes. He... Read more
Transition United States
http://transitionus.ning.com/ Tackling Climate Change and Peak Oil. Bringing the Head, Heart and Hands of Communities together to make the transition to life beyond oil. is a non-profit organization whose mission is to catalyze, inspire, encourage, network, support and train... Read more
Sustained Vision - The Bay Area Green Business Program
Interview with Pam Evans, Coordinator Alameda Co. Green Business Program http://www.greenbiz.ca.gov/index.html by Willi Paul The Bay Area Green Business Program (GBP) verifies that businesses meet higher standards of environmental performance. Our partnership of government agencies and utilities... Read more
Speaking Out at the Dinner Table
Sometimes, I can't help but feeling that I'm Living a life of illusion And oh, why can't we let it be And see through the hole in this wall of confusion I just can't help but feeling I'm living a life of illusion Pow, right between the eyes Oh how nature loves her little surprises Wow, it all seems... Read more
Punching Out Daddy's Great White Killing Machine: The National Priorities Project
Please download the National Priorities Project attached PDF $1 Trillion and Counting..., The Nation. Jo Comerford: The $1 trillion we have spent on war since 9/11 has placed enormous stress on our recession-struck economy. Today, US forces are profoundly engaged in both Iraq and Afghanistan, with... Read more
Foodzie - an online farmers market
January 16, 2009, 10:55 AM NYT By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/16/an-online-farmers-market/ The local food movement has been all about buying seasonal food from nearby farmers. Now, thanks to the Web, it is expanding to include far-away farmers too. A new... Read more
The Shaman in the Sea – Past Future PlanetShifter.com
Is there a Shaman within you? In days gone by, shamans were rare and unique individuals with special powers (to heal, teach & guide) and special access to the spirit world that were not available to ordinary mortals. However, in the latter part of the twentieth century, shamans in many... Read more
Red, White and RadioActive: Taxpayers Bail-out Nuclear Power in 2010
Source First it was insurance companies, then it was banks. and that was followed by auto companies. Now, the federal government is putting U.S. taxpayers and utility customers at new risk under a controversial U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) loan guarantee program that is slated to award... Read more
Will barter faires become the new green Wal-mart or E-Bay?
The New Barter Brigade by Willi Paul "Bartering is a medium in which goods or services are directly exchanged for other goods and/or services without a common unit of exchange (without the use of money). It can be bilateral or multilateral, and usually exists parallel to monetary systems in most... Read more
E-Waste Not
GOING GREEN By BRYAN WALSH Thursday, Jan. 08, 2009 http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1870485,00.html Even though holiday sales were down at least 2% from 2007, millions of Americans awoke Christmas morning to new computers, TVs and iPhones. (I didn't, but thanks for the... Read more