Lew Welch

Step out onto the planet.

Draw a circle a hundred feet round. 

Inside are three hundred things nobody understands, and, maybe, nobody's ever really seen.

 

How many can you find?

 

 

Today’s Green Thought comes from the American ‘beat’ poet Lew Welch (1926 — May 23, 1971?) 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lew_Welch

Greenpeace - Exxon Valdez

It wasn't the Exxon Valdez captain's driving that caused the Alaskan oil spill.  It was yours.

 

a Greenpeace advertisement in the New York Times of 25^th  February 1990.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenpeace

http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/

Andrew McLaughlin - ‘Regarding Nature : Industrialism and Deep Ecology’

Unless we find effective ways of curtailing our numbers, all hopes of creating decent human societies, much less ones that allow the rest of nature to flourish, will be frustrated…….We are in danger of becoming a lonely but numerous species, scratching away at increasingly harsh and dusty Earth, eking out a livelihood that is increasingly more difficult to secure.

 

Today’s Green Thought comes from Andrew McLaughlin’s 1993 book ‘Regarding Nature : Industrialism and Deep Ecology’.

http://blogs.stuzog.com/dandeliontimes/recommended-reading/

Hazel Henderson

“The problem is, of course, that not only is economics bankrupt but it has always been nothing more than politics in disguise … economics is a form of brain damage.”

This weeks Green Thought comes from the American futurist, economist and author Hazel Henderson. Hazel is described as a futurist and an economic iconoclast.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazel_Henderson

http://www.hazelhenderson.com/index.html

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