Wilhelm Ostwald - Der energetische Imperitiv

The unexpected legacy of fossil fuels leads us to lose sight of the principle of a durable economy, which needs to be based exclusively on the regular influx of energy from the sun’s radiation.

 

This weeks Green Thought comes from the 1912 book ‘Der energetische Imperitiv’ by Wilhelm Ostwald, Nobel Prize for Chemistry, 1909.

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

 

Paul Shepard - ‘Coming Home to the Pleistocene’

 

In the absence of some new synthesis that rejoins us to our natural heritage, the world of corporate organisation pushes us towards the degenerating process of conformity, the frenzied outbreak of genetic engineering, and the pied piper’s technological tootle leading down the “information highway” toward the “networked” insanity that confuses electronic regurgitation with wisdom. This circuit-sedative turns into entertainment junkies hooked without reprieve to the economic machine and its media, a new level of confusion between reality and virtual reality.

This weeks Green Thoughts are taken from Paul Shepard’s 1998 book  ‘Coming Home to the Pleistocene’.

 

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

http://www.primitivism.com/nature-madness.htm

http://paulhoweshepard.wordpress.com/

 

Paul Watson

What we need if we are to survive is a new story, a new myth, and a new religion. We need to replace anthropocentrism with biocentrism. We need to construct a religion that incorporates all species and establishes nature as sacred and deserving of respect.

 

This weeks Green Thought come from  Paul Watson a Canadian animal rights and environmental activist, who was an early, influential, and outspoken member of Greenpeace and later founded the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Watson

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Shepherd_Conservation_Society

Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje

…..we cannot wait for governments to act. The environmental emergency is too urgent a crisis for us to wait …..Every individual must act to protect the environment, and immediately. Each of us has a responsibility to act so we can leave a lasting home for future generations.

 

The August entry in the Tibetan Buddhist 17^th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje in ‘ Cherish the Earth’ the 2015 Environment Calendar.

 

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

http://kagyuoffice.org/