Blueprint for America's Vision and Fulfillment: Ecologic necessity - woe to them that destroy the earth

Our own modernity has lost its relationship to the wisdom tradition, the seeds of which were carried in the minds and hearts of those who first came to these shores from Europe but were forgotten in the material expansion and success of our empire. If we are seeking to re-mythologize America, it is to capture the last drifting seeds of this wisdom and re-plant them, as it were, in a soil -- our earth -- that is desperate to nourish them -- soon, now.

It seems to me that we are living in a time of prophecy, a time of definitions and decisions. We are the generation with the responsibilities and the option to choose the The Path of Life for the future of our children , or, the life and path which defies the Laws of Regeneration. We can still alter our course. It is NOT too late. We still have options. We need the courage to change our values to the regeneration of our families, the life that surrounds us. Given this opportunity, we can raise ourselves. We must join hands with the rest of Creation and speak of Common Sense, Responsibility, Brotherhood, and PEACE. We must understand that The Law is the Seed and only as True Partners can we survive. Although we are in different boats you in your boat and we in our canoe we share the same river of life. "The environment isn't over here. The environment isn't over there. You are the environment." "If you have a clean environment, you will have a healthy atmosphere. This will make you happy and your happiness will bring joy to your parents and it will affect the community, too. Then there will be peace of mind to one and all." "The young generation can influence their elders and can make them understand the environmental problems that are faced by us today. The youth can make them see that our environment is deteriorating day by day." ...global warming is real. It is imminent. It is upon us. It's a lot closer than you think, and I don't think we're ready for what's coming. We're not instructing our people, we're not instructing our children, we're not preparing for what is coming. And it surely is coming. We've pulled the trigger, and there is nothing we can do now to stop it. The event is underway. The chiefs, and I personally, feel that we have not passed the point of no return. Not yet, but we're approaching it. And the day when we do pass that point, there will be no boom, no sonic sound. It will be just like any other day.

Check out the following for more information:

• Interfaith Moral Action on Climate (IMAC)
• Winona LaDuke :: White Earth Land Recovery Project
• Earth Council Embassy Trust
• Climate Ethics Campaign
• Kate Luckie :: the Soreness of the Land
• Ecologic Wisdom of Aldo Leopold
• National Religious Coalition on Creation Care
• Earth Day Network
• Global Day of Prayer for Creation Care
• Henry David Thoreau :: yogi of Walden Pond

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John McConnell's
Earth Flag

Earth Day Flag

Robert Shepherd comments

My first exposure to the Earth Flag was via a wise, old "Cherokee" named Bishop Whitlock, an acquaintance of Ed Brennan. Whitlock was our pastor in his small but influential "cult" of Deliverance Pentecostalism. In a remote sort of way, Whitlock might have been called a contemporary medicine man, a visionary. Of course his message was all a gospel idiom, thoroughly biblical - American Bible-thumping gospel or 'holy roller' tradition. What follows is a brief overview from Congressman Waxman.

The first Earth Flag was created and copyrighted by John McConnell in preparation for the first Earth Day (also created by him) in San Francisco, in March 1970. The first Earth Day was primarily a Peace Day. Senator Gaylord Nelson was in San Francisco that same year planning the first major Environmental Summit for April 22. Nelson invited McConnell to join forces with him, but McConnell refused because he felt that March 20th, the Vernal Equinox that year, was the more appropriate Earth Day.

Later on, McConnell became active in the United Nations Earth Society Foundation where he met Margaret Mead who really made the Earth Flag the icon it has become. She literally carried it with her wherever she went.

After Ms. Mead's death in 1978, Ed Brennan, who was the president of the Earth Society Foundation, obtained a new copyright to the Earth Flag we use today. In 1995, Brennan (now an independent businessman) sought financial backing to expand the market for the flag. He was not successful, and the company he created fell on hard times.

Later in 1995, Henry Waxman acquired Brennan's copyright by a marketing agreement for flags made per McConnell's design, maintaining its availability. The 2x3 ft flag has a 15 inch diameter Earth image. The 3x5 ft flag is proportionately larger. The smaller flags are sized approximately. The blue shade is a "process" dark blue. Since 1995 were sold about about 1000 to 1200 flags per year. Most of the flags are 3x5 ft, with about 40% in the 2x3 ft size.

This flag was trademarked as The Authentic Earth Flag, but it is usually called The Earth Day Flag. However the copyright holder of the Authentic Earth Flag is not in charge of Earth Day.

NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) was not involved in the copyright agreement because Apollo photos are in the public domain. Anyone can use the image itself. It is only a violation of the copyright if put on a flag. The copyright extends to any dark blue flag with a centered photo image of the earth, even in variations (of shades and sizes) that are not actually sold by the copyright holders.

Henry A. Waxman (Earth Flag Ltd.), Jun 1999

A "Father" to the modern "Climate Change" movement? Maybe not completely. It was the Oscar-winning 2006 documentary with Al Gore giving a slide show, "An Inconvenient Truth," that catapulted him into winning the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, which he shared with fellow climate activists of the UN Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change.

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Aaron Paquette Art
(and insights)

The world around us is filled with everything we need if we are quiet and know how to listen, we will hear the heartbeat - the rhythm - the whispered song.

Wakan Tanka
The Great Unseen

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