-- FOR AMISH EYES ONLY --
Hey Everybody!
I see you couldn't help yourselves, looking anyway, and I hope those of you you couldn't help yourselves at least get the joke about making an internet conversation for Amish eyes only...
Anyway...
I've got a lot of cool ideas that I'm bringing back to the midwest from Louisiana and I would like to have more conversations with other people with a serious desire to save the world. Not themselves. Not society. Not humanity. Not history. The World. The Earth.
It might help to know what I think constitutes 'saving the world'.
I think change has come. Quite literally, for us westerners, hasn't it?
And so for me, ten years of changing minds has culminated to this. I started out in 1999, and here it is 2009, and I just couldn't have seen this coming. A world that defies death, that struggles on, but without the will or energy or happenstance, many accept what is handed to them and reliquish choice for status quo and security.
Without the telepathic gorilla, security might mean a lot less to me than it does today.
Now, with a breath of fresh air, changing the world now means changing the actual world, the actual terrain. Changeing and saving has meant for me for so long these mountains I just didn't have the gear, yet, to climb. Now I see the links how the security of the biosphere can also produce security for the family, directly and indirectly.
I have seen so much in the possibility of getting groups together to replant wetlands and trees and such.
I have healed and counseled many through the catharsis of working in the hot sun not for money, not for the self, but for the earth.
We have new opportunities to expediate the healing of our planet.
Do you want to join us?
tonyzeb(at)gmaildotcom
--TonyZ
I have spent a lot of time
Submitted by Tony on Fri, 2009-02-20 19:55.
I have spent a lot of time working with regular folks in the Louisiana bayou who depend on the security of their land to make a livingt and to have a tradition that has been passed on since those central american 'rebels' moved to the north and built those first north american mounds at Poverty Point.
This ancient way of life, working the bountiful Mississippi delta, is coming to a close thanks to short sighted security measures.
Strong levees send land-forming silt out to the bottom of the gulf, allowing tidal erosion to nick away everyday (one footballfield of land a day) at this way of life.
One third of american seafood comes from this dying land. So it's not jsut the Cajun way that is dying, but the american way, as well. And they couldn't overfish it if they tried, the land is too rugged, but not rugged enough to stand up to the oil and gas channels which aggravete tidal erosion, all in the name of energy security.
A light reading of this material is found in "Bayou Farell" by Mike Tidwell, a New York outsider trying to get a perspective on this crisis.
There is direct action being taken everyday. But without holistic approaches, some of these efforts have already been in vain. I have seen 10,000 plugs of spartina grass planted by volunteers float out into the gulf because of tidal erosion:( But I have seen many more volunteer efforts create marsh where there was only waters edge or dried mud.
I have a plan! hahaha! NO, I have a history that I want to share with you all.
This history is a history of ecowarriors taking things into their own hands, but cooperating, and having wonderous results.
And I want Ishthinkers to be a part of this. Help them create their own history of fighting the good fight against erosion of land and ways of life. ANd I think together, as we mutate this ecowarrior metaorganism, we will revive older histories and write new ones.
This is our moment, to be leaders. But, as I saw on a Barack Obama poster in WalMart, leadership is defined as the degree to which the leader empowers others.
I believe the story as it is being told now by thousands of ecowarriors has only begun to unfold.
Who will join us?
Nice
"Without the telepathic gorilla, security might mean a lot less to me than it does today."
I agree, without the gorilla security would probably take on slightly different meaning for me, too. I'm especially seeing this as I work my way through DEEP ECONOMY, by Bill McKibben.
Curt