Culture Change syndication http://www.culturechange.org/cms Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:55:57 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.culturechange.org/cms/images/M_images/rss20.gif http://www.culturechange.org/cms Culture Change syndication http://www.culturechange.org/cms/content/view/818/65/ Plaintiffs Jan and Darius Lundberg, whose mother was abused, dispossessed and killed, are proceeding with their case against 10 defendants in the Santa Barbara, California region. On January 3rd an Amended Complaint was filed, so defendants -- including the Plaintiffs' actual sister Trilby Lundberg -- are whining and scrambling to justify with paper pleadings their long string of acts that enriched them. The Latest News - Latest News Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:00:06 +0100 http://www.culturechange.org/cms/content/view/817/73/ In the interests of keeping the show on the road and the doors open, we need you as a supportive reader to help Culture Change cover basic costs in February. Here's why: At Culture Change we aren't giving our readers and supporters a part-time, share-our-feelings service. No, we are full-time activists living a low-consumptive, engaged lifestyle. Cutting-edge projects have been our hallmark: Pedal Power Produce, banning plastic bags, depaving, initiating or participating in protests, the Sail Transport Network (STN), multi-media materials and events, arts, networking nonstop, and more -- Sail Transport - Sail Transport Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:43:46 +0100 http://www.culturechange.org/cms/content/view/816/66/ Here are disturbing numbers from the International Energy Agency (IEA) and World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse, by Lester R. Brown, and its excerpt "Governments Spend $1.4 Billion Per Day to Destabilize Climate" released by Earth Policy Institute on Jan. 19, 2012. First, Culture Change provides critical comment: It is a public service that Worldwatch Institute founder Lester Brown, now with his Earth Policy Institute, has helped expose the huge, ongoing financial subsidies to fossil fuels industries. Governments' and corporations' persisting with this policy -- legal corruption of the worst order at a time of out-of-control climate change -- is nothing short of insane or criminal. Energy and Survival - Energy and Survival Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:12:59 +0100 http://www.culturechange.org/cms/content/view/815/68/ [Essay originally published as a chapter in World Without Violence, edited by Arun Gandhi (India: Wiley Eastern Limited/New Age International Limited, 1994)] Nonviolence is a way of life, an external manifestation of an internal peace. Nonviolence is mindfulness and consciousness of the sacred, of the interconnectedness of ourselves with everything and every being. It is an attitude, an awareness, an understanding, a manner of expression and interaction operating from a deep internal integration that honors this sacred interconnectedness. Eco-Activism - Eco-Activism Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:50:43 +0100 http://www.culturechange.org/cms/content/view/813/65/ I've been chasing the Occupy movement around the country, starting in Santa Cruz, then going to Jackson, Michigan, my hometown. Next stop was Detroit. I gambled on the weather and lost. They predicted rain today, but it didn't happen, so I rolled out my bedroll in Detroit, way out Woodward Ave. near Wayne State University and in the bushes next to a Unitarian Church between a couple of buttresses (not the flying kind) that blocked most of the chilly wind. The Latest News - Latest News Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:08:21 +0100 http://www.culturechange.org/cms/content/view/812/69/ The Repression Strengthened Us! - Letter From Bolivia One wrong move, forgetting to take your hat off, the interruption of a phone ringing notwithstanding -- after a spell, a trip to the bank to pay the light bill -- alongside men carrying machine guns -- does get to feel normal. Such a transit of mind is a testimony to the human ability to adapt, yes? -- and I am reminded of a marvelous tale that dear friend Francis Huxley tells. Mundo en Español - Spanish Speaking World - Non-Mexico Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:58:18 +0100 http://www.culturechange.org/cms/content/view/811/63/ [In under 750 words, we identify the problem and perhaps the solution. - Publisher] I cross yet another polluted river, on an Amtrak bus running late again. I look around the river and contemplate what empties into it, as the nearly full moon illuminates the degraded agribusiness landscape. The 101 Freeway through King City, California has the usual number of typical, inefficient vehicles spewing their exhaust, generating brake dust, tire dust, and dripping toxic crankcase oil and other fluids poisoning wildlife and human alike. Health and Petro-addiction - Health and Petro-addiction Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:32:49 +0100 http://www.culturechange.org/cms/content/view/810/65/ If you can picture 15 million barrels of prime Persian Gulf oil each day going through a narrow strait, that of Hormuz, it's not hard to understand that a serious choking action could touch off petrocollapse. That is, if you understand the extreme volatility of the oil market and the potential for a crippling blow to the prevailing just-in-time-delivery system of commerce. Alas, this understanding is not in the mainstream media and usually not even in progressive websites and publications. Almost a year ago, we published (e.g., in Alternet.org) a warning on the implications of the Arab Spring: Arab World's Turmoil May Spell Sudden Petrocollapse (http://www.culturechange.org/cms/content/view/702/1/). The Latest News - Latest News Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:07:41 +0100 http://www.culturechange.org/cms/content/view/809/66/ This report includes the 90 Percent Reduction guidelines for climate protection. Seen on the streets of Santa Cruz while biking on the first day of the new solar year: • A confused plum tree in nearly full flower, thanks to the unusually sunny and dry December. • Three armed guards posted outside the Bank of America having a laid-back talk. • Only two Occupiers at their card table outside the court house, where several dozen had held forth for two months. • Too many cars for oil reality, mostly big ones, polluting around as usual. Energy and Survival - Energy and Survival Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:20:54 +0100 http://www.culturechange.org/cms/content/view/808/65/ Publisher's note: Richard Grossman, researcher, author, teacher and activist, was one of the greats I was fortunate enough to meet and communicate with. He rated as high as possible as a visionary, dedicated organizer, and supporter of kindred environmentalists for social justice. We first met when I heard him speak around 1990 at a Student Environmental Action Coalition conference, and I got his attention by criticizing "the commercial culture." My limited understanding in those days paled in comparison with Richard's. He was of the top echelon of all activists I have known or read about -- at least in terms of my value system. The Latest News - Latest News Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:59:51 +0100