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Human rights activist since 1985. Live in Johannesburg, South Africa. My blog name is based on my first two names. Love and kindness are the most important things. Activist, producer, humanist, mom, Africa-lover, Quaker-Buddhist, knitter, global villager, optimist, obsessive reader, Facebook addict (and not necessarily in that order...)
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Kairos Southern Africa's Response to Palestine Kairos

The Palestine Chronicle: A Leading Online Newspaper on Palestine, Israel and the Middle East

mementomarie: ca. 1858, “Red Riding Hood No. 3”, Henry Peach Robinson

mementomarie:


ca. 1858, “Red Riding Hood No. 3”, Henry Peach Robinson

(via fuckyeahvictorians)

The Energy [R]evolution will not be televised. | from Greenpeace

Lots of facts that can be tweeted here

Greenpeace Field team finds high levels of contamination outside of Fukushima evacuation zone | Home page

blackbondbooks: Isn’t this the most lovely book shelf EVER?!

blackbondbooks:

Isn’t this the most lovely book shelf EVER?!

powells: wnycradiolab: Whoa, sculpted books! More here. Whoa, indeed.

powells:

wnycradiolab:

Whoa, sculpted books! More here.

Whoa, indeed.

Woodbrooke Good Lives Project (its blog)

Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre in Birmingham, UK: Working on the social, community, psychological and spiritual dimensions of climate change, peak oil, and sustainability.

A book - Engaging Voices: Tales of Morality and Meaning in an Age of Global Warming By Roger S. Gottlieb

Our ecological dilemmas provoke powerful emotions and deeply contested views. How should we think about them? And how can we live together, or even talk together, when we cannot listen to people who think differently?

In a lively and at times very funny book, Roger S. Gottlieb (A Greener Faith, This Sacred Earth, A Spirituality of Resistance) explores these questions in a collection of distinct but related philosophical short stories. Fictional characters with personalities, individual histories, and strong opinions wrestle with the meaning of life, the value of nature, animal rights, the roles of science and religion in environmentalism, and political choices facing environmental activists—as well as their own anger, fear, despair, and close-mindedness. Encountering forcefully articulated positions and engaging characters, readers will be moved to reconsider their own beliefs—and to examine personal barriers to truly listening to those “on the other side.”

Goodbye to an Ideological Century

Each day brings fresh evidence that we are leaving the 20th century behind. One of that century’s most pervasive conceits was that we could manage our world as if it were a household or some other human institution subject to comprehensive authority and rules imposed by us. We spent most of the century arguing over different management schemes, while a rearguard of classical liberals and libertarians gradually lost the fight for a more open-ended perspective: one less reliant on prophylactic regulation and less complacent about guaranteed outcomes.

Tikkun: to Heal, to Fix

Responding to the tragedies of Japan and to tragedy and suffering world over with the call of Tikkun to be co-creative evolutionary partners with the divine.

Being Blog: Radioactive: The Modern-Day Science and Spiritualism of Marie and Pierre Curie

beingblog:

by Jill Schneiderman, guest contributor

A Page from Lauren Redniss' "Radioactivity"
A page from Lauren Redniss’ book “Radioactive.”

Radioactivity. Life. Death. These are front-and-center in my thoughts these days as I contemplate the fallout from the nuclear plant meltdown generated by power outages, triggered by a…

Being: "The Robotic Moment" from Alone Together | Sherry Turkle in Alive Enough? Reflecting on Our Technology

Sherry Turkle’s fascinating story from Alone Together of her daughter’s idea of authenticity and idea of being “alive enough” at a Darwin exhibit.

Scientists find physical clutter negatively affects your ability to focus, process information.

beingblog:

A Culture of Availability to Everybody But Yourself?
Trent Gilliss, Online Editor

Perhaps this TEDtalk gets at the heart of the matter. In the second half of our upcoming show with Jon Kabat-Zinn (first available in podcast on Thursday morning), he argues, to some degree, that the accelerated pace of technology and its significance in our lives doesn’t allow us to be mindful, to live in the present. All this communication and digital connectedness actually creates an inner dissonance — a disconnectedness with our own selves.

One memorable moment in Krista’s interview: Kabat-Zinn describes a person viewing a sunset. Instead of simply taking it in, he says, we either are thinking about how we might write about it (or perhaps tweet or blog it), or, that certain somebody standing next to you actually has to gab away and tell you how gorgeous it is — which completely removes you from the moment of recognition and contemplation. In other words, we have this compulsion to do something with the moment in order to make it meaningful. We are not being mindful.

In the video above, the presenter includes a couple images that capture something that Kabat-Zinn is getting at. In one photo, a girl is actually extending her arm with her camera while kissing her boyfriend. But, it looks awkward, inauthentic, dispassionate because you can tell her real interest is in telling the later story. Her body, her eyes, her lips are oriented more toward the iris of the lens than the irises of the boy. And, in another intimate setting of a public nature, a crowd of onlookers are almost all holding up their devices capturing the moment while the Obamas stand on stage in celebration.

I’m guilty of both, and then some. You?

Renny Gleeson wraps it up quite succinctly in his post-event blog post:

With all this connection comes the danger that in our mad rush to be everywhere, we end up nowhere. That the technology we use to connect, actually separates and isolates.

Kabat-Zinn isn’t necessarily gloomy about the technology onslaught though. He notes that the steep learning curve in learning how to deal with and incorporate this availability into our lives will be achieved. We, as individuals and as a society, just may have to bottom out first in order to create the balance within.

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