I sit here every morning and again as the sun sets. Trying to imprint this image into the very DNA of my soul. So that it becomes timeless.
Hey, everybody. After six hours of writing this post, I JUST LOST THE WHOLE THING.
In a nutshell, here is what I was trying to convey. I came to understand why I am so passionate about the future of the planet.
Here is the meme I had developed.
I just moved upstairs ... and have have found in making such a small change that so much of my focus has shifted.
The image of a young child pulling down those old fashioned stairs to an attic and climbing up, their chin peaking just above the floor, casting a flashlight around and sighting an exquisitely wrapped package. Feeling guilty. Backing down.
And the scents surround me. White Hyancinth. Candle-captured gardenia and tuberose. Verbana. A street in NYC.Body butters. Lime basil and mardarin peony and blush suede.
Remembering as time passed the package, but too afraid to go back and look for it again. And fearing that the package would eventually no longer be there.
A sole begonia stretches to the sun. Unaware it is the only one to survive California's drought. Vibrant. Alive.
And then the hope that these current changes in my life, this shift in focus, would embolden me to open that package. And then I would begin wrapping packages on my own. Saving beautiful things in the hopes that others would discover them and open them and then begin wrapping their own packages.
I often wonder why we aren't more in tune with the Impressionist's mission to evelope the essence of a moment of beauty so that from the background we experience a range of "AHA' moments as here and there one more thing comes more clearly into focus.
And then if we all did this, if we all preserved these precious things, perhaps we could re-generate the world.
Underneath a few of the images I managed to save is a short video about The Venus Project and Cities by the Sea.
The Venus Project: Cities by the Sea
The Venus Project proposes an alternative vision of what the future can be if we apply what we already know in order to achieve a sustainable new world civilization. It calls for a straightforward redesign of our culture in which the age-old inadequacies of war, poverty, hunger, debt and unnecessary human suffering are viewed not only as avoidable, but as totally unacceptable. Anything less will result in a continuation of the same catalogue of problems inherent in today's world. Today many people believe what is needed is a higher sense of ethical standards and the enactment of international laws to assure a sustainable global society.
Real Time Climate News
The current negotiating text for the 2015 UNFCCC Climate Talks suggests a successful treaty, one which would ensure global warming does not exceed 2 degrees Celsius, could require developed countries to attain an 80% reduction in their global greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
While governments have begun filing theirIntended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) prior to the Paris Talks, any treaty ratified by the parties is expected to fall substantially short of meeting these targets.
The year 2050 is a pivotal one in the effort to reverse GHGs and to mitigate or reduce global warming. Unless aggressive action is taken the projected world population of 9.5 billion
“We will see the emergence of novel climates, environments we’ve not seen before in human times, and the extinction of others, around the Arctic and in high Alpine regions,” says Laurence C. Smith, a professor of geography at UCLA and author of The World in 2050. Smith says cities, industry and agriculture may benefit in places such as Canada and Scandinavia, though at some cost in psychological and cultural disruption. “Very bitterly cold winters will be less common in some places,” he says, “but instead of a nice blanket of white snow, they will have slush.” And people who move north for the weather, or for jobs that may open up as the Arctic melts, will discover that climate change doesn’t make the winter nights any shorter.
Solutions
A new report published last month in Nature Climate Change by Australian researches made a significant breakthrough in establishing meaurements for much carbon is being stored in biomass (Link)
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