To the Neahtawanta Center
It was great!
7th Great Lakes Bioneers Conference
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NEAHTAWANTA CENTER
Mission Statement
The Neahtawanta Center is a place of gathering and a community of kindred spirits, created to serve people and institutions interested in working toward a sustainable and just society. As a place of gathering, we provide an environment in which people can enjoy, seek wholeness and uncover their own spirituality. As a community, we seek the common good in all we do and believe that the earth and all living beings which inhabit it are fundamentally good.
We believe that the earth can be transformed from a place where excessive suffering is allowed to exist, to a place where harmony, peace and balance is accessible to all. We are committed to bringing about this transformation through partnership with those in our broader community, with a focus on communication, hospitality, education and service.
We dedicate ourselves to living a life of congruence and caring so that we might serve as a model to all those whose lives we touch.
NREC Current Projects
- Co-sponsoring the Great Lakes Bionneers Conference
- Working with the progressive community to help foster communication, cooperation, and collaborative relationships between groups, and between groups and individuals, as we address current issues that affect our community. We host a calendar of progressvies events at TraverseAreaProgressvies.org
- Working with orgnizations and individuals to promote peace -- TraversePeaceAlerts.org
- Working on media; maintaining and creating media for ventingmedia.com
- Maintaining a web hosting service for other non-profit organizations we work with.
Of note from the net
Peter Schiff was right
Gotta hand it to Peter - in hindsight, he was so right and all the others were so wrong in all those TV appearances over the last few years. This is amazing to watch, past news clips from news shows about the financial situation.
Beyond the Bailout: Agenda for a New Economy, by David Korten
The financial crisis has put to rest the myths that our economic institutions are sound and markets work best when deregulated. Our economic institutions have failed, not only financially, but also socially and environmentally. This, combined with the election of a new president with a mandate for change, creates an opportune moment to rethink and redesign.
President Obama's
Big Climate Challenge
As he assumes the presidency, Barack Obama must make climate-change legislation and investment in green energy top priorities. And he must be ready to take bold -- and politically unpopular -- action to address global warming.
by Bill Mckibben
Published on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 by The San Francisco Chronicle
Iraq and Afghanistan War Veterans Join The Homeless, by Anne Sussman
SAN FRANCISCO - Ethan Kreutzer joined the Army at the age of 17 and fought with the 19th Airborne in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. When he retuned home, he had no money, no education and no civilian job experience. He soon became homeless. He slept in an alley off Haight Street, behind two trash cans.
Al Gore Group Urges Obama To Create US Power Grid
by Deborah Zabarenko
WASHINGTON - Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection has some environmental advice for the incoming Obama administration: focus on energy efficiency and renewable resources, and create a unified U.S. power grid.
It Is Time to Change from Fighting Against Something to Fighting for Something
By Van Jones, The Nation. Posted November 7, 2008
To do that we need a broad effort of wise, compassionate forces in society and the enlightened self-interest of the green business community.
The Military Cost of Securing Energy
A look at the past and current consumption of fossil fuel, renewable, and nuclear energy, as well as state specific numbers and actions you can take to achieve national energy security. A snapshot of our nations dependence on fossil fuels and the staggering military cost of defending these sources, as well as state-by-state numbers and suggestions for action.
The Real News Network -- a 4 parts series on the Financial Crisis
• The roots and remedies of the financial crisis.
• The financial crisis at the local level
• The cash-out society
• 'Free markets' depend on state intervention
On the edge of the abyss, by Megan Quinn Bachman
SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA - The backdrop of a financial crash on Wall Street cast a shadow over this year's Association for the Study of Peak Oil - USA conference in Sacramento in late September. Speakers talked of an ominous parallel between the financial crisis and another graver crisis in the making - the coming rapid decline of worldwide oil production, which has stalled after reaching an all-time high more than three years ago.
Citizens in Traverse City Speakout on the Street about the Bush Bailout
350 is the red line for human beings, the most important number on the planet. The most recent science tells us that unless we can reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to 350 parts per million, we will cause huge and irreversible damage to the earth
Environmentalists, Unions Call For Green-Jobs Plan
A new report by an unusual coalition of environmental and labor groups seeks to plant a seed for a national, $100 billion public and private investment in an environmentally friendly, low-carbon economy that would grow 2 million new jobs over two years