Be afraid, be very, very afraid for ALL of creation

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PLEASE, PLEASE play the above Video. 99% of it is in English. then log on to http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0101-02.htm Thankyou.

So 'scientists' and 'experts' say global warming is a myth...

My father, who was a heavy smoker, (I haven't even tried one) died from smoking induced lung cancer in 1965. For many, many years afterwards 'scientists' and 'experts' were telling us that "there was no link between smoking and lung cancer." The same popular and widely promoted 'scientific' and 'expert' attitude applies to GM, (read my note on the right) saturated fats, childhood cancer clusters around nuclear power stations etc, etc. To put it simply some 'scientists' and 'experts' are telling us now, as we were told then, to ignore the results of our own eyes, but as the old saying goes, if it looks like a cow, moo's like a cow, and smells like a cow then it is a cow. This time I hope and pray that as far as Global Warming is concerned and GM as well, people in general won't be fooled by 'scientists' and 'experts' who have accepted the pieces of silver again.

Earthship UK. A simpler way of living comes to England.

The concept of an ‘Earthship’ is one of complete sustainability, an independent building that is able to produce it’s own energy and clean water. Pioneered by Michael Reynolds, author and builder of self-sufficient homes the ‘Earthships’ are built using recycled materials and can be constructed without any specialist expertise. These low impact buildings have already been built in the United States and Scotland but for the first time an ‘Earthship’ is being built in Brighton, a city on the South Coast of England.

Consisting mainly of car tyres packed with soil the structure of an earthship is virtually indestructible as well as being a highly effective insulator. The interior walls are constructed with a mixture of cement, bottles and tin cans and the south-facing wall is normally glassed, all ways in which the eathships design reduces the need for heating.

The Brighton earthship is the first of it’s kind in England and was created by the Low Carbon Network, a not-for-profit organisation that aims to raise awareness about ways to reduce carbon emissions. Built in Stanmer Park it’s is completely self sustainable and is designed as an example of ways to combat both the rising carbon emissions levels and the problem of disposing with car tyres. I think that the man who had 'no place to lay his head' (Luke 9:58) would approve.

To learn more please contact the Low Carbon Network. www.lowcarbon.co.uk

Food for thought...

Our children and grandchildren will inherit an Earth with less than 20 per cent of its original forests still intact, with most of the readily available freshwater already spoken for, with most of the wetlands and reef systems either destroyed or degraded. Sooner or later a more frugal lifestyle will not only be desirable it will become an imperative.

Why not plant a tree?

Christian teaching is full of references to trees, The Tree of the Cross, The Tree of Life, Jesus homeland was refered to in Deuteronomy as "a land of Olive Trees," and, of course, Jesus is refered to as a carpenter.

Almost half the world's forests are now gone, and with deforestation even this figure is dwindling daily. So why not plant a tree? Plant as a commemoration of a special event, a birth, (so the child and the tree can grow together) an anniversary, a birthday as a thanksgiving or as a memorial to someone.

If you can, chose a local variety tree, so the indigenous wildlife will thrive upon it. If you don't have a garden, is there a place nearby where you can plant one and help to break free of the Tarmac, Asphalt and plastic culture of today's world?

I remember when I was about ten, a girl in my class at school, whose parents had no real garden, planted a tree in the local park for her, and no, they did not ask if they could! My fellow classmate was so exited over the years about 'her' tree that had now grown and was doing well. I have often wondered if she took her children and perhaps now takes her grandchildren to see the living proof of their great grandparents love for her.

9.5 oz of rubbish!

This is our last weeks waste and I am sorry to say that it's all plastic. It is the least amount of waste we have had so far, all the rest of the weeks waste has been recycled, but it would be great to get it down a zero amount. I will keep trying!

It sounds like a Hollywood Blockbuster script!

The photo is of Ben and Charlotte Hollins with their late father Arthur Hollins.

An elderly organic tenant farming pioneer (Arthur Hollins) with a younger wife and two teenage children, a brother and sister (Ben and Charlottie) dies and the family are faced with eviction unless they can raise £800,000 pounds (about $1,600,000) to buy the farm. A farm with its dilapidated farmhouse which first suffered from competition from multi-national companies and then from the threat of local land developers.

The two set about doing this and launch a nationwide appeal for a ground breaking community ownership scheme. The scheme is publicised world-wide, over 8,000 people, including Sting and Prince Charles sign up, the money is raised in the nick of time and the two become the tenants of the farm. Many volunteers turn up to help out with the farm work and organisation and Ben and Charlotte fall in love with two of the volunteers. The farm then becomes a centre of excellence, with a nature trail, on-line shop, educational facilities, and ties with the probation service; play festivals at the farm etc.

All it seems to need is Renée Zellweger and Hugh Grant, but the above is not fiction, the story of Fordhall Farm is fact and shows what can be achieved, just what support and concern there is world-wide for such initiatives and that there are really a lot of amazing, kind and caring people out there. http://www.fordhallfarm.com/

The world's vanishing great lakes...

The pictures show at the top, a stranded fishing boat on what was the bed of the Aral Sea, in the centre a map of Lake Chad as it was five years ago, you can see the lakes old outline, it's worse now, and at the bottom a small sailing boat on the drying Lake Mead in America. You can see the old Lake Mead levels on what was the shore behind the boat.

When I was at school I was taught of the world's great lakes, the inland seas that were the very heart of the countries and the comunities that lived on their shores. Two of the biggest then were the Aral Sea, in the Old Rusia, and Lake Chad in Africa; today they are all but gone.

The facts have to be faced. People may not believe in Global warming but the world's population has a problem looming. In the parts of the UK we have, in the last few years, faced drying out reservoirs and water being supplied by standpipes. In America, Lake Mead, really a huge reservoir and water source for 22 million people in The West is drying up. Lake Mead could run dry by 2021, the Aral sea and Lake Chad will, at the present rate, have all but disappeared by then.

Irrespective of ones religion, or thoughts, the 100% unadvoidable facts are that humanity is living well beyond the means of God's creation to sustain its consumption and waste, because the above are not isloated examples. We are headed for unprecedented challenges in the years ahead and only a wakening to that fact can change things.