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320,000 Acres of Forest Protected in Deal

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:17:59 GMT

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link»[Nature] 320,000 Acres of Forest Protected in Landmark Montana Deal

Jun 30, 2008 17:14:36 GMT

In one of the most significant conservation sales in U.S. history, The Nature Conservancy and The Trust for Public Land have preserved 320,000 acres of pristine forest in western Montana that provide valuable habitat for species and sustainable local business for people.

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Tags: environment, nature, conservation, science, business, ecology, animals, wildlife, mammals, forest, forests, montana, the nature conservancy, tnc, nature conservancy, endangered species, biodiversity, nonprofit, charity, philanthropy, economy

A NEW EARTH - Awakening Life's Purpose

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:06:14 GMT

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Clip Source: eckharttolle.com

Building on the astonishing success of The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle presents readers with an honest look at the current state of humanity: He implores us to see and accept that this state, which is based on an erroneous identification with the egoic mind, is one of dangerous insanity.

Tolle tells us there is good news, however. There is an alternative to this potentially dire situation. Humanity now, perhaps more than in any previous time, has an opportunity to create a new, saner, more loving world. This will involve a radical inner leap from the current egoic consciousness to an entirely new one.

In illuminating the nature of this shift in consciousness, Tolle describes in detail how our current ego-based state of consciousness operates. Then gently, and in very practical terms, he leads us into this new consciousness. We will come to experience who we truly are—which is something infinitely greater than anything we currently think we are—and learn to live and breathe freely.

Psychiatric Survivors

Fri, 16 May 2008 23:25:18 GMT

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Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

According to members of the Psychiatric Survivors Movement, some people considered mentally ill, and subsequently mistreated by certain psychiatrists or by psychiatric doctrine in general, do not benefit from the services offered or forced upon them. According to the movement, many respond with outrage to a system which judges them to be mentally ill, because they consider there to be a value bias within psychiatry that over-rates the judgment of psychiatrists, pharmaceutical companies, and the legal oversight of the mental health system. According to the movement, many also view interventions made in the name of help to be coercive and inherently violent in nature.

united by the resentment that they have been harmed or betrayed by psychiatry, advocate in favor of mental health treatment alternatives for those diagnosed with (or simply accused of being afflicted by) mental illnesses. It is also called the consumer survivors movement.

Eustress - healthy stress

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:16:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: stress is generally stressed as bad whereas this shows there are good connotations

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

Eustress is defined in the model of Richard Lazarus (1974) as stress that is healthy or gives one a feeling of fulfillment.

Distress is the most commonly-referred to type of stress, having negative implications, whereas eustress is a positive form of stress, usually related to desirable events in person's life. Both can be equally taxing on the body, and are cumulative in nature, depending on a person's way of adapting to a change that has caused it.^[1]

Examples of causes of eustress

Meeting a challenge

Coming in first or winning

Getting a promotion

Love

The holidays

prefix derives from the Greek eu

means "good stress

antonym "distress

Nature imagery -good for your health

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:21:54 GMT

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Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

Nature imagery reduces anxiety and relaxes patients. This makes them more receptive and responsive to treatment. Viewing nature imagery also reduces systolic blood pressure and pulse, helps to redirect negative thought and sustains interest, while decreasing boredom, reducing intake of pain medication and length of hospital stays. 

The Grand Design-joy of being

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:46:55 GMT

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Clip Source: www.paddymcmahon.com

So what good is freedom, then, if it means giving up so much of what is normally regarded as pleasurable? Freedom doesn't mean giving up anything. It means being free of the pressure of anything and everything. It doesn't mean giving up the experiences of living. It means looking at them from a different prospective. It means giving rein to the unfettered joy of being, knowing that to be is everything. A spirit, part of God, does not need anything; it already has everything. It is free if it will but realise its freedom. The process of realisation is the often painful journey that all must travel. It is unfortunate that pain is involved but that it is the nature of spirit that all must ultimately be free is the supreme consolation. Part of the purpose of these sessions is to help to take the pain out of the journey towards realisation and to make it an enjoyable trip instead.

The Grand Design - I

« The Grand Design - I. Reflections of a soul / oversoul »

Clip Source: www.paddymcmahon.com

Change beliefs -Change experience

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:56:43 GMT

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clipper's remarks: the part about proof just goes to show you that what science and a gazzillion studies/statistic/surveys tell us as 'truth' is all subjective

Clip Source: www.orindaben.com

Your beliefs create your reality. Beliefs are assumptions about the nature of reality, and because you create what you believe in, you will have many "proofs" that reality operates the way you think it does. For instance, a person who believes that the universe is abundant will act in such a way that he or she experiences abundance, and a person who believes that money comes only from working hard will receive money only from hard work. Each will have many experiences to prove that their "belief" about reality is really a "fact" about reality. You can change what you believe and thus change what you experience. Look at the reality you have created, and you are seeing the results of your beliefs.

Creating Money: Keys to Abundance

New Light Coming to the Earth

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:43:17 GMT

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Clip Source: www.orindaben.com

You are entering a dramatic and exciting time. There is a wave of energy passing through your galaxy that is altering the course of all life it touches. This wave affects the very nature of energy and matter, bringing all matter into a higher vibration.

Your ancient prophets foretold this wave, and the thought of major transformation during your current time was seeded to prepare you for it. Some have foreseen it as a time of cataclysmic earth upheavals. Such upheavals need not occur; they are symbolic of the internal changes that will happen as thoughts, feelings, and attitudes of a lower nature are replaced by higher ones. You are evolving into a new race of beings. Because of this massive influx of light, a body of light is evolving in the human aura for those who are following their spiritual path.

transition into this higher vibratory frequency can be made with love and joy

rather than pain and struggle.

You can

contribute to humanity's making a calm, peaceful transition

into more light

Tags: changes, spirituality

Group to Clone California Redwoods

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:30:56 GMT

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Clip Source: www.netvibes.com

link»Group to Clone California Redwoods

Oct 29, 2007 00:00:00 GMT

A conservation group plans to intersperse redwood clones into the state's old-growth forests, which loggers have reduced to 5 percent of their original range.

Tags: environment, nature

Mystical Machu Pichu

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:11:44 GMT

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Clip Source: www.mattphoto.com

Tags: scenery, beautiful, nature, powerful

More About Wonderful Algae

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:05:14 GMT

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Clip Source: www.netvibes.com

link»More About Wonderful Algae

Oct 23, 2007 14:32:22 GMT

I love how algae can be used for almost anything. If the future is covered in algae, well, I’ll be the first to say that that’s a good thing.

Inhabitat has a post about how algae is being converted into crude biofuel.

The scientists involved in the LiveFuels project are focusing on specialized aspects of the algae-to-biocrude process. Some are breeding algae to find the best high-fat strains, others are refining the fat and oil extraction process and others still are developing cost-effective harvesting techniques. The biggest challenge is to make algae biocrude within a fraction of the time that nature’s biomass decomposition occurs and to do it economically, for less than $60 a barrel.

algae, biofuel, energy

Tags: environment, fuel, green

Devil's Elbow- landscape photo

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:19:01 GMT

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clipper's remarks: this reminds me of the devils bit and the popes nose ,names of features in the landscape in the mountains not far from where I live

Clip Source: www.markhenspeter.com

Tags: photography, nature

Generation Y

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:14:50 GMT

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clipper's remarks: more on next clip

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

Generation Y

The term Generation Y first appeared in an August 1993 AD Age editorial to describe those children born between 1985–1995.^[1] The scope of the term has changed greatly since then, to include, in many cases, anyone born as early as 1976 and late as 2000. There is still no precise definition of years, some theorists also place a cusp generation MTV generation between X and Y, 1975–1985.

often shortened to Gen Y or Ygen or Gyen)

controversial

a succession from "Generation X",

a pejorative label.

Millennials

Internet generation

No single

"correct" term

flexible nature

demographic terms

follows Y, s

New Silent Generation

alt

millennials"

[edit] Trends among members

As with previous generations, many trends (and problems) began to surface as members of Generation Y come of age.

Underage drinking and illicit drug use

Childhood obesity

junk food

sprawling suburban areas with poor mass transportation and few places to walk.

higher costs for higher education

interest in retro-oriented culture

revive it

Tags: age, youth

beautiful photos

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 05:56:51 GMT

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Clip Source: flickr.com

Tags: nature

Nature photo gallery

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:37:23 GMT

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Clip Source: photo.net

Dreams on Hell" />

Cherry Crocantti" />

Sky Conqueror" />

LightTouched" />

Hell Valley" />

Light Tunnel" />

Surviving" />

Sunkissed" />

Night Forest Souls" />

Dawn Curls" />

Dragon`s Kingdom" />

Light Emperor" />

Fantasy Garden" />

Summit Dreams" />

Branches of Time | Ramas del Tiempo" />

Ancient Log" />

West Ancient Sentinel" />

Wild?s Forest Heart" />

Roots of Fire | Raíces de Fuego" />

Towards the Kingdom of Light and Color" />

Summit | Cumbre" />

After the Snow Storm" />

Dryness in Wonderland | Sequía en la Tierra de Ensueño" />

Natural Harmony | Armonía Natural" />

The Three Elements | Los Tres Elementos" />

Color Festival Sunset in Wild Forest | Ocaso Festival de Color en Bosque Silvestre" />

The Love Forest" />

Ethereal Softness" />

Burning Sands" />

Wild Splendor" />

Early Winter Canvas" />

Forest in Motion" />

Early Winter CrossTalk Light" />

Sunrise Desert Boom" />

Fantasy Garden | Jardín Fantasía" />

LightTouched" />

The Celestial Torch" />

Natural Canvas | Lienzo Natural " />

Snow Melt | Deshielo" />

The Eternal Flame | La Llama Eterna" />

Dry wood in Wild Forest" />

Natural Harmony | Armonía Natural" />

Early Summer Flowers" />

Tags: art, nature, photography

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320,000 Acres of Forest Protected in Deal

link»[Nature] 320,000 Acres of Forest Protected in Landmark Montana Deal

A NEW EARTH - Awakening Life's Purpose

Psychiatric Survivors

Contents

Eustress - healthy stress

Nature imagery -good for your health

The Grand Design-joy of being

The Grand Design - I

Change beliefs -Change experience

New Light Coming to the Earth

Group to Clone California Redwoods

link»Group to Clone California Redwoods

Mystical Machu Pichu

More About Wonderful Algae

link»More About Wonderful Algae

Devil's Elbow- landscape photo

Generation Y

Generation Y

[edit] Trends among members

beautiful photos

Nature photo gallery