OCEAN 911

"‘The Cultivation and expansion of needs is the antithesis of wisdom. It is also the antithesis of freedom and peace. Every increase of needs tends to increase ones dependence on outside forces over which we cannot have control, and therefore increases existential fear. Only by a reduction of needs can one promote a genuine reduction in those tensions which are the ultimate causes of strife and war.
The economics of permanence implies a profound reorientation of science and technology, which have to open their doors to wisdom and, in fact, have to incorporate wisdom into their very structure. Scientific or technological ‘solutions’ which poison the environment or degrade the soil structure and man himself are of no benefit, no matter how brilliantly concieved or how great in their superficial attraction. Ever bigger machines, entailing ever bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress: they are the denial of wisdom. Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology towards the organic, the gentle, the non-violent, the elegant and the beautiful. Peace, as has often been said, is indivisible-how then could peace be built on a foundation of reckless science and violent technology? We must look for a revolution in technology to give us inventions and machines which reverse the destruction trends now threatening us all.’"

— E.F.Schumacher-Small is Beautiful (1973)

Mark Bittman

Deudocracia

Cambiemos el sistema, no el clima

En el marco del 8vo Aniversario de la Universidad Bolivariana de Venezuela, junto con el Centro de Estudios Ambientales, nos hemos planteado la realización del foro “Cambiemos el sistema, no el clima”. En este espacio nos proponemos exponer y discutir los aspectos que consideramos fundamentales en relación al Cambio Global.

En este espacio, los ponentes mostrarán los aspectos relacionados al origen y perspectivas del problema, así como la relación existente entre el modelo civilizatorio occidental y los cambios climáticos, y finalmente se mostrarán los peligros y alternativas al problema, utilizando a la agricultura como ejemplo.

Para llevar a cabo este foro contaremos con la siguiente lista de expositores y temas:

•Francisco Herrera: Cambio global: origen y perspectivas.
•Diego Griffon: Cambio global desde la perspectiva agrícola.
•Francisco Javier Velasco: Cambio global y modelo civilizatorio, una aproximación desde la Ecología Social.


Francisco Herrera. Centro de Ecología - Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas.

Diego Griffon. PFG en Agroecología – Universidad Bolivariana de Venezuela y Colectivo Agroecológico Tierra y Libertad.

Francisco Javier Velasco. Escuela Venezolana de Planificación y Centro de Ecología Social Bolívar en Martí.

Moderadora: Dayaleth Alfonzo. PFG en Agroecología – Universidad Bolivariana de Venezuela y Colectivo Agroecológico Tierra y Libertad.

Lugar: Universidad Bolivariana de Venezuela- Salón Amuay.
Día: Jueves (14/07/2011).
Hora: 9 am.

¿Pachamama Transgénica?

¿Pachamama Transgénica? | Alba Tv

El habla sobre el cultivo de soja transgénica en Bolivia. En este video se admite que 94% de los cultivos de soja en Bolivia, ya son genéticamente manipulados. Es un tema urgente, ya que hay una propuesta de ley sobre la mesa, que regularizaría el uso de transgénicos.

Crops Up Ghana

Crops Up Ghana - Presentation from Lone Palmus Jensen on Vimeo.

Products of slavery

"A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty… "
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Albert Einstein

GM Crops Farmer to Farmer