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Matt Weinstein: What Bernie Madoff Couldn't Steal From Me

Dr. Daniel J. Benor — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:52:00 GMT

Award-winning inspirational speaker Matt Weinstein was on vacation in Antarctica when he learned via satellite telephone that he had lost his entire life savings in the Bernie Madoff scandal. In this excerpt from his highly personal, interactive and entertaining program, Matt Weinstein recounts the inside story of the highly-secretive Madoff fund. But there is something else I discovered that is much more important, says Matt. And that is how to survive life's inevitable downturns with a sense of Basic Trust, so that you can land on your feet no matter what. Yes, I lost my life savings in the Bernie Madoff fraud, but there are life-saving survival secrets that Madoff could never steal from me. You don't need to have been invested with Bernie Madoff to be feeling the pain of the financial meltdown right now. These are difficult economic times for everyone, but the good news is that it is possible to find joy, celebration and a sense of meaning--- right here, right now.

Awesomely simple - though certainly not easy - lesson in life.

Blessings

Dan Benor, MD
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The Hadza

Dr. Daniel J. Benor — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:42:00 GMT

They grow no food,raise no livestock, and live without rules or calendars. They areliving a hunter-gatherer existence that is little changed from 10,000years ago. What do they know that we've forgotten?

By Michael Finkel

Photograph by Martin Schoeller

"I'm hungry," says Onwas, squatting by his fire, blinking placidly through the smoke. The men beside him murmur in assent. It's late at night, deep in the East African bush. Singing, a rhythmic chant, drifts over from the women's camp. Onwas mentions a tree he spotted during hisday time travels. The men around the fire push closer. It is in a difficult spot, Onwas explains, at the summit of a steep hill that rises from the grassy plain. But the tree, he adds, spreading his arms wide like branches, is heavy with baboons. There are more murmurs. Embers rise to a sky infinite with stars. And then it is agreed. Everyone stands and grabs his hunting bow.

Onwas is an old man, perhaps over 60—years are not a unit of time he uses—but thin and fit in the Hadza way. He's maybe five feet tall.Across his arms and chest are the hieroglyphs of a lifetime in the bush: scars from hunts, scars from snakebites, scars from arrows and knives and scorpions and thorns. Scars from falling out of a baobab tree. Scars from a leopard attack. Half his teeth remain. He is wearing tire-tread sandals and tattered brown shorts. A hunting knife is strapped to his hip, in a sheath made of dik-dik hide. He's removed his shirt, as have most of the other men, because he wants to blend into the night.

Onwas looks at me and speaks for a few moments in his native language, Hadzane. To my ear it sounds strangely bipolar—lilting and gentle for a phrase or two, then jarring and percussive, with tongue clicks and glottic pops. It's a language not closely related to any other that still exists: to use the linguists' term, an isolate.

I have arrived in the Hadza homeland in northern Tanzania with an interpreter, a Hadza woman named Mariamu. She is Onwas's niece. She attended school for 11 years and is one of only a handful of people in the world who can speak both English and Hadzane. She interprets Onwas's words: Do I want to come?

Merely getting this far, to a traditional Hadza encampment, is not an easy task. Years aren't the only unit of time the Hadza do not keep close track of—they also ignore hours and days and weeks and months.The Hadza language doesn't have words for numbers past three or four.Making an appointment can be a tricky matter. But I had contacted the owner of a tourist camp not far outside the Hadza territory to see if he could arrange for me to spend time with a remote Hadza group. While on a camping trip in the bush, the owner came across Onwas and asked him, in Swahili, if I might visit. The Hadza tend to be gregarious people, and Onwas readily agreed. He said I'd be the first foreigner ever to live in his camp. He promised to send his son to a particular tree at the edge of the bush to meet me when I was scheduled to arrive, in three weeks.

Sure enough, three weeks later, when my interpreter and I arrived by Land Rover in the bush, there was Onwas's son Ngaola waiting for us. Apparently, Onwas had noted the stages of the moon, and when he felt enough time had passed, he sent his son to the tree. I asked Ngaola if he'd waited a long time for me. "No," he said. "Only a few days."

At first, it was clear that everyone in camp—about two dozen Hadza,ranging from infants to grandparents—felt uncomfortable with my presence. There was a lot of staring, some nervous laughs. I'd brought along a photo album, and passing it around helped mitigate the awkwardness. Onwas was interested in a picture of my cat. "How does it taste?" he asked. One photo captured everyone's attention. It was of me participating in a New Year's Day polar bear swim, leaping into a hole cut in a frozen lake. Hadza hunters can seem fearless; Onwas regularly sneaks up on leopards and races after giraffes. But the idea of winter weather terrified him. He ran around camp with the picture, telling everyone I was a brave man, and this helped greatly with my acceptance.A man who can leap into ice, Onwas must have figured, is certainly a man who'd have no trouble facing a wild baboon. So on the third night of my stay, he asks if I want to join the hunting trip.

I do. I leave my shirt on—my skin does not blend well with the night—and I follow Onwas and ten other hunters and two younger boys out of camp in a single-file line. Walking through Hadza country in the dark is challenging; thorn bushes and spiked acacia trees dominate the terrain, and even during the day there is no way to avoid being jabbed and scratched and punctured. A long trek in the Hadza bush can feel like receiving a gradual full-body tattoo. The Hadza spend a significant portion of their rest time digging thorns out of one another with the tips of their knives.

At night the thorns are all but invisible, and navigation seems impossible. There are no trails and few landmarks. To walk confidently in the bush, in the dark, without a flashlight, requires the sort of familiarity one has with, say, one's own bedroom. Except this is a thousand-square-mile bedroom, with lions and leopards and hyenas prowling in the shadows.

For Onwas such navigation is no problem. He has lived all his life in the bush. He can start a fire, twirling a stick between his palms, in less than 30 seconds. He can converse with a honey guide bird,whistling back and forth, and be led directly to a teeming beehive. He knows everything there is to know about the bush and virtually nothing of the land beyond. One time I showed Onwas a map of the world. I spread it open on the dirt and anchored the corners with stones. A crowd gathered. Onwas stared. I pointed out the continent of Africa, then the country of Tanzania, then the region where he lived. I showed him the United States.

I asked him what he knew about America—the name of the president, the capital city. He said he knew nothing. He could not name the leader of his own country. I asked him, as politely as possible, if he knew anything about any country. He paused for a moment, evidently deep in thought, then suddenly shouted, "London!" He couldn't say precisely what London was. He just knew it was someplace not in the bush.

From Daily Good

Awesome lessons in what is and is not important in life.

Lessons that may be helpful to us as we slide towards economic collapse and irreversible global heating, where technology will no longer be available and survival will be the agenda.

Blessings

Dan Benor, MD
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Elinor Ostrom was an unusual choice for the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

Dr. Daniel J. Benor — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:35:00 GMT

by Fran Korten

For one thing, she is the first woman to receive the prize. Her Ph.D. is in political science, not economics (though she minored in economics, collaborates with many economists, and considers herself a political economist). But what makes this award particularly special is that her work is about cooperation, while standard economics focuses on competition.

Ostrom’s seminal book, Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action, was published in1990. But her research on common property goes back to the early 1960s, when she wrote her dissertation on groundwater in California. In 1973 she and her husband, Vincent Ostrom, founded the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University. In the intervening years, the Workshop has produced hundreds of studies of the conditions in which communities self-organize to solve common problems. Ostrom currently serves as professor of political science at Indiana University and senior research director of the Workshop.

Fran Korten, YES! Magazine’s publisher, spent 20 years with the Ford Foundation making grants to support community management of water and forests in Southeast Asia and the United States. She and Ostrom drew on one another’s work as this field of knowledge developed. Fran interviewed her friend and colleague Lin Ostrom shortly after Ostrom received the Nobel Prize.

Nobel winner Elinor Ostrom has built her career on the science of cooperation.

Photo by Chris Meyer / Indiana University

Fran Korten: When you first learned thatyou had won the Nobel Prize in Economics, were you surprised?

Elinor Ostrom: Yes. It was quite surprising. I was both happy and relieved.

Fran: Why relieved?

Elinor: Well,relieved in that I was doing a bunch of research through the years that many people thought was very radical and people didn’t like. As a person who does interdisciplinary work, I didn’t fit anywhere. I was relieved that, after all these years of struggle, someone really thought it did add up. That’s very nice.

And it’s very nice for the team that I’ve been a part of here at the Workshop. We have had a different style of organizing. It is an interdisciplinary center—we have graduate students, visiting scholars, and faculty working together. I never would have won the Nobel but for being a part of that enterprise.

Fran: It’s interesting that your research is about people learning to cooperate. And yourWorkshop at the university is also organized on principles of cooperation.

Elinor: I have anew book coming out in May entitled Working Together, written with Amy Poteete and Marco Janssen. It is on collective actions in the commons. What we’re talking about is how people work together. We’ve used an immense array of different methods to look at this question—case studies, including my own dissertation and Amy’s work, modeling,experiments, large-scale statistical work. We show how people use multiple methods to work together.

Fran: Many people associate “the commons” with Garrett Hardin’s famous essay, “The Tragedy of the Commons.”He says that if, for example, you have a pasture that everyone in a village has access to, then each person will put as many cows on that land as he can to maximize his own benefit, and pretty soon the pasture will be overgrazed and become worthless. What’s the difference between your perspective and Hardin’s?

Elinor: Well, I don’t see the human as hopeless. There’s a general tendency to presume people just act for short-term profit. But anyone who knows about small-town businesses and how people in a community relate to one another realizes that many of those decisions are not just for profit and that humans do try to organize and solve problems.

If you are in a fishery or have a pasture and you know your family’s long-term benefit is that you don’t destroy it, and if you can talk with the other people who use that resource, then you may well figure out rules that fit that local setting and organize to enforce them. But if the community doesn’t have a good way of communicating with each other or the costs of self-organization are too high,then they won’t organize, and there will be failures.

Fran: So, are you saying that Hardin is sometimes right?

We have to think through how to choose a meaning full life where we’re helping one another in ways that really help the Earth.

Elinor: Yes. People say I disproved him, and I come back and say “No, that’s not right. I’ve not disproved him. I’ve shown that his assertion that common property will always be degraded is wrong.” But he was addressing a problem of considerable significance that we need to take seriously. It’s just that he went too far. He said people could never manage the commons well.

At the Workshop we’ve done experiments where we create an artificial form of common property—such as an imaginary fishery or pasture, and we bring people into a lab and have them make decisions about that property. When we don’t allow any communication among the players, then they over harvest. But when people can communicate, particularly on a face-to-face basis, and say, “Well, gee, how about if we do this? How about we do that?” Then they can come to an agreement.

Fran: But what about the “free-rider” problem—where some people abide by the rules and some people don’t? Won’t the whole thing fall apart?

Elinor: Well if the people don’t communicate and get some shared norms and rules, that’s right,you’ll have that problem. But if they get together and say, “Hey folks, this is a project that we’re all going to have to contribute to. Now, let’s figure it out,” they can make it work. For example, if it’s a community garden, they might say, “Do we agree every Saturday morning we’re all going to go down to the community garden, and we’re going to take roll and we’re going to put the roll up on a bulletin board?” A lot of communities have figured out subtle ways of making everyone contribute, because if they don’t, those people are noticeable.

Awesome vision of cooperation and collaboration as ways for managing our lives on this imperiled planet.

Blessings

Dan

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Glee Cast: Imagine

Dr. Daniel J. Benor — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:06:00 GMT

Awesome awarenesses about the worlds of the deaf and the hearing.

Forwarded by Martin Brofman

Count your blessings, and look for ways to share your healing presence with others.

Dan Benor, MD

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Are We Headed for a Soviet-Style Collapse? - Dmitry Orlov

Dr. Daniel J. Benor — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:45:00 GMT

Author Dmitry Orlov explains his notion of "Superpower Collapse Soup," and compares the modern United States to the USSR prior to that country's collapse in the early 1990s. Orlov argues the two nations are similar in a number of ways, including shortages in the production of crude oil, an expanding military budget, a severe trade deficit, and ballooning foreign debt.
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Dmitry Orlov is an engineer and a writer on subjects related to Peak Oil. He was born in Leningrad and moved to the United States at the age of 12. Orlov was an eyewitness to the collapse of the Soviet Union over several extended visits to his Russian homeland between the late 1980s and mid-1990s. He has a BS in Computer Engineering and an MA in Applied Linguistics. His latest book is Reinventing Collapse (June 2008). His article Closing the Collapse Gap compares the collapse-preparedness of the USA and the USSR.

With vintage Russian black humor, Dmitry Orlov describes the social collapse he witnessed in Russia in the 1990s and spells out its practical lessons for the American social collapse he sees as inevitable.

The American economy in the 1990s described itself as "Goldilocks" - just the right size - when in fact is was "Tinkerbelle," and one day the clapping stops.

As in Russia, the US made itself vulnerable to the decline of crude oil, a trade deficit, military over-reach, and financial over-reach. -- The Long Now Foundation

From -- The Long Now Foundation View full lecture (1 hr 28 min.)

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Dan Benor, MD

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Founder of Bob's Red Mill Natural Foods transfers business to employees

Dr. Daniel J. Benor — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:22:00 GMT

Founder of Bob's Red Mill Natural Foods transfers business to employees

By Dana Tims, The Oregonian

DOUG BEGHTEL Bob Moore overlooks his landmark Bob's Red Mill Natural Food store in Milwaukie.

The 81-year-old just unveiled a program giving his 209employees full ownership of the business. The company produces andmarkets a line of more than 400 whole-grain flours, cereals and bread mixes.

MILWAUKIE – Scores of employees gathered to help Bob Moore celebrate his 81st birthday this week at the company that bears his name, Bob's Red Mill Natural Foods.

Moore, whose mutual loves of healthy eating and old-world technologies spawned an internationally distributed line of products, responded with a gift of his own -- the whole company. The Employee Stock Ownership Plan Moore unveiled means that his 209 employees now own the place and its 400offerings of stone-ground flours, cereals and bread mixes.

"This is Bob taking care of us," said Lori Sobelson, who helps run the business' retail operation. "He expects a lot out of us, but really gives us the world in return." Moore declined to say how much he thinks the company is worth. In 2004, however, one business publication estimated that year's revenues at more than $24 million. A company news release issued this week stated that Bob's Red Mill has chalked up an annual growth rate of between 20 percent to 30 percent every year since.

"In some ways I had a choice," Moore said of what he could have done with the company he founded with his wife, Charlee, in1978. "But in my heart, I didn't. These people are far too good at their jobs for me to just sell it."

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This is a wonderful sharing, yet only a small example of even more awesome corporate-employee ownership sharings.

Blessings

Dan

Itzhak Perlman 13 years old Mendelssohn Violin Concerto

Dr. Daniel J. Benor — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:44:00 GMT

Awesome playing by a child prodigy.

Forwarded by Ron Banner

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Dan Benor, MD

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Everything You Do Is OK

Dr. Daniel J. Benor — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:21:00 GMT

Awesome - how the bald statement of the media messages are revealing!

This is a montage of the work of the "Everything Is OK" guys.

Forwarded by Jim MacKimmie

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Dan

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Greg Pritchard - Britain's Got Talent

Dr. Daniel J. Benor — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:10:00 GMT

Awesome operatic surprise.

Enjoy!

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Dan Benor, MD

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ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE - 156 Countries Sing Together

Dr. Daniel J. Benor — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:44:00 GMT

Awesome production!

It's pieces like this that offer hope that perhaps we can work together as a global village!

Forwarded by Martin Broffman, PhD

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Dan Benor, MD

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The awesome art of Octavio Ocampo

Dr. Daniel J. Benor — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:46:00 GMT

Octavio Ocampo was born in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico on February 28, 1943. He is one of Mexico's most prolific artists. He studied at the "La Esmerlda" Fine Art Institute, Mexico City (1961-1965) and the San Francisco Art Institute (1972 - 1974). Ocampo made set designs for more than 120 Mexican and American films and set designs for plays.

You may want to pause the YouTube after each zoom-in, to savor the cleverness of Octavio Ocampo's compositions.

I wonder, do others respond to these images as I do?

I find myself brought into an awareness of how I and others are parts of a greater picture, a greater wholeness, that may not be apparent when we are in the midst of creating our picture of reality. Standing back from the actions and interactions, a greater picture becomes apparent to me, with layers of meanings and lessons i had not been aware of during the interactions.

i welcome your views on how this - and other sharings - impact your awareness and move you.

Blessings,

Dan Benor, MD

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Girl who saved mom among 47 given bravery awards

Dr. Daniel J. Benor — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:16:00 GMT

By Krista Erickson, CBC News

Gov.Gen. Michaëlle Jean gave 47 people bravery decorations Thursday,including an Ontario girl who pulled her mother from a frozen lake and three Regina men who pulled a woman from a burning car seconds before it exploded.

The decorations recognize selfless acts that saved lives and sometimes cost rescuers their own. One U.S. Coast Guard officer received the Star of Courage, while 46 others were given the prestigious Medal of Bravery.

While some of the awards were given posthumously, recipients in attendance at a ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa included soldiers,police officers, volunteer firefighters, electricians, elevator repairmen and even children.

Kelsey Roy of Carleton Place in eastern Ontario was just eight when she saved her mother's life.

She and her mother, Karin Roy, were enjoying a winter outing along Mississippi Lake in March 2007 when her mother fell through the ice and into the frigid waters. She yelled at her daughter to leave the scene,fearing she would also fall in. Kelsey instead crawled along the thin ice, grabbed her mother and pulled her to safety.

She also confessed some of her friends are kind of jealous of all the attention she is receiving for her act of bravery.

Harry Prymak said he could do without the attention. A press operator at the Winnipeg Free Press for 31 years, Prymak is used to printing the headlines, not making them.

Three years ago, Prymak and some friends were ice fishing on Lac duBonnet, Man., when they heard screams on the lake. An inexperienced snowmobiler had fallen through the ice.

Prymak said he got down on his belly and slid over to the hole where the snowmobiler had gone in.

"[I)] grabbed him by the arm and proceeded to pull him up on the ice, but the ice broke away and I also fell in," he said.

Prymak is not a strong swimmer, but went after the drowning man until Prymak's friends pulled them both out.

"It all happened too fast, I don't think anything went through my head, I should have sat back and thought about it a little better, butI thought it was urgent to try and get him out, " Prymak said.

For a list of medal recipients and more stories of heroism click here.

Blessings

Dan Benor, MD

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Fastest Growing Minor at Cal: Saving the World

Dr. Daniel J. Benor — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 04:04:00 GMT

Engineering and History are still popular majors at UC Berkeley but they aren't growing nearly as fast as a minor that has onlybeen in existence for two years. School communications officials announced this week that "GlobalPoverty and Practice" has become the fastest growing minor on campus.

"(This has become) a veritable magnet for a 'Yes We Can' generationeager to get out of the virtual world and into the real one," said YasminAnwar, of the school's media relations department.

The courses in the minor help provide students with the knowledge andexperiences necessary to combat global poverty. Some students design affordable water filters to be used in the slums of Mumbai, India. Othersadvocate for squatters threatened with eviction in Nairobi, Kenya. Somestudents promote gender-equity laws in Sierra Leone or establishcommunity-owned clinics in Jordan.

"My generation has grown up bombarded by CNN images of tanks,terrorists and children with swollen bellies covered in flies," saidsophomore Jacob Seigel-Boettner, 21, a global poverty minor currently studyingin Croatia. "Most of the time, it just makes us feel frustrated andhelpless. But programs like Global Poverty & Practice have given us achance to get out there and actually do something."

Last summer, the Santa Barbara-born mountain biker and amateur filmmaker,who is majoring in Peace and Conflict Studies, went to genocide-torn Rwanda anddistributed custom built cargo bikes to coffee growers through a micro-loansystem. He then made a movie about one of the growers, called "Pascal'sBike," and it debuted in February at the Santa Barbara International FilmFestival.

More than 150 UC Berkeley undergraduates have declared Global Poverty &Practice their secondary choice for academic specialization, and 60 of them aredue to graduate this May. That's a drastic increase from the inaugural class of 2007-08, which hadonly seven students who graduated with the minor. At the time, education was the most popular UC Berkeley minor, declared by112 students.

UC Berkeley offers minors in more than 100 fields, and many of them requirea minimum of five upper division courses. In most departments, students declaretheir minors at graduation.

What an awesome opening this course is - into wholistic planetary healing!

Blessings

Dan Benor, MD

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Awesome Chinese Acrobats on the Russian Bar

Dr. Daniel J. Benor — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:21:00 GMT

XXVIIth CIRCUS FESTIVAL OF MONTE-CARLO

Forwarded by Ronald Banner

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Armless Pilot and Surfer Jessica Cox

Dr. Daniel J. Benor — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:16:00 GMT

Jessica Cox, first armless pilot, takes her first surfing lessonin Hawaii.

To see Jessica piloting a plane, waring her T-shirt that says, "Look, Ma - No hands!" CLICK HERE

To learn more, visit Jessica's website

This awesome demonstration of triumph over physical challenges can be an inspiration to many of us who are daunted by challenges in our lives that are far less severe.

Blessings

Dan Benor, MD

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16: Moments

Dr. Daniel J. Benor — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 04:30:00 GMT

Awesome, flowing montage of images.

Radiolab presents: 16 Moments by Will Hoffman. This films is a celebration of life that was inspired by David Eagleman's book, Sum.

From KarmaTube

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Dan Benor, MD

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10 Ways to Change Your Life

Dr. Daniel J. Benor — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 04:46:00 GMT

(Not Just Your Light Bulbs)

by Colin Beavan

EAT YOUR VEGETABLES

All you have to do is stop eating beef. Worldwide, beef productioncontributes more to climate change than the entire transportationsector. The carbon footprint of the average meat eater is about 1.5tons of CO2 larger than that of a vegetarian. Cutting beef out of your diet will reduce your CO2 emissions by 2,400 pounds annually.

DRINK FROM THE TAP

You can save money and your environment by giving up bottledwater. The production of plastic water bottles together with theprivatization of our drinking water is an environmental and social catastrophe. Bottled water costs more per gallonthan gasoline. The average American consumes 30 gallons of bottledwater annually. Giving up one bottle of imported water means using upone less liter of fossil fuel and emitting 1.2 pounds less ofgreenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

OBSERVE AN ECO-SABBATH

For one day or afternoon or even one hour a week, don’t buy anything, don’t use any machines, don’t switch on anything electric,don’t cook, don’t answer your phone, and, in general, don’t use anyresources. In other words, for this regular period, give yourself andthe planet a break. Every hour per week that you live no impact cutsyour carbon emissions by 0.6 percent annually. Commit to four hours perweek, that’s 2.4 percent; do it for a whole day each week to cut yourimpact by 14.4 percent a year.

TITHE A FIXED PERCENTAGE OF YOUR INCOME

Tithe a fixed percentage of your income to non-profits of yourchoice. If an average U.S. family contributes 1 percent ($502.33) ofits annual income ($50,233) to an environmental non-profit, they couldoffset 40.7 tons of carbon dioxide per year. Many of our public healthand welfare services are tied to consumer spending which, in turn,depends upon planetary resources. If you want to help, don’t goshopping. Just help.

BUILD A COMMUNITY

Have dinners with friends. Play charades. Sing together. Enjoying each other costs the planet much less than enjoying its resources.

GET THERE UNDER YOUR OWN STEAM

Get around by bike or by foota certain number of days a month. Not only does this mean using lessfossil fuel and creating less greenhouse gases, it means you’ll getexercise and we’ll all breathe fewer fumes. If you can stay off theroad just two days a week, you’ll reduce greenhouse gas emissions by anaverage of 1,590 pounds per year.

COMMIT TO NOT WASTING

Wasting resources costs the planet and your wallet. Let your clotheshang-dry instead of using the dryer. Take half the trips but stay twiceas long. Repair instead of rebuy. The list goes on.In the summer, for every degree above 72°F you set your thermostat, yousave 120 pounds of CO2 emissions per year, and if you wash your clotheswith cold water you can cut your laundry energy use by up to 90 percent.

TAKE YOUR PRINCIPLES TO WORK

We must act as though we care about the world at work as much as wedo at home. Company CEOs or product designers have the power to make agigantic difference through their business, and so do the rest ofus. In commercial buildings, lighting accounts for more than 40 percentof electrical energy use, a huge cause of greenhouse gas production.Using motion and occupancy sensors can cut this use by 10 percent.

DONATE A DAY'S TV TIME TO ECO-SERVICE

Take one day off from TV—the average American watches four and a half hours of TV a day—and try voluntary eco-service instead. Those four and a half hours a day watching TV add up to 825 pounds of carbon dioxide each year.

BELIEVE WITH ALL YOUR HEART THAT HOW YOU LIVE YOUR LIFE MAKES A DIFFERENCE

We are all interconnected. Every step toward living a conscious lifeprovides support to everyone else who is trying to do the samething—whether you’re aware of it or not. We are the masters of ourdestinies.

From Daily Good

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Blessings

Dan Benor, MD

The Wounded Healer

Dr. Daniel J. Benor — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:40:00 GMT

In Greek mythology, Chiron was the wisest of the Centaurs and the archetype of the Wounded Healer

He was accidentally wounded by an arrow that had been dipped in the blood of the Hydra

In his search for his own cure, he discovered how to heal others

In teaching others the healing arts, he found a measure of solace from his own pain

The Wounded Healer understands what the patient feels because he has gone through the same pain

The suffering patient can be cared for by the Healer and be instrumental in the Healers own healing

Each encounter between Healer and patient can be transforming for both

The lesson of Chiron teaches us is that we can overcome pain and transcend into knowledge

That each of us can become a Wounded Healer

Humanity Healing is putting together a worldwide Holistic Directory to helpthose in need find you. We would like to offer you a FREE 6-monthlisting in the Directory. This offer will last until 15 June. Afterthat, the cost will be $6 for 6 months. Proceeds from the Directorywill fund Humanity Healing Foundation projects such as the UgandaOutreach to help children displaced by war and Mahavidya School ofSouth India to give abandoned children a new opportunity in life. Yourlisting can make a difference not only with your business, but in thelives of children around the world. Please help us help them. Come be apart!

Forwarded by Ruth Sewell

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Dan Benor, MD

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Love and Sorrow...Felt By All Living Creatures

Dr. Daniel J. Benor — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:11:00 GMT

Swallows: Here his mate is injured and the condition is fatal.

She was hit by a car as she swooped low across the road.

Here he brought her food and attended to her with care and compassion.

He brought her food again, but was shocked to find her dead.
He tried to move her....a rarely-seen effort for swallows!

Aware that his mate is dead and will never come back to him again, he cries out..........

He stood beside her, saddened by her death....

Finally aware that she would never return to him, he stood beside her body with sadness and sorrow .

Millions of people cried after watching this picture in America, Europe and India. It is said that the photographer sold these pictures for a nominal fee to the most famous newspaper in France. All copies of that newspaper were sold out on the day these pictures were published.
And many people think animals don't have a brain or feelings?????

Forwarded by Ron Banner

Blessings

Dan Benor, MD

http://awesomewholistichealing.com/

I Choose Love 2

Dr. Daniel J. Benor — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:12:00 GMT

Beautiful montage of images illustrating the song, from a Valentine's Day forward.

Blessings,

Dan Benor, MD

http://benorwholisticblog.com/

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