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16/12/2022

THIS is what we want, what we need ... we need people on the ground (and on the ocean) to care enough to change, and to speak for those creatures who cannot, with our votes and our choices.

Thank you endlessly, Shawn Heinrichs, for being a devoted ocean conservationist and showing us the beauty we all must cherish and preserve. 🙏💙🙏

The National Defense Authorization Act includes provisions to end the U.S. shark fin trade and combat illegal fishing.

26/07/2022

Right to the last sentence, this is so beautiful. We can change everything, each of us ~ first in our hearts and then in the ‘outer’ world.

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“TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.
What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives.
If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.
And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”

~Howard Zinn

16/07/2022

There are SO many people sharing beautiful and workable solutions and ideas. We can do this!!
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08/07/2022

A lovely, simple idea for replenishing food and keeping everything beautiful. ❤️🙌🏻🙌🏻

Nice tip~ 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍑
If you eat fruit, don't throw seeds and kernels in the trash. Wash and dry them. Put them in a box and put it in the car. When you're on the road, throw them through the window in places where there are no trees. Nature itself will take care of them. Or throw it out during a walk or bike ride. This practice has been around for centuries in Asian countries. That is why their fruits are now growing everywhere. I would like to add that I have seen a similar phenomenon in Slovenia. While walking through the forest on the slope of the mountain around the city, I was surprised to find apple trees, apricots, plums and pears growing in the forest. Just pull and eat as much as you want.

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07/07/2022

This is a beautiful sentiment. ❤️

Trees, mycelium, ALL of nature knows how things really work. The moving, living connections in nature are powerful and fascinating, and although our indigenous peoples have known this forever, we in the modern world are JUST starting to lean back into this knowledge. It’s about time!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻

Did you know that even Darwin acknowledged he had it wrong/incomplete, and that his main message was misinterpreted; further, that another writer of his time who wrote about co-operation and connection presented a more thorough picture of how nature thrives?

(John Fiske, Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy)

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See also, how we are evolving into our understanding that connection, co-operation and interdependence are key to our survival:

Survival of The Fittest Has Evolved: Try Survival of the Kindest:
https://www.nbcnews.com/better/relationships/survival-fittest-has-evolved-try-survival-kindest-n730196

Darwin Said Collaborate:
https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/darwin-said-collaborate

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The collaborators of the course mentioned below can be found on Instagram, and

https://www.instagram.com/p/CfbX5mwoeh0/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

05/07/2022

Today on Home.Official we share a little:

🌟 Good news from people choosing differently and creating solutions for a healthier earth

🐝 Info about how to keep bees alive and healthy in your own back yard

💕 Inspiration and encouragement from the one and only David Attenborough, a passionate warrior of love for our beautiful Earth

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15/02/2022

Look into your heart...you are part of the natural world we all share.

Do what you can to care for our oceans, our planet’s creatures, your fellow humans. Wherever you live, there are opportunities in person and online, to make a difference...in your local and global community.

If not you, then who? If not now, when...?

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ABUNDANCE - When you consider the unfathomable diversity and abundance of species that fill our oceans, we are truly blessed to have any opportunities to experience such wonders in our lifetimes. The oceans are so prolific and so resilient, yet we have pushed them to the limits of their capacity to withstand the onslaught of industrial-scale fisheries, unchecked widespread coastal development, toxic runoff from industrial farming, mining and logging, and a rising tide of plastics pollution.

In spite of this, there is still so much worth defending and we must choose to act each and every days, in our choices about how we consume and dispose, to ensure our oceans thrive long into the future.

It is time we join together and take a decisive stand for nature, for our the health of our planet, and for the future of all species on earth.

29/09/2021

Sign, please. ❤️❤️❤️🦈🦈🦈🦈🌍🌎

13/09/2021

LIVING DINOSAURS - Crocodiles have been on earth for about 80 million years and they are truly living dinosaurs. American crocodiles are the only species other than the saltwater crocodile to commonly live and thrive in saltwater. Once flourishing from Florida, across the Caribbean, Central and South America, unregulated hunting for their hides, pollution, loss of habitat, and commercial farming have reduced their populations of the American crocodile to just a few thousand and they are now listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List. In many parts of their range, they are threatened with local extinction. Their populations could recover if we took serious steps to ensure they were safe from illegal poaching and that their critical coastal habitats were properly protected. The future of this species and so many others rests in our hands.

when we decide enough is enough and that we will no longer be complicit in global crisis that is driving the loss of keystone species. It is time we join together and take a decisive stand for nature, for the health of our planet, and for the future of all species on Earth.

07/09/2021

Such a stunning and perfect message from Shawn Heinrichs ❤️💕🌏🌎

WE ARE ONE

In the race to protect our natural world, I always return to one of the most powerful and profound principles that guide my service to this work....that any appearance of separation is just that, an appearance, and that in fact each of us, every single being, are a small part of an infinitely large presence, and that together we are one: ...
- we are one universe

- we are one biosphere

- we are one ocean

- we are one community

- we are one family

- we are one consciousness

- we are one love

- we are one song

- we are one movement

It is up to each and everyone of us to embrace our vital role in the collective consciousness, both our infinite power and our absolute insignificance, and with open hearts and wise discernment, rise up in absolute service to the WORK. Now is our time to shed our differences, embrace our connectedness, and harnessing the wisdom of the past with deepest intention for the future, show up fully in the present, in the NOW, to stand together as ONE, to heal our Mother.
( connects with gentle and curious mother and calf humpback whales)

04/06/2021

Now THIS is the conversation we need to be having...how can we really, truly change our ways? Live in peace and harmony and abundance without being creatures driven by consumerism?

Has this pause been long enough for us to ask these important questions, or will we go back to the mad rush...?

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https://amp.cbc.ca/news/science/what-on-earth-shopping-environment-1.6052116

In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we have a Q&A with an author on the connection between shopping and environmental degradation and why a photo of a cut-down tree on Vancouver Island went viral.

31/05/2021

We all know that plastics are a disaster!!

They were certainly a cool new thing last century and I can see why they were embraced: a material that's easy and cheap to create and to buy, with a flexibility of form that allows and invites endless possibilities.

Now we know better, but we haven't stopped using them, and we need to do better.

A multiple angle approach is required: we need solutions for existing plastics, as well as new viable alternatives, and also a sea change in terms of how we consume oil-based throw-away plastics.

Of course this is just one of many, many issues facing us on the journey of healing this beautiful planet.

Luckily, there are BILLIONS of us and we are remarkably innovative, so surely we can collectively come up with ways!!

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28/05/2021

LOTS of people are doing things, creating solutions, working towards a better world ❤️❤️🌍🌎🌏🌊🌊🌊

23/02/2021

Whatever we do to nature it still tries to support us...because we ARE nature. We’ve just forgotten. ❤️🙏🏻🌏🌎🌍

21/02/2021

This film is SO beautiful and inspiring, on so many levels.

The way this man’s heart opened up again after he’d lost his spark...the stunning cinematography...the spectacular creature and the beautiful, magnificent ocean...the clarity of message that we are all truly interconnected...and so much more.

All humans should watch this. Thank you. ❤️❤️🌏🌎🌍🌊🌊🌊🐙

https://youtu.be/3s0LTDhqe5A

A filmmaker forges an unusual friendship with an octopus living in a South African kelp forest, learning as the animal shares the mysteries of her world.SUBS...