One of our Unity members (BirdTribes) invited Julia and I to the world premiere of “Whaledreamers” – a documentary film about the connection between cetaceans & humans; a film about the extreme need for people to look back and think. It’s not your typical Hollywood movie, it's not entertainment, not fun. It’s simple and straightforward, but the message… it has finally brought the pieces in our heads together.
There are a few reasons why I write about it here. First, it’s not personal. It’s an important global message that everyone should hear. Second, I want you to see this film too, or another film, but I definitely want you to feel what we feel now – a strong desire to change the world... Now. And third, this will have some serious impact on how BoonEx operates too.
Thank you, Dan, for inviting us; the film is a great inspiration and the people who gathered to watch it are an even greater inspiration.
Well, nothing new actually. It’s just that dolphins and whales and sharks and orcas are being brutally killed in huge numbers right now, while you’re reading this. Wars and developing economies boost our carbon footprint. Animal species become extinct. Smog covers cities. Nuclear tests destroy ecosystems. Overfishing empties the ocean. While…
The Human race is flourishing. Obesity is our #1 problem and concern, since we eat, drink, drive cars and work hard to be able to consume more.
If you dig into the list of environmental problems – you very soon realize that there’s almost no part of nature that is safe. Everything is struggling, except for us. Instead, we spend money and time on wars, again making our way to consume more, a lot more than we actually need.
This has to be changed.
If you care, watch the film. Look at what you can do to change this trend and move the scale. We lose the beauty around us every day and it happens because of us. Do something, anything.
…will now do more. We’re popular and successful, we have tools to change the world and we’ll now look for every opportunity to use them. We have a few ideas and a fast-baked plan, but need your input. In your comments, please, tell us about what you think we could do to help save the planet. Tell us about organizations that genuinely try to save the world, and we’ll find ways to support them together. Tell us about your opinion. We should create a good list of websites representing people that already do something and we should join them.
Then, talk to members of your sites, and let’s join our forces and let’s stop the destruction of our planet.
I share a lot of your concerns. One of my websites is aimed at just that, individuals and groups making a difference. Setting some time aside from the countless hours of television, and video games to go back to our roots of helping one another. While I am receiving a lot of traffic, alas I am seeing no interest in anyone doing anything that makes a difference. I am sure that if I were to post some mammoth breasts, or a whale of a male part I would receive interest in enormous amounts. see more
without nature, no future
I do not know if you know Nicolas hulot - is a french
defender of the planet since many years
Foundation nicolas hulot
http://www.fondation-nicolas-hulot.org
paris
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=_V-CSkYobMM
http://www.dailymotion.com/Nicolas-Hulot
my country corsica
or the protection of this nature made by love of country
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=D0iPU4IiRHk
daniel
I will definitely watch it. Thanks for sharing it with us.
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I have been working since early this year on an application that I believe has the potential to change the world using Boonex technology. Several years ago, on returning to the U.S. from West see more
What are the solutions?
There are some renewable energy projects that we can support to "neutralize" the carbon emissions that we are responsible for. Carbon offsets, Green-e credits by the Center for Resource Solutions are the two which have been brought up lately.
Some organizations like Integrated Ecosystem Market Services can help in planning see more
I use a web hosting environmentally friendly
Accommodation ecological technologies that reduce up to 60% CO2 in the atmosphere.
You so missed my point so let me clarify. As for Obama's statement, I stated I do not follow in its context simply see where it came from now. I also elaborated this point. Nobody on the planet could be farther from an Obama supporter than I. Secondly, the groups I was talking about making change where the average Joes on the shovels as you so eloquently put it. I believe we need to take care of ourselves and those around us that we have the ability to and continously look to Uncle see more
Fair enough, with your clarification I agree with you in principle except that we cannot look to Uncle Sam to bail us out. The best thing that could happen in Washington would be that they have a collective epiphany and understand that they have to make due with less money, and they have to turn the private sector loose to do what it does best. Innovate and create. Ultimately I think you and I are probably on the same page when it comes to creating positive change.
My wife is from see more
The whole premise of trying to create a better see more
After spending $1000 on the Propack (or whatever is called), and about 6 months of suffering ... and perhaps $300 more on mods ... I just could not stand the bugs anymore.
Therefore I went back to my OLD custom application. Now I have the task of moving some 20K members that I added when I used dolphin ... but it just feels good to go back to something I can control.
I am sorry for all you guys that are suffering with Dolphin. It is just NOT good enough. It see more
now, what i would like to know from you, where were you hosted, and with 78k members on a database, see more
I host at HOSTFORWEB .. Dedicated 8 core Xeon server. Ping www.amistad.com and you can see. You recommend them, right. I have 3 servers with them.
My complain about speed was with the way you retrieve "friends" for a profile. A profile with around 80 friends took more than 30 seconds to execute the query. It is a nasty left join that you use.
Dolphin is extremely buggy. I am sorry if you find that hard to believe. Most Dolphin users already know see more
Dolphin Support needs to improve. And work on a Boonex Buddy Scheme please. Transported my site to a new Host and nothing worked, had to reinstall from scratch. Backup and restor and moving of site and database needs improving. And explanations of Cron Jobs.
There will be some opposing individuals and organisations to environmental protection, so lets team up. Are you going to suggest charities to support, e.g. Friends of the Earth?
Let me know please.