Mother Earth

The Wisdom of Circular Thinking

Donna Henes | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Straight, Seasons, Cycles, Celestial, Mother Nature, Circular Thinking, Nature, Mother Earth, Circle, Circles, Cycle, Healthy Living News

The circle of time, the celestial cycles, the round of the seasons, surrounds us and encompasses us. All there is, was, and will be exists within its ...

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This Mother's Day, Let's Be '7 Billion Strong'

Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Mother's Day, Video, Mother Earth, Green for All, Mother's Day 2012, Invest, Silent C, Green News

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Remembering "Mom" on Mother's Day

Robert Walker | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Population, Women's Empowerment, Population Growth, Women's Rights, Women, Family Planning, Mother's Day, Climate Change, Mother Earth, Reproductive Health, Environment, Sustainability, Motherhood, Mother's Day 2012, Global Motherhood, Maternal Health, Green News

Our mothers, including Mother Earth, have done their best to nurture and care for us. It's time to return the favor.

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Occupy Earth

Chip Ward | Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: 99 Percent, Mountaintop Removal, Mother Earth, Occupy Wall Street, Top 1 Percent, Sustainability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Pollution, Global Warming, Green News

The 99% pay for wealth disparity with lost jobs, but Nature pays, too. In the world the one-percenters have created, the needs of whole ecosystems are as easy to disregard as, say, the need the young have for debt-free educations and meaningful jobs.

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Mary Katrantzou S/S 2012: Metal Meets Petal

Evelyne Politanoff | Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: London Fashion Week, Spring / Summer 2012 Collection, Industrial Material, Mary Katrantzou, Mother Earth, Arts News

Nature versus Nurture, Mary Katrantzou's inspiration for Spring/Summer 2012 is the contrast between natural and man-made, artificial against organic, industrial fabrication vs the inherent beauty of nature.

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Pray For The Planet: Your Survival Depends On It

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee | Posted 10.09.2011

Read More: Healthy Living Health News, Consciousness, Healthy Living Spirit, Mother Earth, Mother Nature, Praying for Mother Earth, Prayer for the Earth, Prayers and the Earth, Video, Healthy Living News

The earth needs our prayers more than we know. It needs us to acknowledge its sacred nature, that it is not just something to use and dispose.

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The Five-Fingered Ways of Knowing

Robert Koehler | Posted 09.06.2011

Read More: Creativity, Energy, Dialogue, Quantum Physics, Ecology, Mother Earth, Science, Technology, Spirituality, Aboriginal People, Environmental Crisis, Community, Environmentalism, Green News

The Language of Spirit Conference takes place at the point where Western modes of perception break down, where traditional wisdom meets quantum physics.

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Worldwide Flooding: When It Rains It Pours

Donna Henes | Posted 07.23.2011

Read More: Rain, Floods, Radiation Poisoning, Fracking, Charity, Precipitation, Mother's Day, Foregiveness, Hope, Flooding, 2011, Peace, Radiation, Compassion, Oil Spills, Water, Greenhouse Gases, Mother Earth, Reverence, Love, Healthy Living News

People have long believed that bad weather is some kind of vengeful divine retribution, punishment for our earthly misbehavior. Certainly in the face of extreme hardship, this is a tempting response, based, perhaps, on guilt.

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It's International Mother Earth Day, Ready Or Not

Bron Taylor | Posted 06.21.2011

Read More: Environmentalists, Deep Ecology, Paganism, Earth Day, Mother Earth, Environmentalism, Universal Rights of Mother Earth, Green Faith, Eco-Theology, Earth Day 2011, International Mother Earth Day, Andean Mother Earth Spirituality, Mother Earth Day, Green News

We are a species not highly evolved enough to be ready for Earth Day, let alone Mother Earth day. But there is some tantalizing and hopeful evidence that we're beginning to find our way.

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Letter From an Angry Mother

Mike Bonifer | Posted 06.14.2011

Read More: Earth, Conservation, Coal, Mother, Mike Bonifer, Environmentalism, Earth Day, Gamechangers, Climate Change, Environment, Arctic Ice Melt, Dinosaurs, Deforestation, Mother Earth, Global Climate Change, Healing, Coal Burning, Green News

Chernobyl? Nuclear reactors and vodka? That was a bright idea. First, you poison me with radiation, then you invite tourists to see the results? Why? So you and your kids can laugh at the featherless geese?

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Harvesting Mother Earth's Gifts Of Life

Donna Henes | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Birth, Grain, Goddess, Nature, Mother Earth, Seeds, Autumn, Harvest, Fall, Resurrection, Life, Healthy Living News

Throughout world mythology, the goddess of the good ground, the grain, the autumn harvest, has been appropriately portrayed as a knowledgeable mature woman of the world.

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Into the Wild

Arjuna Ardagh | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hiking, Granite Chief, Forest Hill, Children, Backpacking, American River, Remote, Nature, Mother Earth, Ecosystem, Wilderness, Camping, Camp, Sierras, Travel News

We call an experience like camping going into "nature" or "the wilderness." But actually, if you think about it, these words are quite unnecessary. We should really just have a word for "not nature".

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DK Matai | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: FAA Safety, Earthquake, Safety, Europe, Volcano, Europe Planes, Climate, Norway, Europe Flights, Eu, Co2 Emissions, Climate Change, World News, England, Caa, Volcanic Ash, Katla Volcano, Eurocontrol, Business News, Sulphur Dioxide, Aviation, Flights, Germany, Iceland, Green House Gases, Climate Chaos, Global Warming, Air Travel, France, Air Traffic, Acid Rain, UK, Iceland Volcano, Europe Travellers, Holland, Ghg, Ice Age, s02, Climate Crisis, Climate Summit, Environment, Ecology, Geology, Mother Earth, Pollution, Air Pollution, Energy, Alternative Energy, Sustainability, Climate Bill, Environmentalism, Green Energy, Earth Day, Renewable Energy, Crisis Management, Contingency Planning, Green News

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Earth, Our Mother

Donna Henes | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Earth, American Indians, Goddess, Mother, Mythology, Mother Earth, Creation, Patriarchy, Healthy Living News

In its infancy, humankind clung to the primal comprehension of a maternal Earth. The biblical name, Eve, means Mother of All Living. Her name is derived from much older creation myths.

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Moms United

Lise Van Susteren | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Unite, Moms, Mother's Day, Mother Earth, Green News

To save our planet as we know it, a new kind of motherhood has to emerge. One that responds to the global threat to our children and that mobilizes us to action.

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Mother Earth: What Have You Done For Me Lately?

Donna Henes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Recycling, Mother Earth, Environment, Waste, Conservation, Earth Day, Tree Planting, Trees, Green News

While saving and conserving are admirable virtues, perhaps it is more fruitful to think not of giving something up, but rather of giving something back to Mother Earth.

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Dear Mother Earth, You Can Heal

Claudia Ricci | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: BP Oil Spill 2010, BP Oil Spill, Pachamama, Mother Earth, Green News

My hope is that I will be able to turn away from strong negative feelings to hold gently in the palm of my hand the possibility of healing for the Gulf and our beautiful, blue planet. And for all of us.

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Earth Day 2050

Gloria Reuben | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Appalachia, Environmentalism, Climate Change, Gloria Reuben, Earth Day, West Virginia Mine Explosion, Earth Day 2010, Mother Earth, Green News

Forty years from now, if I am blessed to still be on this earth, I will rejoice and celebrate the 80th anniversary of Earth Day with gratitude filling my heart. I can see that day in my mind's eye.

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Climate Game Changer: From Copenhagen to Cochabamba

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pablo Solon, United Nations Climate Change, Copenhagen 2009, Mother Earth, Sarah Van Gelder, Bolivia, Climate Change, The Good Life, Evo Morales, YES! Magazine, Cochabamba, Barack Obama, Offshore Drilling, Green News

Representatives of 50 governments will meet with ordinary people and social movement leaders from around the world in Bolivia to work on solutions to the threat of climate change.

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Springtime Detox: A Carbon Fast

Donna Henes | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Energy, Global, Carbon Emissions, Mother Earth, Greenhouse Gas, Environment, Pollution, Planet Green, Easter, Lent, Passover, Healthy Living News

Perhaps we need to undertake a Greenhouse Gas Fast during this holy season. How about giving up carbon emissions for Passover and Lent

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Spring Fever!

Donna Henes | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: The Inner Life, Spring Fever, Spring, Mother Earth, Spirituality, Shamanism, Healthy Living News

On these glorious days of May, it feels as if the whole world is in the throes of a contagious spring fever. We are aswirl in a delirious dance, an exhilarating carnival ride of heady smells and riotous color.

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Cameron's Avatar: Jar Jar Binks Meets Pocahontas

Athena Andreadis, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: White Man's Burden, Science Fiction, Aliens, Mother Earth, James Cameron, Militarism, Disney, Noble Savage, Imperialism, Avatar, New Age Spirituality, Evolution, Entertainment News

All of James Cameron's films after The Abyss increasingly resemble the Hindenburg: bloated, self-indulgent, lacking originality and subtlety in all but F/X. Avatar is the culmination of these -- with CGI.

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Life Cycle: The Birth and Death of Your Bootleg DVDs

Simran Sethi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Muggles, Banned, Polycarbonate, Bootleg, Green, Titanic, Aluminum, Co2, Dvds, Lord Voldemort, Dvd, Green Living, #7, Rihanna, Fda, Bisphenol-A, Mother Earth, Environment, Waste, Bpa, Plastic, Carbon Dioxide, Sarah Smarsh, Netflix, Harry Potter, Mia, Simran Sethi, Green News

Your cinematic experience leaves its mark not only on your heart, but on the planet.

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Protecting the Rights of Mother Earth

Danielle Cavallucci | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Monsanto, Family Planning, Population Control, Earth Friendly, Overpopulation, Mother Earth, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Farming, Planned Parenthood, Green News

A Monsanto ad really set me off with their "sustainable agriculture" full pager in the New York Times last week. How about answering the Earth's ple...

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Mother's Day

Michael DeJong | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Motherhood, WINGS World Quest Women of Discovery Awards, Organic Chocolate, Mother's Day, Mother Earth, Green News

"It's not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it." ~The Golden Girls We all get one -- a mother that is -- and it's no surprise th...

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