From email.. About Fairfield, Iowa.. ..I didn't know all that was going on in Fairfield, Iowa, until I heard your mayor speak at Simpson College recently. I am really impressed.
“Building and Sustaining a Vibrant Community” In Fairfield, Iowa, The three goals were to create a sustainability culture, green jobs, and sustainable community design. You can find the Fairfield Go-Green 2020 Strategic Plan here. http://cityoffairfieldiowa.com/DocumentCenter/View/1307 ..the city fathers in this liberal southeastern Iowa outpost http://www.fairfieldiowa.com/ unanimously adopted a Green Strategic Plan. Their vote was more than ceremonial: they also secured a state-funded grant to hire a sustainability coordinator, inventory their greenhouse gases, and create educational materials for residents. The new plan envisions everything from conserving energy to supporting local farms. Malloy, who’s been mayor since 2001 and heads up a local oil company, says the environment-economy connection is clear. He hopes Fairfield’s ideas will catch on http://radishmagazine.com/stories/display.cgi?prcss=display&id=420248: “We want to create a model community, a virtual template that other small towns can adopt to create the same results.” http://cityoffairfieldiowa.com/DocumentCenter/View/1307 http://cityoffairfieldiowa.com/DocumentCenter/View/1307 / An Awesome climate site, Climate Reanalyzer.. https://climatereanalyzer.org/ https://climatereanalyzer.org/ Survival Diet Is Better For the Planet.. people should eat less than 1 ounce of red meat a day and limit poultry and milk, too. Here's the environmental argument: Agriculture is responsible for up to 30 percent of greenhouse gas emissions globally, and much of the emissions come from red meat production. A lot of land and water https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/04/22/525113726/chew-on-this-for-earth-day-how-our-diets-impact-the-planet are needed to grow the grains to feed the livestock. (About one-third of all the grain http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/FBS produced globally is used as animal feed.) And, as the World Resources Institute estimates https://www.wri.org/blog/2018/10/we-cant-limit-global-warming-15c-without-changing-diets, producing beef uses 20 times the land and emits 20 times the emissions as producing beans, per gram of protein. By one estimate, if people in the U.S. switched from beef to beans https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10584-017-1969-1, this alone could get the U.S. more than halfway to the greenhouse gas reductions goals.. "Many environmental systems and processes are pushed beyond safe boundaries by food production," concludes the new EAT-Lancet Commission report https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(18)31788-4/fulltext?utm_campaign=tleat19&utm_source=hub_page. https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/01/27/688765872/this-diet-is-better-for-the-planet-but-is-it-better-for-you-too ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : ..The Green New Deal.. The bill calls for a "10-year national mobilizations" toward accomplishing a series of goals that the resolution lays out. Among the most prominent, the deal calls for "meeting 100 percent of the power demand in the United States through clean, renewable, and zero-emission energy sources." The ultimate goal is to stop using fossil fuels entirely, as well as to transition away from nuclear energy. In very broad strokes, the Green New Deal legislation laid out by Ocasio-Cortez and Markey sets goals for some drastic measures to cut carbon emissions across the economy, from electricity generation to transportation to agriculture. In the process, it aims to create jobs and boost the economy. In that vein, the proposal stresses that it aims to meet its ambitious goals while paying special attention to groups like the poor, disabled and minority communities that might be disproportionately affected by massive economic transitions like those the Green New Deal calls for. "upgrading all existing buildings" in the country for energy efficiency; working with farmers "to eliminate pollution and greenhouse gas emissions... as much as is technologically feasible" (while supporting family farms and promoting "universal access to healthy food"); "Overhauling transportation systems" to reduce emissions — including expanding electric car manufacturing, building "charging stations everywhere," and expanding high-speed rail to "a scale where air travel stops becoming necessary"; A guaranteed job "with a family-sustaining wage, adequate family and medical leave, paid vacations and retirement security" for every American; "High-quality health care" for all Americans. Which is to say: the Green New Deal framework combines big climate-change-related ideas that, taken together, would touch nearly every American and overhaul the economy. Fairfield Focus Group: Global Climate Change and the Consciousness Community The Climate Change Lecture, Lecture transcription: "We are right now in the position where what some of these scientists are talking about is on the edge of unfolding. Most scientists say this is irreversible and there is nothing we can do about it, and some go so far as to say that if there is a tree with a leaf left on the planet in six years then they will be amazed. This is how dire the assessment is. The assessment actually leads them to that deduction." "In sharing this with people some people leave the lecture something like zombies, some start crying, some uncontrollably. So, it is not for the light of heart. Although the scientists, most of them say this irreversible, there is nothing we can do about it. But instead of going there first with the climate science, I would like to empower you first because I believe that our community with its deep consciousness roots and its knowledge about the importance of collective consciousness has the ability to do something profound about this, more than any other community with the exception of other little groups of people who have learned to use transcendence as a means of developing their own consciousness. And, there are plenty of those around the world. Not trying to minimize them but thinking in our awareness this is the largest community that exists on the planet. A conveyance here is that Maharishi left us with some bread crumbs through time. He worked with many many people and as many of us know he worked around the clock. Nobody got to know everything he was doing but lots of people got very intimate with him on certain projects. In sharing this information on climate change with people on Mother Divine, Purusha programs or maybe a special project on Vastu housing or some other project he was working on, they all heard him say something about this transition coming up. What he said most of all was that the severity and length of time that it will take to go through this transition, from ‘object referral’ to ‘heaven on earth’ would depend on what the meditating groups did that were left on the planet. He also said that less than 20 percent of the people that were alive when the transition started would be alive at the end. That is pretty grim. But, he also told people on the Mother Divine program that what was going to happen was going to be so challenging and horrific that he did not want to even put his attention on it and would not discuss it at all. We have discovered pieces and wish to share these with the community, the little nuggets of information that Maharishi has talked about will surface and come together in maybe a set of instructions, last minute things that he planted in the group and see if we can work together as a team ... Maharishi planted the seed that we can make a difference, that we always have consciousness as the most powerful tool, and the more of us that come together and meditate in to that silence the more powerful this tool is. That is the message to leave you with .. (that we were left with. ) The rest you will find in your heart and you will also find Maharishi’s message, we have the ability individually, individual by individual, and as a collective to do what no scientist on earth believes is possible. Jai Guru Dev QED Lecture postscripts, Meditating In Numbers in Proximity .. "The thing that we can bring in to the mix is our silent value in transcending. During the IAmerican Assembly MMY said that when things get really bad on the planet Brahma awakens. Where does Brahm awaken? Brahm does not awaken in Brahma heaven somewhere, Brahm awakens in the people on earth in our own consciousness we are Brahma that has to awaken. And Brahma awakens and that awaken-ness in us comes forth and evolves our consciousness until we overturn the destructive force in nature intentionally. Maharishi talked about 'we', the individuals that we think we are, are really one Brahmin connection. We have to awaken to the fact that our other aspects of consciousness are destroying all the other unique and beautiful aspects of Brahma. When we destroy complex life on this planet there will be nothing but bacteria left. Do we leave that inheritance for the rest of eternity?" Meditating In Numbers, in Proximity "We have the ability to raise humankind to its heavenly divinity to command the laws of nature. We need this pressure. This is not something by mistake. This is something that is happening naturally that brings us to the point where we will take ownership and become brahm in Devine and take charge of nature in life. That is what we are doing in graduating from heaven. Wake up to it. Come and take your power because we have just years left to make that transition and we make it better when we are in groups because there is a collectivity involved. People individually talk themselves out of it. But when this is shown to groups of ten or more everyone gets it. They leave with the knowledge of ‘wow. I could be instrumental’, I am going to graduate in Nature. In life I have been in heaven training and now it is time to get to ownership and get to the point of doing something about it. This is a very very special time. It is the end of the illusion of separation from Nature. That is all we are trying to show you. This is a glorious event, nothing to be fearful about. But those aspects of consciousness not prepared to wake up will not be around for very long. Let us not be some of them. Our hearts lead us on the path to be in the graduating class in Nature. That is how we got here." -Ryan and Stan Global Weird Weather.. 1st weeks in January,, 50 degree weather in Iowa. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : Eco-Anxiety Disorder and CBT, Cognitive Behavior Therapy technique, 10 Distorted thinking ideas applied to near term human extinction… .. there are basically 10 main types of distorted thinking habits that derail people's mental well-being. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaEe2tTmXXo&t=29s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaEe2tTmXXo&t=29s ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : Eco-anxiety.. Dealing with abrupt climate change “With a basic knowledge of your brain, you can use your Mind to change your Brain to change your Mind. Neurons that Fire together Wire together, according to neuroscientist Hanson. Using an easy method (acronym HEAL) Hanson explains “taking in the good” to build inner strengths into people’s psyches. This is NOT “positive thinking” which is problematic; but it is a quick way to enrich and install positive experiences and rewire brain circuits (create synapses, overwrite others, create new neural pathways) to build up inner strengths. ‘HEAL’, remember the acronym HEAL: Have a positive experience, Enrich it in your mind, Absorb it feel like it is permeating your soul and then link it to negative thoughts. This is a great way to deal with climate change. “ -Beckwith Deal With Climate Depression Using Neuropsychology https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66mDd_J_VQU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66mDd_J_VQU HEAL’ing Your Despairing Climate Change Brain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7TxIAERgGM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7TxIAERgGM In his homily, Pope Francis said "Let us ask ourselves: Do I really need all these material objects and complicated recipes for living? Can I manage without all these unnecessary extras and live a life of greater simplicity?" the Global Carbon Project (GCP), says that this year's "strong" rise is projected to be 2.7%. That's much bigger than 2017's 1.6%. ..main factor in the near 3% rise has been coal use in China, a booming global market for cars has helped drive CO2 emissions to an all-time high. Charts: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46447459 https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46447459 Do Something? “..Just stop 'doing', meditate. Doing ‘nothing’, today that makes us nervous.. (though) it was not long ago that this was what everybody did. Maybe we should try that. ..Stop doing, meditate." ..“Do ‘everything”, that is human nature. We are too clever by halves.” Conservation Biologist vs. Geo-engineer: A Conversation with Guy McPherson, Paul Beckwith, and Martin Halliwell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3l9wI1Gvds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3l9wI1Gvds . . Hope’s Dissertation.. Herculean Hope: Paul Beckwith: “..People ask, in face of doom and gloom of this time do you have hope? How do you maintain hope and keep from getting in to despair, or just basically shutting off ? Answer: Having hope for action is a mug’s game ( A mug is a fool, one easily duped.) when the challenge for change has not been met, even for years. If you have hope and your hopes are continually dashed it is very hard on your psyche or to maintain a balance to function and so on, do I have hope? I have always been hopeful but it is the wrong question. I may not have a lot of hope but it is not a hopeless situation, it is ‘not all or nothing’. There is lots of things we can do as individuals to try to get change from the power structures, from governments, from politicians, leaders, from people. Everything seems going the wrong way right now though there are glimmers, of that word, hope. Have hope or hopeless? The better way to think about it is having passion, you try to make a difference in your life. Do what you can to use the skills that you have to try to get change. A lot of people can feel guilty or try to make you feel guilty, that misses the point; it is not your fault. We can always try to effect change. Things are bad and spiralling continuing, going in the wrong direction, one thing is in the three legged bar stool (analogy).. See the Emergency, step one is agree there is an emergency, then two,what do we do(?) and then (3) change (action).” (.. transcription edited for clarity) -Herculean Climate Rant to Rouse Humanity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt5ORKJoH-Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt5ORKJoH-Q
