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SHARED SURVIVAL 2008: EI's Vital End-of-Year Fund-Raiser Dear colleagues, As is frequently the case, Ecological Internet's (EI) end-of-year fund-raiser has launched quite slowly, only 2% to the goal. Let's be clear -- as a user supported organization -- if this goal is not substantively achieved, Ecological Internet and our brand of ecologically rigorous Earth protection will end. Please gift the Earth now in support of rigorous environmental policy advocacy, what ecological science tells us is necessary to save being. You can help usher in an era of ecological sustainability and restoration at: http://www.climateark.org/shared/donate/ . The world is at risk of losing 20 years of accomplishment in online ecological advocacy systems. I am racking my brain on how to keep what is broadly...

The speed and extent of the financial sector's massive bailout shows what is possible when society perceives a calamitous problem and rises swiftly to the challenge. If fat cat bankers are deserving, the biosphere and global ecological systems are much more worthy of a bailout. Global ecological sustainability is threatened [action] by a massive ecological bubble [search] -- whereby there are not enough intact global terrestrial, aquatic and marine ecosystems to maintain life. Now this -- the destruction of our very being -- is a crisis worthy of some serious emergency funding. A recent Guardian column shows what the $2-4 trillion financial bailout could achieve if invested for the environment [ark] . It notes funding on this "scale to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and protect nature...

I am unwilling and unable to sit by stoically and impassively as the Earth, her creatures and humanity suffer and die; no matter how much it hurts emotionally, and you should not either The Earth is dying and it makes me feel sad. Not just a bit tense or melancholy; but deeply and profoundly anguished, depressed, and angry. Humanity had so much potential that has been wasted. Our self consciousness, opposable thumbs, upright walking and ability for limited rationality has lead to great triumphs in philosophy, art, sport and leisure. But alas other aspects of our animalistic nature; libido, insatiable appetite, and desire to dominate, have won out. This week a leading scientist reported what many of us already knew and intuited: that climate change has already surpassed critical...

Here is an excerpt and link to the full text of my most recent Earth Meanders personal essay: Ecology is the study of how organisms interact with each other and their physical environment. Sounds deceptively simple and non-threatening to the status quo, but I contend that growing ecological knowledge and re-understanding of humanity's place within the web of life is one of the most radical and potentially transformative notions ever. Awareness of humanity's utter dependence upon ecosystems and the biosphere, found in the relatively new discipline of modern ecology, has coincided with a period of unprecedented ecological destruction. Ecology may provide the only truthful answers regarding how to save the Earth and ourselves. Ecology is a radical science that calls into question the...