EARTH DAY 2002

(from the Planetary Rescue Corps)

7 Excellent Things YOU Can Do for the Earth

1. Take Action! On the Web, learn much more: http://care2.com/takeaction
You can take action online, sign up for a FREE email account at WildMail,
And support wildlife and the environment every time you log on!

2. JOIN Greenpeace! Go to Greenpeace.org to find out more about campaigns you can get involved with, and to learn much more about environmental issues

3. Reduce your use of Petroleum! Ride a bike instead of driving, slow down your lifestyle, smell the flowers! Every gallon of gas contains toxins which will be poisoning your children's water, and fills our atmosphere with chemicals.

4. Convert your energy use to sustainable technologies, such as solar and wind.
All of the tools you need to power your home are now available, and will make your family less reliant on "the grid"! Save money and use CLEAN energy!
Learn much more at: http://Homepower.com, get a cool Guerrilla Solar shirt.

5. Reduce your consumption of animal products, and improve your health!
Animals used for meat suffer cruel lives and are filled with toxins and parasites. Plenty of excellent protein, such as nuts and beans, are available, and you can make sprouts at home! Eat like Buddha did, and become enlightened!
Learn much more at: http://Vegan.org, and join the Vegan DormFood Campaign!

6. Stop the use of Herbicides and Pesticides, in your community and home.
Big corporations continue to push the use of their chemicals, which are
dumped on our lawns, farms, and roadsides by the TON, even though
scientific evidence shows persistent genetic damage in our bodies!
Learn much more at : Pesticide Action Network : http://www.panna.org

7. Plant a garden, plant more trees! Growing your own healthy vegetables,
herbs, and flowers will make you more attuned with the Earth. Planting
more trees, especially replanting native trees, will allow our children
to breathe easier and help reclaim our forests and soils. Thank you!

To learn more about our relationship with the Earth,
and to find radical resources on the web, access World Wire 2002:
http://geocities.com/worldripple

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The planet has a kind of intelligence, it can actually open a channel of communication with an individual human being. The message that nature sends is, transform your language through a synergy between electronic culture and the psychedelic imagination, a synergy between dance and idea, a synergy between understanding and intuition, and dissolve the boundaries that your culture has sanctioned between you, to become part of this Gaian supermind.

The planet is some kind of organized intelligence. It's very different from us. It's had 5- or 6-billion years to create a slow moving mind which is made of oceans and rivers and rain forests and glaciers. It's becoming aware of us, as we are becoming aware of it, strangely enough. Two less likely members of a relationship can hardly be imagined - the technological apes and the dreaming planet. And yet, because the life of each depends on the other, there's a feeling towards this immense, strange, wise, old, neutral, weird thing, and it is trying to figure out why its dreams are so tormented and why everything is out of balance.

--Terence McKenna

Learn More About the Gaian Mind at http://geocities.com/worldripple

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NEW ORDER OF INSECTS DISCOVERED IN NAMIBIA

WASHINGTON, DC, April 17, 2002 (ENS) - A new order of insects has been identified in a discovery that researchers say is equivalent to finding a live saber-tooth tiger. This first discovery of a new insect order since 1915 brings the total number of insect orders to 31.

For full text and graphics visit: http://ens-news.com/ens/apr2002/2002L-04-17-03.html

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You Have a Very Special Earth Day Card Waiting !
To view your card, simply click on this address:

http://www.care2.com/ecards/p/4106-4321-10189-1216

Sending Care2 e-cards and e-mail helps support Environmental Defense,
Defenders of Wildlife, and the National Wildlife Federation !

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JANE GOODALL APPPOINTED UN MESSENGER OF PEACE

NEW YORK, New York, April 16, 2002 (ENS) - United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today named primatologist and environmentalist, Dr. Jane Goodall, a United Nations Messenger of Peace.

For full text and graphics visit: http://ens-news.com/ens/apr2002/2002L-04-16-03.html

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HUFFINGTON: WILL SADDAM'S OILY SCHEME SAVE BUSH'S ANWR DREAM?

Arianna Huffington, AlterNet

The president is using the growing crisis in the Middle East to
justify his renewed call for drilling in the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge.

http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12842

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BUSH COOL TO WARMING REPORT

Jim Washburn, OC Weekly

Why did Bush bother requesting a global warming report from
the National Academy of Science if he was just going to ignore
their ominous scientific predictions?

* In EnviroHealth: http://www.alternet.org/?IssueAreaID=18

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WHALE MEAT TOXICS IGNORED IN PUSH FOR COMMERCIAL WHALING

CANBERRA, Australia, April 15, 2002 (ENS) - The latest scientific research has cast "a disturbing light" on the Japanese Whaling Association's push to encourage young people to eat more whale meat, says Australia's Parliamentary Secretary for the Antarctic, Dr. Sharman Stone.

For full text and graphics visit: http://ens-news.com/ens/apr2002/2002L-04-15-02.html

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Dear Friends,

I have just read and signed the petition:

Protect America's National Parks

Please help by signing this petition. It takes 30 seconds and will really
help. Please follow this link:

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/963791156

The system centralizes signature collection to provide consolidated, useful reports for petition authors and targets.

Please forward this email to others you believe share your concern.
Thank you!

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TREESITTER FALLS TO HER DEATH IN MT. HOOD NATIONAL FOREST

PORTLAND, Oregon, April 13, 2002 (ENS) - A treesitter with the Cascadia Forest Alliance has died in a fall from a tree she was attempting to protect from logging.

For full text and graphics visit: http://ens-news.com/ens/apr2002/2002L-04-13-01.html

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Earth Day Festival SF

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT:
David Frankel
voicemail 415-707-2109

Woody Harrelson, Bob Weir, Michael Franti, Clean Cars, Puppets and Clowns
Gather for Earth Day Celebration in SF¹s Precita Park (Folsom/Cesar
Chavez)­ Sunday April 21st Noon to 5pm

SAN FRANCISCO ­ Environmental activist and actor Woody Harrelson will
have his biodiesel and solar powered tourbus, The Mothership, at San
Francisco's Precita Park, Earth Day Celebration, Sunday April 21, 2002, Noon to 5pm.

The event is free to the public. Other environmental vehicles will
include electrics and hybrids from Honda and Toyota as well as biodiesel vehicles
converted to run on waste fryer oil.

Music will include Bob Weir, Fantuzzi, Hamsa Lila and an acoustic set by
Michael Franti and members of Spearhead plus possible Special Guests. Loco
Bloco (sponsored by Julia Butterfly and the Circle of Life Foundation),
the Big Tadoo Puppet Crew and the Mystic Family Circus will also perform.

Woody Harrelson, Bob Weir and Randy Hayes, President of Rainforest Action
Network and SF Environmental Commissioner, will be speaking about urban
sustainability and environmental issues.

Environmental exhibits will include a hemp information wall, home solar
displays and a non-toxic household products display.

Precita Park is on Precita Ave., one block South of Cesar Chavez between
Folsom and Alabama. Contact David Frankel, 415-707-2109,
http://www.earthdaysf.org
info@earthdaysf.org for more information.

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Welcome to Big Island HAWAI'I!!!

Dear Friends of the whole Earth, Just a reminder about Wholesome Productions annual Earth Day event, Sunday, April 21st. This year's Earth Day is from 3pm to 9pm at Hilo's bayfront Mo'oheau Park, featuring free, conscious music by Maui's reggae icon Marty Dread, Jesse Dawn and the Kine, MixJah, Country Lion, and a special presentation of "whale music" by harpist/vocalist Oona McOuat and Friends. Also assisting will be earth-friendly speakers Julie Jacobson and Jim Albertini.

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"If, at first an idea is not absurd, there is no hope for it."
--Albert Einstein

A fire-mist and a planet,
A crystal and a cell,
A jellyfish and a saurian,
And caves where the cavemen dwell;
Then a sense of law and beauty,
And a face turned from the clod--
Some call it Evolution,
And others call it God.
--W.H. Carruth
"Each in His Own Tongue"

"Is Nature a gigantic cat? If so, who strokes its back? It can only be God."
--Nikola Tesla

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."
--H. G. Wells

"Why is it that when we talk to God we are said to be praying, and when God talks to us we're said to be schizophrenic?"
--Lily Tomlin

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