This was from one of the many local Cleveland Bioneers workshops

Some say we have a 10 year window to move on these things before it gets aways from us. That puts a burr under our saddle.

In college I started to see understanding is seeing relationships. How things are connected is key to figuring things out in this world. As this earth goes so do we.

Eight person organization -- working on presenting other ideas. Teaches at Elizabeth Town College about environmental choices. Most of his students have never heard of this. If you want to have the power to choose, you need information (that way you have the power to choose).

I really do think only artists can change the world -- can put us off center, but gets to the heart of the matter.

We should all think about ways that tell the story but rather than force our ideas on people, but our own lives area work of art that draws people into another way of living.

We work on global poverty issues. Visited Nepal, Sudan, Burma to see the poverty of people.

The poor because they have to and rich because they should know better (the causes for environmental destruction). For example, we buy exotic birds, but poor people chop down trees to get the nests.

Africa will lost 187 million people due to global warming and they're not causing it.

We work on environmental justice, but also environmental sanity. This idea that growth is the only was to measure our progress. Read the book, "Beyond Growth". Every fish stock we're fishing will be depleted. We use 1.2 billion gallons a day more globally than is being replenished. Eventually we'll be sucking air. The clock is ticking.

A Woods Hall oceanographer says I cannot tell we're we're ending up but we're walking toward a cliff.

What keeps us moving in that direction?

An answer - we always have.

Jarrod Diamond, author, Collapse says a society's cdore values get you trapped.

We learging "Short History of Progress" Ronald Wright.

We're competitive. Switch from individual to collective. Whether we get on bus or work with China.

Bridge to the end of the World author says we need to be acting collaboratively with china

We believe we can fix any problem. The technology got us here, though.

E.O. Wilson biologist from Harvard, The Future of Life. Technical, wealth shows your impact on the planet. Radcliff would add attitude.

Radcliff's web site has a reading list.

Professor Princeton talks about sufficiency instead of efficiency.

What does it mean to live within your means? The credit card is going to come for the planet.

Five relationships we need to tend to ourselves, our neighbors and our planet

75% of people cannot see Milky Way at night.

We're alienated we're defining ourselves.

'Getting a grip" by Francis Ford LeFay

"Consumed"

Advertisers are spending $1000 a year on each of us

We help people think twice to not buy the company line, the corporate line

How are our communities designed to not include people who cannot affort a car?

Our ideas need to be lying around on the table when we reach that turning point. I wonder do I have my ideas out there. Be the one to create the mantra.

Facts:

Three trillion miles driven by Americans/3 tillion tons of CO2

Products have carbon footprints and the local product is not always the smallest.

150 million cell phones thrown out every day and 40 million plastic water bottles

What is the average ecological footprint if you do no composting, recycling, reuse 3.4 acres versus if you did everything you can .04 acres (source: Radical Simplicity)

We use 760 million pounds of paper globally a year, that's 1 billion trees.

75% of tree farms where on mature Hickory farms (even though our net forest production is getting better, it's trees growing in rows, not as productive an ecosystem). You are not renewing the forest, but you are reusing the resource. The qualitative aspect of the forest is the lifeforce.

Tractor trailor loads of good for every American per year -- 27. That includes the mining and shipping to get it to you (95% of those tractor trailers). California is putting a fuel tax on ships to account for their ecological footprint.

Global footpint: Since 1980 we're not living off interest, we're living off the capital (we're reducing that 1% every year).

You're asking for a radical change in society, a society filled with greed. If we knew how to go within and sense the living energy of this planet. If you have a culture of people who have created an ability to be within -- that's the way to affect a radical shift in consciousness.

Radcliff - yes. that's what we need. Corten says in his book the Great Turning we've been on a five thousand year journey away from the connectedness. The transformation is needed. How do we bring the society. We need a little bit of leaven. Those of us who are grounded set a living example. Be evangelists in a good sense of the word.