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Vandana Shiva's Thoughts on the Rio+20 Summit

7/27/2012

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A brilliant assessment, by my hero Vandana Shiva, of the magnitude of what we are up against. I highly recommend watching this video below. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGCrbX2vUXc&feature=share

What can we do about it? Create small, sustainable, natural farms with hand tools. If you can't do that yourself, support those who are attempting to do this.

Raise heirloom and heritage vegetables, fruits, and grains; save and share the seed. Raise, and breed out heritage livestock.

Spend as little money as possible, on all the things that support the industries that are destroying the planet. Every dollar you spend, is a vote for what you want more of. "Vote" for the environment every chance you get.
Switch to open software. When Bill Gates chose to team up with Monsanto, I decided to not send anymore money Bill Gates way, and I had scythe friend and open software expert, Andy Graybeal, help me switch my pc over to Ubuntu open software. Andy can be contacted at [email protected]

Below is an interview with Dr. Vandana Shiva done in a more positive setting, where something environmentally constructive is actually being accomplished. The inteview took place on March 16, 2011, during the "Grandmonther's University"; a three day course at Navdanya Biodiversity Farm at Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India which Dr. Vandana Shiva founded in 1987 to help save traditional seeds.
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claude
7/29/2012 01:33:19 pm


What can we do about it? Create small, sustainable, natural farms with hand tools. If you can't do that yourself, support those who are attempting to do this.

Brilliant in deed !!
this is so obvious but as if a secret message because it is off the radar screens of most.

As Thoreau says: "There are a thousand striking at the branches of evil, to one who is striking at the roots"

Keep on striking Botan !!!
you are doing inspired work...

claude

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J.C. Beat
8/6/2012 04:16:47 pm

Botan keep up the great work and great advice. Chief Seattle and the American Indians said it best. The white man will devour the land and leave behind a desert (1854). Fast forward about 100 years and Fukuoka wrote in his book USA policy is turning the USA into a desert. White people will destroy every thing on the planet and will then discover they can not eat money. (I am a white man, but red inside. American Indians - great permaculturists.). Vandana speaks the truth.

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