Dear Friend,

Hope I see you at the launch of the book “Our Tibet” which Tenpa Dugdak and Sophie Bouris , my guests today, wrote about their experience of returning to Tibet.

As Tempa says, very little information about the reality of Tibetans lives is getting out from what he calls imposed Martial law.

So hope to see you there on Thursday Evening 6.00pm  at Abraxis and then on Monday at the Mullum Civic Hall to hear one of the most influential environmentalist in the world, Douglas Thompkins, who has just docked from being on the Sea Shepard in Antarctic waters and is one of the larges private property owners in the world.. all of which he has purchased to save the "deep ecology” of those  places.

Lots of Love

ros

Our Tibet

http://www.ourtibet.com.au/

Voice of Tibet

http://www.voiceoftibet.com.au/vot/?m=200812

International Society for Ecology and Culture

http://www.isec.org.uk/

Transition Towns

A Transition Initiative is a community working together to look Peak Oil and Climate Change squarely in the eye and address this BIG question:

"for all those aspects of life that this community needs in order to sustain itself and thrive, how do we significantly increase resilience (to mitigate the effects of Peak Oil) and drastically reduce carbon emissions (to mitigate the effects of Climate Change)?"

http://www.transitiontowns.org/

Australian’s first Transition Town

http://www.seac.net.au/main/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=44&Itemid=32

Video Talks about Transition Towns by founder Rob Hopkins

http://video.google.com.au/videosearch?hl=en&client=firefox-a&channel=s&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=9WW&resnum=0&q=transition+towns&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&resnum=5&ct=title#

Shumacher College

http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/

Douglas Tompkin’s Foundation for Deep Ecology

http://www.deepecology.org/

The Deep Ecology Platform

1) The well-being and flourishing of human and nonhuman life on Earth have value in themselves (synonyms: inherent worth; intrinsic value; inherent value). These values are independent of the usefulness of the nonhuman world for human purposes.

2) Richness and diversity of life forms contribute to the realization of these values and are also values in themselves.

3) Humans have no right to reduce this richness and diversity except to satisfy vital needs.

4) Present human interference with the nonhuman world is excessive, and the situation is rapidly worsening.

5) The flourishing of human life and cultures is compatible with a substantial decrease of the human population. The flourishing of nonhuman life requires such a decrease.

6) Policies must therefore be changed. The changes in policies affect basic economic, technological structures. The resulting state of affairs will be deeply different from the present.

7) The ideological change is mainly that of appreciating life quality (dwelling in situations of inherent worth) rather than adhering to an increasingly higher standard of living. There will be a profound awareness of the difference between big and great.

8) Those who subscribe to the foregoing points have an obligation directly or indirectly to participate in the attempt to implement the necessary changes.

- Arne Naess and George Sessions