{"id":3706,"date":"2008-12-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/perspective-of-2009-the-challenges-of-waking-up-the-community\/"},"modified":"2023-05-11T19:20:17","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T06:20:17","slug":"perspective-of-2009-the-challenges-of-waking-up-the-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/greenplanetfm\/perspective-of-2009-the-challenges-of-waking-up-the-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Perspective of 2009 - The challenges of waking up the community"},"content":{"rendered":"
The GreenPlanet radio program has been broadcasting from Auckland's sky tower for 4 years now and this has been a very stimulating and information rich
\n time for me as a presenter and I trust for you as listeners. <\/p>\n
It is now also streamed from the web on www.planetaudio.org.nz<\/a> or www.holisticliving.co.nz<\/a> this takes us to a global audience, which I trust inspires individuals, families and communities where-ever And how things have changed, especially over the last year where we have come to a realisation that the monetary ways of man has been eaten away by This house is now having its foundations eroded away from it, and we need to be very astute in reading behind the headlines, and accessing our information And though the economic essentials are currently overriding the dogged headway we have made in environmental awareness - over the last few years, The urgency can only be understood from the knowledge of deep ecology in that the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat comes from the Mysteriously enough it is worth noting, that the words ecology and economy share the same root \u2013 from the ancient Greek word Ecos<\/strong>, They are two sides of the same coin, and one day soon I trust we will have politicians and business people, embrace this knowledge and take appropriate Last year I said that: So what has quickly emerged in the last year across New Zealand has been the term Transition Towns - transition towns now number 43 across the country
\n they may be on our marvelous planet, to consciously work in peace to an ecologically sustainable and better world of tomorrow.<\/p>\n
\n the tapeworm economy, which lacking any virtue has been built like a house of cards. <\/p>\n
\n from alternative news sources. We need to be proactive in researching both the challenges and the solutions to our current dilemma.<\/p>\n
\n it is crucial that we bring balance to both these two imperatives as we move towards sustainability. <\/p>\n
\n environment. Its source springs from a healthy living planet. And it is vital that we connect the dots by thinking things through to make the connection.<\/p>\n
\n which translates to meaning house or habitat. Economy refers to how to manage our house and Ecology how to know or understand it. The challenge
\n is to realise that our house is a home and our home is our planet Mother earth. Hence it is time to take care of it. <\/p>\n
\n and urgent action to bring about a new understanding of our relationship to this living planet that loans us bodies in which to live.<\/p>\n
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\"We are at a juncture in the earths evolution where solutions are urgently required to find ways to avert the consequences of not being truly conscious of our inter-relationship with ecological concerns, and all biota ... and especially that we be mindful of the billions of children that across the face of our planet are in need of love and leadership as they look forward to their yet un realised future.\"<\/em><\/p>\n
\n and are gathering momentum, very much like the Nuclear free zones that sprang up across New Zealand back in the mid 1980s to counter the lunacy of
\n the nuclear arms race that was escalating at that time.<\/p>\n