It's good to see a new generation opf young folks taking up the fight. How refreshing it is to see environmental warriors who aren't 60 year olds still recuperating from the 1968 Democractic convention. And to see that they are Indian and Hispanic, not just displaced white surburbanites.

Mrs. Hernandez is inspiring. Unfortunately the leadership roles are being defaulted to the victims because our actual leaders would rather take contributions from the chemical companies than confront and demand them to be responsible corporate citizens.

Keep on fighting!

I sometimes wonder, what would the world be like without these activists in different spheres of life! They lend semblance of sanity in this crazy world, where extracting and exploiting are the norm. In the cities, it's almost the same story everywhere. Yeah...once upon a time there used to be trees but now it's concrete. I remember how I use to play in the park, now it's a shopping complex. These are quite routine statements in today's era.

Dear Radhika,

Thanks for posting this clip and raising this issue. I second the opinions of Yogi-one and Whiteink. Welcome to the blog.

Cheers!
Navin

We live in a nature reserve in the rapidly growing slash-n-burn-strip-sprawl suburbs in the country, North Fulton county, GA. All around our city of mountain park, bulldozers are leveling thousands of acres every month to make way for the same strip mall occupants you see everywhere else in the country. It's a dismal situation. My way to work that even six months ago was surrounded by cow pastures, silos, gardens, small lakes, is today filled with film-set prop homes and malls that they can't get occupants for. You'd have to come here to appreciate the devastation I'm describing. Lakes filled in. Deer stranded. Geese flattened.

North Fulton County, Georgia is under immense population pressure: storm-wracked Floridians, Mississippians, and New Orlandors are moving daily by the thousands. Cheap immigrant work is moving here. Northerns hoping to make a buck are coming here, too. You'd be hard-pressed to find a place in America with more uncontrolled growth than this.

Take just a second to copy and paste this link into your browser and behold our lakes in Mountain Park that Tibetan monks bless every spring: http://mountainpark.georgia.gov/05/home/0,2230,8343247,00.html;jsessionid=FA791664316B5265745A23D2ADDCA097

OUr city council is under IMMENSE pressure to disolve our charter and amalgamate with nearby Brookfield West, a golf course community that looks like a million other places around here. Here are the methods we've used to avoid that:

1. while we cannot control building, we can duictate mandated tree density by certain TYPES of trees, making it financially exhorbitant to build here if you have to replace them with rare trees.

2. Someone sold some select lots to Habitat for Humanity, so that those who are interested in building the sort of $2 Million mansions that exist just 100 yards to the north of our city's boundary are less inclined to do so, finding their neighbors "less attractive" to mainly white, upper middle class suburban life.

3. we have formed a thing called LINKS which will someday be a prototype for every city in the country that wants to keep CLOSE tabs on their city council. We have council links that interface with executive links, and then neighborhood links (I'm a neighborhood link) who get info from the executives that interact with my neighbors and disseminate info. EVERY single conversation of importance the council has is disseminated through our apolitical links to neighbors to ensure they're kept in the loop and that nobody absconds with our rich commonwealth in the middle of the night.

4. we've avoided installing sewers which would require a minimum of 1 acre to include a leach field. Lots were sold years back in 1/3 acre increments, so it takes at times three neighbors to conjoin their land, agree on a price, and execute a sale (you can't usually get two neighbors...much less three...to agree on anything).

5. Some of us are getting together to talk about forming a trust to buy green space to be preserved in perpetuity. Sort of a charter within the boundaries of our city's charter.

I really believe that in a couple years, a city that is under inordinate pressure to sell out will go down in history as a model example of preservation. And maybe, someday, I'll be its mayor!

That's great can we get all their email addresses?

I have been designing the "One Click Revolution", all each person has to do, is sign up, absorb some intelligence and then click the button. When a critical mass has clicked the button, it triggers events, and executable steps to eliminate the problems.

The other aspect to this is the "send this link to a friend" task.

A few mouse clicks is not much to ask, for changing the world.

If you want to start now join the 6 million people here at www.care2.com/ (or click my name) they have nifty painless 45 seconds of your time technologies to implement change.

But this is nothing, wait till you see 10 million people dictating (collectively) to corporations policy changes, efficiencies, material and qaulity requirements, and margins.

The consumer is going to hire and contract with a group of people to produce for example laundry detergent. Or they may contract with Organic Farmers to grow produce.

We also have another Consumer Power Purchasing group that is going to contract with automakers to build 10,000 efficient economically vehicles average savings will be $7,000 for each consumer plus a yearly savings of $600.00 on fuel.

Basically it works something like this but not in all cases. The new model takes the raw material cost, MFG labor + 35% margin. The 35% margin is then allocated to salary, overhead, R & D and profit, however if the consumer themselves become shareholders this will actually be returned in dividends plus a cost reduction.

Does everyone know that you can create a natural biocide (no more lysol) and laundry detergent from salt, sun, and water?

The God element #1 Hydrogen is pretty amazing stuff. The One and the Many. Sounds like Urgo Diamu.

Imagine how that will effect the countries economics, well if you are an investor you better have it figured out.

Are you a property owner? Want to make everyone happy and even generate revenue producing green house gas credits and save money?

Just think of all the people that will be wanting to rent at your place because you have a green roof they can play and relax on. Classified will read "GREEN ROOF" spetacular.

Imagine looking down upon New York and no longer seeing black rooftops but a vibrant green forest of buildings with birds singing, butterflys dancing past windows on high, and flying squirrels darting through the air between buildings. Okay the flying squirrels are a little vivid but a patch of nice green grass with a few shade trees and flowers sure is possible.

Build a green roof.

www.greenroofs.com/ or click my name.

Maybe we should create zoning laws that require new shopping centers and strip malls to have green roofs, it would certainly cut there energy costs insulating in winter, and cooling in summer.

We can give tax credits to those prexisting ones that install them.

Not to mention tenets could work together to tend their roof top organic gardens, need a fresh tomato or some salad?

"Honey can you run up to the roof please and pick some beans?"

There are many unexpected benefits for example it reduces rain runoff that does not need to be processed by the wastewater treatment plants. A cost savings to the whole community and a reduction of sewage entering the rivers, or the Great lakes in Detroit and Chicago during heavy rains.

There is even more benefits and methods but those will be announced soon....

How about rooftop bee keeping? I hear that's the rage in NYC.

For the sake of money, they are destroying nature dana. One day the nature will destroy them!

That is certainly a good idea, a rooftop source of bee regurgitation, winnie the pooh loved it, and it has great antibacterial properties.

Why not put a cow up there, and then we wouldn't need to cut the grass. The benefit is there would be fresh bovine mammary gland secretions to drink. Add an old fashioned manual churn and you got butter. And you could grow magic mushrooms on the cow pies. Which would be another added benefit leading to a peaceful God knowing community.

A couple lemon and lime trees would be good.

Dear Radhika,
Thank you on behalf of the Earth -- Gaia.
Love,
Donatella

How do you get your tractor up there, Richard Thomas? Because you can't do anything without a good tractor.

I forgot to mention that we are going to begin to hold drumming circles in our city park, noisy enough to remind nearby neuvo-aristocrats, suburban lords, that the best fences are effortlessly breached. (There isn't an alarm system in the world that can keep us off their property and out of their conscience.)

Dana, they actually have small rooftop versions of tractorsd originally designed your the typical homeowners yard, but I suspect a rototiller would be enough to turn the soil.

You should video your drumming sessions and put them online, if people come up, talk to them get their thoughts and share yours. It would be interesting to watch. I could always digitize it and encode for you if you send me the tape. Then we can stick it up on YouTube.

If you all do it naked and you might get a million viewers to hear your message. :)

Interesting article in Time that described Venezuela's and China's push to shift the attention from human rights to nation-states' rights. I'd go one further: I think everyone in a position of power these days has either consciously or unwittingly done things to do this, setting us back to conditions found in the early 20th century.

Had this not happened, the next logical step from human rights would've been ecological rights, and for many, that was, to many, untenable.

However, I think if we can stay focused on issue like conscious management of our collective commonwealth, forests, water, atmosphere, and avoid other distracitons, these "nation-states" will begin to represent us instead of trying to rule us.

Because we're way beyond the age of blind acceptance of autocratic rule.

And we're not stupid.