Controlling Dept: Though lowering my human footprint is very important, controlling my debt and managing my money is equally important. I have only 1 credit card now with a very low credit limit.
I lowered my expenses by getting rid of the things that I don't need. I only buy what I need and not what I want. Watch this short movie about our national debt I.O.U.S.A 
A great Documentary about Dept is Maxed Out   In Debt We Trust    Social Impact of Wealth

Education is the strongest and the most effective tool known to Humans:
"It's hard to implement action and positive change without the necessary knowledge being shared"

3 Major things that happened way to fast for enough Humans to react to:
Our over use and dependency of fossil fuels.
Our irresponsible and misunderstood economic growth.
Our over population explosion. How Many People Can Live on Earth Sustainably? (YouTube)

I have seen the population double and my parents have seen the population triple.
How many people can the earth sustain? If the rates of consumption are equal and fair for every human on earth, we can then measure very accurately how many resources, food and water every human requires. And then we can measure how many people the earth can sustain without damaging the ecosystem or starving itself. And not just sustain humans, but also sustain every other living species, especially the animals we call food, and of course the water and all the other foods that we all need to live. We are living in an eco-system whether we like it or not. If you break the chain something always dies and it might be us.

These problems are not new and were foreseen by thousands. We have known about these issues for at least 40 years now and still we are reacting way to slow then simple common sense dictates.

"There has been too much emphasis on treating the disease and not enough emphasis on the cure"

Most of us are completely unaware of the levels of destruction and suffering that are embodied in the stuff that we buy and in the choices we make. To rid ourselves of this ignorance will not be easy.
But it will have to be done in order to insure our children's survival and to evolve as a species.    

Green living or sustainable living is intelligent living. So the word intelligent must be emphasized when describing eco-friendly living because that's what it is. When people hear the word intelligent they will want to know more about that subject because everyone wants to be intelligent. People have a hard time understanding and accepting terminology like environmentally friendly, sustainability or recycling. Mostly because being environmentally conscience is so new to a lot of people that we have not completely found the words to fully explain it in ways that are totally understood by everyone.

If we stop making poisons then corporations and governments will stop feeding it to us.

When it comes to our world environment, I want to help educate people about the effects that we all have on our earth and the effects that we all have on our eco-systems that keep us alive and sustain life for millions of other species. I want to make people aware of all the right choices that we can make so that everyone has a clear understanding of their impact on the planet. But educating people is not an easy task. It will take incredible patience and an enormous amount of ingenuity. Educating people will need the support from everyone. So the first thing we must teach is the extreme importance of education, not the education that we all know today, but the education that is not being fully shared and the education that is not being fully understood. Today we have so much more information and knowledge, of the world, and ourselves, that is tremendously important to our understanding. We need a consensus and total world involvement in organizing and distributing all this important information and knowledge. If we don’t take this action to improve our education system, billions of people will continue to suffer from our own ignorance.
The major problem has always been education. People can't act or understand what is needed without knowledge. Our education system is unaware of its incompetence and its dysfunctional effects that it has on people. If every educator and every parent on this planet were to educate every child and themselves on what actions and choices they could make to secure human survival and secure our planets survival with all its species and wonders, our chances for survival and our increased quality of life will not just double, but triple. If we were to educate every women on the planet we could improve the world over night. Women have always had the power of positive influence and a better insight to what’s important. Ask any Mother. Ask any child of a Mother. Mothers have an incredible intimate relation with life that no man could ever experience.
Women represent 70 percent of the worlds poor, they perform 66 percent of the worlds work and produce 50 percent of the food but they only earn 10 percent of the income and own 1 percent of the property.  Gender Issues    Women for Women    Mountain 2 Mountain    

Using money to measure value is like using a dipstick to measure how much oil costs the environment? It is very ignorant and almost criminal to judge the value of something using just money. You should only judge things by how much time, resources and people they use in the excavating process or the creating process. You also have to measure the amount of energy that the resource will ultimately provide and how it will be used. You also have to measure the environmental impact during excavating process or creating process. You have to measure the efficiency, the environmental impact during use, the recycling and reusing capabilities, and you have to measure how certain resources compare to other resources of similar properties. Externality
This is the only way of judging the true value of something. You have to ask what is the true cost of this? You can't answer that by using a dollar sign. How much time, how much resources and how many people? Then you have to figure impact, choices and priorities. When you use money in equations you confuse people and keep people from fully understanding the situation. I’m not saying to stop using money as a way to measure action. Sadly we still have to use money in this way to some extent. But if you understand the facts and understand the math of a particular problem, then money should always follow this logic, if not, then someone is lying or using the wrong math. When things can be correctly measured they can be better understood. Money is not an accurate Method or even a correct method to measure the importance of actions that we must all take to protect our world and human civilization.  Only society should decide what it needs, not money. Any social service that depends on money is not a service. (Dependency) How can you have a needed human service depended on an inanimate object? It’s just so sad and so crazy to know that almost every person on the planet is manipulated and controlled by money, in some varying degrees of course, but still affected. How did we become so complacent and so unaware of the damage that we do to ourselves everyday in the name of money? It's like waking up from a bad dream. Remember how horrible it was when you got Fooled and Suckered by a Scam or a Con. But this time the con man is everywhere. Money is supposed to be just a tool and not a weapon of control. So what happened to us? Instead of pumping money into the economy to thwart off Inflation, we should be pumping information and knowledge into the economy. Of course, we would first have to decide on the how, what, why, when and where that this particular information and knowledge should be. Because we have painfully learned from our past and our present, that when things get corrupted they cause more harm then good. To say that a country needs a Growing Economy is an out right lie and a very ignorant observation. A growing economy will always end in collapse. A country needs Sustainability, Intelligent Management and Intelligent Design. There is no other way. Information and Knowledge is our best defense. And knowing how to use that information correctly would be our best offence. A slow economy is just another way of saying that Corruption, Greed, Incompetence and Crime has increased.  Educating People About Money  

 Value Theory    Value - Personal & Cultural     Value Measuring Methodology    Instrumental Value

The Corporate Mentality says "We have a responsibility to our Shareholders"
That's like saying a Hired Killer or a Hitman has the right to commit Murder just because that hired Killer is making money from the murder. I guess the murderer in court could say that "I had a responsibility to my investor". This is how insane most Corporations are.   Lunatic   Psychopath   Sociopath   EDIPPP

Work is work, right? Volunteering is considered work. So work is not just about the Money,
it’s more about the Value of your Actions.

Why does Money encourage ignorance and make people complacent with a false sense of security?
Am I insane, incoherent, corrupt or just a fool?   Money Documentaries

Quotes about Money...

The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost everything you own, including all your money.       Quotes from Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.  (Cree Indian Proverb)

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
(Norman Vincent Peale)

Money does not pay for anything, never has, never will.  It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services.
(Albert Jay Nock, Memoirs of a Superfluous Man, 1943)

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it.  The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.  (Henry Ford)

We never know the worth of water 'til the well is dry. (English Proverb)

Those who live by numbers can also perish by them and it is a terrifying thing to have an adding machine write an epitaph, either way.  (George J.W. Goodman, The Money Game)

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.  (Pablo Picasso)

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
(Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790, American politician, inventor and scientist)

You know the value of every merchandise, but you do not know your own value -- that is stupidity....(The Sufi Path of Love, The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi)

Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted. (Albert Einstein 1879 - 1955, German-born Theoretical Physicist)

In God we trust, all others bring data.    Proof
(Dr. W. Edwards Deming 1900-1993, American Statistician)

Inflation is taxation without legislation.  (Milton Friedman)

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.
(Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948, Indian, ethic-spiritual & political leader for Nonviolent Resistance)

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.  (Martin Luther King, Jr)

The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. 

Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.  (Michael Leboeuf)

Do not value money for any more nor any less than its worth; it is a good servant but a bad master.  (Alexandre Dumas fils), Camille, 1852

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
(Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865, American President, abolisher of slavery)

"I had rather fashion my mind than furnish it."  (Michel de Montaigne)

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
(John Fitzgerald Kennedy 1917-1963, 35th president of the United States)

It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone. . . . The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment.
(Dr. W. Edwards Deming 1900-1993, American Statistician)

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
(Peter F. Drucker, American Management Guru)

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
(Epicurus 341 B.C.-270 B.C., ancient Greek philosopher, father of Hedonism)

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
(Dwight David Eisenhower 1890-1969, US General, 34th president of the United States)

You can't equate your life or your time to money. Money is just a tool and just one of many tools a human has. And the most important tool is the human brain. The ability to solve problems and to analyze information gives a human more advantages over all other living things on this planet.
But just because we have these abilities does not mean everyone has learned them or even knows how
to use these abilities correctly. keep learning and don't forget to apply what you have learned to your life.

When money can give anyone power, before they have actually earned it or before they fully understand the responsibility of power, you will always have destructive behavior and corruption. You either take away the power of money or fully educate people on how to use this tool correctly and responsibly.
It looks like we have to do both.  Basic Knowledge 101

We will never begin to understand the cost of our actions if we use only money as a guide. You have to look at all the elements, all the facts and all the results in order to even come close to understanding the whole picture. Having more money will not guarantee that you will be smarter or live a better life, on the contrary you will more likely become more ignorant and suffer as clearly proven and documented by the destructive effects of wealth on people and society. Money has a very strange power, or special magic, that decreases a persons ability to think clearly. And just to think that it's only a tool. How can you give an inanimate object so much power over your thinking. And you can't blame the tool, so money is not the problem here. The problem is that people are terribly confused and manipulated by a tool that society uses. This is the fault of education that we must fix immediately. If most of the corrupted people in the world are educated people, then why is education not correcting this flaw?
Social Impact of Wealth   Unions
Should we allow corporations to use our earths resources, our people and our time just to make money? Of course not because that would be totally ignorant and totally insane. Yet we let it happen everyday. Then on top of that these same corporations irresponsibly cause damage to our earth and violate human rights as if they were above every law know to man. I'm not about Revenge because that's a waste of time. Justice and education is the only logical alternative.

People pursuing their ideas and chasing their personal dreams is absolutely necessary. Self-interest
But eventually a lot of us will have to work together on the same project, work on the same idea and work on the same dream. Teamwork is our only hope for success and prosperity. The world is producing to many humans that are disconnected and isolated from Reality. When we realize that we are all one entity, one organism, one species, we will then start acting to our full potential as ‘one’.

The Eco-system is our teacher. And this teacher is clearly showing us the way to survive and to sustain a happy and healthy life style. That knowledge is priceless.

The green buildings that are being built today are excellent. They require less maintenance, cost less to operate, they are less dependant on non-renewable resources and last longer. So these models of intelligent building that we have today are fantastic and give everyone living examples to improve on and to follow. But living by example will never be enough if we don’t include this knowledge in our education system. When people say that Green Building cost to much money, what they're really saying is that they would rather pass on the debt and problems to future generations. These people are very selfish and ignorant and care only for themselves. Anyone not building green is really negligent. Future generations will look back at these people and say "Thanks for nothing scumbag". Thanks for making buildings that are built with too many non-renewable products, which is a waste of raw materials. Thanks for making buildings that always needs maintenance so it will always cost you time and resources. Thanks for making buildings that are energy inefficient so it wastes energy, pollutes more, consumes more energy and consumes more water, which costs even more resources. And on top of that some of the building products used in building creates unhealthy air by Outgassing chemicals. This is the same for our car manufacturers and other industries that put profit over people.       Britain’s Bad Housing    Energy Plus House

Single people are one of the world's greatest resources. Being single should be looked upon as a honorable life choice. Single people can dedicate them selves to the world and provide a great service that helps the needy and helps the uneducated to become educated. This way families can focus more time and energy towards their family instead of having to spend precious time away from their family to combat the worlds problems that are over whelming families.

There are powerful and greedy people who don't fully understand our dilemma, but with enough educated people we will surely over whelm them into change, as well as over whelm our politicians into making the right choices and sacrifices that we all have to make. And it’s not just living within our means either because some people actually believe that they have the right to be wasteful just because they can afford it, which is so moronic and ignorant that it goes against all common sense. Freedom does not mean that you have the right to be an ignorant moron at everybody else’s expense. Especially when we can measure and confirm what things are bad, damaging and counter productive. We have to live within the world’s means, and the world cannot afford anything right now. Plus, people who do have money have it easier to make positive changes then the people who are just fighting for survival because their options are limited. So it’s time to put away our childish ways and grow up fast. This does not mean the American dream is over, it just means the American dream has become more defined and more responsible. This amazing journey of change will bring us closer together and make us clearly understand our values, which have become obscured by deceiving images by our corporate media. It's time to join the millions who have already made changes because we desperately need the support of everyone in order to prosper.

Americas actually have the power to save the world, if they want to?
Americans have the power. Not just the power of choice, but also the power of change.
We use more energy and resources then most countries combined. And using more energy does not say that we are actually doing more. We actually waste more time and resources and throw away more then most countries consume. On top of that we do more damage to our environment and too ourselves. We spend more time digging our own graves then spending time making a difference. Selfish endeavors are killing us. We really are in some ways an embarrassment to the rest of the world and to our constitution. But amazingly Americans can literally improve the world over night. I’m not saying that Americans can fix every problem in the world but if we just learn to conserve, to recycle and reuse, we would stop this thoughtless waste. The energy and resources that went into making a product that you don’t need can now be use somewhere else where it can have a positive influence. And thus the change begins. Literally, “The world is in our hands”. I always thought that picture was silly, but not anymore. We have come full circle. We have made a lot of mistakes and made a mess of a lot of things. Blaming doesn’t help. We can heal if we work together. There are a lot of great people in America, we’re not stupid, we can fix this....So what’s the plan?
 

1.6 billion people worldwide have no electricity in their homes.
(700 million in Africa, and 490 million in South Asia)  The Future of Mankind
 

Everything is Connected.
For every action a human takes there is a reaction in the world. Most reactions are unnoticed because the impact is not so obvious or in some cases not totally in sync with the action of the human. So even doing nothing will still have an effect on the world. So it is only logical that every human understands these effects and understands their responsibilities to minimize negative effects and too maximize positive effects. All actions and inactions have a reaction. more
 

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Money Saving Ideas.....

By adding the value of the various services that forests perform, such as providing clean water and absorbing carbon dioxide, an EU-commissioned study estimates that the annual cost of forest loss is between $2 trillion and $5 trillion, which is not including the loss of human and animal life.
We Forest    Green Belt Movement   Tree Planting (Wiki)   Tree Planting Tips  Tree Planting

Friends of Trees    Plant a Billion Trees    Arbor Day    Tree People     Plant Trees 

Over 64,000 trees were planted in 15 minutes, breaking the world record for the most trees planted simultaneously. 7,000 people helped to plant saplings in the Philippines province of Camrines Sur. Forests in the Philippines are considered to be one of the ten most threatened forests in the world. Conservation International reports that these threatened forests store over 25 gigatons of carbon. Meanwhile, 15% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions are due to deforestation. China has reportedly increased its forests by an unprecedented three million hectares per year. But many conservationists are concerned that old-growth forests are still disappearing as new forests are deliberately planted. As Conservation International's Olivier Langrand explains, "Forests must be seen as more than just a group of trees."   Land & Forest Conservation Websites

The Amazon Rain Forest is the Largest Rain Forest in the World.
1.5 million square miles (1.7 billion-acre jungle), covering about 40 percent of South America.
Makes up more than half of the rainforests remaining on the planet, producing over 20 percent of the world’s oxygen and home to more than one-third of all living species in the world. It is the source of one-fifth of the Earth’s river water. The Amazon is situated in nine countries: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela. The Amazon River pushes so much water into the Atlantic Ocean that, more than one hundred miles at sea off the mouth of the river, one can dip fresh water out of the ocean. The volume of water in the Amazon river is greater than the next eight largest rivers in the world combined and three times the flow of all rivers in the United States. 
Forest Gardens        American Forests

What's the difference between Cannabis Marijuana and Hemp?

Besides Food and Clothing an estimated 50,000 products can be produced from Hemp in the United States. Bring back Hemp...Hemp makes better clothing without the hazardous waste that Cotton produces, plus Hemp uses a lot less water then the cotton process. Clothing made from hemp is naturally UV protective, Anti-bacterial, 3 times stronger then cotton, 4 times warmer then cotton, 7 times more durable then cotton and flame retardant. And when you use hemp to make paper it last longer and doesn't yellow like paper made from Trees. One acre of Hemp can produce more paper then 4-10 acres of trees over a 10 year cycle. Hemp can take only 4 months to mature while trees can take up to 80 years to mature. Stinging Nettle has also been explored as an eco-friendly alternative to cotton. Though more difficult to cultivate than cotton, it produces a silky and soft fabric that is even more pleasant than hemp.

  Norml    Drug Science     Just Say Now      Students for Sensible Drug Policy

   Industrial Hemp     Industrial Hemp Farming Act    Hemp Technologies     Marijuana Beer

     Global Marijuana March     Hemp Protein Guide     Types of Weed     Synthetic Cannabis

WHEN WE GROW...This is what we can do

The Union: The Business Behind Getting High (2007 Movie) (Youtube)  Buy

High: The True Tale of American Marijuana (2008 Movie) (Youtube)   Buy

Clearing the Smoke: The Science of Cannabis (Youtube)

Hemp Revolution (1995 Movie)  (Youtube)   Buy

Cancer Cure - Cannabis & Cannabinoids  (Youtube)

Marijuana and Alzheimer's

Run From the Cure - The Rick Simpson Story  (Youtube)

Family Feud "Name something that gets passed around" (Youtube)

American Drug War: The Last White Hope (YouTube)     Prohibition (Wiki)     Social Crimes

Let the facts speak for themselves. And for everyone else, let there be an explanation.
To call any one drug a “Gateway Drug” is just an ignorant statement that only confuses the truth.
There are hundreds of legal drugs, and other things in our world, that can easily be considered gateways to more deviant behavior. So what we are really talking about is our Addictions. So what came first, the addiction or the Drug? Drugs are not the problem. The problem is our inadequate education system that never teaches students about addictions. This is why so many people have addictions. Whether it would be an addiction to money, an addiction to sex, an addiction to food, an addiction to TV, an addiction to fame or an addiction to power. And any one of those addictions can create much more damage then any drug could ever do. Yes marijuana opens New Pathways of Thought and yes it temporally changes your perspective, and so do other drugs. It's not for everyone or is it the same for everyone. Just like everything else in this world, people like different things. And you still have to consider the amount, the type and the correct time to take, just like any other drug or food. And the fact that marijuana has Medical qualities and also makes 100's different products, and is Sustainable, that is what you call "The Icing on the cake" and a "Double Bonus". You would be stupid not to grow hemp. That of course being if hemp were the most logical crop for your area for that particular time of year. After all we are only talking about legalizing a drug and not about legalizing stupidity, which seems to be legal already if you just take a look at our government. Shaking my head in disgust or SMHID.
If we were to have an open and honest public debate, marijuana would be legal tomorrow.

I do not indorse drug use or do I condone drug use. I believe that people should have a Choice.
Legalizing will free up money, time and resources to help educate people instead of incarcerating people. Legalizing will also keep drug money out of the criminals hands who use money to undermine society instead of helping society. Plus you can't allow legal drugs that are known to kill and ruin lives while making other drugs illegal that might offer a better alternative. Of course no drugs will always be the best choice but if you have to make a choice let it be without corrupt, biased and ignorant interference. Legalizing marijuana will not be popular, but at the least, Legalizing marijuana will not be corrupt, biased, ignorant, unfair or unjust.
If you are against the legalization of marijuana your are either a liar, corrupt or completely ignorant.

The Supreme Court has been compromised, They can no longer justify the process or explain their lack of Reasoning. A law without Science is not a law, it is only a Menace to the State. What ignorant moron would give more power to a corporation then a human being? Criminals in robes that's who.
Judicial Disqualification and Recusal       Government Crimes     Move to Amend
Being competent in one area of knowledge does not make you intelligent.

"Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself."  (Jimmy Carter)

Drugs that are legal cause at least as much damage, if not more, than drugs that are illegal.
Alcohol can damage nearly all organ systems. It is also connected to higher death rates and is involved in a greater percentage of crime than most other drugs, including heroin. The World Health Organization reports that Alcohol causes nearly 4 percent of deaths worldwide, more than AIDS, tuberculosis or violence. Approximately 2.5 million people die each year from alcohol related causes. Alcohol is a causal factor in 60 types of diseases and injuries linked to cirrhosis of the liver, epilepsy, poisonings, road traffic accidents, violence, and several types of cancer, including cancers of the colorectum, breast, larynx and liver.    Addictions / Drug Abuse Help and Info

Then of course there's Cigarettes. The biggest killer of them all. Why are these legal? Is there any health benefits from smoking? You are either very ignorant or a criminal. The Tobacco Conspiracy

And then we have an Epidemic of Prescription Drug Abuse and Deaths that is sickening.

Governments must use science to decide what is illegal and not base it on ignorance and corruption. You have to look at the environmental damage caused by the drug, its role in breaking up families and its economic costs, such as health care, social services, and prison. Mexico's Drug Violence has claimed almost 30,000 lives since President Felipe Calderon took office in late 2006.

In America the prison population is growing 13 times faster than the general population. We spent $68 billion in 2010 on Corrections, 300 percent more than 25 years ago. Half of the prisoners released this year are expected to be back in prison within three years. Bureau of Justice Statistics
It seems that Rehabilitation is not being understood, just like diseases, there is no money in the cure, how ignorant can we be? 

War on Drugs Report The global war on drugs has failed with devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the world. Evidence overwhelmingly demonstrates that repressive strategies will not solve the drug problem. End criminalization of drug use and use legal models that would undermine organized crime syndicates and offer health and treatment services for drug-users in need, which will lead to better health and promote economic and social development.

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