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We're overdue for a collective shift toward a more just, cooperative and ecologically sustainable culture. 

  If not now, when?

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         Naturally Peaceful Families

"Play is a young child's primary occupation. Through play, children develop their imagination, their understanding of the world around them, and their critical thinking skills. Through play, children also have the opportunity to learn about their environment, and how important it is to protect it."  -  Green Guide Families

"When children are fed a diet of video games instead of real-life frogs and bugs they are deprived of crucial nutrients for their psychological and spiritual development. These kids grow up to be alienated adults who do not know how they fit into the big picture and who are less likely to care about ecological issues. Having unstructured childhood experiences in wild nature plays a central role in the making of environmental activists, whereas having only electronic information about the plight of the planet actually tends to turn people away from environmental activism."

                                                             Andy Fisher (Radical Ecopsychology)

"One of the most important choices we can make is to reduce the distinction between the child in India and our own children as much as possible - to use a fair share of the planet's resources. But what a fair share actually is depends on how many people there are in the world sharing."

            And right now, we have an awful lot of people sharing this precious planet.

                                       ___ World Population Statistics ___  

               " What goes up must come down"     (a collaboration with Lyn Simon)

Talking about population issues can be a sticky matter.

• INTRO: A REALITY CHECK
• Step 1: SLOW DOWN
• (let's get reacquainted with nature's pace)
  
• Step 2: LOOK AROUND
• (stand where you live and assess the situation)
  
• Step 3: DIG IN/GET ROOTED
• (find your home community and get active)
  
• Step 4: PERMACULTURE
• (doing more with less)
  
• Step 5:BE KIND/PLAY FAIR
• (the golden rule and its many cultural variations)

• "Imagination is more important than knowledge"
  

  Albert Einstein
  

Check out these works in progress:

* Shopping 101
* Naturally Peaceful Families
* Good Food Basics
* Moving Beyond War & Empire

 The AAP (American Academy of Pediatrics) recommends that "all children are afforded ample, unscheduled, independent, nonscreen time to be creative, to reflect, and to decompress."

Where are our kids and grand kids playing?

Outside in nature?

Or indoors, behind a screen?

  "What we witness on TV, in films, and on the internet, what we read and therefore imagine, all are firing mirror neurons in our brains and forming us." (Francis Moore Lappe)

American youth aged 8-18 spend an average of 7.5 hours a day consuming media.

Kaiser Family Foundation

"The average American child will consume almost 30 times the resources the average child in    India does."

    Let's face it, "most of our environmental problems stem from large numbers  of people consuming too much, especially in rich places like North America."

..."as population soars...in the next 50 years, increased demands for food, clean water and fuel will have disastrous results. Among the projections are the emergence of new diseases, deteriorating water quality, dead zones along the coasts, the collapse of fisheries, and large shifts in regional climate." 

                              Riane Eisler

Do we limit our population growth, or simply let our numbers overwhelm our natural and man-made systems?