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Indigenous Sustainability
Indigenous Sustainability is a soulcentric and earth based practice founded by The Rusty Anvil. This practice calls on the human species to reevaluate our place on the planet. This is a calling to shift our mentality from a world full of commodities to a world full of gifts. This gift based mindset creates a relationship of reciprocity among all life on earth. One way we can begin to understand this reciprocal relationship is by practicing ancestral skills and learning indigenous wisdom. The gift of learning how to thrive with the land instills an awareness of interconnectedness and interdependence. When we become aware of the many gifts that the Earth provides, we want to nurture, protect, and honor her rather than destroy and take advantage of her. In an indigenous world, reciprocity is in constant motion. Now more than ever, we need to shift away from an industrial growth mindset and closer to an intimate and reciprocal relationship with all life. Indigenous sustainability is a practice of ecocentric beliefs, ancestral skills, and reciprocity.
By The Rusty Anvil8 years ago in Futurism
Why You Need to Care
If I could, I would sit on this laptop all day and preach to the human race how important it is to care. To care about the resources we use, to care about the effects we have on our planet, to care about the consequences of our convenience mindset actions but I would get nowhere. I would get nowhere because you don’t know why you need to care. You need to care because the amount of plastic we have produced in the first 10 years of the century is already surpassing the amount of plastic humankind made in the last century. In these past 8 years, that number has almost tripled. We are producing and using plastic at an alarming rate, with no regards to how this is affecting our present and our future.
By Liz Galante8 years ago in Futurism
Environmental Equality: Water's Worth
Water is pure liquid hydrogen and oxygen and makes up more than half of the human body. In the article, “Six Natural Resources Most Drained by our 7 Billion People,” Camila Ruz argues, “Fresh water only makes up 2.5 percent of the total volume of the world’s water… 70 percent of that freshwater is in the form of ice… so by 2025, people could be living in countries with absolute water scarcity.” (Ruz) Since the Earth already has minimal freshwater resources and overpopulation, water will be considered endangered by 2025. Water is a necessity, and without it, it will be impossible for flora (plants) and fauna (animals) to survive. Here is more information on how our water is filtered, how the chemicals affect us, and how to preserve it.
By Kayli Martin8 years ago in Futurism
Earth Hour Was a Success?
The WWF and their supporters do so much not just for the animals but for climate change. Over 55,000 promised this last week on World Earth Hour to stop their use of things that they know are hurting the environment. Their promises included: use reusable bottles, no more plastic straws among other things. So many people did their promise.
By Tara Watts8 years ago in Futurism
The Problem with the Problem with Plastic. Top Story - March 2018.
An admirable cause has found its way into the public consciousness helped in no small part by national treasure David Attenborough and his latest docu-series, 'Blue Planet 2.' The scourge of single-use plastics and their impact on the environment and wildlife has moved from the fringes, once valiantly espoused by environmentalists and neo-hippies of the Zero Waste movement, to become an urgent and pressing issue of our time (or perhaps just 2018).
By Joe Clarke8 years ago in Futurism
Let's Save the Bees
Honeybees. Yes, they are those pesky little critters who you do not want on your bad side, but they are doing so much good underneath their moody exterior. They are necessary for nearly 80 percent of all crops that are used directly for food worldwide—and they are becoming endangered!
By Allison Barker8 years ago in Futurism
97% of Americans Overestimate the Cost of Solar Panels
Times are rapidly changing. The earth is getting hotter and it is obvious that part of the reason we don't embrace alternative sources of energy is largely because we have been told constantly that it is too expensive and even if you did go in that direction, you would never make your money back.
By Georgia de la Bertauche8 years ago in Futurism
Tears from the Earth
There was a time not too long ago that the people of the Earth lived in harmony and balance with this world. There were not so many people living on the world as many folks hardly lived beyond their 40s. But in the past few hundred years, there has been an explosion in the world's population, people are living longer due to medical advances and people are having more offspring. This is having a major effect on the Earths resources. We live in a wasteful society where we throw away so much plastic and waste. Recently I heard that huge amounts of plastic are deliberately dumped into the oceans. I was shocked to hear this.
By Forest Arts8 years ago in Futurism
The Greener the Energy, the Cleaner the Environment
How to Run Your Electricity Bill to the Healthiest and Most Economical Environmental Standard Did you know that the energy you pay out of pocket for every month isn't only bad on your wallet, but bad on the environment? Not only do emitted green house gases harm the environment, but they can potentially harm you too. Energy companies that use limited energy resources don't want you to know this of course, but they do want your money. Energy power plants emit pollution into the air; that's bad for you, your animals, your families, your environment, and it's all coming out of your wallet each month! It's even bad for the climate. Of course we need our energy but there's a greener, and cleaner way to do it every month.
By Ruby Estelle 8 years ago in Futurism
The GoGreen Revolution! What is Happening?
As a young person in the world we live in, one of the biggest causes of anxiety is that fact that our world is dying. Climate change is rapidly accelerating, oil is becoming less and less abundant, and we have yet to find a consistent way of producing energy that is clean and doesn’t hurt the environment. These concerns have caused society to start a revolution. The Go Green Revolution has been started to help us as humans and to help the Earth. The importance of the Revolution reaches every individual in the world.
By Noah Schafer8 years ago in Futurism
