Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Restoring Women to Cultural Memory
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
K' Naan - "America" [Live]
Jan Garbarek Group 1969 part 1/2
Sounds from the tea house.....
Also, Tea Tour Online Promotions Spreading....
Updated another Blog Today http://www.myspace.com/getthereal100monkeybook
1000 Sip Tea Documentary Trailer Sets off the Tea Tour = What it's all about!
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Music scene in the Colorado Bubble
Monday, July 5, 2010
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Beyond The Limits To Growth
A new update to The Limits to Growth reveals that we are closer to "overshoot and collapse" - yet sustainability is still an achievable goal
by by Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, and Jørgen Randers
One of the articles in Dancing Toward The Future (IC#32)
Summer 1992, Page 10
Copyright (c)1992, 1996 by Context Institute | To order this issue ...
"Grow or die," goes the old economic maxim. But in 1972 a team of systems scientists and computer modelers challenged conventional wisdom with a ground-breaking study that warned that there were limits - especially environmental limits - to how "big" human civilization and its appetite for resources could get. Beyond a certain point, they said in effect, the maxim could very well be "grow and die."
That same team of researchers (minus one) has just released an historic update to The Limits to Growth. The new book - Beyond the Limits: Confronting Global Collapse, Envisioning a Sustainable Future - is instant must-reading. The authors use updated computer models to present a comprehensive overview of what's happening to the major systems on planet Earth and to explore probable futures, from worst- to best-case scenarios. The book is rigorously scientific, yet very engaging, and it is especially well-suited to educational settings. We strongly recommend it to our readers, and present the Preface here.
Donella H. Meadows is a systems scientist and journalist who teaches at Dartmouth College, as well as an IN CONTEXT contributing editor. Dennis L. Meadows is a Professor of Systems Management and directs the Institute for Policy and Social Science Research at the University of New Hampshire. Jørgen Randers, a policy analyst and President Emeritus of the Norwegian School of Management, is Chairman of the Norwegian Bank for Industry, the Norwegian Institute for Market Research, and Åke Larson, AS. The following is reprinted with permission of Chelsea Green Press. The book can be ordered from them for $19.95 plus $3 shipping, Route 113, PO Box 130, Post Mills, VT 05058-0130, Tel. 802/333-9073.
Twenty years ago we wrote a book called The Limits to Growth. It described the prospects for growth in the human population and the global economy during the coming century. In it we raised questions such as: What will happen if growth in the world's population continues unchecked? What will be the environmental consequences if economic growth continues at its current pace? What can be done to ensure a human economy that provides sufficiently for all and that also fits within the physical limits of the Earth?
We had been commissioned to examine these questions by The Club of Rome, an international group of distinguished businessmen, statesmen, and scientists. They asked us to undertake a two-year study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to investigate the long-term causes and consequences of growth in population, industrial capital, food production, resource consumption, and pollution. To keep track of these interacting entities and to project their possible paths into the future we created a computer model called World3.
The results of our study were described for the general public in The Limits to Growth. That book created a furor. The combination of the computer, MIT, and The Club of Rome pronouncing upon humanity's future had an irresistible dramatic appeal. Newspaper headlines announced:
A COMPUTER LOOKS AHEAD AND SHUDDERS
STUDY SEES DISASTER BY YEAR 2100
SCIENTISTS WARN OF GLOBAL CATASTROPHE.
Our book was debated by parliaments and scientific societies. One major oil company sponsored a series of advertisements criticizing it; another set up an annual prize for the best studies expanding upon it. The Limits to Growth inspired some high praise, many thoughtful reviews, and a flurry of attacks from the left, the right, and the middle of mainstream economics.
The book was interpreted by many as a prediction of doom, but it was not a prediction at all. It was not about a preordained future. It was about a choice. It contained a warning, to be sure, but also a message of promise. Here are the three summary conclusions we wrote in 1972. The second of them is the promise, a very optimistic one, but our analysis justified it then and still justifies it now. Perhaps we should have listed it first.
1. If the present growth trends in world population, industrialization, pollution, food production, and resource depletion continue unchanged, the limits to growth on this planet will be reached sometime within the next 100 years. The most probable result will be a sudden and uncontrollable decline in both population and industrial capacity.
2. It is possible to alter these growth trends and to establish a condition of ecological and economic stability that is sustainable far into the future. The state of global equilibrium could be designed so that the basic material needs of each person on earth are satisfied and each person has an equal opportunity to realize his or her individual human potential.
3. If the world's people decide to strive for this second outcome rather than the first, the sooner they begin working to attain it, the greater will be their chances of success. (Meadows et al., 1972)
To us those conclusions spelled out not doom but challenge - how to bring about a society that is materially sufficient, socially equitable, and ecologically sustainable, and one that is more satisfying in human terms than the growth-obsessed society of today.
In one way and another, we've been working on that challenge ever since. Millions of other people have been working on it too. They've been exploring energy efficiency and new materials, nonviolent conflict resolution and grassroots community development, pollution prevention in factories and recycling in towns, ecological agriculture and international protocols to protect the ozone layer. Much has happened in twenty years to bring about technologies, concepts, and institutions that can create a sustainable future. And much has happened to perpetuate the desperate poverty, the waste of resources, the accumulation of toxins, and the destruction of nature that are tearing down the support capacity of the earth.
When we began working on the present book, we simply intended to document those countervailing trends in order to update The Limits to Growth for its reissue on its twentieth anniversary. We soon discovered that we had to do more than that. As we compiled the numbers, reran the computer model, and reflected on what we had learned over two decades, we realized that the passage of time and the continuation of many growth trends had brought the human society to a new position relative to its limits.
In 1971 we concluded that the physical limits to human use of materials and energy were somewhere decades ahead. In 1991, when we looked again at the data, the computer model, and our own experience of the world, we realized that in spite of the world's improved technologies, the greater awareness, the stronger environment policies, many resource and pollution flows had grown beyond their sustainable limits.
That conclusion came as a surprise to us, and yet not really a surprise. In a way we had known it all along. We had seen for ourselves the leveled forests, the gullies in the croplands, the rivers brown with silt. We knew the chemistry of the ozone layer and the greenhouse effect. The media had chronicled the statistics of global fisheries, groundwater drawdowns, and the extinction of species. We discovered, as we began to talk to colleagues about the world being "beyond the limits," that they did not question that conclusion. We found many places in the literature of the past twenty years where authors had suggested that resource and pollution flows had grown too far, some of which we have quoted in [our] book.
But until we started updating The Limits to Growth we had not let our minds fully absorb the message. The human world is beyond its limits. The present way of doing things is unsustainable. The future, to be viable at all, must be one of drawing back, easing down, healing. Poverty cannot be ended by indefinite material growth; it will have to be addressed while the material human economy contracts. Like everyone else, we didn't really want to come to these conclusions.
But the more we compiled the numbers, the more they gave us that message, loud and clear. With some trepidation we turned to World3, the computer model that had helped us twenty years before to integrate the global data and to work through their long-term implications. We were afraid that we would no longer be able to find in the model any possibility of a believable, sufficient, sustainable future for all the world's people.
But, as it turned out, we could. World3 showed us that in twenty years some options for sustainability have narrowed, but others have opened up. Given some of the technologies and institutions invented over those twenty years, there are real possibilities for reducing the streams of resources consumed and pollutants generated by the human economy while increasing the quality of human life. It is even possible, we concluded, to eliminate poverty while accommodating the population growth already implicit in present population age structures - but not if population growth goes on indefinitely, not if it goes on for long, and not without rapid improvements in the efficiency of material and energy use and in the equity of material and energy distribution.
As far as we can tell from the global data, from the World3 model, and from all we have learned in the past twenty years, the three conclusions we drew in The Limits to Growth are still valid, but they need to be strengthened. Now we would write them this way:
1. Human use of many essential resources and generation of many kinds of pollutants have already surpassed rates that are physically sustainable. Without significant reductions in material and energy flows, there will be in the coming decades an uncontrolled decline in per capita food output, energy use, and industrial production.
2. This decline is not inevitable. To avoid it two changes are necessary. The first is a comprehensive revision of policies and practices that perpetuate growth in material consumption and in population. The second is a rapid, drastic increase in the efficiency with which materials and energy are used.
3. A sustainable society is still technically and economically possible. It could be much more desirable than a society that tries to solve its problems by constant expansion. The transition to a sustainable society requires a careful balance between long-term and short-term goals and an emphasis on sufficiency, equity, and quality of life rather than on quantity of output. It requires more than productivity and more than technology; it also requires maturity, compassion, and wisdom.
These conclusions constitute a conditional warning, not a dire prediction. They offer a living choice, not a death sentence. The choice isn't necessarily a gloomy one. It does not mean that the poor must be frozen in their poverty or that the rich must become poor. It could actually mean achieving at last the goals that humanity has been pursuing in continuous attempts to maintain physical growth.
We hope the world will make a choice for sustainability. That is why we have written our book. But we do not minimize the gravity or the difficulty of that choice. We think a transition to a sustainable world is technically and economically possible, maybe even easy, but we also know it is psychologically and politically daunting. So much hope, so many personal identities, so much of modern industrial culture has been built upon the premise of perpetual material growth.
A perceptive teacher, watching his students react to the idea that there are limits, once wrote:
When most of us are presented with the ultimata of potential disaster, when we hear that we "must" choose some form of planned stability, when we face the "necessity" of a designed sustainable state, we are being bereaved, whether or not we fully realize it. When cast upon our own resources in this way we feel, we intuit, a kind of cosmic loneliness that we could not have foreseen. We become orphans. We no longer see ourselves as children of a cosmic order or the beneficiaries of the historical process. Limits to growth denies all that. It tell us, perhaps for the first time in our experience, that the only plan must be our own. With one stroke it strips us of the assurance offered by past forms of Providence and progress, and with another it thrusts into our reluctant hands the responsibility for the future. (Vargish, 1980)
We went through that entire emotional sequence - grief, loneliness, reluctant responsibility - when we worked on The Club of Rome project twenty years ago. Many other people, through many other kinds of formative events, have gone through a similar sequence. It can be survived. It can even open up new horizons and suggest exciting futures. Those futures will never come to be, however, until the world as a whole turns to face them. The ideas of limits, sustainability, sufficiency, equity, and efficiency are not barriers, not obstacles, not threats. They are guides to a new world. Sustainability, not better weapons or struggles for power or material accumulation, is the ultimate challenge to the energy and creativity of the human race.
We think the human race is up to the challenge. We think that a better world is possible, and that the acceptance of physical limits is the first step toward getting there. We see "easing down" from unsustainability not as a sacrifice, but as an opportunity to stop battering against the earth's limits and to start transcending self-imposed and unnecessary limits in human institutions, mindsets, beliefs, and ethics. That is why we finally decided not just to update and reissue The Limits to Growth, but to rewrite it completely and to call it Beyond the Limits.
References
Donella H. Meadows et al., The Limits to Growth (New York: Universe Books, 1972).
Thomas Vargish, "Why the Person Sitting Next to You Hates Limits to Growth," Technological Forecasting and Social Change 16 (1980), pp. 179-189.
Friday, May 14, 2010
Ashes and Snow- Feather to Fire
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Lets Eat! Colorado Fundraising Event at Sikh Gurdwara
NamaSpirit has discovered a new tea drunk and we invite you to the most epic tea session we have hosted yet!
A Sikh Tea Blending Master has reoriented his tea blend to support the rain forest rescue efforts by the analog forestry! His "cha" (or Chai as you call it) is one of the best in town, and he has taken it to a new level by recognizing the Biodiversity movement, resulting is what we call "Spirit in Action"!
Students have left town, people are moving to new places to live, and many are away on travels, but if you dial in, there is much to do and share and Love can be seen on the scene turning people on to tea when events go down! Love has also joined in to share the Sikhs efforts to Get involved! You can now find the analog teas on his super food point of purchase website www.thelovecollective.net
NamaSpirit and the love collective were recently in Crestone Colorado where they produced a tea session in a secret shrine which was a great success. You can catch up with the healing fun at the Colorado Fundraising Event in the Sikh Gurdwara. The tea session is coming up but the date and addy have not yet been announced! You need to communicate directly to find out the event info, just email:
analogteaproject(at)gmail(dot)com
Introduce yourself, let us know if you have been to one of our tea sessions, and plan to pick up some tea!
We will be sharing art and music and a yoga session will be going down the day of the event.
All proceeds from tea made by the Sikh will be split between the Gurdwara and the Rain Forest Rescue Project which now involves sending Kabir to the Rain Forests!
Learn more about how and why the institution of the Sikh Langar or free kitchen was started by the first Sikh Guru, Guru Nanak. It was designed to uphold the principle of equality between all people regardless of religion, caste, colour, creed, age, gender or social status, a revolutionary concept in the caste-ordered society of 16th century India where Sikhism began. In addition to the ideals of equality, the tradition of Langar expresses the ethics of sharing, community, inclusiveness and oneness of all humankind. "..the Light of God is in all hearts."
What the Sikh earns from the tea supports your community! Plan to attend and revisit the Gurdwara on a Langar day!
About the practice of Langar:
Introducing Dezengo and her Thousand Sip Tea
About her Tea:
http://dekombucha.health.officelive.com/default.aspx
Kombucha, which is considered by some - even myself, a wonder drink, has been around for thousands of years. It is a gift from the gods and a tool for healthy living. When you choose to walk on this path, you are making a commitment to yourself that begins looking inward for the answers as well as seeking truth in all matters - especially how you treat your own body: the temple of god! Imagine that, our bodies are a temple, and we should treat them with care and love.
Taking responsibility for what we put in, on our bodies and in our thoughts. The first recorded use of Kargosok (we call Kombucha) Tea was during the Chinese empire of the Tsin Dynasty in 221 B.C. At that time, it was referred to as The Remedy for Immortality or The Divine Tsche. In 414 B.C., Dr. Kombu, from Korea, brought it to Japan during the reign of Emperor Inkyo. Afterward, this tea was used throughout China, Japan and Korea, and was later introduced into Russia and India. Another report says, “It comes from the area of East Asia and came into Germany via Russia around the turn of the century.” Still another tells us it comes from Japan. And yet another says it comes from Manchuria . . . and so it goes.
The common premise from thousands of years is that this tea has been associated with good health and younger looking & feeling people. The chemistry of what it does is available, and how it changes a sugar and tea into such incredibly good nutrients for our body can be researched and studied. For now, taking the information, spreading the word about the healing effects and letting people judge for them self how they feel after drinking Kombucha on a daily basis is what this group is committed to. Sharing our knowledge with each other and the world. Perhaps our united stance can make the world address the real, hidden benefits of Kombucha and what it has to offer the world!
Blessings & Health..
Are you oriented toward good food?
They are not-for-profit, a Humanitarian Service of love for you and collective humanity and Earth!
Our Namasteelo Reoriented blog has been reorienting into the power of healing food. Our first few blog entries touched on music, art and the corporate agenda. We now post a little introduction to healing foods by the Love Collective.
Namasteelo has spent the past 6 months producing and hosting tea tastings in Colorado. These tastings were designed to support weavers and music artists that are interested in community building and preservation of dying art forms. Our teas were sourced from a rain forest rescue group, and the tea snacks were sourced from the love collective.
We suggest you get clicky and explore the love collective blogs and super foods and notice their weaving in the rain forest rescue teas!
Their first project is providing people with health info and an ability to be more loving beings by sourcing their food in such a way that not only helps the health of an individual, but also the global community and our planet.
Contact us or the love collective, if you would like to host a tea tasting food party or perform at one. And we love art and pottery and always make room to share that in support of artists doing good things (Spiritual Art).
The Love Collective is providing you with options to support a healthy and sustainable lifestyle. By providing you with sustainable purchase power, you are creating a demand and supply of conscious health and sustainability.
They are now offering indigenous raw chocolate from Bali, the best superfoods available in the world, like Maca, for super strength and life power, the best raw coconut oil, beauty enzymes, raw protein, sprouted Barley protein, msm (great for skin) lotions, and Rain Forest Rescue Tea, one of the purest and oldest salts in the world, Himalayan Sea Salt and so on, take a look in the website, it's like a nutritional dictionary/almanac with properties and products that can be delivered to you now!
If you order, you will supporting fair trade practices that help the farmers/cultivators/indigenous tribes of our planet.
All foods are non-certified organic/certified organic/ or wild, mostly from The Rain Forest. Each purchase is providing sustainable ground to keeping the Rain Forest in Place, because we can provide people better wages and sustainable income to people who would other wise could be bought out.
WE RECOMMEND FOR ANYONE
We highly recommend "Sun is Shinning," super green powder. One of the most well respected, powerful healthy add ins to a cup of water, or to a raw organic cacao smoothie, or to a organic juice, yummy life!!!! Personally, I believe "Sun is Shinning" is one of the top add-ins to anyone's diet, because it's simple, and it's made by a Natural-Path Doctor and Natural path doctors usually are super amazing! This Natural-path said, is providing anyone with the best health properties and items at a fair cost. The product has top properties, I always feel super good, after drinking this.
It's Alkaline, meaning it's good for Americans, cause most Americans are too acidic, and stressed, even if it's a quieter stress. This is strong health add in and great for trips in and out of the country! Sun is Shinning is below, and has super Amazing Reviews and A True Best of The Best Food!
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Fwd: Tonight in SF: CHUCK FENDA Live @ Rockit Room, w/ Jah Warrior Shelter
Make sure to share your music, the music you love and our very own projects!
We share several music forums and participate in many others started by community....
Make sure you visit:
NamaSteelo at Giant Peach
Project Blowed at Ning
Black Sheep at Ning
And Access Hip Hop
Let us know if you listened to this artist CHUCK FENDA promoted here in this blog post!
Do you think he would do well selecting a distro group like IDC?
Learn more about Music Distro and Community building with IDC!
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Date: Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 2:41 PM
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Thursday, January 14, 2010
We Need 2 End Homelessness NOW!!
Findwhat.com scam exposed online via message boards
Healing with Whole Foods - Asian Traditions and Modern Nutrition or Forrest yoga? Are they in it together, to gather?
Mash up natural dyes with Rain Forest Rescue Tea and come out with Meditation Silks!
Dyeing has almost ceased to exist as a traditional art. In this 20th century the importance of colour in our lives seems to be realized less and less.
Tea sourcing:
Example of Meditation Silks:
http://namasitemap.ning.com/photo/meditation-silks-giclee-album?context=latest
Co-created by Bonsai and NamaSpirit Studios
Are you going beyond organic? We are! Big thanks to Analog Forestry for guiding us into new rain forests!
Fwd: Prayers for the People of Haiti
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Programs Assistant
Sarah Dawn was introduced to The Environmental Center in 2005 through the Colorado Bioneers, which is hosted on campus annually by the Ecenter. After transferring in January of 2006 from Front Range Community College, she was eager to engage in the opportunities beyond classes available at the University. After volunteering with the promotions of Bioneers on campus, she began working as a promotions assistant. Later, she became the promotions and volunteer student coordinator.
In December of 2008 she graduated with a B.A. in Environmental Policy with a minor in Geography. The new year of 2009 gave way to a new support position at the Ecenter, Programs Assistant, which Sarah Dawn is elated to have filled. Her aspirations for the new position are to help students thrive by connecting them to leadership positions, internships and professional networks and to help them connect the dots between social justice and sustainability to achieve true sustainability and social uplift. She manages volunteers, general promotions, conference and event support and is an overall helping hand for the centers program managers.
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On Sep 3, 2008, at 11:36 AM, kevin kartheiser wrote:
> ---------------------------- Original Message
> ----------------------------
> Subject: Summer Mailing From Frank
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----
>
> July 22nd , 2008
>
> Dear Family and Friends,
>
> Here is a progressive letter I have written to you over the
> last few
> weeks starting at the rainbow gathering up in Wyoming and on to right
> now. I am neck deep in my masters dissertation work and continue that
> delicate summer dance of balance.
>
> July 4th, 2008
>
> I sit now on the earth in Wyoming at the 37th Annual Rainbow
> Gathering at
> 9200 ft. It is early morning and I feel the day of celebration
> dawning in
> (relative) silence. I look forward to a day full of prayer and family
> time. 15,000 of us coming together to pray for the earth. So much to
> learn here. Happy interdependence day!
> [I have since found out that next year we will keep the cycle
> turning and
> gather in New Mexico. Hope to see you over the rainbow.]
>
> July 13th , 2008
>
> Greetings from New Mexico where the monsoons have come and I am
> privileged to experience a balmy night. I have spent time sharing
> plants
> with with over 12oo people since my last letter. Many of you reading
> this are amongst them. Bless you. I thank you for adding depth to
> these
> letters through our staying connected in word and deed.
> Many of you whom I saw along the path mentioned an appreciation
> for these
> virtual letters. It is good energy to help me to show up here
> despite an
> excessive amount of good work to do and the whirlwind of the current
> flow.
> I have finished my coursework at Schumacher College. My
> dissertation due
> at the end of August is occupying a daily focus. I look forward to
> sharing it with you this fall. I plan to visit Schumacher again on
> my way
> to India. Thank you to all those who helped to make that experience
> memorable and who helped the energy flow. In my last days at
> school I was
> surprised with a scholarship from Aboca Herbal Company that paid
> off the
> remaining money I owed. Ahh, living my dream. May the energy flow
> toward
> you living yours also.
> Below you will find my schedule over the next couple of months.
> Please
> show up if you can and share with others.
> I have finalized my dates for the southern India expedition I have
> been
> mentioning these last couple of years—September 19-October 10.
> Space is
> limited but let me know if you are interested. More details are below
> this letter.
> These are such challenging times in the world. The paradoxes are
> becoming
> more profound. Shift. Change. Transition is happening. My spring
> journey flowed so well. Many thanks to the hosts and participants
> –wow—30 happenings in 37 days through 8 states. I could not have done
> it with the assistance of Jessikah Towle who helped get it
> organized and
> traveled with me helping to keep track of all the details.
> I then spent time in California with family and launched from there
> to the
> stone soup gathering and then on to rainbow. After rainbow I traveled
> with Joseph through Colorado teaching a day outside Durango then
> down into
> NM into hot springs and time in the Sandia Mtns. Now I am in NC at
> home
> hard at work preparing my dissertation. Heading to the Appalachian
> Mountains soon to teach and participate in summer gatherings. Hope
> to see
> you along the way.
> Enjoy the Summer!
>
> Remember!
> Eat Something Wild Everyday
> Multi-skill yourself (start with the basics)
> Build resilience in yourself and your community
>
> Love and Light,
>
> Frank
> www.plantsandhealers.com
>
>
> "A fundamental flaw of modern western culture is its defining
> Nature as
> somehow separate from humanity. That illusion of otherness is
> killing all
> of us."
> -anonymous
>
>
>
> Schedule for Summer 2008
>
>
> July 24th -25th Wild Foods and Fermentation with Sandor Katz at the
> Ashevillage Institute, NC Details at www.kleiwerks.org
> July 25th-27th Plants and Mushrooms with Ken Crouse Hot Springs,
> NC Some
> day spaces still available. Contact Elmer for details: 828-622-7206.
> July 28th Transition Culture Discussion circle in Hot Springs, NC
> 8:00 pm.
> Contact Elmer for details: 828-622-7206. If you would like to
> join us
> for dinner at 7:00 please let Elmer know. He has copies of the
> "Transition Handbook" by Rob Hopkins available. Come share and listen
> to views on local resilience and re-skilling ourselves. Now is the
> time
> to build community.
> August 1nd-3th 15th Summer Permaculture Gathering at Celo, NC visit:
> www.se-permaculture.tripod.com
> August 8th Embracing Your Plant Allies with Mary 10-3 outside
> Asheville
> exact Location TBA. email marymorgaine@yahoo.com for details.
> August 8th Getting to know the Conifers 6:00-8:00 at the ASHH in west
> Asheville. 2 Westwood Place
> tel: 828-350-1221 www.HerbsHeal.com
> Bring a snack to share. Also, any cones, needles or branches of
> conifers
> around you. They are called the plants of a thousand uses.
> Conifers have
> many stories to tell. Come Listen and Share.
>
> Donations are always appreciated. Many Thanks for those who support
> me on
> the Green Path…
>
>
>
>
> India Adventure
>
> Kerala, S. India
>
> September 19-October 10
>
> Ayurvedic Medicine, Spice Gardens and South Indian Culture
>
>
> Walk through diverse spice gardens. Explore Indian Nature Preserves
> and
> time with native people. Experience an introduction to Ayurveda in a
> hands-on, rootsy way.
>
> If you are interested in living into this journey send an email to:
> Planttalk2008@yahoo.com and I will send you more information.
> Starting
> looking into plane tickets to Trivandrum (Thiruvananthapuram),
> Kerala and
> applying for a visa.
>
>
> Going Deeper—
>
> This will be my third journey to India (1997, 2004). Though
> our time
> together is scheduled for three weeks (Sept 19-Oct 10), I encourage
> you to let this be a launching pad for additional travel. If you
> would like suggestions ask me.
> I have facilitated journeys with people out into the world since
> 2002. You can check my website to read about earlier trips. This
> is not a passive journey in which you are catered to. Instead, it
> is a collective journey in which we will share in the
> responsibilities and experiences. It is not something that is all
> pre-arranged, but rather participation in the dynamic unfolding as
> the challenges and opportunities present themselves.
> I would recommend that you begin looking for plane tickets to
> Kerala
> soon and also go to the Indian Embassy website to begin the visa
> process.
>
> Costs:
>
> I am suggesting that you budget $2500 for the trip. This breaks
> down into around $1000 for the flight, $1000 for basic expenses, and
> $500 is a suggested donation for my efforts and to help subsidize a
> work/study position. When you are committed to going, please send
> to me $1000 for the stipend and money toward collective expenses.
> You purchase the plane ticket, acquire a visa and bring at least an
> additional $500 for expenses as they arise. Questions?
>
>
> Trip Details:
>
> Depending on how many of us end up coming, we will rent a
> vehicle
> and driver to help get us around if needed. The basic outline of
> our trip is to spend some time in the capitol area meeting plants
> and getting familiar with Kerala. Then we will head north to Cochin
> to experience the coastal life and then up into the western Ghats to
> Kumily to experience spice gardens, native people, and the mountain
> life. We will go further north into the Wynard district to meet
> healers there and then up to the highlands of Ooty to experience
> what that world has to offer. Then make our way back to the
> capitol. That is the basic flow and plan.
>
> What you need to Bring: The less you bring the better. Do not bring
> things for camping. I do not recommend immunizations nor anti-malaria
> medicines, but you have to decide for yourself your comforts with
> that.
> Check into natural medicines to meet your needs. Ask if you have
> questions. Check out the Lonely Planet Website for lists of their
> suggestions and notes on that part of the world that they have
> compiled:
> http://www.lonelyplanet.com/worldguide/india
>
> I hope this answers some of your questions and helps you to get
> clear with
> your intention.
>
> Please take the time to write me an email describing your history of
> travel and interests in plants and healing; what you would like to get
> out of the journey; and any questions you might have.
>
> I look forward to hearing from you!
>
> Namaste,
>
> Frank
> www.plantsandhealers.com
>
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