Mine, the story of a sacred mountain, is a youtube video about "The real Avatar." One tribe in the forested mountains of Eastern India works to combat the depradations of the London-based company, Vedanta Aluminum, LTD., in Lanjigarh, India. The Dongria people are interviewed and tell their stories in this video account. Advocating for conservation of the sacred mountains, the tribespeople hope to save the mountains from blasting and strip mining.…

Although megacities have been downsized in order to maximize resilient synthesis between populations and resources, service and production, Washington DC, LA, Tokyo, New Delhi, Buenos Aires, and other cities around the world remain large, vibrant, and bustling. They are, however, utilizing eco-city technologies and practices to become more resilient and healthy for all inhabitants.

All public and most private buildings in DC have introduced, and continue to utilize sustainable, green…

Since my nearest metropolitan area is Washington, DC, there are many redundancies of infrastructure protection available and accessible to interested "first responders," community leaders, neighborhood watch coordinators, shelter and assistance organization heads, et cetera.

Duties in a crisis range from the unpleasant eventuality of preparing and staffing a temporary (mass) morturary, and attendant guidance for preserving any available identifying information, to national/federal…

I live in a mixed urban and rural area. There are 3 major metropolitan centers nearby, most notably Washington DC, several large communities, and then large expanses of rural land.

There are limited avenues of access and egress for vehicles--bottlenecks are the norm in the best of times. Combine overcrowded roads with emergency vehicles, and there is a real problem.

Solutions in the urban areas have included closing roads, and redirecting traffic around the city through the 19…

Not long ago, a farmer, who had worked tirelessly to build an organic garden system on his property, harvested the crop of sugar snap peas which were crisply hanging from their vines. A huge tornado blew up, and the farmer ran for the storm cellar. Skirting the edge of the farm, the tornado left minimal damage in its wake, tossing the baskets of harvested peas in the air, and…

We have come so far from the first “Let our voices be heard” conference ten years ago. In Koinadugu, back in 2010, the Women’s Learning Partnership http://www.learningpartnership.org…

In too many places, women are relegated to the dingy corners of existence. The majority of the world’s poor are women. Women endure poverty in all aspects of their lives: education, health, food, property, mobility, hope.

In too many places, women are denied the…

Help is urgently needed for a special fundraising event in Canada, Right NOW!

When I lived outside Ottawa, Canada, from 2003 - 2006, I was fortunate to be included in the activities of the Iskotew Lodge, which served the First Nations and Aboriginal community, and Ottawa at large, through outreach activities, cultural ceremonies,…

Edward Hale:

…And because I cannot do everything

I will not refuse to do the something that I can…

In April, 2020, I am watching the citizens in Muynak, Uzbekistan, gather at the historic water-front pier where, on April 4, 2010, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon had called upon the world's leaders to find solutions for "one of the worst...environmental disasters of the world."

The pier in Muynak stretched out over a cracked, saline desert, and camels sought shade in the shadows of stranded ships.

Neighboring, poverty-stricken Tajikistan was further threatening the water…

Right now I live outside Washington, DC, USA, where there are more than 175 embassies, chanceries, diplomatic missions, and official residences. More than 175 chances to spread the word of sustainability, the work of EVOKE.

When I lived in Japan, the consulate in F**uoka had an award for "green initiatives" and institution and implementation of sustainable water, xeriscaping, and building-operations eco-improving practices; more notably, the entire US embassy in Tokyo…

The concept of money, currency, fair trade in goods, services, arts and ideals is a very complicated issue. In writing my Learn5

http://www.urgentevoke.com/profiles/blogs/learn5-an-identity-card-c...

and Act5

http://www.urgentevoke.com/profiles/blogs/currency-that-cannot-be-traded

posts, reader…

Privacy has long been held a guaranteed right of democracy--part of the "western/democratic" currency of convictions.

In my Learn5 blog, I asked if an ID card, the expected issuance of the 15th deci-annual Census in India, could be deemed "priceless?"

http://www.urgentevoke.com/profiles/blogs/learn5-an-identity-card-costs?xg_source=activity

Challenged…

http://www.dawn.com/2008/04/24/int18.htm

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/1047240/1/.html

India has been conducting national census registrations since 1872, deterred neither by flood nor drought, war or peace. The census is conducted each decade, and, today, April 1, 2010, began the 15th…

I am not great at tagging in posts, but this is a good, easy-to-listen-to video about the history of money as debt. SO, as the nature of money changes, the nature of my blog posting will change. I submit this video blog as fiat for actual writing--and will write another post later. Here is the link (I hope):

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2550156453790090544#

Do Compensation and recognition render smaller deeds great by proximity?

How can we learn about the value of currency in a virtual world where the points will be pyrric reminders that only 10 have mentors, only 6 go to DC for the big EVOKE Conference?

What is this Informal Value Transfer System, called EVOKE? Not Hawala, fei ch'ien, phoe kuan--no chits to turn in for cold, hard cash at the end of the journey.

Is there a happily ever after, a pot of gold at the foot of…

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/02/amazon-river-water-being-stolen-and-bottled-abroad.php…

Circle of Blue reports on water scarcity, water-security innovations, and recent news and sustainability innovations. This article reports on constructed wetlands/grey water recycling at a Prison in Kenya.

For more information, see:…

The visionary in this quest4 report, Francisca Rosas Valencia, worked to inspire sustainable changes to overcome the ongoing drought and water crisis in the Tehuacan Valley and in Mexico. For more information, see:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/j-carl-ganter/divining-destiny-mexicos_b_476887.html

and…

Two weeks ago, here in the DC area of Northern Virginia, rivers were flooding, the Potomac was running at about 500,000 gallons/second, and part of Old Town, Alexandria was under about 2 feet of tidal waters, and counties inland were under prolonged periods of "flood watch."

We currently live in a watershed area, and several brooks and streams in walking distance from our home were also swollen with spring-time rain and snowmelt flows (we had just experienced the largest snowfalls in…