1st Greening Asylum Forest

WHO WILL SAVE OUR PLANET EARTH By David Lavie * The U.S. Russia and other developed countries spend tremendous amounts of money in recent years for the study of the planets in the solar system and beyond. These expenses seem superfluous considering the imminent dangers facing civilization from pollution, intensive exploitation of the limited natural resources and overpopulation. The most expensive Hubble Space Telescope and the hipper expensive manned spaceships may provide us with new information on the Universe. These and similar sophisticated means, however, will not Read more

   Many years ago when I had more time to be aware, I discovered a book called “the Culture of Make Believe” by Derrick Jensen.  It was a horrific tome full of meticulous details and passionate discourse on the history of hate and the turning of a blind eye.  It recounted the effects of everything from arms dealing to consumer indulgence in slave labor chocolate.  It pointed a long and fearsome finger and implicated everyone, even the middle class suburban housewife in the wholesale destruction of humanity.     I was shocked and moved profoundly.  I carried a dog eared and Read more

Thrown away or ripped up a piece of paper lately? Printed or photocopied one too many copies? Had some snide and smug colleague say “you’re killing the rainforest!” Thought that they might be right and you should stop using so much paper and maybe buy a Sting album. Well, don’t. Both of them are nonsense. There is of course an element of truth in the above remark, in the same way that if you stop breathing then there will be (slightly) more air to go around. The basis of this greatly over-used maxim really treats that trees are cut down to make paper, which is Read more