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It's the architecture!

by Edward Mazria

How do we dramatically cut down on greenhouse gas emissions, lessen our dependence on fossil fuels and become more energy-efficient without arguably wrecking the U.S. economy?

So far, no one's come up with a viable answer, largely because we keep looking at global warming from the same angle. The result is tunnel vision - we keep missing the forest for the trees with remedies like cleaner cars, fewer smokestacks, more renewable energy sources. Each is necessary, but solves only part of the problem.



The Revolution Will Not Be Invoiced

Burners Without Borders, a new movement for social change borne out of the Burning Man festival, is rewriting the rules of activism

by Charles Shaw reprinted by permission from Conscious Choice Magazine, consciouschoice.com

Forget what you think you know about activism and community service. Forget the Non-Profit industrial Complex with its centrally controlled organizations. Forget grant applications and fundraising drives, complex tax codes and government regulations. Forget political correctness, groupthink, forced neutrality and censorship.

Burners Without Borders (burnerswithoutborders.org), a new movement for social change borne out of the Burning Man Festival, does away with all of that bureaucratic detritus. Taking its cue from Doctors Without Borders, Burners Without Borders is led only by an idea: that of a boundless, leaderless movement, based on gifting and community, that seeks no publicity, recognition, money or power. All it seeks to do, like its progenitor, is to build community through addressing social needs, creating art and healing the deep wounds of a disconnected culture in the throes of anomie.



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