It was great!
7th Great Lakes Bioneers Conference
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NEAHTAWANTA CENTER
Mission Statement
The Neahtawanta Center is a place of gathering and a community of kindred spirits, created to serve people and institutions interested in working toward a sustainable and just society. As a place of gathering, we provide an environment in which people can enjoy, seek wholeness and uncover their own spirituality. As a community, we seek the common good in all we do and believe that the earth and all living beings which inhabit it are fundamentally good.
We believe that the earth can be transformed from a place where excessive suffering is allowed to exist, to a place where harmony, peace and balance is accessible to all. We are committed to bringing about this transformation through partnership with those in our broader community, with a focus on communication, hospitality, education and service.
We dedicate ourselves to living a life of congruence and caring so that we might serve as a model to all those whose lives we touch.
NREC Current Projects
- Co-sponsoring the Great Lakes Bionneers Conference
- Working with the progressive community to help foster communication, cooperation, and collaborative relationships between groups, and between groups and individuals, as we address current issues that affect our community. We host a calendar of progressvies events at TraverseAreaProgressvies.org
- Working with orgnizations and individuals to promote peace -- TraversePeaceAlerts.org
- Working on media; maintaining and creating media for ventingmedia.com
- Maintaining a web hosting service for other non-profit organizations we work with.
Of note from the net
Israel's Onslaught: One of Its Bloodiest Attacks on Palestinians in 60 Years
By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. Posted December 30, 2008.
Reports indicate that 350 people have been killed and 1,400 injured in the aerial strikes across the Gaza Strip since Saturday morning.
From the Bill Moyers Journal
My next guest continues to believe that through song we can change the world. We first introduced him to you a few weeks ago, and we were overwhelmed by your response. One woman whose family has been pitched overboard by the sinking economy wrote us to say: "I haven't felt much joy lately," but after watching the program, "for the first time in a very long time, my heart felt something other than pain and fear." We lost count of the number of people who requested an encore so we're delighted now to oblige.
Mark Johnson is the co-director of a remarkable documentary about the simple but transformative power of music: "Playing for Change: Peace Through Music."
Youth Embarrassed By U.S. Delegation at Climate Conference
POZNAN, Poland, December 1, 2008 (ENS) - The U.S. climate delegation's "sidestepping and recalcitrance" in a news conference on the opening morning of the United Nations annual climate conference in Poznan was denounced by the international climate campaign 350.org and young people from the United States who are attending the meetings.
350 is the red line for human beings, the most important number on the planet. The most recent science tells us that unless we can reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to 350 parts per million, we will cause huge and irreversible damage to the earth
Watch Bill McKibben's September 7, 2008 presentation in Traverse City.
He speaks about climate change and the 350.org campaign