5 posts tagged “water”
PICTURED ABOVE are 3 one-off organic tees:
CHARCOAL - 1 MEDIUM
RIVER BLUE - 1 MEDIUM
YELLOW HAZE - 1 MEDIUM
These are ready to ship together or by the each, to the first person to share a hummingbird story and dollar amount commensurate with hummingbird economic model (below)
Note that we are working with our local eco-friendly printers with heat-transfer technology that allows us to order idiosyncratically in small batches and according to hummingbird requests received (no silk-screen set-up means our economics do not depend on large quantity mass-production). We are solidly committed to using Fair Trade, non-sweatshop, sustainable/organic fabric, cloths, sarongs and t-shirts (kind to air, the water, the Earth & all living things).
Emergent orders are currently being submitted in approximately 3-week cycle: To help you with your choosing we offer that "Water Woman" is emerging most popularly on white, and "New Dawn Woman" on dark background (organic color availability includes Black/'City green'/red/navy blue).
THE
HUMMINGBIRD ECONOMIC MODEL
Send one hundred dollars to help support the
Hummingbird Ceremony convening and we will send to you Hummingbird "Water
Woman" or "New Dawn Woman" {ceremonial cloth/sarong, or tee}.
"1000HummingbirdsNV" is PayPal verified.
DON’T HAVE $100 TO DONATE? Read this!: You may be a natural-born holder or embodiment of hummingbird medicine and you got chills when your eyes alighted on one of these images, but you do not have the means to pay such a premium. You should know that we will meet you at the appropriate price-point, one conversation at a time, so please do not be shy to bring your story, and name dollar amount that lit up in you along with the design. We will do our level best to honor every such submission without tipping the balance for the monetary needs of the hummingbird ceremony.
Please know that we as Hummingbird conduits are committed, as far as humanly possible, to “no externalized cost” on any finished garments that passes through our hands. We have lived through an era of ‘externalized cost’, whereby the cheap fabric for t-shirt or sarong is at the cost of family wellbeing (growers & pickers not paid a living wage), and/or the fiber production literally costing the Earth; conventional cotton production ranks as one of THE most toxic mono-crops on the planet.
All this to say; that we do not deal in ‘bargain-basement’ t-shirts or
bottom-dollar anything(!) and the prices we pay do of course reflect that. We
wish to, in the words of the Water Institute {'Basins of Relations'},:
"ensure that we and all species enjoy pure and ample water for generations
to come.”
We recognize this abiding truth: "The
water cycle and the life cycle are one." {Cousteau}
HUMMINGBIRD COUNCIL RE-CAP:
Towards
CLEAN WATER and well being for all; from sea to shining sea to planetwide.
We are entering a 4-year cycle for rebirth and renewal; a four day, four year event that is passed from council of women to council of women, until we see profound well being restored.
Native women always took care of source and supply networks. Now hummingbird water woman council has convened to draw from the wisdom of traditional networks of need and supply sources, attuned to the newly emerging and within a ceremony framework for follow-through and success.
The All Nations Women's Hummingbird Rebirthing Ceremony for the Earth, while 'all women' and not a public event, nevertheless encourages people of every race, gender, and creed to lend their good spirit to this Purpose, Intention and Outcome: everybody counts, everybody matters.. and the 1% of available freshwater on the Earth is a non-negotiable right for every living thing on our precious Planet.
Hummingbird "Water Woman" {pictured above}, or Hummingbird "New Dawn Woman” {pictured below} can come to you on a ceremonial cloth/sarong, on a scrap of fabric for you to quilt or incorporate into other creations.., on a t-shirt.. {you choose}.
The actual Hummingbird Ceremony will take place over the 2009 April New Moon cycle. As you bring the Hummingbird Ceremony imagery 'Home' to your own sacred spaces and places, you focus your heart-mind for optimum evolution. We truly want to know how to "love all children of all species for all time."
“We Are Hummingbird Women in creation...
A nation of women with wings….”
With All Our Hearts; we thank you.
Web Link: www.natural-villages.org/gaia
ENDNOTE:
Natural Villages is the 501(c)3 for the Hummingbird Ceremony:
www.natural-villages.org ~ Natural Villages knows
that in a very real sense, we hold the World in the palm of our hands: - "If
you want to envision a watershed, bring your hands together and cup them,
creating a vessel. Imagine the rim of your hands being a water-parting divide
with thumb and fingertips as ridge-line spires. Fingers become the mountain
slopes, palms the hills and floodplains. Each wrinkle and crease a watercourse
conveying flow...spilling forth towards the mouth of articulated wrists. We all
hold the watershed in our hands, and in turn, we are all held by the
watershed." {Brock Dolman in the book; 'Water Consciousness'; "Watershed
Literacy: Restoring Community & Nature", Pub. Alternet Books, 2008} ~
Natural Villages feels deeply privileged to be holding space for hummingbirds, for water, for Life.
There's a quote like that; tug on anything in the universe and you find it is connected to everything else...
So feel this; I write about dad and his coal mine days (earlier post http://corrinacorrina.vox.com/library/post/fossil-dodo-fossil-coal-coal-coal.html ) unbeknown to my sister who currently resides 6,000 miles away in the old country.. And 'out of the blue' she "decides" she wants/needs to go check out that piece of history. I open her email this morning, begin to read.. and; like a hand arresting me in the dark..., I am suddenly breathless, choked, feeling dad, feeling that young man who dreamed of flying up into the wide blue yonder, sent 'down-the-pit'.
Maggi writes:
"I decided I wanted to go check out the place Dad stayed during the war; Tudor Street, with Mrs Proudly, his kind landlady.. I met an older guy across the road who had worked in the mine Dad worked in from 1952 till it closed in 1988. Amazing to learn how it was; he gave me a photograph from the 1940's. Talk about grim, dad must of felt like he'd been sent to hell; four years of 6 day weeks down in that pit, for £3 and a bit. Mum insists Dad used to speak about Hebden Bridge and actually I realized he probably would have cycled here on his days off, as it's about 40 mile north west from Thurnscoe.
Maggi xxx
with this parched Spirit
whose wild beauty was blackened
with fossil fuel?
What shall we say to this wild beauty
this youth
this manhood of Scotland
of England?
What shall we say
to terra firma
We have so pitted and scarred
Deep deep aquifer
May we drink now
of your fountain
May we herald in
together
A Day
that tastes
of Sunshine
Summer 2008
raising water to the parched lips of a young girl
in our day and age
in Iraq
MAY ALL BE HEALED, MAY ALL BE FED, MAY ALL BE LOVED
I grew up in "Thatcher's England" when they were closing out the coal mines and the fabric of whole communities was rent asunder. It was brutal, angry, violent, tragic... and, I realized long after I had grown up and moved into a bigger universe, unnecessary. The era of coal was over, yes, but the institutional mind of the day could not get over the characterization of the striking miners as troublemakers who couldn't see the writing on the wall. What a different growing experience we children would have had if we had instead been witness to a People being transitioned through to an acknowledged new era with innovative applications like 'Appreciative Inquiry' or 'Wisdom Council'
(just two of numerous that are out there), where the solutions would come from the people themselves, even as they integrated that the means of income to which they were born was, thank goodness, passing away.
My father was a coal miner, but not before he was a logger. He lived the paradox of loving the trees and the woods of his youth, relished his work with the men who were clearing the trees to make way for new towns.. Then came the war, World War II, every 10th man sent down the mine, and down the mine he went for 5 long years. Long years to a young man who lived outdoors but no comparison to the coal miners who spent all the decades of their working lives underground and carried the legacy in their lungs, with all the respiratory distress that goes with digging coal.
All this lit up in me when this "true cost of coal" came over my desk
this morning. The trauma of the coal industry's demise in England can
still be keenly felt. But here, once again, the externalized cost of
extracting coal is as real as when it was the lungs of men; now it is
literally laid bare on the land as the coal-extracting techniques have
scaled up to the 'might' to remove mountains, and the land is scraped
bare and black as the lungs of our fathers, exposed for all to see.
Then see we must, but in a time when we have grasped, thanks be to
Life, that we have many other options beyond this fossil fuel we have
called C*O*A*L.
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iLoveMountains.org is a campaign to stop mountaintop removal for coal mining. What is mountaintop removal you ask?
From the iLoveMountains.org web site:
Some of the effects of mountaintop removal on people can be loss or pollution of drinking water, flooding, living with blasting up to 300 feet from your home 24 hours a day, cracking in wells and foundations, and sludge dams that can leak and contaminate drinking water."Mountaintop removal is a relatively new type of coal mining that began in Appalachia in the 1970s as an extension of conventional strip mining techniques. Primarily, mountaintop removal is occurring in West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee. Coal companies in Appalachia are increasingly using this method because it allows for almost complete recovery of coal seams while reducing the number of workers required to a fraction of what conventional methods require."
You might be thinking, well, that's sad, but it's kinda far away. There isn't much I can do about it from here. That's why iLoveMountains.org came up with the What's My Connection tool. It allows you to type in your zip code and see how you are connected to mountaintop removal.
For example, when I type in my zip code in Oakland, CA, it tells me, "Your electricity provider, Pacific Gas Electric Co., buys coal from companies engaged in mountaintop removal." Once you've seen your connection, you can sign a pledge to help end mountaintop removal, forward the page onto friends, contact your Congressperson, and contact your power company.
iLoveMountains is asking bloggers (and non-bloggers) to tell folks about all of these tools, and about the mountains that can still be saved by sharing videos about America's Most Endangered Mountains. The 4-minute video above is the story of Daymon Morgan who lives on one of America's Most Endangered Mountains, the Huckleberry Ridge in Kentucky.
Here's how to join the iLoveMountains.org Blogger's Challenge:
1. Go to ilovemountains.org/bloggers-challenge and enter your name, blog URL and email address.
2. Create a personalized "Spread the Word" widget to embed on your blog.
3. Track anyone who "Spreads the Word," or joins the Blogger's Challenge from your web page, or blog on your personal impact map.
4. Read what other bloggers are writing about mountaintop removal on the Blogger's Challenge "White Pages."
As of this writing, 172 bloggers have joined the iLoveMountains.org Blogger's Challenge. Here are posts by a few of them:
Little Green Animals
Life in Small Bites Environment Blog
faithfull on the Daily Kos
STOP Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
