{"id":1478,"date":"2012-02-14T23:07:23","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T23:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/?p=1478"},"modified":"2012-02-16T09:07:03","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T09:07:03","slug":"love-of-our-earth-one-another-and-this-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/14\/love-of-our-earth-one-another-and-this-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Love of our Earth, One Another, and this World"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1479\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/imaginekids1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1479\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1479 \" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/imaginekids1.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/imaginekids1.jpg 905w, https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/imaginekids1-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/imaginekids1-800x548.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1479\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Given with love for our World Team<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This is a Valentine&#8217;s Day card for us all to celebrate our love for our earth, one another, and this world that we call home for now.<\/p>\n<p>This picture given to World Team to use came on the Earth Train for Peace project from Zagreb Croatia to Vienna Austria preparing for the UN Conference on Human Rights!\u00a0 Great memories and Human Rights are something to stand for on Valentine\u2019s Day in addition to global enforceable environmental policy that supports renewable energy!<\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to all who reached out with an expression of love for another, in support of World Team Now with your Valentine\u2019s Day gift orders through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.organicbouquet.com\/WTNVDAY2012\">Organic Bouquet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here is what inspires; MIT team makes progress toward the goal of inexpensive grid-scale batteries for intermittent energy sources\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\/su\/1aTKuJ\/http:\/web.mit.edu\/newsoffice\/2012\/liquid-batteries-0214.html\">may this be fully realized<\/a> and to market soon.\u00a0 Questioning materialistic expressions of love, consider <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clickz.com\/clickz\/column\/2139511\/48-items-technology-replace-decade\">these 48 items<\/a> that technology will replace, and consider the <a href=\"http:\/\/curiositycounts.com\/post\/17619504119\/a-passionate-kiss-acts-like-a-drug-causing-us-to\">science of a kiss<\/a>. Here is a beautiful <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/y4q27M\" target=\"_blank\">Valentine\u2019s sentiment shared with me by Arielle Ford<\/a>.\u00a0 And much to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nwf.org\/2012\/02\/happy-valentines-day-my-best-photos-and-videos-of-wildlife-lamour\/\">love about wildlife<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 438px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpclipart.com\/legal.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Heart\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wpclipart.com\/holiday\/valentines\/valentine_hearts\/glossy_hearts\/glossy_heart.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"428\" height=\"393\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of WP Clip Art<\/p><\/div>\n<p>An e-mail from 350.org on the #kxl or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sierraclub.org\/sierra\/201111\/tar-sands\/default.aspx\">Keystone XL Pipeline Project<\/a> came in yesterday after I signed <a href=\"http:\/\/act.350.org\/sign\/kxl\/to\">this petition<\/a>, that a number of our partner organizations in Tcktcktck from the environmental movement were circulating.\u00a0 \u00a0I commented about finding it hard to believe that this is up again, as it seems that Obama is using the environmental movement for his platform, and maybe he will show leadership and strength to veto this, if it is adapted by Congress and we are helping bring the attention and support of a constituency to back his actions.<\/p>\n<p>Is Obama going to stand firm on his truly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.renewableenergyworld.com\/rea\/news\/article\/2012\/02\/u-s-president-stands-firm-on-clean-energy-agenda?cmpid=rss\">clean energy commitments<\/a>? \u00a0I also explained <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldteamnow.org\/\">World Team Now<\/a> is committed to renewable energy demonstration projects.<\/p>\n<p>Later in the day I was informed that I might have been the 500,000<sup>th<\/sup> signature and I was asked permission to use my name publically before Congress, and with the media if that was true.\u00a0 I hesitated, fearing the potential implications and decided I was indeed prepared to stand for our earth and our resources and humanity and the world that I love unconditionally, and, yes, publically.\u00a0 On this V-day I also am writing again, so as to share what I love with you all more regularly.<\/p>\n<ol start=\"1\">\n<li>Tar Sands Action:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tarsandsaction.org\/spread-the-word\/key-facts-keystone-xl\/\">Shipping Oil to China<\/a><\/li>\n<li>ThinkProgress:\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/green\/2012\/01\/26\/412724\/breaking-transcanadas-dirty-keystone-xl-jobs-claims-draw-sec-complaint\/\">Jobs numbers much lower than initial industry claims<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Greenpeace:\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/GP-SEC-TransCanada-letter.pdf\">Securities and Exchange Commission complaint about TransCanada inflated jobs claims.<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Inside Climate News:\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/insideclimatenews.org\/news\/20110811\/keystone-xl-pipeline-route-ogallala-aquifer-nebraska-sandhills\">Threat to the Ogallala Aquifer<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li>NRDC:\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/switchboard.nrdc.org\/blogs\/sclefkowitz\/keystone_xl_tar_sands_pipeline_3.html\">Threat to protected lands<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Enough defense\u2014 time for visualizing the change for our future. With your help, our growing NGO, World Team Now, will grow into one of the top <a href=\"http:\/\/theglobaljournal.net\/top100NGOs\/\">100 NGOs<\/a> that can effectively love and serve our world and lead us all towards a renewable energy paradigm that creates a sustainable future!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> This is a Valentine&#8217;s Day card for us all to celebrate our love for our earth, one another, and this world that we call home for now.  It&#8217;s about what inspires us and what there is to protect, visualizing the change for our future. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[79180935,11334012,2201864,184,13766,183866729],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-1478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-gridscalebattery","tag-kxl","tag-tarsands","tag-environment","tag-valentines-day","tag-world-team-now","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1478"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1489,"href":"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions\/1489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1478"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=1478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}