I've collected some of my favorite quotes about peace for this year's Blog Blast for Peace. If you have any of your own quotes to share, please leave a comment.
"It is isolation that is critical to war. You cannot be abusive when you realize your connectedness."
-David Kadlec
"If you have a gun, you can go out and shoot one, two, three, five people. But if you have an ideology and stick to it, thinking it is the absolute truth, you can kill millions."
-Thich Nhat Hanh
"War, at first, is the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; ...
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- Ethiopia, US Billionaire's Titan Resources Signs Oil Accord - Bloomberg
- Ethiopia targets women's 5000m podium sweep - guardian.co.uk
- Dining: Veggie goes to Ethiopia - Jerusalem Post
- Ethiopia's Gelete Burka failed to advance to Women's 1500m Final - Nazret.com
- US suspends refugee program after DNA fraud - AFP
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I've collected some of my favorite quotes about peace for this year's Blog Blast for Peace. If you have any of your own quotes to share, please leave a comment.
"It is isolation that is critical to war. You cannot be abusive when you realize your connectedness."
-David Kadlec
"If you have a gun, you can go out and shoot one, two, three, five people. But if you have an ideology and stick to it, thinking it is the absolute truth, you can kill millions."
-Thich Nhat Hanh
"War, at first, is the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; ...
I just found out that today is Bloggers Unite for Human Rights day. It's almost the end of the day, and in some parts of the world it is already tomorrow, yet I don't want to let this event pass by without participating, and bringing the famine in Ethiopia to people's attention. Ethiopia is currently experiencing one of the worst droughts it has had in a long time. The death of livestock, failure of crops, and rising worldwide food prices are leading to massive starvation in the southern part of the country. Warming trends due to climate change are said to be causing the drought.
A few days ago I blogged about this from a personal ...
Satire? Let's hope so, but sometimes I have my doubts.
Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early
I found this at Everyday Yogini. Here's a game to calculate your environmental footprint. I got a 2.7 (I think this means we would need 2.7 earths if everyone lived the way I did.)
The big surprise was that my biggest impact was in my food choices. I never eat meat and rarely eat dairy so I was expecting that to be my 'greenest' category. Apparently my 14 cups of coffee per week is wreaking havoc on the biosphere; even organic, shade grown coffee has a big impact on the environment when it is shipped half-way across the world to my coffee cup.
Some students at UC Berkeley have put together a site to see how many African countries people can name in ten minutes. Click here. How did you do?
Time/CNN has a slide show showing pictures of a week's worth of food for different families:
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1626519,00.html
I thought the Eqyptian's and Bhutanese's selections of food looked the best.
Our kitchen table would have a lot of vegetables, tofu, oatmeal, bread, fruit, pasta, rice, Amy's frozen pizzas, soy milk, and Tofutti Cuties. Unlike a lot of the Western families in the photos, we don't have a TV in our kitchen.