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2009 Banner Year for Ecological Internet Your support needed to continue courageous biocentric advocacy December 1, 2009 Dear Earth colleagues, Ecological Internet (EI) has had a banner year, spearheading several major rainforest/climate victories, and providing inspired, knowledgeable leadership to global efforts to protect old forests to stabilize climate, biodiversity and ecosystems. There is no comparable global network promoting specific, well-researched, ecological science based, on-the-ground conservation policy required to achieve global ecological sustainability. Our ability to continue doing so is dependent upon your support. As we have for 10 years, we depend exclusively upon network participants to raise the modest amount of funds required to run Earth's largest biocentric eco-portals and action network. Please read more below regarding the past year's successes, and make a donation now at http://www.climateark.org/shared/donate/ to ensure the work continues apace. As we are now based in rainforest countries, our needs for staffing, computers & bandwidth has never been greater. EI is framing the global movement for ecological sustainability in terms of sufficient biocentric policy. No one provides ecological search, news tracking, action & insightful commentary like EI. This is perhaps not surprising given past innovation including pioneering the use of the Internet to maintain ecosystems and having invented blogging. Let me review some of this year's campaigns and accomplishments. Ecological Internet's global network singlehandedly resisted Malaysian government financed oil palm expansion into the heart of the Amazon. In India we were instrumental in protecting natural core habitat and corridors of the Indian Elephant. We continue to courageously confront those pandering to continued FSC ancient forest logging -- noting toilet paper and paper bags from "certified" industrial forest logging of primary forests can never be considered ecologically sustainable. EI continues to write freely, at some risk to ourselves, of the ecological science indicating Earth has already crossed critical ecological tipping points. If current trends continue -- and unless the industrial growth machine economy is overthrown immediately -- humanity is heading for irrecoverable ecosystem, social and economic collapse. Similarly we have shown strength in confronting the lack of efficacy of biomass energy, geo-engineering and biochar. We continue to pursue a range of new IT techniques to bring about the awareness and action necessary to sustain humanity and our shared habitat. Despite a somewhat reduced budget, EI this year also launched huge Facebook (8000) and Twitter networks (1000). There we provide frequent and immediate micro-blogging of ecological advocacy news, which is well received and growing exponentially. And all our web portals were improved graphically (i.e. rounded corners). Ecological Internet is well aware that if humanity and Earth are to be sustained, a complete revolutionary rethink to how we live with Earth is required. The extent to which Western lifestyles are unsustainable has never been more evident. We will not be silenced by governments, industry OR the large environmental bureaucracies more interested in raising money than solving eco-problems. What EI may lack in staff and financial resources, is more than made up for with passion, commitment and courage. Ecological Internet is the antidote to reformist greenwashing sweeping the environmental movement, whose inadequacy virtually ensures global ecosystem collapse. Please, now more than ever, your tax-deductible gift to Earth via EI is needed at http://www.climateark.org/shared/donate/ . For Earth, Dr. Glen Barry P.S. We are planning major coverage and action for Copoenhagen, and we need you, so keep subscribed even if you cannot donate please! --- You are subscribed to ecological_internet as [email protected]. Before unsubscribing, please consider modifying your list profile at: http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/subscribe/[email protected] To unsubscribe, send a blank email to [email protected] Or click here: http://email.ecoearth.info:81/u?id=84041H&n=T&c=F&l=ecological_internet To subscribe visit: http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/subscribe/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
