The more we are informed, the more effective our actions will be. Here are some items to stimulate your thinking. Please share with us other resources and facts that we can include.

• Time/CNNs special issue on 50 things plus One to do about global warming. Number 51 is Live Simply. (click here)
• These graphics depict some staggering environmental realities about the way we live... be sure to catch the details. (click here)
• Carl Sagan’s view of us humans and our planet
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• This educational video is a persuasive commentary about our consumer economy and the future of sustainability
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• Is there really an issue about the climate? (click here)
• Personal Life-Expectancy Calculator (click here)
• One of the emerging leaders working on solutions
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• Just what is NATURAL beauty anyway? (click here)
• This amazing video reveals the life of the cell (click here)

Hot Women Know that....

• Of the world’s 1.3 billion poor people, an estimated 70% are women and girls.
• Between 75-80% of the world’s 27 million refugees are women and children.
• Of the world’s nearly one billion illiterate adults, 2/3 are women.
• 67 Percent of the world’s work is done by women
• 10 Percent of the world’s income is earned by women
• 1 Percent of the world’s property is owned by women
• 76 Million is the number of girls in the world who have never received a single day of schooling
• There is a 50 Percent reduced rate of HIV infection among young women in developing countries who attend at least six years of school
• $10 Billion is the amount it would cost each year to send all the world’s children to school by 2015 (less than the annual amount the world spends on ice cream)
  

Resources
Finding our Way (2005)
Margaret J. Wheatley
The Soul of Money (2003)
Lynne Twist
The Trance of Scarcity (20007)
Victoria Castle
The End of Poverty (2005)
Jeffrey Sachs
Women Connected (2007)
Pam Bartlett
Megatrends 2010 (2005)
Patricia Aburdene
The Power of Partnership (2002)
Riane Eisler
The Future of Money (2001)
Bernard Lietaer
Critical Path (1981)
R. Buckminster Fuller
New and Selected Poems, Volume II (2006)
Mary Oliver
Your Money or Your Life (1999)
Vicki Robin and Joe Dominquez
Claiming Your Place at the Fire (2004)
Richard Leider
Leadership and the New Science (1992)
Margaret J. Wheatley
Living in Balance: A Dynamic Approach for Creating Harmony & Wholeness in a Chaotic World (1998)
Dr. Joel and Michelle Levey
Comfortable with Uncertainty (2002)
Pema Chodron
Let Your Life Speak (2000)
Parker Palmer
Blessed Unrest (2007)
Paul Hawkens
Our Day to End Poverty (2007)
Shannon Daley-Harris and Jeffrey Keenan