World Vision Dialogue - What YOU CAN DO TODAY

Community Supported Agriculture

Over the last few months my family has been enjoying the freshest organic produce directly from the farm. We joined a Community Supported Agriculture project or CSA.  We pick up a container of fruits and veggies from the farmers market in downtown Portland Oregon every weekend.

In the beginning we were just thinking of a healthy way to eat but it has turned into much more. The amount of energy we are saving by going directly to the farm is awesome. Only 1/5^th of the fuel used getting food to your table comes from the actual production. The rest is packaging, middle men, processing and cooking.

The flavor is amazing and the cost per week is around $21.00. I thought I hated radishes until I had the organic and farm fresh type. One grocery bag at the organic store cost twice as much, so not only are we doing good but we are saving money! 

Please check out the farm we use and do some local research on your options. This is a wonderful way to redirect your funds. Our only true vote these days is with our pocket books. If we want to speak change we must be change, when given the chance. 

http://www.gatheringtogetherfarm.com/ 

Peace,

Joshua Peace Seeker

Building a bio community NOW

My family and I spent the last week at the Oregon Country Fair. It is a yearly ritual for us.  My partner Yemaya is an amazing belly dancer at the beautiful Gypsy stage. Normally my days and nights are filled with walking around from booth to booth. Watching amazing musicians and performers in every style you can imagine. 

During the daytime as many as 20,000 people stroll through the fair and many wonderful connections are made. Night time is a whole different story. Somewhere around 7,000 people work behind the scenes as performers, construction, food servers and much more. My job every year is to build a stage and take care of my little girl while Yemaya dances. But this year was different for me. I found myself driven to spread words of peace and action.

In a setting that many try to disconnect from what is going on in the world I found that hundreds of my friends wanted talk about the opportunities developing to help propel change. This is where bio diesel comes in.  I spoke constantly about changing our personal habits and driving a bio diesel was a huge attention getter. People from all over the world left this last week with a confidence in themselves to make the change, the bio diesel seed grows. 

I am an optimist when it comes to people. I believe in the human spirit and I know how strong we can be when we have to be. I will not sit still and watch others form my world into a violent dirty place. I will actively create the world I want. I want a world where communities take control of their resources and remove the greedy hand from their pockets.

I read somewhere recently that the harder I work the luckier I get. I agree with this and we need to work together now. Please work with your fellow humans. Please work with me now by buying a diesel for your next car.  Hopefully we will get lucky and create a planet worthy of our children.

By the way, in all of this action talk I still had a blast with friends and family and bonded with many new loving people.

Joshua Peace Seeker

Do you want to help stop terrorism?

If you want to really stop terrorism in the world you can. First, stop being a terrorist nation. Stop funding the networks by purchasing the from worst terror groups.

 

For example:

General Electric – You have to divest your retirement and or stocks and STOP buying G.E. products. When you help them they in turn build huge bombs and jet engines to destroy people’s lives. 

Any US Oil company – You have to get off of Petroleum. Buy a diesel and switch to a veggie oil fuel. It is fairly easy and it is a huge step in reducing terror. Our oil companies are the driving force behind oppression and genocide in dozens of countries.
 

Any large chain stores – The slave labor used and the political dominance of these stores product manufacturers is creating new “enemies” everyday. Every time another child dies of cancer from a polluted river in India another father wants to take up arms against the USA.  They also murder anyone who tries to build a union or create safer work environments. What would you do? 

You have power to help stop the madness. Just start being accountable to the world yourself. NOW before it is far too late to redeem yourself.