IAT NEWSLETTER
June 2001
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"IT'S ABOUT TIME WE BEGIN IT,
TO TURN THE WORLD AROUND . . . "
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ORGANIZATION INFORMATION:
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Co-Founder/Former President - Marcelle Orswell
Co-Founder and Secretary -- Theresa Shea (Tree1A@aol)
Co-Founder/Webpage Designer-Sandy Clark (tybrenn@mediaone.net)
Co-Presidents -- Ann Schnitz (aerie01@sprynet.com)
and
Mary Ledford (eagleshorses@yahoo.com)
Web Site -- -- http://people.ne.mediaone.net/tybrenn/iat/
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LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT
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Dear Friends,
In Natural History Magazine, I found an interesting website I thought I'd bring to
your attention -- http://www.well.com/user/davidu/extinction.html.
David Ulansey, a professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San
Francisco, has compiled a number of reports, articles and websites dealing with what
many now call "The Sixth Extinction" -- the disappearance of plant and
animal species from our world. While browsing through this site isn't exactly pleasant
reading, it would be worse to bury our heads in the sand and pretend that it isn't
happening. According to a Harris Poll conducted in 1998 by the American Museum of
Natural History, that is exactly what most people are doing.
Here's a chilling quote from the lead article on this page: "Nearly 7 out of
10 of the biologists polled said they believed a "mass extinction" was
underway, and an equal number predicted that up to one-fifth of all living species
could disappear within 30 years. Nearly all attributed the losses to human activity,
especially the destruction of plant and animal habitats" (Joby Warrick, Washington
Post). Another link from the website brings the consequences of this home to us --
"Humans Moving Closer to Extinction, A Study Says" -- http://stacks.msnbc.com/local/pisea/m6365.asp?cp1=1.
In the end, we will create our own downfall as we remove the possibility of life
for other species on our planet.
I've chosen one of the articles from this website for this month's newsletter --
you'll find it at the end under "Environmental News".
My heart to yours,
Ann
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
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June 23, 2001 ñ Mack Bailey in Concert, Raleigh, NC
June 24-29, 2001 - Educator's Week at Windstar in Colorado
July 15, 2001 -- A Tribute to John Denver: The Man and His Music
Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, Kempton, PA
July 21, 2001 -- Country Roads Folk Festival, Almost Heaven Ranch, West Virginia
July 28-29, 2001 - Windstar One World Bringing Global Issues Home Symposium
Camp Mary Orton, Columbus, Ohio
August 18, 2001 ñ Second Annual John Denver Potluck Picnic Remembrance, Saratoga
Springs, NY
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SEE DETAILS ON CALENDAR EVENTS IN NEWSLETTER
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QUOTE OF THE MONTH
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"Whatever you can do,
or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."
Wolfgang von Goethe
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FUNDRAISERS
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CYBER IDEA COOKBOOK
They're here! Thanks to the terrific work of our friend Richard Holmes, the 2001
Cyber Idea Cookbook is now available. Each book is $5 and will be sent in the form
of an attached PDF file. A printable form is available at our website -- just click
on the tab at the left marked "Fundraisers". And as a special treat, our
two previous cyber cookbooks are also available again for those who never got one
the first time or would like another one. These are also $5 each. All proceeds go
to The Hunger Project.
Send a check for $5 per book, made out to Ann Schnitz, to:
It's About Time c/o Ann Schnitz
P.O. Box 483
Lionville, PA 19353
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DONATIONS SOUGHT FOR MEMORIAL TREE IN HONOR OF PATTY PEAVEY AND CAROL SMITH
Don't forget!!!
Checks can be made out to Snowmass Chapel Community Center
and mailed to:
Grace (Tigger) Sylvan
1702-H Meridian Ave, #171
San Jose, CA 95125
http://members.theglobe.com/tiggerypum/snowmasstree.html
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LETTERS
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ASPEN 2001 ñ "Let This Be A Voice" Auction/Lunch/Concert-Update
Dear Friends ñ
Again Pam and I invite you to join us at the fourth annual celebration of the life
and music of John Denver. The celebration will be held at the Mountain Challet Ballroom
on Saturday, October 13, 2001 from 11AM-3PM. We will have lunch (deli platters again),
auction and entertainment. We have some confirmations on entertainment: Frank DeLaMarre,
Mark Cormican, Melanie Trondson, Mack Bailey, and Joe Devlin (he is a new comer to
our group and
performed for us at the Rams Head this past April). I have once again invited Pete
Huttlinger and Chris Nole to join us and as soon as I get a confirmation, I will
let you know. The proceeds from the auction will go to the Windstar Foundation.
Anyone wishing to donate an item for the auction, please e-mail me the item(s) you
plan to donate. Please put AUCTION 2001 in the subject and include your full name,
mailing address, the retail value of the item (if known) and your minimum bid. A
reminder: Any photos donated must be your own or you must have a release from the
photographer which must accompany the photo. So if you are donating a photo and are
unsure of it's origin, please e-mail it to me (Pam has difficulty opening photos
sent by e-mail) and I will try and identify it for you. We will once again be having
items for sale Ö t-shirts for one and we are in the process of securing one or two
additional items.
We have a total of 25 volunteers as of 5/22/2001 and I'd like to get 4 additional
people. I'll take the first four e-mails (please put AUCTION VOLUNTEER in the subject)
and after that, I'll put you on a waiting list. I'd like to have all staff in place
by the end of August. Again, we will need volunteers for the following: security
and monitoring tables (both in the auction room and the items for sale). We will
provide brightly colored t-shirts that will identify the security. Those who are
monitoring tables will have "staff" badges. Lunch will be provided to those
who volunteer and you will receive a complimentary Aspen 2001 t-shirt. We would need
all volunteers to be at the Mountain Challet by 9:30AM Saturday morning so we can
go over the details of the event with you.
The cost for the event is $15 including lunch, room rental and concert. If you only
wish to attend the auction and concert, the cost would be $7.50 at the door. Please
make your check/money order payable to PAMELA BEASLEY and send to her along with
a self-addressed, stamped envelope: 721 Ravencroft Dr./Garland, TX 75043. NO REFUNDS
after September 15, 2001.
If you have any additional questions, please e-mail us: Pam: pamela.beasley@airmail.net
or Mary: eagleshorses@yahoo.com
Peace -- Mary
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From: Betty Keutzer (mountain_mumsie@hotmail.com)
Dear Ann,
I am in the process of moving to Blue Ridge, GA...my hubby graduated as a physician's
assistant in December and we have been interviewing in several states...we sincerely
wanted to move back to Colorado, but things just didn't work out this time. I'm sure
we will love the Blue Ridge and Smoky Mountain areas...I plan to keep in touch with
you and I just want to thank you for keeping me on the mailing list. If you know
of anyone in particular who lives in the northern part of Georgia or in North Carolina...I
would love to meet some John Denver fans there. I will keep my
fingers crossed that I can travel to Aspen in the fall...love and peace...Betty
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From: Linda Wolverton (lindaw@mindspring.com)
This message was posted from Christie Smith of Wichita, Kansas, who is on
the Windstar List. She plans to begin a new 'Windstar Connections' in Wichita, if
anyone here is anywhere near there.
Subj:Kansas Windstar Connection
Christie Smith
6/15/2001 8:46:02 PM
Everyone who lives within a few hours of Wichita Kansas is invited to join us in
forming a Kansas Windstar Connection. Our first informative meeting will be held
on July 14 and another on the 21st. Place and times are to be announced. If you are
interested, please email me jura@kscable.com,
or call (316)773-9843. We will be glad to
have you!
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We are pleased to announce that the Aspen Writers' Foundation Summer Youth Camp
will be participating in our event this year by contributing poetry written by
young teens to our poetry publication: "Tapestry In Aspen
2001...Reaching For Higher Ground". The topic for their prose and/or poetry
shall be "Reaching For Higher Ground" keeping the events at Columbine High
School in April 1999 in mind. It was a goal of ours to have some
participation from the Aspen community, particularly from the children of Aspen.
Words come from the heart and giving children a voice leads to a greater understanding
of what they think and how they feel. It's often quite
amazing. Tickets to our event may be purchased for $12 each. Send your check made
payable to the Columbine Trust Foundation and mail to:
The Columbine Trust Foundation
P.O. Box 11807
Aspen, Colorado 81612
The event will be held at the Mountain Chalet Ballroom on Monday, October 15 from
1-4 in the afternoon. Seating is limited.
Poetry submissions for the poetry book shall be taken until July 15. Please send
your work to our book editor at: TapestryInAspen2@aol.com
Look for future announcements within the next few weeks concerning the advance reservations
and sales of our poetry book. Nearly 40 people, to date, have contributed poetry
this year so far. All proceeds from the sales
of the book will benefit the Columbine Trust Foundation.
Carolyn Matthews
TapestryInAspen1@aol.com
Tapestry In Aspen Chairperson
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Hello! I've just started a brand new John Denver Quote-a-Day List! We all
miss John and his magical voice. Let his words, songs, and thoughts inspire you every
day with this list! You'll get quotes from John, and others who make a difference
in this daily (except weekends) e-mail from John Denver Quote-a-Day. To subscribe,
just
send an e-mail to:
johndenverquote-subscribe@topica.com
Thank you!
Sherril
writer@powernet.net
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(this is long but worth reading, folks -- AS)
From: Jennifer Hunter
jenden1099@yahoo.com
I watched him as she testified. He sat in silence. She rocked back and forth
uneasily, never making eye
contact; looking at the floor. She'd contradicted her own testimony and said she'd
looked before she stepped
into the street and she could see down the street and she never saw the bus until
it hit her. The last part
I believed, because her top front teeth had been broken and she'd swallowed them.
The marks on her face
were right down the center with a scrape off-center to her right side on her forehead,
so she must have
turned her face into the impact. She hadn't been seriously hurt because the bus was
barely moving.
She'd walked into it and fell to the sidewalk at the side of the bus. The bus driver
had summoned an
ambulance and she'd been in the hospital for 5 days for observation because she was
complaining of pain and
difficulty swallowing and breathing. The bus company had already paid all her hospital
bills. Later, she'd
created another $10,000 in bills, some bills didn't have any medical record of treatments
for those dates
and supposedly she'd had tests performed in another state, yet none of the tests
had been brought into
evidence in this Circuit Court on the 24th floor of Chicago's Daley Center.
He listened to her and then it was his turn to tell his story. She was wearing headphones
and had stepped
off the curb and he had stopped the bus within a few feet. A 12 ton bus just cannot
stop instantly. There
was nothing he could have done differently.
He and the jury heard the paramedic and the chiropractor tell their stories, then
the expert
witness testified about the necessity and legitimacy of her extra medical treatments.
The judge instructed
the 12 jurors on the laws in effect and the burden of proof and that our judgement
must be based on fact &
evidence, not sympathy. 11 voted that the plaintiff was negligent and it was her
fault for stepping into
the path of a moving bus. 1 insisted it was both of their faults, but her reasons
were purely emotional
and had no basis in fact of the evidence.
Then for 2 hours, we all discussed it. Everyone except the 1 saw it the same way
and as the frustration
built, it turned into arguments and judgements against each other. I'd volunteered
to be the foreman and
reminded the others that we need to respect each other and I read the judge's orders
on how the law is to be
interpreted; things like proximate cause and laws that state a pedestrian cannot
step into traffic and place
themselves in danger. It seemed that most were just intent on getting home for the
weekend instead of
upholding the responsibility to which we'd been sworn. The judge called us out into
the courtroom and asked
me if we would reach a verdict that night. "No, I don't believe so", and
he dismissed us to return on
Monday morning.
It was a long walk through the city in the driving rain to the train. I sat there
on the train, my mind
in turmoil as to how could I bring a multi-racial jury of 12 independent people together,
one of whom was
adamant that she wouldn't budge and she'd expected the others to accept her views.
I sat on the train,
fighting back tears, wondering what to do. I had to find away to ask them to stop
attacking each other
without making them feel attacked themselves. I thought of John's words from his
Windstar symposium
where he described not lashing back at someone who treats you badly and John had
asked why would you let
someone else decide how you are going to act? It was such a simple true to the heart
idea that made sense.
I thought about the movie, "Oh God" and the court room scenes and how it
is to have to stand up to the truth
even when people are angry. There were the song lyrics that said..... "no one
to blame". That idea stuck with
me as I grew up in a family that constantly accused, judged and blamed everyone other
than themselves.
Luckily, I'd discovered John's music when I was about 13 years old when I was deciding
who I wanted to be. It was a conscious choice different from my family which made
things difficult for me, and my patience
always gave them an advantage over me, or so I thought at the time. Now I can see
that I am the only one of
my family who is happy and at peace and I thank John for his guidance. I've let go
of my upbringing and my
fears that held me a prisoner and I now see that people act out of fear and anger
in the negative
things they do. For them it may be a learned behavior pattern that they carry out
unknowingly. This
certainly gives me a perspective to separate truth from fiction; fact from exaggeration.
John always
taught us to take responsibility for our lives and choices.
Over the weekend, I couldn't speak about the case (Judge's orders) and I rehearsed
in my head how I
would conduct myself. Monday came and I asked a juror to help me get everyone focused
and we wrote the
court objectives and judge's instructions on the blackboard. I suggested that we
agree not to
interrupt each other and not to judge each other and that all our votes were equal.
No person here should
expect everyone else to change. Some excused their behavior with nicotine cravings
or cultural
influences. I was interrupted before I could finish by the dissenting juror who'd
been so rigid. She'd
thought about it over the weekend and admitted that she could be wrong. Prayers do
get answered. She
said sometimes she's slow to understand things. I let her speak and she said she
would agree to side with
the rest because it was just about money and no one was going to jail. I offered
to let her sign her name
first on the verdict document which she did, signing on the last line "in protest."
We had to wait for the attorneys and court reporter. Back in court, I handed the
verdict to the Bailiff who
gave it to the Judge. He smiled as he read that the pedestrian was responsible for
the accident. The bus
driver wiped a tear from his eye. The Judge agreed with our verdict and we were dismissed.
We were then
free to discuss the case outside of the Jury room and speak with the attorneys.
Most had left, and I spoke with the Judge who said this was a simple case. I was
thankful there had been
no racial issues. I walked to the bus driver and held out my hand. As he took my
hand, he burst into tears
and I put my arms around him. It was my instinct. I told him that everything he'd
done while testifying
told me he'd been truthful. A few of my tears flowed as I said it. He said he'd had
this on his
head for 4 years. He sobbed uncontrollably on my shoulder. I told him he was going
to be OK and that
I believed him. After a few minutes he stopped said this wasn't so bad, he could
do this all afternoon. I
told him my husband wouldn't let him do that and he laughed and we looked at each
other again. I asked
was he married? "No, but I have a son and he told me, Dad, everything's going
to be OK, but I just didn't
believe him."
I told him I'd ridden my bike in directly in front of a car as a child and it had
screeched to a stop within
a foot of striking me. I'd looked too quickly and didn't see it. I also did not know
that I needed
glasses, and it took me years to realize that I could not have seen that car. I'd
broken my teeth goofing
off in grade school gym class. I understood all the medical tests having been through
them myself, which
I'd explained to the Jury. He couldn't thank me enough. I wished him a good life
and walked away. The
prodigal juror came to him at that time and after she'd left, I again spoke to him
and told him she was
the one who'd disagreed. His attorney asked a few questions about how we came to
our decision. I told
him it was based on negligence entirely. We'd found that the defendant was not negligent
based on the
testimony. By law, we could not assign any monetary damages.
I felt sorry for the pedestrian too, but I felt worse for an innocent man on trial
being blamed by a woman
who would not accept her own responsibility. She'd been slightly injured and her
hospitalization had
been entirely paid in good faith by the bus company. She had completely recovered,
but had chosen not to
fix her teeth. The driver could not change the fate of his circumstances and there
was nothing he could
have done differently. He had shown courage as he'd listened to them speak against
him for 4 days. His
fate was in the hands of 12 strangers and a Judge; a frightening journey I am sure.
I felt I'd been
called to this for a reason and I told him if God had decided differently that day
in my childhood, I would
not have been here for him this day. In that frightening moment long ago at 5 years
of age, I'd learned the reality of responsibility. We rode the elevator down together
and hugged goodbye in the lobby. I stepped out into the sunshine forever changed
by this experience.
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COMING EVENTS
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MACK BAILEY IN CONCERT
June 23, 2001 ñ House Concert, Raleigh, NC
Vocal Folkus Music Productions.
For info, call 919-539-1417 or email gallica@bellsouth.net
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EDUCATOR'S WEEK AT WINDSTAR IN COLORADO
An Educator's Week is planned for June 24 - 29 at the site of the Windstar Land Conservancy.
Please spread the word to educators who might have interest in participating. Further
information will be posted. Emphasis at the Educator's Week is on integrating environment-related
concepts into elementary and middle school curricula- - with a strong mix of students
spending time outdoors - and indoors - in the process.
Warm regards,
Cheryl Charles
Windstar Foundation
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A TRIBUTE TO JOHN DENVER: THE MAN AND HIS MUSIC
July 15, 2001
Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, Kempton, PA
See http://people.ne.mediaone.net/tybrenn/iat/hawkmtn/ for details
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2ND ANNUAL COUNTRY ROADS FOLK FESTIVAL:
This wonderful folk festival will again take place at the Almost Heaven Ranch in
West Virginia on July 21, 2001. Performers confirmed: Mack Bailey, Bill Danoff, Side
by Side and Tom Paxton ... there will be a special tribute to John Denver. Go to
the following website: www.mofolk.com for additional
information. I went last year and it was wonderful ... don't miss it!!!! Peace-Mary
(eagleshorses@yahoo.com)
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WINDSTAR ONE WORLD Bringing Global Issues Home
July 28-29, Camp Mary Orton, Columbus, OH
Sponsored by the Heart of Ohio Windstar Connection. Speakers will include Ron Deutschendorf,
representatives of the Audubon Society, The Sierra Club and Lana Zinkon, tour coordinator
for the John Denver Memorial Peace Cloth. Write to Lana at zinkon@tusco.net
for more information.
http://www.howc.org/invitation.html
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2ND ANNUAL JOHN DENVER POTLUCK PICNIC REMEMBRANCE DAY
Date: SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 2001
Place: Saratoga Spa State Park, Saratoga Springs, NY
Time: 8 a.m. - till 6 p.m. (Park open until park close.)
Sherianna@hotmail.com or Meg at mpdreamer1@yahoo.com
The address for the park is: 19 Roosevelt Court, Saratoga Springs, NY and you can
go to http://www.expediamaps.com to get
directions.
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FOR SALE
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Reminder -- Arctic Dance: The Mardy Murie Story is still available!
Arctic Dance is now available for purchase as a 75 minute VHS home video! To order,
call 1-800-345-9556.
To order from outside the U.S., call 1-804-649-8611. The purchase price is $29.00
plus $6.25 for shipping
and handling. Please note that Arctic Dance videos are for private, home use only.
For information on public
screenings, library copies, or special showings with the producers, contact C.E.R.I.
at
boxonemoose@onewest.net.
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Videos are available from the April 21 2001 Earth Day event, held at the Ram's Head
Tavern in Annapolis, MD. Contact Mary Ledford (eagleshorses@yahoo.com)
for more information.
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ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS
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The Worldwatch Report: Why are we not astonished?
Wednesday, May 12, 1999
By Ed Ayres
Environmental scientists have made it emphatically clear -- coming about as close
as scientists ever come to shouting -- that we are in trouble. What they point to
can be described in terms of four global "megaphenomena" -- of rising
carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere, rising rates of extinction, rising
consumption of resources, and
rising population. And all four, after hundreds of centuries of relative stability,
have suddenly spiked.
Plotted on graphs, they look like heart attacks. Population, for example, now grows
by as much every three days as it
did every century, on average, for most of the one-thousand centuries before the
Industrial Revolution. Yet, for all the extraordinary arm-waving of the scientists,
few people seem to see any big problem. We treat this spasm of biological destruction
we've ignited more like heartburn than heart attack.
The fate of the planet isn't even given much attention by the editors of the New
York Times (which instead published an article last year titled "The Population
Explosion is Over"), not by U.S. senators, and not by teachers or talk-radio
hosts. The scientists, of course, have no means of reaching people on their own.
When they go to the extraordinary effort of producing documents like the 1992 World
Scientists' Warning to Humanity, or the IUCN Red List of Endangered Plants, they
make a few ripples.
But then, again and again, those warnings are either blunted or pushed to the margins
of public awareness. Just as the Kyoto climate convention was approaching its critical
decision point in late 1997, for example, an article appeared in the Wall Street
Journal titled "Science Has Spoken: Global Warming is a Myth." That article
appeared during the warmest December ever recorded, which came on the heels of the
warmest November and the warmest October. It was a year in which the American Museum
of Natural History had just reported the results of a poll of experts in the biological
sciences, the majority of whom said they believe our planet is now undergoing the
greatest mass extinction since the dinosaurs were extinguished.
Why are we not astonished by what is happening to our world? The answer is complicated,
but here are a few parts of it:
In this "information age," we have access to vast amounts of information,
but
the quality of what we have access to is increasingly questionable. Real news
reporting is buried under a landslide of prepackaged news planted by
corporate PR, ideological groups and other entities interested in manipulating
how we act and consume. The Wall Street Journal's "Global Warming is a
Myth" article, for example, was planted by an Oregon-based front group for
the industries that have an interest in seeing the climate treaty scuttled. Real
news is buried from one side by a river of PR and from the other side by a
growing pressure from the dominant media conglomerates to select news for
its entertainment value.
Our sources of belief have become less trustworthy. Once they were mainly
our parents, elders, teachers, neighbors, and other people we grew up with
and spent time with personally. Those sources were sometimes right and
sometimes sadly wrong, but at least they didn't systematically exploit or
deceive us by the millions, for purposes unrelated to our own well-being. Only
in the last half-century -- the last 0.05 percent or less of our experience as a
species -- have we suddenly shifted to a heavy reliance on surrogate sources
of belief: TV depictions of parents (often characterized as amiable fools or foils
for the dominant youth culture), inspirational televangelists, morally outraged
radio ideologues, and charismatic authors of best-selling books on "success."
We're stressed out by unprecedented levels of environmental and social
destabilization: 500-year floods, devastating hurricanes, increasingly severe
water shortages, unexpected crop failures, resurgent diseases and guerrilla
wars. Often the reaction to such stress is to flee -- not just physically, but
emotionally and cognitively. People who have money often flee from the pain
of their lives by consuming. I suspect that overconsumption on a societal
scale may be driven by the same insecurity -- or sense of emptiness -- writ
large.
Our world has been turned inside-out by entertainment. Once it was built
around work; now it's made up of thrills. In industrial countries, entertainment
has become the kind of dominant business that manufacturing once was. In
Texas, which is part of what was once called the great American wheat belt,
the estimated market value of just two entertainment businesses last year --
the Dallas Cowboys and Houston Oilers football franchises -- was greater (at
$735 million) than the total value of the wheat that state grew ($600 million).
The loci of our entertainments are artificial environments -- stadiums and
auditoriums and the interiors of cars, instead of canyons and vales and dells;
earphones instead of the sounds of birds or wind; and the false fictions of TV
ads and sitcoms instead of reality. If we're not astonished by what's
happening to our world, maybe it's in part because, being constantly cut off
from it, we no longer have any strong expectations to begin with.
The disconnection is worsened by systemic misuses of technology. Consider,
for example, the soaring dissemination of automated toys and games that
provide the propulsion, conflict or imagery once provided by children's arms,
legs and imaginations. Not only does that vastly enlarge the amount of
plastics and metals needed to bring up children, but it renders the children
more passive and dependent on still greater stimulation. In a Toys-R-Us
world, we spend more and more to bring up kids who are less and less
connected to what keeps them alive.
The obsession with technology has led us into increasing specialization. And
that makes it harder for us to see the whole picture. If you are an expert and
you discover something curious, there's a good chance that only your
colleagues in the field can really grasp it. Most experts no longer try to keep
in contact with the rest of us. Think of the center as the common ground of
those of us who are still close enough to each other to be able to integrate
our collective knowledge and make it work as a system. It is our cultural and
ecological integrity. The way expertise is exploding, the center can't much
longer hold.
What to do? Most analysts, including us World Watchers, try to approach this question
in terms of policy. But while that's necessary, it may not be enough. Good policy
arguably does for human behavior what end-of-pipe control does for pollution. So,
just as pollution is more effectively attacked at the source, attitudes need attacking
at their sources -- in the education of kids by parents and schools, in the learning
environment we grow up in, in the curricula of universities, in the accountability
of media. We need to revisit how people learn (or don't learn) from the first gasp
of life to the last, because today's average upper-middle class college grad, when
you strip away what he knows about entertainment and technology, has a medieval understanding
of the world. That understanding won't get us
through the next century.
(Ed Ayres is editor of World Watch. This essay is adapted from his book, "God's
Last Offer: Negotiating for a Sustainable Future," published by Four Walls Eight
Windows.)
Copyright 1999, Worldwatch Institute
Distributed by The Los Angeles Times Syndicate
All Rights Reserved
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NEWSLETTER NEWS
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If you would like to submit articles, news items, stories, poetry, or any other pertinent
information to IT'S ABOUT TIME, please e-mail any of the IAT staff. The submission
deadline for the July edition is July 19, 2001. Please be sure to include any contact
information so that members can e-mail or snail-mail for further details.
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The content of this newsletter is entirely at the discretion of the "It's About
Time" staff. Contributions, as always, are welcomed, although inclusion is not
guaranteed.
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". . . IT'S ABOUT TIME WE START TO LIVE IT,
THE FAMILY OF MAN,
IT'S ABOUT TIME
AND IT'S ABOUT CHANGES . . .
AND IT'S ABOUT TIME."
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