Category Archives: Planetary Consciousness

OKABASHI – Sooooo comfy shoes that are a contribution to the Planet

By Jackie ONeal | Published: June 29, 2011

I purchased my first pair of Okabashi recycled and recyclable flip flops form Whole Foods last week for $12. Currently living in South Florida and loving to be outside, at the beach or in my garden, my shoes really get ruined quickly from the rain, sea water, dirt etc. These have to be some of [...]

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How Happy Was Your Meal? How Temple Grandin labled ‘autistic’ has changed the face of cattle rearing in the USA

By Jackie ONeal | Published: May 4, 2011

How Happy Was Your Meal? By Madeline Ostrander Dr. Temple Grandin says she knows the mind of a cow. It’s not a fuzzy assertion—Grandin, an animal scientist at Colorado State University, is one of the hardest-nosed researchers you’ll ever meet. She is autistic and claims that she literally thinks like an animal—in pictures. She notices [...]

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The Whale…says ‘Thank You’

By Jackie ONeal | Published: September 30, 2010

THE WHALE… This was sent to my Facebook Page yesterday and it is too lovely to not share with as many people as possible. If you read a recent front page story of the San Francisco  Chronicle, you would have read about a female humpback whale who had become entangled in a spider web of [...]

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Valedictorian Seeking Change in the School System

By Jackie ONeal | Published: August 10, 2010

Change Comes From Within… From within ourselves to within a system…the beauty of this speech is that Erica is not hostile, she is not going into the ‘wrongness’ of everything, she is asking for change and that the change required needs to come from within. That each and every person has something to offer. That [...]

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Inviting Change in the Gulf of Mexico

By Jackie ONeal | Published: July 20, 2010

What Else is Possible in the Gulf of Mexico? On Monday July 19th 2010 Gary Douglas, Founder of Access Consciousness asked for Access Facilitators and anyone else to contribute their energy to change of the ecological destruction that has been done in the Gulf of Mexico at 10am Eastern Standard Time. Gary said that we [...]

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How ‘Stuffed’ Are You?

By Jackie ONeal | Published: April 23, 2010

Are you bloated under the weight of your own consumption? View Annie Leonard’s ‘The Story of Stuff’ This is a story about the World’s obsession with stuff and how we are all affected by it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GorqroigqM&feature=channel

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Effects of Excess Plastic in our Society

By Jackie ONeal | Published: November 27, 2009

An Island of Plastic in the Pacific My attention was drawn to the issue of an Island of Plastic in the Pacific a few weeks ago. I have to admit that I was not aware of the immensity of this problem before this.  Have I been this blind? ‘The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, also described [...]

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Grow Your Own Fresh Air Using Household Plants

By Jackie ONeal | Published: August 12, 2009

Common Household Plants to Grow Your Own Fresh Air Listen to Kamal Meattle’s talk on using plants to clean the air in buildings Kamal Meattle Kamal Meattle has a vision to reshape commercial building in India using principles of green architecture and sustainable upkeep (including an air-cleaning system that involves massive banks of plants instead [...]

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