{"id":2062,"date":"2013-05-26T17:30:18","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T20:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ploff.net\/beta\/?p=2062"},"modified":"2013-08-30T13:34:21","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T16:34:21","slug":"boletin-consciente-n-107","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ploff.net\/en\/boletin-consciente-n-107\/","title":{"rendered":"Awareness Newsletter N\u00b0 107"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good reading to all. Chilly days down here in the wide flatlands, which invite you to relax a little bit and enjoy a good documentary.<\/p>\n<p>I love movies, but there is something about documentaries that is different to the stories told in action, drama, science fiction films\u2026 in documentaries, the stories told are emotively real. Documentaries are loaded with images that impact your thoughts and leave you clinging to them. But documentaries are mainly loaded with information \u2013 <i>information worth being listened to, accepted, processed and stimulated for action.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The Ecoportal.net website, quoted several times on these newsletters, contains tons of environmental information, as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecoportal.net\/Videos\" target=\"_blank\">a section with several documentaries<\/a> to enjoy any given day we decide to know what\u2019s going on between the planet and us.<\/p>\n<p>In this website, I found a documentary produced by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_McKibben\" target=\"_blank\">Bill McGibben<\/a>, an American environmentalist, author, and journalist who has written extensively on the impact of global warming. The first time I heard McKibben speaking was in <i>The 11<sup>th<\/sup> hour<\/i>, another strong environmental documentary, in which I felt comfortable with the serenity of his speech, being able to transmit concepts of change to everybody.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ploff.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/BA-107-Bill-McKibben.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2064\" alt=\"Portrait of Bill McKibben, author and activist. photo \u00a9Nancie Battaglia\" src=\"https:\/\/ploff.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/BA-107-Bill-McKibben.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This new documentary is called: \u201c<i>Do the math \u2013 the fossil fuels industry is killing us<\/i>\u201d \u2013 where it invites us to <b>DO THE MATH<\/b>, and make the calculations necessary to come to realize that our extractive and unnatural ways of living are making it very unlikely for us to perpetuate our lives through time and space. You can watch it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecoportal.net\/Videos\/Do_the_Math_-_La_industria_de_los_combustibles_fosiles_nos_esta_matando._Video\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, if you have 44 minutes available in your day.<\/p>\n<p>And if you do not have that \u00be of an hour, you can watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecoportal.net\/Videos\/La_isla_de_las_flores._Documental\" target=\"_blank\">another documentary<\/a> of only 13 minutes (a cup of coffee, or tea, just a pause), with the same philosophy, but filmed 24 years ago (1989) by Jorge Furtado, a Brazilian scriptwriter and director, called \u201cLa Isla de las flores\u201d (<i>The Flower Island<\/i>), which analyses human social evolution from its highly developed brain and opposable thumbs, to the malformation of our culture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ploff.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/BA-107-jorge-furtado.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2063\" alt=\"BA-107-jorge-furtado\" src=\"https:\/\/ploff.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/BA-107-jorge-furtado.jpg\" width=\"1152\" height=\"775\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<i>There is no economic problem\u2026 what exists, is a moral problem<\/i>\u201d \u2013 E. F. Schumacher.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<i>I want people to learn. I want them to understand things. I want them to be able to go through our world and enjoy the universe.<\/i>\u201d \u2013 Isaac Asimov.<\/p>\n<p>It will be until next week.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Longstaff.-<\/p>\n<p>Ps. If you have old furniture, pallets of those wooden boxes that carry vegetables and you do not know what to with them, <a href=\"http:\/\/ecocosas.com\/destacados\/muebles-ecologicos-y-gratis-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">check these ideas<\/a>!.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ecocosas.com\/destacados\/muebles-ecologicos-y-gratis-2\/\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good reading to all. Chilly days down here in the wide flatlands, which invite you to relax a little bit and enjoy a good documentary. I love movies, but there is something about documentaries that is different to the stories told in action, drama, science fiction films\u2026 in documentaries, the stories told are emotively real. 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