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Emily Vargas

Mindfulness Therapy Could Indirectly Reduce Alcohol Cravings - 0 views

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  • One of the primary associations that these two domains have is their relationship with self-consciousness (SC).
  • Individuals with depression often have high levels of SC and people with alcohol addiction often have affect and mood issues such as depression.
  • For individuals with depression, negative mood states and negative self-appraisals can trigger cravings and, thus, increase the risk of relapse
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  • When someone tries to abstain from alcohol, they can experience significant cravings.
  • Belgium recently led a study to explore the relationship between SC and craving in a sample of 30 individuals undergoing alcohol detoxification
  • Because SC is found to be relatively high in those with depression, understanding the effect of this trait on craving could help clinicians treating those with alcohol use issues.
  • The participants were assessed for depression, SC, and cravings at the beginning of treatment and again at days 14 through 18. The results revealed that craving and depression both decreased significantly from day 1 to day 18
  • Timary discovered that the individuals with severe depression and elevated SC scores at treatment initiation had the highest level of cravings, depression, and SC at the end of the study perio
  • This suggests that the more self-conscious someone is, the more this trait can impact depression and, subsequently, cravings.
  • greater success if they employ mindfulness-based and metacognitive therapies that focus on developing nonreactive, nonjudgmental acceptance behaviors that could minimize SC and depression.
  • “Our results suggest that metacognitive approaches targeting SC could decrease craving and, in turn, prevent future relapses.
Emily Vargas

How Mindfulness Can Mitigate the Cognitive Symptoms of Depression | Psych Central - 0 views

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  • can be very helpful in improving the cognitive symptoms of depression.
  • Cognitive symptoms can impair all areas of a person’s life. For instance, poor concentratio
  • n can interfere with your job or schoolwork
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  • Focusing on the here and now helps individuals become aware of their negative thoughts, acknowledge them without judgment and realize they’re not accurate reflections of reality, writes author William Marchand, M.D.
  • Depression and Bipolar Disorder: Your Guide to Recovery
  • psychotherapeutic and pharmacological treatments.
  • individuals start to see their thoughts as less powerfu
  • Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT)
  • It’s based on mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR)
  • MBCT teaches individuals to detach from distorted and negative thinking patterns, which can trigger the return of depression.
  • a program developed by Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn. MBSR includes mindfulness tools, such as meditation, a body scan and hatha yoga, along with education about stress and assertiveness, according to Marchand.
  • Getting professional treatment for depression is vital. But there are complementary mindfulness practices readers can try on their own
  • is essentially training one’s attention to maintain focus and avoid mind wandering
  • 10 to 15 minutes to meditate on most days.
  • Whether you’re eating, showering or getting dressed, you can practice mindfulness while doing any activity, according to Marchand, also a clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Utah School of Medicine
  • Another option is to take a mindful walk, which also is helpful because it includes exercise, “an important component of healing.”
  • Mindfulness is a valuable practice for improving the cognitive symptoms of depression, such as distorted thinking and distractibility
  • realize that thoughts are not facts and refocus their attention to the present.
Alyssa Lau

Mindfulness: Top-down or bottom-up emotion regulation strategy? - 0 views

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    • Alyssa Lau
      Alyssa Lau on 06 Oct 13
       
      Mindfulness gives off siginificant positive changes.  mechanics: emotion regulation strategies - the ability to regulation one emtion and emotional repsonses.  2 ways of emotional strategies:  1) top-down model: everything is affected from the upper level - Cognitive reappriasal - change the effort of the emotional reponse, In other words, a different meaning/ output that changes the input of emotions. 
  • direct modulation of emotion-generative brain regions without cognitively reappraise emotionally salient stimuli
  • bottom–up
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  • haracterized by a direct reduced reactivity of “lower” emotion-generative brain regions without an active recruitment of “higher” brain regions,
    • Alyssa Lau
      Alyssa Lau on 06 Oct 13
       
      Bottom- up model: Direct modulation of the regions of the brain that does not change the meaning of the emotional impact.  the lower level affects the upper levels of the model. - Characterization 
  • op–down em
  • otion regulation strategy facilitating positive cognitive reappraisal
  • if mindfulness training is primarily a bottom–up process, MBIs might be effective for patients not responding to traditional psychotherapies.
  • op–down mechanisms
  • cognitive reappraisal, to regulate unpleasant emotions
  • o assess whether mindfulness practice can be best described as a top–down emotion regulation strategy, as a bottom–up emotion regulation strategy, or as a combination of both strategies, on the basis of functional neuro-imaging studies employing emotion regulation paradigms.
  • mindfulness
  • raditionally been defined as an understanding of what is occurring before or beyond conceptual and emotional classifications about what is taking or has taken place
    • Alyssa Lau
      Alyssa Lau on 06 Oct 13
       
      Binary of this paper: The Western definition of mindfulness vs. the traditional definition of mindfulness
  • classical descriptions of mindfulness
  • raditional contexts
  • raditional descriptions of mindfulness
  • asily translated within current Western theoretical frameworks
  • mindfulness
  • (1) a specific state that arises only when the individual is purposely attending to present moment experience, (2) a mental trait that differs both among and within different individuals at different time points, and (3) specific practices designed to cultivate and maintain the state of mindfulness
  • (1) modern clinical MBIs, such as MBSR and MBCT, that have been specifically developed to integrate the essence of ancient Buddhist practices with the modern clinical practice as a means to reduce a variety of physical and psychological symptoms
  • Alternatively, both processes could be more or less associated with mindfulness training depending on the emphasis given by specific instructors and traditions.
Savanna Canale

CEOs Who Meditate - Business Insider - 0 views

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business mindfulness positive individuals

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    • Savanna Canale
      Savanna Canale on 03 Oct 13
       
      This article is interesting because it talks about a few different business individuals, from CEO's to Hedge Fund Managers, and how they used mindfulness themselves or for their employees to improve performance and overall work place dynamic. 
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Emily Vargas

Number of Depressive Episodes Linked to Mindfulness Outcomes - 0 views

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  • negative affect, cognitive disturbances, rumination, and worry
  • MBCT teaches individuals how to be objective in their appraisal of emotions
  • affect had a significant effect MBCT outcomes and also on depressive symptoms and worry.
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  • Batnik also noticed a difference in how these processes interacted when he compared participants with a history of fewer than two MDD episodes to those with three or more prior episodes.
  • For the participants with fewer than two episodes, cognitive changes had more impact on MBCT outcomes and changes in symptoms than affective changes
  • in the group with more than three prior episodes, affect changes had the greatest impact on symptom reduction via MBCT
  • “Further research is necessary to confirm these hypotheses and examine underlying mechanisms for different populations and for individuals at different stages of the illness.”
Nicole Bilbo

The Neuroscience of Your Brain on Fiction - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • concluded that there was substantial overlap in the brain networks used to understand stories and the networks used to navigate interactions with other individuals — in particular, interactions in which we’re trying to figure out the thoughts and feelings of others. Scientists call this capacity of the brain to construct a map of other people’s intentions “theory of mind.”
  • that individuals who frequently read fiction seem to be better able to understand other people, empathize with them and see the world from their perspective.
  • is a particularly useful simulation because negotiating the social world effectively is extremely tricky, requiring us to weigh up myriad interacting instances of cause and effect. Just as computer simulations can help us get to grips with complex problems such as flying a plane or forecasting the weather, so novels, stories and dramas can help us understand the complexities of social life
Alyssa Lau

When it Comes to Your Happiness, is Travel Important? [INFOGRAPHIC] #happyday | The Loo... - 0 views

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    • Alyssa Lau
      Alyssa Lau on 30 Sep 13
       
      Wanderlust: The passion of traveling the world.  Lots of individuals considered traveling as a way to explore their inner self and allows to try new experiences. However the reason why i would like to travel is to learn the culture and help people along the way.
Alyssa Lau

Relational mindfulness, spirituality, and the therapeutic bond - 0 views

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      Alyssa Lau on 07 Oct 13
       
      Relational Mindfulness pracrice: the traditional style/ defintion of mindfulness Can contribute to the development of spiritual qualities such as transcendence, boundlessness, ultimact, and interconnectedness.  Enchaned by spitial compoents. 
  • spiritual aspects of mindfulness practice has the potential to deepen its benefits
  • Asian Journal of PsychiatryVolume 5, Issue 4, December 2012, Pages 351–354This issue includes a special section on Spirituality and Psychiatry <img alt="Cover image" src="http://ars.els-cdn.com.esf.idm.oclc.org/content/image/1-s2.0-S1876201812X00054-cov150h.gif" class="toprightlogo"/> Relational mindfulness, spirituality, and the therapeutic bondMelissa D. Falb<img alt="Corresponding author contact information" src="http://origin-cdn.els-cdn.com.esf.idm.oclc.org/sd/entities/REcor.gif">, <img src="http://origin-cdn.els-cdn.com.esf.idm.oclc.org/sd/entities/REemail.gif" alt="E-mail the corresponding author">, Kenneth I. Pargament Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403-0232, United StatesReceived 10 April 2012Revised 23 July 2012Accepted 25 July 2012Available online 13 September 2012AbstractMindfulness training, which emphasizes deliberate non-judgmental attention to present moment
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  • connections between mindfulness, interpersonal relationships, and psychotherapy.
  • potential impact of relational mindfulness on the psychotherapeutic relationship.
  • ill consider the ways in which mindfulness practice might be considered spiritual and how this spiritual element is especially relevant to relational mindfulness ideas and practices.
  • The emerging concept of “relational mindfulness” focuses attention on the oft-neglected interpersonal aspects of mindfulness practices.
  • mindfulness practiced in relationship to other people.
  • emphasizing the interactions between two or more people who take a deliberate stance of awareness and attention to their emotional and bodily states as influenced by their dealings with one another.
  • ntentional awareness in relationship to another person can have healing benefits.
  • Relational mindfulness in particular appears to have potential to be an agent for cultivating enhanced interpersonal harmony
  • ttunement of an individual with the self
  • leads to an improved ability to attune with others
  • how psychotherapists relate to themselves (e.g. in a warm and accepting manner versus one which is hostile and controlling) is predictive of how they relate with patients.
    • Alyssa Lau
      Alyssa Lau on 07 Oct 13
       
      A nice example of how relation mindfulness can influence psychotherapeutic outcomes on how psychoterapists relate and devlope relations between paients. 
  • mindfulness training can help mental health practitioners increase their understanding and awareness of qualities of mindfulness, as well as to model those processes in sessions with patients.
  • four qualities: transcendence, the sense that an object or experience goes beyond our everyday, usual, or ordinary understanding;
  • oundlessness, a sense of vast, unrestricted space and time; ultimacy,
  • are secular programs which have removed references to the Buddha and to Buddhist concepts in order to make these programs more widely accessible in a western, medical context.
  • relational mindfulness most obviously cultivates the spiritual quality of inter-connectedness, improving our sense of unity with a relationship partner
  • relational mindfulness practices can lead to a sense of transcendent relationship to another human being in that the “other” becomes seen from outside our ordinary (e.g. psychiatric) perspective,
  • hus, the qualities of spirituality can arise within a mindful relationship such as that cultivated through relational mindfulness practices.
Alyssa Lau

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  • The new centers often were staffed by Western teachers,
  • many of whom had first encountered meditation in the Peace Corps and later trained in monastic settings in the East
  • Creating a new wisdom tradition
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  • None of us wanted ou
  • supervisors or clinical teammates to think of us as having unresolved infantile longings to return to a state of oceanic oneness
  • how radically meditation practices could transform the mind. Therapists of the day typically viewed meditation as either a fading hippie pursuit or a useful means of relaxation, but of little additional valu
  • mindfulness meditation was making inroads into the medical community.
  • Jon Kabat-Zinn, who, beginning in 1979, had adapted ancient Buddhist and yogic practices to create Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester.
  • MBSR was used primarily to augment the treatment of stress-related medical disorders, and was of particular interest to clinicians working in behavioral medicine.
  • The first use of mindfulness in psychotherapy to capture widespread attention among clinicians was Marsha Linehan’s Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), introduced in the early 1990s to treat suicidal individuals with complex disorders for which little else seemed to work.
  • he central dialectic in DBT is the tension between acceptance and change.
  • In searching for a means of helping therapists and their clients to experience what she called “radical acceptance”—fully embracing helplessness, terror, losses, and other painful facts of life
  • Because she empirically demonstrated that DBT could help challenging and volatile patients, the method rapidly became popular
  • he next big development came from Zindel Segal, Mark Williams, and John Teasdale, cognitive psychologists in the tradition of Aaron Beck, who were working on treatments for depression in the 1990s
  • They came across mindfulness practice through Jon Kabat-Zinn and MBSR
  • Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), which combined elements of an 8-week MBSR course with cognitive therapy interventions designed to help patients gain perspective on their thinking and not identify with their depressive thou
  • ghts.
  • This standardized, 8-week course couched meditation practices in Western, scientific terms
  • “the awareness that emerges through paying attention on purpose, and nonjudgmentally, to the unfolding of experience moment to moment
  • Steven Hayes and his colleagues had
  • radical philosophical orientation that they called “relational frame theory.”
  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), which they describe as a psy
  • chological intervention that uses acceptance and mindfulness strategies, together with commitment and behavior change strategies, to increase psychological flexibility
  • ACT doesn’t teach many formal meditation practices, but uses imagery, metaphor, and brief exercises to cultivate awareness of the present, loosen identification with thought, and increase openness to the experience of moment-to-moment change
  • ACT encourages clients to identify and pursue activities that give life meaning.
Aadil Khetani

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  • strong leaders must change the way business is done. They must find a way to put the common good above profits.
    • Tara Picudella
      Tara Picudella on 14 Oct 13
       
      Is this asking too much of modern society? In the US we have a capitalistic nation, if we care too much of the little people won't that worsen the economy for the rest of society? Or is the good of the society as a whole less important than the good of those who are suffering?
    • Aadil Khetani
      Aadil Khetani on 18 Oct 13
       
      Today's society only cares about money but if the country as a whole works together they can make this possible. They can put the common good over money and assets.
  • respect and thanksgiving for nature.
  • Outsourcing the work to the rest of the world and then leaving people here without jobs.
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  • biggest environmental issues
    • Yi Jin
      Yi Jin on 16 Oct 13
       
      I fail to see outsourcing as an enviornmental hazard as in the long run pollution is pollution be it in china britain or even the united states, just because u change the location doesn't necessarily increase the amount nor does it increase the the lethality of the pollution
  • outsourced your pollution
  • but at the expense of the American public.
    • Nikki Schmeling
      Nikki Schmeling on 16 Oct 13
       
      it's really difficult to make people see, especially in our american society, why sometimes we should do things that aren't for our direct benefit. we really like this idea of immediate gratification.
  • And I said my job would be to associate them with the reality out there. They're insulated -- heavily insulated -- they don't deal with reality.
  • And they, if you notice, I haven't seen any of their annual reports that put in the cost of the natural resources that they use
  • People are extracting
  • I said, how can you as CEOs of corporations do what you're doing, in terms of extraction, without looking at the consequences?
    • Yi Jin
      Yi Jin on 16 Oct 13
       
      because they are blinded by profits and greed
  • finite
  • finite
  • running out
  • running out. Finite
  • And that's the problem.
  • He says, well, as you know, if somebody is living in those terms, they're not going to progress. They're just going to be happy just the way they are. There'll be no progress. And he says, as you know, the bottom line of our civilization is greed.
    • Brian Walsh
      Brian Walsh on 15 Oct 13
       
      This shows that we as a society wish to progress at an astonishing pace even if we are happy with what we get. I can relate this to my dad's cell phone. He has no urge to get a new iphone or smartphone because he's very happy with his old slider phone
    • Aadil Khetani
      Aadil Khetani on 18 Oct 13
       
      The concept of greed. People want more and more no matter how much or what they have is enough and keeping them happy. They want the next level and the level after that but for what reason? Satisfaction? 
  • selfishness
  • teach them to be selfish, so they can progress
    • Nikki Schmeling
      Nikki Schmeling on 16 Oct 13
       
      do they really need to progress? this kind of reminds me of that john lennon quote "when I went to school they asked me what i wanted to be. i said "happy", they told i didn't understand the assignment, i told them they didn't understand life"
  • finite
  • The responsibility of leadership is to look that far ahead
  • directly due to the idea of capitalism
  • to give thanks, be thankful for what you have, and to share. And the third one would be respect.
  • hat's was people power did that. Germany didn't want it, East Germany didn't want it, nobody wanted it. People wanted it, and nothing could stop them. Once they get in a move in that direction they become a force. It's very difficult -- it's not a manageable force -- and that's why leadership is so vital and important.
  • leadership and the control factor for human beings, in particular, is moral. If you don't have moral law you don't have any law. If there's no moral law, you don't have any.
    • Nikki Schmeling
      Nikki Schmeling on 16 Oct 13
       
      so because people tell them to buy it, they feel okay about buying it, even if they shouldn't?
  • there's no mercy
  • There's only law
  • You're going to suffer the consequence, and that's right where we're headed right now. Six-point-six billion people and more coming every minute as we sit here. That's a compound
  • And it takes some understanding to rise to the occasion. You've got to comprehend what's going on.
    • Nikki Schmeling
      Nikki Schmeling on 16 Oct 13
       
      it's not just going to happen that people will rise to the occasion. first they need to understand why it's so important to do so. like okay with WWII, the U.S. didn't want to get involved at first. the only reason we did was because we got attacked. that made us understand the importance. it's kind of like that for environmental issues. scientists say we should get involved, but until there is personal risk, we won't.
    • Aadil Khetani
      Aadil Khetani on 18 Oct 13
       
      This is something that can be seen within everyone once they understand the situation. Game 7 of playoffs, final exam, huge corporate project and many more have got so many people coming through in the "clutch."
  • When the Peacemaker talked to us about the foundation of the confederacy, he said the first principle is peace. And you know the Indian word for peace; it also means health. The same word.
  • It starts with the people; the earth, everything that grows on the earth, bushes, trees, what lives in the trees, what lives on the earth; water, what lives in the water; and food, what grows, where it grows. And the leaders, the animal leaders, who lead the animal. We acknowledge thanksgiving for them.
  • You're supposed to develop them and then share with those that don't have them. That's how everything has equity. So you come back to that.
  • And what can we do about it?
  • Among other things, the Peacemaker instructed them to approach every decision with concern for the seventh generation to follow.
  • their reality is Wall Street
  • strong leaders must change the way business is done. They must find a way to put the common good above profits.
    • Rebecca Lurie
      Rebecca Lurie on 15 Oct 13
       
      In many ways this is hard for business to do because the business world is so competitive that if one starts to lag behind and could possible go out of business. The business world revolves itself around profits.
  • "Business as usual is over," he said
  • Haudenosaunee, or the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy
  • Well, they have to. Otherwise they're going to get hammered. They're going to get hammered anyway.
  • - if you're going to take those steel mills and put them some other place, they're going to be belching a lot of environmental damage ...
    • Nikki Schmeling
      Nikki Schmeling on 16 Oct 13
       
      I think that the biggest issue with outsourcing as far as environmental problems go is that we always outsource to the same places. that makes the pollution a lot more concentrated in that one area, making it a lot easier to burn straight through the ozone in that one spot. if we didn't outsource as much, the pollution wouldn't be as concentrated and it would take longer to deplete the ozone layer.
  • it's because of outsourcing
  • . I don't see it changing, because I don't see any relaxation from the executive side -- from the leadership side -- because they're making money
    • Lexy Martin
      Lexy Martin on 15 Oct 13
       
      people are only interested in money and what they as an individual can gain from any situation. People are becoming more and more selfish without one thought of how our, and our future generations will be effected.
    • Gabriel Kerbs
      Gabriel Kerbs on 16 Oct 13
       
      I believe that it is going to take more serious natural disasters - we need to feel pain close to home, serious pain- before any leader begins to make any changes that will benefit the environment, and not just their profits.
    • Aadil Khetani
      Aadil Khetani on 16 Oct 13
       
      He blames money for the depression. In a way he's true because people have a priority for money. That's all they think about and that's all they want. 
  • Where is the moral side to the shareholders on this thing?
  • They're not in the reality business; they're in business. I said, if you put them up there and just let them freeze for 24 hours, they would get an inkling of another power, of another authority.
    • Gabriel Kerbs
      Gabriel Kerbs on 16 Oct 13
       
      Once you feel the power of nature, you begin to respect it.  Those trapped indoors all their lives are the ones who really don't give a rat's ass about whats going on outside.
    • Aadil Khetani
      Aadil Khetani on 18 Oct 13
       
      Nature is a part of life the opens peoples eyes to the outside world. When I was a kid, all I did was go outside to play and now when I'm inside I feel like I'm missing out when I'm not out there. But, my sister grew up inside mostly and she barely goes out and watches tv instead. If she went outside more it might change her. 
  • If you have grandchildren and great-grandchildren, you're involved
  • Everything in this room came from the earth
  • I don't think they deal with it. I mean, their realit
  • This round world is finite.
  • of oil right now.
  • and what was that line?
  • Growth. You have one finite earth. That's the problem here
  • But I do think human beings -- I have always been amazed by human beings.
  • People have to make less money -- way, way, way less money. People have to share more of what they have.
  • Thanksgiving for the winds that bring the seasons and does the planting, all of that. Then we have thanksgiving for the grandfathers, the thunder and the lightning, that bring the rain --
  • so it's the stockholder.
  • respect and thanksgiving for nature.
  • They're not in the reality business; they're in business.
  • outsourced your pollution
  • influence their thinking
  • you not only outsourced your work and your company,
  • their reality is Wall Street. That's their reality. It is real, but it doesn't deal with the forces of nature.
  • extracting it at tremendous rates with no perception of consequences.
    • Nikki Schmeling
      Nikki Schmeling on 16 Oct 13
       
      no idea of the consequences. that's because it won't directly harm them. people have to be shown how something is going to personally affect them, or their children maybe, before they see any need for change.
  • stockholder.
  • the ones that really determine what the direction of the corporation is going to go.
  • idea of private property.
  • hat's was people power did that. Germany didn't want it, East Germany didn't want it, nobody wanted it. People wanted it, and nothing could stop them. Once they get in a move in that direction they become a force. It's very difficult -- it's not a manageable force -- and that's why leadership is so vital and important.
  • eadership and the control factor for human beings, in particular, is moral. If you don't have moral law you don't have any law. If there's no moral law, you don't have any.
  • you have to understand about nature and natural law is
  • no mercy to this law.
  • you don't understand that law and you don't abide by that law, you will suffer the consequence.
  • You lead by action.
  • we personify these elements to bring our people closer to them so they have more respect.
  • you guys act as if it wasn't.
  • f I don't show a profit in the company, I'm fired.
    • Nikki Schmeling
      Nikki Schmeling on 16 Oct 13
       
      everyone has this idea of "i'm not responsible" for everything.
  • I put a moral question into an economic forum
    • Aadil Khetani
      Aadil Khetani on 18 Oct 13
       
      This is the "personal" aspect of the problem-solution notes. 
  • don't want moral questions. They don't deal with moral questions.
    • Gabriel Kerbs
      Gabriel Kerbs on 16 Oct 13
       
      Morals never get in the way of profits in big business.  Money rules. Instant gratification, Lack of mindfulness, disrespect.     What we need to do is make big businesses THINK , just as the chief is doing here.  If nothing else, it might make them feel a little guilty about their practices and priorities
  • guaranteed prophecy?
  • you guys are going to meet next year and nothing will have changed. I'll guarantee it. And that was the end of the meeting
    • Yi Jin
      Yi Jin on 16 Oct 13
       
      I think shows his being extra pessimistic as many companies are actually trying to strive to be green and governments set up laws that help protect and conserve the environment
    • Nikki Schmeling
      Nikki Schmeling on 16 Oct 13
       
      I think this is kind of true though. lots of little things will have changed, but nothing major that will have any sort of lasting effects. they aren't focused on that, they only focus on the things that make little immediate differences. sure those can accumulate over time, but overall they aren't going to solve the big problem.
  • But not only do they have to ask people to sacrifice, they sacrifice. That's how you lead.
  • I ask this question over and over again to people in business ... Do people have to cut back? Do they have to do with less? And they always say no.
  • I'll tell you what that is: Have your cake and eat it, too
  • houses have to get smaller. They can't get bigger.
  • How can you have peace without health?
  • Unity
  • That's our foundation, peace
  • finally the Creator himself
  • Human beings have different gifts and we say, they're not gifts, they're responsibilities.
  • I'm just telling what people know.
    • Nikki Schmeling
      Nikki Schmeling on 16 Oct 13
       
      it's not that he's just outrageously smart or anything. these are conclusions that regular people have come to all the time.
  • They never put that in
  • And you know how powerful they are, and they're all over the world, and they're
  • State University College of Environmental Science and Forestry
  • never challenge those thoughts, because you will not prevail. That's instruction. That's along with seven generations and everything else he said.
  • So you know what you're doing
  • Not about happy.
  • Make your decision on behalf of the seventh generation coming so that they may enjoy what you have.
  • What's wrong with that? That's our basic value. Our basic value is to share.
  • they adjust
  • We have probably 10 years to change direction
  • they can rise to an occasion
  • these natural catastrophes are going to force the issues.
    • Gabriel Kerbs
      Gabriel Kerbs on 16 Oct 13
       
      Again, pain is going to be the driving force in change.  
  • There's just no reality to it
  • more energy-conscious and -controlled
  • Everybody can do that.
  • it's one I learned from listening to our people
    • aldi gjoka
      aldi gjoka on 16 Oct 13
       
      something everybody knows but nobody says
    • aldi gjoka
      aldi gjoka on 16 Oct 13
       
      "strong leaders must change the way business is done. They mus tfind a way to put the common good above profits"
    • aldi gjoka
      aldi gjoka on 16 Oct 13
       
      "approach every decision with concern" be cautious of your actions
    • aldi gjoka
      aldi gjoka on 16 Oct 13
       
      never thought of outsourcing as a cause for pollution abroad
    • aldi gjoka
      aldi gjoka on 16 Oct 13
       
      the idea of putting the people in alps was great of getting rid of their "insulation"
    • aldi gjoka
      aldi gjoka on 16 Oct 13
       
      I like the question of "when do you cease to be a CEO and become a grandfather?"
    • aldi gjoka
      aldi gjoka on 16 Oct 13
       
      This is very true about every president talking about progress and growth
    • Anna Delapaz
      Anna Delapaz on 16 Oct 13
       
      Word Choice: Depression vs Recession  Recession can be defined as a temporary economic decline. Depression is severe despondency and dejection. The word depression feels more human and more personal. By using this word, Lyons emphasizes how the people are the ones suffering when jobs are outsourced. 
    • Gabriel Kerbs
      Gabriel Kerbs on 16 Oct 13
       
      These days, we look for instant gratification and get-rich-quick schemes.  The over-exploitation of the Earth's resources is an outcome of this. It is hard to make the common citizen understand that, in the long run, taking care to protect the environment will pay off in a much larger way than a paycheck.
  • bout the world's "accelerating" race toward environmental calamity,
    • Gabriel Kerbs
      Gabriel Kerbs on 16 Oct 13
       
      As the world is functioning now, the generations that come after us are going to have a harder time finding the resources necessary for life.  Water is being tainted and poisoned, as is the air.  Resources like oil are being pumped out of the Earth at a rapid rate; having a car in the future is going to be an expensive luxury.
  • t's always about progress today
  • No, you sacrifice.
    • Gabriel Kerbs
      Gabriel Kerbs on 16 Oct 13
       
      Not enough people are willing to sacrifice for the good of the Earth as a whole.  Greed is the fuel for the degrading world, and in order to reverse that, people (especially the greedy) must learn to sacrifice what isnt necessary.   America is the land of the big. Big houses, big cars, big food, etc.  We need to scale down significantly in order to see any changes.
  • seventh-generation philosophy
    • Brett Sherman
      Brett Sherman on 16 Oct 13
       
      The Seventh generation, are they referring to us? Our generation to fix all the damage and save mother earth from "degradation"(The Cry of the Earth)?
  • You know, how often do you hear that the United States uses one quarter of the earth's resources and we're only 7 percent of the population. And we use one quarter.
Kathy Chu

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  • If you told Exxon or Lukoil that, in order to avoid wrecking the climate, they couldn't pump out their reserves, the value of their companies would plummet
    • Tara Picudella
      Tara Picudella on 18 Oct 13
       
      consequence---cost$$$$$$
    • Nikki Schmeling
      Nikki Schmeling on 18 Oct 13
       
      it's a consequence, sure, but it's one that's would happen if we did the exact opposite of what this article is telling us to do
    • Brian Walsh
      Brian Walsh on 18 Oct 13
       
      It always goes back to money. It seems like businesses and corporations are more preoccupied with how much money they will lose than how much polar ice will melt.
  • Germany is one of the only big countries that has actually tried hard to change its energy mix; on one sunny Saturday in late May, that northern-latitude nation generated nearly half its power from solar panels within its borders. That's a small miracle – and it demonstrates that we have the technology to solve our problems.
    • Tara Picudella
      Tara Picudella on 18 Oct 13
       
      possible solution to the problem? are there any bad results/is this good enough if implemented everywhere?
    • Nikki Schmeling
      Nikki Schmeling on 18 Oct 13
       
      I don't know if it can be implemented everywhere. to be honest, there are probably some places that don't get enough sun for this to be a viable option. it's also not as immediate, you have to wait for that. people like what they don't have to wait for and what they know works, i.e. carbon.
    • Yi Jin
      Yi Jin on 18 Oct 13
       
      I feel that Iceland should have been mentioned instead as its energy is 99% natural, but then again this shows how left back the rest of the world is
  • Green groups, for instance, have spent a lot of time trying to change individual lifestyles: the iconic twisty light bulb has been installed by the millions, but so have a new generation of energy-sucking flatscreen TVs.
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  • it's as if the gay-rights movement had to be constructed entirely from evangelical preachers, or the abolition movement from slaveholders.
    • Tara Picudella
      Tara Picudella on 18 Oct 13
       
      brings it personal for some of the audience to relate to
    • Nikki Schmeling
      Nikki Schmeling on 18 Oct 13
       
      take the case of slavery. some people benefited from it, but a lot didn't. those that didn't were the ones who protested. but with fossil fuels, most people, especially the ones with the most power to stop it, benefit from it a lot. that's the difference here.
  • A more efficient method, of course, would be to work through the political system, and environmentalists have tried that, too, with the same limited success.
    • Tara Picudella
      Tara Picudella on 18 Oct 13
       
      the leaders have the power to change everything...relates to the other reading
  • According to the Carbon Tracker report, if Exxon burns its current reserves, it would use up more than seven percent of the available atmospheric space between us and the risk of two degrees. BP is just behind, followed by the Russian firm Gazprom, then Chevron, ConocoPhillips and Shell, each of which would fill between three and four percent.
  • we might well burn all that carbon, in which case investors will do fine. But if we do, the planet will crater.
  • you can't have both.
    • Nikki Schmeling
      Nikki Schmeling on 18 Oct 13
       
      it seems really unfair that it has to be money vs. a planet to live on in the long run. people aren't going to want to make that decision, either way it makes them super unpopular with people.
  • time is precisely what we lack.
  • conceivably
  • he explained on the stump in March, "You have my word that we will keep drilling everywhere we can... That's a commitment that I make
  • Producing more oil and gas here at home has been, and will continue to be, a critical part of an all-of-the-above energy strategy.
    • Nikki Schmeling
      Nikki Schmeling on 18 Oct 13
       
      i kind of feel like this is being severely misquoted.... wasn't he saying that more about the fact that this was to try and not have us by from the middle easy and spend ridiculous amounts of money on foreign oil? this was a solution for an economic crisis, not an environmental one. wow this actually makes me really mad.
  • In December, the Canadian government withdrew from the treaty before it faced fines for failing to meet its commitments.
  • hypocrisy
  • In December, the Canadian government withdrew from the treaty before it faced fines for failing to meet its commitments.
    • Nikki Schmeling
      Nikki Schmeling on 18 Oct 13
       
      i feel like that shouldn't be allowed. it should have been more binding than that.
  • hypocrisy
    • Nikki Schmeling
      Nikki Schmeling on 18 Oct 13
       
      all these leaders keep talking about the problem, but won't do anything about it. you know, "talk the talk, but don't walk the walk"
  • A rapid, transformative change would require building a movement, and movements require enemies
  • They're clearly cognizant of global warming – they employ some of the world's best scientists, after all,
  • Barack Obama, for instance, campaigned more aggressively about climate change than any president before him
  • climate change is undoubtedly the most devastating environmental problem of this century."
    • Kathy Chu
      Kathy Chu on 18 Oct 13
       
      Large companies have found loopholes. I believe companies that emit carbon dioxide or any other air pollutant into the air has a limit, but smaller companies that doesn't emit as much sell the remaining amount to other companies. In a way, larger companies have found a way to burn as much carbon as they want because they can just buy from smaller ones.
  • environmental efforts to tackle global warming have failed. The planet's emissions of carbon dioxide continue to soar, especially as developing countries emulate (and supplant) the industries of the West. Even in rich countries, small reductions in emissions offer no sign of the real break with the status quo we'd need to upend the iron logic of these three numbers.
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