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Kathy Chu

Global Warming's Terrifying New Math | Politics News | Rolling Stone - 0 views

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environment climate change warming

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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.
Aadil Khetani

Onondaga Nation - People of the Hills - 1 views

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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.
kurt stavenhagen

Did that New York magazine climate story freak you out? Good. - Vox - 0 views

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  • He simply says that there’s lots of carbon buried in the permafrost and, as the ice melts, the carbon is released as methane, which is 86 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide (on a short- to mid-term basis). That is true.
    • kurt stavenhagen
      kurt stavenhagen on 06 Oct 17
       
      Partly correct appraisal here. The carbon is not likely to be released as methane!
  • One set of satellite data was updated, it falls in line with the rest, and warming is happening roughly on the schedule models predicted (which, as Mann notes, is plenty fast enough).
  • So that’s one close call and one error, which together constitute, by my rough calculation, about a fiftieth of the factual claims in WW’s piece. The rest, as far as I know, stands.
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  • But Wallace-Wells’ piece was not about that. It was about what will happen if we keep on as-is.
  • He’s merely describing what could happen if we cease to act, which no one wants ... except one of the two major political parties in the world’s most powerful country, including the man in charge of the executive branch and military
    • kurt stavenhagen
      kurt stavenhagen on 06 Oct 17
       
      Kairotic here? Given the situation politically, does Wallace-Wells have more latitude to explore the worst case scenario?
    • kurt stavenhagen
      kurt stavenhagen on 06 Oct 17
       
      Intriguing shift to the social dynamics. 
  • There’s been a sort of general failure of imagination that means we’ve accepted what’s the median-likely outcome as a worst-case scenario. As a result we’ve been a bit handicapped in thinking about how much action needs to be taken.
  • Things stay roughly as they are” is just as improbable as the worst-case scenario he lays out, yet I’d venture to guess it is believed (or more importantly, envisioned) by vastly more people. Part of that is because envisioning the best-case scenario is easy — it looks just like now! — while envisioning the worst-case scenario is very difficult. It’s especially difficult because the worst-case scenario is treated by the very few people who understand it as a kind of forbidden occult knowledge to which ordinary people cannot survive exposure. Nobody can talk about it without getting scolded by the hope police.
  • it’s just weird for journalists and analysts to worry about overly alarming people regarding the biggest, scariest problem humanity has ever faced.
  • When there are important things that people don’t understand, journalists should explain those things. Attempts at dime-store social psychology are unlikely to lead to better journalism.
  • nobody really knows anything. Even if there are accurate statements about how people in general respond to messages in general, they won’t tell you much about how you ought to communicate with the people you want to reach.
    • kurt stavenhagen
      kurt stavenhagen on 06 Oct 17
       
      Yes! Applied rhetoric: no longer do general bromides apply; context and timing is everthing; if as the saying goes all politics are ultimately local, then all rhetoric is ultimately local.
  • Similarly, the dry, hedged language of science is not the only serious or legitimate way to communicate, though climate scientists often mistake it as such.
  • consciously pitched to reach and inspire some mythical average reader (as encountered in social science studies filtered through popular journalism) tends to be flavorless and dull.
  • engineering
  • a climate system that will now go to war with us for many centuries, perhaps until it destroys us.
  • it is another thing entirely to consider the possibility that we have only provoked it
  • I just try to communicate like I would like to be communicated to, frankly and clearly, as though I’m talking to a friend in a bar.
Paul Brahan

Dan Gilbert: The surprising science of happiness | Video on TED.com - 0 views

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    • Paul Brahan
      Paul Brahan on 30 Sep 13
       
      This article further explores the idea that surprises will make you happier, similar to Brother David Steindl-Rast's rainbow conecpt.  
Rebecca Lurie

To-Do Lists - Time Management Training from MindTools.com with FREE template! - 0 views

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  • prioritizing tasks, you plan the order in which you'll do them, so that you can tell what needs your immediate attention, and what you can leave until later.
  • To-Do Lists are essential if you're going to beat work overload.
  • allocating priorities from A (very important, or very urgent) to F (unimportant, or not at all urgent).
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  • imply work your way through it in order
  • in a sales-type role, a good way to motivate yourself is to keep your To-Do List relatively short, and aim to complete it every day.
  • Or, imagine you're in a sales role and have a long list of people who you need to talk to. You write out a list of everyone you need to call and every client you need to see, and start prioritizing.
David Dunn

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  • What is so soothing about nature? Why do people talk about nature and relaxation? Can nature help you to relax?
  • We are drawn to nature and wilderness. We go hiking, we love gardening, we swim in the ocean or in the lakes. We go for walks, or we go camping, and we sit by the campfire staring at the night sky.
  • We know that spending time in nature makes us feel good.
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  • One of the reasons why nature and relaxation are connected is that being in nature helps us to connect with the present moment, we pay attention to the here and now.
Lexy Martin

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    • Lexy Martin
      Lexy Martin on 03 Oct 13
       
      mindfulness brings us patience... no matter what age we are.  G- what wasn't talked about was how the kids that didn't eat the marshmallows restrained themselves from eating, this was the mind set that the kids had (they had a goal and intended to work for it, training their minds) R- repetitions between the different kids, each were given the same circumstances over and over A- the question about what the parents would do didn't seem to fit because the kids were the ones being tested for their mindfulness control B- the opposing idea is eating the marshmallow right away, uncontrolled mindfulness, or the debate to eat the marshmallow because a kid became too impatient 
Elijah Akinbamidele

Mindfulness: The Art of Cultivating Resilience | This Emotional Life - 0 views

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  • Mindfulness is the practice of bringing our awareness to what we are experiencing in the present, both internally and externally, without judgment (Kornfield, 2009). I
    • Elijah Akinbamidele
      Elijah Akinbamidele on 02 Oct 13
       
      A well spelled out definition of mindfulness 
  • Compassion: You hold the intention not to judge yourself or others. You are mindful of your self-talk. However, if you do judge yourself, you don't judge yourself for judging. You are kinder and more supportive. If mindfulness brings the wisdom to see clearly, then compassion brings a loving heart (Neff, 2011). Acceptance: You increasingly accept the facts, which you can distinguish from the feelings. Acceptance isn't about "giving up". It is having the strength to "let go" of control and stop fighting reality. Openness: You're progressively open to viewing even the most difficult situations as opportunities for growth. You trust that they have something to teach you, and you expect to learn. Creativity: You draw on your power to visualize and create the results you desire. At the same time, in the spirit of acceptance, you are not attached or fixated upon your own expectations.
Leah Strassburg

Dharma Talk given by Thich Nhat Hanh on July 17 - 0 views

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dharma mindfulness happiness thich nhat hahn

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  • This action of the right hand can be described as based in the the mind of non-discrimination. The right hand looks after the left hand without thinking in a discriminatory way, "I am the right hand. I am taking care of the left hand. There is no thought such as that. There is no sort of discrimination like that. Therefore the right hand acts in a non-discriminatory way. There are moments when the right hand cooperates with the left hand to do something, like playing on the piano; both hands work together in order to produce the music, and there is a perfect harmony between the two hands. Therefore, if you look deeply into your body, into your mind, you will see that the mind of non-discrimination, the spirit of non-discrimination is already there in your own person. And if you use this spirit in your relationships with others, then happiness is possible.
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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Anna Delapaz

Easing Doctor Burnout With Mindfulness - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    • Anna Delapaz
      Anna Delapaz on 11 Oct 13
       
      Repetition: Repeats words having to do with the feeling of stress and being overwhelmed. This emphasis helps the reader understand what it feels like to be in the doctors' shoes. It also helps illustrate how necessary mindfulness is for those in the health care field
  • upbeat
  • more focused
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  • strengthen the relationship
  • efficient
    • Anna Delapaz
      Anna Delapaz on 11 Oct 13
       
      Repetition of words showing the positive effects mindfulness can have on an individual's ability to focus. 
    • Anna Delapaz
      Anna Delapaz on 11 Oct 13
       
      Binary: The idea that doctors are always on the go and the reality that they can't handle the stress of always working and always thinking. This leads to burnout. 
    • Anna Delapaz
      Anna Delapaz on 11 Oct 13
       
      Gaps: The author addresses only doctors but implies this could be used for all health care professionals. Perhaps talking to someone else in the health industry who has experience with burn out would add more credibility 
kyle kirby

Global Warming's Terrifying New Math | Politics News | Rolling Stone - 0 views

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  • June broke or tied 3,215 high-temperature records across the United States.
  • That followed the warmest May on record for the Northern Hemisphere
  • the odds of which occurring by simple chance were 3.7 x 10-99, a number considerably larger than the number of stars in the universe.
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  • "largest temperature departure from average of any season on record."
    • Gabriel Kerbs
      Gabriel Kerbs on 18 Oct 13
       
      Odd occurrences are becoming the norm.  The earth is talking to us, warning  us
  • it had rained in Mecca despite a temperature of 109 degrees,
    • Brett Sherman
      Brett Sherman on 18 Oct 13
       
      Rain in the middle of a desert at 109 degrees, that's insane! If that's not evidence I don't know what is.
  • the Copenhagen climate conference in 2009 would have marked the culmination of the global fight to slow a changing climat
  • George H.W. Bush, who flew in for the first conclave, Barack Obama didn't even attend.
  • I can say with some confidence that we're losing the fight, badly and quickly – losing it because, most of all, we remain in denial about the peril that human civilization is in.
    • Gabriel Kerbs
      Gabriel Kerbs on 18 Oct 13
       
      This is because global warming hasn't physically moved us yet... just wait till the first city gets engulfed
  • you just need to do a little mat
    • Gabriel Kerbs
      Gabriel Kerbs on 18 Oct 13
       
      Quantitative data has power
  • Last month the world's nations, meeting in Rio for the 20th-anniversary reprise of a massive 1992 environmental summit, accomplished nothing.
  • Sir Nicholas Stern of Britain, called the "most important gathering since the Second World War
    • Aadil Khetani
      Aadil Khetani on 18 Oct 13
       
      The issue of global warming is considered so high and people need to notice what the problem is and identify the true source. 
  • "This is our chance. If we miss it, it could take years before we get a new and better one. If ever."
  • Neither China nor the United States, which between them are responsible for 40 percent of global carbon emissions, was prepared to offer dramatic concessions, and so the conference drifted aimlessly for two weeks until world leaders jetted in for the final day
    • Aadil Khetani
      Aadil Khetani on 18 Oct 13
       
      The US and the Chinese must take responsibility in resolving the issue or providing an effective solution. 
  • COPENHAGEN: THE MUNICH OF OUR TIMES?
  • "the scientific view that the increase in global temperature should be below two degrees Celsius."
  • "we agree that deep cuts in global emissions are required... so as to hold the increase in global temperature below two degrees Celsius."
  • about 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit – the accord ratified positions taken earlier in 2009 by the G8, and the so-called Major Economies Forum.
    • Gabriel Kerbs
      Gabriel Kerbs on 18 Oct 13
       
      2 degrees seems small, but is actually a drastic change for the environment
  • So far, we've raised the average temperature of the planet just under 0.8 degrees Celsius, and that has caused far more damage than most scientists expected
    • Aadil Khetani
      Aadil Khetani on 18 Oct 13
       
      What was the number of years that the number increased the most and around which time period did it occur? What happens if the number goes over 2?
  • that two degrees is far too lenient a target.
  • All told, 167 countries responsible for more than 87 percent of the world's carbon emissions have signed on to the Copenhagen Accord, endorsing the two-degree target.
    • Alex S
      Alex S on 17 Oct 13
       
      great way to start of with some number. but i can see how briing up all the warmer weather can set the stage.
    • Alex S
      Alex S on 17 Oct 13
       
      this shows how there are still leaders who dont put environment/climate change at the top of their prioritys
    • Alex S
      Alex S on 17 Oct 13
       
      does this # of 2 degree C change with the times (like temp inflation) or will it always be the benchmark?
  • no one paid it much attention,
  • prescription for long-term disaster.
  • Its purely voluntary agreements committed no one to anything, and even if countries signaled their intentions to cut carbon emissions, there was no enforcement mechanism
    • kyle kirby
      kyle kirby on 18 Oct 13
       
      I find it ludicrous that countries can just say they will do something to help the betterment of the world, then just do the exact opposite when it helps the bottom line.
kurt stavenhagen

Why Facts Don't Change Our Minds | The New Yorker - 1 views

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  • toilets, zippers, and cylinder locks. They were then asked to write detailed, step-by-step explanations of how the devices work, and to rate their understanding again. Apparently, the effort revealed to the students their own ignorance, because their self-assessments dropped
  • illusion of explanatory depth,
  • People believe that they know way more than they actually do
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  • no sharp boundary between one person’s ideas and knowledge” and “those of other members” of the group
  • favor (or oppose) an immigration ban without knowing what I’m talking about
  • The farther off base they were about the geography, the more likely they were to favor military intervention
  • As a rule, strong feelings about issues do not emerge from deep understanding,”
  • If your position on, say, the Affordable Care Act is baseless and I rely on it, then my opinion is also baseless.
  • much detail as they could, the impacts of implementing each one. Most people at this point ran into trouble
  • pent less time pontificating and more trying to work through the implications of policy proposals, we’d realize how clueless we are and moderate our views.
  • science is as a system that corrects for people’s natural inclinations
  • by researchers who have no motive to confirm them. And this, it could be argued, is why the system has proved so successful.
  • field may be dominated by squabbles, but, in the end, the methodology prevails
  • experience genuine pleasure—a rush of dopamine—when processing information that supports their beliefs. “It feels good to ‘stick to our guns’ even if we are wrong,
  • At this point, something curious happened. The students in the high-score group said that they thought they had, in fact, done quite well—significantly better than the average student—even though, as they’d just been told, they had zero grounds for believing this
  • Once formed,” the researchers observed dryly, “impressions are remarkably perseverant.”
  • Even after the evidence “for their beliefs has been totally refuted, people fail to make appropriate revisions in those beliefs,” the researchers noted
  • that reasonable-seeming people are often totally irrational
  • “confirmation bias,” the tendency people have to embrace information that supports their beliefs and reject information that contradicts them.
  • Those who’d started out pro-capital punishment were now even more in favor of it; those who’d opposed it were even more hostile.
  • Such a mouse, “bent on confirming its belief that there are no cats around,” would soon be dinner.
  • we’re quite adept at spotting the weaknesses. Almost invariably, the positions we’re blind about are our own.
  • ewer than fifteen per cent changed their minds in step two.
  • getting screwed by the other members of our group.
  • There was little advantage in reasoning clearly, while much was to be gained from winning arguments
  • roviding people with accurate information doesn’t seem to help; they simply discount it. Appealing to their emotions may work better, but doing so is obviously antithetical to the goal of promoting sound science. “The challenge that remains,” they write toward the end of their book, “is to figure out how to address the tendencies that lead to false scientific belief.
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