Words, Art and Music
For the Species and Future Peoples
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If other species knew how to thank us for the environmental actions we take to save their homes and their lives, they certainly would. Therefore, to honor our planet's lifeforms — and its future peoples — it is important that attempt to understand and express the perspective and emotions they could have. By speaking, creating art and make music that communicates the possible concerns, gratitude and passions that our planet's lifeforms and humans of the future might have, every Earth lover can become a representative 'for all the life that loves to live'. Speak EarthE word, art, music and media ideas:: • Speaking for a child or adult in the future that will benefit from an eco action a person has taken today. • Cause and effect stories about the possible positive results of an environmental action a person has taken. (Cause and effect is used extensively in advertising.) • Speaking for another lifeform that appreciates a specific eco action a person has taken today. • Trace a consumer purchase or investment to illustrate how it benefits a person and/or another life-form. • Butterfly effect stories that demonstrate how the effects of an eco action can trigger a chain reaction that comes back to benefit the person who has taken the action or made an eco choice. Check out these and other ways words, art, music and media here at Speak EarthE that you can use to acknowledge and rewards friends, businesses and others for helping protect the planet. 
Speak EarthE is a creative way to speak, create art and make music to honor our planet's lifeforms and future peoples, and to express the perspective and emotions they could have. By speaking, creating art and making music that communicates the possible concerns, gratitude and passions that our planet's lifeforms and humans of the future might have, every Earth lover can become a representative 'for all the life that loves to live'. Speak EarthE is also a beautiful and fun way to encourage and reward others for their eco actions and choices. What better way to thank a person that takes an action that protects our biosphere than to speak in gratitude for one of the lifeforms or a child from the future? What deeper way to tune into your creative self and explore other perspectives? What sweeter way to have fun finding one's actor and even dramatic self in order to represent the un-represented. EarthE writers, speakers, artists and musicians know that to fully appreciate and support the web-of-life that shares the planet with us, it is important that we try to imagine the point-of-view other living beings might have. For example, if the animals, future humans and other life-forms could speak, they would probably want to thank us for the ecological actions we take that help make it possible for them to exist and enjoy life. Those who journey and dream into the hearts of our fellow lifeforms and future peoples realize that it is impossible to know exactly what any other lifeform is feeling. However, it is as crucial as it is exciting to understand the viewpoint of others — whether they are human or not — in order to feel the compassion to protect them. So please join other Earth lovers by 'speaking EarthE' everyday to help protect our exquisite and rare biosphere. 
One of the missions of the EarthE Yahoo Group/Forum is a provide a place for people to exchange Speak EarthE writings, ideas, art and music with others. Once we get rolling, the EarthE Yahoo Group will be sending out a monthly email with selected Speak EarthE messages, art and music from the forum to its members. The email will relay a few of these forum posts "from the lifeforms of our planet, and the people from the future" as a way to thank those who have taken actions in the last month that have helped protect these lifeforms and future peoples. Two reasons to join the EarthE Yahoo Group/Forum include:: 1/ To share your knowledge, intuition, wit and creativity from the perspective of our planet's lifeforms and future peoples with others. 2/ To explore the writing, art and music that others have contributed, and to pass these perspectives on to friends, businesses and others to thank them for an environmental action they have taken. Children are also welcome to post their writing, art and song thank-yous from the species and the future people to thank people for their environmental actions. Children need to work with an adult when they participate. Childrens' compositions are eligible for the monthly Speak EarthE email we will be sending out. Teachers are welcome to use Speak EarthE as a lesson plan. So have fun exploring the possible wishes, wit, and wisdoms of other life-forms and future peoples via the Speak EarthE Group. It is our goal to help inspire Speak EarthE compositions and global media that are an insight into the true wit, wishes, wisdoms and passions of the amazing species that share the planet with us and the peoples of the future. 
Here are a few creative ideas for connecting with other life-forms on Earth, other humans, and our planets ecosystems via meta/physical journeys into the dimensions of Team, Art, Logic and Love. These journeys can empower one's life and take one into a deeper level of communication with friends, family and associates as well. While on a journey, a person can explore ideas for stories, songs and other grassroots media concepts that might benefit our planet. Even though the specific results of our enviro/political actions are usually difficult to trace - i.e. the "butterfly effect" - it is crucial that we envision those results if we are to be motivated to take those actions. If advertisers can induce materialism using fantasy-world impossibilities... we can nurture enviro/political action using stories and songs based on real-world possibilities. LIFE-FORM JOURNEYS: Tune into the messages of the heart and mind of another Earth specie that has or will benefit from your environmental actions. Visualize and translate another life-form's appreciation and perspective of life, its home and of love into a story, song or other media forms. Explore and record messages discovered through meditation, prayer, ecological/scientific study and/or time in nature in order to discover the link between your actions and the happiness that another life-form or human is able to experience. FUTURE JOURNEYS: Transcend into the future to visualize specific scenarios/results of your or another's environmental actions. These may be detailed sagas or just snippets that tell the story of the effect of an environmental action and the chain reaction of possible results and positive benefits of that action. The benefits of your enviro actions might be for yourself, for someone you love, for another human, or for another life-form. NATURE LIFE-FORM JOURNEYS: In a favorite place in nature, observe and listen to the web-of-life and tune into the possible messages coming from other life-forms in the ecosystem. Connect with other life-forms in order to discover their ecological wisdoms that might apply to our own actions. VISCERAL JOURNEYS: Visualize a human body's perspective of your or another person's environmental action. Perspectives may even include that of the different cells or organs within in the body. ENVIRO-MONEY JOURNEYS: Project a scenario that demonstrates how a consumer purchase or investment in an environmental product comes back and benefits a person and other life-forms. TRANS-BIOTIC JOURNEYS: The atoms and molecules of our bodies are recycled into other life-forms when we die. The quality of life of the life-form in which your atoms are part of will be determined by what we do in our current life. Compose scenarios that illustrate the "trans-biotic" rewards you will receive as a result of an environmental action. 
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Advertisements endlessly show absurd cause and effect scenarios in order to sell their product. Boy buys cool soft drink... soft drink helps boy jump over tall buildings... boy gets girl, friends and/or money. Impossible but it sells. Artistic liberty, impossible scenarios and impossible cause and effect in advertising is one of the most effective ways to con consumers to buy a bunch of "cool" stuff that is really hurting the planet. For the sake of our biosphere, Speak EarthE calls upon all Earth lovers to communicate the POSSIBLE scenarios and POSSIBLE cause and effect of one's eco actions (or in-action). Is it possible that a single fish in the sea can be hurt by a single person who buys a monster house and owns a big car? Of course. Is it possible that a single moose in the forest can benefit by a person who starts riding their bike to work and using a clothesline to dry their clothes? Absolutely. For the sake of our biosphere, Speak EarthE calls upon all Earth lovers to use their imagination and intuition to speak, sing and create art that communicates the feasible positive results of an eco action on a future human or creature. Please join Speak EarthE in this thrilling exploration of our personal creativity and possibility for all the life that loves to live, and live to love. Please join Speak EarthE today by using your heart... and imagination... and logic... for the biosphere. 
Boldly translate and speak the possible perspective of your favorite creatures that share this biosphere with you. Bravely imagine and communicate the possible perspectives of a person in the future who would so appreciate the chance to enjoy life and love on this rare jem of a planet. Representing these lifeforms in your day-to-day life can be a beautiful, daring and fun way to explore one's connection to the wonderful lifeforms that can not speak to us in "human language". It is also a crucial way to inspire others to empathize with other lifeforms and humans, and in turn motivate them to take a stand for our biosphere with their ecological actions and choices. Even though we cannot know exactly what another lifeform is thinking (including another human), it does not mean that we should not represent their possible perspectives. Actors boldly and dramatically portray fictitious individuals... and are applauded and often envied. Other lifeforms that share this planet with us *not* fictitious. Therefore, if you are a lover of the sweet life forms that are around you and enrich your life with their inner and outer beauty, become one of their heroes by speaking for them in an artful and adventurous way. This equally applies to speaking for the future humans that if they could speak from the future, would certainly ask us to represent them as well. Although other lifeforms of our planet may experience love and beauty in a *different* way than we do, they nevertheless do love life. It takes a bold person to speak for these unrepresented, but the loving heart aches for this voice. The loving heart can only soar to its highest heights when it is allowed to do so. 
The DANCE 4 The SPECIES is a wonderful example of a artistic exploration into our connection with the web-of-life, and is another example of Speak EarthE. In this four-part, contemplative and fun dance, DANCE 4 The SPECIES participants link up with specific animals or plants to be their guides in this "cross-cultural" dialogue with Mother Nature. Goals for this dance include tuning into the wisdoms of other life-forms in order to discover ways to protect our Planet and empower our own lives. For more info about this dance and how to start your own, check out www.Dance4theSpecies.org. 
And for something completely eco different — by posting your Speak EarthE art, music or stories to the EARTHĒ Yahoo Group — you can get a chance to win up to $4,444 each month in our free ECOLotto. We know the free ECOLotto sounds a bit funny at first, but ECOLotto wants to give people who are taking eco actions and creating eco media a chance to win something nice.
We welcome those who would like to join the Speak EarthE and Earth Accord teams. Send us few words as to what aspect of the projects you are interested in. Certificates of achievement will be given to accomplished volunteers. We will also be forming a board of directors. 
IF WE USE THE EARTH'S RESOURCES WISELY, THERE WILL BE NO NEED FOR WAR. Zia WE ALL LIVE DOWNSTREAM BRAVE GREEN WORLD ITS NOT THAT WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE, IT'S THAT WE DO MAKE A DIFFERENCE Julia Butterfly Hill Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. Mohandas K. Gandhi A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. President Franklin Roosevelt for life's sake become the media take a stand, fly a flag 
THE MORE YOU KNOW, THE LESS YOU NEEDI want to make it clear, if there is ever a conflict (between environmental quality and economic growth), I will go for beauty, clean air, water, and landscape. Jimmy Carter Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead LIVE IN LOVE FOR ALL THE LIFE THAT LOVES TO LIVE S.Ely In the end, our society will be defined not only by what we create, but by what we refuse to destroy. Nature Conservancy's John Sawhill ... all things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man ... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports. Chief Seattle, Duwamish The ultimate test of man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard. Gaylord Nelson THINK GLOBALLY ACT LOCALLY Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it. President Theodore Roosevelt The Supreme Reality of Our Time is...the Vulnerability of our Planet John F. Kennedy INSATIABLE IS NOT SUSTAINABLE Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books. Rep. John Dingell of Michigan UNLESS someone like you cares a whole lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. Dr. Seuss' The Lorax One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. Shakespeare A nation that destroys it's soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. President Franklin Roosevelt The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope. Wendell Berry Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man Stuart Udall HUMANS AREN'T THE ONLY LOVERS To the dull mind nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light. Ralph Waldo Emerson WILL WORK FOR PEACE Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. Frank Lloyd Wright The Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have demanded a damage deposit. Jim Hightower LIVE SIMPLY THAT BILLIONS MAY SIMPLY LIVE 
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