Welcome to the Environment Zone
This Zone is the most vital, because life depends on environment. Links in the side menu offer a starting point to help maintain a healthy, sustainable planet.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- The Power of Passion
- The Six Honest Servants
- Attention and Survival
- Oil, Energy, and Responsibility
- Actions to Protect Our Planet
- Everyday Uses for Oil
- The Real Cost of Burning Petroleum
- Join the Carbon Credit Network
- Who Is the Boss?
- Learning, Thinking, and Wonder
- Resources
Introduction
Planet Earth is our common home. Each of us is responsible for keeping our family home safe, clean, and healthy. Our very lives depend on a healthy planet.
“The environment is not separate from us — it is the foundation of all life.”
The Power of Passion
How passionate am I about my survival?
- How does passion occur?
- What causes us to become passionate about anything?
- When do we become interested in or sensitive to a specific topic?
- Where do we put our attention and actions?
- Why do we care about anything?
- Who cares enough about life to protect life?
These questions ignite awareness — the foundation of action.
The Six Honest Servants
The “Six Honest Servants” — Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How — form a practical toolbox. Each question should elicit factual answers: facts necessary for making wise choices, inspiring thought, and taking action for self- and species-survival.
Attention and Survival
Humankind is a species capable of caring deeply about survival, yet equally capable of ignoring it. Other species survive only by maintaining constant attention to danger — fight or flight — every moment of their existence.
How much attention do we give to the most vital component of life — our environment?
For most people, “life-sustaining environment” is not at the forefront of daily thought. How much attention do we truly give to clean air and water? How much attention do we give to preventing pollution from our homes and workplaces?
Oil, Energy, and Responsibility
“Use the oil shortage scam to reveal who the enemy really is — and inspire action.”
By developing affordable clean energy technologies, we can peacefully eliminate oil cartel manipulation and redirect wealth creation to the people. Oil should be used wisely and sustainably, not burned as fuel.
Many individuals, businesses, governments, and media sources now acknowledge that our actions directly cause pollution and climate change. Whether or not you believe in climate change, one fact remains: we must act.
Actions to Protect Our Planet
Campbell Scott suggested we first focus on:
- Stopping the destruction of rainforests — the lungs of the Earth.
- Breaking addiction to fossil fuels — the dirtiest business on Earth.
- Significantly reducing pollution.
- Cleaning up rivers — the arteries of the planet.
- Protecting our water — our Blue Gold.
- Developing smart, planet-friendly green technologies and practices.
These six points are central to the mission of the Carbon Credit Network (CCN) — an opportunity with both ecological and commercial power.
To create real change, individuals and businesses must be incentivized and rewarded, not just regulated. Profit and planet can coexist.
Everyday Uses for Oil
We should stop using oil as fuel and preserve it for beneficial purposes, ensuring that reserves last for eons rather than vanish within a century.
Oil derivatives are used in products such as:
- Medicines and heart valves
- Plastics, tires, and eyeglasses
- Detergents and dish liquids
- Ink, crayons, and deodorant
- CDs, DVDs, and countless modern materials
The Real Cost of Burning Petroleum
Burning petroleum releases harmful emissions:
- Carbon Dioxide (CO₂)
- Carbon Monoxide (CO)
- Sulfur Dioxide (SO₂)
- Nitrogen Oxides (NOₓ) and Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs)
- Particulate Matter (PM)
- Lead and toxic compounds such as benzene, formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, and 1,3-butadiene
Impacts on Environment and Health:
- CO₂ drives global climate change.
- SO₂ creates acid rain, harming plants, animals, and human lungs.
- NOₓ and VOCs form ground-level ozone, damaging respiratory systems.
- PM contributes to asthma and chronic bronchitis, particularly in children and the elderly.
- Lead severely damages health, especially in children.
Join the Carbon Credit Network
If you’re already awake and aware, join us at the Carbon Credit Network. Be rewarded — and reward others — for taking Ideal Carbon Footprint actions that protect clean air, clean water, and the living systems that sustain us.
Who Is the Boss?
“When a group is intent on pleasing a boss instead of asking the questions that deserve attention, that group risks decline, decay, and disaster.”
True leadership arises from inquiry, not obedience.
Learning, Thinking, and Wonder
In the Learning Zone, we focused on how to think. Jamie McKenzie, in Learning to Question to Wonder to Learn, reminds us that:
“Thinking does not always lead to understanding or wisdom. It can be deficient, limited, and delusional.”
Critical thinking without curiosity becomes sterile. Creative thinking without reason becomes chaos. Real growth emerges when both questioning and wonder dance together.
Too often, education teaches analysis but forgets curiosity and passion. Wonder is the spark of insight — the soul of learning.
We must find ways to explore truth without surrendering to the extremes of cold logic or blind faith. True understanding lies in the interplay between dissonance, resonance, and insight — the tension that makes discovery possible.
Resources
Powerful Videos
- 6 Degrees of Separation
- Questioning Tool Kit
- Ecolonomics – founded by Dennis Weaver
- 2011: Year of Forests
Sustainability Resources
- Keep Carbon in the Ground, Not in the Air
- Carbon Offset – Insanity to Sanity
- Sustainable Solutions
- Aquaponics
- Green Power
- Hydrogen Energy Center
- Pesticide Alternatives
Networks and Initiatives
- Carbon Credit Network – Earn passive profits and forestry bonuses
- Hemp Network – Connect on Ning
- Green Festivals
- Eco-Friendly Wisdom
- InfoWars (Independent Media)
“Much more to be added — keep checking back here.”