Aloha friends, I have gone off-line.

Aloha friends of the Eco-Ark Project. I will be heading back to the Eco-Ark soon, and will again enjoy the peace and serenity that only being cut off from civilization can provide. I would like to thank all of you who have supported our efforts over the last few years, and especially those who have been inspired to carry a part of our vision into your own local communities. Our work will never truly be completed until the world comes together in re-establishing sustainable resource developments around the globe.

I am happy to announce the publication of two new E-book downloads that are now available. They chronicle the development of the vision that led to the establishing of the Eco-Ark in the Puna Rain Forest on the island of Hawaii. "Beware of Rich Friends", is a long, strange, and mystical journey that began on The Great Peace March
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from Los Angeles, CA. to Washington D.C. in 1986. Sharing the inspiration I received at the '86 national Gathering of the Rainbow Family in Pennsylvania.
www.welcomehome.org/rainbow/main.html
And the mysterious happenings in the vortex region of Sedona AZ. Where I was recruited as a bodyguard for an heiress to one of America's Wealthiest families. They are full of tales of Mysterious, Humorous, and sometimes horrific occurrences and the people we met along the way.

The sequel "With Friends Like This" continues the adventure five years later. With remembrances from the '95 gathering in Taos N.M. Living in an Earthship there. Then carrying the vision to the tropical island of Maui. And further struggles and victories in our attempt to create Sustainable Eco-communities in our island paradise. Culminating in the a final battle between the powers of light and darkness, and the grounding of the Eco-Ark vision.

Article from The Great Peace March 21st reunion
www.ojaipost.com/2007/11/g...in_d.shtml

You can find the downloads as well as links to sample pages at:
stores.lulu.com/jwbush

Our tribe is at:
tribes.tribe.net/ecoark

Beware of Rich Friends

Those of you that know me, know I've led a rather unusual life. Now I am spilling my guts. My new E-book, "Beware of Rich Friends" is now available for download. It covers my move to the enchanting landscape of Sedona, Arizona. A place best known for the strange and spiritually intriguing occurrences that take place on this most sacred ground. Including memories from "The Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament", and interactions with The Rainbow Family of Living Light. This personal journey led to my recruitment as a bodyguard to an heiress of one of America's more affluent families. And our struggle to keep from being murdered at the hands of her families henchmen.

You can find out more about how to order, or follow the link to a free preview, here:
stores.lulu.com/store.php

Amazon Rain Forest plants to be preserved by the Eco- Ark Project

While in Tucson on February 10th, My friend Osalina Berman, Author of the upcoming e-book, "Amazon Herbs, A - Z" asked me to attend a company presentation with her and her husband. There I connected with abcpeace.amazonherb.net/RS_3_1...se.aspx the Amazon Herb group, including Olivia Newton John and her Man-friend, "Amazon John Easterling" as well as Mike Adams, "The Health Ranger". We are working on a plan to get some of these valuable and threatened Amazon medicinal plants to our preserve on Hawaii. tribes.tribe.net/ecoark There is much already planted and growing over there. But still much more to do. I will be getting back to that in late July, when the other volunteer builders and I return.

A major element of the Eco-Arks mission is to create pockets of living, reproducing bio-diversity around the planet. With the intention of insuring their survival by the fact that not every environment will be hit by natural or environmental disaster at the same time. As long as we can keep these unique species alive somewhere, the potential for their re-establishment anywhere else can be strengthened.

You can find out more about Osalina at: profile.myspace.com/index.cfm

Osalina's "Herbal Alchemists Circle" on MySpace: groups.myspace.com/index.cfm

The Health Ranger's page is: profile.myspace.com/index.cfm

The builders of arks

I Googled our group name, and checked a listing that did not lead to "OUR" Builders of the Arks. tribes.tribe.net/ecoark
I don't know the guy who wrote it, nor had I read any of his writings previously. But he seems to capture the essence of our mission quite well, however varied in expression it may be. Its nice to know we are not the only ones. Check out the following link...

www.resurgence.org/resurgen...rs217.htm

Is greed in our own self interest?

In looking toward the future of a changing world, this question, that we have been trained to answer "yes" to, takes on a new light. The hoarding mentality, in times of scarcity has served us well, to some extent. It has gotten us through short term periods such as frozen winters when food plants could no longer provide enough for us to eat. But when it becomes so all encompassing that the motivation is not simply having enough for our needs, but to have more than everyone else or even have it all, that is a sign of imbalance.

In a changing world, we need to look beyond the right here and right now. We need a plan B, and a plan C, and so on. The more alternatives the better. Be it hurricane, flood, fire, or earthquake, things that can alter the status quo are potential factors in the equation at all times. Not preparing for their eventual possibility is short sighted. This does not mean you have to go overboard with it. But small, inexpensive steps can be taken to move in a more balanced direction.

If you live in a high population area with limited food and water resources, Moving on may be wiser than staying put. you don't need a years food and water in a bunker underground unless you are going to fight for it. and if it ends up under water or a blanket of plutonium residue, is it worth having at all?

On the Hawaiian Islands, the Kanaka Maoli (Native people) learned through the hardships of life, that things came easier if they worked together. That everyone working for the betterment of their friends and neighbors, as well as their family, meant that more help was there when they needed it as well. It is simply a matter of your neighbor killing you to get something to eat, or helping you to get something to eat. The choice is yours.

I personally think that food should not be a commodity. Hunger often has a direct correlation to war. Fat and happy people don't tend to pick up guns. That is why you see so few of them serving in the military. Why should they? But do people ever get around to thinking that if they have it all, they will be the ones most likely to be targeted. Do you want the big juicy apple, or the small dried out apple?
I have lived on streets and beaches in some pretty rough areas. No one ever tried to mug me. What could they get? But if you came driving by in your Lexus or Humvee, blinding passers by with all your "Bling", you might as well be oozing sweet nectar. You are going to get picked.

I learned a valuable lesson, perhaps a few, in trying to get as much food as possible planted on the Eco-Ark grounds. tribes.tribe.net/ecoark Even though my goal is to grow far more than I need for my self, I can still do one better. Perhaps I can feed a small tribe out there in the Hawaiian rain forest. But there will always be more mouths to feed. And those that feel, or even are left out can quickly turn in to your most immediate threat.

That led me to make best use of all the excess plant starts that came during propagation efforts. It is wise to start more seeds and cuttings than you can actually use. The best of the best can be planted in your garden. The rest can be given to your neighbors. Right there you have less mouths in your immediate zone needing food. Now they have their own, and you have more "for you".

But what happened next was beyond my expectation. All those neighbors, who I was supposedly being generous to (in my own self interest) more often than not showed up at my door with gifts as well. Many food and fruit bearing plants that I neither had access to, nor in some cases even heard of, came back my way. As it turned out, in giving away my unneeded excess, I got valuable (to me) commodities in return. And that is not to mention a lot of good will and assistance from neighbors that came to be like extended family to me. After all, when it is your turn to be the one helping out, are you not going to show preference to your family and friends over all others.

If you do not have land of your own to plant on, Consider starting a community garden. Talk to your local parks dept. city council or church group about providing a planting site. Talk with groups that already work to end hunger in your community about starting a project along the lines of the Green Ribbon Project as a resource to aid in their goals as well. One tree will not feed the world. One tree every so many feet...Will!

Even if we never get to the point that we need it for our own personal survival, it will do a lot of good for our world. Plants and trees convert carbon dioxide to oxygen, filter impurities from water, shade the ground and other plants from overheating, attract and hold moisture. All this as well as possibly preventing a crime of desperation.

A new group for Eco Sustainable Alternative Tech. Mud Junkies

Well, I have pulled myself out of the Hawaiian rain forest once again. With months of computer time ahead of me as I write my second book, I decided to finally start a group focused on the Eco-Ark Project. Its multiple purposes include raising awareness of the Eco-ark being built in the Puna Rain Forest, encouraging others to start similar projects in their own area, sharing ideas and methodologies for accomplishing these goals, spreading ideas concerning sustainable, Eco-friendly technologies and off grid community living. Spreading knowledge of organic permaculture techniques, to encourage the building of community gardens and the growing of food in publicly accessible places (Green Ribbon Project). And helping each other to restoring this planet to its divinely intended Edenic state before it is too late.

This group will also act as a central meeting place for individuals wishing to join in the continued building of the ark on Hawaii Island next summer.

Check out tribes.tribe.net/ecoark to reach Builders of the Arks! Poke around and see if it sounds like a group you would be interested in participating in. We would enjoy input from all positive, creative souls in resurrecting the balance between humanity and our planet. Aloha!

Help put the Iraq War on trial

U.S. Army First Lieutenant Ehren Watada Is facing a court martial for charges of: missing movement, two counts of contempt toward officials (specifically President G. W. Bush), and three counts of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman.


Statement 1: “I could never conceive of our leader betraying the trust we had in him … As I read about the level of deception the Bush administration used to initiate and process this war, I was shocked. I became ashamed of wearing the uniform. How can we wear something with such a time-honored tradition, knowing we waged war based on a misrepresentation and lies? It was a betrayal of the trust of the American people. And these lies were a betrayal of the trust of the military and the Soldiers … But I felt there was nothing to be done, and this administration was just continually violating the law to serve their purpose, and there was nothing to stop them … Realizing the President is taking us into a war that he misled us about has broken that bond of trust that we had. If the President can betray my trust, it’s time for me to evaluate what he’s telling me to do.”


Statement 2: “I was shocked and at the same time ashamed that Bush had planned to invade Iraq before the 9/11 attacks. How could I wear this [honorable] uniform now knowing we invaded a country for a lie?”


Statement 3: “It is my conclusion as an officer of the Armed Forces that the war in Iraq is not only morally wrong but a horrible breach of American law … As the order to take part in an illegal act is ultimately unlawful as well, I must as an officer of honor and integrity refuse that order … The wholesale slaughter and mistreatment of Iraqis is not only a terrible and moral injustice, but it’s a contradiction to the Army’s own law of land warfare. My participation would make me party to war crimes.”


The Army charges that the Statements 1 and 2 violated Art. 88 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (Contempt Toward Officials) and that all three statements violated Art. 133 (Conduct Unbecoming an Officer and Gentleman).


August 28, 2006 - The future of Lt. Watada’s court-martial is now in Fort Lewis General’s hands. Your phone calls and letters today could make a difference. Forward this urgent action alert to friends

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These are not my words, but they have touch my heart...

It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.

It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love for your dream for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon... I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow if you have been opened by life’s betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain.

I want to know if you can sit with pain mine or your own without moving to hide it or fade it or fix it.

I want to know if you can be with joy mine or your own if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful be realistic remember the limitations of being human.

It doesn’t interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself. If you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul.

If you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy. I want to know if you can see Beauty even when it is not pretty every day. And if you can source your own life from its presence.

I want to know if you can live with failure yours and mine and still stand at the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, “Yes.”

It doesn’t interest me to know where you live or how much money you have.

I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and despair

Weary and bruised to the bone and do what needs to be done

To feed the children.

I WANT TO KNOW
By Oriah Mountain Dreamer. It was originally published in Dreams of Desire, (Toronto, Mountain Dreaming, (C) 1995). This prose poem has been expanded into a book by the same title (HarperSanFrancisco, 1999)

Saving the world's not easy

My motivation, my heart's song, is to do my best to prevent the extinction of the green and growing ones. Be they the usefuls, (food, medicine, fiber) or just so close to being wiped out that we have not had the chance to find out why the Great Spirit created them. They need to be saved until we can hear what they are trying to teach us. There is so much beauty on this planet (including us two leggeds) that is so close to being lost forever that we must do something.

My focus is saving the plant life that we humans / animals depend upon to survive. Some Scientists expect to loose 15% - 36% of all plant life on this planet in the next generation. THIS IS WHY I AM FOCUSED ON GROWING AS MUCH FOOD AS POSSIBLE EVERYWHERE IT WILL GROW.

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But I can't do it all myself. Plant food in your back yard. Start extra plants and give them away (about 1/3 of what I am growing were give backs of plants I didn't have, just because I gave my neighbors something first. It creates competition in people as they try to catch up or out do the first giver. Before you know it everyone is growing everything they can get their hands on. If you eat food with seeds in it, plant the seeds. Or at least throw them on the ground and let God do what it will. Plant in wild areas that have sufficient rainfall to nurture the plants unassisted. Donate plants and or seeds to community gardens, or start one in your community. Together we can turn this beautiful planet back into the Garden of Eden.


Then, when everyone is fed and can eat no more, we're gonna have the most hellacious food fight you've ever seen !!!