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Hello World!!!

The weekend was lovely, no? I have spent it with my Turkish friends on Croatian coast. Saturday night was really clear and we were lucky finding a small, quiet and calm spot in the camp where we were just laying down and watching the stars. Ah, how great are the summer nights! It occurred to me that each of those stars is traveling on its own path, although we can not see it; just like ants, we are living in the huge civilizations here and there, but also traveling our own paths. But how do we meet? What is the energy behind? I have no idea, but I know how great it is to have such feelings with people who are more like brothers and sisters to me, with similar understanding of such traveling and I must admit I felt really lucky. Lucky to be there, lucky to be with them.

Everything was balanced, like life should be. We cleaned up all the waste we produced, even very unusual things - to see a Turkish guy picking up his cigarette from the floor? Yes. We are changing. And we want love, peace, sharing, empathy, smile, hug, laughter!

Today I am making detox in my temple of this thoughts, my body. There is a movie I saw some months ago and it really affected me in many ways. I hope you will take some time for it.



Lets start cleaning the Earth by cleaning our home of our Souls, our bodies.

Sustaining eco friendly life!

A must see!

Crisis concept

Dear humanity,

this time I will talk about crisis concept although I know you all have heard, read and felt in a way already. Last time I have told you I am visiting the "school of political literacy" lectures and this time I will be summarizing "world devision of asset as new economic principle" held by Rok Kralj (in slovenian).

Crisis we are facing today has three aspects: economical, environmental and social. I believe each of those aspects is important itself, but only facing all of them as a whole can bring eager output.

What is often heard about the crisis is that those, who will survive the crisis, will get out of it stronger - only because crisis will erase a part of competition from the market. What is also happening today is commercialization and privatization of goods and services. Are we aware what that means? Privatization of water under pretext of its distribution?! No, thank you.

But we can agree that the money is current system that is controlling the people - everyone and what is happening is "economical genocide". To disable it, everyone should stand for economy (gr. oikos nomos = comunity), ethics and ecology (gr. oikos logos = science about environment) in the balance of peoples needs and abilities of environment. This sounds reasonable definition, doesn't it? But are we as human mature enough for ecofriendly lifestyle?

thank you, human, for choosing ecofriendly

Global Awareness & Local Activation

Hello World!

Today I will dare to talk about myself in order to introduce myself and hopefully gain some credibility among readers of eco friendly lifestyle blog.

My name is Mojca, 23 years old Slovenian, Balkan routed European and citizen of the Globe. To provide you more with technical data: full time student of economics - finance and banking, working since age of 19, did a bit of traveling, studying abroad in Switzerland, with general interest in sustainability, literature, music and crafts, currently writing diploma thesis entitled "A project of transformation process from integrated production to organic fruit growing based on fruit growing farm Frešer" as one of the my first community activation as well as living today - healthy, grateful and happily.

The song "Living Darfur" from previous post made me think where this global awareness starts and what should be the correct respond to it. Africa has always been a continent I felt empathy with since the inequity is so obvious: smiles are so pure, great music with rhythms that makes you swing your hips, Nature is wild and animals and man live together through sentries BUT issues like enslaving , apartheid, guns, water wars, AIDS, children army, drugs, oil wars, materials wars, selling off the land... are affecting everyone living today.

I was deeply touched by the work of Tomo Križnar at one of his evening talks with presenting his movie called "Darfur: War for Water". After the movie he explained the current situation in Darfur - meanwhile his soul was weeping, you could see it in his eyes, but he cured it with a smile, with a look that clearly announced his strength, his courage and his passion to fight for better tomorrow. A look I will never forget. So, what he actually did few days after that presentation was, that he took some of old computers that nobody wanted to use anymore and took them to Darfur, teach people how to use the media and through internet give them opportunity to spread their voice around the World; somehow to teach the worldwide public about their current situation.

Soon after that I felt the need to learn more about current situations worldwide. Unfortunately Darfur is far from being the only one. I founded out there is a "school of political literacy "organized by association for development of humanity which organizes lectures once a week in Maribor, Slovenia. One of the first lectures I have visited was "About Africa differently" by mag. Eyachew Tefera from Ethiopia. He pointed out very diverse problems concerning Africa, including the incomplete knowledge about African geography. What he also said was "help your country and by that you will help Africa". Europe is not prepared for mass invasion of African refugees that might appear here one day as well as we are not aware that might come a day when Europe will get cold and Sahara will get green again because of the global warming.

If we feel the global heart, we understand that sustainable development needs to start taking part in three pillars: social, ecological and economical. I do believe we all need to activate in local participation, in our own communities, where output can be seen and shown not only today, but also tomorrow. How? This is what I will try to discuss in my next blog entries.

To life!

ps. looking forward to your feedback

Challenge: For Energy & For Nature

HELLO WORLD!!!

There is a little change happening on the eco friendly lifestyle blog. Gorazd is very busy lately; therefore I accepted the offered challenge to continue his work on my own way. By the way: have we all already been challenged when he was was saying he is sorry for his SILENCE?

However his silence might have or might not have affected us, we are all challenged today for following the IDEA of eco friendly lifestyle, don't you think?

I understood his mail in my mailbox like that and without deeper need for explanation felt the RESPONSIBILITY for my reaction on his warm and kind request: Do you have that, what it takes, to be told?

I would like to say: WE wont be able to provide you with scientific knowledge about every topic we talk about, but the aspect of a someone, living today, breathing same air, drinking same water, feeling same globe and the change, happening in our selves when we are welcoming change by saying joyful, joyful JOY! Even if one is not religious, one is often at least agnostic. It is the aspect of our hearts, mind and body, combined by soul.

We all are searching for soul food, aren't we? But where is the start of it - with soul or food? Lets say it is balance; it is the moment when you combine both of dimensions: Energy and Nature; it is the moment when you combine your underwater part of your soul with magnificent swan show lending on Earth; did you ever seen swans landing together? The FORMATION they do together as group... who leads the group and which one takes over? In case you did not have the opportunity to experience swan show I will tell you: it is the last one. But with swans no one noticed it, they all look the same. Are they lucky? From what I have seen, and sometimes I do feel like a child when looking things like that, it is the MASSAGE which I am sharing here with you:

"It is the idea, that lives not the messenger"

I am challenging you to see through the manifest I have made right now: we all share the same planet. Feel it. Go outside, observe!!!, listen, watch sunrise... FIND YOUR INNER PEACE and then come and visit us again.

Thank you,

ecofriendlylifestyle

ps: for further mind spirit we offer you to feel it:

Environmental Eco Forums on the Net

One way to get to know more about eco issues is to read and converse with people on the online eco or green forums. Although not very actively, I have contributed and even more read and learned from other people on these two blogs:

http://www.energyenvironmentforum.com/

http://www.greenerpeople.com/forum/members/list/g1.html

There are undoubtedly other good forums on the net, but these two I can recommend because I know them.

Plese mind that sometimes one gets some practical, very handy tips from individuals who are in the same boat as all other nonscientists and simply want to live a more eco-friendly life given all the financial and other constraints. I found these two forums good places to find such people.

An Apology

He everyone! It is now obvious that I am succeeding to contribute to this blog more sporadically and less frequently as I wanted to. I have been active for several months in the summer/autumn 2008, writing every week or every two weeks, and then, for three months nothing. I would like to apologize to those of you readers who are expecting something more constant and stable from me.

But this is simply a reality: Thinking carefully, and even reading more extensively about the environmental issues is really more of a hobby (it is not my job of course). I first need to feed my family, trying to implement those simple tips I already put on this blog. (And yes, it is a struggle many times to really stick to the simple rules!)

I do invite you to come back and check out if anything is happening. I am definitely not going to abandon this blog! The issues are of course much too pressing, too important.

Genetically Modified Organisms - Genetic Polluti

I think everybody should see this video documentary. The question of Genetically modified organisms is far more serious and far-reaching as most of us realize. The genetic pollution is a reality, it is on the rise of course, it destroys many species of plants and animals, it is put to legislation and destroys the possibilities of growing food as people would choose democratically in a harmless way. And much more. Please see this clip, it could significantly change your perspective on genetic engineering, biotechnology, genetically modified organisms, world food chain, food industry, and much more.