Energy Efficiency: Trains and Trucks

“A range of separate studies undertaken in the early 1990s suggested that a rail freight train might typically consume around 0.6 Megajoules per tonne km (MJ/tkm), compared to a range of 1.2 – 8 MJ/tkm for road goods vehicles.”
Source:
http://www.networkrail.co.uk/freight/about/issues/energy.htm
This translates to rail freight being from 2 to 13 times more energy efficient than [...]

Article – The Personal Practice of Nonviolence

Article: The Personal Practice of Nonviolence, by Jennifer Hadley
In taking offense at others, I was choosing fear. When I took offense I was calling forth a violent energy within myself. Generally I didn’t let people know (at least not directly) that they’d offended me and so the violent energy was directed within…
Full article:
http://promotingpeace.org/2004/1/hadley.html
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Article – Peace as an Organizing Principle

Article: Peace as an Organizing Principle, by By Louise Diamond, Ph.D.
Peace as an organizing principle is an intriguing and revolutionary idea that, if applied at the global, national, and individual levels, would radically change the world we live in. To explore that further, let us consider how it would be if peace were truly [...]

Bush’s full comments about America’s oil addiction

I disagreed with President Bush’s decision to go to war in Iraq. And I think I disagree with some comments in his recent State of the Union Address. But that doesn’t mean I disagree with him about **everything** (and that’s an important principle: don’t demonize people, don’t seem them as all good [...]

Fogotten wisdom: Eisenhower’s vision of America

Here are some good quotes on America’s role in the world, from the farewell address of US president Dwight D. Eisenhower.
“America’s leadership and prestige depend, not merely upon our unmatched material progress, riches and military strength, but on how we use our power in the interests of world peace and human betterment…“
“Throughout America’s adventure in [...]

Flourescent lights, worker psychology and cultural alienation

I was in a huge department store today and noticed the fluorescent lights. Really wretched. Must be hard and stressful to work under those for 40 hours a week.
See, that’s the problem. We’ve got a country—or more like a world, now—full of people working under fluorescent lights, and maybe in cubicles, too. [...]

Links

(updated incrementally)
TRANSCEND – Conflict Transformation by Peaceful Means
Peacetour – To inspire World Peace benevolent technology

CNN and Negative News Bias

Open letter to CNN and CNN International:
24 April 2006
Our good friends at CNN and CNN International unfortunately continue to exercise poor judgment in the matter of selection of headlines and regular news stories. A strong negative bias is evident–that is, a narrow focus on stories which portray conflict, aggression and divisiveness.
The most recent illustration [...]

Second World Congress of Imams and Rabbis for Peace, March 2006, Seville, Spain

The Second World Congress of Imams and Rabbis for peace took place in Seville (Sevilla), Spain from 19 to 22 March 2006.
From their final declaration:
“In the name of the One Creator and Master of the Universe, the Compassionate and All Merciful, we Muslim and Jewish leaders and representatives, gathered for the Second [...]

Peace Quotations

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
In order to rally people, governments need enemies… if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent [...]