<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Aussie guitarist John Butler on nukes, dickheads, and common sense]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by lindasoutside http://www.grist.org/article/butler/ Thu, 16 Aug 2007 05:56:45 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/butler/1 One method that I have found to be useful

is The Center for Nonviolent Communication
Visit them on the web to learn more.

Nonviolent Communication (NVC) helps connect us with what is alive. And as you so aptly illustrated for us in this article.......
WE all need more awareness of what gets in the way of loving kindness in every interaction.

How can we change how we are in the world?
 NVC teaches us essential skills we need which are all about bringin to the surface the usually hidden aspects of observing, feeling, needing, and ecourages us when we decide to request something to be done or to cease.

Nonviolent Communication language: is all about empathy and honesty, truly it is "the language of the heart."


]]> One method that I have found to be useful

is The Center for Nonviolent Communication
Visit them on the web to learn more.

Nonviolent Communication (NVC) helps connect us with what is alive. And as you so aptly illustrated for us in this article.......
WE all need more awareness of what gets in the way of loving kindness in every interaction.

How can we change how we are in the world?
 NVC teaches us essential skills we need which are all about bringin to the surface the usually hidden aspects of observing, feeling, needing, and ecourages us when we decide to request something to be done or to cease.

Nonviolent Communication language: is all about empathy and honesty, truly it is "the language of the heart."


]]> Comment #2 by Biodiversivist http://www.grist.org/article/butler/ Tue, 21 Aug 2007 07:38:59 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/butler/2 Love it

"It was great. They hooked both our buses up with biodiesel; both our buses are running on B99 -- that's almost 100 percent biodiesel."

Other than not having a clue about agrofuels, he seems to have his head on straight. I'm afraid he may be right about the following:

"At the moment I think we're just going to do it while it's cool, and then when it dies out, we'll just go back to being dickheads."

We will always be...ah, dickheads, but if envrionmental benighn technology becomes really cool, the fad may save the day if we can ride it long enough. The profit motive is creating a green smoke screen with greenwashing, biodiesel distributors are making a killing feeding food crops to our vehicles, but it's a start. He may one day read in Rolling Stone the downsides of his soy based biodiesel, like he may have read about corn ethanol.

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"It was great. They hooked both our buses up with biodiesel; both our buses are running on B99 -- that's almost 100 percent biodiesel."

Other than not having a clue about agrofuels, he seems to have his head on straight. I'm afraid he may be right about the following:

"At the moment I think we're just going to do it while it's cool, and then when it dies out, we'll just go back to being dickheads."

We will always be...ah, dickheads, but if envrionmental benighn technology becomes really cool, the fad may save the day if we can ride it long enough. The profit motive is creating a green smoke screen with greenwashing, biodiesel distributors are making a killing feeding food crops to our vehicles, but it's a start. He may one day read in Rolling Stone the downsides of his soy based biodiesel, like he may have read about corn ethanol.

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