Here are suggested issues in your personal life and in governments whose result can be a matter of choice.  Pick one to work on as you take this journey into the Interactive Peace Museum.

An Environmental Issue

1.  Your legislative body and law makers have enabled the coal, oil and gas corporations to devastate farms and level whole mountains in their greedy seeking of energy sources they can profit from (which are predicted to be used up by 2011 anyway).   How can they be stopped?

2.  Your federal government, with the help of your elected legislators, are allowing private corporations to clear cut national forests.  What can be done?

4.  Big corporations move out of the United States to Third World Countries where environmental regulations are easily avoided.  They proceed to pollute the environment in the Third World County.   What can the Third World Country Do?

5.  The Environmental Protection Agency in your country/state has a board composed of oil, gas, coal, timber, chemical company representatives and other polluting groups.  Obviously these board members have their own vested interest in making sure they can continue to decimate the environment while extracting resources and polluting the air and water.  What can you do to change the composition of the board?

6.  Power plants in the United States are  belching tons of mercury into the air we breathe and poisoning our children with this neuro-toxin.  Autism is now being called an epidemic.  Eliminate or decrease mercury in our rivers & streams, which is consumed by fish, which is consumed by humans, especially women of child bearing age, who can give birth to children with serious illnesses including autism.   What can be done?

        or choose your own issue.  Make sure to state the issue clearly.  Write it out on a piece of paper.
In fact, you might want to jot down the various paths you have taken as you venture through the Museum. 

After you have picked one issue to work on, scroll down and pick three things you could do to resolve this issue.  If you would like to read a prayer before going on, click here.  If you would like to walk a labyrinth to meditate on your issue before starting, click here.  http://www.lessons4living.com/finger_labyrinth.htm   One way to walk the labyrinth which you might like:  First circle:  state your issue, Second Circle:  state the emotions around the issue.  Third Circle:  State the physical and economic ramifications of your issue.  Fourth Circle:  How does this issue effect you personally and spiritually?  Fifth Circle:  Ask whoever is your highest power to help you.  Sixth Circle:  You get a manifestation.  It may be what you already thought, but it may be something completely different.  Seventh Circle:  You get the first step.  Middle:  Relax-don't think.  As you come out of the labyrinth, in each circle think about what you learned.  Peace!

1.  Below are various techniques & steps you may choose to take to address your Environmental Issue.
    Click on the three which you think would be most helpful.

2.  After picking the three techniques/steps you think would be most helpful, research each by
     a)  Clicking on the suggested web links  and
     b)  Research each technique/step on the web; in your library; with an expert of your choice.

3.  If you would like to clarify your learning:
    a.  List your issue.
    b.  List the three choices you made and detail the research you have done on each.
    c.  State why you think that step or technique will work or not work.  You might want to consider some of the questions
         below in your analysis:
         1.  Is the step pro-active or reactive?
         2.  Can the step be done by yourself or do you need to create or join an organization?
         3.  Does the step mean that the culture in which you live has to change?  In what way?
         4.  Does the step mean that the structure of your government has to change?  In what way?
         5.  Is this a step to be taken world-wide, country-wide or on a smaller basis?
         6.  If this is a step you can take by yourself, what are the risks involved?
    d.  State what you think the results of your intervention will be.
    e.  State what you might want to do next, if anything.  (form a discussion group through email or in your geographic     
         area) do further research?

4.  If you would like send your summary in an email to the author of the Interactive Peace Museum.  I would be happy to
     learn from you what you think of the Interactive Peace Museum, what you liked about it, and what could be improved.
     Thanks for thinking Peace! 

     If you have techniques or steps and links you think would be useful in this website, please send them to me.  Thanks!
email us     

Environmental Techniques and Steps

http://www.transcend.org/pctrcluj2004/
TRANSCEND_manual.pdf

 http://www.colorado.edu/conflict/

http://www.sit.edu/contact/

http://www.transformative
mediation.org/

http://www.peacemakers.ca/
bibliography/

http://www.transcend.org/tpu/courses
.shtmlAA_SL_Session=e3cf35ccbefa
252b00856fbb49d32cef&x=139

http://www.wired.com/news/games/
0,2101,53663,00.html?tw=wn_story_related

http://www.wired.com/news/space
/0,2697,65151,00.html

http://www.simsbury.k12.ct.us/shs/
guidance/military.htm

http://www.veteransadvantage.com/
coverstory/PatrickDaley.html

http://www.ehow.com/how_8683_join-army.html

http://billie.lib.duke.edu/pub
docs/ngo/environment.asp

http://www.inmotionmagazine.
com/shiva.html

http://www.ulb.ac.be/ceese/meta/
sustvl.html
 

http://www.wbcsd.ch/templates/
TemplateWBCSD5/layout.asp?MenuID=1  

http://www.earthinstitute.
columbia.edu/

http://www.navdanya.org/nav/i
ndex.php

http://www.interenvironment.
org/wd/

http://www.interenvironment.org/

http://euclid.dne.wvfibernet.net/~jvg/
ENV101/WebLinks.html

http://www.nature.nps.gov/im/units/
ncbn/products/Inventory/Voucher
_poster04.htm

http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/isclgoh/ST-14mar03.htm

http://www.frontpagemag.com/
Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=9319

http://www.cleanclothes.org/

http://www.sweatshopwatch.org/

http://www.wvecouncil.org/

http://www.moveon.org/front/

http://www.appalshop.org/film/

http://euclid.dne.wvfibernet.net/
~jvg/ENV101/WebLinks.html

http://www.ancestry.com/learn/
library/article.aspx?article=8272
 

http://repository.upenn.edu/dissertationsAAI3073056/

http://www.navdanya.org/nav/
index.php

http://www.mazars.com/news/pdf/
sustainable-development.pdf

http://www.planete-nature.org/index.php?changLang=en

http://www.edf.fr/index.php4?coe
_i_id=41208

http://www.ecolotour.org/us/campagne.php

http://www.oct17.org/en/archiv%2003%20en/pjukarch03e.html

http://www.atd-uk.org/philo/books/

http://www.eurosur.org/wide/
UN/Hanak_Report_FfD02.htm

http://www.dpalaw.info/
Regulators.htm

http://www.nfa.futures.org/member/
newsLetterArticle.asp?ArticleID=579

http://www.mallesons.com/counsels
_compass/5535476W-02.htm

http://umcp.org/index.php/
PeaceForum

http://www.peace.ca/worldpeace
forumvancouver.htm

14.  Encourage retail shops here and
abroad to sell third world handicraft
and food whose environmentally
friendly production is in compliance
with Human Rights requirements. 
Establish cooperatives in third
world countries to produce these
goods. For information about
successful
cooperatives: 

 http://www.cafecampesino.com/
fairgrounds/0412/mexico.html      

http://www.eoob.us/countries/third
-world-country.html

http://www.culturechange.org/
e-letter-24.html explanation of why gas prices are so high and will
remain so.
 

http://www.ppu.org.uk/learn/
peaceed/pe_ednetcurriculum.html

http://www.peacefulschools
international.org/links.htm
 

http://www.interenvironment.org/
wd1intro/introduction.htm
 

http://www.ecolotour.org/us/
campagne.php 

 

http://www.sida.se/Sida/jsp/polopoly.
jsp?d=693
http://www.tchabitat.org/default.asp
 

http://www.unesco.org/courier/
2000_01/uk/dossier/txt05.htm

http://www.worldvision.org.uk/world
view archive/worldview44.html#

http://www.llnl.gov/str/06.98.html

http://www.google.com/search?hl=
en&lr=&q=%22Environmentally+Friendly+
Decontamination+methods%22&btnG=Search

http://sain.nbii.gov/invasives/
common74.shtml (velvet grass-
cadmium fixing plant)

http://www.rsc.org/CFmuscat/
intermediate_abstract.cfm?FURL=/ej/JA/2003/b210744a.PDF )

http://mycorrhiza.ag.utk.edu/latest
/latest
01/01_2tonin1.htm
(Viola calaminaria, a zinc-fixing
plant)

http://plants.montara.com/ListPages/
FamPages/Urtica.html
(stinging nettle-water decontaminant)
http://web.telia.com/~u46309796/
020615_biology_department/biodept
_exc_1.htm_department/biodept_
exc_1.htm

http://www.peacejusticestudies.
org/conference/program.php

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/
petition/internet.htm

http://www.lapaixherbfarmproducts.com/
petition_to_dominion_gas_to_ceas.htm

23. The third world country which is being polluted by Big U.S. Corporations could go to war with the U.S. and bomb the big corporations where they live!

http://www.yprl.vic.gov.au/homework/
third_world.htm  

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-wor3.htm

http://www.informationclearinghouse.
info/article4068.htm

http://www.lapaixherbfarm
products.com/End%20of%20La%20
Paix.html

http://www.colorado.edu/conflict/
peace/treatment/3ptyint.htm
 

http://www.lrims.com/FAQthird
party.htm
 

http://bcsia.ksg.harvard.edu/
publication.cfm?ctype=paper&item_id=355

http://www.bartleby.com/62/25/
D0472500.html

http://www.well.com/user/jct/
Sreedhav's_Poems_2/In_Torment.htm

http://biology.queensu.ca/~scb
/041104.htm

http://www.mapcruzin.com/news
/rtk111103a.htm

and 26a.

The only people who recycle and reuse, who care about the environment are
hairy hippies.  I don't want to be known
as a hippy.  Let them care about the
environment.  I have enough to do just
taking out the garbage once a week!

http://www.sffworld.com/authors/b/brunner_
john/articles/sheeplookup.html

http://lists.cohousing.org/archives/
cohousing-l/msg01425.html

A socially controlled economy allows investors to live up to their principles, instead of giving their support to companies that turn out weapons,
pollute the environment or have something to do with tobacco,
alcohol, gambling or child labor
in third world sweatshops.
 

http://www.calvert.com/

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/pubitem.jhtml?id=3774&t=nonprofit

http://www.nwrel.org/nwedu/09-02/social.asp

http://www.spinnenwerk.de/ara/
ara2.htm
 

http://www.4ni.co.uk/listing.asp?cat=575&style=0&company=2677&
level1=32

http://www.globalexchange.org/
campaigns/cafta/2878.html

http://www.nhrdbangalore.com/Library/
why-downsize.htm

http://isc.bke.hu/htm/course/iec684.htm

http://www.pitt.edu/~nsp3/jobs.html

http://www.motherjones.com/news/featur
ex/2003/07/we_455_01.html 

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=6008

http://www.dom.com/index.jsp

http://www.need.org/awards/2001awards
/2001schools_year.htm

http://www.portlandtribune.com/arch
view.cgi?id=27799

http://www.wsws.org/workers/1998/
dec1998/coal-d18.shtml

http://www.wvgs.wvnet.edu/www/
geology/geoldvco.htm   

30.  Working with UNESCO  inaugurate a biosphere reserve, thus protecting this area's ecological balance. 

http://www.unesco.org/mab/wnbr.htm

http://www2.unesco.org/mab/br/brdir/
directory/biores.asp?code=USA+44&mode=all

http://www.nps.gov/ggbr/ggbr.htm

http://www.nmnh.si.edu/botany/
projects/cpd/ma/ma13.htm

http://www.fao.org/documents/
show_cdr.asp?url_file=/DO
CREP/004/Y3582E/y3582e12.htm

http://www.jasonhawkes.
com/aerial_
wildlife.html

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/
intrel/mnc.htm

http://www.law.monash.edu.au/
castancentre/projects/mchr/

32.  Have your government pass a resolution stating a set of standards that must be applied for companies relocating in developing countries.  This is  the first step in establishing a "socially correct" certification.

For more information:

http://www.financialexpress.com/fe/
daily/20000912/fco10025.html  

http://www.naiop.org/developmentmag/
corporate/index.cfm?content=200201.cfm

http://www.parallaxonline.org/
fusempire.html

34. Establish an Authority which is funded by means of specific taxes levied on users in proportion to the pollution they cause.  The 'polluter/pay' principle and its counterpart implying that rehabilitation projects be subsidized are gaining a worldwide following.

www.ufrgs.br/iph/ barraque_subsidiary_water_in_
a_complex_europe.pdf  

www.cgg.gov.in/jal/
modules.php?name=Downloads&d_
op=getit&lid=23

http://www.georgiastrait.org/
Newsletters/news0503-7.php  

http://www.ec.gc.ca/seminar/
Piette_e.html

http://www.gpiatlantic.org/releases/
pr_mount2.shtml

35.  Publish your concern for this issue:  Write Letters to the Editor of your local papers, send articles for publication in journals and magazines, Set up a website to communicate the issue.  Make a documentary movie on this situation.  Start a petition.

http://www.lapaixherbfarmproducts.com/
petition_to_dominion_gas_to_ceas.htm

http://www.ohvec.org/action_alerts/
index.html

http://www.wvecouncil.org/contact/

http://www.sierraclub.org/

http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/cida_ind.nsf/0/6D0279B929
D7450A85256A11005478FF?OpenDocument

http://www.ficci.com/ficci/media-room/speeches-presentations/2002/nov/nov-cop-8.htm

http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/

37.  Establish an Authority which will initiate rehabilitation operations.

http://www.adb.org/Documents/
Profiles/PPTA/32121012.ASP

http://www.careaustralia.org.au/
environmental_rehabilitation.asp

http://www.toolkitparticipation
.nl/cases/16
 

http://www.delind.cec.eu.int/en/dev/
rdnr/environmental_rehabilitation.htm

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:tq-_1bl2B8YJ:www.worldbank.org/eca/
kazakhstan/ppt/eng/Pres%2520CWR%2520eng.ppt++%22+River+Environmental
+Rehabilitation%22&hl=en 

http://www.optimistmag.org/gb/
0017/one.php?id=725

http://www.thesunshineenvironmentlink.
htmlplanet.com/custom2.html

http://www.southwestern.edu/~
niemeyee/env_assessment.html

http://home.earthlink.net/~cusp1/
ecopagan.html

http://www.ohvec.org/newsletters/
enotes_2002_06/

http://www.ohvec.org/

http://www.ohvec.org/action_alerts/
index.html    

http://www.wvecouncil.org/contact/

http://www.wvhighlands.org/
PressReleases/Nov%2099%20trip%20to%20DC.htm

http://www.wvcag.org/news/fair_use
/2004/03.htm

http://www.envirocitizen.org/region/
NE/capewind.htm

http://www.mountainjustice
summer.org/
 

http://www.units.muohio.edu/
psybersite/cults/gdm.shtml
 

http://www.greenweave.
com/ed.htm

http://www.nationalcenter.org/
EarthDay03History.html

http://www.earthteam.net/green_
news/sub_suggest.htm

http://www.wvecouncil.org/

http://www.ohvec.org

http://www.wvwild.org

http://www.mountainjustice
summer.org

http://www.sierraclub.org/
appalachia

http://www.wnpt.net/appalachians

http://www.wvhighlands.org

http://wireservice.wired.com
/wired/story.aspsection=Breaking
&storyId=1017642

http://www.epa.gov/mercury/

http://www.epa.gov/mercury/
data.htm

http://www.epa.gov/mercury/
disposal.htm

http://www.mercuryexposure.
org/index.php?article_id=43

http://www.mercuryexposure.org/

http://www.envirohealthaction.org/
includes/display/article_print.cfm?article_ID=182

http://www.healthforum.org/OHN/
archive/2003_archive/apr_03.html

http://www.backyardgardener.
com/organic/

http://healthyfamiliesnow.org/
Article_asp-Record=1088.html

http://www.californiagardens.com
/Essays/garden.htm

http://www.humeseeds.com
/organic1.htm

http://www.alantitchmarsh.com/Alan
Titchmarsh/advice/why_organic.htm

http://www.south-ayrshire.gov.uk/environment/
Organic_Gardening.htm

http://www.themetaarts.com/pages
/gardening.html  

http://www.my-garden-supplies.com/garden_tips_folder
/organic_gardening.htm

Other Issues to be addressed as I learn more