The Weather-Makers, Meat-Consumption, and Climate Change

The devotees at Krsna Village (New Vraja Dham) in Hungary are glorified again for their positive, transcendent example, in a report on the clear link between the habit of meat consumption and the negative effects of climate change.

Read all about it here.

Goodbye Bland Affluence, Hello Transition Towns

The gradually lucid signs of the end of the industrial age has got peoples off all stripes thinking about what is going to come next. What can we do, if anything, to insure a future where morality, spirituality, and a real, locally-based culture beyond exploitation can sustain and thrive.

Click here to read a recent piece from the Wall Street Journal on the push for a simpler way of life that is being reflected even in the skyline of Manhattan.

Click here to read a piece from the April 19th edition of "The Green Issue" from the New York Times on the rising tide of The Transition Movement, which aims to create, in a very organized and positive way, Transition Towns. These Towns will re-localize the social and economic infrastructure in such a way to rise above the tide of the collapse of industrial civilization.

From the Transition Movement Wikipedia page:

"Central to the Transition Town movement is the idea that a life without oil could in fact be far more enjoyable and fulfulling than the present "by shifting our mind-set we can actually recognise the coming post-cheap oil era as an opportunity rather than a threat, and design the future low carbon age to be thriving, resilient and abundant – somewhere much better to live than our current alienated consumer culture based on greed, war and the myth of perpetual growth."

Simple Living, High Thinking!

From Our Friends At The Vedic Village...

Hare Krsna,

Last Saturday we had about 15 enthusiastic volunteers at Vedic Village. We cleared the field of rocks and weeds, built a greenhouse and outhouse. This week we will be planting crops on the field for the first time. It is our spring crop that will include potatoes and broccoli. We all had a lot of fun last week working in the fresh air and sunshine. It was exhilarating. We are starting at 9am and will work to about 7pm.

If someone can only come for an hour or two that is fine. But you don’t want to miss out on this historic event for our Krsna Consciousness movement in Michigan. The address is 6384 Walsh Rd, Whitmore Lake, Mi 48189. If you follow the “google” directions when you head east on Walsh Rd. the farm will be on the left soon after turning east on Walsh Rd.. It is the farm that has the plowed fields on your left. You can’t miss it. Pls. park on the left “before” the plowed fields. There is a rectangular enclosure on the same side as the farm. Pls. park there. You will see the sign for “Vedic Village” parking. Pls. do not pull into the driveway of the farm. Pls. park where the sign is. When you pull into the lot, pls. don’t park parallel to the fence pull all the way up so others can park. We are expecting quite a few people this Saturday because everyone had so much fun last Saturday. See you there.

If you would like to donate your time, join our team, or have any questions, please either call or email us at (313) 823-3815 / tommilano108@yahoo.com. According to your inquiry, you may be put in touch with either one of our two vice presidents, Antariksa dasa and Navadvipa dasa. If you would like to contribute towards any of our projects, please make your check out to MISCOWP and send it c/o Adiraja dasa, 313 Newport, Detroit, Michigan 48215. You will receive a receipt within two or three days. We also accept payment by credit card. In closing, we would like to thank you again for your interest in the success of Vedic Village and we look forward to your participation. Hare Krishna!

Navadwipa das

Vedic Village

One Molecule Away From Plastic

From our friends at the MISCOWP Vedic Village

Pass The Butter Please...This is interesting

Margarine was originally manufactured to fatten turkeys. When it killed
the turkeys, the people who had put all the money into the research wanted a
payback so they put their heads together to figure out what to do with this
product to get their money back. It was a white substance with no food appeal
so they added the yellow coloring and sold it to people to use in place of
butter. How do you like it? They have come out with some clever new
flavorings.

DO YOU KNOW? the difference between margarine and butter?

Read on to the end...gets very interesting!

Both have the same amount of calories.

Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams compared to 5
grams.

Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% over
eating the same amount of butter, according to a recent Harvard Medical Study.

Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients in other
foods.

Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a few
only because they are added!

Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can enhance the flavors of
other foods.

Butter has been around for centuries where margarine has been around for
less than 100 years .

And now, for Margarine..

Very high in Trans fatty acids.

Triple risk of coronary heart disease.
Increases total cholesterol and LDL (this is the bad cholesterol) and
lowers HDL cholesterol, (the good cholesterol)

Increases the risk of cancers up to five fold.

Lowers quality of breast milk.

Decreases immune response.

Decreases insulin response.

And here's the most disturbing fact.... HERE IS THE PART THAT IS VERY
INTERESTING!

Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC..

This fact alone was enough to have me avoiding margarine for life and
anything else that is hydrogenated (this means hydrogen is added, changing the
molecular structure of the substance).

You can try this yourself:

Purchase a tub of margarine and leave it in your garage or shaded area.
Within a couple of days you will note a couple of things:

* no flies, not even those pesky fruit flies will go near it (that should
tell you something)

* it does not rot or smell differently because it has no nutritional
value ; nothing will grow on it. Even those teeny weeny microorganisms will not
a find a home to grow. Why? Because it is nearly plastic. Would you melt
your Tupperware and spread that on your toast?

Share This With Your Friends... (If you want to 'butter them up')!

Chinese Proverb:
'When someone shares something of value with you and you benefit from it,
you have a moral obligation to share it with others.

Humanity Even For Non-Humans

Happy Earth Day from Club 108!

We pray and hope that we are inspiring you to bring practical, responsible, soul-stirring ecological action into your spiritual lives. Please let us know any way we can improve our service to you and yours (and that also includes your soon-to-be sprouting seedlings in your garden)

Today we offer you a recent piece from our hometown New York Times by Nicholas Kristoff titled "Humanity Even For Non-Humans", detailing the emergence of a genuine animal-rights movement inspired by the work of Princeton scholar Peter Singer.

Here's an excerpt:

Professor Singer wrote a landmark article in 1973 for The New York Review of Books and later expanded it into a 1975 book, “Animal Liberation.” That book helped yank academic philosophy back from a dreary foray into linguistics and pushed it to confront such fascinating questions of applied ethics as: What are our moral obligations to pigs?

John Maynard Keynes wrote that ideas, “both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else.” This idea popularized by Professor Singer — that we have ethical obligations that transcend our species — is one whose time appears to have come.

“There’s some growth in numbers of vegetarians, but the bigger thing is a broad acceptance of the idea that animals count,” Mr. Singer reflected the other day.

Click here to read the article.

Michael Cremo on Coast to Coast AM!

We're just a podunk blog, but the prabhu himself, Micheal Cremo (Drutakarma Das), author of Forbidden Archeology and Human Devolution, is hitting the big-time airwaves, as he will make an appearance this Tuesday, April 21st, on Coast To Coast AM with George Noory, "celebrating" the 200th birthday of one Charles Darwin

Cremo is a regular on Coast To Coast, which is one of the most-listened to radio shows in the whole world, delving into all matter of paranormal and alternative topics of science and knowledge.

It promises to be a great evening and great chance for the Vedic paradigm, in the very capable hands and words of Cremo, to be revealed to millions and millions of people.

Click here for the Coast To Coast website
Click here for Micheal Cremo's website
Click here for a great interview with Micheal Cremo

Darwin Is Dead!-The Atlas of Creation

If you would like to contribute to our year-long "celebration" of Darwin's 200th birthday, please send your articles, editorials, or any other creative and informative pieces to nvclub108@gmail.com

He's known by the pen name of Harun Yahya. His legal name is Adnan Oktar. His proposed 15-volume work Atlas of Creation puts him in the middle of the worldwide controversy over the battle for the Darwinian soul.

Treading lightly over his views and means of expression, one can't help but admire at least his tenacity of research (and his team of laywers!). Still, the problem remains, that in his immense global visibility, his off-center personality and expressions cause harm to the cause of breaking down the stranglehold of the Darwinist establishment

Learn for yourself...
Here's an article from the Wall Street Journal on Oktar
Here's his Wikipedia page.