If you are tempted to go out shopping tomorrow, don’t. The day after Thanksgiving is, of course, international Buy Nothing Day. The movement isn’t just about one particular day (the busiest retail shopping day of the year), but about changing lifestyles, consuming less.

There will be a great Whirl-Mart event in New York City. See the great videos of Whirl-Marts past.

Don’t forget to pick up your gift exemption vouchers, Zenta cards, and Buy Nothing Carols for a Buy Nothing Holiday season.

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First Annual Solstice Synchronized Global Orgasm for Peace

The mission of the Global Orgasm is to effect change in the energy field of the Earth through input of the largest possible surge of human energy. Now that there are two more US fleets heading for the Persian Gulf with anti- submarine equipment that can only be for use against Iran, the time to change Earth’s energy is NOW!

The intent is that the participants concentrate any thoughts during and after orgasm on peace. The combination of high-energy orgasmic energy combined with mindful intention may have a much greater effect than previous mass meditations and prayers.

The goal is to add so much concentrated and high-energy positive input into the energy field of the Earth that it will reduce the current dangerous levels of aggression and violence throughout the world.

Don’t forget to read about the science of the Zero Point Field or Quantum Field and how human consciousness can (may) effect the field, showing up (the organizers hope) on Princeton University’s Random Event Generators.

I’m not even sure if this is legal in Utah.

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Do you depend on net neutrality to make connections to other people, to learn what is going on in the world, to express yourself, or even to make a living? Maybe you don’t know whether you depend on net neutrality or you don’t know exactly what it is. If you run a small business and depend on search engine traffic or you reach others with your thoughts through a noncorporate site, believe me, you depend on net neutrality.

Please consider joining the Coalition to Save the Internet. Just read the Statement of Principles, and join.

Now that we have a better idea of the make up of the new Congress, we can work to maintain net neutrality with new telecommunications policy. Learn about it now, follow the issue and talk to others, and don’t be caught by surprise when the issue comes up in legislation. While you are at it, see where you Senator stands. If they stand on the side of big telecommunications companies, let them know what you think of that.

• Net Neutrality Showdown roundup of news and issues on c|net.
• Google’s Guide to Net Neutrality.
• Wikipedia article on Net Neutrality includes links to the fake grassroots sites that make this sound like a libertarian hands-off-my-internet issue—funded by telecommunications monsters, of course.I love Wikipedia. I want to kiss it all over.

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The idea of a Department of Peace been around for a while (since George Washington, apparently). There are a couple of organizations working hard to push Congress to address bills on a federal, cabinet-level Department of Peace.

Dennis Kucinich made the Department of Peace part of his 2004 Presidential platform. The “Department of Peace and Nonviolence Act” was introduced in both the House and the Senate last year, and activists expect to see the issue addressed by the new Congress.

Long shot? Probably. Making the switch to a nonviolent approach takes work. One doesn’t just drift into it.

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As family and I have been driving through the Nevada desert today, I’ve been thinking of Burning Man. Next year’s theme is The Green Man. THE GREEN MAN. I am so there.

Not only will this verdant force of nature be the theme of Burning Man, but the community of Black Rock City is asked to offset the carbon footprint of travel, power generation, and expressive burning. A handy calculator helps with this.

• Burners without Borders will participate in this focus.

With the announcement of next year’s theme for Burning Man–The Green Man–expect to hear about lots of BWB projects focused on environmental/sustainable communities in the coming year.

• Cooling Man offsets greenhouse gas emissions and cools it forward.

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