by Charles Eisenstein I am told by Native American friends active at Standing Rock that the elders are counseling the Water Protectors to undertake each action prayerfully and to stay off the warpath. I would like to explain why this advice is not only spiritually sound, but politically astute as

Puerto Vallarta, Mexico – In October the World Wildlife Fund released a troubling report on CNN, that two thirds of the world’s marine and wildlife could be gone by 2020, that’s just 3 years from now! And it is mainly from rising air and ocean temperatures and over farming, logging

Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico – On August 30, an “unprecedented breakthrough” in restoring the rapidly disappearing coral from our warming oceans was confirmed at Puerto Vallarta’s Technological Institute (IT) in Nayarit. It is thanks to the team of UN consultant Leonard Sonnenschein, president of the World Aquarium and its Conservation for the Oceans Foundation.

Following RIO’s “awesome” first Green Opening Ceremonies, here is a chance to be Olympic Heroes while helping protect Olympians and everyone, especially the brains of children, from the devastating Zika Mosquito Virus.

Ashton Locklear, 18, is one of America’s leading gymnasts. She won national and international titles in uneven bars in 2014, 2015 and 2016, and was a member of the gold-medal winning U.S. team at the 2014 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Nanning, China.
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Puerto Vallarta, Mexico – The greatest applause during the Olympic’s “spectacular” Green Opening Ceremony in Rio was for regenerating Mother Earth and celebrating our beautiful diversity, from the Refugee Teams, to the female Arab Olympians, the “greatest gymnast ever” Simon Biles, and Brazil’s City of God Olympians, to the strutting Gisele Bundschen.

Rio’s murky waters and Zika mosquito challenges are a preview of coming attractions unless as an Olympic Family, like the musicians and actors, we boldly mobilize to curb climate change. Their warmer waters, combined with their sewer challenges, which they could not fully afford to fix despite spending 1/10 of London’s Opening, resulted in their infections waters.

Aspen’s 2016 Native American Dances honoring Mother Earth and Her snowblessings, hosted by my 3 heroes (L-R) N. Ute Cultural Chairman Roland McCook, Deanne Kessler (French- Ute Foundation founder), and covered by Unity leader Connie Baxter Marlow.

People are buzzing how Puerto Vallarta’s Banderas Bay is a splendid turquoise, especially on sunny cloudless calm days. “This is the most turquoise I have seen in the bay in 15 years,” said iconic fisherman Phil Kerr. Could it be from the unprecedented friendly luminescent blue jellyfish that came here

On December 12, the Azteca, Cherokee and Apaches in Puerto Vallarta joyously led an oceandance on Los Muertos pier in gratitude for humanity’s Paris victories: 200 UN countries signing an accord toward saving Earth for the Children by limiting global warming to 2°C-3.6°F now, and shifting from fossils fuels to

Humanity owes a debt of gratitude to 350.org, founded by Bill McKibben, for helping organize unprecedented numbers of World Peoples Marches, including Pope Francis urging Catholics to join, to ensure world leaders agree on strong legally binding climate agreements at the UN’s 2015 Paris Climate Summit Nov 30-Dec 12. Paris’ 10,000 Shoe Protest, 15 yr old Xiuh Martinez’ “Million Student Walk Out,” and unprecedented world prayer power, including the Shift Network’s Invocation for the UN Conference on Climate Change, also showed who we are, and why we are poised to turn the tide in Paris.

COP21 Paris, France November 30, 2015 – December 11, 2015 This statement reflects the wisdom of the Spiritual People of the Earth, of the four directions, working in unity to restore peace, harmony and balance for our collective future and for all living beings. This statement is written in black and

Native American Olympic Team Foundation  Australian Indigenous Alpine Sports Foundation 4 Emergency Ways to Extend Snow at Paris’ UN Climate Dec 1! Hola Snowlovers! I am alive and Vallarta is still standing, thanks to a miracle that you will see the Indigenous of the Americas helped guide.  It showed how

Another example of the power of gratitude prayers is Puerto Vallarta’s Azteca-Cherokee led protection ceremony NAOTF organized after the death of a whale: See promo of documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaaby0o5-CI&feature=youtu.be

The Prestigious Guadalajara U is planning on studying this phenomena that purifies the oceans, fortified by the snowdance phenomena in the US.

March 31, 2015 – AAA Magazine honors Olympic silver medalist Billy Kidd (Abenaki) for founding the Winter Special Olympics, Wounded Warriors and N. UTE SKI PROGRAMS at Steamboat.

Hail to Cal & U.S. Snowdance Pioneers,Reno’s Eagle Wing Pageant Dancers, descendents of the Washoe-Paiute-Shoshone dancers who saved the 1960 Squaw Valley Olympics. After being honored for it by the Tahoe Olympians and community in 2012, they then also magnanimously led a snowdance that ended that catastrophic drought with 5 ft of snow.

EARTHRISING is a Series on How we can lift each other up higher and higher through harnessing our Imagination, Ancient Tribal Wisdom, Green Technology & Heart Healing Outreaches and Love Songs.

Britain’s beloved Beatle John Lennon wisely wrote the powerful song, “Imagine.” What we imagine, visualize or dream, we manifest. That can be applied to healing Earth, and is even stronger when we collectively and multi-culturally give love and appreciation to Mother Earth’s heart, said a Mayan leader. As a result of some coincidences on New Year’s, my imagination went wild of how we can easily, blissfully, passionately inspire a phenomenal Earthrising in 2015.

TED features 14 year old World Youth leader of Earthguardians.org in 100 countries, Colorado’s Xiuhtezcatl (Shoe) Martinez and his little brother Itzacatl, my godsons, who have been empowering and raising the voices of fellow climate solutionaries via GenerationRYSE.org. See also their Earthrapping, the finale of RIO+20’s Earth Concert, on TED.

Oregon’s Mt Ashland Opens after “Snow Ceremony”for the first time after a year from the West Coast drought.

My fellow Rutland Vermont skier, Senator Jim Jeffords, passed on at age 80 in August, but his contributions live on. While chairman of the Environmental Committee, partnered with his confidant Jeff Munger (Iroquois) and seven other Native leaders, we helped reduce U.S. dental mercury by 48 percent. In 2013 this helped inspire 105 nations to sign a Global Mercury Treaty “to protect the environment by agreeing to phase down dental amalgam.”

As an Olympic skier, I want to thank all those who prayed for the joy and safety of everyone at Russia’s surprisingly “awesome” games. Joining with the Olympic families, were Christian Scientists, Native Americans, Aetherius Society, Monks of Moscow and so many more to help preserve this greatest force for Peace, Understanding, Healing, and Unity for over 1,000 years in Ancient times, and 100 years in Modern times.

To further help heal and unite America, on February 26, New Mexico’s Sipapu ski area announced that it is joining Pajarito Mt and Ski Santa Fe in offering landmark affordable skiing and snowboarding opportunities to the tribes of New Mexico and Arizona.

The Olympics has been the greatest force for Peace, Understanding, Healing, and Unity for over 1000 years in Ancient times and 100 years in Modern times. Given that Olympic heroes have inspired countless youth to be happily healthy, productive, brilliant and generous, we hope you will take a moment to join this world prayer for “The Joy and Safety of the Sochi Olympics,” heartened by how it has worked for the last five Olympics.