Fwd: San Francisco - TONIGHT - An Evening of Community Dialogue Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 13:25:23 +0100 <x-html> <html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> Bcc: misc.<div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div>_____________________</div><div><br></div></span></span></div><div><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><div><br></div> <div>From: Marcia Jaffe <<a href="mailto:info@baliinstitute.org">info@baliinstitute.org</a>></div> <div>Date: May 22, 2008 2:36:03 PM EDT</div> <div>To: <a href="mailto:sandy@thataway.org">sandy@thataway.org</a></div> <div>Subject: Nourishing the Politics of Hope: An Evening of Community Conversation</div> <div>Reply-To: <a href="mailto:info@baliinstitute.org">info@baliinstitute.org</a></div> <div><br></div><div><div><div><div><div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Nourishing the Politics of Hope</span></font></b></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div> <div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">An Evening of Community Dialogue</span></font></b></div> <div>Friday, May 23, 7:00 to 9:30 PM</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><br></div> <div>Please join us for a rewarding evening of conversation, reflection and collaborative learning as we explore the landscape of hope. </div> <div><br></div> <div>The United States' Presidential election cycle has sparked a new awareness of what it means to be a global citizen given the challenges facing our world today. We are witnessing a sea change in the political arena as more and more people are raising their voices, not only in protest, but in solidarity, possibility and longing for positive change.</div> <div> </div> <div>How is this playing out in your life? Who are you taking to? What are you talking about? What role are you playing in this democratic renaissance?</div> <div><br></div> <div>We invite you to an enlivening evening dedicated to hope, possibility and an exploration into how we might harness the energy being unleased in politics today to shape a better world for tomorrow.</div> </div> </div> <div><div><div>Hosted by Bali Institute for Global Renewal </div> <div><br></div> <div><b>The evening will feature facilitation by:</b></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><b><br></b></div> <div><b>Ryan Feinstein - Director, Global Youth in Action</b></div> <div><b>Isaac Zikri - Visiting from Sumatra Indonesia</b></div> <div><b>Ken Homer - Founder, Leading Sustainable Conversations</b></div> <div><b>Shannon Dulaney and Shaina Patel - Students at UC San Diego</b></div> <div> </div> <div>Hope lives in our hearts and is nourished by our stories. </div> <div><br></div> <div>Come and share stories and be part of this great experiment in making our world a better place.</div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <div>* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *</div> </div> </div> <div><div><div><b>When: Friday, May 23rd, 7:00 to 9:30 PM</b></div> <div><br></div> <div><b>Where: ArtHouse Gallery 1360 Mission Street, San Francisco - between 9th and 10th.</b></div> <div><br></div> <div>Donation: Sliding scale $10 to $20. (No one turned away for lack of funds.)</div> <div><br></div> <div>Snacks and beverages provided.</div> <div><br></div> <div>RSVP: Please help us to prepare to welcome you by emailing us: <a href="mailto:info@baliinstitute.org">info@baliinstitute.org</a>.</div> <div>Or call 415-331-7552 - Thank you.</div> <div><br></div> <div><b>About Bali Institute for Global Renewal</b></div> <div><br></div> <div>Bali Institute for Global Renewal is the premier world learning center for multicultural leadership and facilitation training. Integrating deep dialogue, indigenous wisdom, global consciousness, multigenerational activism with strength-based, action-oriented skills, Bali Institute for Global Renewal empowers individuals, groups and organizations in their quest to make a difference in the world. </div> <div><br></div> <div>Visit our website for our new 2008-09 schedule of workshop offerings in Bali. </div> </div> </div> <div><div><div>Our thanks to ArtHouse for opening their wonderful space to us.</div> <div><br></div> <div>ArtHouse currently has an Emerging Artists Exhibit co-partnering with California Institute of Integral Studies. The exhibit will run until June 27, 2008. Three incredible artists, Miles Epstein, David Jay Trachtenberg and Alberto Ybarra are exhibiting in this 5th Annual Spirit In the Arts. Gallery Hours are by appointment.</div> <div> </div> <div>ArtHouse is a resource for arts communities throughout the Bay Area. They have an artist "hotline" where subscribers can search listings for live/work and studio spaces. In addition, ArtHouse rents out studio and office space to creative groups and non-profit organizations. </div> <div><br></div> <div>As a resource for the arts in San Francisco, ArtHouse consults on a variety of arts related projects such as Bayview Hunters Point Shipyard where they are working with the Shipyard artists to develop an Arts District. Through a generous grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission, ArtHouse will be building out artist studios at their Mission Street address later in 2008. </div> <div><br></div> <div>Visit the ArtHouse website for more information. To schedule an appointment concerning space rentals, please contact Linda L. Schanfein - Executive Director - ArtHouse - 415-552-2183.</div> </div> </div> </div> <div><div><div><div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div><div>__________________________</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div><div><br></div></div> <div><div><div><div><b>Special Announcement</b></div> <div><br></div> <div><b>Vision Quest and Rite of Passage</b></div> <div>August 18-22, 2008</div> <div>Santa Fe, New Mexico</div> <div><br></div> <div>With Illana Berger (Bali Institute Advisory Council member) and Dennis Miranda</div> <div><br></div> <div>Take a journey into the arms of your ancestors and the vision for your life. You'll be joining a dedicated group of people who are all looking to be guided and directed towards their own personal calling and the work they incarnated to do. You'll discover what you are made of, the love that lives at your core and the magical power of nature and life that guides you to your true Self. For more information visit our website.</div> <div> </div></div></div></div></div><div><div> <div>Bali Institute for Global Renewal | 200 Spencer Avenue | Sausalito | CA | 94965</div> </div> </div> <div><br></div><div>___________________________</div><div>subscribe mailto:</div><div><a href="mailto:cyberjournal-subscribe@googlegroups.com">cyberjournal-subscribe@googlegroups.com</a></div><div><br></div><div>websites: <a href="http://cyberjournal.org"></a></div><div><a href="http://cyberjournal.org">http://cyberjournal.org</a></div><div><a href="http://www.governourselves.org/">http://www.governourselves.org/</a></div><div><div><a href="http://escapingthematrix.org/">http://escapingthematrix.org/</a></div><div><div><a href="http://www.wakingthephoenix.org/">http://www.wakingthephoenix.org/</a></div><div><br></div><div>recent archives:</div><div><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/cyberjournal">http://groups.google.com/group/cyberjournal</a></div><div><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/newslog">http://groups.google.com/group/newslog</a></div><div><br></div></div></div><div>old archives: <a href="http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/"></a></div><div><a href="http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/">http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/</a></div><div><div><a href="http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/?lists=newslog">http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/?lists=newslog</a></div><div><br></div></div><div>Moderator: <a href="mailto:rkm@quaylargo.com">rkm@quaylargo.com</a> (comments welcome)</div><div><br></div></div></div></body></html> </x-html> Fwd: San Francisco - TONIGHT - An Evening of Community Dialogue Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 13:25:23 +0100 <x-html> <html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> Bcc: misc.<div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div>_____________________</div><div><br></div></span></span></div><div><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><div><br></div> <div>From: Marcia Jaffe <<a href="mailto:info@baliinstitute.org">info@baliinstitute.org</a>></div> <div>Date: May 22, 2008 2:36:03 PM EDT</div> <div>To: <a href="mailto:sandy@thataway.org">sandy@thataway.org</a></div> <div>Subject: Nourishing the Politics of Hope: An Evening of Community Conversation</div> <div>Reply-To: <a href="mailto:info@baliinstitute.org">info@baliinstitute.org</a></div> <div><br></div><div><div><div><div><div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Nourishing the Politics of Hope</span></font></b></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div> <div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">An Evening of Community Dialogue</span></font></b></div> <div>Friday, May 23, 7:00 to 9:30 PM</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><br></div> <div>Please join us for a rewarding evening of conversation, reflection and collaborative learning as we explore the landscape of hope. </div> <div><br></div> <div>The United States' Presidential election cycle has sparked a new awareness of what it means to be a global citizen given the challenges facing our world today. We are witnessing a sea change in the political arena as more and more people are raising their voices, not only in protest, but in solidarity, possibility and longing for positive change.</div> <div> </div> <div>How is this playing out in your life? Who are you taking to? What are you talking about? What role are you playing in this democratic renaissance?</div> <div><br></div> <div>We invite you to an enlivening evening dedicated to hope, possibility and an exploration into how we might harness the energy being unleased in politics today to shape a better world for tomorrow.</div> </div> </div> <div><div><div>Hosted by Bali Institute for Global Renewal </div> <div><br></div> <div><b>The evening will feature facilitation by:</b></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><b><br></b></div> <div><b>Ryan Feinstein - Director, Global Youth in Action</b></div> <div><b>Isaac Zikri - Visiting from Sumatra Indonesia</b></div> <div><b>Ken Homer - Founder, Leading Sustainable Conversations</b></div> <div><b>Shannon Dulaney and Shaina Patel - Students at UC San Diego</b></div> <div> </div> <div>Hope lives in our hearts and is nourished by our stories. </div> <div><br></div> <div>Come and share stories and be part of this great experiment in making our world a better place.</div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <div>* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *</div> </div> </div> <div><div><div><b>When: Friday, May 23rd, 7:00 to 9:30 PM</b></div> <div><br></div> <div><b>Where: ArtHouse Gallery 1360 Mission Street, San Francisco - between 9th and 10th.</b></div> <div><br></div> <div>Donation: Sliding scale $10 to $20. (No one turned away for lack of funds.)</div> <div><br></div> <div>Snacks and beverages provided.</div> <div><br></div> <div>RSVP: Please help us to prepare to welcome you by emailing us: <a href="mailto:info@baliinstitute.org">info@baliinstitute.org</a>.</div> <div>Or call 415-331-7552 - Thank you.</div> <div><br></div> <div><b>About Bali Institute for Global Renewal</b></div> <div><br></div> <div>Bali Institute for Global Renewal is the premier world learning center for multicultural leadership and facilitation training. Integrating deep dialogue, indigenous wisdom, global consciousness, multigenerational activism with strength-based, action-oriented skills, Bali Institute for Global Renewal empowers individuals, groups and organizations in their quest to make a difference in the world. </div> <div><br></div> <div>Visit our website for our new 2008-09 schedule of workshop offerings in Bali. </div> </div> </div> <div><div><div>Our thanks to ArtHouse for opening their wonderful space to us.</div> <div><br></div> <div>ArtHouse currently has an Emerging Artists Exhibit co-partnering with California Institute of Integral Studies. The exhibit will run until June 27, 2008. Three incredible artists, Miles Epstein, David Jay Trachtenberg and Alberto Ybarra are exhibiting in this 5th Annual Spirit In the Arts. Gallery Hours are by appointment.</div> <div> </div> <div>ArtHouse is a resource for arts communities throughout the Bay Area. They have an artist "hotline" where subscribers can search listings for live/work and studio spaces. In addition, ArtHouse rents out studio and office space to creative groups and non-profit organizations. </div> <div><br></div> <div>As a resource for the arts in San Francisco, ArtHouse consults on a variety of arts related projects such as Bayview Hunters Point Shipyard where they are working with the Shipyard artists to develop an Arts District. Through a generous grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission, ArtHouse will be building out artist studios at their Mission Street address later in 2008. </div> <div><br></div> <div>Visit the ArtHouse website for more information. To schedule an appointment concerning space rentals, please contact Linda L. Schanfein - Executive Director - ArtHouse - 415-552-2183.</div> </div> </div> </div> <div><div><div><div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div><div>__________________________</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div><div><br></div></div> <div><div><div><div><b>Special Announcement</b></div> <div><br></div> <div><b>Vision Quest and Rite of Passage</b></div> <div>August 18-22, 2008</div> <div>Santa Fe, New Mexico</div> <div><br></div> <div>With Illana Berger (Bali Institute Advisory Council member) and Dennis Miranda</div> <div><br></div> <div>Take a journey into the arms of your ancestors and the vision for your life. You'll be joining a dedicated group of people who are all looking to be guided and directed towards their own personal calling and the work they incarnated to do. You'll discover what you are made of, the love that lives at your core and the magical power of nature and life that guides you to your true Self. For more information visit our website.</div> <div> </div></div></div></div></div><div><div> <div>Bali Institute for Global Renewal | 200 Spencer Avenue | Sausalito | CA | 94965</div> </div> </div> <div><br></div><div>___________________________</div><div>subscribe mailto:</div><div><a href="mailto:cyberjournal-subscribe@googlegroups.com">cyberjournal-subscribe@googlegroups.com</a></div><div><br></div><div>websites: <a href="http://cyberjournal.org"></a></div><div><a href="http://cyberjournal.org">http://cyberjournal.org</a></div><div><a href="http://www.governourselves.org/">http://www.governourselves.org/</a></div><div><div><a href="http://escapingthematrix.org/">http://escapingthematrix.org/</a></div><div><div><a href="http://www.wakingthephoenix.org/">http://www.wakingthephoenix.org/</a></div><div><br></div><div>recent archives:</div><div><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/cyberjournal">http://groups.google.com/group/cyberjournal</a></div><div><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/newslog">http://groups.google.com/group/newslog</a></div><div><br></div></div></div><div>old archives: <a href="http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/"></a></div><div><a href="http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/">http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/</a></div><div><div><a href="http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/?lists=newslog">http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/?lists=newslog</a></div><div><br></div></div><div>Moderator: <a href="mailto:rkm@quaylargo.com">rkm@quaylargo.com</a> (comments welcome)</div><div><br></div></div></div></body></html> </x-html> IPS-English AGRICULTURE-BRAZIL: Fertiliser Prices Hinder Expansion Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 10:59:01 -0700 Mario Osava RIO DE JANEIRO, May 28 (IPS) - A simple imbalance in agricultural supply and demand can be corrected in less than a year, the time it takes to sow and harvest grains, but the present global food crisis cannot. The shortage of fertilisers and their consequent rise in cost are standing in the way of quick solutions. ”At least two years of heavy investment will be needed” to increase world fertiliser production and restore balance to the market, according to Roberto Rodrigues, a former agriculture minister who heads a centre for agribusiness studies in the southern city of Sao Paulo. The current shortage is due to many years of underinvestment by large fertiliser companies discouraged by low profits. To correct that trend will take time, Rodrigues told IPS. Prices will remain sky-high. Nitrogenated fertilisers, which are in greatest demand worldwide, track oil prices because they are based on fossil fuels, in particular natural gas. In 2005-2006, world consumption of the three main elements in fertilisers -- nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium -- was 155.4 million tonnes, of which 60 percent was nitrogen, according to the International Fertiliser Industry Association. Taking into account other agricultural inputs like pesticides and fuel for transport and farm machinery, the oil dependence of agribusiness does not hold out hopeful prospects for a drop in food prices soon. Brazil, with huge amounts of land available, has enormous potential to expand its food production, but it is held back by the ”fertiliser bottleneck,” said Rodrigues. Two-thirds of the fertiliser used in Brazil is imported, and the soils of the ”cerrado”, the country's vast central grasslands region, where grain and sugarcane cultivation are expanding the most, need plenty of fertiliser, especially potassium. Brazil is the world's fourth largest consumer of fertilisers, after China, India and the United States. Therefore other kinds and sources of fertilisers must be developed, like sugarcane vinasse (a liquid residue from the ethanol distilling process) which contains high concentrations of potassium, and local deposits of the required minerals must be sought, the former minister said. Cutting down on agrochemical consumption is a priority at the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA), a state network of 41 centres located around the country, which generate agricultural knowledge and technology that were decisive for the great leap forward in productivity in the last two decades. Close to 60 million tonnes a year of soybeans are produced in Brazil, ”without using a single kilo of nitrogen,” said Segundo Urquiaga, a researcher at EMBRAPA's agrobiology centre, which developed the technique of inoculating bacteria into beans to boost nitrogen fixation from the air. This technique saves the country five billion dollars a year, ”six times what it invests in agricultural research,” Urquiaga told IPS. It also improves yields and is good for the environment, unlike chemical fertilisers, which tend to build up excess nitrogen in the soil that is released as nitrous oxide, a gas with 300 times the greenhouse effect of carbon dioxide, he said. Biological nitrogen fixation is also being applied in sugarcane cultivation, where it supplies between 60 and 70 percent of requirements, but only in a few varieties, the researcher said. Another approach, he added, is to ”alternate crops of sugarcane and beans to enrich the soil.” As a result of this and other advantages of tropical agriculture, this country uses less nitrogen than phosphorus or potassium, in contrast with other agricultural powers. In China, for example, highly polluting nitrogenated fertilisers make up 64 percent of the total, compared with 26 percent in Brazil. However, a great agricultural expansion cannot be achieved without costs. Brazilian grain production has more than doubled since 1990, with only a small increase in cultivated area, thanks to a 178 percent rise in fertiliser application, according to statistics from the National Association for the Promotion of Fertilisers (ANDA). Cooperatives and farmers' associations are now demanding price control mechanisms as a condition for increasing food supply. The government wants, above all, to raise wheat production rapidly, in order to limit its dependence on imports that provide two-thirds of the 12 million tonnes a year of wheat consumed in Brazil. But this goal clashes with the high price of fertilisers, which have risen by an average of 73 percent over the last 12 months, according to the government statistics institute. Fertiliser costs represent more than 40 percent of total production costs for some grains, double their share a few years ago, farmers say. The government could, for instance, eliminate a 25 percent tax on transport by sea, to bring down the cost of importing fertilisers, ANDA vice president Torvaldo Marzola Filho told IPS. The situation is aggravated by the fact that some producing countries are exporting less fertilisers. China decided to impose a tax of between 100 and 135 percent on fertiliser exports, Marzola said. Brazil only continues to import them because food prices, which are also sky-high, still outweigh the additional costs, he said. ***** + AGRICULTURE: What Is Really Causing ‘Agflation'? (http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42134) + BRAZIL: Leading Agroscience Has Few Links to Small Farmers (http://ipsnews.net/text/news.asp?idnews=42420) + International Fertilizer Industry Association (http://www.fertilizer.org) + EMBRAPA Agrobiología - in Portuguese (http://www.cnpab.embrapa.br) + Associaçao Nacional para Difusion de Adubos, ANDA - in Portuguese (http://www.anda.org.br/home.aspx) (END/IPS/LA WD DV IF AG CF/TRASP-VD-SW/MO/DCL/08) = 05282125 ORP011 NNNN