EARTH SHIFT

Earth Hour 2009 - Sign up for Earth Hour!


YOUR LIGHT SWITCH IS YOUR VOTE

This year, Earth Hour has been transformed into the world's first global election, between Earth and global warming.

WWF are urging the world to VOTE EARTH and reach the target of 1 billion votes, which will be presented to world leaders at the Global Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen 2009.

This meeting will determine official government policies to take action against global warming, which will replace the Kyoto Protocol. It is the chance for the people of the world to make their voice heard.

Earth Hour began in Sydney in 2007, when 2.2 million homes and businesses switched off their lights for one hour. In 2008 the message had grown into a global sustainability movement, with 50 million people switching off their lights. Global landmarks such as the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Rome's Colosseum, the Sydney Opera House and the Coca Cola billboard in Times Square all stood in darkness.

In 2009, Earth Hour is being taken to the next level, with the goal of 1 billion people switching off their lights as part of a global vote. Unlike any election in history, it is not about what country you're from, but instead, what planet you're from.

We all have a vote, and every single vote counts. Together we can take control of the future of our planet, for future generations.

VOTE EARTH by simply switching off your lights for one hour, and join the world for Earth Hour.

Saturday, March 28, 8:30-9:30pm.


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EARTH HOUR A BIG SUCCESS!

On 31 March 2007, 2.2 million people and 2100 Sydney businesses turned off their lights for one hour - Earth Hour. This massive collective effort reduced Sydney's energy consumption by 10.2% for one hour, which is the equivalent effect of taking 48,000 cars off the road for a year. With Sydney icons like the Harbour Bridge and Opera House turning their lights off, and unique events such as weddings by candlelight, the world took notice.

EARTH HOUR was Created to take a stand against the greatest threat our planet has ever faced, throu the simple action of turning off the lights for one hour to deliver a powerful message about the need for action on global warming.

Feedback about 2008 Earth Hour Event

Inspired by the collective effort of millions of Sydneysiders, many major global cities all around the world participated in Earth Hour 2008. More than 380 cities and town and 3,500 businesses in 35 countries signed up to participate in the campaign.

Here on the north island of New Zealand at our own landmark centre, (the Auckland Sky Tower), flood lights were turned off for the hour at 8pm for 60 minutes.

"Turning off the lights was a symbolic gesture," said general manager David Christian of SkyCity. He said that many Aucklanders are indeed concerned about global warming and SkyCity and SkyCity did its bit last night to let people know it is committed to saving energy.

People watched an open-air showing of an environmental documentary The 11th Hour as the cathedral itself dimmed its lights in Christchurch's Cathedral Square, (located on the south island of New Zealand).

Australians held candle-lit beach parties, floated candles down rivers, and dined by candle light as lights at Sydney's Opera House and Harbour Bridge were switched off.

In Copenhagen the famed Tivoli Gardens said it would also switch off along with the City Hall.

In Bangkok one major hotel invited guests to dine by candlelight and reported brisk business.

In Britain lights went out in several historic buildings including Prince Charles' private residence Highgrove House, London City Hall, Winchester Cathedral and even the Government Communication Headquarters radio monitoring station.

Internet Google also turned its home page black ahead of time with the message: "We've turned the lights out. Now it's your turn."

In Budapest, floodlights also went out at a variety of landmark centres , including its castle, cathedral and parliament, and about 100 statues and museums.

In the United States and Canada several cities including Chicago, San Francisco, Atlanta and Toronto also participated in Earth Hour.

San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, Chicago's Sears Tower and Soldier Field Stadium football ground, as well as the 553-metre (1,815 ft) CN Tower in Toronto were due to be plunged into darkness. Even the lights at Niagara Falls were to go out.

Buildings account for about one-third of the carbon emissions that scientists say will boost global average temperatures by between 1.4 and 4.0 degrees Celsius this century bringing floods and famines and putting millions of lives at risk.

Organisers of Earth Hour said that while switching off a light for one hour would have little impact on carbon emissions, the fact that so many people were taking part showed how much interest and concern at the climate crisis had taken hold.



2007 Earth Hour Video

You can see more about Earth Hour 2008 below with other Youtube vids.

(New Zealand Artist Pamela Matthews, Painting entitled Sophia.

For more images see Goddess Art

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Riding the Current In Our Relation-Ship
A Monthly Forecast Report!

What is it?

An Introduction to our Relation-SHIP and Being Current!

Max and Alana work in support of the evolution of consciousness for humanity and the planet. They call themselves Transition Facilitators as the work they do supports individuals and groups in more fully understanding and working with the energies and many of the changes we are all moving with and through, especially as it impacts the quality of our relation-ship in community.

As Facilitators working with heart and the wisdom that comes from and through Source, the two open to receive intuitive input while accessing energetic processes supportive to this transition we and the Earth are experiencing. As an Intuitive Facilitator and Coach, Alana, identifies emerging energetic patterns as well as the energetic opportunities available in and through the 'current' intelligence of Source. As channels Max and Alana bring through information and energies from higher realms as the two of us open to receive energetic transmissions and processes in support of groups.

This report is in support of our traversing new frontiers together as we ride through the changes of an accelerated evolutionary change. Time and Space are shifting right along with us, and it feels like we are moving in hyper-speed, while at other times it can feel like bouts in quicksand. This monthly report presents intuitive information which can support the mind, body and soul to 'thrive' with these changes, rather than 'survive' them. As we weather the winds of change together, it helps to have support to minimize the 'freak out' that comes when we pass through energetic storms. Each day, week, month, and year, there are a series of shifts that occur as life presents us with those 'special' and 'interesting' challenges which gift us with learning 'curves' even as those sharp angles get on our 'nerves' and push us to explore new ways of responding to life.

When we have helpful navigators assisting us at the helm of our collective relation-SHIPS, it is more likely that we will move harmoniously with the elements, rather than against them. Whether those elements bring torrential winds and rains, volcanic or quaking eruptions, choppy depth of waves, or the intense heat of alchemizing fires, we are guaranteed to experience trans-formation. Together, we can move through these shifts in ways that will foster stability in the midst of significant upheaval and spiritual change.

The SHIP: We see our relation-SHIP as a sacred vehicle, affording us opportunities to heal our collective patterns and experiences of separation. These patterns have caused us to live in disharmonious relationship with all of life. The consequences of this can be seen in the world crisis's we see and experience all around us. In truth, all is RELATIONSHIP.

Is it not the ultimate quest to explore how we can move from the polarity of separation that is, to a space and experience of unity? What does this look like? Together we have the answers and the vision.

Our Roles: As a Spiritual Intuitive, I read the energies of these waves at the various dimensional levels as it involves the past, present and future and the patterns at play. In addition, Max and I as Transition Facilitators assist in providing healing environments where significant shifts for individuals and groups often occur. The information and resources we utilize and the processes we facilitate, often empower people to choose to live life more consciously, so they are supported to live in more accor-dance with their true heart presence.

This dance involves the art of conscious co-creation as each of us learns how to live in optimum spaces where we honour our own heart and harmonic in balance with others. Celebrating life and wholeness, we can then move into a-bun-dance.

RE-SOURCE: We live in what many have called, the 'Information Age." As we awaken and develop our capacity to re-source ourselves. In the process we are becoming ever more durable and competent processors, akin to sophisticated computers. From the cosmic mathematical codes of creation, down to the genetic and molecular DNA coding within our cells, the cosmology of the Universe 'in person', is facilitating us to 'turn on' and 'tune up' to our true 'being.' Being 'turned on' units of consciousness' expressing through our lovely personalities and bodies, we are as stars twinkling.

As a star, we are gifted with daily opportunities to shine our Light presence in practical 'down to earth' ways. As capacitors, we ground our Light, becoming transducers of cosmic light, and open vehicles of coherence with the Divine Presence.

Without the guidance of skilled navigators to see us through tough waters, we will be as a ship lost at sea. Each of us have an endless supply of resources available to us, however; until we can sufficiently utilize the rich abundance of information in ways that brings true communication, we may find ourselves experiencing the polarity of 'not enough' or 'too much' information, thereby jamming our circuitry.

Each of us will draw to us those people, experiences and environments which best support us in nourishing our sense of self when we commit to this. However; discernment is critical as we come to decipher and filter through the information 'essential' to the building of this true-self.

What has manna? What will nourish our true-being?' Akin to cells within the greater body, we collectively seek to have cell to cell communication with one another so that the essential information can inform and energetically nourish our overall system. However, at times, we can get bogged down in residual information, processes, and energies which do not benefit us as they hold us to old historical (or is it hysterical?) 'divide and conquer' programming.

YO EE YO, YO HO!

When we acknowledge our connectivity, we can identify a shared reality with common energies and cycles. We are opening to new spiritual capacities and perceptual experiences which can have us feeling vulnerable much like a baby fawn or doe. Vulnerable and young emerging essences, we are learning how to relate in new ways, as we leave old identities behind.

During the time of transitioning from one way of being to another, we may teeter between that which we are leaving behind, and that which we are moving into. Sometimes we may get caught up in the 'trance dance' of old worldly selves, other times, we may feel out of step with the old and new worlds simultaneously - as we fall smack right into the gap! You know that place where it all comes apart and nothing makes sense.

Oye! The new world is not quite yet formed and the synapses of the brain go wild trying to sort and process the information as an overload takes us into a temporary short circuit, and our nerves SNAP! In this space, we may experience temporary bouts of depression, exhaustion, doubt, despair or feelings of separation, while the heaviness of it all, can have us spiral into revisiting the dense memories of times past.

Within the unconscious, it may seem as sea monsters occasionally rise up from deep within to threaten us as we are challenged to embrace that which is not loved or loving from within. Until we can embrace the monster with love, its beastie presence, will try to scare us into submission. Our bodies and souls really do know what they are up to, even as our mind doesn't fully comprehend. The inner garden of our self is being tilled and seeded so that new life can blossom and grow.

As our being makes way for new 'life' patterns to fully take root, the compost of our former selves helps to fertilize the foundational soil for the new self to emerge and grow. This new self is deepening in its multi-sensory nature, as our bodies yearn for more peace, relaxation, pleasure and vital expression.

When we connect the dots of our experiences, and see that others are having similar experiences, it helps us to not feel so alone. We see that others are also disoriented and confused at times, and that they too experience doubts, fears and tears throughout the process of transformation.

Sometimes we can feel a bit 'crazy' with it all. Until we become more skilled navigators in life, we may find ourselves feeling as if we are temporarily lost at sea. As we compare stories of our transition experiences, we see common threads emerge. We have in common similar thought processes, perceptions, emotional feelings, physical symptoms, intuitive experiences, and all manner of dynamics within relationship. Yet, we each have distinct and unique experiences and contributions to add to the whole.

Riding the Current: Each of us is challenged to get the hang of riding these new waves of consciousness within the 'current' now of the collective ship we are sailing. Many of us would like to minimize the dissonance and maximize the harmony, as we explore the sea of possibilities emerging in our lives. We also need to know when and how to make it back to safe harbour as we come to 'anchor and earth' our new relation-SHIP. Changed by the elements and the exploration itself, our ship will assist us in learning new ways of co-creating our shared 'Heart' story, an unfolding story, where everyone's voice, presence, and contributions are acknowledged and valued.

This ship is growing in light, and it has amazing capacities to change form and manoeuvre itself, as it can move through all manner of densities and environments. We see us emerging from the isolated ego to the unity of true essence through this amazing transition process. We also hear a celebration song where the many voices and uni-verses sing of the splendour that is the birth of the new earth.

Happy Sailing,

Alana and Max Tobin

Relationship Report for March 2008

The Key Phrase for this month:Connecting Dots and Shifting Plots!

Hello Everyone,

Wow....what a potent cycle we are in right now!

The two of us just a couple of days ago moved house...therefore you are receiving this report a bit later than we had planned because we have been so absolutely full on busy and then exhausted. We are currently house-sitting in the far north and the energy here is so much more supportive of who we are and what we love. We are a 10 minute walk from the beach. We even saw dolphins at play yesterday as we were resting and re-cooperating ...ocean waves put us to sleep at night and sea breezes awaken us in the morning. We are living in increasing thrival as we surrender to trust Source to guide us. Until the new co-creative patterns are more in place, we have been guided to be more mobile in terms of space.

An overview of the energetic for the current cycle:

As a whole we are continuing to move through a major jump in frequency... (accelerated evolutionary shifts) - We're being re-wired and Divinely inspired to remember what it is to consciously co-create our lives and our shared reality. Last month the Light that was supported to anchor through to Earth and through each of us had us releasing at a very deep level, those patterns which were critical for us to be able to stabilize more in the field of unity. This energy is evolving our awareness of the field of unity. We are remembering what it is to live 'by heart'...how to be and do within the integrity of the me and you...MU story.

Over the past month, many experienced troubling side effects in respect to these energetic shifts taking place...as aches in body and troubling emotions as well as mindsets stretched us out of our familiar comfort zones. This is not an over night job...this transformation process. Our souls chose to be here on Earth at this time so we could release and let go of the patterns which tie us to repeating human history. Such change and transformation, is not easy and yet as we commit to it, our resistances and all that is contrary to love is melting.

In addition to our own resistances there are those present within our world who will not be so happy about the changes we are making, even groups who will do their best to stop us from being so free, in our consciousness....nor do they want to give up their position of power to determine for us...our reality. We will continue to witness around us many who will be choosing to hold onto the old reality as both victim and perpetrator play out dramas and regurgitate old traumas within the play of separation.

BAD NEWS: The old grid of separation consciousness is the SLAVE grid AND it is indeed a matrix.

GOOD NEWS: Many are awakening and choosing to unplug from the old grid and to consciously connect and plug into the New Earth grid...see pt 2 of the

Information as Energy article or begin reading about the Transition

Decide to Unplug from the old matrix NOW and Source will show you how to dismantle the old GRID from the inside out! Now is the time! Imposed matrices which have concealed power sources will lose influence as the natural grids quicken and begin to help burn the dross of political influence. What this means is that..that which has been un-natural and imposed is being exposed.

Look for revealing stories personally and collectively that spin heads as this next period has the group stirring the proverbial soup, so as many get access to the inner scoop --the heat is on and the stewing that's been brewing has ones forming a new meme and new schemes to free the plot! What a novel idea is it not? Hehe!

No longer will the mental field of deceptions fly in the face of the informed heart and community that is rising in energy integrity, the consciousness that has enabled the powers that be to decree; (as ONLY WE create our fate) is now shifting in template, so that ones may call back the power to disable and disintegrate the old power agreements and story lines. Are you ready to break free from the history that has had you entangled in the threads of last night's mare, rather than experience the freedom, joy and power of a heart aware?

The New Earth grid supports Unity Consciousness and Living in Harmony with Life!

According to the Mayan Calendar we are currently in the cycle of the
5th night. In times past when this night cycle was present was during the dark ages and also the time when Hitler was in power in Nazi Germany.

So we are likely to see some similar types of upheaval as dark and light play out specific dynamics within the collective soup over this next year. The human family has the opportunity to address and heal at the societal level now, the secrets, the dysfunctional patterns and the issues which have held us all back from living the life we know is possible.

Many of the new systems and forms we desire to co-create within the unity field cannot come in or manifest until we are prepared to release ourselves from that which has held us within the vibration of limitation. With the assistance of two eclipses, planetary energies supported busting loose and busting out of limiting reality constructs. Many more became empowered to make new connections both within themselves and within their external life experiences. All of this is necessary so we can grow our awareness as well as our capacities to harmonize within the evolving unity field.

So of course we are coming up to an important event which affirms this cycle, this process and the opportunities that are present for us now.

SPECIAL NOTICE: We have discontinued the report AS OF JUNE. Soon even more good stuff will be made available through our website!