Renewable energy vital for Internet lifestyles: Greenpeace

Yahoo – AFP, Glenn Chapman, May 12, 2015

A Greenpeace report charges utilities with hampering efforts to use renewable

 energy to power data centers needed for services hosted in the cloud (AFP

Photo/Martin Bureau)

San Francisco (AFP) - A Greenpeace report released on Tuesday charged utilities with hampering efforts to use renewable energy to power data centers needed for services hosted in the cloud.

Greenpeace praised moves made by Apple, Google and other Internet titans to fill a skyrocketing demand for electricity with solar, wind or other environmentally-friendly sources but lamented expansion of data center capacity in places where utilities reliant on carbon-spewing coal fuel dominate markets.

"A growing number of companies have begun to create a corner of the Internet that is renewably powered and coal free," the report said in an executive summary.

A Greenpeace activist sets miniature

 windmills in front of Strasbourg's railway

 station during an action aimed at 

increasing public awareness of 

energetical transition on February 11,

2012 (AFP Photo/Frederick Florin)

Internet companies that have committed to being completely powered by renewable energy sources include Apple, Facebook, and Google, according to Greenpeace.

Those commitments have driven growth of renewable power in several key markets, and caused some utilities to invest more heavily in that kind of electricity generation to meet demand, the report stated.

However, some locations that have attracted data center investments are in markets ruled by utilities with generation powered mostly by coal, gases from which are a culprit in climate change.

Examples listed included Duke Energy in North Carolina, Dominion Resources in Virginia, and Taiwan Power Company in Taiwan.

"These utilities represent the biggest obstacles to building a green Internet, and will require collaborative pressure from data center operators and other electricity customers to secure the policy changes needed to open the market up to competitors that offer meaningful options for renewable energy," Greenpeace said.

Apple leads the charge

Apple continued to "lead the charge" in using clean energy to power Internet operations even as the California-based company rapidly expanded, according to the report.

Apple on Sunday announced broadened renewable energy and environmental protection initiatives in China, including a project with the World Wildlife Fund to promote responsible forest management.

The forestland project aims to protect up to a million acres of working forests used for fiber for paper and wood products, according to Apple.

The project is expected to generate as much as 80 million kilowatt hours annually of clean electricity, enough to power about 61,000 Chinese homes.

About 87 percent of Apple's global operations run on renewable energy, and the Sichuan Province solar farms will move the company closer to 100 percent, according to the maker of iPhones, iPads, iPods, Macintosh Computers, and Apple Watch.

Apple continues to "lead the charge" in using clean energy to power Internet 

operations even as the California-based company rapidly expanded, 

according to the report (AFP Photo/Philippe Huguen)

Google is also pushing to rely on renewable energy, but its progress is under threat by monopolies held by coal-using utilities in some data center locations such as Georgia, Singapore, Taiwan, and the Carolinas, according to Greenpeace.

Amazon, Microsoft, eBay, and Oracle were among technology giant's who scored low grades from Greenpeace when it came to green energy deployment and advocacy.

"The magic of the Internet seems almost limitless," Greenpeace said. "But each new internet enabled magic trick means more and more data."

Increasing demand for data, particularly streaming video, and processing power in the cloud means ramped up demand for power by data centers doing the online work.

"While there may be significant energy efficiency gains from moving our lives online, the explosive growth of our digital lives is outstripping those gains," Greenpeace said.

Pope says environmental sinners will answer to God

Yahoo – AFP, 12 May 2015

Pope Francis leads a mass in St Peter's Basilica before the opening of the
General Assembly of Caritas Internationalis on May 12, 2015 in the Vatican
(AFP Photo/Filippo Monteforte)

Vatican City (AFP) - Pope Francis on Tuesday warned "the powerful of the Earth" they will answer to God if they fail to protect the environment to ensure the world can feed its population.

"The planet has enough food for all, but it seems that there is a lack of willingness to share it with everyone," Francis said at a mass to mark the opening of the general assembly of the Catholic charitable organisation Caritas.

"We must do what we can so that everyone has something to eat, but we must also remind the powerful of the earth that God will call them to judgement one day and there it will be revealed if they really tried to provide food for Him in every person and if they did what they could to preserve the environment so that it could produce this food."

The striking comments from the Argentinian pontiff came ahead of the upcoming publication of a papal encyclical on the ethical aspects of environmental issues that is eagerly awaited by campaigners for action to address global warming.

An encyclical is a statement of fundamental principles designed to guide Catholic teaching on a subject. It is issued in the form of a letter from the pope to bishops around the world.

Campaigners on climate change believe that a signal from Francis that the Church considers global warming a grave danger could influence the global discussion on the severity of the problem, what has caused it and what can be done.

The pope is due to address the UN Special Summit on Sustainable Development in September and the international community will seek to agree a universal agreement on climate change at a summit in Paris in December.

Climate change sceptics have warned Francis not to take sides in the debate but all the signs so far are that he sees the problem as man-made and as one which can be alleviated by political action.

Caritas is a confederation of 165 Catholic charity and aid groups operating in 200 countries worldwide.

It holds a general assembly once every four years. This year's meeting, the first under Francis's papacy, runs to Saturday.

Manila archbishop Luis Antonio Tagle is tipped to take over from Hondurian cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga as the organisation's president, the latter cleric having served the maximum two terms.

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"Not Your Father's New Age" - Feb 14/15, 2015 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll) - (Text version)

".. Everything that has transpired during these years has been realized potential. That is to say that we see the potentials of what you might do, and report on that and only that. Much of what we see now is realized quickly. When we told you in 2012 there would be a new pope, 13 months later it happened. This was not prophecy, but rather a potential. We saw it coming because we have the overview and we knew of the anxiety of the existing pope, the health of the man, and we also knew of the potentials of a South American pope to come forward. All of these things should be a "connect the dots" for you. I come yet again, not with prophecy, but with information given with a congratulatory attitude of potential. ..."

CNOOC achieves breakthrough in oil-drilling technology

Want China Times, Staff Reporter 2015-05-06

A TV report on CNOOC's drilling technology, May 5. (Internet photo)

At 5:00am, May 4, operators on the Bohai No. 9 rig of China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) retrieved their drilling machine from a 3,000-meter well below sea-level well after 63 hours of operation, marking the successful debut of its Welleader rotating drill system and Drilog detecting system. This makes the company the fourth in the world and China the second nation after the US to own the two technologies at the same time, according to Guancha.com.

The technology will enable CNOOC to drill maritime cluster wells and explore complicated oil/gas strata, thereby completing fast and precision drilling operations which can slash maritime oil-exploration costs. Furnished with the technologies, drilling machines can advance in a slanting angle and directly reach oil/gas reserves several thousands meters deep. While the Welleader rotating drill system greatly boosts the drilling speed, the Drilog detecting system serves as eyes, guiding the drill to advance along a safe route. The two technologies brought in US$20 billion to the three companies owning them in 2014.

It took CNOOC six years to develop them.

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"A Summary" – Apr 2, 2011 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Religion, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Intelligent/Benevolent Design, EU, South America, 5 Currencies, Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Middle East, Internet, Israel, Dictators, Palestine, US, Japan (Quake/Tsunami Disasters , People, Society ...), Nuclear Power Revealed, Hydro Power, Geothermal Power, Moon, Financial Institutes (Recession, Realign integrity values ..) , China, North Korea, Global Unity,..... etc.) - (Text version)

“... Japan

Let us talk for a moment about Japan, and then I'll close the day of messages. There are thousands of souls on my side of the veil and they're just fine, more than fine. We have spoken so often of what happens at the Wind of Birth. I told you, before they even came in, they saw the potential. I looked in their eyes. "You may not last long. You know that, don't you? You're coming into this planet and you may not be here very long. And the passing that you will have with your family will not be pleasant, if any ever are. Why would you come in anyway?" I want to tell you what they said. When a soul has the mind of God, it understands fully what generates peace and what generates energy shift. You can clearly see what generates what the planet needs the most when you are about to arrive. So they said, "We're going to be part of one of the biggest compassion events the planet has ever seen." One earthquake, one tsunami. All of those who left that day will change the earth forever. And it already has. It was the same for the last tsunami as well.

Every single one of them on my side of the veil is getting ready to come back. Many old souls were involved, and just for a moment, if they could give you any information, if they could talk to you right now, if they could speak your language and look into your eyes, they would thank you for your compassion for them and those who are left. And they would say, "Be with those family members who are still alive. Enter their hearts every day and give them peace and keep them from crying, because we're OK."

Nuclear Power Revealed

So let me tell you what else they did. They just showed you what's wrong with nuclear power. "Safe to the maximum," they said. "Our devices are strong and cannot fail." But they did. They are no match for Gaia.

It seems that for more than 20 years, every single time we sit in the chair and speak of electric power, we tell you that hundreds of thousands of tons of push/pull energy on a regular schedule is available to you. It is moon-driven, forever. It can make all of the electricity for all of the cities on your planet, no matter how much you use. There's no environmental impact at all. Use the power of the tides, the oceans, the waves in clever ways. Use them in a bigger way than any designer has ever put together yet, to power your cities. The largest cities on your planet are on the coasts, and that's where the power source is. Hydro is the answer. It's not dangerous. You've ignored it because it seems harder to engineer and it's not in a controlled environment. Yet, you've chosen to build one of the most complex and dangerous steam engines on Earth - nuclear power.

We also have indicated that all you have to do is dig down deep enough and the planet will give you heat. It's right below the surface, not too far away all the time. You'll have a Gaia steam engine that way, too. There's no danger at all and you don't have to dig that far. All you have to do is heat fluid, and there are some fluids that boil far faster than water. So we say it again and again. Maybe this will show you what's wrong with what you've been doing, and this will turn the attitudes of your science to create something so beautiful and so powerful for your grandchildren. Why do you think you were given the moon? Now you know.

This benevolent Universe gave you an astral body that allows the waters in your ocean to push and pull and push on the most regular schedule of anything you know of. Yet there you sit enjoying just looking at it instead of using it. It could be enormous, free energy forever, ready to be converted when you design the methods of capturing it. It's time.

So in closing, do you understand what you're seeing? You're seeing intelligent design, quantum energy and high consciousness. You are seeing changes in Human nature. You're seeing countries putting things together instead of separating. You are seeing those who don't want war and instead want peace, good schools for their children, safety in their streets and a say in their government. We told you it was going to happen this way. I want my partner to teach these things that I have said in his 3D lectures for awhile. Many won't be able to know these things otherwise.  …”

Pakistan Inaugurates 100MW Desert Solar Plant

Naharnet Newsdesk, AFP, 5 May 2015

Pakistan on Tuesday inaugurated a 100 megawatt Chinese-built solar power plant, part of its efforts to battle its ever-increasing energy deficit.

The plant is the first stage of a project that will eventually cover over 10,000 acres (4,000 hectares) of the central Cholistan desert and add 1,000 megawatts to the nation's electric grid, making it one of the biggest solar parks in the world.

Pakistan faces an annual electricity shortfall of around 4,000 megawatts in the peak summer months of June and July when temperatures can reach 50 degrees Celsius (120 Fahrenheit) in the country's centre.

The inauguration, headed by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, comes weeks after Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Islamabad to unveil a $46 billion investment plan known as the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).

Speaking at the ceremony, Sharif said that a solution to the energy crisis would soon be at hand.

"Power cuts will be over by either 2017 or 2018 and the wheels of industry will start working," he said.

Pakistan has signed investment agreements with China to build various gas, coal and solar energy projects that will provide 16,400 megawatts of electricity, roughly equivalent to the country's entire current capacity.

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China's Xi launches $46 bn investment plan in Pakistan

Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) and Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif

address meet at the Prime Minister'sHouse in Islamabad, on April 20, (AFP Photo)

"This Is Not Your Father’s New Age" – (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll)

Kryon.com, February 14, 2015

This live channelling was Given in Atlanta, Georgia

Lee Carroll

To help the reader, this channelling has been revisited [by Lee and Kryon] to provide even clearer understanding. Sometime information is even added. Often what happens live has implied energy within it, which carries a kind of communication that the printed page does not. So enjoy this enhanced message given in Atlanta Georgia, February 14, 2015.

Greetings, dear ones, I am Kryon of Magnetic Service. Twenty-five years ago, I discussed with you what is happening now. Back then, it was only a potential, but now it's your reality. This was not prophecy when I told you back then that there would be no Armageddon or World War Three. It was not prophecy, but a powerful potential. The entire reason for my being and the awakening of my partner was because of what you did. The victory it contains falls in the lap of the old soul, who has controlled the consciousness of the timing of it all.

Everything that has transpired during these years has been realized potential. That is to say that we see the potentials of what you might do, and report on that and only that. Much of what we see now is realized quickly. When we told you in 2012 there would be a new pope, 13 months later it happened. This was not prophecy, but rather a potential. We saw it coming because we have the overview and we knew of the anxiety of the existing pope, the health of the man, and we also knew of the potentials of a South American pope to come forward. All of these things should be a "connect the dots" for you. I come yet again, not with prophecy, but with information given with a congratulatory attitude of potential.

A real "new energy" is here.

Twenty-five years ago, I would have loved to have given you this channel, but you weren't ready. Now you sit in the energy we had predicted back then and are wise to what has happened. Right now, if you could superimpose Human emotion upon the creative source, it would be the attributes of delight and adulation - perhaps even the word proud. Dear Human Being, this is not your father's new age. We celebrate you for coming to this place in time!

This is critical information we give now, because in an assemblage like this, the ones who are listening and reading are warriors of light and old souls. These terms describe a Human Being who has been through history and has embraced esoteric belief for dozens of lifetimes. Many of you have awakened in this life to innate wisdom of spirituality. You have fought the battles of the old energy as a Lightworker many times, and you have become used to the way things work in an older energy. For thousands of years, the planet has not changed all that much, so you might have been involved in the same kind of dark-light battles over and over and, therefore, etched into your Akash are what we would call the spiritual rules of existence. However, now they're changing. So this message is for Lightworkers and old souls, and it includes some attributes we have talked about in the past, and also some new ones. Tonight we bring you some positive things that you need to know in this energy and some attributes that some would call admonitions of how to work in the new energy.

We started this conversation last week in the city you call Austin [Texas],* so let us begin from there. Dear ones, this new energy is a phrase you have heard for years. You were told, "The new age is upon you, and the new energy is arriving." Dear ones, it has arrived! Now it's starting to plant its seeds, and the attributes are very different from what you have experienced while you were waiting for it. You should know that shamanic energies in the old souls who are listening and reading are going to find some of these things difficult, even controversial. This is because they go against the spiritual habits experienced in the past, which worked and which were correct and proper for many. So let us begin where we left off.

Dear ones, please acknowledge the idea that when you graduate from one energy level to another, the lessons are learned, and the processes are then changed and advanced to a new level. It would be foolish for you to carry the same old lessons you completed from the past into the future. Yet many of you are trying to do that very same thing right now.

Review from Austin

Number one is a review. We told you that your light quotient, a metaphor for your awareness and your wise consciousness, is at a higher and lighter energy than it ever has been before. This is possible because of the predicted and positive changes we told you were coming [within all the Kryon books], including the realignment of the magnetic grid (2002) and other esoteric grids on the planet. Many very new tools are upon you and new ways of working this puzzle are waiting to be discovered.

Dear ones, if you go into these new energies with an old procedure, you're going to be disappointed. Last week in Austin, we started this premise: You now carry so much light, that you can stop dealing with negativity in the old way. You no longer have to consider what you might call clearing dark energies in the room or around you. This is hard for you to consider, since many of you do this automatically! Let me remind you of what was needed in an older energy. Prior to a meeting or a meditation, you might need to clear the energy of negativity. You would smudge the area, pray over it, and put light into it. If you found a negative person or anything that you thought would interrupt the flow of purity of love, you might even stop and work with that one silently until you got results. You would have your own way of creating the light you needed and clearing the darkness that you knew was there. Now we are saying change this. Why? Can't you feel why? This is the real question. Are you not aware that things are different? Don't continue to use your umbrella when the sun has come out! Understand you have changed the energy of everything around you.

In this newly provided energy, you are carrying so much light that your presence in the room won't allow darkness. Period! This is energy that finally knows who you are! Your presence alone is enough to clear it. Think about it. Your light is so great that it will permeate everything. Don't you feel it? Now, this is new, so you need to hear it in context with the actions of a new-age, esoteric person. Darkness will run from you!

Some of you love to do ceremony, which looks like clearing. Go ahead, but know that it's not necessary to clear, since you are there and your presence alone has done it. So instead, think of it as "patterning". Instead of clearing the negative, put into the room the new pattern of energy that you wish to create. Now, again this is controversial because you might say, “Look at all of those people who might be negative in a place like this. Think of all the meetings in the past that have been held in a place like this. We must clear this past energy which has attached itself to the area.” And we say, “No you don't. Not anymore.” If a master walked into this room, would you stop and clear it? The answer is no. The master clears it! You understand? This is the lineage that is yours and that you worked for. Claim it. Go for it. You don't have to clear it. That is what we said on a Sunday one week ago in Austin [Texas].*

For the Healer - New Energies

Number two: Tonight is going to be for the healer. There are many listening to my voice now and reading later. Healer, what is the process you are used to? If you did clearing before, you don't have to now. Get used to it. Your presence, next to the one on the table or the chair, is enough to chase away all negativity. Now, the one in the chair may have fear, but it doesn't affect you anymore. You don't have to put on esoteric armor of any kind to shield you from your clients. This is new. You carry a countenance that is so grand and so beautiful and pure that nothing is going to get through. Nothing! I just wanted you to know this. Again, did the masters go through clearing ceremonies before performing their miracles? No!

Now, as normal, your clients can indeed create their own negativity, their own unbelief and their own fear. That's not going to change. But how they affect you already has. Now, here is something we have not said before. There is an evolutionary process going on with Human consciousness that literally affects many Human Beings in ways they are not aware of. We have spoken of the innate before.** This is the spiritual smart body, the part of the body you muscle-test to communicate. However, innate is beginning to change.

Listen, if the Human Being, through free choice, has decided not to build a conscious bridge to innate and knows nothing about it, that's his/her own issue. But innate is changing in all Humans regardless, not just Lightworkers. That is to say that spiritual awareness will become a higher vibration instantly, if a person wants it. Humans may go all their lives without ever acknowledging their innate, and this is their free choice. But should they look, or try to build the bridge to innate, the energy will be higher than the time you did it! Again, this is total free choice. But more are being naturally led to question their existence.

Now let me tell you what this means and what to look for. Dear Human healer, you stand or sit in front of your client, and they may be the strongest unbeliever there is, but their innate is still active - even if they don't know it. Your gift as a healer is to facilitate the "energy of self-healing". Even this is starting to change, for you are now posturing them to get in touch with their own innate. This is what helps them to heal themselves. You are going to start seeing certain things almost instantly that you have not seen before. One of them is a natural interest in the esoterics of life, the beginning of the question, "Who am I?"

Now, in order to make this process go even faster, I wish to give you a procedure that many of you are already doing intuitively. I want you to have the person on your table or chair, shut their eyes for a moment and answer one question. Have the person answer out loud. Some of you already know the question. You're going to ask this: “Do you give permission for the healing?” They must answer verbally, and a nod is not good enough. If they answer with pure intent and not just "go with the flow", their innate has permission to talk to you. This is where profound healing is going to start to occur. You will be astonished at how well this works in this new energy, and how your ability as a healer is increased! Dear Human Being, your light will not let negativity occur in your session. Get rid of the idea that you have to protect yourself. Not anymore. Your light is pushing out to such a degree that it won't be necessary. That's for the healers, all of you, for anyone who is doing any healing work at all can have this happen. Remember this question in your sessions.

The New "Listening" Body

Number three: There'll never be a time in Human history that is more profound than this one, when it comes to how the body is listening to what you are saying. There is a process, and always has been, where the cells of the body are on alert to what the boss - you - wants. For years, we have been asking you to talk to your body, talk to your cellular structure. Now we're going to tell you that it's listening, even when you don't realize what you're automatically saying! It's now listening 24-7. So what are you saying to it?

This is now a time where negative dialogue will have more personal influence on you than ever before. Think about what you are saying in life as you move around socially. What is your attitude when you say it, and how often do you say it? Your body is listening. Dear Lightworker, part of your spiritual evolution is that the body, the innate, is now aware of everything. Now, you may say, “Well, that's nice.” It's more than nice; it's profound! If you don't listen to this and understand it, you will keep you aging in the same old way you have. This is why we have spoken of affirmations more than ever before. This is far more than just positive thinking. Every time you open your mouth, you have the potential to give instructions to your body, and it listens to you when you talk to it. Unfortunately, your habits are to tell your body that you are unworthy!

I want you to think about what you're saying. When somebody asks you about your health, about your spirituality, about your intent, or about your aging, do you say the words, “I am working on it. I am trying”? The result is the cells of your body say, "Well, she's working on it - she is trying," but (implied), "She doesn't have it yet." I want you to listen to yourself when you talk. Are you giving "less than" messages to your own body?

Perhaps I've said enough, but almost every single one of you comes from a culture that is proud of demeaning itself in some way. It's an old habit from old ways that are supposed to represent a gracious countenance. Someone wants to give you a gift or celebrate your birthday. How many of you automatically say, "You shouldn't have"? Do you realize that your actions and words are saying, “I don't deserve it" to your own innate? Your actions say, “I am unworthy.” Don't you think your body hears this or sees it? It does. It is time to get out of the unworthy closet, Lightworker! You are alive with God inside! Don't be afraid or ashamed to proclaim, “I am healthy, I am healed, I am youthing, I am in charge of the situation.” Not, “I'm working on it” or, “I'm trying.” That tells your body that it may happen someday, but not today. That's the difference. “I am worthy of happiness. I am worthy of a peaceful situation in my life. I am worthy of a solution in my life.”

When someone wants to give you a gift or celebrate your birthday, automatically say, "Thank you for this wonderful gift!" Your innate will hear, "I am worthy of this gift of appreciation from others." Then love them for it.

The Changing of Meditation and Other Spiritual Attributes

Number four: Meditation. It's changing. First, there will start to appear younger specialists who society doesn't feel are old enough to be shamanic. However, their Akash is, since they are remembering. They are awakening to times when they did this all the time. Therefore, the number of years you have been on Earth in this life will become secondary to the number of lifetimes you have on Earth. You must be able to see and discern this. So the first thing is this: No longer assign eldership attributes to the old. Assign them to the wise.

But the main change is how you see meditation and the "rules" of it. Meditation is going to start departing from the old rules of who, how and how much. Dear ones, with this new amount of light that you carry and with your busy schedules, just being in Spirit every single day is a meditation. It's hard for you to measure this, since it's no longer a linear 3D clock issue. It's a multidimensional communication issue.

Not all of you are supposed to do the same thing with meditation. Is this a shock? The esoteric belief system that you have is not one thing for everyone. It is not generic. It honors the individual's life path. You are becoming specialists in spirituality because your Akash is starting to come alive. How old you are on Earth, where you came from and what you did will guide what you do in this life to a greater degree than ever before. There will be many young people who will come alive with meditation. Watch for this. They will do it for hours, and it may not be your way. You might say that they're carrying the meditative load for you.

This is new on the planet and it's especially new as many of the young people will feel it first. Expect that even they will not agree among themselves on how to do it. It's a new energy for them and their peers. One will do it differently than another. But many will be meditation warriors, with a big M on their chests. [smile] Some of you will see it and you will shake your head and say, “That isn't for me,” and Spirit will be on your shoulder saying, “Thank you for seeing this, old wise person.” It's for them. What we have for you instead is compassionate living, walking day by day in difficult situations, and creating a passionate countenance with compassion with lack of anger. This is practical and represents all the things we've talked about for a very old, advanced soul. The work that you're going to be doing will be different from theirs. They are "beginning old souls" and now we're getting into specialization. Don't be surprised when basic spiritual work is not the same for everyone. Does it make sense that you are vastly different in your life's path? Then honor that premise with no "common doctrine for all". There is no "right and wrong" for meditation. It's what feels correct for your life and your life's work.

Dear ones, some of you are shaking your heads and saying, “Well, does that mean we are not supposed to meditate?” How linear can you get? I want you to be comfortable. I want you to understand this. Human Beings want higher authority to tell them what to do and how to do it. That is starting to change. Can't you feel it? Get out of the mold of looking for validation from a higher authority. The greatest authority is the creative seed in YOU. Your intuition is going to give you the answer to the most demanding questions of life.

Your intuition will tell you how long to meditate, if at all, and what to do when you do it. You don't have to turn to somebody and say, “Is this okay?” or "Is there a book?" Those days are over. Dear ones, yes there will be leaders in the esoteric community, but they are advisors in wisdom and not spiritual dictators. Let them lead with their love and compassion, not with information and rules on how you are supposed to live your life. Let them lead with examples of how empowered you are, and not with rules or what to do or how to do it, or a doctrine that is the same for everyone. Let the "what, why, how much and when" come from the creative source inside you. If you can do this, you'll be right for the attributes in life that are just for you, not the masses. That leads us to number five.

Change - Not That Comfortable

Number Five: In basic numerology, the number five represents change. I want you to acknowledge, be comfortable with, and accept change that is chemical in your body. I want you to honor, acknowledge, and accept change that is psychological in your body. Your Akash is going to start delivering to you some very different and wise information as your vibration starts to increase. You're going to find that who you thought you were may change. Habits, good and bad, may drop away. Good and bad. In the process, the Human Being may go into fear. Isn't that interesting? Why would change in a new energy for old souls cause fear?

Every single time there's a shift in what people are used to, Humans get afraid. So we are asking for a change in perception and a wise rewrite in Human nature. I would like you to start welcoming change in your life and see it in a positive way. No matter what. This will realign you to the energy of a new earth so you can survive and stay alive! This is how important it is.

You're going to get new habits, perceived as good and bad, and they are going to come right out of your increasingly active Akash. Many will worry about it and say, “Now where did that come from?”  You're going to love the good ones and question the others. Now, the good ones may come in ways that drop old, bad habits and cravings, and also greatly affect what you want to eat. A major change in diet may shock and surprise you, and you can lose weight or gain weight as desired. Whatever you've asked for which is most healthy for your body will seem to be "taking over" your cells.

The Akash is starting to align itself with "multiple cultural lifetime events". This term represents how many lifetimes you have been in a culture where you ate or lived a certain way. This becomes the chemistry that your body wants now. How about that? This would be instead of fast food or normal food shopping. How about that? So, how many of you are going to go with it or go into fear with it? What I want you to do is relax and let Spirit start to build the new Human within you. Do you know what we have called this? It's a process nobody expected: Ascension while alive. This is you passing into the next energy while you're alive - a process that took reincarnation before. Are you hearing what I'm saying? In the past you had to die, come back, and realign in order to do what now we are saying you can do while you sit there. That is, if you won't be afraid of it.

You're innate has got to be reprogrammed. We told you this before and now you're doing it through affirmations, positive thoughts and by the actions you are now changing [compassionate action]. Innate is used to an old idea that reincarnation is the engine for enlightenment. You must die and come back in order to take advantage of what you learned, but now you don't. This is new. We gave you a channelling before that spoke about it.**

I want you to think of it this way. How many of you have felt like you have been in trouble for the last couple of years? This varies from life threatening to uncomfortable spiritual changes to feeling different. I want you now to have the fortitude to celebrate the problems! You've just been realigned, dear Human Being. Maybe you've been realigned and you're picking up things from the past that will make you healthier and live longer. What if you spent hundreds of years in a culture and only a few years in this one? Don't you think your cellular structure wants the most comfortable attributes - the old foods more? If you say yes, you're going to see chemical changes in your body to accommodate the new Human. This is a Human who has the Akash starting to be felt. Spiritual evolution has begun.

These are changes that no medicine would be able to accomplish. It has to do with basic health. What's in your blood? Have you had a blood test lately? You're going to find that even that may have changed. Oh, your blood type hasn't changed, but the balance of other attributes did because of what you're eating.

Now here's what I want to tell you about these things that is important. If these things are too large, some of you are feeling them profoundly and you're worried about them. What have I told you about fear? Fear stops light. Do you really want to stop this process of change? It's everything you have lived for, and it's happening because you are alive in these new times.  If you wish to continue, the answer, dear ones, is stop fearing the light that is you. Understand that an energy that you didn't expect is here. That was number five.

The Time Capsules and Planetary Evolution

Number six: Six is a divine number. It refers to the Higher-Self and many other attributes that speak of a spiritual system with appropriateness and compassion. The time capsules of this planet are opening and starting to deliver to you a great amount of fast-tracking energy of spiritual evolution that can't be explained yet. If you ask, "What are they?" The answer is, "Yes." We have spoken of this before as well.***

Dear ones, the wisdom of the ancients told you that you cannot as yet define the master number 44 in numerology and master numbers beyond it. The reason is because you do not have the consciousness yet to understand what they are. You don't know what you don't know. If you can accept this, and can understand that there are things not yet knowable, then you're going to be fine with number six.

The time capsules from the ancient ones who seeded you are opening because you passed the marker of 2012. They pour their multidimensional attributes into the grids of the planet [the Magnetic Grid - Crystalline Grid - Gaia Grid]. They pour new energy of life through fast-track evolution. All this is picked up first by the old soul, and the things that I have covered - one through five - are facilitated by that. They are catalytic energies that you don't know about yet, which will eventually be responsible for evolved thought and increased wisdom. Years from now you will even have names for them in psychology.

These things all have to do with common sense and wisdom. However, more than that, a kind of knowing will start to occur that eventually humanity will accept as "the way of it", and they will call it new Human nature. Compassion will increase and change what the public wants to watch in movies, television and on the Internet. Increased wisdom will slowly show itself. The propensity for maturity and peace on Earth has begun. As described before, the old energy of the planet will fight it to the end, trying to keep the old ways alive. The old ways will lose, and old energy will not reincarnate as old. Slowly, it will be eliminated, just like grade school was eliminated from your personal life as you moved on.

The propensity for health and long life will blossom, and much will be revealed and changed to allow this. Spiritual awareness for the masses will come much later, as common sense of the Human race begins to "connect the dots". I told you this would be difficult, since many of you have seen the future as some kind of spiritual explosion. It won't be. It will be a common sense slow awareness change that will lead to other awareness. This is the way it works.

An energy that goes around the planet will eventually become how you think and will change humanity to a lighter, higher vibrating group of souls. In the process, poverty and disease will diminish, social issues will become more balanced, tolerance will be at a new higher level, and new invention will make survival much easier. None of this will have anything to do with perceived spirituality. Not yet.

So, here will sit the atheist and the agnostic who will know about longer life, peace on Earth and compassion. Yet they won't associate it with anything from the "outside". This is because, for them, it will be intellectual, intuitive and the way it is. They will call it new advanced Human nature, and they won't know where it came from. Not yet. The intellectuals will look back on history and say we had the barbaric age until 2012, when Humans started to become wiser. In 100 years, you'll look back and see a humanity that was far, far different and far more violent. Sociologists will add a new level of growth to their chart, for it will signal a change in thinking that hadn't ever been seen before. It will be seen as the end of Human immaturity and the beginning of a wiser humanity. But for a long time, there will be no consensus on "God inside". Instead, there will be more tolerance between belief systems.

But you and I will know the reason for the changes. The time capsules are opening and they are pouring to you the energy of a catalytic realignment of consciousness. It comes from your seed parents the Pleiadians, who have love for you beyond measure, like a parent would have for a child, but vastly different. The pride they have of you passing the marker, watching you go through the gyrations of dark and light, is familiar. For it's what they did. They have watched how you deal with that which is still dark on your planet, and how much your heart hurts at what you see and the death that is there. They are silent, for free choice is yours alone on how fast to change the planet, and you are working the puzzle, as they did.

The knowingness that all things recycle, and the appropriateness of lessons learned, will give you greater wisdom. All of this is pouring into the grids right now. It's hard to talk about this because you don't know what you don't know. Your seed parents have seen it and they know where it is going, and they're breathless, watching you open the door to what they also experienced.

This is going to take a while, but you opened the door, and as time goes on, you're going to have a revelation of what it's all about. You wonder why I am Kryon, in love with humanity? I just told you, because I've seen it before. So have the others - Orion, Arcturian and other names that you've heard before. They have all been through it; all watching you now; all celebrating your life right now. Some of you will understand and know I'm right, and others will walk out tonight, or get up from their chairs, and have this information barely perceived or not at all. That's free choice and it's honored; it's honored so much, for all of you. There is no judgment from Spirit. If you walk away and you think this was a nice meeting and nothing more, you have the same number of angelic beings walking out the door with you that the healer for centuries does, or that the shaman does. Each Human is created equal. This means that all of you have the same spiritual potential - the realization of Creator inside. That is the message for the day. Oh, Human Being, this is not your father's new age. It's your new age.

KRYON

* "The Way of it!" - Feb 7/8, 2015 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll)

** "The Innate Revealed" - Nov 22/23, 2014 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll) - (Text version)

*** THE NODES AND NULLS OF EARTH part 1 – (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll)
     THE NODES AND NULLS OF EARTH part 2 – (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll)

Agricultural microbiology draws Chinese researchers to Argentina

Want China Times, Xinhua 2015-05-02

An organic experimental farm using agricultural microbiological
technology in Beijing, Oct. 27, 2013. (File photo/CNS)

Microbiology applied to agricultural products is connecting China with Argentina, two emerging markets with complementary economies and strategic partners looking to increase bilateral exchanges.

Among the many links between Beijing and Buenos Aires, Argentine firm Rizobacter stands out. The company, which uses microbiology to boost soy output while cutting production costs, has been in business for 38 years and reports an annual turnover of US$100 million, 20% from exports.

In December, a delegation of the Academy of Sciences from China's Heilongjiang province visited the firm in Pergamino, a city located 180 km northeast of the capital Buenos Aires.

The delegation came to explore the possibility of signing an agreement for joint research and development of microbiological technologies, to improve Chinese soil and output.

"We are here to visit and get to know the Rizobacter plant," said Wang Gang, vice president of the academy.

"We are very interested in getting to know the technology being developed by this company and all of the efforts on the production of soybean, mainly related to soybeans and rhizobia," Wang added.

The Argentine company "sends products to countries like Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, the US, Canada, Germany, Turkey, Ukraine, Russia and China, and has 400 employees. It is a very technological and professional company," Rizobacter CEO Ricardo Yapur said in an interview with Xinhua.

Rizobacter produces microbial, or soil, inoculants that are used to boost soybean production. The inoculants are applied to the seeds so when they germinate they can better absorb nitrogen in the air.

The method is not only highly sustainable, because unlike chemical fertilizers, it doesn't pollute the air, water or soil, and it's also cost effective, said Yapur.

The microbe costs between US$5 and US$10 per hectare, in contrast to urea fertilizer, which requires high pressure and temperatures to function, requiring burning petroleum, and costs US$150 dollars per hectare, said Yapur.

"This technology has been fully adopted in Argentina, where 90% of producers use inoculants, because the technology and the data shows it binds enough nitrogen to produce good results," he said, adding "it increases output by about 150 kg of soy."

At its plant, the company has the ability to carry out tests, quality control, and strain selection, and to experiment with different factors, such as temperature and light.

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Tesla announces low-cost batteries for homes

Elon Musk claims at launch that two billion large batteries could provide enough electricity to meet the world’s needs

The Guardian, Michael Safi, Friday 1 May 2015

Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla Motors, announces the company’s 

entry into the energy market

The electric car company Tesla has announced its entry into the energy market, unveiling a suite of low-cost solar batteries for homes, businesses and utilities, “the missing piece”, it said, in the transition to a sustainable energy world.

The batteries, which will retail at $3,500 in the US, were launched on Thursday at a Tesla facility in California by the company’s ambitious founder, Elon Musk, who heralded the technology as “a fundamental transformation [in] how energy is delivered across the earth”.

Wall-mounted, with a sleek design, the lithium-ion batteries are designed to capture and store up to 10kWh of energy from wind or solar panel. The reserves can be drawn on when sunlight is low, during grid outages, or at peak demand times, when electricity costs are highest.

The smallest “Powerwall” is 1.3m by 68cm, small enough to be hung inside a garage on or an outside wall. Up to eight batteries can be “stacked” in a home, Musk said, to applause from investors and journalists at the much-anticipated event.

The batteries will initially be manufactured at the electric car company’s factory in California, but will move production to its planned “gigafactory” in Nevada when it opens in 2017.

The Nevada facility will be the largest producer of lithium-ion batteries in the world, and it is hoped its mass-production scale will help to bring down costs even further.

It is not the only battery storage system on the market, but the Powerwall boasts a relatively high storage capacity, a competitive price, and the heft of investment and excitement generated by Musk’s vision.

The entrepreneur, who helped to invent the online payment system, PayPal, has also founded a private space company, Space X, and is experimenting with a high-speed public transportation system called Hyperloop.

Musk also unveiled a larger “Powerpack”, a 100kWh battery block to help utilities smooth out their supply of wind and solar energy - which is generated intermittently - or to pump energy into the grid when demand soars.

He said on Thursday about two billion Powerpacks could store enough electricity to meet the entire world’s needs. “That may seem like an insane number,” he said. “But this is actually within the power of humanity to do.”

Deutsche Bank estimates sales of battery storage systems for homes and businesses could yield as much as $4.5bn in revenue for Tesla. The energy storage industry is expected to grow to $19bn by 2017, according to research firm IHS CERA.

Tesla is currently taking orders for the systems, with the first units expected to shift in August.

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"2013 - What Now ?" – Jan 6, 2013 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Caroll) - (Text version)

“… New ideas are things you never thought of. These ideas will be given to you so you will have answers to the most profound questions that your societies have had since you were born. Inventions will bring clean water to every Human on the planet, cheaply and everywhere. Inventions will give you power, cheaply and everywhere. These ideas will wipe out all of the reasons you now have for pollution, and when you look back on it, you'll go, "This solution was always there. Why didn't we think of that? Why didn't we do this sooner?" Because it wasn't time and you were not ready. You hadn't planted the seeds and you were still battling the old energy, deciding whether you were going to terminate yourselves before 2012. Now you didn't…. and now you didn't.

It's funny, what you ponder about, and what your sociologists consider the "great current problems of mankind", for your new ideas will simply eliminate the very concepts of the questions just as they did in the past. Do you remember? Two hundred years ago, the predictions of sociologists said that you would run out of food, since there wasn't enough land to sustain a greater population. Then you discovered crop rotation and fertilizer. Suddenly, each plot of land could produce many times what it could before. Do you remember the predictions that you would run out of wood to heat your homes? Probably not. That was before electricity. It goes on and on.

So today's puzzles are just as quaint, as you will see. (1) How do you strengthen the power grids of your great nations so that they are not vulnerable to failure or don't require massive infrastructure improvement expenditures? Because cold is coming, and you are going to need more power. (2) What can you do about pollution? (3) What about world overpopulation? Some experts will tell you that a pandemic will be the answer; nature [Gaia] will kill off about one-third of the earth's population. The best minds of the century ponder these puzzles and tell you that you are headed for real problems. You have heard these things all your life.

Let me ask you this. (1) What if you could eliminate the power grid altogether? You can and will. (2) What if pollution-creating sources simply go away, due to new ideas and invention, and the environment starts to self-correct? (3) Overpopulation? You assume that humanity will continue to have children at an exponential rate since they are stupid and can't help themselves. This, dear ones, is a consciousness and education issue, and that is going to change. Imagine a zero growth attribute of many countries - something that will be common. Did you notice that some of your children today are actually starting to ponder if they should have any children at all? What a concept! ….”

Church of England ends investments in heavily polluting fossil fuels

Move by church’s £9bn fund to divest £12m from tar sands oil and thermal coal reflects more interventionist stance and sets lead for other institutional investors

The Guardian, Adam Vaughan, Thursday 30 April 2015

Mining lorries carry loads of tar sands in Alberta, Canada. One climate scientist
warned that it would be “game over” for efforts to stop global warming if
Canada’s tar sands were fully exploited. Photograph: Jeff Mcintosh/AP

The Church of England has pulled its money out of two of the most polluting fossil fuels as part of what it called its moral responsibility to protect the world’s poor from the impact of global warming.

In a move approved by the church’s board on Thursday, it divested £12m from tar sands oil and thermal coal – the first time it has ever imposed investment restrictions because of climate change.

The church’s huge £9bn investment fund and leadership on climate change has made it the target of a global campaign calling for organisations to divest from fossil fuel companies. Campaigners hailed the move, which they said in effect “read the last rites” to the two industries.

“This policy is sending a very clear signal about the church’s investments,” said Edward Mason, head of responsible investment for the Church Commissioners. “[This] is a really comprehensive policy, which aspires to put the church at the forefront of institutional investors, highlighting the urgency of the transition to a low-carbon economy and playing our part as investors in that.”

The CoE’s climate-change policy has been in place since 2008 but the new policy, the result of a two-year review, marks a much bolder and more interventionist stance by the church.

It has now divested and ruled out future investments in any company that makes more than 10% of its revenues from thermal coal – used for electricity generation – and oil from the tar sands. One leading climate scientist, Prof James Hansen, has warned that it would be “game over” for efforts to stop dangerous global warming if Canada’s tar sands, the world’s third biggest oil reserve, are fully exploited.

The church argued that it had not been minded to divest from all fossil fuels as some campaigners had wanted, because engagement with some oil and gas companies produced results, such as the adoption of a church-led resolution on climate change by BP at its annual meeting earlier this month.

“Companies like the oil and gas majors are significant players in the business world and political world, and we’d like them to be part of a constructive call for the transition to the low-carbon economy,” said Mason. The church has about £101m invested in Shell and £91.9m in BP.

But the church made clear that it would divest when engagement did not work.

“Engagement is something that we will be looking to demonstrate success. If engagement with companies isn’t productive, the policy does make clear divestment is there as a last resort,” Mason said.

Rev Canon Prof Richard Burridge, deputy chair of the ethical investment advisory group that undertook the review, said: “The church has a moral responsibility to speak and act on both environmental stewardship and justice for the world’s poor who are most vulnerable to climate change.”

Christine Allen, director of policy and public affairs at the development charity Christian Aid, said she welcomed the move but hoped the church would address its investments in other fossil fuels in the future. “The Church of England has effectively read the last rites to the coal and tar sands industry. The message must be heard loud and clear: they have no place in a sustainable future, and ultimately other fossil fuels don’t either,” she said.

Bill McKibben, a prominent environmentalist who has previously chastised the CoE for dragging its feet and not heeding calls by the Anglican archbishop emeritus Desmond Tutu that organisations divest, applauded the new policy.

“This is the first great turnaround in the divestment fight, an institution which initially refused to move and then, in good Christian fashion, saw the light.

“Much credit to the CoE – they’re studying the signs of the times, as the good book says, and starting to show their concern for the poorest and most vulnerable parts of humanity and of creation,” he said.

The Guardian is currently running its own climate change campaign, calling on the Wellcome Trust and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to divest from fossil fuels.