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Our Tea community member Fionn speaks about tea saying, "In addition to the benefits of the ceremony, which helps us to relax, enjoy life, calm down, become more aware and conscious, and connect with our friends, the tea itself is a powerful plant spirit medicine. Although all tea comes from the same species, each tea has a unique energetic vibration, which lends itself to different feelings when consumed. According to Chinese medicine theory, tea opens our meridians, which are the pathways of Qi, or consciousness in the form of energy. When your meridians are open, you are more at one with the universe, vibrantly healthy. When they are closed, you might feel more constricted, separate, and sluggish. Drinking tea regularly helps us to connect with the universe, as well as providing many valuable health benefits."
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Until now, rain forests and the life within it has gone on uninterrupted for centuries, but our planet now under threat because of the invasion of these ancient rain forests by logging companies, mining operations and ranchers looking to make a quick profit by exploiting the natural resources to be found in the rain forests around the world. When you think of endangered species, you tend to think of animals or plants..... Bioverde has identified some urban youth who make music that brings attention to these BIG issues, and so we present their musci video to help people recognize that the youth care about what is happening. The job of Bioverde has been to provide some solutions. Your job is to get involved, even if only by sourcing tea or food. Help us work with tea as a way to educate people about what is happening, what we can do about it and why it is so important to keep the ability to share loose tea in your community. We need to not only keep it but grow it, giving people an opportunity to learn about how conscious sourcing, of even what you may think of as the smallest thing (like tea) is a big deal and can go a long way when dedicated to the preservation of the planet. Soft drinks and energy drinks are not only the first things to go when awakening to a healing with whole foods diet, but they are directly responsible for much of the rain forest destruction because the ancient forests are being cut down to grow ingredients which are put into those marketing scam drinks. If the youth deep within our urban environments can care so much about the rain forests that they can make songs about why enough is enough (FROM THE ANIMALS POINT OF VIEW), we should be able to back them up by caring about what we offer ourselves, our yoga studio clients, and the guests in our very own homes.
Please watch the video called Animal Crackers and then think about taking one small step towards rain forest rescue by sourcing teas that will protect our planet as well as serve as a healthy sublimation to sugar sodas and energy drinks. Charles Townshend was the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the British Parliament prior to the Revolutionary War. He authored the Townshend Acts of 1767, imposing a tax on colonial tea imports, among other items. Outcry began in the colonies and many taxes were repealed. However the Tea Act was upheld, essentially giving a monopoly on the sale of tea in the colonies to the despised East India Trading Company.
This led to widespread boycotts and ultimately The Boston Tea Party, in which the Sons of Liberty, led by Samuel Adams, tried poorly to disguise themselves as Native Americans, but succeeded in dumping 342 chests of perfectly delicious tea (worth £18,000 in 1767) into Boston Bay. This lead to anti-tea sentiment and sowed the seeds of a coffee culture.
The man responsible for tea’s underdog status is America has become the name of a tea house in Portland Or, and there you can find tea sparking an exploration into kombucha. Handcrafted in small batches, their heart and soul goes into each bottle and it shows. Delicious kombucha, made locally with organic ingredients.
Current flavors are: Nutritonic, Superberry, White Rose and Clear Mind.
We believe tea invites creativity, and Bioverde would like to be your source for tea. We would like to support your creativity, and feel that we are all part of a community of solution makers! If you have started to ejoy tea drinking enough to look into creative tea sharing events, if you are hosting a tea tasting, or if you are exploring the brew master within as someone interested in making your own Kombucha, please contact us. We would love to hear your stories, connect you to artists, and tea monks, as well as help you select tea that will take your projects forward. We have a network of network of artists who can enhance your events, forums you can share ideas in, and people who are here to support your efforts with information and research that keeps things healthy! Visit our Yoga Teacher Dezengo to learn more about why we have made kombucha our energy drink of choice!
Many artists, including music and fiber artists, people who skateboard and others are working hard to keep their mediums pure and free of exploitation by corporations that often try to use them to sell and market things that are no so good for environment. Tea becomes a chance for us to build community, it offers people alternatives as well as opportunities to be a positive influence on the youth.
Do you want your kids skateboarding at a local skate contest produced by corporations that destory the environment? or would you like to see the children producing their own contents in ways that support mom and pop shops, lead by people who expand events into activities that invite healthy living and thinking?
The world of tea is vast, and our rain forests are shrinking. Tea invites us into opportunities of sharing in more mindful ways, it invites us into a world of health, blending, a world of knowing your local monk who travels to distant lands returning with the most rare of selection, or his gardener who hand rolls everything as an ancient craft.
Become involved, one cup at a time, and be creative with us.
Lets recognize each others practices and purposes; crafts and skills are us!
Big thanks to the producers of Animal Crackers!
Thank you for reminding us about our interconnection and oneness and so that we have a chance at reorienting ourselves as we live on this planet! http://viewonbuddhism.org/karma.html
WHAT DECIDES THE SEVERITY OF THE RESULTS?
The severity of the results of our actions depends on various factors:
- Our intention or motivation - the intention is the most important aspect by far, as karma is mainly connected to the intention of the action, be it positive or negative.
- The nature of the action: obviously, gossiping is less severe than killing.
- The actual deed: whether we kill in self-defence or sadistically torture someone to death does make a difference, usually this directly related to intention.
- The basis or object: it does make a difference whether we kill our mother or an ant.
- Repetition; how often do we repeat the action, which reinforces the habit, and makes even killing feel less negative.
- Doing the reverse: if we always behave negatively to others and never try to do any good, consequences will be severe.
How we experience the result of an actions does depend on our other actions in life. For example, if we experience the result of being hungry for a day, there is a huge difference whether we experience this as a malnourished person in a hopeless situation, or as a healthy fast for an obese person.
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Rainforest Rescue International
Working for a sustainably managed world
Rainforest Rescue International protects vulnerable environments through ecosystem restoration, development of sustainable livelihoods, education, research and advocacy.
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Our livelihood programmes aim to create a strong link between communities and their environment. Through ongoing community training and support in organic and sustainable farming, we empower people to generate alternative incomes while protecting and restoring native biodiversity.
We also support our communities to access local and international organic markets by giving marketing training and looking for sales opportunities for theirs, and our, products.
Sri Lanka is famous for its tea, but unsustainable farming practices in both small-holdings and large plantations has seen a dramatic degradation in the quality of water and soil – leading to a loss of biodiversity as well as a loss in income for farmers dependent on the tea sector.
In a holistic programme with a number of partners, we are working to increase farmer’s incomes and protect and restore biodiversity.
The different project threads include:
Conversion to organic agriculture
In a Private Public Partnership (PPP) with the Dutch government and Both Ends, we are working with small holder farmers in Baddegama and the Calsey Tea Estate community in Nuwara Eliya to convert their lands over to organic. This will not only give them a higher value product, but will also increase quality of life by improving the local environment through a reduction in chemical pollution and an increase in biodiversity.
Income diversification
As part of the PPP project in Baddegama, we are promoting a range livelihood opportunities, to help stabilise farmer incomes in times of fluctuating markets. As well as organic tea, strategies include:
Provision of cows, whose milk can be used
to supplement household nutrition and sold on the local market as fresh milk or yoghurt.
Training in processing garden produce, such
as fruits and vegetables, into value added
products such as chutneys.
Hand rolled tea
To add further value we are working with Rainforest Tea Gardens of Sri Lanka to research and develop high-quality, hand-rolled black and green teas. By purchasing the tea from small holders involved in the PPP programme, and working with community members to process it, we can help build long-term livelihood opportunities. The tea is earmarked for sale on both local and international markets.
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New Tea Tour in planning!
Kabir is designing a new tea tour dedicated to
Achual Sustainable Art Collective-An Amazon Women’s Project
Please help me identify hosts who would like to get involved. The tea tour will share rain forest rescue teas and unfold into a trunk show for the Achual People!
Share some ideas and leads with Kabir via analogteaproject(at)gmail(dot)com
Organizations Involved: An alliance among CREATA a woman directed NGO of artisan and permaculture experts skilled in Amazon sustainability and women’s projects; Amazon Wakani with a fourteen year history of sustaining and protecting the traditions and lands of the Achual in the Peruvian Amazon: the Jibaro-Achual native women’s council, and Social & Environmental Entrepreneurs (S.E.E) a 501c3 is the fiscal Agent for the Project and Population Community Foundation, a 501c3, fiducary for Amazon Wakani
Contact: Bea Agins, Amazon Wakani, 415-454-8123, forbea@comcast.net www.amazonwakani.org
Or Consultant: Global Connections Laura Hoover, welcomeworld@sbcglobal.com , 415-515-2655
Need: The women of the Achual Tribe, an indigenous people of the Peruvian Amazon, are working to improve the education and medical care of their children while sustaining their cultural traditions. They with Global Connections and Amazon Wakani have formulated a hand craft project that will provide a vehicle for doing business with the outside world, while at the same time, reinforcing their native values. Steady acculturation and the disruption of their natural coexistence with their rainforest environment are evident. Although the village is remote, it is being impacted by the encroachment of the modern world, resulting in the loss of culture, emigration of youth to the cities, depletion of natural resources and economic marginalization.
Achual hand crafts cannot be sold locally as there are no markets, town markets which are a day away are saturated and tourism is down. Collecting the resources to make crafts is arduous. Plants used for hand crafts are cut down depleting the natural resources and causing collection to be further and further away from the village. Traditional Achual values are suffering erosion due to the influences of the outside world. The women wish their children to have a strong native identity, secondary education and health care.
This project melds microenterprise and sustainability principals while supporting Achual values. microenterprise tools are utilized to provide business education and market opportunities; permaculture techniques will produce renewable forest materials within the village; and Achual communal values will be reinforced by the collective structure of their hand craft enterprise, distribution of the eventual income will be community oriented, and the organization of the project members will be collaborative.
Project Plan and Strategies: The project is organized as a collaborative association of partners. CREATA serves as day to day administration and provides education and training in permaculture techniques, crafts quality improvements, business and manufacturing skills which lay the foundations necessary to do business in the 21st century. In collaboration with the women they will produce sustainable art plantations located in or close to the village. US Volunteers will provide the networks and distribution channels (Fair Trade Exporters and or Importers) that will connect the tribal art to the outside world. The Achual Women’s Council will serve as the local board of directors and will be made up of 5 family members of the Elder Chief Ramon. Amazon Wakani, oversee’s all aspects of the project and facilitates communications among partners to ensure coordination of activities and enusre that project goals are met..
The project will be implemented in As Sub Projects: Year one, Foundations: manufacturing and preliminary business education and training, identify marketable products and prototype; develop sustainable natural fibers gathering techniques; all infrastructure requirements necessary for distribution in the U.S identified, prototypes marketed and fair trade agreements made. Year two, Guided Implementation: Reinforces year one, more advanced microenterpise principals are taught; renewable raw materials plantations planted; overseas marketing of products; orders for products sought in the US, improvements fulfilled; Year three and Beyond, Independent Operations: Continuation of selling through various distributors, the collective receives fair trade value for their products. The estimated revenue is $3000-$5000 yr.2, $5000-$7000 yr 3, and so on. Revenue is introduced incrementally to ensure the least amount of distribution to Achual traditions, values and customs.
Benefit: Achual women are empowered with the ability to provide for their children, while sustaining their traditions, natural resources, and native identity for future generations.
We are working year two and Sub Project, guided implementation.
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