Going Further

I recently rented a movie from the library titled Go Further, a documentary by Ron Mann about Woody Harrelson’s Simple Organic Living (SOL) Tour. As it states on Amazon, the film “explores the idea that the single individual is the key to large-scale transformational change.” Woody and an assortment of friends toured the Pacific Coast traveling by a bio-fuelled bus and bicycles, talking to anyone and everyone along the way about what we each can do to "walk on the earth with a lighter footprint." It was both entertaining and inspirational, and I recommend it to all.


My reason for renting it had little to do with its focus on environmental issues, but rather its approach to addressing them. I was hoping for some inspiration on how I could get “PeaceRipples” back on track again. I haven’t been posting anything here in large part because I’d lost touch with my original vision of what I wanted to accomplish. I’ve spent a lot of time mulling over various ideas, but couldn’t figure out what the next step should be. A side benefit to renting it was that it reminded me that we can’t separate out the issues – if the environment isn’t take care of, peace isn’t being taken care of either. We need a healthy planet populated with healthy people in order to have peace.


Fortunately, my “ploy” worked, and the movie has renewed my energies for doing more and sharing more, and not letting myself get so hung up that I can’t post anything. Over the time I’ve been away, I’ve encountered several resources that I plan to share here over the next little while. Please, if you have any ideas and/or resources you’d like to see promoted here, email me at peaceripples@gmail.com – I’d love to hear from you.


Today’s website: - Woody Harrelson and Laura Louie’s VoiceYourself - for news and tips on environmental issues. (I was hoping they had a newsletter I could sign up for, but so far haven’t seen anything - if anyone looking through the website discovers one, please let me know!)