Ambiance of Well-Being

From Scarcity to Abundance

Welcome to the Ambiance of Well-Being ! Here we will focus on Abundance. How to tune into the frequency of positive energy, and create an environment of health, wealth, and abundance.
Buckminster Fuller said during our 1st Energy Crisis in the 1970's. "There Is No Energy Crisis, There is a Crisis of Ignorance". The Information Age is moving us away from the scarcity mentality of the Industrial Era, and has the opportunity to bring to the masses the truth of how the universe works through abundance. The internet can be the perfect vehicle to break through this ignorance, and bring the truth to light. We will strive to show how "Going Green" and focusing on renewable, and alternative energies will build an atmosphere of an abundant healthy environment.

Let's create a Better world together!

Saturday, January 31, 2009

Entrepreneurship & Web 2.0

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Above is a collage of my recent visit to a class at Neumann College. The course is titled:"STLDR 560 PUBLIC POLICY AND LEGAL ISSUES", however, I was asked to speak on my life experience, my adventures navigating through the M.S. in Strategic Leadership program, and my part-time venture into Entrepreneurship & Web 2.0. Great fun was had by all. It was an energizing and humbling experience. I would like to thank Dr. Frederick D. Loomis, Program Director of the Strategic Leadership program, and the course Professor Seth Williams J.D., who I substituted for because he had to host an event that evening. You see, the Honorable Mr. Williams is also running for District Attorney for the City of Philadelphia. He is not only a great professor, but a dedicated public servant too.

We covered many aspects of the challenges of Leadership, and the fact that the economic crisis we are living through now demonstrates that there is a desperate need for Ethical Leadership. I discussed why I am optimistic about the future. We are going through a transition, and, painful as it seems, we are watching a cleansing of the greed and avarice along with a restructuring of how business is done, and the birth of new industries and paradigms.

You don't have to be in management to be a leader. It is becoming more cumbersome for large corporations to stay at the cutting edge of technology, therefore small businesses and Entrepreneurs are at a technological advantage. So, you may find a leadership position in a large corporation or you can exercise leadership in other ways, such as, being an Entrepreneur.

This is where Web 2.0 comes in. Entrepreneurs will have the advantage over large enterprises when they find the technology gap. When they can offer the intellectual distribution of products and services that people are not aware of yet. Today we are seeing the seeds of two new industries which have explosive potential. The Green economy and the Health and Wellness Industry. I briefly touched on my efforts on doing and learning about a Direct Selling Business and using Network Marketing to promote myself and this business. We talked about the importance of 'List Building', and how to do this with Social Networking sites like Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn. The role of Social Bookmarking sites like De.licio.us, Diigo and StumbleUpon, and how to tie these in with new technologies enriching communication, such as, videos on sites like YouTube, Metacafe and Dailymotion, along with podcasting at sites like PodcastAlley.com and iBizRadio. We finally discussed blogging and how that can be a business in and of itself. As you can see, we covered a lot of information, and created an opportunity to start many threads of discussion going forward.

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Mea Culpa

Cover of The SecretMea Culpa

I want to apologize for two things. 1st for not posting for awhile. 2nd for not posting more of my own reflections.

My original concept for this blog was to focus on the concept of abundance. I got the idea from my intuition. And, my intuitive feelings were put into words upon my reading of The Secret by Rhonda Byrne, and the findings of quantum physics.

Recently, my concept was reinforced by another book I am reading now, which is The Next Millionaires by Paul Zane Pilzer. One quote brings the law of abundance to light, when he says on page 28, "Throughout history we have always been about to run out of a resource just before we discovered a new one. And that's no accident: it's why we discover the new one. All the resources we think we're running out of are really inventions of the human mind--and there is no limit to the human mind."

As said in The Secret, our thoughts create our world. Energy cannot be created or destroyed it is just transformed between matter and energy.

The financial crisis which the world is going through right now is a cleansing. We are on the cusp of a transformation. As one resource has reached its limit we can use our creative imagination to invent new resources. Our unlimited resource is the human mind and spirit.

Saturday, January 3, 2009

Anti-aging Doc in Video on Wall Street Journal

Dr. David Sinclair of Harvard Medical School recently made the video section of the Wall Street Journal. Dr. Sinclair is best known for his extensive research on "resveratrol", which is the key ingredient found in the grapes used in Red Wine that has been found to possess anti-aging properties. Dr. Sinclair has recently joined up with Shaklee Corp. to produce their new anti-aging tonic 'Vivix".

Now, month's after joining the board, and promoting the product at Corporate meetings, Dr. Sinclair is resigning, probably because of the exposure of the Wall Street Journal. The Journal's Health Blog posted Jacob Goldstein's article Harvard Researcher Tied to Shaklee ‘Anti-Aging Tonic’ Vivix, where it is quoted that the good Doctor is now upset that his name was used to promote the product. I guess this demonstrates the power of WSJ.

Here is the video in question:

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Moms 4 Green Living: Chesco residents come together to fight warming

Moms 4 Green Living: Chesco residents come together to fight warming

Take a look at this blog post on the "Moms 4 Green Living" site. It took place last weekend, and made it on the Front page of the Phoenixville newspaper. That's me sitting on the steps in the black jacket & 'Eco-bag' to the left of the sign. We were Freezing for Global Warming.

Ed

Friday, November 14, 2008

The Climate for Change

Climate Change: The Ipcc Response Strategies

Below is an Op-Ed piece by Al Gore where he points to the election of Barack Obama as an opportunity to begin the implementation of his 10 Year Plan, which is essentially a commitment
to producing 100 percent of our electricity from carbon-free sources
within 10 years. Mr. Gore makes the argument that this will not only help with climate change, but also with National security and energy independence.

THE NEW YORK TIMES Op-Ed Contributor The Climate for Change By AL GORE Published: November 9, 2008
The inspiring and transformative choice by the American people to elect
Barack Obama as our 44th president lays the foundation for another
fateful choice that he -- and we -- must make this January to begin an
emergency rescue of human civilization from the imminent and rapidly
growing threat posed by the climate crisis.
The electrifying redemption of America's revolutionary declaration that
all human beings are born equal sets the stage for the renewal of
United States leadership in a world that desperately needs to protect
its primary endowment: the integrity and livability of the planet.
The world authority on the climate crisis, the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change, after 20 years of detailed study and four unanimous
reports, now says that the evidence is "unequivocal." To those who are
still tempted to dismiss the increasingly urgent alarms from scientists
around the world, ignore the melting of the north polar ice cap and all
of the other apocalyptic warnings from the planet itself, and who roll
their eyes at the very mention of this existential threat to the future
of the human species, please wake up. Our children and grandchildren
need you to hear and recognize the truth of our situation, before it is
too late.
Here is the good news: the bold steps that are needed to solve the
climate crisis are exactly the same steps that ought to be taken in
order to solve the economic crisis and the energy security crisis.
Economists across the spectrum -- including Martin Feldstein and
Lawrence Summers -- agree that large and rapid investments in a
jobs-intensive infrastructure initiative is the best way to revive our
economy in a quick and sustainable way. Many also agree that our
economy will fall behind if we continue spending hundreds of billions
of dollars on foreign oil every year. Moreover, national security
experts in both parties agree that we face a dangerous strategic
vulnerability if the world suddenly loses access to Middle Eastern oil.

As Abraham Lincoln said during America's darkest hour, "The occasion is
piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our
case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew." In our present case,
thinking anew requires discarding an outdated and fatally flawed
definition of the problem we face. Read more . . .

Al Gore, the vice president from 1993 to 2001, was the co-recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. He founded the Alliance for Climate
Protection and, as a businessman, invests in alternative energy
companies.

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Are We Gonna Sit Back and Let IT Happen?

Now is the time to take Action.

People need to pull together and create a NEW WORLD. The Wall Street Fraud has come home to roost, and now the Government is attempting to create a new socialized economy.

This weekend is a chance to let them know we will not take this sitting down. We will demand a new paradigm. Create Green Jobs, start the sustainable Green economy. Build a World of Abundance!

There will be events held over this weekend, September 27 & 28, 2008, around the Nation and here in Downingtown, PA. Green Jobs Now; National Day of Action & the EcoFare in Downingtown's Kerr Park.

EcoFare

Dowingtown, PA

September 28, 2008 11:00AM to 09:00PM

Hosted by Timothy Sadler

Event Description:

*EcoFare is a not for profit non partisan community event interested in promoting renewable energies, sustainability, and green living taking place Sunday September 28th in Downingtown, Pa 19335 @ the wonderful Kerr Park from 11am - 9pm Highlights of the day include:

* Hybrid cars on display and available for pre-order
* A broad array of green friendly vendors and exhibitors -- Kimberton Whole Foods, School of Rock, Alternative Energy INC., Earth Mart, Green Savers, The Sierra Club, more coming board every day -- hopefully your organization will be next
* Games and activities with prizes of value donated by local businesses -- Chic-Fil-A, Regal Entertainment, Papa Johns, BC Collectibles, fine dining outings plus much more coming soon
* A town hall discussion focused on eco-accountability, sustainability issues featuring local and regional experts in relating fields
* A Concert for a Green Earth featuring some of Philly's top rising stars (Sisters3, Cheers Elephant, Drink Up Buttercup, The Sermon, Lauren Adams, When Cars Ascend)

**All proceeds of EcoFare will go towards bettering MPG standards in America and America's 10 year Green Energy Initutive through EcoFare's steering committee. If you have interest in becoming part of EcoFare's steering committee simply let me know.

Max Attendees: 2000 (Currently 27 Registered)

Invite Friends to this Event

Location:
Kerr Park Downingtown

Directions:
Just off of Rt. 202 & 30.

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Preview of "Green Goes With Everything"

This week a new book will be available which will be a practical guide of how to "Go Green". It was written be freelance contributor to the Today Show, Sloan Barnett. The book is titled: "Green Goes With Everything", and will show how, with just a few simple, but important, changes you can detoxify your home and your family.

Here is a brief introduction by Sloan Barnett:

Monday, September 15, 2008

Clean-Energy Corporate Leverage

Now that many multi-national corporations have made a commitment to get into the clean energy business, they may be able to have some leverage over government programs and subsidies. This could be reminiscent of the leverage Big Oil has held over government subsidies. If the government doesn't cooperate, then they use their leverage. That is, they just take there business elsewhere, to a country which will give them the subsidies they want to develop clean energy technologies.

Below is a story of what GE is doing now to lobby congress to renew the Clean-Energy credits.

September 12, 2008, 2:25 pm
Industry to Congress: Renew the Expiring Clean-Energy Credits

Posted by Keith Johnson

The U.S. Congress may be “out of gas” when it comes to drafting an energy policy, as the Washington Post edit page moans, but General Electric’s John Krinicki doesn’t mind giving legislators a push.

He only had to battle giants, not the Senate (Wikipedia)

The head of GE Energy, the conglomerate’s unit that makes everything from wind turbines to nuclear reactors, flew down to Washington again today to plead with senators to extend tax credits for renewable energy. The credits, still crucial to making clean energy competitive, are set to expire at the end of the year, despite at least eight tries so far to renew them. That threatens to slam the brakes on two gangbuster years for American wind and solar power.

“I’m prepared to come down every week to say the same thing,” he told us. “If the production tax credit expires in the U.S., the wind industry will collapse. As the clock ticks, you put jobs at risk.”

Mr. Krinicki’s testimony is part of a broader Senate look today at America’s energy future. Among the heavyweights also on parade: Rick Waggoner, CEO of General Motors; Marvin Odum, the president of Shell Oil; Gary Cohn, co-president of Goldman Sachs; Dan Yergin of Cambridge Energy Research Associates; and Dan Reicher, Google’s clean-energy guru.

Mr. Krinicki thinks his clean-energy arguments will find a more receptive audience in the Senate than when he made identical pleas more than a year ago. The real problem isn’t support for clean energy per se, he says, but the messy politics that makes it tough to renew the credits.

And he says the beauty of jumpstarting clean-tech with the tax credits is that it doesn’t require inventing a whole new energy policy—just renewing an existing one.

So what happens if Congress doesn’t renew clean-energy subsidies?

“If the U.S.government is not going to be reliable and predictable [on clean-energy policy], we’ll go to Germany and China,” he says, pointing to countries that have long-term, aggressive plans in place to promote clean energy. China could pass the U.S. next year to become the second-biggest wind-power country, after Germany.

Mr. Krinicki’s GE boss Jeff Immelt said something similar earlier this year, threatening to sell clean-tech equipment to countries like Turkey if the U.S. doesn’t fix its “hellish” energy policy. Still, foreign companies are still flocking to the U.S. market—GE rival Siemens just announced it will build a new wind-turbine factory in the U.S., even with the subsidy question still up in the air.

Will this Congress renew the tax credits at the buzzer? Or have two years of world-beating renewable-energy growth taken away any sense of urgency?

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