ARTICLE: In 1977, fellow Olympic skier Billy Kidd and I had an adventure of a lifetime, skiing with Iranian Queen Farah Diba Pahlavi in their fresh “Persian Powder.” It was to promote skiing and goodwill with Iran, made possible by two visionary friends, the popular TV host Barry ZeVan and Iran’s Ambassador to the U.S., Ardeshir Zahedi.
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How ‘The People’ Can Beat Iranian-American Peace Drums
Could National ‘Snow Gratitude’ Ceremonies Extend Future of SnowSports?
ARTICLE: The National Ski Areas Association’s NRDC study said that Colorado and Utah would be losing its snow by the end of the century unless there is an intervention – the East likely earlier. Fortunately, a consensus of the UN’s 192 countries in 2012 identified the key to regenerating Earth: a combination of science/green energy and Ancient Wisdom, especially through the tribes.
Kids Urge Ban on Trashing Space to Save Dads and Forests
OPINION: For the last two hundred million years up until 1970, our ‘home’ looked like this beautiful blue planet from Apollo 17 with three satellites orbiting it. Today, earth is shrouded with about 1,100 satellites, most for cell phone companies, and a half a million pieces of trashed ones, and most dangerous of all, some dumped nuclear waste. Together they are blocking the critical sunlight that Man and Nature need to happily thrive.
How Moms Can Help Reduce Women and Children’s Violence by 50 Percent
OPINION: What if we had the power to reduce the roots of violence by 50% – including one in three women raped world-wide – through a simple diet shift and planting fruit trees in schools? Thanks to UN’s One Billion Rising, women joined with enlightened men, world leaders and stars, like Ann Hathaway and Jane [...]
Could Stevia have spared the deaths of Whitney Houston and Amy Winehouse?
OPINION: People around the world have recently mourned the passing of Whitney, Amy Winehouse, and First Lady Betty Ford, exemplified by the touching New Years Tributes and Grammy Salute to Whitney. With the help of doctors Drew, Phil and Gupte these (celestial) shooting stars left us with priceless lessons to prevent or recover from alcoholism.
International Solutions to U.S. School Shootings
OPINION: “Some good must come of this,” has been the cry after one of the worst mass killings in U.S. history at Newtown’s Sandy Hook Elementary School. Little has been done after a decade of school massacres. “We have 15 times more gun violence than any other country, and we must learn from them,” said [...]
What World’s Youth Want for Christmas – Plant our X-Mass Trees!
ARTICLE: The World’s Youth say we need emergency action to create a ‘Future We Want.’ Hurricane Sandy helped the doubting Toms recognize that the greatest threat to our National Security and humanity is Climate Change.
Native American London Olympians and UN’s Girl Initiative Lifting Poor Nations and Sustainability
eNewsChannels COLUMN: October’s launch of the UN’s Girl Empowerment Initiative, and revelation that three Native American women represented the U.S. and their Indian Nations at London’s Olympics, are creating ripples of hope and prosperity for depressed Nations in the U.S. and around the world. PHOTO Caption (above): “I will always love this team,” said “phenom” [...]
Time to Listen to The Children!
OPINION: It is time to listen to the children who are inheriting this planet to find out what they want, what direction they want to go in, and which candidate running for President would best insure a healthy, safe, and just America. I asked a 12 year old Boulder Colorado boy, Xiuh (Shoe) Martinez, who [...]
Title IX Key to Sustainability and Longevity of Snow Sports and Coastal Cities
OPINION: Leading the March down Washington’s Pennsylvania Ave in 1977, for TITLE IX’s “Equal Opportunity for Women in School Sports and Education,” at the request of the PE teachers of America, I had no idea of its phenomenal far-reaching effect. At June’s Rio+20’s Earth Summit, women sports, thanks to its “Empowering Women,” took a central [...]
Part 1: Olympians and Stars like Robert Redford the Best Hope for Arctic
eNewsChannels COLUMN: The magnificent pristine fragile Arctic is now in a battle for its LIFE, which will affect all life on Earth, especially the youth. On one side of the Arctic Ring are the super rich oil companies whose track record has proved “beyond a doubt” that their only concern is profits and they are [...]
Open Letter to Navy to Find Moral Compass re: Deafening Whales and Dolphins
eNewsChannels COLUMN: The US Navy is deliberating right now on a plan to use high frequency underwater sound for testing in Hawaii and the coasts of California, the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico that is estimated to deafen more than 15,900 whales and dolphins and kill 1,800 more over the next 5 years. And [...]
London Olympics Can Help Us Win the Race to Save our Civilization
eNewsChannels COLUMN: While world leaders dropped the ball at June’s RIO+20 Earth Summit to getting us on the road to a sustainable future, We the People, especially sportsmen, need to pick up the ball, including to protect our world’s playgrounds that bring us so much joy. With open hearts, here are some ways we can [...]
Native Elders ‘15 Mandates for RIO+20’ June 20-22 – Key to Regenerating Earth’s Natural Capital
eNewsChannels COLUMN: What happens at UN’s RIO+2O Earth Summit on June 20-22 could have a major impact on the longevity of snowsports, glaciers, islands and coastal communities, as we are shifting to a milder climate, with snowsports the canaries in the mine of climate changes. Fortunately, the consensus of this year’s UN “Harmony with Nature” [...]
January’s U.S. ‘Snowdance Phenomena’ Model for June’s RIO+20
eNewsChannels COLUMN: The UN’s International Mother Earth Day, in solidarity with Earth Day, following January’s Snowdance Phenomena that saved Western ski areas from the “driest winter in 130 years,” helped inspire billions of Green Acts in April. This is paving the way for more phenomenal progress at RIO+20 on June 20-22. 2012 could have been [...]
Super Bowl and First Ladies Inspire Solutions to Greatly Reduce Hunger
eNewsChannels COLUMN: Hail to the National Football League (NFL) for compassionately hosting “Super Bowl Parties with a Purpose” this year through their “Taste of the NFL” and “Kick Hunger Challenge” to valiantly assist food banks in every NFL city.
Please Help U.S. Ski Areas by Including Mother Earth on Valentine’s Day
eNewsChannels COLUMN: The buzz at the SnowSports Industries Show ending January 31 in Denver was about the Native American snowdance phenomena that restored snow to the Ski Meccas of Colorado, Utah and California in January. They also said, “we need more snowdances.” Some Native Elders who led them say that our giving Mother Earth gratitude [...]
Indigenous Elders Input Key to Restoring Earth at UN’s RIO+20
eNewsChannels COLUMN: On November 1, our Native American Olympic Team Foundation (NAOTF) submitted to the UN its recommendations, including wisdom of Indigenous Elders, for the 2012 Rio+20 Conference, June 21-22. This marks 20 years after the first UN Conference on Sustainable Development, and never in history has there been such a need to work in unity to restore Earth.
Hail to First Lady Betty Ford, Earth Hero! (Along with the Tribes of the Americas, Carl Jung, and AA)
eNewsChannels COLUMN: I didn’t realize until our dear First Lady Betty Ford passed on this month, what an incomparable gift she has given Mother Earth and all Her children. Through Betty’s powerful example of taking her addiction to alcohol and (prescription) drugs out of the closet, educating the public, which diminished the stigma, and founding the Betty Ford Clinic, her gift goes way beyond helping transform the tortured lives of generations of Americans and World Citizens into fulfilling ones.
Los Alamos Protected by Rains thanks to World Prayers, including on Mt Baldy and 19 Other ‘Holy Mountains’
eNewsChannels COLUMN: More Prayers Needed for Oceans, Reactors, Floods and 32 US Fires. “A smattering of summer rain boosted firefighters battling the massive forest fire near Los Alamos nuclear reactor.” Other News sources said the blaze came 50 ft from the Laboratory that stores America’s largest supply of nuclear weapons, along with 30,000 drums of plutonium-contaminated waste stored above ground under fabric tarps, not far from mini fires breaking out within the complex.
Pilgrimages to ’19 Holy Mountains’ Can Prevent Massive Ocean Die Outs and Create Earth’s New Dawn
eNewsChannels COLUMN: CNN revealed on June 22, that “A mass extinction unlike anything human history has ever seen is coming unless we take swift action,” reported the International Programme on the State of the Ocean (IPSO). The cause is a combination of stressors: Radiation and lethally reacting pollutants, acidification, overfishing, and low oxygen from warming [...]
Emergency ‘Call to Action to Protect Earth’ by UN, Pope, Scientists and Indigenous
eNewsChannels COLUMN:Following Bolivia’s passage of their domestic law “Recognizing Mother Earth as a living entity and giving Her the Same Rights as Humans,” the United Nations held a dialogue via an interactive webcast on its “Harmony with Nature” Day, April 20, and it is now working on adopting these rights worldwide. Thanks to this surprising [...]
Renewing America with Renewable Energy
eNewsChannels COLUMN: On May 11, CNN showed Japan’s nuclear electric officials on their knees apologizing and asking forgiveness from the Japanese people for misleading them about the safety of their nuclear reactors and destroying so many lives. While “We are sorry” helps, it can never return loved ones or a community’s original healthy quality of [...]
Choosing Prophesied 1,000 Years of Peace and Prosperity vs Nuclear Energy Suicide
eNewsChannels COLUMN: Following Japan’s tragic nuclear wake up call, humanity is at a pivotal crossroads: Choosing to keep pouring billions more dollars into trying to make “uninsurable” nuclear energy safer, despite more cost effective alternatives, and given that top scientists, including Nobel Prize winners, agree that there is NO SAFE nuclear energy, OR shifting 2012′s [...]
Ocean and Ski Leaders and Nobel Prize Winners, Invite World Communities to Ask Tribes to Lead Healing Ceremonies for UN’s International Mother Earth Day – April 22
eNewsChannels COLUMN: To help rebalance Mother Earth to smooth out these 2012 earth changes and to protect and purify our oceans and mountains from Japan’s radiation leak, leaders of the US and Canadian SnowSports Industries, Cousteau’s Ocean Futures, Mountaineers like Jim Whittaker, biologists from Mexico to the Arctic Circle, and National Parks protectors like Connor [...]
2012 U.S. Budget Priorities: Funding Nuclear Energy and Bombs vs. Dire Community Needs
eNewsChannels COLUMN: On March 18 the “Japanese nuclear reactor chief WEPT as he finally admitted that their radiation leak is serious enough to kill people.” That was just days after telling Japanese citizens that “only those living within 12 miles of the nuclear plants needed to evacuate, while U.S. citizens within 50 miles were ordered [...]
Urgent Native ‘Tsunami Of Love Prayer’ That Can Help Protect Life
eNewsChannels COLUMN: Since love is the greatest force on Earth, here is a Tsunami of Love Prayer by Indigenous Elders that can phenomenally neutralize the destruction of the “500 mph wave in open seas from their biggest earthquake in history,” reported CNN. The tsunami not only is having devastating effects on millions of people and [...]
Decision Time: Billions to Nuclear vs. Renewable Energy for U.S. and Colorado
eNewsChannels COLUMN: The Obama Administration wants to triple the already $18.5 billion appropriated for new nuclear reactors to $54.5 billion in America’s 2012 Budget, which is being decided any day. Plus Coloradans have a deadline of March 15, whether to fund a Nuclear Plant in Pueblo. The alternative is to insist those billions be shifted [...]
Multi-Cultural Ocean and Gulf Healing Ceremonies Applauded by U.N.
eNewsChannels COLUMN: Given the amazing results of many Tribes of the Americas along with groups of diverse cultures performing New Year’s ceremonies to heal the oceans, it appears that our Earth Family has begun to fulfill the prophesy of what the tribes call “The Purification.” This unprecedented solidarity, inspired by the magnificent Azteca ceremonial dances [...]
US Ski and Snowboard Expos Honor Tribes as Pioneers of Skiing and Outreach Native Kids this Vancouver Olympic ‘Tribal’ Year
COLUMN: U.S. Ski and Snowboard Shows are honoring Native American Tribes for pioneering skiing 8-10,000 years ago, along with a heart-warming ski outreach to expand snowsports opportunities for Native kids this Vancouver “Tribal” Olympic Year. Ski Legends like Billy Kidd, as well as this weekend, Donna Weinbrecht at the Boston Expo, and Wayne Wong at [...]
National Ski and Snowboard Expos Outreach Native American Kids
COLUMN: Indians honored as Pioneers of Skiing this Vancouver Olympic “Tribal” Year. I am so proud that the top Ski and Snowboard Shows in America are leading an outreach to Native kids this Vancouver “Tribal” Olympic Year. Ski Legends, like Billy Kidd, Donna Weinbrecht, and Wayne Wong are getting the word out at the shows [...]
Hail Billie Jean King and Ted Kennedy – Native American Contributors to Title 1X
COLUMN: Native Americans can take pride that Tennis icon Billie Jean King, a Cherokee, and Ted Kennedy, descendant of an honorary Iroquois Chief, did wonders to create equal opportunities for girls/women in sports and education in America and abroad. By enforcing the 1972 Title 1X Education Amendments Act, they actually helped restore those equitable traditional [...]
Salute to Ted Kennedy by Women Athletes Everywhere!
COLUMN: Generations of vibrant American girls and women, as well as those from countries worldwide, will always be grateful to Senator Ted Kennedy, a beautiful skier, sailor, football and tennis player, for being a champion of women’s rights. He was pivotal in providing equality in education through Title 1X of the 1972 Education Amendments Act. [...]
Jim Thorpe’s Sons Bolster Native American Olympic Dream
COLUMN: Heart-warming steps toward realizing a dream of creating a Native American Olympic Team were made at Oklahoma’s City’s “American Indian Sovereignty Symposium” on June 4, 2009. At the sports panel Bill and Jack Thorpe, sons of the late Jim Thorpe, voted the “Greatest Athlete in Modern Times,” joined forces and then offered critical resources [...]
Native Voices: Green Lifestyle Film Fest has Certified Organic Native American Values
COLUMN: I got to witness the 2009 Green Lifestyle Film Fest at my UCLA alma mater March 13-15, transform from a ‘little green engine (of eccentrics) that could,’ into a global green fest heavyweight. The director Dorit invited me to help create a green bridge between the best of mainstream and Native American wisdom for [...]
Native Voices: 7.7.07 Lowers Earth Temp, 7/17 Energizes Oceans
COLUMN: Hail to Pragmatists Embracing Scientific & Spiritual Global Cooling Solutions Thanks to our Earth Hugs on 7.7.07 and 7/17, “the Earth temperature slightly lowered, and the oceans were re-energized, which will continue if we continue,” say many Saints / Holy Ones / Ascended Masters / Seers / Star Nations, depending on your faith, backed by our intuition.
Native Voices: Naomi Lang – First Indian Woman Olympian; Hot ‘Latin on Ice’ TV Special
COLUMN: To the sultry strains of Carlos Santana / Rob Thomas, stunning Naomi Lang (Karuk Tribe), 2002 Utah Olympic ice dancing star, melts the “Latin On Ice” Special on the Style Network Friday, Jan. 12th at 5pm ET and on Sunday, Jan. 14th at 10am ET.
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Local South Bay Schools to Receive $2 million in Calif. School Construction Grants
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Assemblyman Mike Gatto’s Bill to Protect Small Businesses Unanimously Passes California Assembly
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Chicago Creative Coalition to present a Juried Fine Art Photography Show at 2013 Jeff Fest Arts and Music Festival
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Calif. Gov. Brown Joins Global Scientists to Call for Action on Climate Change
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Artist Daniel Edwards latest work, a Nude Pregnant Kim Kardashian ‘Fertility Statue’ to debut at LAB ART Gallery in L.A.
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idsDoc Mortgage Document Preparation System Improves Productivity and Delivers Custom Docs to Mortgage Network Inc.
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Leawo Software offers intro pricing on updated Blu-ray player for Windows 8
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Quandis Cloud Solution provides valuation system to streamline Bankers Asset Management entire broker price opinion (BPO) process
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Dance Prodigy and TV star from ‘Dance Moms’ Sophia Lucia will Attempt to Break Guinness World Record
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The National Inclusion Project, co-founded by entertainer Clay Aiken, announces it is recipient of JL Simmons NonProfit PR Grant
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Supporters take to Social Media to Promote Archbishop of Manila Cardinal Luis Tagle for Pope
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Could National ‘Snow Gratitude’ Ceremonies Extend Future of SnowSports?
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Calif. Assemblyman Gatto’s Resolution to Overturn Citizens United Decision Passes First Major Legislative Hurdle
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US Secretary of State John Kerry announces Ira Forman will serve as the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism
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Viet Nam veteran and citizen tax reform advocate, John C. Garrison, decries IRS denial of U.S. Workers’ deduction of living expense
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Neotrope to assist Food Finders Inc to Redistribute Food Donated by California Hospitality Industry and Local Grocers to Fight Hunger
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