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Stone Paper
Dear Heaven Maker:
I’ve just found out about a breakthrough product called Stone Paper®.
It’s paper made from stone, not from trees.
Stone Paper® products require no bleaches, acids, alkali, or other potentially dangerous ingredients to achieve its white color. Instead, the white paper is derived from the high concentration of naturally white calcium carbonate mineral content. The manufacturing of Stone Paper® materials produces no pollution to the air, rivers, and waterways with any harmful chemicals.
The Dalai Lama: “We are the same human beings.”
Dear Heaven Maker:
Heaven on Earth is the new story of what it means to be a human and what it means to be Humanity.
Here is a beautiful, sacred offering by His Holiness, The Dalai Lama.
Let his words, thoughts, energy, and the music/chanting of this meditation further open Humanity for you.
Love,
Martin
My Mentor
Dear Heaven Maker:
Tim Kelley is the person I turn to when I’m not clear about something to do with Heaven on Earth, or when I’m not clear about what’s next in taking Heaven on Earth to its next level globally.
He’s a trusted, wise, and very smart mentor.
Heaven on Dirt
Dear Heaven Maker:
When Heaven on Earth reaches into US country music, we know that it HAS ARRIVED!!!
Here’s country singer Gord Bamford singing the song ‘Heaven on Earth.’
Be Heaven on Earth for our Environment
Dear Heaven Maker:
There have been two major events recently about Our Environment.
One is The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report which says:
“It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land. Widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere have occurred.”
They recommend:
How to Heaven on Earth Honour Someone
Dear Heaven Maker:
A friend sent me this video of Aretha Franklin honoring Carole King. I was so taken by the look on Carole’s face as she experiences what’s happening in front of her— her shock, her joy, her love. Imagine yourself honoring someone in your life in the very same way.
Take a Deep Bow
We know that the air is there, but unless the wind blows against our face, we are not aware of it. Here in the wind, I was suddenly aware, yet it’s really there. And the sun too.
I was suddenly aware of the sun, shining through the fair trees. Its warmth, its brightness, and all this completely free, completely gratuitous. Simply there for us to enjoy.
This craft brewery is using carbon capture to reuse CO2 in its beer
A central Alberta, Canada, business is taking a unique approach to carbon capture: serving up some of its emissions in beer.
Breweries produce carbon dioxide during the fermentation process and they use CO2 to carbonate beer. So a central Alberta company is taking what seems like the logical next step, by becoming the first small brewery in Canada to use carbon capture technology to recycle those emissions.
Blindman Brewing, based in Lacombe, Alta., spends about $60,000 a year buying CO2 canisters to give their beers the perfect refreshing texture. But during fermentation, yeast devours sugars, producing alcohol and CO2 as byproducts.
Now, the brewery will be capturing that CO2, scrubbing it and compressing it to carbonate their beers and run canning lines — thereby reducing their emissions and bringing the need for purchased CO2 to near zero.
A Deeply Inspiring Woman Empowering Nigeria and Africa
Dear Heaven Maker:
Some people think Africa is, ‘The Dark Continent,’ ‘A Backward, Poor Continent,’ ‘An Illiterate Continent.’ Well, someone forgot to tell all of that to Hafsat Abiola-Costello, of Nigeria.
Both her father and her mother were killed by the government and instead of it taking her down, it spurred her on to transform both her country and her continent. She’s a ‘Vital Voices Global Leadership Award’ winner. I was very impressed by the commitment, clarity, and light shining out of this woman.
Watch this short video and prepare to be inspired. Hafsat shows what moral leadership is. She shows what empowering women is. She shows what equipping her society to show its inherent greatness is.
An Unexpected Path to Heaven on Earth [Guest blog by Tim Kelley]
An Unexpected Path to Heaven on Earth
by Tim Kelley, global change agent and author of True Purpose
For most people, creating a specific vision of Heaven on Earth can be challenging. Our brains have an inherent negativity bias which tends to focus on what we fear rather than on what we want. While this may have been a useful evolutionary adaptation, it makes it exceedingly difficult to focus on a truly positive vision of the future, fully free of the limiting beliefs constraining our imaginations.
Martin Rutte has made a career out of helping people overcome this obstacle. He’s demonstrated that most individuals are able to conceive of some feature of Heaven on Earth by starting with a specific area of focus area and going through a few simple steps to begin making it real in the world.