Educational Resources

Educational and Informative Resources recommended by members and friends:

Articles:

Easily share and create dowsing/pendulum charts that can be edited prior to downloading them. This site contains a plethora of chart templates ready for your immediate use or for customization. 

Backyard Magic; The Composting Handbook (Government of New Brunswick, Canada)

Composting Yard and Garden Waste (University of Nevada, Reno)

How to Build a Solar Cooker – Student lesson plans for building 3 basic types of solar cookers (box, parabolic reflector, and panel cooker).

Do-It-Yourself Solar Cooker – Construct a Simple Solar Cooker from 2 boxes to use the sun’s energy to cook.

The Transition to a Global Eco-Sustainable Society by Tony Pereira, PhD. This paper describes a holistic engineering approach used to halt pollution, and to provide sustainable shelter, clean water, energy, food and education to the global population. This approach can be used anywhere in the world and conceptualizes a revolutionary sustainability paradigm for present and future societies. The author won an Engineering Award from UNESCO and the United Nations.

Films & Videos:

Earth Water Alliance’s YouTube channel

Gaia videos including: Reflection: a walk with water parts 1 & 2, Secret of Water, Rewired episodes, Superhuman, E-Motion, Samadhi: Maya, the illusion of self, and more. (Subscription service)

Cosmology & Pandemic: Episode 1 – Columbia: The Body as Territory. Learn from Indigenous Peoples’ response to the current health crisis by taking a journey with traditional and conventional health practitioners, indigenous spiritual guides, and wisdom keepers. Published by The Esperanza Project.

Plastic Wars | Frontline, a PBS documentary. Have efforts to solve the plastic pollution problem made it worse? Go inside the battle over plastics, recycling and what’s at stake.

The Plastic Problem – A PBS NewsHour Documentary.By 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in the oceans. It’s an environmental crisis that’s been in the making for nearly 70 years. Plastic pollution is now considered one of the largest environmental threats facing humans and animals globally.

David Attenborough: A Life on our Planet. A broadcaster recounts his life, and the evolutionary history of life on Earth, to grieve the loss of wild places and offer a vision for the future. Available on Netflix in English, German, Spanish, French, and Italian.

My Octopus Teacher. A filmmaker forges an unusual friendship with an octopus living in a South African kelp forest, learning as the animal shares the mysteries of her world. Available on Netflix in English, German, Spanish, French, and Italian.

8 Technologies for a Life of Plenty, a Spanish Language presentation by Tony Pereira, PhD about a holistic engineering approach to sustainable shelter design.

Deforestation Affects Everything by Tulasi Das. A strong, moving, call for action posted November 2020.

Kiss The Ground with Woody Harrelson is an inspiring and educational film about soil regeneration and how it can stabilize and restore Earth’s climate. A free educational version with resources is available. The film is available worldwide on Vimeo and Netflix. 

Sing the Water Song -This Algonquin Water Song expresses loving gratitude for the water and raises consciousness and connection with Mother Nature’s greatest gift. 

Our World Depends On US – a presentation that answers “Must we change? Can we change? Will we Change? It’s time to be part of a planet-wide dialogue on the climate crisis and its solutions.

Dowsing and Remote Viewing – interview of Paul H. Smith, PhD (president of the International Remote Viewing Association) by Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD (host of New Thinking Allowed)  posted Aug 4, 2016.

The Science Behind Technical Dowsing –  by Remote Viewing Products published August 21, 2009.

How Does Dowsing Work – a scientific perspective on Dowsing and quantum entanglement published May 22, 2020.

Hado Water Crystals – full documentary about Dr Masaru Emoto’s research published December 31, 2017 by documentary channel.

Awaken the Dowsing Spirit – Susan Collins’ Keynote speech at West Coast Dowsing Conference 2016 published July 16, 2016.

How to Find Water with Dowsing – demonstration by Marty Cain published by MonkeySee July 14, 2009.

Pendulum Lessons with Amy Scott Grant published on YouTube.

Water Memory (2014 Documentary about Nobel Prize laureate Luc Montagnier) – Water is the key element of life, but this element that we thought we knew well may have unexpected properties and might play a role greater than we could imagine in our tree of life. 

Revolutionary New Discoveries about Water! – interview with David Sereda. Following up on the groundbreaking work of Masaru Emoto, Sereda exposed water to the sounds of the sun, and the water crystals changed to a beatific shape.

Permaculture and the Sacred: A Conversation with Starhawk at Harvard Divinity School on March 7, 2013, about how earth-based spirituality can inform and empower efforts to build sustainable communities and societies. 

Deep Adaptation – Jim Bendell & Toni Spencer Professor Jem Bendell, author of Deep Adaptation, summarizes climate science and trends to suggest that humanity faces inevitable societal collapse, probably within 10 years. Toni Spencer then led the audience in a reflective process to explore feelings and ideas emerging. She also offered some poems and reflections during the process. The Climate Psychology Alliance spoke from the floor, explaining their new initiative to provide therapeutic support to people working on or affected by this agenda.

An Inconvenient Truth makes the compelling case that global warming is real, man-made, and its effects will be cataclysmic if we don’t act now. Gore presents a wide array of facts and information in a thoughtful and compelling way: often humorous, frequently emotional, always fascinating. It leaves the viewer shaken, involved and inspired.

An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power is an eye-opening and alarming this compelling follow-up shows that while the stakes have never been higher the solutions to the climate crisis are still within our reach.

Before the Flood with Leonardo Di Caprio presents a riveting account of the dramatic changes now occurring around the world due to climate change, as well as the actions we as individuals and as a society can take to prevent the disruption of life on our planet.

A Vision of the World in 2040 an interview with film-maker Damon Gameau whose film 2040 takes a positive view of our world in 20 years.

Websites:

The Esperanza Project – a Green Magazine for the Americas provides a source of inspiration by focusing  on inspiration, solutions, creative, and sometimes ancient approaches to humanity’s biggest problems.

Intro to Permaculture Design Course – a free, online permaculture course offered by Oregon State University, you will learn about the process, ethics and principles of permaculture design while diving into climate-specific design elements through interactive technology, videos, graphics, and readings. The course is designed to benefit everyone regardless of your learning style, time commitments or available technology.

SPEI Global Drought Monitor offers near real-time information about drought conditions on a global scale. 

U.S. Drought Monitor a weekly map of drought conditions.

U.S. Geological Survey provides real-time data on current conditions and earth observations including earthquakes, water, remote sensing & landsat, volcanoes, and landslides.

WaterWatch displays maps, graphs, data, and tables describing real-time, recent, and past streamflow conditions for the United States.