Privately steered, corporation power can also be affiliated with a variety of  Merchandising/ Commercial, State, Religious, Educational, Scientific or Political networks & regimes. The rise of not for profit Corporations is on the increase over the past century. Also, the concept of Corporate Feudalism has been with us for many decades.

Increased information, communications and mobility facilitates the joining together of people for a variety of responses to current humanity, philanthropic, animal advocacy and environmental concerns.

Whilst environmental advocacy by groups and individuals has always existed, corporations have been extremely slow to respond.  Short term corporate vision of creating a sustainable environment still remains  just a wonderful concept. Its current immaturity risks the future well being of all the children of this earth.

Long term environmental corporate vision for sustainability is also in its infancy.  So what we have is limited corporate short term vision, with the long term vision barely nurtured. Both need to grow up. Vision is our way forward.

Tweed Shire Koala Populations at candobetter.net – and some more updates about the threat from corporate myopia and Koala Populations HERE .

Senate Environment and Communications Committee (Parliament of Australia : SENATE):-  ”The koala—saving our national icon” 22 September 2011  Commonwealth of Australia 2011 ISBN 978-1-74229-524-4

Tim Flannery on Biodiversity -  Copenhagen Climate Council at bluecray Environmental Search

Postkyoto Conversations – Peter Vintila (“freelance social researcher and writer committed to social and environmental justice causes and to the open democratic inquiry this implies”)- at postkyoto.org – and also see search results for some of Peter’s works and thoughts at bluecray environmental search

When  environmental vision is governed by corporate myopia, it is shocking – both short AND long term.

Phantom Koala also knows that His problems and those of all his Koala friends’ problems are OUR PROBLEMS.

Corporate Leadership and Koalas : search results at bluecray Environmental Search

The “Koala” is not just an ICON.

Koala Icon QLD : bluecray Environmental Search results .

Koala Icon NSW : bluecray Environmental Search results .

In the following Koala Poem about Corporate Vision, Phantom Koala muses that the current vision is extremely MYOPIC. Land is cleared,  bargains are made and more Koala Habitat is lost. PK is waiting for Corporate Leadership to take the helm. Unfortunately, all he sees is self seeking gamesmanship, ego and deceit in many directions. Luckily, he has some good friends all around the world, and with his family and friends, he climbs up high to “see”…..
…………….corporate myopia

Phantom Koala does disappearance good
His developer enemies wish that he would
stop as a threat(ened), so their work can go on
now their money is dwindling ,  their wish list so long

They’ve complied with the standard of EIS, so -
why does the nod from the government slow?
And why does their sleep seem to toss turn and wake
they’ve paid their donations what more does it take?

Well PK’s protected. Their money can’t buy
his spirit or habit(at) since their money’s a lie.
And lies based on ego and greed and defense
are valued below more than just a few cents.

While PK’s dear forest friends rally to hear
how corporate greed is now seen by this seer
(This hero who travels through corporate land
and watches and listens to their hollow stand)

Ah -  there’s none oh so blind as as those that can see
yet miss this Koala who’s high in his tree.
And there’s none oh so blind as developers who
circle like madmen yet deny what they knew.

They vow that they’ll see all their money can buy
but PK and his friends see their actions so sly
PK has their myopic sights right in his frame
and sees on their shoulders all of the blame

For his dear friends’ home losses their habitats ‘dozed
And who’s sleeping well now this myth is near closed?
It’s PK and family and friends sitting high
above tree tops of love so they’ll always see “why”.

Phantom Koala (PK) wonders why, for all the badge selling, tracking and monitoring, big furry- suited people with tins, policy advice and volumes of papers and documents, no corporation has stopped the great destruction of Koala Habitat in SE QLD and NE NSW, even though the dedicated people who work hand in hand with Koalas and their “real story” have been telling that story for DECADES. PK knows that he has Corporate Friends. PK also knows that the “Koala” is not just an ICON.

Development on the Tweed Coast of NE NSW, in the Mt Warning Caldera Region of Australia is an example of Corporate Myopia

Australian Science at Work- some archived articles here that may be of interest

Regional Futures Institute : Southern Cross University and ABOUT the Institute

The Australian Government Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts . and their Threatened Species Publications .

Urban Taskforce : and their Mission Statement…..

Stateline NSW : “NSW planning laws under further scrutiny” 2nd Oct. 2009 and the Stateline NSW archive .

Australia’s Threatened Species at the Australian Academy of Science .

“Rescuing Remnants” at the National Library of Australia online .

Threatened remnant vegetation – search results at bluecray Environmental Search

“Truth and Consequences” at Daniel Goleman’s website : Ecological Intelligence, Emotional Intelligence, Social Intelligence

Prinz des Goldes: a blog by Wolfgang Bernhard (if you don’t speak the language, you may like to translate these websites.) and the book “Prinz des Goldes : Fabelhafte Finanzkrise” by Wolfgang Bernhard at Google Books .

Giri and the 22 Arrows of Truth : Myths for a Modern Age Part3

Native vegetation clearance, habitat loss and biodiversity decline – An overview of recent native vegetation clearance in Australia and its implications for biodiversity – references and CONTENTS . what was known back in 1995 . (Biodiversity Series, Paper No. 6 Andreas Glanznig, Biodiversity Unit Department of the Environment, Sport and Territories, June 1995) at Australian Dept. of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts

“Deforestation, urbanisation and seasonality: Interacting effects on a regional bird assemblage” by Carla P. Catterall, Mark B. Kingston, Katherine Park and Sven Sewell ( Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland 4111, Australia.) 1996/1997 – at ScienceDirect.com .

• Riki Ott’s website : author of “Not one Drop”, Riki Ott  is a community activist, a former commercial salmon “fisherm’am,” and has a degree in marine toxicology with a specialty in oil pollution. She understands (first hand) the Exxon Valdez oil spill and has some valuable resources on her website, especially relating to oil spills and the issues of  “Corporate Personhood,” which can be defined simply as “the illegitimate notion that a corporation can claim political and civil rights to overturn democratically enacted laws”

Astrological Stories and Myths for a Modern Age – at Wisdom in the Land .

As the creative director of bluecray, I would like to tell you more about myself and my journey for  Wisdom in the Land. I gained a Bachelor of Applied Science, majoring in natural landscape management,  plant strategies for survival, roadside vegetation management and habitat restoration, relating in particular to human activities and their interactions with natural landscapes, mid ’80′s.

After that?  Post graduate work in Aboriginal education, pesticide application technology & safety,  landscape architecture. I was also  teaching and coordinating community environmental activites, sitting on advisory committees and creating innovative community projects with others (as well as a rather exhausting stint at environmental activism). Finally I came to these realisations:-

• Whilst Australia is full of caring, hardworking environmentally aware people, there still remains many mainstream sustained myths about the value of nature’s biodiverse garden (earth).

• Many young people today have much information thrown at them via the media, corporate hype, political rhetoric and peer pressure. To simply live within the parameters of  nature’s balances is a hard task for many.

• Our sustained myths about what is required for a full and meaningful life is based on economic propagandas and social expectations. These myths actively foster consumerism and hedonistic behaviours at the expense of the planet’s health, biodiversity resilience and dynamic life processes.

• To live a simple life in a sharing and loving way is not honoured by our leaders of society and industry. Our children are being fed stories that there is a value and righteousness in striving for wealth of property, possessions and personal power.

Archetypal “demons” abound and simple grace has been swept out our humble abode’s door to be replaced with a multiplicity of sociopathic obsessive drives to “own”, “control”, “deny” and “destroy”.
Science and industry have basically reeled us in hook line and sinker. And as they reel us in, we bring with us a sad, toxic mess of waste, poison, useless possessions, extinct species and destroyed habitats. This coats us all.
Our collective focus is on destruction (be it often in the name of healing and “growth”) instead of joy, love, sharing and caring for our children’s future – their country, their skies, their waterways.

Industry and corporate greed has a face, so carefully hidden,  that it is a sick secret, chronically denied by wealthy “corporate and political” gamesmanship.

Have  compassion here for those less fortunate – those people who are dragging us into extinction – those people who, at the expense of biodiverse health, spend their life weaving more and more denial into their complex lifestyles as their ego slowly eats up their spiritual credibility and worth.
Individual champions who work , often without realising it, to alert us to these issues and who have lived simple spiritually worthy lives are few and far between.  Mostly, we follow blindly, falling prey to that human condition so well known to many Australians -
“she’ll be right, mate”.
Well, “SHE” is NOT right. “SHE” is very sick. The parallel of the collective earth to the individual human health condition is astounding.

• We fill our lungs with toxic fumes just as we fill the earth “breath” with the same.

• We clothe ourselves with functionless adornments just as we adorn our society and lifestyles with functionless “stuff”.

• Our inner organic systems of liver, heart, arteries and colons  are as choked as our wetlands, habitats, waterways,  and estuarine systems.

• Our skins and bones brittle, diseased and ill as are our soils, infrastructures and urban expansions.

• Our minds have become narrow, hollow and depressed just as our biodiversity has become thinned, weakened and sad.

• Our irrational minds, bent on extremities of lust, hate, greed, glory and imbalance are as extreme as the weather patterns that  greet each day. All the while our precious blue earth turns in space.

Individual responsibility has packed it’s bags and gone on holiday to that beautiful River flowing through Eqypt -  whilst corporate and political responsibility frantically creates more holiday destinations for our ego’s diversion.
Yet each day,  the world turns. Each day, I see in the life outside my door incredible beauty, complex balances and eons old life forces trying to recreate themselves with the best tools they have – adaption, resourcefulness, grace and steady tenaciousness.
Sometimes  -   Grace, that powerful gift from our one true GOD is not enough.
Sometimes, we must go further than Grace. We must stand our ground, walk our talk and summon reality with it’s consequences to that great tribunal, TIME.
And sometimes, TIME’s tribunal catches up with US.

The Sea, Belongil Beach, Byron Bay, Time and then…….?

Well, TIME always catches up – as it is an ever present constant in our human condition here in on our dear blue planet.
And time, my friends, whilst one of the biggest illusions of all, is there to show us exactly who we are.
It is a great mirror in a hall of mirrors, and every frame of existence is there, for all to see.
And whilst we, the great masters of humanity move “forward”, time is there from beginning to end.
To echo the words of John Keel, “the universe does not exist as we think it exists, and we don’t exist as we think we exist”
Much of my life I have been gifted with visions. Travelling beyond time, through the eons I have  watched many events and processes, both past , present and future. I have been beckoned by both the “devil’s” gifts of abundance and “God’s” gifts of abundance. I KNOW that love is the pathway, always through time, no matter how painful it may seem at the time. LOVE is the only healing measure that works. And Abundance ?- it comes from within and shines outwards.

Compassion comes from God and works through us. It is one of God’s greatest gifts to us, if only we can unwrap this precious gift and share it with ALL.  Remorse, self acceptance and the hard yards of love yield an eternity of bliss. Disdain, denial, the easier yards of hate driven anger and our ego’s thoughtless actions yield an eternity of suffering and torment. Choice, through our free will, comes to us through our stories. The stories we play in our head, the stories we hear from each other.

Choice through LOVE and innocence, comes straight from God. The choice to adorn ourselves in the same clothing that our rich “emperor’s wear,  cut for them by those deceiving “taylors”, is up to our free will. Our innocence, nurtured by love allows us to move beyond the idea of any choice and instead, walk hand in hand with God.

and… folks, just a few more photos to look at:- the bottom right one is of an environmental weeds workshop I conducted with some year 7 students back in the early nineties, in Ipswich, SE Qld. Back then, the Dept. of Environment & Heritage had only just started to compile Environmental Weeds lists and strategies for management. Climate change was not even a “buzz” word and yet many many people were aware of species extinctions, habitat threats etc. Vegetation surveys were scarce and development, which was running rife,  was known to be threatening the Koalas of the SE QLD region by many people, yet little was being done to help the Koalas. Developers and government officials largely ignored the plight of Australian wildlife, and whilst there were  dedicated “on the ground workers” and environmental campaigners, politics, corporate greed, corruption and deceit was the order of the day. How much has changed? I’ll leave that to you to tell the story.

**(From my stats figures, I gather that quite a few people use them as a  study resource to find further information on environmental, astrological and in particular habitat care issues.)