The Peace Project : Through creativity and community, we can change the world ~ 500 artists across 6 continents in 30 countries and 30 states in the USA

The Peace Project

Since 2010, 4,000 artists from 70 countries on 6 continents have joined hands and used art to change lives.

All submissions are featured in the traveling exhibit via a mosaic like the one shown above, as well the Jury selected art is featured on individual 12x12 inch panels.

All funds raised from the Call For Artists and traveling exhibits help fund The Peace Center and Peace Projects

Sales of artist's panels go to build "The Peace Center" in Sierra Leone, Africa, tentatively planned to be adjacent to the former Aberdeen Amputee Refugee Camp. From The Peace Center, the Peace Project in conjunction with trusted in-country partner, Community Association for Psychosocial Services, will operate training programs, arts and cultural initiatives, and administer a micro-loan program. Ultimately seeking to create a development model that is scalable and can be duplicated not just in Sierra Leone, but beyond.

PEACE TRAVELS 

This collective vision was unveiled in September 2013 and the exhibit travels throughout Southern California and other locations in the United States including San Francisco and New York. An online exhibition is held simultaneously. 

The Peace Center 
Peace Project work prove that art truly does change the world -- and that we are not too small to tackle the world's big problems. 

In 2010, The Peace Project was founded to show that great change can happen very quickly if creative people work together.  Since then: Over 20,000 people worldwide have donated time, money, art and services. 

Two books published that feature over 1,000 visions of peace from artists worldwide. 

Dozens of children in Sierra Leone are receiving an education through The Peace Project. 

On World Peace Day, 2011, The Peace Project led one of the most unique collaborations ever, Operation Rise, distributed 10,000 pairs of crutches across Sierra Leone, changing the lives of thousands of people instantly. 

"Mindless Monk" (Beijing 1989)

by Karin Lisa Atkinson 

"Goddess of Peace" (New York 2001)

by Karin Lisa Atkinson 

"Urban Balance" 2014 

by Karin Lisa Atkinson 

"Spirit Bird" 2012 

by Karin Lisa Atkinson 

"Gathering Light" 2017 

by Karin Lisa Atkinson  

Peace Project gallery and shop

Video music "Anthem of Humanity" by Jonathan Beaudette (United Nations 2nd Annual Youth Conference)

Anthem of Humanity Video

Jonathan Beaudette is a very nice person, humanitarian and multi-instrumentalist who plays and performs the piano, acoustic and electric guitar, 12-string acoustic guitar, bass guitar, synths, various world percussion and winds, and has been known to use his unique voice from time to time. Watch his videos by clicking here. Jonathan composed a score and video for the United Nations in 2010 in support of the Millennium Development Goals and Youth Pre-Conference. His music has been used in the trailers for Warner Bros. Pictures Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1, Lady in the Water and Fools Gold, Paramount Pictures Cloverfield, Fox 2000 Films Eragon, Ubisoft’s PS2 game Peter Jackson’s King Kong, Sci-Fi Channel’s Caprica and The Lost Room, and other films such as Taken and Joshua. For more of  Jonathan's story and music please visit his website and FACEBOOK page. Check out his unique contribution to our planet.

Scared Land News: Taos Pueblo Tribe Regains Stewardship of Sacred Site

As the sun set on the annual Taos Pueblo Powwow in Taos, N.M., on July 14, representatives of the Taos Land Trust, surrounded by dancers and tribal members from across the country, officially returned a sacred hot springs property to the Taos Pueblo Tribe. The Ponce de León Hot Springs, just south of Taos, is a sacred site to the Taos Pueblo and has been used by tribal members for ceremonial activities since time immemorial. For more than a century, however, the 44-acre property had been in the hands of private landowners.

According to a press release, Taos Land Trust, a local land conservation organization, received funding in 1997 to acquire the property from private landowners, to protect it from commercial development. After a 15-year search for the best entity to preserve the land and its natural and cultural resources, the organization has now transferred legal ownership to the Taos Pueblo, returning the site to its original indigenous owners.

“This is kind of relationship between a conservation organization and a tribe is a rare thing, but we think a very important precedent,” former Taos Land Trust Executive Director Ernie Atencio said. “Giving this property back to its original indigenous owners was a victory for conservation, for community relations and for justice.”

New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez attended the ceremony, where Taos Pueblo Governor Laureano Romero, Warchief Benito Sandoval and Taos Land Trust President Christopher Smith signed the land-transfer documents.

“Blue Lake, the Rio Grande, Red Clay, the Hot Springs … these areas are critical to our well being, without them we would not exist,” Sandoval said. “It is important to preserve these areas for the future of our children and all who live here. We are very grateful!”

A conservation easement signed by the land trust in 2009 permanently protects the property, limiting any future development, no matter who owns it. Under the terms of the easement, the property must remain accessible to all the people of the Taos community, who have been enjoying its waters for generations.

While acknowledging the challenge of balancing land preservation with public access, Atencio said the Taos Pueblo were committed to providing that access and would continue to do so through a free permit system.

Scared Land.org Story Credit and website

Indian House Music ~ Traditional American Indian Music

Aboriginal Art of the First Peoples website

Video documentary short "Native Son ~ Restoring Self Identity and Cultural Esteem" by Witness

Watch Trailer "Witness: Native Son"

About Native Son:
The popular perception of the American Indian is that they continue to live in isolated reservations far removed from the turmoil of modern city life. In fact most now live in America's major cities. But this urban migration has done little to solve the challenges they face. They are still at the bottom of the pile in terms of life chances and achievement. Even in the cities most Native American children drop out of high school, many are raised without a father and there is a better than average chance they will join a gang or have problems with drugs and alcohol. It is a growing trend and one that many tribal elders feel can only be solved by reversing their loss of native identity. Michael Graziano and Ernie Park spent time alongside young urban Native Americans to see how the prospects for a brighter future can be improved by restoring a sense of pride in their identity.

About Al Jazeera - Witness series of documentary video
Rageh Omaar and Ghida Fakhry present Witness, a half-hour documentary series which features short, specially commissioned or acquired films gathered from independent filmmakers.

Each documentary reveals the unknown lives of ordinary people, following their lives, telling their stories and portraying the challenges that confront them. Our witnesses are people in a situation or those who have observed them first hand.

The films cover conflict, belief, the past, and the future and, as well as bringing new stories to light, they showcase the talents of a new breed of multi-skilled, frontline journalist.

Space Photography: MARS Science Laboratory by NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and California Institute of Technology

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This image is from a test series used to characterize the 100-millimeter Mast Camera on NASA's Curiosity rover. It was taken on Aug. 23, 2012, and looks south-southwest from the rover's landing site.

The 100-millimeter Mastcam has three times better resolution than Curiosity's 34-millimeter Mastcam, though it has a narrower field of view. Some haze obscures the view, but the top ridge, depicted in this image, is 10 miles (16.2 kilometers) away.

Scientists enhanced the color in one version to show the Martian scene under the lighting conditions we have on Earth, which helps in analyzing the terrain. A raw version is also available.

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JPL manages the Mars Science Laboratory/Curiosity for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. 
The rover was designed, developed and assembled at JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena California (Los Angeles)

NASA/JPL/California Institute of Technology "Curiosity Explores Mars" Image Gallery and Current News

Mars: NASA Explores the Red Planet

NASA/JPL Mars Science Laboratory: Curiosity Rover

Space Photography Video ~ NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

Space Images - try the smart browser the website provides individual access to Universal elements

Image Credit: Slide show and Videos plus curser zoom in to travel the images

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Space Photography : (ERBP) Earth's Radiation Belt Storm Probe To Do First Study of Van Allen Radiation Belts = Ion Acoustic Soliton Asymptotology Interpretive Universe, Electric Universe, Cosmic Plasma Universe, Holoscience, Space Weather, Solar Storms

Artist's rendering of Van Allen radiation belts, two giant rings of charged particles that circle Earth. 

The Watcher's article, the NASA TV report and the earth's magnetic field explain the (RBSP) Radiation Belt Storm Probes new mission launched in August 2012, to improve our understanding of the Universe/Multiverse.  

Excerpt from"The Watchers" article

“We know examples where a storm of incoming particles from the sun can cause the two belts to swell so much that they merge and appear to form a single belt,” says Shri Kanekal, RBSP’s deputy project scientist at Goddard.

“Then there are other examples where a large storm from the sun didn’t affect the belts at all, and even cases where the belts shrank. Since the effects can be so different, there is a joke within the community that ‘If you’ve seen one storm . . . You’ve seen one storm.’ We need to figure out what causes the differences.”

There are two broad theories on how the particles get energy: from radial transport or in situ. In radial transport, particles move perpendicular to the magnetic fields within the belts from areas of low magnetic strength far from Earth to areas of high magnetic strength nearer Earth.

The laws of physics dictate that particle energies correlate to the strength of the magnetic field, increasing as they move towards Earth. The in situ theory posits that electromagnetic waves buffet the particles – much like regular pushes on a swing – successively raising their speed (and energy). 

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Asymptotology Universe

Acoustical Universe

Soliton Universe  (and about solitons)

Credit: NASA/T. Benesch, J. Carns

 Van Allen radiation belts

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 About "Holoscience"

About the Electric Universe

More about the Electric Universe Theory 

Exploring The Electric Universe

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About multisolitons, cosmic dust ion acoustic nebulons 

China Ministry-of-Education Key Laboratory of Fluid Mechanics and National Laboratory for Computational Fluid Dynamics, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics 

College of Engineering Peking University

China's Project 221 and Project 985 

Image Credit and KdV solitons (Martin David Kruskal's Asymptotology soliton) 

Kruskal coined the term Asymptotology to describe the "art of dealing with applied mathematical systems in limiting cases". He formulated seven Principles of Asymptotology: 1. The Principle of Simplification; 2. The Principle of Recursion; 3. The Principle of Interpretation; 4. The Principle of Wild Behaviour; 5. The Principle of Annihilation; 6. The Principle of Maximal Balance; 7. The Principle of Mathematical Nonsense.

Indian Academy of Sciences Pramana Journal of Physics ... non-linear wave studies of plasma solitons Ion-acoustic solitons in multispecies spatially inhomogeneous plasmas

Clean Tech Video: Wind Power Without Blades by Atelier DNA (NYC firm designs for Masdar, an auto-free planned city outside of Abu Dhabi)

Windstalks generate electricity when the wind sets them waving. Atelier DNA’s "Windstalk"project came in second in the Land Art Generator competition a contest sponsored by Madsar to identify the best work of art that generates renewable energy from a pool of international submissions.

Each base is slightly different, and is sloped so that rain will funnel into the areas between the concrete to help plants grow wild. These bases form a sort of public park space and serve a technological purpose. Each one contains a torque generator that converts the kinetic energy from the stalk into energy using shock absorber cylinders similar to the kind being developed by Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Levant Power. Two large chambers below the whole site will work like a battery to store energy. The idea is based on existing hydroelectric pumped storage systems. Water in the upper chamber will flow through turbines to the lower chamber, releasing stored energy until the wind starts up again.

The top of each tall stalk has an LED lamp that glows when the wind is blowing -- more intensely during strong winds and not all when the air is still. The firm anticipates that the stalks will behave naturally, vibrating and fluttering in the air. 

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Photography Videos : Timothy Allen, Photographer and Filmmaker

Timothy Allen's website Portfolio and About  and Google+ page

Forget Your Past ~ Image Credit: Timothy Allen

Video short film "Our Story in 2 Minutes"

Image Credit: NASA, The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth

Watch: "Our Story in 2 Minutes" a short film high school video productions class using photos from all over the world sourced form the internet

Music "Mind Heist" by Zack Hemsey

Video and Article "The Daughter of the Dawn" (USA, 1920) and "Silent Enemy" (Canada, 1930) - Silent Films with all-Native American / First Nations Cast

"Silent Enemy" movie still (Canada, 1930)

"Daughters of the Dawn" movie still Kiowa Village (USA 1920)

(Image Credit: Oklahoma Historical Society)

UK Article: "Daughter of the Dawn" photos and restoration information of the film made in 1920

History Blog article "Daughters of the Dawn"

Watch 11 minutes of "Daughter of the Dawn"

"Silent Enemy" TCM article (1930) "Given the film's respect for their tribal life and ways, it's perhaps the first revisionist Western, before the genre veered off into depicting Native Americans as target practice for cowboys and colonizing armies. It is, in short, a major rediscovery."

How a silent film featuring an all-Native cast came to be made, lost (seemingly forever), discovered nearly a century later (in shambles), then restored and shown to the cast’s descendants is one of the most fascinating stories in the annals of American filmmaking. The Daughter of Dawn had its world premiere in Oklahoma City, and may be the only all-Native America cast silent film ever made. In the autumn of 1919 Norbert Myles was hired to direct a film for Richard Banks, owner of the fledgling Texas Film Company. "Silent Enemy", made in 1930, is a Canadian silent film depicting Ojibwe living in Quebec and Ontario.

"Silent Enemy" movie still, 1930

Articles "Biggest Native American DNA Survey Tells a Storied Theory"

Article: MIT coverage of a story about the scientific concept of how the Americas were settled in three waves.

DNA Tribes ~ website some people use test their ancestry story

UNOOSA: United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, The United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, The Outer Space Treaty of 1967 ~ Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies (and UN SPIDER)

UNOOSA

Watch "UNOOSA: United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs"

Watch "Women in Space"

The United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space

Watch and take the "Outer Space Treaty quiz"

Outer Space Treaty of 1967 ~ Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration 
and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies.
The Outer Space Treaty was considered by the Legal Subcommittee in 1966 and agreement was reached in the General Assembly in the same year ( resolution 2222 (XXI). The Treaty was largely based on the Declaration of Legal Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, which had been adopted by the General Assembly in its resolution 1962 (XVIII) in 1963, but added a few new provisions. The Treaty was opened for signature by the three depository Governments (the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States of America) in January 1967, and it entered into force in October 1967. The Outer Space Treaty provides the basic framework on international space law, including the following principles:

the exploration and use of outer space shall be carried out for the benefit and in the interests of all countries and shall be the province of all mankind;

outer space shall be free for exploration and use by all States;

outer space is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means;

States shall not place nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction in orbit or on celestial bodies or station them in outer space in any other manner;

the Moon and other celestial bodies shall be used exclusively for peaceful purposes;

astronauts shall be regarded as the envoys of mankind;

States shall be responsible for national space activities whether carried out by governmental or non-governmental entities;

States shall be liable for damage caused by their space objects; and

States shall avoid harmful contamination of space and celestial bodies.

Video: Space mining interview April 2013

About UNOOSA ~ The Office provided secretariat services in 1968 and 1982 for the two first United Nations Conferences on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. For the Third United Nations Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNISPACE III) held in July 1999 in Vienna, the Office acted as executive secretariat and serviced the Conference within existing resources.

International Outer Space Law, Outer Space Treaty, Moon Treaty: Who Owns Space? Who Rules The Laws of Inner and Outer Space? ... And The Role of The United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS)

Image Credit and article "Outer Space Gets It's First Lawyer"

United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs and What is Space Law?
Space Law Wiki-defined

Outer Space Treaty

Moon Treaty 

Law of the Sea Treaty

Read: about "Agreement Governing the Activities of States on the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies"

Read: "Education Opportunities in Space Law - A Directory" by the UN

Read: about "Lunar and Planetary Institute"

Watch: "Will space mining surpass earth mining?" (6:34 minutes 2013)

Read: about "Moon Express"

Read: "Asteroid Mining"

Watch: "Space: The Mining Frontier" (2:18 minutes 2013)

Watch: "Mining Asteroids" (49 minutes 2012)

Watch: "Press Release by Planet Resources Asteroid Mining" (3 minutes 2012)

Read: "Google Lunar X Prize (GLXP)"

Watch: TMRO - "CrowdFunding Your Next Space Program"

Read: "Space Exploration" (mini history)

Read: "Who Owns Mars? The Law in Outer Space" by Jesse Londin

Watch: Promo for "Deep Space Industries - Mining The Universe For The Future" (4 minutes 2013)

Read: "SpaceX Reaches Orbit: 7 ways you can get sued doing business in space"

View: Slide show of space related legal issues

Read: "Asteroid Mining Venture Backed By Google Execs, James Cameron Unveiled"

Read: "NASA and FAA Agree on Private Space Taxi Rules"

Read: "How To Keep Commercial Spaceflight Safe: QandA With FAA's George Nield"

Read: "Space Tourism and Private Space travel Must Be Safe, House Panel Says"

Read: "Space Law: Is Astroid Mining Legal?"

Read: "Space: The Legal Frontier?"

Read: "Does Astroid Mining Violate Space Law?"

Read: "Space Debris Remediation"

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Read: "Can I Buy Land on The Moon?"

Read: "Free-Market Fans Encourage Rush for Off-Planet Real Estate"

Read: "Newly Discovered Network of Moon Tunnels Could House Lunar Colonists" 

Read: "Analysis of Human Space Flight Safety"
Report to Congress 2008
Independent Study Mandated by Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act of 2004

FAA Office of Commercial Space Transportation

Read: "Regulating Private Human Space Flight"

European Center for Space Law (ECSL)

Archimedes Institute Library for Space Law and Policy Research

Institute of Air and Space Law ~ McGill University Canada 

International Law Association ~ Space Law Committee

Space Policy and Law of India 

India ~ A Millennium Perspective

China Space Law

The Way Forward for Promoting Awareness of Space Law in Asia

Africa Space Law

Australia Space Law
and Space Law Activities Act

Journal of Space Law

Space Travel Law News ~ Google Blogspot

Space Travel Law News

American bar Association ~ The Forum on Air and Space Law

International Institute of Space Law (IISL)

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International Space Law ~ The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs is the Secretariat for the Legal Subcommittee of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS), which is the primary international forum for the development of laws and principles governing outer space. In addition to providing parliamentary services, the Office prepares legal studies and background documents on various aspects of space law to assist member States in their deliberations. In accordance with the Action Plan endorsed by the General Assembly in its resolution 55/122, the Office provides information and advice, upon request, to governments, non-governmental organizations and the general public on space law in order to promote understanding, acceptance and implementation of the international space law agreements concluded under United Nations auspices.

NOOSA and The Outer Space Treaty of 1967 ~ Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies. The Outer Space Treaty was considered by the Legal Subcommittee in 1966 and agreement was reached in the General Assembly in the same year resolution 2222 (XXI). The Treaty was largely based on the Declaration of Legal Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, which had been adopted by the General Assembly in its resolution 1962 (XVIII)in 1963, but added a few new provisions. The Treaty was opened for signature by the three depository Governments (the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States of America) in January 1967, and it entered into force in October 1967. The Outer Space Treaty provides the basic framework on international space law.

The Fair and Responsible Use of Space: 

An International Perspective

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Space Law, A Treatise

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The Law of Outer Space

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Image Credit and link to digital book

Commercial Utilization of Outer Space: 

Law and Practice

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Dispute Settlement in International Space Law: 

A Multi-Door Courthouse for Outer Space

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