In Vienna, the Hilton Hotel has installed a large quantity of treated window film to cut air conditioning costs, reducing the temperature in its rooms by nearly 10%, and saving a ton of money by pruning electricity use and CO2 emissions. In a French installation, the drug company GlaxoSmithKline will pay off a similar project within 3 years with savings in heating and cooling its corporate headquarters.

Skyscrapers are notorious for their waste of energy. The Chicago-located Sears Tower (now Willis Tower), the tallest building in the western hemisphere, is starting a massive environmental refit which will create over 3,000 jobs. With help from wind and solar equipment, the project will save the equivalent of 150,000 barrels of oil each year when completed.

In a different way, Britain’s largest supermarket chain, Tesco, is helping Mother Earth. The company is now diverting the whole of its staggering 531,000 tons of waste from landfills, mostly by recycling: turning waste meat into fuel, for example, and making spanking new cardboard boxes out of used ones in a speedy two-week turnaround. Even plastic bags are recycled as big refuse bags—there, and you said they just threw them away!

New Zealanders concerned about the damage that palm oil production has done to rainforests have forced Cadbury NZ to promise that it will stop using palm oil in its chocolate. The candy manufacturer had recently started using the oil to cut costs. Citing the threat to tropical wild life, including the endangered orangutans, of palm oil agricultural practices, the Auckland Zoo led an attack by environmentalists and stopped the stocking of Cadbury products on its premises.

Woden recognizes that Rome was not built in a day. Mother Earth will need a lot more help from a much wider spectrum of business interests if she can continue to house her people, animals, and plant life. When looked at against the backdrop of the chemical and the oil companies’ continued and massive pollution of land and water, and the damage to air quality done by coal-fired power plants from China to the American rust belt, these corporate projects I have cited look like fleas on the rump of a rhinoceros.
All this is more than global warming, much more than a threat to comfort. It is a matter of the near-term sustainability of life on our planet. In her recent channeled message, published on this website, the soul of pioneer environmentalist Rachel Carson said this: “Mother Earth is tired of being scourged and is fighting back with tremors, eruptions, and winds. Become aware of life and soothe her troubled brow. Every effort you engage in to stop and reverse her agony will be rewarded with a better life for all. Be aware that every action you perform affects the energy of everything around you.”

Now, Rachel says she monitors the souls on Earth currently fighting the same battles in which she once participated. She attempts to infuse them with energy to sustain their efforts. The spirit guides support everyone seeking to help Mother Earth. We all have a contribution to make. Rachel herself took on the chemical companies and was attacked professionally for doing so. Some people have chosen to believe that “direct action” will nudge things forward in the right direction. Most people prefer to use ballot boxes, boycotts, petitions, and protests. Each soul makes its own choice—but no soul lives here on Earth who does not suffer in its human body from the pollution of the atmosphere and of the food supply.

There seem to me two opportunities missing from the usual list of things we can do. The first is suggested by the Masters of the Spirit World themselves. This is simply for us to gather together to praise Mother Earth for her bounty and to thank her for her gifts. Just that. The Masters say we should avoid praying for things to be better. That creates the suggestion that things are no good, and the healing energy of the universe will take us at our word and do nothing. But if we give thanks for the glories of Nature, that same universal Qi will come to rectify whatever does not match our thanksgiving by empowering change and strengthening, calming, and protecting the great spirit, Mother Earth.

The second thing is to realize we must be people of environmental integrity ourselves. We must try harder to buy locally produced foodstuffs, monitor what we put in landfills, cut our carbon footprint. And we must strive for wellness in our individual body, because thus we contribute directly to the wellness of the whole world.
Thank you, Mother Earth, for all you are and all you do for us.