The Elwha river in Washington State flows from Olympic Mountain to the straid of Juan de Fuca. In the early 1990s, the river was blocked to make a hydroelectric dam, which cut nearby native American from their livelihoods of salmon fishing.

It’s been 20 years now, and finally, the Elwha river dam is coming down. It’s obsolete for energy production and no longer needed. This video depicts conservationists and engineers slowly going through the process of safely dismantling the dam.

There are more than 250,000 dams in the US and many are no longer used for anything. Most of them were constructed in the 1950’s and serve basically no purpose today. It goes to show the importance of tearing these dams down, one by one...

Randi G. Fine, Contributor
Waking Times

The human experience is not an easy one. When we enter this world we are given few guarantees about what awaits us on our journey. We are promised times of joy and times of sorrow, times of thriving and times of suffering, times of hope and times of despair.

Pain is unavoidable. No one escapes life without enduring their share of it. It may seem as if some have larger burdens than others, but that is not true. It is one’s perception that determines the weight of an experience. No two people have the same reality so no two people will experience adversity the same way.

There are many factors that contribute to our interpretation of life’s challenges. Upbringing plays a significant role in preparing us for the road that lies ahead. We navigate that road through the use of coping skills, healthy or unhealthy...

23rd October 2014

By Jennifer Deisher

Contributing Writer for Wake Up World

Here we are on our beautiful blue green planet, travelling through time and space, hurtling toward infinity. Whether we realize it or not, we are united by our humanity.

As we each begin to flow into our spiritual journey, we become aware of a consciousness beyond our rational 3D comprehension. We begin to question everything we think we know about life and reality. We de-construct the illusions around us, and come to a new understanding of our place in the universe and beyond. And this new awareness is both liberating and extremely confronting, all at the same time...

Meet Will Allen. Will, of the organization Growing Power, has designed an incredible aquaponics growing system that covers a 3 acre farm and produces a simply massive amount of food. 1 million pounds of food every year! Could you imagine making that much food in your yard?

It goes to show how abundant food could be if each of us stepped up and grew a little bit. It gets even easier when you grow it efficiently.

From the video:

…Growing power seems to have a winning combo going. I underestimated what they are doing. Based on the information in these videos, IF true, then on 3 acres they are producing 1,000,000 pounds of food each year! How are they doing this? Well, based on the information given in the video…

Michigan’s Republican governor, Rick Snyder, signed a bill on Tuesday that will keep Tesla Motors, the electric car maker, from selling cars directly to customers in the state. The law simply clarifies that no car manufacturers can directly sell in the state; all cars must be sold through franchised retailers.

No big deal, right? Well, not exactly. Michigan is now the 5th state with this rule. It also bans Tesla from operating “galleries,” or places where potential customers can go to view Tesla cars. They cannot discuss prices, take orders or take cars on test drives in these galleries.

The state’s Senate passed the bill 38-0, and the state house passed it 106-1. Tesla isn’t mentioned by name, but it’s clear that the legislation is directed at the company...