Kryon Berlin Tour & Seminar - Berlin, Germany, Sept 17-22 2019 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll)

Kryon Berlin Tour & Seminar - Berlin, Germany, Sept 17-22 2019 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll)
30th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Council of Europe (CoE) - European Human Rights Court - founding fathers (1949)

Council of Europe (CoE) - European Human Rights Court - founding fathers (1949)
French National Assembly head Edouard Herriot and British Foreign minister Ernest Bevin surrounded by Italian, Luxembourg and other delegates at the first meeting of Council of Europe's Consultative Assembly in Strasbourg, August 1949 (AFP Photo)

EU founding fathers signed 'blank' Treaty of Rome (1957)

EU founding fathers signed 'blank' Treaty of Rome (1957)
The Treaty of Rome was signed in the Palazzo dei Conservatori, one of the Renaissance palaces that line the Michelangelo-designed Capitoline Square in the Italian capital

Shuttered: EU ditches summit 'family photo'

Shuttered: EU ditches summit 'family photo'
EU leaders pose for a family photo during the European Summit at the EU headquarters in Brussels on June 28, 2016 (AFP Photo/JOHN THYS)

European Political Community

European Political Community
Given a rather unclear agenda, the family photo looked set to become a highlight of the meeting bringing together EU leaders alongside those of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Britain, Kosovo, Switzerland and Turkey © Ludovic MARIN

Merkel says fall of Wall proves 'dreams can come true'


“ … Here is another one. A change in what Human nature will allow for government. "Careful, Kryon, don't talk about politics. You'll get in trouble." I won't get in trouble. I'm going to tell you to watch for leadership that cares about you. "You mean politics is going to change?" It already has. It's beginning. Watch for it. You're going to see a total phase-out of old energy dictatorships eventually. The potential is that you're going to see that before 2013. They're going to fall over, you know, because the energy of the population will not sustain an old energy leader ..."
"Update on Current Events" – Jul 23, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: The Humanization of God, Gaia, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Benevolent Design, Financial Institutes (Recession, System to Change ...), Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Nuclear Power Revealed, Geothermal Power, Hydro Power, Drinking Water from Seawater, No need for Oil as Much, Middle East in Peace, Persia/Iran Uprising, Muhammad, Israel, DNA, Two Dictators to fall soon, Africa, China, (Old) Souls, Species to go, Whales to Humans, Global Unity,..... etc.)
(Subjects: Who/What is Kryon ?, Egypt Uprising, Iran/Persia Uprising, Peace in Middle East without Israel actively involved, Muhammad, "Conceptual" Youth Revolution, "Conceptual" Managed Business, Internet, Social Media, News Media, Google, Bankers, Global Unity,..... etc.)




"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Puma puts a price on its environmental footprint

Deutsche Welle, May 19, 2011

Puma sees environmental
accounting as an investment
Sportswear maker Puma has published details of the environmental cost of its business activities. It's part of a larger project to reduce the company's impact on the environment and manage future risk.

While it might seem difficult to put a price tag on an old-growth forest or a wetland area, German sportswear maker Puma has come close, calculating the environmental cost of its business, including its entire supply chain.

With the help of consultancy firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers and research group Trucost, the world's third-largest sportswear manufacturing company determined that in 2010, the combined cost of the carbon it emitted and water it used was 94.4 million euros ($134.3 million).

The analysis, which looked at Puma's entire supply chain in detail, covered everything from the CO2 emissions from the cows that provide the leather for its shoes to the water needed to grow the cotton used in its shirts and shorts.

"We wanted to look at where our biggest effects on the environment are," Kerstin Neuber, Puma deputy spokesperson, told Deutsche Welle. "We've recognized that our current business model is not sustainable in the long run because we'll eventually run up against a shortage of resources."

The analysis looks at the whole
supply chain - from cows to cotton
The lion's share of Puma's environmental costs originates with its suppliers, many of whom are based in Asia. The company hopes that by looking at environmental impacts in detail, it can work with those suppliers – along with other companies who use them - and make sure outsourced processes are subject to the same kinds of environmental standards that its own production is.

Costs and benefits

A subsequent section of Puma's impact report due this fall will go beyond carbon and water to include additional factors such as acid rain, smog and land use. In 2012, the company plans to release a further report on the social impacts of its business, including wage levels, working conditions and living standards.

A final section will focus on the other side of the equation, looking at job creation, wages and tax contributions. The benefits will then be offset against the environmental and social costs of the first two sections to create the complete environmental profit-and-loss statement.

"It is a kind of risk management that we can use for our future procurement strategy while also reducing our impact on the environment," Puma spokesperson Neuber said. The company, whose headquarters are in Bavaria, aims to reduce its energy and water use, carbon emissions and waste by 25 percent by 2015.

The Puma initiative has attracted interest from several major corporations. German companies like Daimler, Siemens and BASF as well as US-based Coca-Cola and Dow Chemical have all been watching closely, Puma said.

Smart business

According to Richard Mattison, CEO of Trucost, the UK-based environmental research firm that helped Puma determine its environmental impact, more companies these days are examining what is called "integrated reporting," which incorporate the positive and negative environmental and social effects into their financial statements.

Most of Puma's environmental
costs originate in Asia, where
it has based production
They are doing so, he said, simply out of a sense of altruism. Puma's systematic approach to examining all the risks across the supply chain will help them make better business decisions in the future, he added.

"It will help them adapt to how the world will look in 2020 or 2030," Mattison told Deutsche Welle. "In a world of increasing demand and decreasing availability of natural resources, it's a very wise thing to do."

Such analysis can help companies avoid the rising cost of raw materials in the future, or to re-engineer their facilities, products or supply chains to be more environmentally friendly.

"By understanding the relationship between nature and commerce, business can understand how to reduce their risk," he said.

In addition, Puma can benefit from its profit-and-loss statement when it comes to future regulation. As resources become scarcer, it many observers believe it is likely that companies will be required to report in a detailed fashion the environmental impact on their business.

"We'll be one step ahead of companies that have to start from scratch," Neuber said.

First step

Environmentalists have welcomed the new approach, saying it is an important first step in the corporate world's rethinking how it uses natural resources, which were once considered to be there for the taking.

"If Puma, for example, sees that its water-intensive cotton farming operation in India is in a dry region, it needs to change its practices or move or look for a substitute product," Roland Gramling of WWF-Germany told Deutsche Welle.

Puma chief Zeitz says sustainability
is essential to his company's future
He said economists started giving nature and natural resources a monetary value at the end of the 1990s. While there had always been a concrete value placed on raw materials such as gold, no one had really taken into consideration the value of a wetland located next to an Indian textile factory using large amounts of water.

"But now we have to," Gramling said.

Several other firms in Germany are looking at the issue of sustainability and their future business viability. Supermarket chain Edeka has announced it wants to ensure that all its fish products come from sustainable fisheries. The company's fear is that if they do not, overfishing could make it difficult to meet customer demand further down the road.

Some, however, have accused Puma of hypocrisy, pointing to the company's sponsorship of the Formula 1 and MotoGP racing series – hardly the greenest of sports.

But Puma's Neuber said the company was thinking in bigger terms – looking at the whole transportation chain and not about "ten cars driving around in circles."

"This report details how we damage the environment," she said. "We have tried to create as much transparency as we can."

Author: Kyle James
Editor: Sam Edmonds

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