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To Love and Regenerate the Earth: Further Perspectives On To Love And Regenerate The Earth: Further Perspectives On Written and Compiled by Don Weaver, Co-Author of FERTILE GROUND by Rob Schouten ã 1995 To Love And Regenerate The Earth: Further Perspectives on The Survival of Civilization. Written and compiled by Don Weaver. Copyright 2002 by Don Weaver, to protect the wholeness and integrity of this work. Communications may be addressed to: Don Weaver Earth Health Regeneration POB 620478 Woodside, CA 94062-0478 e-mail: [email protected] The purpose of this book is to offer the world's responsible people a non-commercial gift of potentially world-transforming information, ideas, and insights on the social, ecological and climatic problems now threatening the future of humanity and the whole Biosphere. Also, to offer potential solutions which respond to the causes of these problems, and which might empower us to wisely regenerate the Biosphere and restore health and balance to the sociosphere. The author/editor is an independent (and interdependent) volunteer researcher hoping to encourage humanity's continued awakening, as well as "the progress of Science and useful Arts," one of the Constitutionally stated purposes of copyright law. In quoting from a broad spectrum of journals, websites, and books, I did not intend to substitute for them nor discourage careful, open-minded study of the entirety of them, nor do I in any way discourage their purchase if for sale. I found very helpful, as you may, the information and guidelines on the Fair Use privilege in books and websites on the topic. Especially comprehensive is the Fifth Edition (Feb. 2000) of The Copyright Handbook by attorney Stephen Fishman, published by Nolo Press. Its section 11/3 on Fair Use includes a Codification of Fair Use Privilege and quotes Section 107 of the 1976 Copyright Act which provides that: "The fair use of a copyrighted work ... for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching ... scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright." The entire section 107 may be studied at the website: www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html. The Chicago Manual of Style (14th Edition, 1993) says: "The right of fair use is a valuable one to scholarship, and it should not be allowed to decay through the failure of scholars to employ it boldly." (p. 148) The Copyright Primer (2nd Edition, 1995) by Janis Bruwelheide says: "Without this privilege to use copyrighted materials, copyright would not serve its constitutional purpose to 'promote the progress of Science and useful Arts.' Fair use thus limits the copyright owner's monopoly by reserving to others the right to make reasonable uses of copyrighted materials without the specific consent of the author. The doctrine is of extreme importance to teachers, librarians, researchers, and scholars as well as to the public generally." (p. 11) Also noteworthy from this book's Appendix F: "The Association of Research Libraries affirms the following intellectual property principles as they apply to librarians, teachers, researchers, and other information mediators and consumers.... Statement of Principles 1) Copyright exists for the public good.... Fair use and other public rights to utilize copyrighted works, specifically and intentionally included in the 1976 revision of the law, provide the essential balance between the rights of authors, publishers and copyright owners, and society's interest in the free exchange of ideas. 2) Fair use, the library, and other relevant provisions of the Copyright Act of 1976 must be preserved in the development of the emerging information infrastructure. Fair use and other relevant provisions are the essential means by which teachers teach, students learn, and researchers advance knowledge...." (p. 113; 5 more Principles follow) One more quote from The Copyright Handbook: "Pursuant to the fair use rule, an author is permitted to make limited use of a prior author's work without asking permission. All authors and other copyright owners are deemed to give their automatic consent to the fair use of their work by others. The fair use privilege is perhaps the most significant limitation on a copyright owner's exclusive rights." (Section 11/3) I hope this serves as a good introduction to the topic of fair use. A study of the resources mentioned can provide a fuller understanding. I ask that you respect the intent and purpose of To Love And Regenerate The Earth and its non-commercial, educational nature, as you put it to wise and fair use. As for making copies for personal study and use, that would seem natural to me, and a relevant note on this is found in How To Register Your Own Copyright (1998) by attorney Mark Warda: "There is no specific exemption in the law for personal use. But because the constitutional purpose of copyright law is to promote the ‘progress of Science and useful Arts,' courts have ruled that making copies for personal use is a kind of fair use." (p. 33) Please consider half-used (1 side already printed) or other recycled paper if you decide to print out any number of pages, for the many good soil/tree/climate/life-saving reasons we know (or will soon learn). If you reprint any portions in another article, book, or website, please include accurate source references including the www.remineralize.org website. A copy of the article or other use, or notice of where to find it on the Web, would also be appreciated. If you link the www.remineralize.org website to yours, please e-mail Joanna Campe – [email protected] – to let her know. Please note that the "Fertile Ground" cover art has its own copyright and its owners have loaned this art to us only for this non-commercial educational project. If you wish to use it in any way beyond personal use (appreciation of its beauty), you will need to request specific permission from: Rob and Victory Schouten, Great Path Publishing, POB 882, Freeland WA 98249, 1-800-858-5063, or [email protected]. Thank you for carefully considering all of this. Perhaps you, too, may find the following quotes inspirational. "I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have." -- Abraham Lincoln "I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do." -- Helen Keller "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult." -- Seneca "Past the seeker as he prayed, came the crippled and the beggar and the beaten. And seeing them, the holy one went down into deep prayer and cried, 'Great God, how is it that a loving Creator can see such things and yet do nothing about them?' And out of the long silence, God said, 'I did do something. I made you.' " -- Unknown Dedication A researcher named Herbert Bailey wrote a dedication to his book which I find moving and inspiring and, if I had no other words to offer, think these would fit here well: “This book is dedicated to those rare persons who honestly seek the truth in all of man’s endeavors on this planet and will not allow egotism, personal gain, or seemingly insurmountable obstacles . to deter them in the slightest from their quest.” (from Vitamin E: Your Key To A Healthy Heart, 1971) Let us hope that, 30 years later, those guided by foremost concern for truth can no longer be classed “rare persons,” because the human quest to create a sane and healthy world has never known greater need for caring, committed participants. My own simple words of dedication are these: To all children and other innocent creatures whose beauty, goodness, quality of health and future survival depends upon our rapid awakening to an enlightened responsibility to heal and transform the world. Don Weaver Acknowledgements of Gratitude I wish first to give thanks for the evidently magnificent, marvelous, and miraculous Creative-Regenerative-Intelligent Life Force which fashions our bodies from the "dust of the ground," and is always ready and available to help an intelligent, cooperative, co-creative human race - and to revitalize the Biosphere of which we're a key, conscious, and very powerful part. Thank you for so much, Anita Hamaker, who supported me and others and this work in countless (usually "anonymous") ways. Without her over 50 years of dedicated partnership with John Hamaker, it is likely neither John nor I would be offering you anything here. (My thanks to John is in the separate "A Tribute To John D. Hamaker (1914-1994)") Thanks also to Maralyn Hamaker, for helping us edit and publish The Survival of Civilization, and overall caring support. Endless thanks to my parents, Adrian and Marie Weaver, who gave me truthful guidance, love and freedom to follow my heart and conscience - even when they disagreed with me. Without their nurturance and encouragement to read and develop my mind along with my jump shot, and without their generous provisions of "famine relief funds" when needed, you might (for better or worse) have heard nothing from me beyond "swish." As you can glimpse in the photo I took of them, we always did agree that kindness, laughter and plenty of mineralized lettuce are good to share! I also thank my brother and sister for all they shared and taught me as the youngest of our family. Adrian and Marie Weaver Thanks to all my teachers and coaches, in and out of school, who were called to service to enrich the understanding and experience of others, to create a wiser and happier world.
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