1.  Go to a park in the late afternoon, taking pencil and paper.
2.  Sit, take a few minutes counting breaths.
3.  While viewing the sunset, simply watch, and then apply pencil to paper, letting words form on the page, without expectation. 
4.  Switch back again, between expression of words, and sitting, opening.

5.  And open, open, open. 

Follow this link, or simply go to World Changing on the right, and link.

The Millenium EcoSystem Assessment is out.  It's not good news, at all. 

"Overall, the story isn't good. Of the 24 key "services" provided by the environment, 15 have "degraded over the last 50 years--most notably fresh water, fisheries, air and water purification, and the regulation of climate, natural hazards and pests. Only four have been enhanced, and three of those pertain to food production."

Practices much change, and technology is as much a part of the solution as part of the problem.  However, the current world economic engine, powered by oil, cannot continue. 

I recently had a post about "missionary work".  This fits, I think. 

There's a quote somewhere, a Tibetan Buddhist quote. Something like, "for the infinite, no separation, for the world of form, infinite discrimination".

Or something like this - I know this is way off...

Mastering this contradiction, between opening to the formless, and having skilled discrimination and right activity/service towards form, is the ongoing challenge.