Dear Friend and Co-Worker, and Lover of Life,

I invite you to read my new book, To Love And Regenerate The Earth. It is a free gift to you and our endangered Earth. The same is true of the foundational book, The Survival of Civilization, co-authored by the late John Hamaker and myself. Both are available now at www.remineralize-the-earth.org. Background and details follow:

The United Nations Environment Programme says climatic and environmental disasters in 2002 will cost $70 billion, 10,000 or more human deaths, and countless deaths of other species, many of whom are quickly heading toward extinction. The decline of our health in general at this time is
incalculable.

In accordance with growing number of scientists worldwide, the cover of the September 2002 Discover magazine warns of "Global Warming Surprise--A New Ice Age" that is likely to begin soon, and swiftly. This great danger has been revealed by excellent paleoclimate research from many scientists since the 1960s, confirming a long-term, alternating glacial-interglacial cycle within what is actually our current Ice Age.

My friend and ecological genius, the late John Hamaker, began to alert the world to the dangers of our combined ecological and climatic problems, and the need for commitment to real solutions, in the 1970s. John had the curious idea that we are gifted with an ability to recognize and correct our mistakes, which would entail: 1. the ability to replenish and revitalize our depleted soils, foods, bodies-minds-spirits, forests, atmosphere, climate, and the whole Biosphere; and 2. an ability to be wise, generous, and truly loving to both this and future generations of life on Earth. I agreed, so worked with John to write and publish The Survival of Civilization in 1982.

From 1982-1997, 14,000 copies of the book were distributed, along with many thousands of the "Solar Age or Ice Age Bulletin," which I edited. I helped Larry Ephron and his nonprofit People For A Future distribute about 6000 copies of both his film, "Stopping The Coming Ice Age," and book, The End: The Imminent Ice Age and How We Can Stop It! As well, Joanna Campe circulated thousands of copies of her magazine, Remineralize the Earth.

I’ve now completed a five-year stint on the new book, To Love And Regenerate The Earth: Further Perspectives on The Survival of Civilization. I want to give this book to every Life-loving person, and I don’t want to deplete more of Earth’s dwindling tree cover to do so. I think both books are too urgently important to humanity and our fellow endangered species to be commercialized, so with the help of Joanna Campe and others, they are now available for free at the Remineralize the Earth web site: <www.remineralize-the-earth.org>. I encourage you to share this information with as many others as you can. Realistically, it will require the actions of an informed and inspired majority of our 6.2 billion-strong human family to reverse the current eco-climatic degeneration and accomplish the needed soil-health-Earth Regeneration. More than ever, we need to accept personal responsibility for planetary health. Is not this responsibility and this regeneration work essential now, regardless of the exact nature and speed of global climate change?

Thanks for all you have done, and will do, to make a positive difference. It may be wise to consider, at this amazing time of planetary growth, crisis, and opportunity for healing, this thought from philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin:

"It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist."

As of this Dec. 2002 writing, parts of the <www.remineralize-the-earth.org> web site are still being created, and when complete should round out this very important resource center for the global remineralization/regeneration movement. Synopses of both The Survival of Civilization and To Love And Regenerate The Earth should appear soon at the web site.

Co-workers and I are willing to help in other ways, such as being radio or TV guests or speakers, as I recently was at Scotland's 1st Annual Conference on Soil Remineralization. Here a healthy spectrum of people, including Members of Parliament and the wonderful members of the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA), cooperated to advance this cause. SEPA is working with my friends Cameron and Moira Thomson and their beautiful SEER (Sustainable Ecological Earth Regeneration) Centre. One of our purposes is to carry out scientific trials on seven acres of land, to further demonstrate and document the many wonderful benefits of soil remineralization with natural rock powders plus local recycled composts. I was glad to learn there are such intelligent minds and caring bravehearts still active in Scotland!

If there is any other way I might be of service, feel free to write or e-mail me, or request a phone conversation. If you find any errors of fact or principle in The Survival of Civilization or To Love And Regenerate The Earth, or if you have related evidence or ideas to share, please communicate!

You are welcome to copy and help circulate this invitation, or republish it in any appropriate medium. If anyone wishes to join me in sponsoring this global outreach, you are free to donate time, stamps, or money, as well as ideas for cooperation, [new contacts, etc.

My only other thought, in pondering a world gearing up for more war into the 21st Century, at a time when the living planet is desperate for a sane and cooperative human race working for total human-and-Biospheric Health, is of the recent speech by Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich at
the Foundation for Global Community in Palo Alto, California. The Foundation has just installed a large solar system on its roof. Dennis spoke on the need for a solar/biomass transition away from Mideast oil dependence, and for creating a just, ecologically wise country and world.

Also, he described his and many colleagues’ efforts to establish a cabinet-level Department of Peace in the U.S. Government. (To learn more about this unusual Congressman’s work, you may access his web sites: www.thespiritoffreedom.com or www.house.gov./kucinich.) During
the question period, I invited him to read the books, and to consider whether such a Department could embrace Earth’s need for us to end our ongoing “War on Nature” and support the essential Earth Regeneration work. He conscientiously wrote down the www.remineralize-the-earth.org web site, and said he would consider it all carefully. I could not ask more of him, nor of you.

For Life and Earth Health Regeneration,

Don Weaver
P.O. Box 620478
Woodside, CA 94062 USA
earthdon@yahoo.com