Black Friday Sale on Spiritual Peace Jewelry Gifts

Seek Peace Earth Globe Necklace
from World Peace Jewelry
On Sale Now

If you're llooking for a thoughtful gift for a special person on your holiday list, why not give a gift of jewelry that allows them to wear their values and attract good fortune in the coming year.  And when better to shop than the special holiday sale at World Peace Jewelry.  Celebrating Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and the real kickoff of the holiday season, we've got a huge sale on handmade peace jewelry, including peace necklaces, Chinese symbol blessing necklaces and much more.  Our peace jewelry, love jewelry, faith jewelry, and symbol jewelry is designed to inspire your spirit.

At World Peace Jewelry we use the magic of symbols and totems, combined with the metaphysical properties of gemstones to creat spiritual jewelry that uplifts and supports the wearer's wellbeing. Our peace sign jewelry can be worn to send a message to others. A symbol necklace can encourage the wearer's spirit. Choose a cross necklace as a blessing for a friend. Share your love with our heart themed jewelry. Try our healing copper jewelry for that arthritis discomfort. World Peace Jewelry always makes a thoughtful gift for those who cherish peace and love.

Shown above is just one of our one of a kind handcrafted peace necklaces that is on sale now. Beautiful royal blue Lapis Lazuli, creamy white Mother of Pearl, dragonskin Turquoise, and natural bronze Serpentine gemstones are hand wire wrapped to gold chain. Multiple necklace pendant includes: gold traditional peace sign, a handcarved white bone flying dove, plus a fabulous intarsia world globe. This is a wonderful three dimensional handmade cloisonne planet earth. The globe's oceans are Lapis Lazuli, continents are jasper, mother of pearl, aventurine and more. Incredible details and simply fantastic.
 
Birds are believed to mediate between earth and heaven, the physical and spiritual worlds. A bird in flight symbolizes freedom and the spiritual development of the soul. Doves have long symbolized peace. Lapis Lazuli symbolizes inspiration and wisdom. Turquoise is a very spiritual stone which aids channeling, increases communication abilities, gives protections and inner joy and peace. Mother of Pearl is known as the stone of sincerity bringing truth to situations and loyalty to a cause. Serpentine is a protective stone that brings peace and has been known as a talisman since ancient times. Gold is associated with love. Learn more about the metaphysical properties of gemstones and the energy of symbols in World Peace Jewelry's Gemstone Guides.
 
A fabulous collection of symbols and metaphysical magic for a peace necklace. A thoughtful jewelry piece for anyone who cherishes peace.  Shop now for more peace jewelry at World Peace Jewelry.  Gift box packaging and free standard shipping with each purchase.

Water Around the World: Blog Action Day 2010

Today is Blog Action Day.  Bloggers from all around the world are having a global conversation about an issue that rarely gets the attention it deserves:  water.

The problem of scarce clean water: 

• Nearly 1 billion people lack access to clean water, which causes a litany of struggles, diseases and even death.
• 40 Billion Hours: African women walk over 40 billion hours each year carrying cisterns weighing up to 18 kilograms to gather water, which is usually still not safe to drink.
• 38,000 Children a Week: Every week, nearly 38,000 children under the age of 5 die from unsafe drinking water and unhygienic living conditions. 
• Wars Over Water: Many scholars attribute the conflict in Darfur at least in part to lack of access to water. A report commissioned by the UN found that in the 21st century, water scarcity will become one of the leading causes of conflict in Africa
• A Human Right: In July, to address the water crisis, the United Nations declared access to clean water and sanitation a human right over. But we are far from implementing solutions to secure basic access to safe drinking water.

Water over-consumption in industrialized countries - While the developing world faces a water crisis, those in industrialized countries consume far more than their fair share: 

• Food Footprint: It takes 24 liters of water to produce one hamburger. That means it would take over 19.9 billion liters of water to make just one hamburger for every person in Europe.
• Technology Footprint: The shiny new iPhone in your pocket requires half a liter of water to charge. That may not seem like much, but with over 80 million active iPhones in the world, that's 40 million liters to charge those alone.
• Fashion Footprint: That cotton t-shirt you're wearing right now took 1,514 liters of water to produce, and your jeans required an extra 6,813 liters.
•  Bottled Water Footprint: The US, Mexico and China lead the world in bottled water consumption, with people in the US drinking an average of 200 bottles of water per person each year. Over 17 million barrels of oil are needed to manufacture those water bottles, 86 percent of which will never be recycled.

Water and the environment:  The disregard for water resources in industrialized countries impacts more than humans – it causes environmental devastation:  

• Waste Overflow: Every day, 2 million tons of human waste are disposed of in water sources. This not only negatively impacts the environment but also harms the health of surrounding communities.
• Polluted Oceans: Death and disease caused by polluted coastal waters costs the global economy $12.8 billion a year.
• Uninhabitable Rivers: Today, 40% of America's rivers and 46% of America's lakes are too polluted for fishing, swimming, or aquatic life.  

Water solutions - The good news is that there are great organizations working on solutions and new tools that empower people to do their part to address the water crisis: 

• Building Wells: Organizations like Water.org are leading the charge in bringing fresh water to communities in the developing world.
• Technology for Good: Do you want to measure how much water it took to make your favorite foods? There's an app for that. 
• Conservation Starts at Home: The average person uses 465 liters of water per day. Find out how much you use
• Keeping Rivers Clean: We can all take small steps to help keep pollution out of our rivers and streams, like correctly disposing of household wastes. 
• Drop the Bottle: Communities around the world are taking steps to reduce water bottle waste by eliminating bottled water

Patriotism and Peace as a Habit

"We should take care, in inculcating patriotism into our boys and girls, that it is a patriotism above the narrow sentiment which usually stops at one's country, and thus inspires jealousy and enmity in dealing with other.

Our patriotism whould be of the wider, nobler kind which recognises justice and reasonableness in the claims of others and which lead our country into comradeship with the other nations of the world.

The first step to this end is to develop peace and goodwill within our borders, by training our youth of both sexes to its practice as their habit of life, so that the jealousies of town against town, class against class and sect against sect no longer exist; and then to extend this good feeling beyond our frontiers towards our neighbours."

Lord Baden-Powell

True Joy in Life

"This is the true joy in life: being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one: being thoroughly worn out fefore you are thrown on the scrap heap; being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy."
George Bernard Shaw

The Buck Moon

July is the time of the Buck Moon. This is the month when the new antlers of buck deer push out of their foreheads in coatings of velvety fur. July is also called the Full Thunder Moon because thunderstorms are most frequent furing this time.