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Solutions from the Green Economy     January 15, 2008

Everyone now understands that the economy is broken.

While many name the mortgage and credit-default-swap crises as culprits, they are only the most recent indicators of an economy with fatal design flaws. Our economy has long been based on what economist Herman Daly calls “uneconomic growth” where increases in the GDP come at an expense in resources and well-being that is worth more than the goods and services provided.  When GNP growth exacerbates social and environmental problems—from sweatshop labor to manufacturing toxic chemicals—every dollar of GNP growth reduces well-being for people and the planet, and we’re all worse off.

Our fatally flawed economy creates economic injustice, poverty, and environmental crises. It doesn’t have to be that way. We can create a green economy: one that serves people and the planet and offers antidotes to the current breakdown.
Here are six green-economy solutions to today’s economic mess.

1. Green Energy—Green Jobs
A crucial starting place to rejuvenate our economy is to focus on energy. It’s time to call in the superheroes of the green energy revolution—energy efficiency, solar and wind power, and plug-in hybrids—and put their synergies to work with rapid, large-scale deployment. This is a powerful way to jumpstart the economy, spur job creation (with jobs that can’t be outsourced), declare energy independence, and claim victory over the climate crisis.

2. Clean Energy Victory Bonds
How are we going to pay for this green energy revolution? We at Green America propose Clean Energy Victory Bonds. Modeled after victory bonds in World War II, Americans would buy these bonds from the federal government to invest in large-scale deployment of green energy projects, with particular emphasis in low-income communities hardest hit by the broken economy. These would be long-term bonds, paying an annual interest rate, based in part on the energy and energy savings that the bonds generate. During WWII, 85 million Americans bought over $185 billion in bonds—that would be almost $2 trillion in today’s dollars.

3. Reduce, Reuse, Rethink
Living lightly on the Earth, saving resources and money, and sharing (jobs, property, ideas, and opportunities) are crucial principles for restructuring our economy. This economic breakdown is, in part, due to living beyond our means—as a nation and as individuals. With the enormous national and consumer debt weighing us down, we won’t be able to spend our way out of this economic problem. Ultimately, we need an economy that’s not dependent on unsustainable growth and consumerism. So it’s time to rethink our over-consumptive lifestyles, and turn to the principles of elegant simplicity, such as planting gardens, conserving energy, and working cooperatively with our neighbors to share resources and build resilient communities.

4. Go Green and Local
When we do buy, it is essential that those purchases benefit the green and local economy—so that every dollar helps solve social and environmental problems, not create them. Our spending choices matter. We can support our local communities by moving dollars away from conventional agribusiness and big-box stores and toward supporting local workers, businesses, and organic farmers.

5. Community Investing
All over the country, community investing banks, credit unions, and loan funds that serve hard-hit communities are strong, while the biggest banks required bailouts. The basic principles of community investing keep such institutions strong: Lenders and borrowers know each other. Lenders invest in the success of their borrowers—with training and technical assistance along with loans. And the people who provide the capital to the lenders expect reasonable, not speculative, returns. If all banks followed these principles, the economy wouldn’t be in the mess it’s in today.
 
6. Shareowner Activism
When you own stock, you have the right and responsibility to advise management to clean up its act. Had GM listened to shareholders warning that relying on SUVs would be its downfall, it would have invested in greener technologies, and would not have needed a bailout. Had CitiGroup listened to its shareowners, it would have avoided the faulty mortgage practices that brought it to its knees. Engaged shareholders are key to reforming conventional companies for the transition to this new economy – the green economy that we are building together. 

It’s time to move from greed to green.

Virtual Library

    Experience your Virtual Library Card Today. The Virtual Library Card and a monthly newsletter on topics of interest and holdings in the library is available for $29.95 per year. Access to all five libraries is $100 per year. [Go To Shopping Cart]

    Your Virtual Library Card includes a monthly e-newsletter, access to hundreds of web pages and reference material beyond what the general public can view, and 2 special requests for information on a specific topic (4-10 page report including abstracts and resources available). These are written and researched by Kimberly Burnham, Virtual Librarian and real person. She uses her extensive research capabilities and education developed during her PhD in Integrative Medicine, 10 years as Director of Knowledge Management at the Center for Integrative Manual Therapy and Diagnostics as well as a practitioner, teacher and researcher for the Connecticut School of Integrative Manual Therapy, Dialogues in Contemporary Rehabilitation, and Northeast Seminars. Before that she spent 10 years working as a freelance journalist. 
     Each library includes Healthcare Resources, Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations Resources, Business Resources, International Resources, Education and Distance Learning Resources, Articles, Abstracts, Documents, Papers, Reports and Literature Resources on the following topics:

Matrix Energetics Library and Resource Center
     “One of the things I love about going to Matrix Energetics classes is that it gets my creative juices going and enables me to be more aware of my surrounding. In other words to notice and perceive more. I feel this increases my ability to notice something useful for my clients, my friends, my family and myself. The purpose of the Matrix Energetics Library is the same. We live in the information age,” Kimberly Burnham, Matrix Energetics Librarian.
     “There are 540,000 words in the English language about 5 times as many as in Shakespeare's time. More than 3000 new books are published everyday. It is estimated that a weeks worth of New York Times contains more information than a person in 18th century was likely to come across in a lifetime.” [Full Text Video] http://www.flixxy.com/technology-and-education-2008.htm 
     Accessing some of this information, images, shapes, symbols, people (Whizard’s Council), book reviews, articles, research on modalities that work for people and can be put into a module for the individual client, nutritional and homeopathic information which can be used virtually can make our Matrix Energetics process more interesting.
 Voltaire 1694 - 1778, the famous, controversial French author, humanist, rationalist, satirist and philosopher said, "The art of medicine consists of keeping the patient amused while nature heals the disease." Voltaire is also quoted as saying of the medical establishment of the day, "they poured drugs of which they knew little to cure diseases of which they knew less into human beings of whom they knew nothing." 
     The information in the library is meant to enable Matrix Energetics practitioners to amuse themselves, their clients and change the world in the process.  
     For ten years, Kimberly Burnham, PhD worked as the Director of Knowledge Management and Librarian for the Center for Integrative Manual Therapy and Diagnostics. Before that she worked for 10 years as a freelance journalist. She has practiced, taught, written and read widely in the field of health and wellness in the last 30 years.
     She has been Matrix Energetics certified since 2008 and is a Matrix Energetics librarian with access to a vast library of reference images, material and information on ways in which people can feel better and function better.
     She will be putting on a series of free Matrix Energetics practice groups to explore the library and find more ways to visualize health and well being.
     The practice groups are available free on a first come first serve basis. Sign up for our monthly email letter for information on topics and dates and let us know you are interested.
     These are accessed through skype and teleconference.
     The practice groups are open to anyone who has taken a Matrix Energetics course

     The first in the series will be
Friday  April 23, 2010   6:30 - 8 pm at Mission Hills Physical Therapy and on Skype. The topic is: Noticing and Feeling Frequencies, Numbers, Shapes, Layers, Levels and More

Other topics that will be covered in the future are:
- Integrating Matrix Energetics and Homeopathy, Supercharging Your Current Nutritional Knowledge
- Matrix Energetics Two Point Process and Integrative Manual Therapy's Templates
- Manual Therapists Access Positive Outcomes by Collapsing the Matrix Energetics Wave
- Matrix Energetics's Copies, Dowsing and Treatment Planning
- Visualizing and Shifting Time and Space

 Kimberly Burnham, PhD Matrix Energetics Certified is working towards certification as a Matrix Energetics Study Group Leader. She will be doing a series of practice groups free of charge. The first of which will be in San Diego, CA at Mission Hills Physical Therapy with Ralph Havens, PT Matrix Energetics Certified.

 Starting in September, 2010 by which time she expects to be a certified Matrix Energetics Study Group leader she will continue to hold study groups and explore topics in the library.
 She also does consultation on any health and wellness topic. See below for services and samples available.

[Click Here To See a Sample Page] Time Page

Integrative Manual Therapy Library and Resource Center
 The Integrative Manual Therapy Library houses several thousand book (many of which are reviewed) and tens of thousands of articles available for Integrative Manual Therapy practitioners as well as students at the Connecticut School of Integrative Manual Therapy who are completing research on case studies or need information for their clients on a particular conditions and how it relates to advanced manual therapy practices.
 Kimberly Burnham, PhD in Integrative Medicine and IMTC taught for many years at the Connecticut School of Integrative Manual Therapy, Dialogues in Contemporary Rehabilitation (DCR), and Northeast Seminars both in the United States and Internationally.
 She is a Certified Integrative Manual Therapist and Requirements can be met with her for Observation and Treatment hours with an Integrative Manual Therapist, Certified (I.M.T.,C).
 Kim is also the author of the Neuroantomy course for Integrative Manual Therapy Practitioners.

[Click Here To See a Sample Page] Bone Disorders Page

Reference material for the Connecticut School of Integrative Manual Therapy's Integrated Systems Approach includes the following systems and more:
1. System of Biomechanics (joint integrity of the pelvis, sacrum, spine, and peripheral joints)
2. Musculoskeletal System
3. Connective Tissue System
4. Central Nervous System (brain and spinal cord)
5. Cranial System
6. Peripheral Nervous System
7. Visceral System (cardiac, digestive, urogenital, immune, pulmonary, detoxification, and more)
8. Circulatory Systems (arterial, venous, and lymphatic)
9. System of Energy
10. Body/Mind Systems

The information comes from the Morphic Field of medical doctors, physical therapists,
chiropractors, occupational therapists, massage therapists, speech therapists, physicians, learning
specialists, psychologists, nurses, wellness experts in body work, and more.

It is produced by practitioners in hospitals, outpatient clinics, schools, universities as well as other institutions.

IMT addresses rehabilitation in two categories: Structural Rehabilitation and Functional
Rehabilitation.
Structural Rehabilitation improves structural integrity of the body. It addresses joint
mobility, muscle tone, soft tissue flexibility, range of motion, muscle control and more. It
corrects patho-anatomy in biomechanics of the spine and appendages, muscles, connective
tissue system, organs, nervous system, blood vessels, lymphatic system and energetic
structures.
Functional Rehabilitation restores functional outcomes according to the optimal potential
of the client. It addresses balance, coordination, proprioception (internal joint sensation),
exteroception (sensory capability), strength, endurance, hearing, vision, speech, smell,
learning, behavior and more.
Structural Rehabilitation corrects anatomic dysfunction and influences physiology. It
creates the potential for function. Functional Rehabilitation optimizes the patient's
utilization of this function. The relationship between Structural and Functional
Rehabilitation can be illustrated in the following analogy. Think of a child playing the
piano. If the piano is out of tune, the music will sound poor. Even if the child is a master
prodigy of the piano, the music will still sound poor because the structural integrity of the
piano is lacking. It is always more efficient and effective to treat structure first - to tune
the piano. Once the piano is tuned, the potential for good music is there, but the child may
require some lessons. These lessons are Functional Rehabilitation. This Functional
Rehabilitation will help the child to reach his/her potential in creating beautiful music.

A Summary
There is no 'one' single problem affecting a person, causing disability and pain, and
inhibiting their function. Persons of all ages, cultures, and locations are composites of
their past, present, and future goals. Emotional, personal, mental/cognitive, spiritual and
other aspects of living contribute to healthy life-styles and goal-oriented function. Persons
around the world are learning more every day about function and dysfunction.
Accountability and responsibility for function and productivity belongs to everyone, rather
than to the physician, the insurance company, and the drug vendor. Integrative Manual
Therapy is more than structural and functional rehabilitation, more than Integrative
Diagnostics, more than an Integrated Systems approach to correct dysfunction and improve
function. It is an ever-expanding field contributing to all disciplines, who wish to improve
home, community, and world health.

 The Integrative Manual Therapy Library includes reference material and journal articles for the following courses and more.

Biophysiography/Functional Nutrition (4 Credits)
BIOPH 201 Physical Functional Medicine (1 day - 1 credit)
BIOPH 301 Functional Medicine/Concepts in Applied Nutrition and Biophysiography
(4 days - 3 credits)

Body/Mind Systems (3 Credits)
BODM 301 Integrative Diagnostics for Applied Psychosynthesis (4 days - 3 credits)

Connective Tissue System (3 Credits)
CTIS 101 Myofascial Release for the Orthopedic, Neurologic, Pediatric and Geriatric Patient:
The 3-Planar Fascial Fulcrum© Approach (3 days - 2 credits)
CTIS 102 Myofascial Mapping©-A Critical Diagnostic Skill for Manual Practitioners
(1 day - 1 credit)

Cranial and Nervous System (12 Credits)
CRNS 101 Cranial Therapy Series, Level One: Osseous, Suture, Joint and Membrane. Treatment
of Headaches and Trauma (3 days - 2 credits)
CRNS 103 Neural Tissue Tension Techniques: Decrease Pain, Increase Movement, Improve Nerve
Function (3 days - 2 credits)
CRNS 201 Cranial Therapy Series, Level Two: Membrane; Fluid; Face; Intra-Oral Dysfunction
(4 days - 3 credits)
CRNS 301 Cranial Therapy Series, Level Three: Pain and Disability; CSF; Spinal Cord and Brain
Fibrosis; Immunology (4 days - 3 credits)
CRNS 401 Cranial Therapy Series, Level Four: Cranial Therapy: Recovery and Rehabilitation
Protocols (3 days - 2 credits)

Immunity and Detoxification: Lymphatic System (4 Credits)
IMDE 101 Lymphatic Series, Level One: Lymph Congestion Therapy (3 days - 2 credits)
IMDE 201 Lymphatic Series, Level Two: Immune Preference (3 days - 2 credits)

Integrated Curriculum in Integrative Manual Therapy (4 Credits)
INTC 201 Double Crush Syndrome: Treatment for Thoracic Outlet Syndrome, Carpal Tunnel and
Upper Extremity Pain and Dysfunction (3 days - 2 credits)
PEDS 101 Pediatric Solutions: An IMT Approach for Comprehensive Assessment and Treatment
(3 days - 2 credits)

Integrative Diagnostics, 4 total credit hours
INTDG 101/201 Integrative Diagnostic Series, Levels One and Two: Myofascial Mapping and
Neurofascial Process (3 days - 3 credits)
INTDG 301 Integrative Diagnostic Series, Level Three: Toxicity, Circulation, Diagnostics
(2 days - 1 credit)

Musculoskeletal System and Biomechanics (13 Credits)
MSKEL 100 Mobility Templates: New and Improved Approach for Treatment of the Pelvis, Sacrum
and Spine with Muscle Energy and 'Beyond' Technique (3 days - 2 credits)
MSKEL 103 Rib Cage Biomechanics with Muscle Energy Technique and 'Beyond' (1 day - 1 credit)
MSKEL 105 Strain and Counterstrain Technique and Advanced Strain Counterstrain Technique. A
Manual Therapy Solution for Protective Muscle Spasm in the Orthopedic, Neurologic, Pediatric,
and Geriatric Patient (4 days - 4 credits)
MSKEL 205 Upper and Lower Extremities Rehabilitation with Compression Syndromes (4 days - 4 credits)
MSKEL 301 The Spine: From Low Back Pain and Cervical Syndrome through Spinal Cord Injury
(3 days - 2 credits)

Protective Modes (2 Credits)
PMOD 101 Diaphragm Compression Syndromes: Comprehensive Manual therapy for Circulation,
Breathing and Pain disorders. A total body approach (3 days - 2 credits)

Visceral and Organ Systems (10 Credits)
VOSYS 201 Gastrointestinal Tract: Pain and Dysfunction. A Manual Therapy Solution
(3 days - 2 credits)
VOSYS 202 Women's and Men's Health: Treatment for Urogenital Pain and Dysfunction
A Manual Therapy Solution. (3 days - 2 credits)
VOSYS 361 Lung Management: Pulmonary Insufficiency and Oxidative Stress
(3 days - 2 credits)
VOSYS 401 Cardiac Habilitation: Prevention and Treatment. A Manual Therapy Solution
(3 days - 2 credits)
VOSYS 501 Cardiovascular Rehabilitation: Combined Vessels Approach (3 days - 2 credits)

Academic/Basic Sciences, 14 total credit hours
Growth and Development - Infant to Adult (3 Credits)
Kinesiology (2 Credits)
Neuroanatomy (3 Credits)
Pathophysiology (3 Credits)
Psychology (3 Credits)

Functional Electives, 10 total credit hours
Alexander Neuro Developmental Treatment (NDT)
Aston Patterning Pilates/Plyometrics
Body Mind Centering PNF
Functional Orthopaedics Sensory Integration
Hellerwork Tai Chi Chuan
Hippo therapy Trager
Yoga

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The Burnham Review is a twice monthly e-Newsletter on what the medical evidence based research literature is saying about the benefits of Integrative Manual Therapy, Massage Therapy, Osteopathic Manual Therapy, Matrix Energetics, Yoga, Qigong, Integrative Medicine and Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) approaches for your health and quality of life.

Each Evidence Based Issue is a review of the medical literature and other evidence of the benefit and effectiveness of Complementary and Alternative Medicine including Manual Therapy approaches (Integrative Manual Therapy, Craniosacral Therapy, Lymphatic Drainage, Muscle Energy, Strain and Counterstrain, Compression Syndromes, Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment, Reiki, Integrative Medicine, etc), Sound and Frequencies Therapies (BioSolutions); Transformational Consciousness Approaches (Matrix Energetics), Functional approaches (Yoga, Qigong, etc) and Biophysiography / Nutritional Wellness (Homeopathy, Biophysiography, Herbal Formulas, Foods) for a wide range of conditions.

The Burnham Review focuses on Integrative Manual Therapy, a hands-on approach with treatment techniques which address biomechanics (how the joints and musculoskeletal system move and functions), motilities and circadian rhythms reflective of the physiology or how the organs, the heart, lungs, glands, thyroid, adrenals, etc function and flow and reflex points including Synchronizers, Hypothalamus Regulation Mechanisms and Reference points which address the way the nervous system interacts and works with all other structures and tissues in the body.

We also explore, Integrative Medicine approaches which include manual therapy techniques as well as nutritional and functional approaches, which are support by evidence based medical literature. The Burnham Review gathers resources and information on various conditions.

Osteopathic Manipulative Treatments (OMT) are being encouraged for infectious disorders, influenza, even potential Bird Flu epidemics and other pandemics. By encouraging mobility in the area around the spleen, liver and thymus as well as improving lymphatic drainage, holistic health care practitioners can complement each other’s treatment as well as allopathic approaches. There is evidence that Yoga and Acupuncture as well as other manual therapy approaches can benefit people with seizures and epilepsy. Also consider the research into the benefits of Infra-Red Saunas (TheraSauna).

Back, Disc & Neck pain and joint dysfunctions, so common in the United States, are well addressed by Complementary Medicine approaches. Check out some of the Free Back Issues, including ones on the benefits of touch, Neurofascial Process and Integrative Manual Therapy.

Manual Therapy Practitioners are joining with other Complementary and Alternative Medicine practitioners to bring about Peace, using manual therapy as a Cultural Bridge to help people feel better, function better and make better choices for themselves and their communities. CAM practitioners also address environmental concerns with Green Health Care approaches. The Teleosis Institute has a list of a wide range of health care practitioners working to improve the health or people, animals and the planet.

Energy Medicine Practitioners are seeing shifts and changes with Matrix Energetics Frequencies, Reiki, Rife Frequencies (BioSolutions) and More. While many health care practitioners are developing better relationships and communication with Non-Violent Communication (NVC), Integrative Diagnostics and Applied Psychosynthesis (IDAP) and Self Regulation Therapy (SRT).

Kimberly Burnham, PhD Integrative Medicine     www.VisualizeHealth.net

      In 2006, Kimberly Burnham added a PhD in Integrative Medicine to her 15 year as a manual therapy practitioner.  This added to the richness and breadth of her experience and specialization in working with people dealing with neurological and visual disorders. Her dissertation topic was "The Effect of Integrative Manual Therapy on the Symptom's of Parkinson's Disease."