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GANG garden and Green Acres Ecovillage hit the news

Thanks to indianapublicmedia.org and Keith of permacultureactivist.com, for the pointer. For more information, see also ganggarden.wordpress.com and ganecovillage.org. And see the formal Green Acres Neighborhood Plan for the city of Bloomington.gov. Neighbor Garden Is A Vision For Larger Cooperative Movement January 7, 2012 by GRETCHEN FRAZEE Green Acres is a neighborhood which some of its […]

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Good News! The "Incredible Edible Park" of Irvine California. . .

. . . where all plants grown inside it are edible, with fruits and vegetables harvested to feed the needy. Yes! This is our goal with the new Trillium Horticultural Park, here in Bloomington, Indiana. Thanks to Keith, of permacultureactivist.com. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXLx0D9YkKA]

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Military Industrial Complex feeds off its host, again

But hey, that means more jobs, more money, more votes, more lethal toys, even more and better sanitized “Full Spectrum Dominance” — over not just Earth, but space! the sky’s the limit! there’s no limit! — as our once great nation hollows out from within while morphing into a fascist state that throws old soldiers […]

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Revolt of the 99% towards the 1% inside the NYT

You just never know who’s going to Occupy next! Thanks to dailykos.com. NOT FIT TO PRINT: Hundreds of NYT Editors/Reporters (99%) Revolting Against Paper’s Executives (1%) January 5, 2012 from The Troubadour by David Harris Gershon The spirit of Occupy Wall Street has entered the hallowed halls of The New York Times. Not because the […]

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Jane Fonda on "The Third Act of Life"

Jane Fonda discovers and lifts into the mainstream, in her beautiful, inspiring way, what we women started to explore in Crone Chronicles: A Journal of Conscious Aging, between 1989 and 2000. See also Crones Counsel and the more recent Crone magazine. That our lives evolve over three acts is also denoted through the astrological cycles […]

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Stewart Brand on "Planet Earth": "We are as gods and have to get good at it."

Below is a thought-provoking article from the Washington Post that considers our planet in futurist Buckminster Fuller’s terms, as “Spaceship Earth.” The author highlights extreme approaches — Stewart Brand’s centralized techno-fix with Bill McKibben’s decentralized, localized, even quasi-luddite “New Eaarth” — thus demonstrating both the polarity and the range of possible futures that await us […]

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