Given the overwhelm produced by the graphic perspective on America’s wars and costs and body counts, I wanted to present something else today that might show we are truly beginning to switch out of Empire — and not just because we are “losing” our wars, but because we truly have decided to downgrade the military […]
Read MoreThis noon I went out to lunch again with one of the few people in my life for whom transcendence is as meaningful as permaculture. Not “My Dinner with Andre,” but “My Lunch with Susan.” Here’s two master trickster/shaman/raconteurs lunching together at a conference in Prague, over 20 years ago now. Ram Dass had yet […]
Read MoreI dare you to try to discover that your town has not also caught fire with the Urban Gardening movement. Let’s go. Occupy seeds this spring. Burst out of our tiny gestating cocoons. Operation Seed Bomb. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3Wv2LzjA58]
Read MoreThanks to my son Colin, for the pointer. Unfortunately, this detailed graphic wouldn’t copy here. But do check it out. A very visceral, in-your-face, bring-it-home moment of absorbing even a tiny smidgen of what’s really going on, in our name, via the demonocracy. www. demonocracy.info//infographics/usa/cost_of_war/cost_of_war.html
Read MoreI keep thinking about the old WalMart building here (they built a new one, even bigger and badder, just down the road), how it could be turned into a warren of tiny start-up businesses that cross-pollinate each other like busy bees. And about the Trillium Horticultural Park, a visionary project that promises to do its […]
Read MoreThanks to alternet.org. Why Going ‘Back To Normal’ Is No Longer An Option for the American Economy — And Where We’re Headed Now Stop waiting around, because “normal” as we know it isn’t coming back. February 7, 2012 by Sara Robinson Photo Credit: sunsurfr Former IMF chief economist Joseph Stiglitz has a message for […]
Read More. . . before Fox News cancelled his show. Thanks to Rich for the pointer to this man. I had never watched him before. Reminds me of Olbermann‘s precise, pointed rants at the end of his tenure at MSNBC. There are lots of youtube videos purporting to be Napolitano’s final words. Here’s the one with […]
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