Today I will focus on one topic, a collection of reflections on the Chicago protest during the 2012 NATO meeting this past weekend. It’s hard for me to imagine what it must have been like to have been among thousands of peaceful protestors surrounded by thousands of clanking armored uniforms and their oversized, lethal “toys.” […]
Read MoreThe following article reminds me of the project my son Colin and two partners are initiating here in Bloomington, and hopefully, in crowded urban areas everywhere: gardentowerproject.com. And the fact that this article is excerpted from a book published by New Society Publishers reminds me of a book by local legend Peter Bane that is […]
Read MoreTo those who tend to get stuck in small-minded, left-brain “conspiracy” thinking (and I include myself here), let us always remember that whatever is this little bounded dance we’re doing that pits frozen and/or morphing dualities against each other, it’s merely one teensy-tiny node in the infinitely vast and minute self-organizing intelligence of Nature that […]
Read MoreGar Alperovitz gave an overview on the steadily differentiating web of local alternative economic initiatives. Now here’s another wonderful compendium in the same series, this one zeroing in on sturdy local banking alternatives growing up right under the haughty noses of the 1%. This is another post that I plan to read through slowly, and […]
Read MoreSince it was “Cobra” from whom I picked up on the idea of a global meditation during the Super Full Moon of May 5th, and again, during the Solar Eclipse of May 20th, I kept checking afterwards to see what “Cobra” would say about whether or not this meditation, “to Reboot the Grid,” had been […]
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