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Corporations or Co-operatives: Which do we support? It’s OUR choice.

I bank at the I.U. Credit Union. My food comes from Bloomingfoods, a co-op established in 1976 and is busy planning its fourth local storefront. Yesterday, I attended a potluck and meeting of our Local Growers Guild and watched a local farmer show us how to make herbal tinctures, salves and syrups. Yesterday I also […]

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Just do it. See what happens next.

Thanks to Corbin. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uGT0Cpcz7kE]

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Paean to the People’s Media

In case you haven’t seen what just happened to poor “Cheerios” when social media gobbled up its GMO DNA, check it out. And then consider. Look what’s happened in the past decade or so. Do you read newspapers anymore? I still get my local paper, the Herald-Times, but that’s it! Up until two years ago, […]

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Germany proves that renewable energy, properly deployed, decentralizes and democratizes power

Here’s another “Game Changer” from ecobuddhism.org. And it sure is! A whole list of ramifications that our local communities can learn from. A Renewables Ownership Society: Germany’s Green Middle Class December, 2012 by Pete Sinclair ecobuddhism Want to know why America’s Fox News and the Tea Party congress hates green energy? The most important reason […]

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Constant Consuming: Let’s End this American Dream

I notice that ecobuddhism.org has a new category, “Game Changers.” Nice! Here’s one that really speaks to me this morning as I contemplate two sacks full of recyclables (newspaper and bits of plastic) that I’ve personally generated in only one week. End the American Dream of waste more, want more December, 2012 by Andrew Lam […]

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Surprising discoveries(?) about body language

Or, to be more accurate, let’s say “claims” rather than “discoveries.” So many research protocols are either deliberately or sloppily flawed during this corrupted era when we’ve substituted “follow the money” for standing on a foundation of trust. And deeper: who’s to say that scientific protocols themselves can be designed to reflect and/or capture actual […]

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More perspectives on the Mayan Calendar

Here’s an academic expert who puts current apocalyptic consciousness in perspective. As he says, about the Maya: “Our calendar will end far before theirs will.” And BTW: you might want to listen to a Jim Self interview with Barbara Hand Clow, who, along with Johan Callemann, sees the Mayan (or Maya) Calendar as having ended […]

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