Why do over 50,000 people gather every summer for one week on one of the most inhospitable deserts in the world to gift each other with their own radical individual expresssion while cooperating in community and, when it is over, leave no trace? Co-Founder Larry Harvey: “Real community issues out of shared struggle to survive. […]
Read MoreOn our walks around Bloomington during the days my son Sean and his family were here, I kept pointing out chem trails. “See how they stay in the sky? How they spread out and seem to drip?” On and on. One after another. It was as if I was speaking into a void. They simply […]
Read More[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-cWaRRLh3k] For more on the circular economy: Ellenmacarthurfoundation.org “Assume nothing. Question everything. Rethink the future.”
Read MoreThis is a very valuable essay to refer to when people ask what permaculture is. So many do! And it’s easy to just stand there, flummoxed and jabbering, trying out different ways of defining it. Hemenway helps us see why it is difficult, at this point in permaculture’s still-young history, to place and differentiate it […]
Read MoreCan you feel it, the pressure building? Here are two individual projections, emerging from the collective compression . . . A Disturbance in the Force? The Calm Before the Shift
Read MoreHere are the Top 10 American Corporations Profiting from Egypt’s Military US ‘Aid’ Destroys Egypt’s Economy, Democracy How Egypt Will Shake the World Who benefits? Follow the money. Still can’t wrap your mind around the idea that War is really a Racket? Here’s General Smedley Butler’s famous 1933 speech on the subject. It starts like […]
Read MoreP.S. Do check out Kloehn’s website, thetinylife.com. This week’s news features the first “tiny house hotel,” now open in Portland. (Sorry for the formatting glitch; sometimes wordpress gets weird. This time it won’t make paragraph breaks. Grrr.) US artist turns $1,000 dumpster into tiny home August 18, 2013 Bangkokpost There’s nothing trashy about Gregory Kloehn’s […]
Read MoreMost blatant, yes. But the split between the .001% and the .999% is everywhere, and growing. 78% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9REdcxfie3M&feature=player_embedded] This Will Make You Look At New York In A Whole New Way (PHOTOS) Excerpts: In an effort to visualize what wealth inequality looks like, Lamm superimposed bar graphs representing median […]
Read MoreI’ve been a fan of young Russia Today anchor and correspondent Abby Martin for awhile now; I’m not alone. Here are two other people who praise her talent, intelligence, integrity, and fearlessness: Stuart Wilde: Brave Women Edward Teller: Abby the Hasbara Slayer Of course, I’ve wondered how she manages to keep her both her cool […]
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