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Angry Birds Department: Those innocent doves, that seagull, and crow . . .

Update: It turns out that this release of the doves by children within the benevolent gaze of the smiling pope has been a ritual practice on the last Sunday in January since Pope John Paul. And it’s not surprising, and not unusual that the all-white doves are then attacked by resident predator birds. So then […]

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Gar Alperovitz: Seeing beyond the promise and limitations of workers’ co-ops

Talks a lot about planning, on a national level. Oops! Once again, Agenda 21 rears its ugly stealthy head for me! And, as Alperovitz puts it, the question always is, “Who has the power?” He does focus on bottom-up initiatives, while also noting, in certain areas, the need to scale up. Alperovitz: “The principle is […]

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In October 2013 Monsanto purchased Climate Corp for nearly 1 billion dollars: and why it matters

I’ve been thinking and talking about Agenda 21 lately, as it looms large in my list of “what could go wrong” as we transition from top-down power-over to bottom-up grassroots inspired and driven re-localization. If you don’t already know, Agenda 21 is the U.N. “sustainability” program that looks good on paper, in terms of many […]

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