Humanitarian

Coal = Devastation

C Robb's picture
figure_2_poverty.jpg
46
points
It's 10am, do you know where your electricity has been? Does your  provider buy electricity from power plants using coal sourced from mountain top removal, MTR, operations. Read more...

Count your blessings

C Robb's picture
47
points
Thanks to Karen Jones at Community Garden Digest.  In view of tragic events that continue to occur around the world, let's think about the following and count our blessings.  Read more...

my new hero

51
points
Today I was struggling with my solar powered sculpture project. It's coming together but there have been some technical areas I just didn't know how to make work. The art/techy types I emailed weren't responding...despair was beginning to set in. Finally, today I called, yes just got on the phone with, Therese who I had been referred to by Tony and she sent me to Guy. Read more...

Hubris

C Robb's picture
83
points
I've been thinking recently about hubris. I don't mean the the petty everyday hubris we experience in our relationships and human contacts. I'm thinking about the hubris we have developed along with our big brains through the millenia of evolution. As we have refined our ability to change our environment, through fire, then agriculture and latterly industry, we seem to have become convinced that whatever we can imagine we have the right to do.
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[Fake Plastic Fish] Farewell to Del Martin, SF activist for whom the personal...

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Lyon Martin Clinic
68
points
This post has nothing to do with plastic, but it does relate to personal activism and the power of each individual to make change in the world, if she or he simply tries.
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May you all be nor carrot nor egg but Coffee!

cristele's picture
coffee cup
74
points

A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make Read more...

Am thinking of starting a group for issues relating to homelessness

HarmonyK's picture
35
points
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