Humanitarian

Coal = Devastation

C Robb — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:49:52 -0800

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 — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 09:50:30 -0700

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

Leah Korican — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:14:00 -0700

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 — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:11:34 -0700

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.

[Fake Plastic Fish] Farewell to Del Martin, SF activist for whom the personal...

FakePlasticFish — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:31:41 -0700

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 — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 13:32:30 -0700

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 — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:12:19 -0700

The thing is, I want this also to be filed under "Green Living" and "Environment", because the affordable housing I would build for homeless people would be sustainable and alternative. (I just don't know how to select more than one category using the drop-down options) Read more...