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A Declaration of Interdependence~Independence Day 2013

4 Jul 20134 Jul 2013
Re-imagining Independence Day It's that time of year again.  Here in our little coastal paradise, hordes or barbarians descend to get out of the inland heat, char some animal flesh, and blow…
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Indigenous Energy Idle No More

7 Apr 201316 Jul 2013
Indigenous voices are being raised.  The amazing story of Idle No More, and their resistance to the exploitation of the Alberta Tar Sands and the Keystone XL Pipeline, is a…
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22 Feb 201322 Feb 2013
...a healthy relationship between humans and nature is a symbiotic one. We cannot live without nature, but we also cannot live without altering it. Whether we do so with understanding…
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Think.Eat.Save

8 Feb 2013
Think.Eat.Save is a new international campaign to address a plethora of problems by reducing food waste. The down side: food waste is a massive global problem that has negative humanitarian, environmental…
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Thankfulness and After

21 Nov 201221 Nov 2012
The History Of Thanksgiving: A Native American Perspective Here's a critical history of the Thanksgiving holiday on Facebook.  It is notable that this thanksgiving celebration probably did not include the Indians,…
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The Shared Dream at the Top of the Stairs

13 Jul 201211 Jun 2018
Apparently (I have not yet read it), E.O. Wilson has a new book, The Social Conquest of Earth, promoting his ideas about multilevel selection.  What's that?  That's the idea that Natural Selection…
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Independence/Interdependence Day 2012

4 Jul 2012
A news clip today from the world of high-energy physics reminded me that today isn't just about people with small explosives: Today is an important day for science, and for…
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Promoting Sustainable Choices at College Events

27 Apr 2012
To put it as diplomatically as possible, we experienced some challenges in attempts to make a recent event more sustainable, especially in regards to the free food that was offered…
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California’s Higher-Education Disaster – The Chronicle of Higher Education

15 Jan 201227 May 2016
...budget cuts caused enrollment in California community colleges to decline by over 400,000 students. That’s more than the total number of undergraduates enrolled in the entire California State University system.…
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Occupy Gaia!

30 Oct 20117 Apr 2013
One example and a beautiful image of the power and importance of the feminine in the global shift taking place: OCCUPY! GAIA RISING! - ALEX NOBLE - Occupy!. And, if…

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