Grow ya own.

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http://steelcitysoils.com/philosophies
"...Don't just buy local, grow local..."
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Don't be afraid to cry.

The EATR (Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot). This is "economic development"? This is the kind of thing DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) is heading towards with "Robot City" in Hazelwood a half-mile away from me. Science is pure; it's application must be guided by the highest ideals and the most optimistic imagination. EATR is not appropiate technology. We can do better than this.
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robotictechnologyinc.com/index.php/EATR
...system obtains its energy by foraging – engaging in biologically-inspired, organism-like, energy-harvesting behavior which is the equivalent of eating. It can find, ingest, and extract energy from biomass in the environment (and other organically-based energy sources), as well as use conventional and alternative fuels (such as gasoline, heavy fuel, kerosene, diesel, propane, coal, cooking oil, and solar) when suitable...
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Don't be afraid to laugh.

Don't waste yer biomass. They're fightin over it in Seattle...
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http://zoo.org/zoo_info/zoodoo.html
http://bioeverything.blogspot.com/2008/02/union-of-life.html
...popularity of the compost is so great that we have a lottery for appointments to purchase Zoo Doo during the Fecal Fests...Unlike inorganic fertilizers, most of the nutrients in Woodland Park Zoo Doo compost are present in a stable organic form more readily accessible for plant uptake. These nutrients are slowly but steadily...
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Stop burning.

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12/05/6 - BBC
http://novakeo.com/?p=790
transcript -
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article15809.htm
...take urgent action to tackle the root cause of both global warming and global dimming - the burning of coal, oil and gas...The discovery of global dimming makes it clear that we are rapidly running out of time...
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How to become independent of public water supply and wastewater networks
http://eautarcie.org/en/index.html

WHO you hangin' with?

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http://avaaz.org/blog/en/w/pascal/2009/06/pigs_in_geneva_swine_flu_petition_delivery_gets_global_coverage.php
...scientists have seen more disease breeding and mutating between animals and humans with the massive increase in industrial meat production...political processes that determine the research and rules on factory farm biosafety are dominated by the industrial meat lobby...
...We...descended on the World Health Organization..to deliver our petition...
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the enlarging heart

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From:
Agriculture and Food in Crisis
by Fred Magdoff & Brian Tokar
carolynbaker.net/site/content/view/1165/1
“Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization?,” asks the title of an article by Lester Brown in Scientific American (May 2009)...
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worldwithoutoil.org
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Empire or Humanity? What the Classroom Didn't Teach Me about the American Empire
by Howard Zinn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arn3lF5XSUg
http://ae911truth.org
http://americanempireproject.com
http://aep.typepad.com
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http://theshellgame.net/911.htm
http://theshellgame.net/oil_links.htm
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CHANGE NOW

We all one.
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"...When radishes and corn you munch,
You may be having me for lunch..."
~Lee Hays
peteseeger.net/motherearthnews.htm
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"The end is near, but I could be wrong."
~Pete Seeger
peteseeger.net/motherearthnews.htm
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"...I dreamed I saw the bomber jet planes flying shotgun in the sky Turning into butterfiles above our nation..."
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"...not only can we do better; we have no choice but to do better..."
~Dennis Kucinich, who might have been President had not the corporate media marginalized him.
truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20090627_kucinich_says_climate_bill_might_make_things_worse
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peteseeger.net/motherearthnews.htm

Seeger:...Maybe some of us won't live through the trying times to come, but let's not give up hope that life on earth will survive. Those who do make it, however, won't likely be a few fearful individuals who've moved off alone to the Rocky Mountains with their supplies. No, the people who survive are probably going: to be those who know how to grow their own food, how to build their own houses, and how to share that information with them neighbors. I'm convinced that survival in the future will depend upon learning how to share...

PLOWBOY: You've chosen to use your music for, and denote your life to, fighting and struggling for the causes you believe in. I admit I find it somewhat surprising that you've kept your optimism and sense of humor throughout it all.

SEEGER: Well, even Jesus said, "Be of good cheer," and the greatest songwriters I've known have been people who have had a wonderful sense of humor . . . folks such as Woody Guthrie and Lee Hays. In fact, one of Lee's last songs was written to my wife, who loves to garden as much as he did.

If I should die before I wake,
All my bone and sinew take,
Put me in the compost pile
To decompose me for a while.
Worms, water, sun will have their way,
Returning me to common clay.
All that I am will feed the trees
And little fishes in the seas.
When radishes and corn you munch,
You may be having me for lunch
And then excrete me with a grin,
Chortling, "There goes Lee again!"

I think humor reminds us of our own contradictions and urges us to keep on going . . . if for no other reason, just to see what the hell will happen next.