feeding the revolution
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To: hazelwoodeditor@yahoo.com
for hazelwoodhomepage.com
Grow a bit of your own food
Crush a freshly picked mint leaf and smell it. Those few thousand molecules from the plant that get into your nose will actually change your brain waves to make you more alert. Now check out the price of a one ounce sprig of "fresh" mint (likely wilting because it was picked days ago) - $1.99 last time I looked. That's about 30 dollars a pound. There's a wake-up call for you. Mint is so easy to grow gardeners call it a weed.
Drastic rises in food prices are coming. The Earth's 6+ billion people are competing for food, the production of which is being tied up by a narrowing group of corporations whose bottom lines necessitate viciously unfair stifling of competition and trade. As with other problems, were we humans cooperating we could solve the problem of hunger. But - like children fighting over a toy or hogs nipping at each other at the feed trough - our inability to cooperate is making it so that there will be less and less good quality food to go around. The toy breaks, the feed ends up in the mud rather than the trough, and more and more of God's children go hungry. Think food costs too much now? The decline of honeybees and other insects needed to pollinate so many of our crops is only one of many interacting ecosystem changes that will make it even more difficult to maintain a stable food supply.
To me it seems there's no conflict between science and religion. Everything is connected to everything else by cause and effect. If we want to be on God's short list we have to behave certain ways. Invest your time and resources in feeding people and you'll be less likely to run out of food yourself. Prepare to fight and you'll probably end up fighting. Grow some of your own food, with your own resources, and you won't as much bid up it's price in the marketplace.
Our relationship with nature can become less violent. Some of those weeds are edible and don't need to be eradicated. Get someone to point out the edible ones to you. Weed around an edible weed you want to give it more room to grow. Put some good organic plant food such as grass clippings around it. In a thick enough layer grass clippings or other mulch will prevent other unwanted plants from growing near your food plant.
Mint is easy to grow. I have four or five different kinds of mint plants I'd be happy to share with anyone. Catnip, horseradish, french sorrel, borage, purslane, garlic, leek, onion, and others can be harvested in such a way as they keep growing so you don't have to replant. And, once established they come back the next year. All can be added to soups and salads.
But my favorite plant this year is lamb's quarters. Here's a plant that you don't have to plant because it's a weed and comes up by itself. If you give it enough room and good soil it will grow as big as a small Christmas tree. Bugs and other critters don't like it much, so you don't have to worry over it like other crops. And, when you want to harvest some just cut off and cook like spinach the end of each branch. The plant will keep on producing. You can rinse and freeze in ziploc bags. And it's 40% protein. I like the taste as much as spinach or collards. And I had way more than I could eat or store from 4 plants.
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http://burtsbees.com
http://wholejoy.com
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http://envirolink.org/resource.html?itemid=200302141623400.993882&catid=5
http://appvoices.org
http://ran.org/what_we_do/global_finance/spotlight/coal_is_over/
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nhne.org
Journal of Life Sciences
http://tjols.com
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bee bites
http://www.tjols.com/article-395.html
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http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2007/05/28/daily42.html
LiveFuels Inc., a company developing fuels from algae, raised $10 million in its first round of venture funding.
David Gelbaum of the Quercus Trust led the round. His brother, Daniel Gelbaum, who is also an investor, is on the LiveFuels board of directors.
Lissa Morgenthaler-Jones is CEO of the Menlo Park company, which aims to produce biocrude oil from algae by 2010. She founded the company with her husband, Dave Jones, and they seeded it with $1 million of their own money.
Other companies seeking to make fuel from algae include Solazyme, also based in Menlo Park, and GreenFuel Technologies in Cambridge, Mass.
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http://brevardbiodiesel.org
http://biodieselcommunity.org
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http://livefuels.com/page1.html
...Algal oil is similar to soybean oil but can be grown on marginal lands unsuitable for food crops. Thriving on sunlight and CO2...
...The entire United States’ supply of imported oil could potentially be grown on 20 to 40 million acres of marginal land, leaving the 450 million acres of fertile American soil that are presently farmland still available to feed the nation.
“LiveFuels will enable American farmers to replace imported oil with home-grown biocrude and supply it to the United States,”...
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http://consumersunion.org
http://globalwomenstrike.net
http://refusingtokill.net
http://stopclimatechaos.org
http://motherearth.org/energy/nuclear6.php
http://www.wri-irg.org
darkmission.net
ufw.org Alejandro Gil
http://esperanzacenter.org
http://goodapples.org
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http://www.geosociety.org/meetings/2003/
prPennStateKump.htm
http://geosociety.org/meetings/2006/ePublicForum.htm
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New URA post to focus on 'green' buildings
'Sustainable design coordinator' will encourage environmentally friendly development
Saturday, October 27, 2007
By Diana Nelson Jones, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
http://post-gazette.com/pg/07300/828973-53.stm
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http://www.astrobio.net/news/modules.php?op
=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=672
http://www.astrobio.net/news/modules.php?op
=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1535
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00037A5D-
A938-150E-A93883414B7F0000&sc=I100322
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The Earth's Prognosis
http://alternet.org/environment/66434
...the climate models are predicting...a warmer atmosphere is just a more energetic atmosphere...
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invisible children choosing joy, beauty
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3166797753930210643
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http://thecarpetbaggerreport.com
http://sickocure.org
http://www.newstatesman.com/200710250020
http://olliesworld.com
http://www.newstatesman.com/200709200027
http://www.whatsnextnetwork.com/technology/index.php/2006/11/
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Solid Waste Association of North America
http://swana.org
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http://thegroundtruth.org
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colonel john anderson "stargate program" "remote viewing" "non-lethal weaponry" "Joseph McMonagle"
irva.org SRI "close encounters" "Ingo Swann"
ms13 el salvador
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Who Really Set the California Fires?
By Mike Davis, Tomdispatch.com. Posted November 1, 2007.
http://www.alternet.org/environment/66706/
Seeing an opportunity for land development, conservative California politico Pete Wilson adds fuel to the wildfires -- and is honored for it.
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You can't have too much of a good thing, so let me just quote Mike Davis from 1998 to introduce Mike Davis 2007 on the California fires. In Ecology of Fear, his 1998 book on southern California, he wrote just about everything you'd ever need to know if you didn't want to be surprised by the raging Santa Ana-driven wildfires of 2003 or 2007. After all, there's nothing new about the burning phenomenon on what Davis then dubbed "the fire coast." "A great Malibu firestorm," he wrote, "could generate the heat of three million barrels of burning oil at a temperature of 2,000 degrees." No wonder Cold War era researchers used those California fires to model the behavior of nuclear firestorms.
What remains eternally new (and yet utterly predictable, once you've read Davis) is the increasing amount of tinder we put in the way of such fires in "the suburban-chaparral border zone where wildfire is king" -- and then the fierce fire-suppression campaigns that new, wealthy homeowners in their privatized, gated communities, McMansions, and McCastles demand, which only build further the fuel for the fires that, even in the 1990s, were "becoming ever more apocalyptic." Oh yes, and another thoroughly predictable thing: After hundreds, or thousands, of houses burn, the search for villains begins not among the politicians and developers, pushing human habitation ever deeper into the lands of the firestorm, but for arsonists, "although probably not more than one in eight blazes is caused by arson." The shape of the shape-shifting arsonist has changed over the years: more or less in historical order, according to Davis, they have been Indians, sheepherders, tramps, Wobblies, Okies, "Axis saboteurs," and, in our own time, environmentalists, (indirectly) endangered and protected species, gays, and terrorists. The search for arsonists is, of course, on again -- and one has so far been identified, a boy, possibly only 10 years old, playing with matches whose case is now being turned over to the district attorney for possible prosecution.
And finally, it's predictable that "the essential land-use issue, the rampant, uncontrolled proliferation of firebelt suburbs," is ignored; while, in the rush to fight the ensuing fires, vast sums of taxpayer money are functionally spent on luxury enclaves and gated hilltop suburbs. As Davis concluded back in 1998, but might as well have written last night, "Needless to say, there is no comparable investment in the fire, toxic, or earthquake safety of inner-city communities. Instead, as in so many things, we tolerate two systems of hazard prevention, separate and unequal."
And the worst of it is that "fire itself accelerates gentrification" in those former wildlands. Charred hillside? All the better to build, my dear...
The fate of prophets is, of course, to be ignored. Nobody raises statues to them. -- Tomdispatch Editor, Tom Engelhardt
San Diego Builds a Statue to an Arsonist Developers with Matches
By Mike Davis
This August, just as the first Santa Ana winds bent the boughs of the eucalyptus trees in Balboa Park, 500 wealthy business people and Republican Party donors raised their champagne glasses to salute "Mr. San Diego," Pete Wilson, as he unveiled a bronze statue of himself in downtown's Horton Plaza. Wilson, of course, was the controversial, immigrant-baiting governor of California during the nineties; but the statute specifically apotheosizes his role as the political catalyst for San Diego's "downtown renaissance" during his earlier three terms as mayor of the city (1971-1983).
The 74-year-old Wilson, whose preppy appearance leads strangers to mistake him for an aging member of the Kingston Trio, recalled the bad old days -- before million-dollar condos and billionaire developers took over downtown -- when the nearby "Gaslight District" was a "haven for saloons and tattoo parlors." He praised the memory of his friend and crucial ally in remaking downtown, developer Ernest Hahn, whose statue adjoins his. But it was difficult to make out his words since, across the plaza, several hundred demonstrators, an inspiring coalition of young Latinos and gays, were beating drums, blowing whistles, and chanting "racist!" Some of Wilson's admirers blistered, but Mr. San Diego was characteristically gracious about free speech: "Horses asses," he laughed.
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tvnewslies.org
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"We live in constant fear of the adverse impacts of climate change. For a coral atoll nation, sea level rise and more severe weather events loom as a growing threat to our entire population. The threat is real and serious, and is of no difference to a slow and insidious form of terrorism against us."
-Saufatu Sopoanga, Prime Minister of Tuvalu, at the 58th Session of the United Nations General Assembly New York, 24th September 2003
http://tuvaluislands.com/warming.htm
http://911review.com/disinfo/videos.html
findhorn DOROTHY MACLEAN
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david ray griffin love pittsburgh
A Metaphysics for the Love-and-Science Symbiosis
metanexus.net/conference2003/pdf/WOLPaper_Oord_Thomas_Jay.pdf.
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http://climeshift.org/
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The False Promise of Biofuels
a special report from
International Forum on Globalization
http://ifg.org
and
Institute for Policy Studies
http://ips-dc.org/reports/070915_biofuels_report.pdf
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From:
Media Education Foundation
http://mediaed.org
War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death
http://warmadeeasythemovie.org
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"wacky weather"
http://www.climateark.org/links/
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http://notowar.com/links.html
http://youtube.com/blastfurnacepgh
http://blastfurnacetv.wordpress.com
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http://www.climateark.org/alerts/send.asp?id=colombia_biofuel
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http://seeloosechange.com
http://www.thevoiceofreason.com/Conspiracy/video/LooseChange2ndEdition/index.html
http://911research.wtc7.net/reviews/loose_change/introduction.html
http://laughingpond.com
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http://airamerica.com
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Enviro-Web of Rice University
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~cses/resources.html
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Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology
http://cben.rice.edu
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Alliance for NanoHealth
http://nanohealthalliance.org
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http://nanowerk.com
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the spirit of water
http://www.o-books.com/product_info.php?products_id=451
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environmentally friendly laptops
HCL Infosystems
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"Alice Paul" "Chauncey Bailey"
http://www.well.com/user/jmalloy/gunterandgwen/lives.html
http://alicepaul.org
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Title:
Documentary Screening -- Freedom House
Event Date:
11/1/2007 6:00 PM
End Date:
Description:
The School of Social Work's Student Executive Council (SEC) invites you to an exclusive screening of the documentary "Freedom House" on Thursday,
November 1, at 6.00 p.m., in 2017 Cathedral of Learning.
"Freedom House" tells the story of a history-making medical program that was created to meet the needs of residents suffering from massive discrimination and health care neglect in Pittsburgh's Hill District. It later became a
model for EMS systems nationwide.
Join Phil Hallen, Freedom House visionary & president emeritus of The Falk Foundation, and John Moon, assistant chief of Pittsburgh EMS & former
Freedom House EMT, for a discussion and Q & A following the film.
Refreshments will be provided.
FREE
For additional information or questions email jmw133@pitt.edu
Location:
2017 Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh, Oakland
Contact:
jmw133@pitt.edu
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http://transitiontowns.org/Kinsale/Main/Links
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http://communitysolution.org/resources.html
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/
http://gorillasguides.com/2007/10/25/iraq-child-prisoners-abused-and-tortured-say-activists/
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compost at
http://tobaccodocuments.org/
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http://planetquo.com/The-Haig-Kissinger-Depopulation-Policy
...Bureau of Oceans, International Environmental, and Scientific Affairs...
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Bureau of Oceans, International Environmental, and Scientific Affairs
http://www.pon.harvard.edu/news/2003/event_margolis_II.php3
"Bureau of Oceans, International Environmental, and Scientific Affairs"
http://backwardsbush.com/links.php
http://outrageradio.com
http://organicconsumers.org
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http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video
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Pieces for Peace and Justice in Iraq and Appalachia: Connecting the Dots, 10/24 - 10/26
Event Date:
10/24/2007 12:00 AM
End Date:
10/26/2007 12:00 AM
Description:
The Clifford M. Lewis, SJ, Appalachian Institute and Justice and Peace in Our Times club at Wheeling Jesuit University and Ohio Valley P.E.A.C.E. are co-sponsoring "Pieces for Peace and Justice in Iraq and Appalachia: Connecting the Dots", a free festival to be held the last weekend in October, 2007, (October 24-26) on the WJU campus in Wheeling, WV.
The keynote speaker and musician will be Si Kahn, a well-known folk singer and organizer whose work resounds with Appalachian culture. Other musical performances will include “Emma’s Revolution” and local bands.
“This free festival is an opportunity for people of all ages to learn about exploitation of our local resources, such as coal, and our national resources, such as our young people fighting in Iraq, for the financial gain of corporate interests,” says Ron Teska, one of the festival organizers. “Bring the whole family. This is our children’s future we’re talking about here.”
There will be informational tables for many groups including Iraq Veterans Against the War and Coal River Alliance. Free documentary films such as "Iraq for Sale," "Black Diamond," "Beyond Treason" and "Sludge” will be shown with panel discussions following. Non-profit groups interested in having a table at the fair can contact Ron Teska at teska397@yahoo.com
A People's Choice Art Show will encourage and support artists from our local high schools, colleges and communities by displaying pieces that reflect a desire for peace, justice, and enlightenment in the coal fields and mountains of Appalachia as well as the sands of Iraq and the Middle East. For more information on submitting art for the show, contact Pat Jacobsen at patnjake@sprynet.com.
Si Kahn has been an organizer in Appalachia for several decades with experience in improving the lives of its residents, educating the world about Appalachian culture and confronting privatization forces that threatens Appalachia and democracy itself. He is also the co-author, with Elizabeth Minnich, of the book “The Fox in the Henhouse.”
Donations to support the free festival can be made to "Clifford Lewis Appalachian Institute, WJU" with "Ohio Valley P.E.A.C.E." on the memo line. Send checks to: Wheeling Jesuit University, 316 Washington Ave., Wheeling, WV 26003, ATTN Appalachian Institute. All gifts qualify as a 501C-3 tax-deductible donation.
For more information, contact Jennifer Loustau at Jloustau@aol.com or call (304)639-4558.
Location:
WJU campus in Wheeling, WV
Contact:
Jennifer Loustau at Jloustau@aol.com or call (304)639-4558.
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http://marcusrediker.com/Miscellany/activism.htm
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nov. 2
http://bak.spc.org/
poverty simulation just harvest
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vaccines
http://www.vaccination.org.uk/m/butler7.html
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"Gro Harlem Brundtland" 9/11 cia "black ops"
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7299670230272339196&q=army+tests+bio&total=32&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
http://truthaction.org
http://ravenwoods.blogspot.com/2007_07_01_archive.html
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"Aaron Russo" "Nick Rockefeller"
http://aftermathnews.wordpress.com/2007/03/08/nick-rockefeller-revealed-elite-agenda-to-aaron-russo-during-friendship/
http://911review.org
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tobacco
http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/specialtopic/smoking-and-smokeless-tobacco/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier
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11 Things the We Can Learn from the Rest of the World
http://www.alternet.org/stories/65847/
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memritv.org
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http://earthactivisttraining.org
Glenn Doman
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http://madelovegotwar.com/links.htm
http://lifeinbalancemusic.com/index.php/c10
http://lifeinbalancemusic.com/index.php/c6
aidemocracy.org
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To: hazelwoodeditor@yahoo.com
for hazelwoodhomepage.com
Grow a bit of your own food
Crush a freshly picked mint leaf and smell it. Those few thousand molecules from the plant that get into your nose will actually change your brain waves to make you more alert. Now check out the price of a one ounce sprig of "fresh" mint (likely wilting because it was picked days ago) - $1.99 last time I looked. That's about 30 dollars a pound. There's a wake-up call for you. Mint is so easy to grow gardeners call it a weed.
Drastic rises in food prices are coming. The Earth's 6+ billion people are competing for food, the production of which is being tied up by a narrowing group of corporations whose bottom lines necessitate viciously unfair stifling of competition and trade. As with other problems, were we humans cooperating we could solve the problem of hunger. But - like children fighting over a toy or hogs nipping at each other at the feed trough - our inability to cooperate is making it so that there will be less and less good quality food to go around. The toy breaks, the feed ends up in the mud rather than the trough, and more and more of God's children go hungry. Think food costs too much now? The decline of honeybees and other insects needed to pollinate so many of our crops is only one of many interacting ecosystem changes that will make it even more difficult to maintain a stable food supply.
To me it seems there's no conflict between science and religion. Everything is connected to everything else by cause and effect. If we want to be on God's short list we have to behave certain ways. Invest your time and resources in feeding people and you'll be less likely to run out of food yourself. Prepare to fight and you'll probably end up fighting. Grow some of your own food, with your own resources, and you won't as much bid up it's price in the marketplace.
Our relationship with nature can become less violent. Some of those weeds are edible and don't need to be eradicated. Get someone to point out the edible ones to you. Weed around an edible weed you want to give it more room to grow. Put some good organic plant food such as grass clippings around it. In a thick enough layer grass clippings or other mulch will prevent other unwanted plants from growing near your food plant.
Mint is easy to grow. I have four or five different kinds of mint plants I'd be happy to share with anyone. Catnip, horseradish, french sorrel, borage, purslane, garlic, leek, onion, and others can be harvested in such a way as they keep growing so you don't have to replant. And, once established they come back the next year. All can be added to soups and salads.
But my favorite plant this year is lamb's quarters. Here's a plant that you don't have to plant because it's a weed and comes up by itself. If you give it enough room and good soil it will grow as big as a small Christmas tree. Bugs and other critters don't like it much, so you don't have to worry over it like other crops. And, when you want to harvest some just cut off and cook like spinach the end of each branch. The plant will keep on producing. You can rinse and freeze in ziploc bags. And it's 40% protein. I like the taste as much as spinach or collards. And I had way more than I could eat or store from 4 plants.
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http://burtsbees.com
http://wholejoy.com
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http://envirolink.org/resource.html?itemid=200302141623400.993882&catid=5
http://appvoices.org
http://ran.org/what_we_do/global_finance/spotlight/coal_is_over/
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nhne.org
Journal of Life Sciences
http://tjols.com
======
bee bites
http://www.tjols.com/article-395.html
======
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2007/05/28/daily42.html
LiveFuels Inc., a company developing fuels from algae, raised $10 million in its first round of venture funding.
David Gelbaum of the Quercus Trust led the round. His brother, Daniel Gelbaum, who is also an investor, is on the LiveFuels board of directors.
Lissa Morgenthaler-Jones is CEO of the Menlo Park company, which aims to produce biocrude oil from algae by 2010. She founded the company with her husband, Dave Jones, and they seeded it with $1 million of their own money.
Other companies seeking to make fuel from algae include Solazyme, also based in Menlo Park, and GreenFuel Technologies in Cambridge, Mass.
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http://brevardbiodiesel.org
http://biodieselcommunity.org
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http://livefuels.com/page1.html
...Algal oil is similar to soybean oil but can be grown on marginal lands unsuitable for food crops. Thriving on sunlight and CO2...
...The entire United States’ supply of imported oil could potentially be grown on 20 to 40 million acres of marginal land, leaving the 450 million acres of fertile American soil that are presently farmland still available to feed the nation.
“LiveFuels will enable American farmers to replace imported oil with home-grown biocrude and supply it to the United States,”...
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http://consumersunion.org
http://globalwomenstrike.net
http://refusingtokill.net
http://stopclimatechaos.org
http://motherearth.org/energy/nuclear6.php
http://www.wri-irg.org
darkmission.net
ufw.org Alejandro Gil
http://esperanzacenter.org
http://goodapples.org
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http://www.geosociety.org/meetings/2003/
prPennStateKump.htm
http://geosociety.org/meetings/2006/ePublicForum.htm
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New URA post to focus on 'green' buildings
'Sustainable design coordinator' will encourage environmentally friendly development
Saturday, October 27, 2007
By Diana Nelson Jones, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
http://post-gazette.com/pg/07300/828973-53.stm
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http://www.astrobio.net/news/modules.php?op
=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=672
http://www.astrobio.net/news/modules.php?op
=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1535
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00037A5D-
A938-150E-A93883414B7F0000&sc=I100322
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The Earth's Prognosis
http://alternet.org/environment/66434
...the climate models are predicting...a warmer atmosphere is just a more energetic atmosphere...
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invisible children choosing joy, beauty
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3166797753930210643
======
http://thecarpetbaggerreport.com
http://sickocure.org
http://www.newstatesman.com/200710250020
http://olliesworld.com
http://www.newstatesman.com/200709200027
http://www.whatsnextnetwork.com/technology/index.php/2006/11/
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Solid Waste Association of North America
http://swana.org
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http://thegroundtruth.org
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colonel john anderson "stargate program" "remote viewing" "non-lethal weaponry" "Joseph McMonagle"
irva.org SRI "close encounters" "Ingo Swann"
ms13 el salvador
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Who Really Set the California Fires?
By Mike Davis, Tomdispatch.com. Posted November 1, 2007.
http://www.alternet.org/environment/66706/
Seeing an opportunity for land development, conservative California politico Pete Wilson adds fuel to the wildfires -- and is honored for it.
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You can't have too much of a good thing, so let me just quote Mike Davis from 1998 to introduce Mike Davis 2007 on the California fires. In Ecology of Fear, his 1998 book on southern California, he wrote just about everything you'd ever need to know if you didn't want to be surprised by the raging Santa Ana-driven wildfires of 2003 or 2007. After all, there's nothing new about the burning phenomenon on what Davis then dubbed "the fire coast." "A great Malibu firestorm," he wrote, "could generate the heat of three million barrels of burning oil at a temperature of 2,000 degrees." No wonder Cold War era researchers used those California fires to model the behavior of nuclear firestorms.
What remains eternally new (and yet utterly predictable, once you've read Davis) is the increasing amount of tinder we put in the way of such fires in "the suburban-chaparral border zone where wildfire is king" -- and then the fierce fire-suppression campaigns that new, wealthy homeowners in their privatized, gated communities, McMansions, and McCastles demand, which only build further the fuel for the fires that, even in the 1990s, were "becoming ever more apocalyptic." Oh yes, and another thoroughly predictable thing: After hundreds, or thousands, of houses burn, the search for villains begins not among the politicians and developers, pushing human habitation ever deeper into the lands of the firestorm, but for arsonists, "although probably not more than one in eight blazes is caused by arson." The shape of the shape-shifting arsonist has changed over the years: more or less in historical order, according to Davis, they have been Indians, sheepherders, tramps, Wobblies, Okies, "Axis saboteurs," and, in our own time, environmentalists, (indirectly) endangered and protected species, gays, and terrorists. The search for arsonists is, of course, on again -- and one has so far been identified, a boy, possibly only 10 years old, playing with matches whose case is now being turned over to the district attorney for possible prosecution.
And finally, it's predictable that "the essential land-use issue, the rampant, uncontrolled proliferation of firebelt suburbs," is ignored; while, in the rush to fight the ensuing fires, vast sums of taxpayer money are functionally spent on luxury enclaves and gated hilltop suburbs. As Davis concluded back in 1998, but might as well have written last night, "Needless to say, there is no comparable investment in the fire, toxic, or earthquake safety of inner-city communities. Instead, as in so many things, we tolerate two systems of hazard prevention, separate and unequal."
And the worst of it is that "fire itself accelerates gentrification" in those former wildlands. Charred hillside? All the better to build, my dear...
The fate of prophets is, of course, to be ignored. Nobody raises statues to them. -- Tomdispatch Editor, Tom Engelhardt
San Diego Builds a Statue to an Arsonist Developers with Matches
By Mike Davis
This August, just as the first Santa Ana winds bent the boughs of the eucalyptus trees in Balboa Park, 500 wealthy business people and Republican Party donors raised their champagne glasses to salute "Mr. San Diego," Pete Wilson, as he unveiled a bronze statue of himself in downtown's Horton Plaza. Wilson, of course, was the controversial, immigrant-baiting governor of California during the nineties; but the statute specifically apotheosizes his role as the political catalyst for San Diego's "downtown renaissance" during his earlier three terms as mayor of the city (1971-1983).
The 74-year-old Wilson, whose preppy appearance leads strangers to mistake him for an aging member of the Kingston Trio, recalled the bad old days -- before million-dollar condos and billionaire developers took over downtown -- when the nearby "Gaslight District" was a "haven for saloons and tattoo parlors." He praised the memory of his friend and crucial ally in remaking downtown, developer Ernest Hahn, whose statue adjoins his. But it was difficult to make out his words since, across the plaza, several hundred demonstrators, an inspiring coalition of young Latinos and gays, were beating drums, blowing whistles, and chanting "racist!" Some of Wilson's admirers blistered, but Mr. San Diego was characteristically gracious about free speech: "Horses asses," he laughed.
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Title:
Documentary Screening -- Freedom House
Event Date:
11/1/2007 6:00 PM
End Date:
Description:
The School of Social Work's Student Executive Council (SEC) invites you to an exclusive screening of the documentary "Freedom House" on Thursday,
November 1, at 6.00 p.m., in 2017 Cathedral of Learning.
"Freedom House" tells the story of a history-making medical program that was created to meet the needs of residents suffering from massive discrimination and health care neglect in Pittsburgh's Hill District. It later became a
model for EMS systems nationwide.
Join Phil Hallen, Freedom House visionary & president emeritus of The Falk Foundation, and John Moon, assistant chief of Pittsburgh EMS & former
Freedom House EMT, for a discussion and Q & A following the film.
Refreshments will be provided.
FREE
For additional information or questions email jmw133@pitt.edu
Location:
2017 Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh, Oakland
Contact:
jmw133@pitt.edu
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Pieces for Peace and Justice in Iraq and Appalachia: Connecting the Dots, 10/24 - 10/26
Event Date:
10/24/2007 12:00 AM
End Date:
10/26/2007 12:00 AM
Description:
The Clifford M. Lewis, SJ, Appalachian Institute and Justice and Peace in Our Times club at Wheeling Jesuit University and Ohio Valley P.E.A.C.E. are co-sponsoring "Pieces for Peace and Justice in Iraq and Appalachia: Connecting the Dots", a free festival to be held the last weekend in October, 2007, (October 24-26) on the WJU campus in Wheeling, WV.
The keynote speaker and musician will be Si Kahn, a well-known folk singer and organizer whose work resounds with Appalachian culture. Other musical performances will include “Emma’s Revolution” and local bands.
“This free festival is an opportunity for people of all ages to learn about exploitation of our local resources, such as coal, and our national resources, such as our young people fighting in Iraq, for the financial gain of corporate interests,” says Ron Teska, one of the festival organizers. “Bring the whole family. This is our children’s future we’re talking about here.”
There will be informational tables for many groups including Iraq Veterans Against the War and Coal River Alliance. Free documentary films such as "Iraq for Sale," "Black Diamond," "Beyond Treason" and "Sludge” will be shown with panel discussions following. Non-profit groups interested in having a table at the fair can contact Ron Teska at teska397@yahoo.com
A People's Choice Art Show will encourage and support artists from our local high schools, colleges and communities by displaying pieces that reflect a desire for peace, justice, and enlightenment in the coal fields and mountains of Appalachia as well as the sands of Iraq and the Middle East. For more information on submitting art for the show, contact Pat Jacobsen at patnjake@sprynet.com.
Si Kahn has been an organizer in Appalachia for several decades with experience in improving the lives of its residents, educating the world about Appalachian culture and confronting privatization forces that threatens Appalachia and democracy itself. He is also the co-author, with Elizabeth Minnich, of the book “The Fox in the Henhouse.”
Donations to support the free festival can be made to "Clifford Lewis Appalachian Institute, WJU" with "Ohio Valley P.E.A.C.E." on the memo line. Send checks to: Wheeling Jesuit University, 316 Washington Ave., Wheeling, WV 26003, ATTN Appalachian Institute. All gifts qualify as a 501C-3 tax-deductible donation.
For more information, contact Jennifer Loustau at Jloustau@aol.com or call (304)639-4558.
Location:
WJU campus in Wheeling, WV
Contact:
Jennifer Loustau at Jloustau@aol.com or call (304)639-4558.
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http://ravenwoods.blogspot.com/2007_07_01_archive.html
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http://911review.org
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11 Things the We Can Learn from the Rest of the World
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