The Universe functions as a whole.

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http://www.thinkingallowed.com/4rthunder.html
Rolling Thunder
THE UNITY OF MAN AND NATURE

The Indian way of life is a life in harmony with nature. In this far ranging talk, Rolling Thunder contrasts this with the notion of mankind as dominator over nature. He describes the natural powers of native peoples which emerge from an attunement with nature. These include the ability to communicate with plants and animals, telepathic interactions with each other, and the ability to make rain. He describes his role as a healer using shamanistic methods and also describes his journeys to the worlds of spirits.

At the time of this program Rolling Thunder was visiting the San Francisco Bay Area to perform rain ceremonies to help end a drought. Two evenings before the interview he performed a lightning dance. That night, the entire region was surprised by thunder and lightning storm lasting for several hours -- an event which occurs only rarely in the San Francisco area.

Rolling Thunder, a native Cherokee Indian, is an inter-tribal medicine man. He is the subject of a book titled Rolling Thunder by Doug Boyd. He has been an inspiration and influence to such cultural figures as Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead.
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Ain't no easy way to get high
http://csp.org/chrestomathy/rolling_thunder.html
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integrating biocontrol with food production

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motherearthnews.com/Organic-Gardening/Organic-Pest-Control-Poultry.aspx
...provide...eggs. Plus, the nitrogen-rich droppings they produce will help your garden flourish (after some time composting)....can provide outstanding tick and mosquito control and have voracious appetites for slugs, snails and other pests. They even eat mice and snakes sometimes!...

The Earth is alive.

"The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself."
~FDR
http://soils.usda.gov/education/resources/k_12/quotes
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"For soil to form it needs to be living."
~Christine Jones
http://renewablesoil.com

Sanity

From:
Bill McKibben, Kathy Mattea, Wendell Berry, Gus Speth,Terry Tempest Williams and others...
"...We can be bigger than the sum of our parts...It's broken my heart to hear the term 'clean coal' come out of the President's mouth, because 'clean coal' really is a myth..."
~Kathy Mattea
http://youtube.com/watch?v=jL0HueJqK8M&NR=1

Um applyin fer dogcatcha...

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envirowagg.com/rationale.html

"Recycling" is a process that changes or reconditions an item that is no longer useful back into the system for further use. Much of recycling is "downcycling," that is, turning the material into a substance with less value that it originally possessed. Plastics and mixed metals are examples of items commonly downcycled. "Upcycling" is a process that transforms the item into something more valuable than it was at the start...

Working toward zero waste

San Francisco has been upcycling its dog waste into an alternative energy source since January 2006. The city is depositing tons of the material into an anaerobic digester, which uses bacteria to convert organic waste into methane gas. The gas is then captured and burned to produce energy in the form of electricity and natural gas. Dogs in the Bay Area produce an estimated 6,500 tons of waste - nearly 4% of total landfill waste - every year. This project is helping the city reach its goal of diverting 75 percent of its waste from landfills by 2010 and achieve zero landfill waste by 2020.

An inexpensive alternative

An easy, low-cost way to upcycle organic material is to simply compost it. To work its magic, composting requires only biologically derived matter, air, a bit of warmth, moisture, hungry organisms, and a person skilled at the practice...
envirowagg.com/product.html
...DOGGONE GOOD COMPOST® is prepared only by professionals under large-scale commercial conditions. Each batch of compost is thoroughly tested for all pathogens harmful to people and pets. As an added precaution, the compost is recommended for flowers and shrubs, not fruit and vegetable gardens.

DOGGONE GOOD COMPOST® is also continually evaluated to ensure that it contains components that will rejuvenate soil and provide nutrients productive to healthy plant root and foliage development. Dog waste is much higher in nitrogen than farm animal manure. Bacteria and fungi use nitrogen for the key function of protein synthesis during the composting process.

DOGGONE GOOD COMPOST® contains composted dog manure, pine bark, natural enzymes and mychorrizae for vigorous root growth...
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Money!

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"Wall Street was built as a wall from one side of Manhattan to the other side by 500 Dutch indentured servants, and they built this gigantic wall which became Wall Street to keep the Indians out..."
~Steve Ben Israel
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http://mountainjusticesummer.org/events.php?id=155
Anti-MTR [mountain top removal] Rally and Civil Disobedience in Coal River Valley with Dr. James Hansen; Tuesday June 23 @

On June 23rd Dr. James Hansen, a leading climate scientists and environmental hero, will join community members in Coal River Valley, West Virginia to launch a year of activism to end mountaintop removal coal mining. Blowing the tops off of mountain ranges to harvest dirty coal harms the people and places of Appalachia, destroys the economic potential of the Appalachian Mountains for clean energy opportunities and furthers the burning of climate killing coal.

Dr. Hansen and the people of West Virginia need you and as many friends as you can muster to come to West Virginia on June 23rd to help build the wave of activism needed to stop mountaintop removal this year.

This is the year we must stop the most ecologically and culturally destructive form of strip mining on earth.

WHEN: 12:00pm-3:00pm, Tuesday June 23rd

WHERE: Marsh Fork Elementary, 8801 Coal River Rd Naoma, WV 25140

WHAT: At Marsh Fork Elementary at 12:00 noon Dr. Hansen and MTR impacted community members will begin the day by speaking out about the problems with MTR. The elementary school is next to a mountaintop removal mine operated by Massey Energy; threatening children with chemicals and coal dust, and just 400 yards downslope from a 2.8 billion gallon coal sludge impoundment (if the impoundment were breached there would be less than three minutes to evacuate the School). At 1:00pm the crowd will march a short distance to Massey Energy’s office of operations. Standing in defiance at the Massey Energy property line of a mountaintop removal mining operation, Dr. Hansen, 94-year-old former Representative Hechler and dozens of Coal River Valley residents will risk arrest in a line crossing civil disobedience. This is the next big step in stopping mountaintop removal where it starts.

For more information, please contact Annie Sartor at: annie [at] ran [dot] org

Mountaintop removal, the world’s worst strip mining, is unacceptable. Period. Join the fight to end mountaintop removal coal mining on June 23rd.
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trying to control life

If we really want not to have problems we could jist put a good coat a lacquer over the whole surface of the Earth, so nobody moves, NUTHIN moves...
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civileats.com/2009/04/30/hog-heaven-or-hogocaust
...The root of the problem is that we are treating biological systems as if they are factories...
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therealfoodchannel.com/videos/how_the_body_is_trickedinto_eating_junk__and_how_to_stop.html
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thecampaign.org/links.php
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freedomcorner.org/legends_of_the_movement.html
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Chomsky re G20
democracynow.org/2009/4/13/noam_chomsky_on_the_global_economic
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Uh-oh, trouble's a brewin'...

Keep looking up - follow the heroes:
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"True forgiveness deals with the past, all of the past, to make the future possible."
~Desmond Tutu, quoted in
Amish Grace:
How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy
by Donald B. Kraybill, Steven M. Nolt, and David L. Weaver
pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week1103/interview5.html
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More heroes:
"Winona LaDuke", "James Lovelock", "James Hansen", "Bill McKibben", "Senator Jim Ferlo", "Mike Stout", "Charlie McCollester", the guy who waded in chest deep to save the stranded strangers, the soldier who refused bad orders,...
"Jack O'Malley"
catholiclabor.org/C-L Gath/2006 Gathering Files/Fr. Jack O'Malley.htm ,...

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guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/feb/21/james-lovelock-gaia-book-review

...The Gaia theory proposes that the atmosphere, oceans, rocks, soil and all living things constitute a self-regulating system that maintains favourable conditions for life - but not necessarily the life that is comfortable for human beings.

One of Lovelock's most beautiful pieces of hard science - which tipped the balance in favour of Gaia - is his discovery of a great cycle in which algae in the oceans produce volatile sulphur compounds that act as seeds to form the oceanic clouds. Without these dimethyl sulphide "seeds", the cooling oceanic clouds would be lost...
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In

The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning

Lovelock argues that the earth is lurching toward a permanent “hot state” — much more quickly than most scientists think—and calls for aggressive preparation in order for humanity to survive the consequences...
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foodnews.org
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A 'time bomb' for world wheat crop
courant.com/news/nationworld/la-sci-wheat-rust14-2009jun14,0,2438801.story
The Ug99 fungus, called stem rust, could wipe out more than 80% of the world's wheat as it spreads from Africa, scientists fear. The race is on to breed resistant plants before it reaches the U.S....
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news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090619/ap_on_re_eu/eu_un_world_hunger

...report said the urban poor would likely be hit hardest as foreign investment declines and demand for exports drops, and millions would return to the countryside, which could put pressure on rural communities and resources.

Globally there are now about 1.02 billion people hungry, up 11 percent from last year...

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ellenbrown.com
greenhour.org
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International Forum on Globalization
ifg.org
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greensumption
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft5SSIfmeKU
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freerangestudios.com
storyofstuff.com
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Stormy weather at Heaven's Gate

St. Pete: And what did YOU do with your Obama money, little Jimmy?

Little Jimmy: I bought organic cigarettes. Can I get in?

The power of enjoyment

June 18 e to Labor and Religion Coalition of Western Pennsylvania
re flooding, tornado watch:
Yes, the environment is changing, and yes we can do something about it. What's in our hearts manifests. Remember that Pittsburgh used to never get tornados.

Forwarded below is re what i believe can be appropriate biotech - culturing protein and other nutrients via fermentation to adapt to the collapsing ecosystem. Winston Churchill anticipated this by commenting on the waste of growing animal parts that are only discarded, predicted that "within 50 years" humanity would be doing this.

Jim McCue
composter and biotech researcher
bioeverything.blogspot.com

--- On Wed, 6/17/09, New Harvest wrote:


From: New Harvest
Subject: New Harvest update
To: appropriatebiotech@yahoo.com
Date: Wednesday, June 17, 2009, 8:12 PM

Since our last update, these stories appeared:

Future scenarios for the UK food system (Food Ethics Council)
http://www.foodethicscouncil.org/files/FECscenariosreport(web)_0.pdf

In vitro meat - Would you eat hamburger from the lab? (The Age)
http://blogs.theage.com.au/lifestyle/chewonthis/archives/2009/05/in_vitro_meat_w.html

Meat: the slavery of our time (Foreign Policy)
http://experts.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/06/03/meat_the_slavery_of_our_time

In defense of meat (Foreign Policy)
http://experts.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/06/17/in_defense_of_meat

For more news stories, please visit http://new-harvest.org/resources.htm

Best wishes,

Jason Matheny

New Harvest
http://www.new-harvest.org
info@new-harvest.org

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June 17th -
stuck on a bus reading Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth re how we and the Earth are synched...waded through 2 feet deep H2O, given ride by goodhearted stranger. Enthuse for a better tomorrow...
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Vincent Scotti Eirene...
WAS STUCK IN THE STORM IN SCHENLEY PARK WITH THE FAM, WATCHING CARS STUCK IN THE RUSHING STORM WATERS
ENVISION A CAR-LESS PITTSBURGH
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Street theatre
Let's really enjoy this.

http://g20bedandbreakfast.org/post/124562984/ferlo-kennywood-childrens-museum-g20-protests-among

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09156/975250-53.stm
Ferlo calls for protests during G-20 summit
Source: www.post-gazette.com
Mr. Ferlo told an audience at the University of Pittsburgh Wednesday night that the G-20 summit needed a "little civil disobedience" and reminded them that United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard had characterized the summit's world leaders as "criminals."

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being unafraid to think big picture

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"...The Universe is a living manifestation of God..."
~unknown
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From:
A New Earth
by Eckhart Tolle 2005
http://deehahn.com/?page_id=14
page 131
...To see one's predicament clearly is a first step toward going beyond it...The physical organism, your body, has its own intelligence, as does the organism of every other life-form. And that intelligence reacts to what your mind is saying, reacts to your thoughts. So emotion is the body's reaction to your mind. The body's intelligence is, of course, an inseparable part of universal intelligence, one of its countless manifestations. It gives temporary cohesion to the atoms and molecules that make up your physical organism. It is the organizing principle behind the workings of all the organs of the body, the conversion of oxygen and food into energy, the heartbeat and circulation of the blood, the immune system that protects the body from invaders, the translation of sensory input into nerve impulses that are sent to the brain, decoded there, and reassemnbled into a coherent inner picture of outer reality. All these, as well as thousands of other simultaneously occurring functions, are coordinated perfectly by that intelligence. You don't run your body. The intelligence does....true of any life form...the same intelligence that brought the plant into physical form and then manifests as the flower that comes out of the plant, the flower that opens its petals in the morning to receive the rays of the sun and closes them at nighttime...the same intelligence that manifests as Gaia, the complex living being that is planet earth...
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iicph.org/peace_after_rio_1992
Dr. Rosalie Bertell
Concern for Public Health: Peace Making after Rio, 1992
...nuclear explosions (and also emissions from nuclear generators) inject electrons...interactions with nitrogen, oxygen and water vapour, to produce nitrates and nitric acid..The shift in the Northern Hemisphere’s pH due to...atmospheric nuclear explosions and...nuclear generators has never been estimated or even mentioned...Once the pH is reduced...ecosystem becomes vulnerable...Preparation for nuclear war was probably a prominent component of the acid rain crisis, which threatens our lakes, fish, trees and our own respiratory tracks...
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igsd.org/documents/PR_bonnsideevent_june2009.pdf
...Non-CO2 Agents Are Key Targets in Climate Change Fight
Bonn event emphasizes complementing CO2 cuts with reductions in black carbon, methane, and HFCs, along with bio-sequestration through biochar...
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Quit mowin yer lawn.

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weedsandkids.blogspot.com/search/label/freedom%20lawn
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theorganicgardeners.com/links.php

Awakening heavening

to hazelwoodeditor@yahoo.com
for hazelwoodhomepage.com
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A Market Place Story

I love the Pittsburgh neighborhood called Hazelwood. I would be blind not to notice it could stand some improvement. This place has been scrappy at least as far back as when my Uncle Jim as a teen knew that the kids from Greenfield would have to fight their way to and from the movie show here.

Too many people BELIEVE in fighting - on the streets and in the workplace - and so the planet is the dangerous jungle we've made it.

You know the story of the goose and the golden egg - how butchering the bird resulted in no more eggs. This one's about crabs in a barrel climbing all over each other in a desperate attempt to get out.

It's been said that a barrel of crabs left untended overnight will result in a COMPLETELY empty barrel in the morning. What a mystery! How did that last one get out? The wall of the barrel is way too high...must have grabbed on to the second-to-last one out and held on...

And this is the story of Hazelwood. We're afraid to love each other, but we don't really hate each other. It's just that we find it so often useful to be mean to each other. Unconsciously we climb desperately over one another, often excusing ourselves with the logic that "It's a tough world," or "I can't help you, I can barely help myself and MY loved ones..." But we fail to realize that the only way out of our collective messes IS to help each other. The way out of a problem is through it, not escaping it. Leaving for more peaceful or wealthier parts, or blaming it on the other guy, is only a temporary fix.

In the long run it's just too steep a climb to go it alone.

Humanity is at that point in history where it must be decided. Will we stop wasting our time playing king of the hill - pulling down those on top, stepping on those we can to get there ourselves? Will we help each other solve our problems? Or will we continue - acting in mostly unconscious fear - pulling at each other until it's too late?

Only love will pull us out.

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Jimmy's Jumble

The world IS a jungle, because we believe that's the way it is, and so we think we need to defend ourselves...and so our fearful actions of defense generate others to defend themselves against us, which gives us reason to believe we were correct in believing we had to fight to defend ourselves...

Jimmy's Jungle, a city garden poem

It is what we make it.

Between the winding forest roadway sought by the would-be giant punkin and the fresh squeezed breeze of the little Mister Mouse who near fell off the world already, there lies for now a cherry that was and is to be some other "thing" which will then surround the garden white with light of red and orange at night and when the "evil" groaner groans the light shall inkle to the bones of caterwauling dogs and trucks and filters doubting who to rucks and with the new be bought and stole a re-lined quite within a trite and if MY garden doth delight, IT'S MINE sez equal Sir Lord Glumly hooze willing varbish trueffy fight did enable fear to wind the tight race twixt past and pro while eye don't really unnerstan to blow and in this real quite moving far there is a more than heretofor.....A child called, "Beautiful" beholds the scene but sees afar where all is lean and when the sweet air fails to light she only notes the crossing flight of hawk and buzzard and snake and kite and with this willing abroad she might...

[2 b continued]
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Machine Earth

Where is the meaning, the connection? We must be more than glue or lubricant...or body parts in an industrial...home...
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Food, Inc.
foodincmovie.com

"We believe that federally funded nutrition programs should provide all children with the healthy food they deserve. This includes low fat and safe dairy, fresh fruits and vegetables, and whole grains. Schools should be soda and junk-food-free zones and serve food that complements and furthers parents' efforts to feed their children healthfully."

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thecorporation.com
shockdoctrine.com
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We're awash in greenwashing.

The real deal: we're fucked unless we stop trying to make money being green. The desire for money is clouding our thinking.
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World-saver James Lovelock - without whom we'd have runaway ozone layer depletion by now - a believer in biochar
http://newscientist.com/article/mg20126921.500-interview-one-last-chance-to-save-mankind.html
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Earth awakening

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stardreams-cropcircles.com
...joy at the undeniable Divine perfection and beauty of it all...
cropcircleconnector.com
earthfiles.com
sacredmysteries.com
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http://nyccan.org
"...countless failures leading up to and on 9/11"..."Why didn't our fighter pilots intercept the planes?"..."Why was my uncle's crime scene tampered with?"..."Why did the military lie to the 9/11 commission?"..."Set Up To Fail"
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"...According to the Controller General of the United States...DoD is the number one reason why the government can't balance it's checkbook..."
~Cynthia McKinney 7/22/6
grilling Rumsfeld
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eootfzAhAoU
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herbalistpath.blogspot.com
ecologyengine.com
yourcallradio.org
beehivecollective.org
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One Block Off the Grid (solar energy group discounts)
1bog.org
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endoftheline.com
...Industrial fishing began in the 1950s. High-tech fisheries now trawl the oceans with nets the size of football fields. Species cannot survive at the rate they are being removed from the sea. Add in cofactors of decades of bad science, corporate greed, small-minded governments, and escalating consumer demand, and we’re left with a crisis of epic proportions. Ninety percent of the big fish in our oceans are now gone...
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Green up ya own back yard

To: Pitt engineering student garden designers
Joseph Miccio, Santhiya Mahilkanthan, Justin Lehr, and Tyler DeGirolamo
jam224@pitt.edu, sam161@pitt.edu, jwl24@pitt.edu, tad33@pitt.edu:

Regarding:
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Proposal to the Hazelwood Initiative for the Development of a Community Vegetable Garden

http://www.engr.pitt.edu/freshman/academic/engr0715/studentdata/Team8/team8.html

http://www.engr.pitt.edu/freshman/academic/engr0715/studentdata/Team8/Proposal.pdf

http://www.engr.pitt.edu/freshman/academic/engr0715/studentdata/Team8/ppt.pdf
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Thank you for your work. I would like to call your attention to a couple of assumptions you are making.

1. There is industrial-scale composting (see BioCycle and Compost Science journals), so recycling of waste biomass need not necessarily include only composting bins. Designing sustainable local food web return of organics to the soil can include more materials than those possible with small home composters.

2. There is remediation value in composting (via biodegradation and chelation), and also application of any organic matter. Biologically diverse and alive soil speeds up bioremediation.

3. No site should be given up on. If soil toxics can't be removed, simply covering them - e.g. with organic matter - makes them less airborne and less likely to come in contact with people. San Francisco League of Urban Gardeners works with their health dept. e.g. to apply wood chips to lead-contaminated soil.

4. Composting both adds nutrients and inoculates with species which work together to increase bioavailability of nutrients already there.

I applaud your work to both assess and engender community interest in and commitment to food gardening. Given the likely rapid increase in the price of food - and recognized environmental need for locally grown food - we should think big such as gearing up to supply local groceries, farmstands, food co-ops, and food pantries.

Jim McCue
composter and biotech researcher
bioeverything.blogspot.com
hazelwoodhomepage.com

Planned obsolescence should be illegal.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=built-in%20obsolescence
...eliminated...it threatened the oil industry and because it required virtually no maintenance...threatened GM's profitability by undermining the replacement parts aftermarket as well as the company's strategy of planned...
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The revolution begins with myself.

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La Revolution commence avec moi meme.
(The Revolution begins with myself.)
~'68 graffiti
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Internal Revolution message 4 humanity

blog.sohnup.com/2009/04/internal-revolution-message-4-humanity.html

vimeo.com/4372911

matthewbibby.com/blog/internal-revolution
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Green Up the G20

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"Improve Your Neighborhood
Plant a Garden"
White House organic garden

http://donnellycolt.com/catalog/product1121.html

simpleliving.net

edible estates
youtube.com/watch?v=q7JgenD4fdw
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Restoring the food web in low-income areas

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http://hazelwoodharvestinc.blogspot.com/2009/06/why-we-need-fresh-foods-outlet-in.html
...research...low-income neighborhoods that have low access to grocery stores...Some established gardens are already making a difference...
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joy versus the pain industry

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The film Monsters, Inc. is about the insight that energy can be accessed by either screams or laughter...
http://instructables.com/id/A-Swing-Set-that-Generates-Electricity
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do-it-yourself health

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Heal yourself; big business ain't gonna do it
cafegratitude.com
therealfoodchannel.com/videos/getting_dad_off_the_death_diet.html
elivinghealth.com
greenivore.net
rawfor30days.com
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