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In support of a friend's Cause, and because it's something I believe in, too:
Dear Friends:
Thanks for joining our FB Group! As many of you know, we have received a $2500 grant which will pay $1 for each new person who joins this group before June 1. In the last 72 hours 208 people have joined!
We have 23 days to recruit 2292 more supporters in order to receive the full $2500. If everyone receiving this email recruits 3 friends to join over the weekend we will be half way there. Each person who joins raises money and awareness for the campaign to Restore Hetch Hetchy.
BAY AREA RESIDENTS: We need your help planning our summer outreach efforts in San Francisco. Please email me if you can join us for a volunteer leadership meeting on May 18th and/or our larger organizing meeting on June 6. Or call our office at 415-956-0401. WE NEED YOU TO GET INVOLVED!
Max Szabo
Field Organizer
max@hetchhetchy.org
Restore Hetch Hetchyx
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New & Used books, movies, and CDs. Selling my library & collection to find them new happy homes, and help finance my trip to Europe this summer.
For Earth Day, April 22nd:
Merl Saunders - Blues From the Rainforest: A Musical Suite [DVD]
Life on Earth: A Natural History By David Attenborough
PlanetHood: The key to your survival and prosperity by Benjamin B. Ferencz (still apropos. The best ideas never lose their value.)
30 Days to a Simpler Life [Paperback] by Cris Evatt & Connie Cox
Conservation Medicine: Ecological Health in Practice [Hardcover]; Gary M. Tabor
The Emerald Forest [VHS] Powers Boothe, Meg Foster, Dira Paes, Charley Boorman
Planet Steward: Journal of Wildlife Sanctuary by Stephen Levine
The Earth Work Group: 30 Simple Energy Things You Can Do to Save the Earth (Still innovative!)
The terrace gardener's handbook: Raising plants on a balcony, terrace, rooftop, penthouse, or patio (Hardcover) by Linda Yang
Gardening ... Naturally by D. X. Fenten
Some of these books and movies have been staunch companions and reliable resources, others are new and innovative, and each of them is worthy of finding a new owner who can use them in current academic or applied work, or research.
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Paul Rodriguez narrates this one hour doc on salt in the water supplies of various parts of California, and how what we do here in the Bay Area affects and is affected by water use elsewhere, statewide water policy, and other things. I had a chance to see it tonight at work. It's well worth seeing.
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This from the NYT- Shipping Costs Start to Crimp Globalization.
(prior links dump Here.)
What can you do about it?
City Farmer
Community Gardening and Kids
Community Greens
Moss in the City: Urban Gardening
Urban Gardening Magazine
ETA Pick Your Own gardens and farms in US, UK, Europe, Canada, Italy, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa</a>.
Perhaps you and some friends get together and lament not being in better shape. Can one of you donate land to a group project garden? Maybe all you have is a balcony in a climate with a short growing season. Can you grow herbs? sprout seeds?
Maybe you think it's inefficient to grow any of your own food. Well, maybe it is from a strictly commercial business point of view. But in terms of best use of the calories you take in / the calories you expend, which is more worthwhile? the giant pack from Costco or Tesco? or the oxygen-producing, carbon-dioxide reducing pot of chives or basil on your sill? The tomatoes you get from the pot on the balcony? the lettuce from the box on the verandah? Remember, even some flowers are edible. (I use nasturtiums in my salads. mmm, peppery!)
I dunno if the problems caused (to some extent, unwittingly) by globalizing trade and industrializing farming are all curably by home food farming. I do know that even if you have a 'black thumb', over time you can learn to listen to plants and come to recognize what it takes to have an honest relationship with sun-converting chlorophyll-using beings, and that in itself can be balm to a wounded soul, and help right some of the imbalance in the world.
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Peace is every step.
The shining red sun is my heart.
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Peace is every step.
It turns the endless path
To joy.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Engaged Buddhism
Youtube of the movie
Despair-work.
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No cuts. Not today.
The redemption of Cutler Beckett or Tom Hollander's charities.
Orlando Bloom and others design cards for Epidermolysis Bullosa charity
![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) redscorner's Fight to earn enough to pay for brain surgery: quoted from verisimilitant. redscorner is currently suffering from two serious neurological conditions which require surgery, but she is unemployed, without health care, and unable to qualify for Medicaid. However, megaupload has this 'rewards program' where, if she can secure 5 million downloads, they will give her 10,000 dollars. She has until the end of November to do this. You can download once every day and each download helps. The files are txt documents that give more details about her situation. They are spyware, malware, and virus free and really only take a second to download. Help this girl out and, if you feel so inclined, post this in your own journal to help spread the cause.
1. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5QBOA940
2. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7LPXMESC
3. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0O8AYRES
Proof links are virus-free
Via rocketbalm
[My dad worked at RAND corporation in the 50's. I thought everyone had discussions like this at the dinner table and beach-side barbecues. Guess not, hunh. This is so well done.]
Please support something, anything, for the people of Burma. The US Campaign For Burma will take immediate donations, or you can buy The CD 'For the Lady' or one of the beautiful WEAVE scarves. Similar site is Burmacampaign.UK.
Do something for yourself. Make a journey into The Depths of Money and start saving yourself from drowning in debt, stuff, or need.
Be excellent to one another. Watch a good movie, take a good walk, read a good book, cook a good meal, have a good bath. Recognize the good and sacred in each thing, place, person, idea that crosses your path.
To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.
- Walt Whitman
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