Thank you to the Daily Kos Community Yet again, a difficult passage in my cancer treatment has been

Rob Hopkins leads a vibrant new movement of towns and cities that utilize local cooperation and interdependence to shrink their ecological footprints. In the face of climate change he developed the concept of Transition Initiatives -- communities that produce their own goods and services, curb the need for transportation and take other measures to prepare for a post-oil future. While Transition shares certain travel and leisure golf principles with greenness and sustainability, it is a deeper vision concerned with re-imagining our future in a self-sufficient way and building resiliency.
To quote from his talk, Transition to a world without oil : "By loving and leaving all that oil has done for us … we are able to then begin the creation of a world which is more resilient, more nourishing, and in which we find ourselves fitter, more skilled and more connected to each other."
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Something has to give There is an inherent tension — and obscenity — in the wildly divergent fortunes of the rich and the poor in this country, especially among our children. The growing imbalance of both wealth and ...
Last Most Beautiful Moment in Nature It's been awhile since I've done one of these, partly because there haven't been many for me recently, but a few days back I stopped on the way back from the dentist for a run along the Potomac River,
Macca's Meatless Monday: Veggie caucus on the hill In this weekly series we have been discussing the benefits of a vegetarian diet including: better travel and leisure golf health , animal rights, food safety, frugal living, public health, water and land depletion and the ...
Thank you to the Daily Kos Community Yet again, a difficult passage in my cancer treatment has been lit up with the love and concern of the Daily Kos Community. I can never thank you all enough. This time it's the autologous stem ...
"Voting shouldn't make us angry" "Voting shouldn't make us angry" is what my husband said today after we voted in the first election in Texas where we are required to have Voter ID. It is also required that your Voter ID name ...