The difference between being there, at the Democratic convention in Denver, with thousands of cheering, sign waving delegates, and watching the convention unfold on television, is of the mass surge of emotion which is overwhelming. There was no separation between what I felt, and what the crowd felt. The result was euphoria, which may or may not be realistic, but for the moment, I was swept away by speaker after ...
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We're proud to announce the publication of Obama’s Challenge: America’s Economic Crisis and the Power of a Transformative Presidency by Robert Kuttner—a surprise book to be launched at the Democratic National Convention in Denver at the end of the month.
In this urgent and important book, Robert Kuttner, who is known for his acclaimed economic journalism as ...
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Submitted by dpacheco on August 28, 2008 04:25 PM
Former Governor of Vermont and author Madeleine Kunin (Pearls, Politics, and Power) continues her coverage of the Democratic National Convention in Denver.
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Submitted by dpacheco on August 28, 2008 09:46 AM
The Guardian UK's Steve Bell visits Denver and takes a tour through Manifest Hope, an exhibition of art inspired by Barack Obama.
Pieces range from the iconic (Shepard Fairey's "Hope"), to the comedic (the "Rumble in the Jungle" restaged with Obama-as-Ali standing victoriously over a battered McCain-as-Foreman), to the, ah, "interestingly sexual" (um...yeah).
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Submitted by dpacheco on August 28, 2008 03:46 AM
Author Matthew Stein (When Technology Fails: A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the Long Emergency) recently spoke to Deborah Lindsay on "Tomorrow Matters," a green talk show out of Monterrey, CA. In this interview, they discuss the "12 Steps for Making the Shift to Sustainability," as well as the right way to prepare for a potential catastrophic event—everything from ice storms and wildfires to terrorist attack and (worst case scenario) nuclear winter.
Listen to the interview here.
And if worse does indeed come to worst, and we fail ...
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Submitted by JTE on August 27, 2008 09:45 PM
Any tinkering addicts, basement inventors out there looking for a good project? I’ve had a vision of the eco-kitchen future, and I want you to help make it into a demonstrable reality. I don’t have the tinkering skills, or time away from the toddling kids, to work on it myself.
The vision is this: cooking and refrigeration powered by methane produced from household waste (including bodily waste). Can such a utopia be possible. You betcha! It works (in the fevered theory of my mind) like this:
When anaerobic bacteria feed on organic wastes ...
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Submitted by dpacheco on August 27, 2008 02:46 PM
Former Governor of Vermont and author Madeleine Kunin (Pearls, Politics, and Power) continues her coverage of the DNC. Today Madeleine describes Hillary Clinton's stirring call for unity in the Democratic Party, recounts the story of Lily Ledbetter of Alabama—who sued (unsuccessfully) Goodyear Tire Company, alleging twenty years of pay discrimination—and talks about her encounter with the "Rednecks for Obama" ("They were the genuine article.").
From the Huffington Post article:
"Keep going, keep on going," Hillary told the cheering crowd in the Pepsi Center, quoting Harriet Tubman's words, when she made ...
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Submitted by dpacheco on August 27, 2008 07:47 AM
A recent article on NewYorker.com had some illuminating things to say about the birth of the modern American lawn:
In 1841, Andrew Jackson Downing published the first landscape-gardening book aimed at an American audience.… [He] was dismayed by what he saw as the general slovenliness of rural America, where pigs and poultry were allowed to roam free, “bare and bald” houses were thrown up, and trees were planted haphazardly, if at all. (The first practice, he complained, contributed to the generally “brutal aspect of the streets.”) His “Treatise on the Theory and Practice ...
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Submitted by jsmcdougall on August 27, 2008 01:19 AM
Today I spent some time walking the streets of Denver taking in a view of the action. There are a lot of very excited people walking, biking, and driving around. I've put together this photo essay of the scene in Denver.
(CAUTION! Some DISTURBING images follow. No joke. If you don't want to get sick, don't scroll down.)
We'll start with the nice ones...
A hybrid taxi service in sections of the city.
A solar-panel powered Humana freewheel!n free bike center.
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Submitted by dpacheco on August 26, 2008 07:46 PM
Former Governor of Vermont and author Madeleine Kunin (Pearls, Politics, and Power) encounters protestors, Michelle Obama, and Ted Kennedy. All this and more as Madeleine covers Day One of the Democratic National Convention.
From the Huffington Post article:
There are two stages at the Democratic Convention in Denver, one that is played out in streets and the other inside the Pepsi center. Both dramas portray, as no political science textbook could, what it means to live in a democracy. Outside the convention center I walked past a dozen young ...
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