 Revolving Community Loans for “Water From Allah”
by bradlancaster by Brad Lancaster, www.HarvestingRainwater.com, © 2010
Number 4 in a series of Drops in a Bucket blog posts on Brad Lancaster’s and David Eisenberg’s U.S. State Department-sponsored adventures and gleanings in the Middle East
Northern Jordan, April 2009
Throughout northern Jordan we visited dynamic villages that were enhancing their quality of [...]
 Raise your own chickens and beat salmonella
by rjruppenthal At my house, we have eaten eggs every day this week. Unfortunately, because of the salmonella outbreak that's taken a few million eggs off the market, most Americans cannot make a similar statement. My family feels perfectly safe eating eggs because they do not come from hundreds or thousands of [...]
Disappearing Oil: The REAL Story (You Need to Read)
by rjruppenthal [Note to reader: The REAL Story begins in Paragraph 2.]
A giant sucking sound was heard and with it went the Gulf Oil Spill (or so they would like us to believe). As you've no doubt been reading, one of the major stories this week is: Where did all the oil [...]
Palm Oasis and Red Bread at Al Absaa, Saudi Arabia
by bradlancaster by Brad Lancaster, www.HarvestingRainwater.com, © 2010
Number 3 in a series of Drops in a Bucket blog entries on Brad Lancaster’s and David Eisenberg’s U.S. State Department-sponsored adventures and gleanings in the Middle East
Al Absaa, Saudi Arabia, April 2009
At Al Absaa we toured irrigation projects within the largest oasis in Saudi [...]
 The financial reforms will fail!
by tomgreco
It seems that everything the government does to fix the economy only makes matters worse. Why? Because they are trying to sustain a moribund system of money, banking, and finance. The recent passage of a “financial reform” measure by Congress, while hailed as a measure to prevent a recurrence of [...]
 Next Case: Right to Choose Healthy Food vs. Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund - New Opportunity for Choice?
by davidgumpert
Last week, following my July 15 posting, Barney Google addressed a sharp complaint my way about the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund.
"You keep promoting a legal team that has yet to show a victory in the raw milk battle...They keep promoting these herdshare/cowshare/farmshare programs, but everyone that has come under fire [...]
 What Is Your True Song?
by Dave The bird pictured at right (credit Roland Jordahl) is a Swainson’s Thrush, a regular summer visitor here on Bowen Island. Like most birds, it has both “songs” and “calls”. The songs tend to be more melodious and variable — each bird’s is slightly different. The calls are simpler, standard and [...]
 Women on the Verge
by robertkuttner This article was originally published on The Huffington Post
The campaign to get Elizabeth Warren appointed to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau got me thinking -- why is it that so many of the heroic leaders who have pushed the Obama administration to be more steadfastly progressive on financial [...]
Log 197: APOCALYPSE: it seems like the battle to save the globe’s environment is over
by boycerichardson Ever since 1970, and probably before, a huge movement has emerged around the globe whose determination has been to save the environment of the Earth from being utterly destroyed by industrial development, to save our water, air and soils from being irrevocably poisoned, our forests destroyed, our oceans denuded of [...]
 Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) Sets Record Straight Regarding Prop. 19
by paularmentano On Tuesday I penned a commentary for the Los Angeles Times rebutting Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s public condemnation of Prop. 19 — The Regulate, Control & Tax Cannabis Initiative of 2010.
Now the California Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO), which provides non-partisan fiscal and policy advice, has come out with their own repudiation [...]
Marijuana Use Seldom Associated With Emergency Room Visits, First-Ever National Study Says
by paularmentano Lifetime use of marijuana is rarely associated with emergency room visits, according to an analysis of epidemiologic survey data published online by the American Journal of Emergency Medicine.
Investigators at the University of Michigan reviewed the overall prevalence of drug-related emergency department (ED) visits among lifetime users of illicit substances. Researchers analyzed [...]
 How Toxins Are Making Our Children Chronically Ill
by aliceshabecoff This article was originally published by Care2.com
As we watched each of our five grandchildren and their friends enter this world and begin their life’s journey, it became more and more clear that something is amiss with this generation. How are your children and your friends’ children doing?
Most likely, one of [...]
 What people are saying about the National Gathering
by woodytasch Summer 2010
Photos by Lily Piel
What do you get when you put 600 Slow Money folks in a tent and throw in Bill McKibben, Joel Salatin, Michelle Long, Robert Zevin, Erika Allen, Gary Hirshberg, Elliot Coleman and too many wonderful entrepreneurs and investors to mention? You get inspired. And we did. [...]
 Teaching "Positive Thinking" to the Troops; How Psychologists Profit on Unending U.S. Wars
by brucelevine While U.S. military psychiatrists are prescribing increasing amounts of chill pills, America’s psychologists are teaching soldiers how to think more positively about their tours in Afghanistan, Iraq, and wherever else they are next ordered to kill the bad guys and win the hearts and minds of everyone else.
The U.S. Army [...]
Kvetching About Sick Children
by aliceshabecoff Why do we write about, talk about, meet about and in general complain about children’s chronic illnesses in the U.S. when statistics show that, year by year, we Americans are living to an ever riper old age?
That’s a favorite got-cha question, intended to squash or at least minimize the impact [...]
 Despite Gloom, Things Are Looking Up For Garden Farming
by genelogsdon There were several times so far this year when I almost wished I lived in a high rise luxury apartment in New York far removed from the paltry world of cutworms and purslane. First the crows ate up my whole first planting of open-pollinated field corn and when I replanted, [...]
L.A. Times: “Feinstein’s Misguided Opposition to Marijuana Legalization”
by paularmentano Last week California’s senior senator, Democrat Dianne Feinstein cosigned the ballot argument against Prop. 19, The Regulate, Control & Tax Cannabis Initiative of 2010, which would allow adults 21 years or older to privately possess and cultivate marijuana for personal use.
Senator Feinstein’s public opposition is hardly surprising. After all, if [...]
Who Owns You?-Debt Bondage and the Structure of Financial Empire
by tomgreco From the author's blog, Beyond Money.
Here is the first segment of a video series that provides an excellent description of our current predicament and the system that dominates our lives. The series contains 6 lessons divided into 12 segments and pretty well explains many of the points that I’ve been [...]
Muddling the message on the economy
by robertkuttner This originally appeared on Politico.com
Democratic factional infighting and White House dithering are undermining the economic strategy that President Barack Obama needs to rally his party — and the country.
With a clear strategy and message, Democrats could minimize their congressional losses this fall. Otherwise, the widely predicted Republican blowout could paralyze [...]
 Conservatism's Death Gusher
by georgelakoff This originally appeared on The Huffington Post
The issue is death -- death gushing at ten thousand pounds per square inch from a mile below the sea, tens of thousands of barrels of death a day. Not just death to eleven human beings. Death to sea birds, sea turtles, dolphins, fish, [...]
Dairy Farmers Have Been Slaves for So Long, It's Difficult to Adapt to Life as Free Business Owners; And Other Raw Milk News
by davidgumpert How much should raw dairies charge for their milk?
That question has been the subject of intensive debate on the Raw Dairy listserve over the last week after a dairy farmer new to the list introduced herself by saying she's selling raw milk for $16 a gallon, and has no apologies [...]
The Warren Drama: Another Missed Opportunity?
by robertkuttner This originally appeared on the Huffington Post.
For the past several days, people who care about whether financial reform is to be real or sham have been following the drama of whether President Obama will name Elizabeth Warren to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The Bureau is the best [...]
 Mid-Summer
by deirdreheekin What happened to spring? What happened to early summer? What happened to best intentions and organized schedules and having time for everything? What happened to remembering a tryst in Paris? What happened to recording the inspirations found in a walled garden in Burgundy? What happened to writing about the nest [...]
 The Bravest Woman I Know
by GaiaGirl In the Gaia Girls books, Gaia often says, “Be brave.”
Julia Butterfly Hill is the bravest woman I know. She tells it like it is. I think it is interesting how listening to this level of truth-telling makes even a greenie like me squirm. One-by-one, we will need to move away [...]
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Submitted by webeditor on September 5, 2010 12:17 PM 
If you have not read Drew Westen's outstanding piece, "What Created the Populist Explosion and How Democrats Can Avoid the Shrapnel in November", on the Huffington Post, Alternet, and other venues, read it immediately. Westen states as eloquently and forcefully as anyone what he, I, and other progressives have been saying from the beginning of the Obama administration. I agree fully with everything he says. But ...
Westen's piece is incomplete in crucial ways. His piece can be read as saying that this election is about kitchen ...
Submitted by webeditor on September 4, 2010 12:16 PM 
As campaign season heats up in my home state of Vermont, environmentally conscious voters have been remarking on the similarity between media ads on local TV by Entergy, owner of the radiation-leaking Vermont Yankee nuclear plant, and BP, responsible for the worst environmental catastrophe in American history.
Both Louisiana-based giants are trying to assure the public that the worst is past, that they are responsible corporate citizens cleaning up their respective messes, and the public has nothing to fear. But like the proverbial Pinocchio whose nose gets ...
Submitted by webeditor on September 3, 2010 12:15 PM 
The August unemployment numbers are ugly, yet again. Nearly 29 million Americans are still jobless or forced into part-time jobs. The Bureau of Labor Statistics official unemployment rate is 9.6%. It's broader and more telling jobless rate (U6) of 16.7% confirms that we're stuck in our own version of the Great Depression. We'll need more than 22 million new jobs to bring us back to full-employment. Happy Labor Day.
To get out of this quagmire we'll have to face up to two fundamental facts:
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Submitted by webeditor on September 3, 2010 12:00 PM 
Gordon Edgar, author of the memoir Cheesemonger, A Life on the Wedge, reports in two recent blog posts about his recent trip to the American Cheese Society conference in Seattle. He was a judge and also gave a reading from the book (a somewhat difficult combination, he admits).
I am not a good traveler. It kind of hurts me to admit it, but it’s true. If it’s not anxiety, it’s ailments. I knew it was risky getting on the plane to Seattle with a head full of allergy congestion, but wow… I ...
Submitted by webeditor on September 3, 2010 09:52 AM 
Yesterday at 9am an explosion was recorded on an oil rig about 80 miles west of the Deepwater Horizon rig.
From Bob Cavnar's blog:
Update: Mariner says the platform was in production at the time of the fire producing 1,400 barrels per day and about 9 million cubic feet of gas. All 13 workers were picked up out of the water and 10 are reportedly being treated at a hospital in Houma, Louisiana. There were apparently 7 wells producing to this platform, which also served as a pipeline hub transporting oil ...
Submitted by webeditor on September 3, 2010 09:00 AM 
Over the weekend the Christian Science Monitor newspaper published the latest installment of their ‘one minute debates’ series. The subject of the debate: “Should California Legalize Pot?” I authored the ‘pro’ argument, which you can read here, and longtime, professional prohibitionist Calvina Fay penned the ‘con’ side.
Now anyone who is familiar with Calvina already knows of her propensity toward lunacy — Here’s just one example, “Truly sick people who deserve legitimate medical treatment have been duped into believing that marijuana ...
Submitted by webeditor on September 2, 2010 12:00 PM 
This article offers an impartial introduction to the otherwise hotly-contested subject of childhood vaccinations. And it shows how vaccines fit into the whole problem of the toxic assault on our children.
Donna Curless’s three children were born and spent their early years in Brick Township, a mid-size, middle income New Jersey city whose rate of children with autism seemed so off the charts that it became the quoted statistic for quite a few years. Looking for possible causes, government and independent investigators found the ...
Submitted by webeditor on September 2, 2010 10:45 AM 
Right now, running twice an hour in Times Square, there's a 540 sq. ft. animation of Google CEO Eric Schmidt giving little kids free ice cream and secretly gathering their personal information. It's promoting a one minute, avatar-style animated short titled Don't Be Evil? that can be watched at InsideGoogle.com.
Do you want Google or any other online company looking over your shoulder and tracking your every move just so it can increase its profits? Consumers have a right to privacy. They should control ...
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