Dell, Travelocity and Universal Lend Critical Support to Restore Texas' Native Forests
Corporate efforts with US FWS to protect forests in Texas's Trinity River NWR.
One can hope that we'll see more of this kind of efforts -- without corporate advertising in the refuges.
posted by Tim
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
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The ACSA: a charitable research foundation dedicated to improving the quality of life.
I have to learn more-- but this outfit wants to plant 10 billion trees. Sounds promising.
I have to learn more-- but this outfit wants to plant 10 billion trees. Sounds promising.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Giant Sequoia Art by John C. Pitcher Good Nature Publishing "Best Nature Art"
Do you want to see a real Giant Sequoia, but been bummed to look at your pictures after being in the presence of the great trees?
Here is John C. Pitcher's dramatic painting of Giant Sequoia. Title will be: Sequoia: Giants of Sierra Nevada. Click here
21 Acres: Where Farming and Teaching Opportunity Meet
21 Acres — 21 Acres
Tres cool farm and mission -- check it out online -- and if you are in Seattle - stop by anytime. They have walking trails at their farm near Woodinville.
Best fishes,
Timothy
Good Nature Publishing
United States - International Diplomacy - Economic Trends - World Economy - Politics - New York Times
United States - International Diplomacy - Economic Trends - World Economy - Politics - New York Times
I hadn't thought of the world like this-- did you?
Tim
I hadn't thought of the world like this-- did you?
Tim
Friday, January 25, 2008
Elements In Time: Melinda and Matt's Sustainable Adventure
Elements In Time Check out Melinda and Matt's marvelous adventure in living on a little land-- a forecast of future life together on the planet.
They are doing a lot with a little. But the produce they are growing looks beautiful-- and their site radiates love and a big interest in sustainably grown agriculture.
At some point this evolutionary process may become revolutionary-- and change our relationships with not just land, but our self respect and challenge the current economic order.
One can only hope - and then act in spite of all the evidence to the contrary.
Here in Seattle there is talk of converting warehouses with flat roofs into green roofs -- only putting greenhouses on them so people can grow their own food that work in the warehouse.
I have imagined a green roof like that!
What say you?
Timothy
They are doing a lot with a little. But the produce they are growing looks beautiful-- and their site radiates love and a big interest in sustainably grown agriculture.
At some point this evolutionary process may become revolutionary-- and change our relationships with not just land, but our self respect and challenge the current economic order.
One can only hope - and then act in spite of all the evidence to the contrary.
Here in Seattle there is talk of converting warehouses with flat roofs into green roofs -- only putting greenhouses on them so people can grow their own food that work in the warehouse.
I have imagined a green roof like that!
What say you?
Timothy
Thursday, January 24, 2008
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Climate 'clearly out of balance'
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Climate 'clearly out of balance' One transcontinental air flight costs as much CO2 as e months driving an SUV.
What are you cutting back on?
Posted by Tim
What are you cutting back on?
Posted by Tim
John Edwards Debate Highlight: Top 5" of his call for a Great America
I like John Edwards -- here's why:
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Political Animals (Yes, Animals) - New York Times
Political Animals (Yes, Animals) - New York Times
Interesting story about political activity in other species!
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Environmentalism With a Social Conscience
Environmentalism With a Social Conscience Read on! Our Green movement is changing.
How could it not-- and fast!
Timothy
How could it not-- and fast!
Timothy
Make the Tax Cuts Work - New York Times
Make the Tax Cuts Work - New York Times
I like the thinking here: Roll back the Bush Tax Cuts in 2009-- giving our economy a boost as the investor class is forced to stop sitting on their money. A trillion dollar asset sale generates billions in money spent in 2008.
Add this roll back to tax credits on FICA for working class Americans -- those two income families earning less than $50K a year -- and we begin to create some fairness in our tax code.
What else would you do?
Posted by Tim Colman
I like the thinking here: Roll back the Bush Tax Cuts in 2009-- giving our economy a boost as the investor class is forced to stop sitting on their money. A trillion dollar asset sale generates billions in money spent in 2008.
Add this roll back to tax credits on FICA for working class Americans -- those two income families earning less than $50K a year -- and we begin to create some fairness in our tax code.
What else would you do?
Posted by Tim Colman
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Monday, January 21, 2008
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Charlotte Observer | 01/20/2008 | Plant-A-Row program lets gardeners help the hungry
Charlotte Observer | 01/20/2008 | Plant-A-Row program lets gardeners help the hungry A project I wish I had thought this project up!
Great gathering of the forces of love -- master gardeners growing Victory Gardens -- this time over poverty and the difficult to imagine fact of hunger in our America has a local remedy.
Find your own group and grow some food for someone else this year. Sustainable living begins with being of service to those who are less fortunate than us.
Best fishes,
Timothy
Great gathering of the forces of love -- master gardeners growing Victory Gardens -- this time over poverty and the difficult to imagine fact of hunger in our America has a local remedy.
Find your own group and grow some food for someone else this year. Sustainable living begins with being of service to those who are less fortunate than us.
Best fishes,
Timothy
Timber Thieves Strike at Heart of Lands Held Dear - New York Times
Timber Thieves Strike at Heart of Lands Held Dear - New York Times
This is a problem that needs our attention here at home and abroad. Find out where your wood comes from-- and if someone doesn't have a chain of custody to a sustainable forest -- don't buy it!
Tim
This is a problem that needs our attention here at home and abroad. Find out where your wood comes from-- and if someone doesn't have a chain of custody to a sustainable forest -- don't buy it!
Tim
Saturday, January 19, 2008
The Snow Man=-- a poem by Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens poem
The Snow Man
One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;
And have been cold a long time
To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
The spruces rough in the distant glitter
Of the January sun; and not to think
Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
In the sound of a few leaves,
Which is the sound of the land
Full of the same wind
That is blowing in the same bare place
For the listener, who listens in the snow,
And, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is."
Thanks to Allyson via NYT for this poem.
Tim
The Snow Man
One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;
And have been cold a long time
To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
The spruces rough in the distant glitter
Of the January sun; and not to think
Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
In the sound of a few leaves,
Which is the sound of the land
Full of the same wind
That is blowing in the same bare place
For the listener, who listens in the snow,
And, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is."
Thanks to Allyson via NYT for this poem.
Tim
Friday, January 18, 2008
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Blossoms-- a poem
From Blossoms in Rose
by Li-Young Lee
From blossoms comes
this brown paper bag of peaches
we bought from the boy
at the bend in the road where we turned toward
signs painted Peaches.
From laden boughs, from hands
from sweet fellowship in the bins,
comes nectar at the roadside, succulent
peaches we devour, dusty skin and all,
comes the familiar dust of summer, dust we eat.
O, to take what we love inside,
to carry within us an orchard, to eat
not only the skin, but the shade,
not only the sugar, but the days, to hold
the fruit in our hands, adore it, then bite into
the round jubilance of peach.
There are days we live
as if death were nowhere
in the background; from joy
to joy to joy, from wing to wing,
from blossom to blossom to
impossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom.
by Li-Young Lee
From blossoms comes
this brown paper bag of peaches
we bought from the boy
at the bend in the road where we turned toward
signs painted Peaches.
From laden boughs, from hands
from sweet fellowship in the bins,
comes nectar at the roadside, succulent
peaches we devour, dusty skin and all,
comes the familiar dust of summer, dust we eat.
O, to take what we love inside,
to carry within us an orchard, to eat
not only the skin, but the shade,
not only the sugar, but the days, to hold
the fruit in our hands, adore it, then bite into
the round jubilance of peach.
There are days we live
as if death were nowhere
in the background; from joy
to joy to joy, from wing to wing,
from blossom to blossom to
impossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom.
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | US team makes embryo clone of men
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | US team makes embryo clone of men
This is the end of the world as we know it. Guys -- you can see the ceremonial position this science puts you in?
How many you's do you want?
Tim
This is the end of the world as we know it. Guys -- you can see the ceremonial position this science puts you in?
How many you's do you want?
Tim
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Monday, January 14, 2008
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Magpies and ravens recycle elk : Science Columnists : Boulder Daily Camera
Magpies and ravens recycle elk : Science Columnists : Boulder Daily Camera Cool story about the beautiful complexity in Rocky Mountain Nat'l Park
Read on!
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www.kansascity.com | 01/12/2008 | Biofuels that could really grow on you — like weeds
www.kansascity.com | 01/12/2008 | Biofuels that could really grow on you — like weeds A story from Kansas on the real risks of biofuels--
Look-- biodiesel was green when it was made out of grease. But corn? Corn saves you 3% less carbon than oil. Ridiculous.
Corn is not a fuel-- it is a food. Yet because farmers are dedicating so much corn to fuel-- feed costs for animals including us are going up.
Hats off to Corporate Ag -- ADM and Co. for getting great subsidies from US citizens and profiting from corn as fuel.
Time for a big investment in solar, wind and wave.
Best fishes,
TImothy
Look-- biodiesel was green when it was made out of grease. But corn? Corn saves you 3% less carbon than oil. Ridiculous.
Corn is not a fuel-- it is a food. Yet because farmers are dedicating so much corn to fuel-- feed costs for animals including us are going up.
Hats off to Corporate Ag -- ADM and Co. for getting great subsidies from US citizens and profiting from corn as fuel.
Time for a big investment in solar, wind and wave.
Best fishes,
TImothy
San Jose Mercury News - Master gardener: Experts are ready to help
San Jose Mercury News - Master gardener: Experts are ready to help
SANTA CLARA Master Gardeners news on upcoming training and events.
Great resource for the new year-- best fishes,
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SANTA CLARA Master Gardeners news on upcoming training and events.
Great resource for the new year-- best fishes,
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Saturday, January 12, 2008
Friday, January 11, 2008
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
GardenDesignOnline: Halprin: "The Choreography of Gardens"
GardenDesignOnline: Halprin: "The Choreography of Gardens"
Check out Garden Design online's story about Lawrence Halprin. Looks interesting!
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Check out Garden Design online's story about Lawrence Halprin. Looks interesting!
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Tuesday, January 08, 2008
Snow Falling on Voters -Donald Hall-- Poet Laureate
Snow Falling on Voters - New York Times
Read this beautifully rendered snapshot of New Hampshire by one of our best writers.
The words flow, our inner eye hungry for the next nourishing sentence.
Best fishes,
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Read this beautifully rendered snapshot of New Hampshire by one of our best writers.
The words flow, our inner eye hungry for the next nourishing sentence.
Best fishes,
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Monday, January 07, 2008
Sunday, January 06, 2008
Twelve Acres: Burnin' Brush
Twelve Acres: Burnin' Brush
A master gardener and naturalist runs into hawks and owls while getting her land ready for Spring planting-- in January -- in Ohio!
A master gardener and naturalist runs into hawks and owls while getting her land ready for Spring planting-- in January -- in Ohio!
2008 Garden Academy will blossom
2008 Garden Academy will blossom Georgia Master Gardeners start an advanced Gardening Academy. What a great idea!
Graduate level master gardening! Read on!
Graduate level master gardening! Read on!
President Mike Huckabee? - New York Times
President Mike Huckabee? - New York Times
NYT has hired Wm Kristol-- Bush pimp and promotor of the Iraq war as a right wing commentator.
Neo cons like Kristol get too many free passes -- break our country, articulate warfare that has no consequence to them while thousands die, millions of us pay the war debt. And he keeps merrily writing along.
What a world.
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NYT has hired Wm Kristol-- Bush pimp and promotor of the Iraq war as a right wing commentator.
Neo cons like Kristol get too many free passes -- break our country, articulate warfare that has no consequence to them while thousands die, millions of us pay the war debt. And he keeps merrily writing along.
What a world.
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The Chicago Gardener - A conversation about gardening | Chicago Tribune | Blog
The Chicago Gardener - A conversation about gardening | Chicago Tribune | Blog
Cool story on "Fabulous Foliage"-- by Beth Botts of Chicago Tribune. Read on!
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Cool story on "Fabulous Foliage"-- by Beth Botts of Chicago Tribune. Read on!
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Saturday, January 05, 2008
Etheridge Misses Kucinich - ABC Censors Candidates at Republican & Democratic Debate
Etheridge Misses Kucinich - The Caucus - Politics - New York Times Blog
There is something wrong when American candidates for President get their heads cut off before the campaign for PResident really gets started.
And what a coincidence: The two most populist anti corporate candidates Ron Paul on the Right and Dennis Kucinich on the Left are both stopped -- and can't speak at their respective debates this weekend in New Hampshire.
The airways are public and democracy is by definition messy.
ABC's heavy handed declaration of thresholds is a good example of what is wrong with America-- too much influence by rich media and corporate power.
It is time to stop this cowering powerlessness-- and move to free advertising on all the main networks.
And let people speak -- even dissenting and minority views.
Basta.
Timothy
There is something wrong when American candidates for President get their heads cut off before the campaign for PResident really gets started.
And what a coincidence: The two most populist anti corporate candidates Ron Paul on the Right and Dennis Kucinich on the Left are both stopped -- and can't speak at their respective debates this weekend in New Hampshire.
The airways are public and democracy is by definition messy.
ABC's heavy handed declaration of thresholds is a good example of what is wrong with America-- too much influence by rich media and corporate power.
It is time to stop this cowering powerlessness-- and move to free advertising on all the main networks.
And let people speak -- even dissenting and minority views.
Basta.
Timothy
Friday, January 04, 2008
The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard
The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard
Cool illustrated narrative to why we have so much STUFF.
Thanks for the tip M.
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Cool illustrated narrative to why we have so much STUFF.
Thanks for the tip M.
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Thursday, January 03, 2008
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
MoveOn.org Political Action: Silly Polling Project
MoveOn.org Political Action: Democracy in Action
Moveon.org sent me this chart showing 30,000 members votes to date for Democratic candidates.
In typical fashion this email comes with no way to reply -- a weird set up for a progressive political operation.
Then when you look at the content of the poll-- no candidate gets more than 25% -- and Moveon-- a group I belong to-- has decided -- without asking me or anyone else I know-- that they won't endorse until someone comes in with 50% or more.
In other words -- by the time they endorse, California will have voted and who cares?
Why not practice first, second and third choices now and make an endorsement sooner than later.
But have you ever tried to get a response from this outfit?
It is worse than writing a letter to the editor of the New York Times -- who at least send you an automatic reply acknowledging your note.
I take it the poll is a marketing gimmick.
What do you think?
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Moveon.org sent me this chart showing 30,000 members votes to date for Democratic candidates.
In typical fashion this email comes with no way to reply -- a weird set up for a progressive political operation.
Then when you look at the content of the poll-- no candidate gets more than 25% -- and Moveon-- a group I belong to-- has decided -- without asking me or anyone else I know-- that they won't endorse until someone comes in with 50% or more.
In other words -- by the time they endorse, California will have voted and who cares?
Why not practice first, second and third choices now and make an endorsement sooner than later.
But have you ever tried to get a response from this outfit?
It is worse than writing a letter to the editor of the New York Times -- who at least send you an automatic reply acknowledging your note.
I take it the poll is a marketing gimmick.
What do you think?
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Tuesday, January 01, 2008
Still Reeling After All These Years - New York Times
Still Reeling After All These Years - New York Times
Amazing -- 1968 was 40 years ago.
Bob Herbert recollects what a year it was....
Amazing -- 1968 was 40 years ago.
Bob Herbert recollects what a year it was....
Nine no-cost ways to reduce your home energy use : Yahoo! Green
Nine no-cost ways to reduce your home energy use : Yahoo! Green
Good chart to show where we can conserve energy and reduce pollution right now. No muss no fuss.
We are the people we've been waiting for. What are you waiting for?
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Good chart to show where we can conserve energy and reduce pollution right now. No muss no fuss.
We are the people we've been waiting for. What are you waiting for?
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Greenest apartment building in Northwest: America's future?
A truly nifty infill project at Fort Worthology
Can you imagine America with developers competing for greenest building standards?
How about if we invest in the green buildings and cities across the country?
The best energy source for America is not oil or ethanol friend, it is conservation.
See Rocky Mtn Institute -- great resource I have been a fan of for over 20 years.
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