Monday, June 30, 2008
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Wet June perfect for consideration of rain gardens - Home & Garden - The Olympian - Olympia, Washington
Wet June perfect for consideration of rain gardens - Home & Garden - The Olympian - Olympia, Washington Good planting tips by one of my favorite garden writers Marianne Binetti
Read, get inspired-- and grow rain gardens to encourage green sponges in NW urban areas and reduce water pollution and prevent stormwater from flooding our Sound.
Timothy
Read, get inspired-- and grow rain gardens to encourage green sponges in NW urban areas and reduce water pollution and prevent stormwater from flooding our Sound.
Timothy
Thursday, June 26, 2008
New Rain Garden sketch
Here is the color sketch for Good Nature Publishing's upcoming Rain Garden poster.
The sketch shows the layout, look and feel of the artwork.
Running border: Twenty two plants --11 for wet areas and 11 for dry areas of your garden.
Final art published August 2008.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Why Rain Gardens Matter by Sue Ellington
Why Rain Gardens Matter
Choose.
You can look at all the prairie and estuaries we've paved over and shrug as Puget Sound gets poisoned from our car oil, toxins and storm water overflow.
Or you can promote the radical idea of planting native plants in a garden space depression-- and voila! Rain Gardens.
Grow them in your yard, connect the gutter downspout to your rain garden, and encourage more "green" sponges in the city.
Sue Ellington writes evocatively about why rain gardens matter. Click the link above to read her essay.
We need to map the rain gardens already planted in Seattle and Western Washington,Oregon and California.
Know where a rain garden is in your neighborhood? Send a photo and address-- we'll google map them.
Basta.
Timoteo
The Science of Stream Restoration
Photo by Robert WalkerThe Science of Stream Restoration - NYTimes.com
Interesting story on restoration and best practices.
Best fishes,
Timothy
Thank you God for most this amazing day --ee cummings
One of my favorite poems -- to celebrate summer:
Thanks to ee cummings and Gran
i thank You God for most this amazing
day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes
(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday;this is the birth
day of life and love and wings:and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)
how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any-lifted from the no
of all nothing-human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?
(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)
ee cummings
Thanks to ee cummings and Gran
i thank You God for most this amazing
day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes
(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday;this is the birth
day of life and love and wings:and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)
how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any-lifted from the no
of all nothing-human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?
(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)
ee cummings
Friday, June 20, 2008
Obama Caves to Bush on Domestic Spying - NJVoices: Bill Wolfe
Obama Caves to Bush on Domestic Spying - NJVoices: Bill Wolfe
I agree with the opinion piece above-- this is not change-- this is status quo. Now we have retroactive immunity for corporations who spy on US citizens -- supported 100% by the Republicans and also by Mr Barack "Change We Can Believe In" Obama. Not.
Who stood up for the Constitution in Washington State? McDermott voted against this bad bill-- who else?
Shame on you, Barack. You can't be for change and then vote to ratify the worst aspects of Bush's surveillance police state.
You confirm worst suspicions.
Basta.
Timothy
I agree with the opinion piece above-- this is not change-- this is status quo. Now we have retroactive immunity for corporations who spy on US citizens -- supported 100% by the Republicans and also by Mr Barack "Change We Can Believe In" Obama. Not.
Who stood up for the Constitution in Washington State? McDermott voted against this bad bill-- who else?
Shame on you, Barack. You can't be for change and then vote to ratify the worst aspects of Bush's surveillance police state.
You confirm worst suspicions.
Basta.
Timothy
Thursday, June 19, 2008
New Rain Garden poster design for Good Nature Publishing Seattle
raingarden
Rip out concrete and grass, grow green "sponges" like rain gardens to absorb storm water.
That is where we're headed in the next few years. Do you realize the great potential of ecosystem services -- the free services upon which fresh air and clean water, and all life is built on?
Our mission must be to restore these ecosystem services to our urban areas.
The link above (TOP) is our effort to blend art & advocacy -- and spread the word about the importance of rain gardens.
More soon.
Timothy
Daily Kos: BREAKING! FISA "deal" reached in House (UPDATEx4)
Daily Kos: BREAKING! FISA "deal" reached in House (UPDATEx4)
Where is the CHANGE in giving corporate spies immunity Mr Obama and Democrats?
Read the link above-- and please contact your Congressmen and Senators to say no to government sponsored corporate spying on Americans.
Onward.
Timothy
Where is the CHANGE in giving corporate spies immunity Mr Obama and Democrats?
Read the link above-- and please contact your Congressmen and Senators to say no to government sponsored corporate spying on Americans.
Onward.
Timothy
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Rain gardens capture storm water, clean it up
Rain gardens capture storm water, clean it up
Read all about the many benefits to rain gardens by clicking the link above. Kudos to writers Ron Sullivan and Joe Eaton for some fine writing.
best fishes,
Timothy
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Copyright bill would burden artists
(Baseball Art by Dugald Stermer)Copyright bill would burden artists - Nick Anderson - Politico.com Artists deserve better protections than this proposed change to the US Copyright law that makes it the artist's fault they didn't find someone stealing their work.
Bad law to fix a little problem.
Call Congress to say no.
Read Nick Anderson's piece above-- and please spread the word.
basta.
Timothy
New iPhone Pricing Model Is a Step Backward for Consumers - Bits - Technology - NYT Blog
New iPhone Pricing Model Is a Step Backward for Consumers - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog
Steve Jobs new slogan slogan for his iPhone is "Think Different? Nah!" The new Empire Rules iPhoney, authoritarian, anti choice, anti consumer anti open network deal he's struck between Apple and AT&T makes his supposedly $199 phone actually at least $700 and counting.
Worse -- as the NYT story points out-- the iPhone marketing becomes a stiff arm to democratic principles of free will, pro choice open networks. Everything the blue jean clad turtle necked geek President would like us mortals to believe Apple stands for -- but doesn't.
iPhone just wants to be free Steve. Let me pay my $199 and plug it into my phone service or not at all.
Until then, iPhone is locked in a digital prison that big corporation dream of -- soft and fuzzy exteriors limiting choice, closing networks, and taking us backwards--
basta.
Timothy
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