environment

Permaculture expert Penny Livingston-Stark shows how natural systems can teach us better design practices. Learning to work with the earth not only creates a healthier environment, it also nourishes the people who live in it.

from Global Economics Blog:

As energy prices soar, Frustrated owners try to unload their guzzlers.

Americans are turning away from the boxy, four-wheel-drive vehicles that have for years dominated the nation's highways. Sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks - symbols of Americans' obsession with horsepower, size, and status - are falling out of favor as consumers rich and poor encounter sticker shock at the pump, paying upward of $80 to fill gas tanks.

(from the Washington Post)

MODBURY, England — Rebecca Hosking’s moment, when a happy English farm girl cried tears that changed her life, came on a speck of sugar-white beach in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

“All you could smell was death,” Hosking recalled, sitting snugly in a 600-year-old pub in her rainy home town, which has been transformed by her epiphany two years ago on Midway Atoll.

SUICIDE WATCH

How can we help our soldiers?

Ok..

Elliot Spitzer resigns, as well as Admiral William Fallon. Geraldine Ferraro says some stupid shit... but still, she may just be right. Ugh...

The 1st Common Ground Relief owned facility in New Orleans has been dedicated to Anita Roddick, recently deceased owner of the Body Shop and Champion of Humanitarian and Civil Rights issues world wide. The dedication ceremony took place next to where the barge landed in the lower 9th ward and features Malik Rahim, CoFounder of Common Ground Collective; Sakura Kone, media relations director of Common Ground Collective; The Rebirth Brass Band, The Revolution 2nd Line and Fiyaya.

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The world's rubbish dump: a garbage tip that stretches from Hawaii to Japan

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