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As the day of atonement and the season, month, year, century and millennium in memory of the One Great Holocaust rapidly...

Queen of the Iron Age of Open Palmed Love

approaches let all of us reflect...not on the crimes of a deaf and blind G-d who has allowed it to go on...but rather on what each of us have not done to end it.

Greywater Guerrillas

The New York Times has a good article on the Greywater Guerrillas and their new book Dam Nation.

From the story:

On a recent afternoon, Mr. Woelfle-Erskine stood in the backyard of the Haut House and explained how one of the half-dozen gray water systems there works. A pipe running from the house deposits shower and sink water into an elevated bathtub in the yard that is filled with gravel and reeds, and the roots of plants begin filtering and absorbing contaminants. The water then flows into a second, lower, tub, also containing a reedbed, before flowing into a still-lower tub of floating water hyacinths and small fish.