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Tag Archives: activism
Homegrown subversive plots to feed the hungry and save the world!
It is passing strange to think that growing your own food in your own garden can be considered a subversive act! How did we come to this state, especially in the developed world, but also many cities in the developed … Continue reading
Will the world’s leaders finally “Get It Done” after Anjali Appadurai’s mic-check at the UN Climate Change Conference?
via youtube.com Powerful call to act from the young woman which ought to shame the world’s leaders into doing what they must, for her and future generations. But, we all know, don’t we? Most of the world’s so-called “leaders” (especially … Continue reading
gaon chodab nahi: an anthem for the global #occupy movements
There have been other occupations. There have been other #occupy movements. Occupation has for long been the name of the game for the colonists. Occupying far corners of the planet. Monopolizing the riches yielded by the earth. Displacing the indigenous … Continue reading
How do we get our global economy off the endless “growth” express and on to a human-scale path of plenitude?
An image I found and shared on Facebook this week, featuring a quote from the Dalai Lama, seems to have hit a nerve among my circle of friends there: I’m not surprised, given the kinds of circles I hang out … Continue reading
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Let this not be a eulogy for our pale blue dot…
via youtube.com … even though it is a eulogy for several environmentalists who laid their lives down in defending our home, Earth. This is a non-commercial attempt to highlight the fact that world leaders, irresponsible corporates and mindless ‘consumers’ are … Continue reading
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Earth+Plastic, the Great Electron, and George Carlin
Having subjected you to my rant for this Earth Day, allow me to share my all-time favorite rant, by that maestro of all ranting, George Carlin, reminding us holier-than-thou environmentalists of our proper place in the grand scheme of things:
Sorry Desert Tortoise. No room for you in Google’s Earth Day paradise.
Today is Earth Day, a once grassroots movement seeking to remind people to pay attention to the earth which has now grown to become a global event apparently “celebrated” by over a billion people – much of it courtesy of … Continue reading
Our troubled relationship with water (Blog Action Day 2010)
How did we get here, in this parched state, fighting for and over something as basic as water, on this watery blue world? Isn’t water a basic element essential for all life, including humans? Like air? How and why have … Continue reading
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At least 45 beautiful reasons to vote Yes on Prop 21 to save California’s State Parks
via youtube.com I hope my fellow Californians (those who can vote!) will step up to the plate where our legislators have failed, and vote to pass Proposition 21, which seeks to provide a protected independent source of funding for our … Continue reading
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Does the Mojave belong to the Desert Tortoise or to Thermal Solar?
via youtube.com I too want those solar panels in my backyard in Fresno, along with knowledge that the Desert Tortoise continues to walk peacefully across the Mojave, its stately pace unperturbed by hasty human “progress”.
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Lab of Reconciliation Ecology 