Al Gore is my Jesus, my Ghandi, my Buddah, my Allah, my last hope.

Informative Article posted on Organic Consumers Association (OCA) Website

I just saw Al Gore’s new movie “Inconvenient Truth” . . .

These are some initial exploratory steps and research inspired by readings about wastes and toxins like bleach - included is a great list of alternative non toxic ways of doing things. Try a few and let me know what you find - I will do the same.

Join OCA and Food and Water Watch June 19-25, to take the Starbucks challenge and protest or leaflet Starbucks cafes in your neighborhood. Let’s educate Starbucks’ patrons about Fair Trade and rBGH. Help us reach our goal of 300 actions!

Why is the hard fought, 35 years of work by the alternative organic community at risk?

The last time I was in Kyiv, I was treated to winter. This time I am here as winter turns to spring, and more than any other part of the year in seasonal places I love this moment. The moment when out from under the cold and often dark tones of winter peeks the most tender moments in nature.

So I have started over the last few months to ask myself these questions more and more. Asking myself where I am placing value, and looking for ways to do well buy doing good, rather than doing well to then do good.

and here are those using their powers for good

On PETA I found a list of companies that test animals and companies the do not - this is the list of companies that do. Warning - ignorance is bliss peeps.

exerpt from Ray Anderson’s speach to the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility - http://www.socialfunds.com/news/article.cgi/article94.html

Captain of Industry or Plunderer of Nautre?

I am doing the recap of our adventures in installments. I will republish it all as one peice when finished, but for those of you on the edge of your seats, I figured I would give it to you as I finish it in amidst the business of being back.

God I want to “go native” - as in swinging like a monkey right back into that rainforest

Tonight I had a vision.
I’m one who acts out their vision.
I’ve decided that starting next Monday I will walk to work. I will retire my car. I will retire using oil.
I can survive without oil. Can you?
I will contact the LA Times. I will tell them what I’m doing. I [...]

I am going back to my natural state – where my brain ends inside of me. I won’t be able to reach out into cyberspace and grab factoids and figures and I won’t be able to check statistics or online news. I will only be able to reach the natural world around me and then of course inward – into the abyss that grows less lit yet more sacred the deeper one reaches.

For years it’s looked like “W” and his henchmen played every card right as if all things were planned on their behalf!

Hey, Biniyam, whazzup? Are you still playing Jimi Hendrix´ stuff in dorm´s hall? You know, these were, probably, the best minutes in my life when you put meter-large loudspeakers into the hallway, switched your guitar on and palyed.

People, good decent people, will be forced to cross some lines. Some to protect themselves will use weapons against the aggressors that are on the edge of that bell curve, some out of need for food or water will loot places, some out of misery will push and shove. We must respect their struggle to maintain the connection to the law in their heart in some of the worst times of their lives.

Starbucks is trash even when it is easy not to be.

Chestnut Street, San Francisco, CA

Did you know that the Chief of Staff of the Bush Administration’s Council on Environmental Quality was previously a lobbyist for oil companies???

It’s about rivers and dams. Powell Reservoir, known by its fans as “Lake Powell” and its enemies as “Lake Foul.” It’s the lake that drowned Glen Canyon on the Colorado River above the GC National Park, Glen Canyon, “the Place that No One Knew.”

Time moves geologically across our hearts and minds, our physical existence weathering choices and experience. We rise and fall in our individual eternities