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This beautiful and inspiring piece entitled Back to the Land, by Maira Kalman in the New York Times, features a handful of bioneers, and simply and eloquently makes that case that it's time to slow down and return to the land, and teach our children to do the same--for our health and happiness.

A perfect t… Continue

WASHINGTON – Dousing rampant speculation, President Barack Obama has decided to travel to Copenhagen next month and spell out U.S. goals for curbing greenhouse gas emissions at a widely anticipated, high-stakes global climate summit.

Read the full article by Associated Press Writer Julie Pace.

This New York Times article, by Lindsey Howshaw, comes as no surprise to me. But, I am shocked by the idea that there's a patch of mostly plastic garbage "roughly twice the size of Texas" floating in the Pacific Ocean, and it's doubling in size each year. After spending my childhood driving across the state in all directions, it seems absurd that a.) we'd let a mass of garbage collect to such a size… Continue

Milking Cancer from Breast Cancer Action on Vimeo.

Thanks to the Organic Consumers Association for inspiring us to take action against rBGH profiteers.

"Following up on our successfu… Continue

Some of you might find the below information useful. There are 27 funding notices included in this issue.

1) Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grants - Recovery Act
The U.S. Department of Energy requests proposals for Recovery Act: Energy
Efficiency and Conservation Block Grants: Competitive Solicitation: Retrofit
Ramp-up and General Innovation Fund Programs. Areas of interest include:
1) Retrofit Ramp-Up - For innovative programs that are structured to provide
whole-neighborhood buildin… Continue