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Ocean Garbage Patch Twice the Size of Texas?!?!

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

Added by Julie on November 9, 2009 at 10:33pm — No Comments

Hoping to raise environmental awareness through art

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Added by Debra Sue Solecki on November 9, 2009 at 8:33pm — No Comments

G20 Talks - pledged to work for an "ambitious outcome"

photo credit FlickrCommons an excerpt from RedOrbit - 11/09/09 - Barcelona - The G… Continue

Added by Jeffrey V. on November 9, 2009 at 10:49am — No Comments

Even Rattlesnakes are Welcome

Today I stopped beside a Prairie rattlesnake on a country road near Satanta, Kansas. Many people purposefully run over any snake several times with their vehicle. I stopped, looked, took several pictures, and drove away. The snake was alarmed, but unharmed. My reasoning for allowing the snake to live is that I view rattlesnakes as valuable. Not only are they great predators--eating mice--but they are also natives of the prairie that fill an important niche. I know a poisonous snake bite could ma… Continue

Added by Kelvin Heitmann on November 6, 2009 at 8:23pm — No Comments

AWRT SoCal Announces Participation in Susan G. Komen Race For The Cure®

Join TEAM AWRT SoCAL and Run (or Walk) For A Cure at Susan G. Komen Race For The Cure®, Sunday, March 14, 2010 at the Dodger Stadium! Burbank, CA (Thursday, November 5, 2009) – The American Women in Radio and Television Southern California (AWRT SoCal) Chapter announce its participati… Continue

Added by Kim Spence on November 6, 2009 at 5:00pm — No Comments

A Lifetime of Change

My neighbor is dying. He’s 93 years old. He is fading away in the house in which his grandmother lived her life, a house that has been in his family since the nineteenth century – a family that traces its roots back on this land for four hundred years. Santa Fe is an old town, by American standards. I thin… Continue

Added by Spencer Windes on November 6, 2009 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Eli Lily Milking Cancer--Take Action!

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

Added by Julie on November 5, 2009 at 1:24pm — 1 Comment

A small but significant action: help stop mountaintop removal - FROM 350.org

Here's a message from 350.org... We know many of you are still recovering from the unbelievable organizing you did for the day of action on Oct. 24, and you know that as a campaign 350.org is mostly focused on the global negotiations coming up in Copenhagen. But sometimes things happen at inconvenient moments. And if you think it's inconvenient for us, imagine what it was like for residents of Pettus, West Virginia to wake up last week to find that the blasting had started on Coal River Mount… Continue

Added by Esther on November 5, 2009 at 1:00pm — No Comments

CRUDE the movie comes to Santa Fe for ONE WEEK ONLY!

CRUDE opens in Santa Fe for one week only (!), starting Friday, 11/06. The film's subject matter is the largest environmental lawsuit in global history--what's been dubbed the "Amazon Chernobyl" case. It is a class action lawsuit filed 16 years ago by 30,000 Ecuadoreans against Chevron, where the impending $27 billion judgement will no doubt set a precedent for how transnational corporations will be held accountable in the future. Three years in the making, this cinéma-vérité feature from a… Continue

Added by Sarina Roma on November 5, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments

The SmartHand is heading our way

">object> an excerpt from RedOrbit - A new invention from Tel Aviv University researchers, Prof. Yosi Shacham-Diamand of TAU's Department of Engineering, working with a team of European Union scientists, has successfully wired a state-of-the-art artificial han… Continue

Added by Jeffrey V. on November 5, 2009 at 10:00am — No Comments

Green Building

"Washington, D.C. – (November 4, 2009) – The U.S. Green Building Council hosts the world’s largest green building conference and expo, Greenbuild, coming to Phoenix, Ariz., Nov 11-13, 2009." I thought that many of you know folks interested in Green Building. Perhaps you can pass the contact information along to them. There will be interactive sessions, Greenbuild Salons, Executive Roundtable as well as cutting edge speakers from the art, technology and sustainability realms. For more informat… Continue

Added by Jacquelyn Williams on November 4, 2009 at 11:18am — No Comments

Numen showing at Sante Fe Film Festival

Numen will be shown on Dec. 5th at 4 pm as part of the Sante Fe Film Festival. Check out the film festival website for more information http://www.santafefilmfestival.com/Intro Continue

Added by Ann Armbrecht on November 3, 2009 at 7:56pm — No Comments

If you need a laugh today, then this should do it !!! The Bible through the eyes of a child: Judas Asparagus

A child was asked to write a book report on the entire Bible. I wonder how often we take for granted that children understand what we are teaching? Through the eyes of a child: ** Judas Asparagus ** A very organic Interpretation of the Bible. In the beginning, which occurred near the start, there was nothing but God, darkness, and some gas. The Bible says,'The Lord thy God is one, but I think He must be a lot older than that. Anyway, God said, 'Give me a light!' and someo… Continue

Added by Kim Spence on November 3, 2009 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Organic Cafe for Community College?

I recently joined an honor society at my school that plans to implement an organic cafe at our school. I was asked to help with the project and I feel I am in need of some feedback from informed people. So I would be thankful for any feedback and all ideas and criticism you may have to offer. 1. Organic I read the discussion about local vs. organic and the posts reflect very much what I think. The tag "organic" seems to be the only thing they have decided on and I vehemently disagree. organic d… Continue

Added by Steffi Schneider on November 3, 2009 at 9:33am — No Comments

ENERGETHICA 2010 - GENOA, ITALY

Bridges to Italy has teamed up with ENERGETHICA, one of the world's largest GREEN ECONOMY trade shows to promote the event to interested exhibitors form the US. Next year's edition of Energethica will take place in Genoa, Italy… Continue

Added by bianca dellepiane on November 2, 2009 at 3:38pm — No Comments

Jennifer Love Hewitt co-hosts a “Season for Sharing” at the Los Angeles Regional Foodbank

CELEBRITY AND MEDIA VOLUNTEER DAY at the Los Angeles Regional Foodbank! Hosted by Jennifer Love Hewitt and the SoCal Chapter of AWRT WHO: Co-host Jennifer Love Hewitt (Ghost Whisperer), Patricia Kara (Deal or No Deal), celebrities, media, and members of the American Women in Rad… Continue

Added by Kim Spence on November 2, 2009 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Grant/Funding Opportunities

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

Added by Julie on November 1, 2009 at 9:55pm — No Comments

Holzer´s Permaculture - One Year Training Cycle in Tamera Peace Research Center

Holzer´s Permaculture One Year Training Cycle in Tamera 2010/11 "Holzer`s permaculture is large scale landscape healing to correct the mistakes of the past, to facilitate symbiosis of interaction, to let nature do its work, and to reestablish cycles." (Sepp Holzer) Each situation includes the solutions to its problems http://www.tamera.org/index.php?id=645&L=0 For each landscape, in every climatic zone, says Sepp Holzer, whether… Continue

Added by Peter Koll on November 1, 2009 at 12:52am — No Comments

A Sustainable Community Development Business

Our name is Ringwould we have a property in the Western part of Australia near Albany. Our plan is to develop this property as a prototype for community's to be built all over the world. The basis of a sustainable existence is a being bale to sustain ones own happiness or at least be part of a community that supports it. There for for our possibly unsustainable existence we have created I feel may be attributed to our need to search for happiness away from our own being. Searching for happiness… Continue

Added by John on October 31, 2009 at 4:34am — No Comments

Universal Phone Charger Approved, Could Save 13.6 Million Tons of CO2

by Jaymi Heimbuch, San Francisco, California on 10.26.09 Science & Technology Earlier this year we caught word that the EU might force universal cell phone chargers onto manufacturers. "Force" is a little rough...more like "require them to be environmentally responsible and simply logical and quit manufacturing planned obsolescence and exclusivity into piles of plastic and wires." Last week, a universal charger was approved by the International Telecommunication Union that, while not being… Continue

Added by Jacquelyn Williams on October 27, 2009 at 9:27am — 2 Comments