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Category: Environmental
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"Our hopes for peaceful human coexistence are not, as we are so often told, utopian dreams." Riane Eisler Peaceful cooperation existed long, long ago and set…
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…It''s about my journey going from a liberal civil rights lawyer who was tinkering with the machine, and believed that we could somehow get the to the Promised Land if we just filed the next best lawsuit, or met the the governor, or organize the right number of people for the next protest,…
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So, in my alternate universe… There was no degradation of the earth. Clean Air. Clean Water. No lies, no wars in the oil rich Middle East, no lives lost. The U.S. military would be doing what it is charged with- protecting Democracy, not dismantling it worldwide. Cancer would still be a rare disease, not…
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Happy Valentine's Day!
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There is an interview with the Four Women of "The Squad" on Democracy Now. After reading the transcript of these four diverse women, at a time when I was getting very disheartened about the state of the country and the world, I found HOPE! They are, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ayanna Pressley…
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While burning a few things on the deck in the chiminnea, I noticed these caterpillars munching away on the Butterfly Weed. It was over a month ago. There were about 10 or 12 of them, and they decimated that plant. Then yesterday, while leaning over the rail to reach a hanging…
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What if, instead of multiple networks of highways, America was crisscrossed with lines of light rail? And there were lovely terminals scattered everywhere, and people could travel safely and comfortably, south to north and east to west and back again, in climate controlled modern rail cars? Imagine the lives that wouldn't have been…
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Imagine that over 100 years of air pollution from cars and trucks never happened. That the arduous task of extracting oil from the earth was abandoned. When Henry Ford was building cars, he experimented with bio-fuels, namely Hemp, the versatile plant that matured in a single season and grew in every state in…
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HELP! What if, when chemical companies came up with the idea to spray food crops with the deadly compounds that were developed in wartime, someone very important had said, "This is a really bad idea." OR What if, 20 or 30 years later, when a bright caring poet/scientist saw the…
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When you bought groceries in the '50's and early 60's, they were packed in sturdy paper bags. These bags were then used as trash bags that, when full, were taken outside to metal trash cans. (I can still hear the sound of the metal cans on trash day!) Milk and soda came in…
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