I would have titled this article The Real Goal. And it can be done. Although I still maintain that to be considered sustainable we're going to have to get back...
Chuck asked three good questions, a while back, ... I've listed the positions in the Digest. The only qualifications are residency, age, and, in a few cases,...
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Agreed except I might take issue with sloth being equated to leisure... "Leisure is an attitude of mind and a condition of the soul that fosters a capacity to...
... Yeah, laziness and indolence (sloth) are anathema to the Protestant work ethic, whereas the rest of the seven deadly sins can be pressed into its service...
The following is long, but a good read for anyone who wants to stay awake. While I agree that Peak Oil might finally break onto the political scene in a big...
... I believe Josef Pieper makes your point when he says "...unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our culture -- and...
As long as Americans' response to queries about how they spend the greatest number of their leisure hours, is "watching TV," that counts as sloth, IMO, and as...
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This is one of those articles that helps answer the question, "What's the big deal about a little global warming?" that you can send to relatives. ... Original...
We're sorry to have to announce this, but the Transforming Despair into Empowerment workshop, scheduled for this Saturday, Jan 12 from 12:30 to 4:30 at Saint...
... Published on Saturday, January 5, 2008 by The Seattle Post-Intelligencer Everything I Know I Learned Since Jan. 20, 2001 by Neal Starkman Being a Christian...
As I summarized, and as Glick detailed, on the issues that actually matter for life, Hillrack O'Clinton is the candidate the controlling elite is giving us ...
... Hi Robin... I'm not quite sure what your point is. Bush I and II both had enough support to get elected, as did Bill Clinton. My point is that Hillary and...
Biodiesel (one of the double-speak names for agro-fuels) could be a harbinger of the techno-rapture. I'm coming more and more to see Western industrial ...
Saturday, February 2nd, 2008 What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire 6:00 - 9:30 pm, doors open 5:45 pm Bookman's, 1930 E. Grant Rd. Suggested donation...
Sent to me by a good friend up in Nova Scotia. To me, admitting complicity is kinda like allowing yourself to feel the pain of the suffering Earth and its...
Combine the following article with recent Southwest drought reports of California farmers letting their fields lie fallow and selling their water rights to...
I can't think of a preamble to add to this one other than what's already there. ... Jason Miller expresses my sentiments better than I ever could! Shouting at...
My latest blog entry <http://naturalsystems.blogspot.com/2008/01/natural- systems-solutions-to-global.html> is the talk I give today at the University of ...
Another interesting analysis of Democratic strategies, with a few ideas progressives should pay attention to. ... Published on Friday, February 1, 2008 by...
I almost hate forwarding articles like this, because they are the ones that are really depressing. I think a big part of the illusion is perception, but that ...
Both sections of the following are important, the second one perhaps more so today. ... Today's alert has two sections. First, Heather Wokusch has generously ...
Who are we rooting for? Did someone say change is in the wind? I haven't checked into any of this in any detail yet, but I have a feeling we'll be hearing much...
Also, for those of you who aren't on our mailing list, our February newsletter just went out, and it has a longer explanation of what the Campaign For Our ...
I haven't seen too many reminders recently of what's actually still going on in Iraq coming through these mail lists recently. The following from Dahr Jamail ...
Reminder from: pimagreens_discuss Yahoo! Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pimagreens_discuss/cal Pima County Green Party - General Meeting Tuesday February...
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... This post lists Hillary Clinton's very disturbing connections to Monsanto, Tyson, WalMart etc. Obama has similarly troublesome ties to the nuclear industry...
How will the rest of us renounce candidate ties to Monsanto? The best short term response, to Clinton and Obama [and McCain] indebting themselves to...
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I'm sure many of you have heard the latest from the climate denialists that temperature in the Antarctic "disproves" global warming. Here's a good layman's ...