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Gulf Coast Oil Spill- the oil comes ashore

D. — Tue, 18 May 2010 23:31:17 +0000

On June 26, 2010 join Hands Across the Sands to protest off-shore oil drilling, at a beach near you!

USCG- Deepwater Horizon oil platform 2010

The Gulf Coast is just now heading into what will be months and years responding to the April BP drilling platform explosion and oil leak. At his point scientists are worried that the oil will spread at least as far as the Florida [...]

Climate change- tree growth, higher seas & green scum

D. — Tue, 18 May 2010 00:08:27 +0000

Interesting recent reports about climate change effects-

About an hour east of Washington, D.C., there's a forest where trees are suddenly growing much faster than ever before — some of them even twice as fast: Curiosity Rises With Trees' Strange Growth Spurt- NPR, 3-28-10. Just the fact that this researcher has seen a 12% rise in carbon dioxide in the 23 years he's taken [...]

Placer County Corruption...

D. — Mon, 17 May 2010 22:24:42 +0000

Added Note: I am a long-term area resident, putting all of these links concerning Placer County corruption together in one place for other residents. (After people I know kept talking generally about these articles, and how little impact they seem to have made.) I have also placed this info on my old somewhat static Auburn links page.

Enjoy!

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Bloggers/Groups

Placer County Scam group on [...]

Moringa Oleifera tree & water treatment

D. — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:13:13 +0000

Moringa oleifera (Forest & Kim Starr -http://www.hear.org/starr/)

The Moringa oleifera tree is native to India, and is cultivated widely throughout many countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. (It is not tolerant to frost- so would only grow in some climates.) Many parts of this tree are edible and highly nutritious. (It's called the 'drumstick' tree for it's edible immature green pods.) Organizations like Trees [...]

Urban gardening

D. — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:41:25 +0000

Urban life can seem awfully sterile with little greenery and/or abandoned lots. Often residents have no opportunity to connect with plants by actually growing them. (A must have experience for all children, in my opinion.) It looks like some city dwellers are tired of having just house plants or a few potted plants at windows; urban gardening, including edible foods farming, is becoming a movement. Here's a [...]

Eco or Green Burials

D. — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 21:57:44 +0000

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust? Not in the 'modern' burial. Since the introduction of embalming (say since the US Civil War) bodies are no longer reunited with the earth. (Having heard the report from a family member present at the relocation of a decades deceased relative- embalmed corpses do not naturally biodegrade. Sorry- it has to be said.)

Each year tons of resources are wasted in burials [...]

Interesting time-lapse videos...

D. — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:09:07 +0000

Rob Cater: Metropolis (short clip) - narrative history of the city of Charlotte, NC ***

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Earth Religion 5000 Years Time Lapse Map (yes- it's missing quite [...]

Happy Imbolc/Candlemas

D. — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:46:20 +0000

St. Brigit, Kildare, Ireland 2004

Even in the hardest part of winter the signs of spring approach- tree buds start to swell, and daylight is noticeably longer. Celebrated in the Northern Hemisphere around February 1st as Imbolc (the Feast of Brigit), Oimelc (ewes' milk), Candlemas (Feb. 2nd), St. Brigid's Day, or Groundhog Day, we know that the promise of new growth awaits.

'Brigit, excellent woman, sudden [...]

Rash of horse mane weaving in the UK- pagans?

D. — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:02:24 +0000

There's concern in the United Kingdom in Dorset and surrounding counties about 20 horses that have mysteriously had plaited manes appearing over the last 3 months. This has been happening on nights of high wind and rain, with some owners believing that the wind is driving the horse manes into sorts of plaits or knots. At first some horse owners and the police thought this was a [...]

D. — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:25:46 +0000

Have a Happy Solstice & Winter [...]