Category Archives: climate change

Rain and Cold

Today my friends are in Copenhagen protesting at the Climate Change Forum. I’m in Cazadero, doing my bit for climate change by trying to get my microhydro system working now that the rains have come.
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November 30 in San Francisco

I like to drum for actions. As long as I’m drumming, I believe I’m absolved from screaming and chanting...
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November 30–10 Years Since Seattle: Climate Change Action

Every freedom we cherish, every great change, every liberation of a slave or shift in conciousness or small increase in justice was won in just this way—in the streets by people who mostly felt at the time that they were losing.
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October 24 Day of Action: What I Did

What does political action do? Does it matter that a dozen of us spent a day standing in the sunshine, holding signs, talking to tourists? I believe it does matter. We calculated over a thousand people will have seen our signs. They’ll wonder what ‘350’ means, and what it has to do with climate change? They might click on 350.org and find out that this action is one of 4000 worldwide. They’ll marvel that even in our remote corner of the world, people are concerned about the issue. We’re everywhere!
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Global Day of Climate Action: October 24 350.org

When we take action, we need to know what we want, not just what we don’t want. Confronting climate change can drive people into into despair and apathy. Never just say ‘no’ without also saying ‘yes’—because solutions are out there. We have the means we need to solve the problems, and heal other major wounds in the process. We just need to do it.
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Solar Solutions and Permaculture Water Landscape at Tamera Ecovillage

“The problem was not lack of water, it was in our water management,” said Bernd Muller of their Ecology group. “We didn’t have a scarcity of water—we had a potential abundance.
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A Forest Garden

A well designed forest garden produces its own fertility, more or less takes care of itself, and looks like a lush and healthy woodland—but just about everything in it is edible, medicinal, or actively contributing to the health of the whole.
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Land Matters

Land Matters is a land cooperative in beautiful Devon, where we are holding our Earth Activist Training.
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Pagan Values

I wonder what an ecological movement might look like that truly embraced Pagan values--that pleasure is good, the body is sacred, life should be full of beauty and delight, that all of life is alive and speaking and communicating and inviting us to join in the song?
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