In the summer of 2011, a small group of passionate filmmakers set off on a journey around the country to explore the urban farming movement. What they discovered changed how they think about food, community, and sustainability. Growing Cities covers the breadth of the...
Photo by samutahjazz via flickr In the Channeled Scablands of eastern Washington State there are a chain of lakes that gather winter storm water like mega-puddles, and then spend the summer evaporating in the thick heat of desert coulees. One of these lakes is called Blue...
Photo by Solokom via flickr We’re all living life on the edge. Climate change has made it so that our weather patterns our becoming more and more unpredictable. Hurricanes, tornadoes, and other extreme events are more common than ever. They hold the power to destroy homes,...
This Earth Day, the makers of the documentary, One Day on Earth, invite you to a free global screening of their new film. It has over 3000 hours of footage and is shot by communities in countries from all over the world on October 10, 2010. It's a film that represents and...
More on the President's blackness From We Are the Respectable Negroes: Fear of a Black President? Love of the Confederacy? Explaining the Tea Party GOP and the "Southern Religion" From MotherJones: 109 things President Obama currently is or recently has been engaged in a war...
Photo by Wyatt Wellman via flickr Although it is already a month and a half old, this video of Lee Brain’s testimony to the Northern Gateway Pipeline Joint Review Committee in Canada is circulating around social media sites. This proposed project would consist of two...
HomeFree founder, Jill, with her son Jill Robbins, founder of HomeFree, a business that makes organic, vegan, gluten-free, ready-to-eat whole grain cookies and coffee cakes free of common food allergens including peanuts, tree nuts, eggs and dairy, saw first-hand the problems...
Above:A Humorous Look at Monsanto's Future. Below: A Scary Look at Monsanto's Past. (Sources and much more info, linked below this text) It's apparent that all of the Monsanto endeavors I chose to highlight here, rode the same wave of public opinion. In regards to nuclear...
