A friend showed me this article about the relation between taxes and population movement in the US. Basically, people move when taxes get too high. Businesses move, families move.
The states they leave are usually blue states, those that receive them are more likely to be red states. Good for the states getting them, right?
Not necessarily. [...]
I really like this post.
Because the manic Suzy Homemaker vibe of a lot of “green” blogs just makes me feel like I can’t do anything right. Or enough.
Sharon Astyk wrote a blog post the other day entitled Dreaming A Life that spoke of something I’ve been thinking about for a while now: why do we do what we do?
Why, when there is so much new attention to climate change, so much scientific consensus and so much activism, are governments so reluctant to [...]
Take a look at this article right here.
Generations of college freshmen, asked to read Walden, have sputtered with indignation when they learned that Henry David went back to Concord for dinner with his family every week or two. He’s cheating; his grand experiment is a fraud. This outrage is a useful tactic; it prevents them [...]
I just got done listening to Obama’s school speech.
What’s wrong with a President telling kids to do their best? I honestly don’t understand the furor over this.
Dmitry Orlov does it again: Definancialisation, Deglobalisation, Relocalisation
I’m in the middle of reading this and it’s just a great article.
One quote I really like:
It is an unfortunate fact that the recent centuries of settled life, and especially the last century or so of easy living based on the industrial model, has made many people too [...]
This Saturday, as part of the five day long deadCENTER film festival here in OKC (which starts today!), a group of short films will be featured dealing with issues of sustainability and food.
Information below or visit deadCENTER’s website www.deadcenterfilm.org
Sustainability Focus Films
Saturday, June 13th at [...]
Swine. Flu?
Okay.
First of all, it’s not the swine flu. It’s the H1N1 strain of Influenza A, a combination of bird, human and swine flu.
So how does this work?
The flu bug is the loose lady of the virus world. It will infect just about anything with a pulse, and changes itself to make it more attractive [...]
I don’t know about your area, but the one thing I noticed when first coming to Oklahoma was a) the obsession with large lawns, and b) the sheer amount of chemicals and poisons used to take care of them.
If you’d like to get away from the last part, here’s an article you might find interesting. [...]
They didn’t sit around waiting for the state to repair the flood-damaged road to Kauai’s major park (which supposedly cost $4 million that the state of Hawaii didn’t have and were told would take two years to repair). Their businesses depended on the revenue that visitors to the park brought in; they faced bankruptcy if [...]
Natural World — A Farm for the Future (49 min, safe for work/children)
Wildlife film maker Rebecca Hosking investigates how to transform her family’s farm in Devon into a low energy farm for the future, and discovers that nature holds the key.
The American form of government
I watched this with my kids the other day, would be great for homeschoolers (about age 10 or so would be able to understand it: warning, there are a few upsetting images) or school kids studying government/history this year. But everyone should watch this to get a better understanding of why [...]
I just got this in my email:
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Passage of Omnibus Lands Bill a Great Step Forward for Conservation
March 25, 2009
Republicans for Environmental Protection (REP), a national grassroots organization, applauded today’s House passage of a comprehensive lands bill that designates 2 million acres of wilderness, protects rivers and trails, and gives legal permanence to the National Landscape [...]
It’s supposed to snow this weekend, probably starting tomorrow. We’re supposed to get a couple inches; in the panhandle it might be up to eight inches, along with high winds, blowing snow, and all that lovely stuff.It’s blustery and cold outside; I know because I went out and covered up my garden plots again, so [...]
It’s also about human decency.
From Gourmet magazine:
A little slavery is okay, just not too much of it.
At this writing, that appears to be the official government position in the state of Florida, and it could explain why the fields of the Sunshine State provide such fertile ground for modern-day slavery. In the past dozen [...]
A Tecumseh businessman has a unique way of helping his deployed Guardsman employee. (video, safe for work and children)
Braving the Blue Norther
We do not lack for issues that divide us these days. Indeed, the polarization that grips our politics and economics is deadly for community, but countering that polarization is the growing realization among a diverse group of people that we are all in this together. There’s a name for that feeling, and [...]
Take a look at the Ideas for Change in America, then come back here.
When Barack Obama was elected President, he set up that website to elicit ideas for what people wanted to see happen in the next four years. The idea is great; the results, not so great.
I have the feeling by reading over it [...]
I want to tell you about a program that I’ve been with since its inception, and that I think is worth donating to.
Thousands of needy children who would otherwise not get a single gift at Christmas this year, will hopefully now get several!
Announcing The 8th Annual Internet Toy Drive, in affiliation with the official U.S. [...]
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day here in the US, and although there are many unhappy things to think about that surround the day, it seems better to focus on the things to be grateful and thankful for.
So I’d like to open it up to anyone this weekend who would like to share what it is they [...]
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