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June 2012 Blog Posts (4)

EcoSex symposium - Portland

EcoSex Symposium! (Portland)

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"More than 21 workshops on sexecology, sensual & sustainable living, the pleasure of permaculture, EcoMagicks, bees, mycelium/mushrooms, stardust, polyamory, ecoactivism, herbal aphrodisiacs, culture, sexual liberation, plant medicines, embodiment, & more.

More than the Opening Ceremony on Friday, the EcoBall on Saturday Night, or Sunday's Closing…

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Added by Justice Schanfarber on June 13, 2012 at 8:29am — No Comments

A Call in Scotland to Grow Food on Unused Land - BCC

An article from BBC Scotland about the movement to free up unused public land for market gardens is here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-18405257

This issue is crucial to us in a City regulating itself and its residents to death, or at least into homelessness and malnutrition. In my book, homelessness and malnutrition are tantamount to death,…

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Added by Randy Chatterjee on June 12, 2012 at 9:42am — 1 Comment

Earth Over the Brink - and article by David Roberts of The Grist

We’re about to push the Earth over the brink, new study finds

By David Roberts

There’s a new scientific paper out in the journal Nature called “Approaching a state shift in Earth’s biosphere.” In a sane world, it would be front page news. This is from the…

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Added by Randy Chatterjee on June 7, 2012 at 10:00am — No Comments

First Ever East Van Chicken Coop and Culture Crawl!

Hey folks,

As part of a "Compassionate Communities" project put on by Frog Hollow Neighbourhood House, a small group of people started talking about a way to visit and get to know others interested in edible gardens, chicken coops and bee hives. We came up with the idea of a "crawl" and applied for a Neighbourhood Small Grant...and got it! So now we have to organize the thing.

Here's the email we just sent out to our current mailing list (see below). I'm hoping some of you…

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Added by Surya Govender on June 1, 2012 at 11:02am — No Comments

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