Now this is a community I want to live in. Well thought out planning effort to adapt to Peak Oil, great work. Kudos to the participants and city for creating such an excellent plan.

Ever wonder how to communicate about climate change in a way that gets results? The Climate Meme project has some answers. Groundbreaking work by a crowd funded group of researchers.

"If we take care of the earth, the earth takes care of us." Gary Yost's short time-lapse video of a day in the Bay Area as seen from the top of one of the most sacred spots on Earth, Mount Tamalpais, Mill Valley, California.

Like a leech, depression saps all your energy and vitality. You feel lethargic, hopeless and pessimistic.there are several ways you can get things done when you’re struggling with depression. Without pharmaceuticals.

The war came home this weekend, as thousands of people whose land has been under siege by the U.S. government and corporate interests gathered in Washington, D.C. Demonstrators flooded the courtyard of American Petroleum Institute's home office. “The water, the water, the water is on fire,” they hollered in unison, “We don’t need no fracking let the corporations burn.” Members of the crowd set down a 10-foot replica of a fracking rig made of bamboo and canvas at API’s door and tipped it over. The move was a symbolic representation of what they hope the burgeoning movement against fracking can accomplish nationally.

In the phrase Kunstler uses, we’ve all gotten far too used to getting things done by magic. Realization: It’s arguably high time that more people began acclimatizing themselves to a world in which they can’t simply turn on the air conditioning any time it gets hot and muggy.

Cooperative financing and community land trusts keep rents affordable and homeownership within reach.

This is an encouraging video on a yearly retreat our Yakima Nation brothers & sisters host for the VA health care workers as well a veterans to support the holitic healing. The video mentions that they especially need to treat Native Americans through these 'best practices' but also extend that to non-native americas and find it works well too. Let's honor their example by following in their foot steps:) Love, Light and Peace to all