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Connie Madden wishes you wit, compassion, mindfulness

350 Garden Challenge Comes to Petaluma Health Center!

Sunday, at 1:49 by

So just stopped by Daily Acts transformation of the lawn at our Petaluma Health Center – to be greeted by my and Wayne’s Doc – Fasih Hameed, credited for updating the Center, making it more user-friendly. Fun! With him, Trathen Heckman, founder, Daily Acts, and Erin Axelrod, one of those who keeps it all running. Their work for the day? Composting the entire left side of the center so it becomes a veggie garden. Lovely. Water savings: 250,000 gallons! You… Read More »

350 Garden Challenge Sat/Sun! Shollenberger Shindig 4/15, Tara Firma – Maria Muldaur!

Friday, at 2:54 by

THIS JUST RECEIVED FROM DAILY ACTS RE 350 GARDEN CHALLENGE: FIND GREAT GATHERINGS TO JOIN IN HERE: http://www.dailyacts.org/350-challenge-volunteer-events THIS YEAR – THIS WEEKEND, 350 Garden Challenge will involve all those groups and friends who’ve been with it last 3 years – with the ambitious goal of 3,500 actions toward a more resilient future throughout Sonoma County. YOU CAN GO TO DAILY ACTS MAP and find actions to join in: www.dailyacts.org/actions/map-350 and just stop by a few! This is very fun;… Read More »

Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? Truth and beauty of Orlando gets me…

Sunday, at 4:07 by

Watched a GREAT fav film, Orlando, creation of Sally Potter, filmed entirely in Gorbechav’s Russia, a film that helped revitalize the Russian Film industry. First saw the initial screening at SF Library when Potter introduced this masterpiece years ago. You can find it on Netflix. Re-watch number 4? It’s still marvelous. Taking notes on all of the producer’s notes – a revelation on how to make a very fine film indeed! Something I would dearly love to do – and… Read More »

Being There: the KEYSTONE XL rally in SF…

Saturday, at 1:51 by

Rode with two XL Pipeline protester guys (Steve and Duane) to Presidio Heights area of SF (a fundraiser with Obama taking place at a mansion overlooking the Presidio) on a somewhat windy eve Wed. 4/3. Wonderful crowd including XL Pipeline protestors from 2mo. old to ancient! Loved the upbeat drumming, moxibustion smoke, saxophones, babies and puppies. Love the optimism that bubbles up when people who care about our future come together in the streets of San Francisco – or any… Read More »

Forward on Climate Change: time to SPEAK UP!

Friday, at 11:02 by

Climate change is already affecting the whole planet with the highest temperatures, the worst droughts and floods in history. Farmers across the Midwest are destroying or selling their animals because fields of grain burned in the sun – our world is already markedly different from that we were born into. Bill McKibbin, author and activist, named a recent book Eaarth, to show that we have already changed our globe for the worse through hydrocarbon pollution. THERE IS NOW A 45-DAY… Read More »

The Spring is Sprung, the Grass is Riz, I wonder where the birdies is?

Saturday, at 11:56 by

Have always loved a bit of nonsense – can you tell? Our Book of Nonsense Verse was frequently read from in my childhood home. So The Spring is Sprung, the Grass is Riz; I wonder where the birdies is? (written by Anon – who wrote a lot of the stuff I recall!) – is one of those phrases that seems like, well, pudding or apple sauce or home and comfort. A spring theme song for me. Guess the plum and… Read More »

We’re on the bus! (and carpooling) to FORWARD on CLIMATE RALLY, SF Sun. 1-3pm

Wednesday, at 10:57 by

Here in Sonoma County, we’re sitting pretty sweet getting ready to launch such fine programs as Sonoma Green Power to put energy in the hands of the people, something Germany does well, which will save huge money a few years down the road – energy alternative to oil that will save Sonoma County over $245 million a year (estimate I heard). But the oil industry is working faster than our sustainability friends are and we continue to frack (fracture) the… Read More »

One Billion Rising: Valentines, not Violence for Women and Girls everywhere!

Thursday, at 10:58 by

So you probably heard one in three women in the world (about one in five in California) is raped or attacked during her lifetime. Horrible, yes? Yet preventable if we set our minds to it – and change laws around the globe. Ex: at least in this country, littering is a faux pas, not done, considered a messy, low-life and illegal activity. Cigarettes are seen as they really are: cancer sticks. Not that it couldn’t be fun to toss a… Read More »

Petaluma Film series at Aqus TONIGHT (1/27): Edible City: Grow the Revolution

Sunday, at 9:01 by

Wanted to let you know about the new Petaluma Film series at Aqus Cafe at the end of H Street near the River STARTING TONIGHT AT 6:45. The film, Edible City: Grow the Revolution, is brought to us by Ellen Bicheler, a Petaluma booster of Daily Acts and all that is wholesome who now works with Laguna Farms outside Sebastopol. The whole Urban Homesteading/local/organic/healthy/heal the planet focus is growing everywhere and no where stronger than right in our own backyards!… Read More »

What is to be Done? asked Lenin. And I say: Where Would We Be Without These Bodies of Ours?

Friday, at 10:05 by

January counts as the New Year, right? I mean all of January… I got Christmas stuffed into a tub for somewhere in the shed and everybody with a birthday got a card and something, so things are about where they should be there. Now for question of a lifetime (and each January) What is to be Done? A great sense of direction came yesterday with Michael Krasny’s interview w. Deepak Choprak on KQED’s FORUM (listen to the archive) talking about… Read More »