Vandana Shiva, author of 20 books including Water Wars Privatization Pollution and Profit and Making Peace With the Earth was again keynote speaker at the National Heirloom Festival, called "The World's Fair of Pure Food," this week. She was again insightful and inspiring the audience to action. "Control seed and [...]

YOU COULD JOIN IN IF YOU LEAVE NOW - OR STAY TUNED AND FIND A WAY TO FIGHT THIS BACKWARD MOTION: Great thing to join a huge crowd of people actually attempting to be do-gooders - at the Ferry Bldg. SF 11am TODAY to march to Civic Center. AB2470, the [...]

Spirit Rock has been my touch stone where matters of peace and contemplation are concerned since my 29 year old was 6, and so it is with joy that I've returned several times recently to the wonderful sitting and lecture practice of Sylvia Boorstein's Wednesday morning class; she's not there [...]

The Seed Bank was packed last Thursday as Permaculture hero, Toby Hemenway, introduced his new tome, The Permaculture City, to a hopeful room full of people who espouse resilience (the capacity to recover from difficulties; toughness is one definition) and an underlying community that supports that. It's assumed you know [...]

Project Censored the Movie is more than relevant: should be required viewing to keep your mind functioning well according to me. Trailer at: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF-DAJlvX4E" http://www.bohemian.com/binary/9555/1366141896-pc_the_movie.jpg Great conversation followed Metta Center's showing of this brilliant movie last Sunday night at Aqus Cafe, part of a film series created by Petaluma Grange [...]

Images: La Vachalcade, Fernand Pelez tribute to poor ethnic children around Montmartre, MAD'S Great Moments of Advertizing, La Louvre picking up sunset colors, a Picasso Minataur (there's a whole series), typical ceiling at Versailles, Jeff Koons showing off with his then-wife, an Italian porn star and member of parliament, in [...]

We had ventured into Paris and our flat in Montmartre mid-February, coldest time of the year, with the least tourists! In February, we could bundle up a bit, walk through the square of working artists in Montmartre and even visit the most popular sites in central Paris without encountering huge [...]

Wanted to get to Paris since age 11 when I watched Audrey Hepburn in Funny Face - that serious Greenwich Village bookshop girl always in black, who exclaimed "I want to see the den of thinking men like Jean Paul Satre; I must philosophize with all the guys around Montmartre [...]

So if you love your local hiking park and bird sanctuary, Shollenberger Park, gorgeous views, peaceful walking, excellent spirit lifter - you'll be coming to Lagunitas for Wet Your Whistle TUES. 5:30pm and give up the $25 suggested donation for the hard ongoing work of Save Shollenberger on our behalf. [...]

So can't claim Bill Kortum was a close friend; we only met at meetings and a coffee house, but the life he led deserves reflection and emulation. He was brave; he was honest; he did some very fine work for us all and his beloved California coast. He was the [...]