So I'm stoked - love the Berkeley in the Sixties film done by Mark Kitchell, and now his A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for a Living Planet is coming to Sunflower Center this Sun., 3pm, co-hosted by 7 groups with similar interests - being healthy on a healthy planet. [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
The 3rd Annual 350 Garden Challenge, Sat./Sun., May 12-13, sponsored by Daily Acts and iGrow Sonoma County, with support from Aqus Community, 350.org and Transition US among many groups - this one is even more outrageously optimistic than last years' - a goal of 2012 NEW AND TRANSFORMED gardens throughout [...]
Spring of Sustainability, FREE online, on radio, purchase CDs, promises to bring many clear views of complex issues we need to understand to preserve life as we know. Check the SWC site: and sign up free. Speakers and organizers of Spring of Sustainability are not giving in to the paralysis [...]
350 Home and Garden Challenge Year 2! and Oasis Community Farm is one year old and celebrating... We're great fans of Bill McKibben and his 350.org. The guy is a great popularizer of the FACT that we've long since passed the 350 part per million level of pollution in our [...]
Expected an upbeat rush from the Ripple the World breakfast Thursday am and got what I came for. Trathen Heckman, founder of Daily Acts, deep ecology group that puts on the luscious veggie breakfast (3rd year), Larry Robinson, poet and sometime Mayor of Sebastopol, Sonoma County Supervisors Shirlee Zane and [...]
When asked how Petaluma's Daily Acts will respond to Bill McKibben's call for action 101010 to combat climate crisis (buildup of greenhouse gases (GHG) which changed our planet to Eaarth, title of his new book, says McKibben), Trathen Heckman, visionary from Daily Acts, wrote in email this am; "Holy smokes. [...]
Whatever you would do or dream you would do, begin! said Goethe and we’re still trying to figure that out! Great films and books are essential for an active 21st Century mind, but great friends and pets are way better for walks. Take lots of walks, I say, and get thee to the countryside right outside Petaluma…so, so pretty…And then actually helping others out is what makes you grounded, being part of the local/global tribe of your choice. They still need members, you know.