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 [...]
So this is the 23rd year for the Bioneers Conference at Marin Civic Center, this time, Fri-Sun. Oct. 19-21st., and it's just as urgently needed as always! We're looking at a planet literally on fire from fracking, with a growing number of nuclear bomb-owning nations, where a 14 year old [...]
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 [...]
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.