For a fair, community-based, local and democratic economy.

Our food comes from farther and farther away, fertilized with more and more fossil sources. It arrives on more and more trucks burning fossil fuel. Our banks are bigger but no longer subject to state regulation. The large corporations and the World Trade Organization (WTO) do as they please. Other people's trash is one of Maine's fastest growing businesses.

Bitty Bunnies

"The financial crisis is first and foremost an ecological crisis.", Barnacle, Thule 2009-02-01.

Of Cufflinks and "The Man" I Sing

A responsible ethic depends on an honest assessment of the context - Chris Hedges, speaking at Bowdoin, 2009-02-10

Antler Up

Never so many broken windows in town, the police say. The glass people are three weeks out. The guy who broke the window is standing there patiently, waiting for the police to take him in for an overnight. Room and board. He's cold. Snowflakes dotting melting on his jacket. Snowflakes spitting wetting his feet.

Be Scared

"What now, Crow? Out with it!"

"Pattenaude," Crow says, "The University. FUBOO".

Gaza Dreams

Sharin slept. She and her father, alone of the family, alone of her brothers, sisters, parents, grandparents and cousins survived. She wasn't awake to see the tiny blue lights - new fireflies high overhead - circling in the darkness. She snuggled up to her father. "Baba," she whispered in her sleep.

Hey Gov: Pay It Forward

The "economics is really clear", say the economists [Lance Tapley, "Hey Gov, Stop Slashing", Portland Phoenix, Dec 31]. The same economists who couldn't see the crash coming. Like their kindred ideologues - the politicians, the state agencies and the overgrown business community they serve - the economists are wrong. Lots of us saw this crash coming.

Beem Too Threatening

"Edgar Allen Beem is as far left as the 'lunatic fringe' of the right"?

Leaving On The "Impeach" Bumper Sticker

"There should be no surprise there," -- Noam Chomsky

Solar Driers

Attached below is a pdf of the solar drier workshop given at the Winter Cache Harvest Dinner, Nov 15, 2008.