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

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

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.

"What now, Crow? Out with it!"

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

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.

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.

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

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

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