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January 2010 Blog Posts (17)

Garden design resources: Planting Calendar and Polyculture Web

Cross-posted from the Wild Green Yonder

As the skies clear over the Front Range and the air begins to warm (at least for now) my thoughts are turning increasingly to designing my garden for this year. My housemates and I have already created…

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Added by Adam Brock on January 31, 2010 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Local discount Organic provider

Here is a local provider passionate about offering organic produce and sprouts locally or at a discount in the winter time ezsprout@qwest.net - Got great deals on apples, tangerines, lettuce...which we are enjoying this week.
Organic farm stand store on Sat. from 9-5
6321 Arapahoe, Boulder

Added by Nushin Farjadi on January 27, 2010 at 10:11am — No Comments

Are You Suffering From Eco-Anxiety?

You’ve just finished reading a particularly disturbing article online about industrial agriculture and its unsustainable practices and you’re furious. You spend an evening watching the movie Collapse on Comcast On Demand and you feel slightly depressed about your future. You’ve been talking to your friends about the economy and now you’re worried about what’s going to happen when the recession ends and inflation kills the value of the money you’ve been conscientiously saving in the last few… Continue

Added by Margaret Emerson on January 22, 2010 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Will WILLOW WAY PERMACULTURE be Allowed to Continue??? Hearing Jan 28 in Boulder - Please help!

Call for letters/ hearing date:

Will WILLOW WAY PERMACULTURE be given permission to continue to teach Permaculture?

This question will be addressed by the Boulder County Commissioner's hearing at the Boulder County Court house at 3 pm on January 28 at the Boulder County Courthouse on Pearl between 13th and 14th.

This looks like something the current Commissioners would obviously support, yet some neighbors have interpreted Permaculture as a threat, and have combed the… Continue

Added by Michelle Soule' on January 22, 2010 at 1:34pm — No Comments

Transition Denver and the Grow Local Colorado Campaign is thrilled to announce the 2nd "Growing our Urban AgriCULTURE" potluck and networking party!

Come one, come all involved in Colorado's urban ag scene! Our first party was such a success, Grow Local has decided to do quarterly events, one in each season! This will be a Winter Potluck on Friday, Feb. 19 at Gates Hall at Denver Botanic Gardens from 6-9 p.m, and will feature a seed sharing activitiy, so bring seeds to share!. Bring food and drink to share, and think Colorado when deciding what to bring! Zero Waste - bring your own silverware, plate, napkin and glass.

Bring information… Continue

Added by Dana Miller on January 19, 2010 at 4:44pm — No Comments

Tom Kenron and Hathors Message 1/2010

I posted this to help get the message out. Hope you enjoy it and the Pineal attunement from Tom. It is amazing information and sound. Let me know if you like it.

Haiti and the Chaotic Node: A Hathor Planetary Message through Tom Kenyon

Sunday, January 17, 2010 3:11 PM

Haiti and the Chaotic Node

A Hathor Planetary Message through Tom Kenyon

The recent seismic event in Haiti heralds the beginning of

the Chaotic Node we referred to in our… Continue

Added by Nasiri on January 19, 2010 at 2:41pm — No Comments

New Coalition to Lead the Fight for Responsible Regulation of Medical Marijuana Dispensaries, Growers and Caregivers

With Colorado legislators set to convene the sixty-seventh General Assembly, a new coalition—the Sensible Patient and Provider Coalition (SPPC)—has formed to lead the fight for responsible regulation of medical marijuana dispensaries, growers and caregivers.

The coalition, made up of Colorado’s leading medical marijuana organizations, represents the middle ground in the debate over regulation of medical marijuana.

With its mix of… Continue

Added by Matt Brown on January 18, 2010 at 2:37pm — No Comments

Fort Collins Winter Indoor Farmer's Market (Operia Galleria) 123 North College, Fort Collins, Colorado

Saturday January 16 2010 . Fort Collins had a Winter Indoor Farmer's Market. The long drive was the start of a great adventure.

The down town area was packed with people.

Parking places were available four blocks away.

I… Continue

Added by James Broyles on January 18, 2010 at 8:33am — No Comments

Detroit - From Cars to Carrots?

I grew up in Detroit. I’ve seen the city go from a bustling industrial city to a study in abandonment and decay. But could Detroit become the country's first urban area to convert from factories and homes back TO agriculture?

Read the rest of the story here:

http://contemplativehiking.com/2010/01/13/detroit-%E2%80%93-from-cars-to-carrots/

Added by Margaret Emerson on January 14, 2010 at 10:43am — No Comments

Positive Futures

At a recent meeting of my local Transition group, I and others were asked to write a short description of a positive future. The example used was a set of imaginary observations made on the ground, which I felt incapable of emulating. So I deferred.

Those who know me or my writing might suspect that the problem was that I just couldn’t think of anything positive to say about the future. They might be surprised to learn that the problem was that I just didn’t feel honest about creating even… Continue

Added by Brad Jarvis on January 13, 2010 at 6:35pm — 2 Comments

The Faces of Medical Marijuana

They live with cancer, multiple sclerosis, severe digestive and neurological disorders, constant pain and other devastating conditions. For some, allergies prohibit traditional painkillers. For others, traditional western medicine has had no impact – or worse – has actually exacerbated their condition. For each, medical marijuana gives them back their life. They are the faces of medical marijuana.

Whether serving as a painkiller,… Continue

Added by Matt Brown on January 12, 2010 at 11:02am — No Comments

CAROLYN BAKER AND KEITH FARNISH DIALOG ABOUT THE GREAT TRANSITION

Earth Blog's Keith Farnish is also the author of Time's Up: An Uncivilized Solution To A Global Crisis

A few months ago, I struck up an online friendship with the acclaimed author and academic Carolyn Baker. It was clear that we were both writing about similar things, but I didn’t realise quite how similar until I had the fortunate opportunity to review her latest book, Sacred Demise: Walking… Continue

Added by Carolyn Baker on January 11, 2010 at 2:33pm — No Comments

Coalition Applauds Arapahoe County Ruling on Centennial Medical Marijuana Dispensary Case

Coloradans for Medical Marijuana Regulation, the leading coalition of medical marijuana patients, providers and growers supporting responsible regulation of medical marijuana, today voiced its support for the ruling by District Judge Christopher Cross that barred the city of Centennial, Colo., from closing a medical marijuana dispensary.

In his ruling, Judge Cross said the city of… Continue

Added by Matt Brown on January 8, 2010 at 9:23pm — No Comments

WHAT IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GRANDMOTHER EARTH? Carolyn Interviews A Mayan Earth Steward

We are no longer living in the present; we are living in the future. There is no more time.

PHOTO: "Chita" founder of Grandmother Earth's Kitchen

I recently met Rosiema Saravia or "Chita" (chee-tah), as she likes to be called, at a year-end celebration of Transition Colorado and its permaculture and Bioneer partners here in Boulder. Later, I sat down with her to learn more about the catering… Continue

Added by Carolyn Baker on January 7, 2010 at 1:32pm — 1 Comment

Bringing Smart Jitney to Colorado

To me, one of the most compelling ideas out there to quickly reduce our fossil fuel based transportation needs here on the front range is a technique and technology called "Smart Jitney", as described by Pat Murphy of Community Solutions in his wonderful book "Plan C". Those not familiar with the concept can get a synopsis here:

http://www.communitysolution.org/transport.html

Indeed, this idea is… Continue

Added by David Olivero on January 4, 2010 at 11:09pm — 5 Comments

Paths to Sustainability

Last year, I completed a set of mathematical projections of world population based on consumption of resources. These projections show graphically that we must either increase our supply of resources or suffer massive casualties. These “resources” have been both from the living and nonliving parts of our planet, and access to them is intimately tied to our technologies for their extraction and transportation. We are rapidly reaching the point where, to continue our historical growth, we will be… Continue

Added by Brad Jarvis on January 2, 2010 at 10:53pm — 2 Comments

The Trauma of Living in Two Worlds

Blog post taken from my website: www.ContemplativeHiking.com

CranesCarolyn Baker, author of “Sacred Demise: Walking the Path of Industrial Civilization’s Collapse” writes in a recent article that we are all experiencing some sort of psychological trauma because of what we have seen unfold in the last decade. The shock of 9/11, Katrina, neighbors losing their homes, resource depletion, endless war and increasing personal hardship has… Continue

Added by Margaret Emerson on January 2, 2010 at 8:19am — 1 Comment