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January 2010 Blog Posts (6)
Your One Life
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
Mary Oliver
Added by Kathie Wallace on January 27, 2010 at 8:51pm — No Comments
Book Review: Life, Money and Illusion by Mike Nickerson
Life, Money and Illusion - Living on earth as if we want to stay
(Second Edition, 2009: ISBN 978-0-86571-659-9)
(Available in the Central Branch of the Vancouver Library at 338.927 N63L)
(Village Vancouver has 3 copies in its informal lending library, and the overdue fines are steep!)
Author: Mike Nickerson
Reviewed by Genevieve Jones
Do you ever get overwhelmed by the state of the world?
I like to be informed, but last… Continue
(Second Edition, 2009: ISBN 978-0-86571-659-9)
(Available in the Central Branch of the Vancouver Library at 338.927 N63L)
(Village Vancouver has 3 copies in its informal lending library, and the overdue fines are steep!)
Author: Mike Nickerson
Reviewed by Genevieve Jones
Do you ever get overwhelmed by the state of the world?
I like to be informed, but last… Continue
Added by Randy Chatterjee on January 25, 2010 at 7:14pm — No Comments
The 11 Insights of the Celestine Prophecy
from the books of James Redfield.
Summarized by Kathie Wallace and with excerpts from James Redfield's web site.
1.When a CRITICAL MASS of people see life as a journey of unfolding, mysterious, and exciting synchronicities that lead us forward and ask about the mystery, a series of insights will be revealed that will shift us.
:: Remember to live in the mystery of the synchronicitous world.
2. THE… Continue
Added by Kathie Wallace on January 22, 2010 at 9:58am — No Comments
New World Magnificence
There will be no words in the new world….just magnificence. A Love Song for Trees http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Yrd5PDyUtE
Added by Kathie Wallace on January 13, 2010 at 11:04am — No Comments
US City Peak Oil Publications
For anyone interested, here are 3 peak oil/climate change response documents created by Portland, Oregon, San Francisco California and Bloomington, Indiana.
Bloomington IN PO.pdf
SF peakoil_final_report.pdf
Portland Climate Action Plan 2009.pdf
Bloomington IN PO.pdf
SF peakoil_final_report.pdf
Portland Climate Action Plan 2009.pdf
Added by Ann Pacey on January 13, 2010 at 9:43am — No Comments
In the Garden at Pearson Centre with Olga Ruskin
Local writer Kathie Wallace submits this interview with Olga Ruskin at the Pearson Center:
In the Garden, according to Olga Ruskin
This year Jen Rashleigh created a series of table top wheelchair accessible gardens at the Pearson Centre so the residents there could enjoy growing their own food. One of these resident gardeners is Olga Ruskin and this is her story of why she loves gardening:
I garden because I enjoy… Continue
Added by Kathie Wallace on January 8, 2010 at 8:00pm — No Comments
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