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sustainable agriculture 
Wed Jul 08, 2009 at 06:29:20 PDT
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(11:00AM EST - promoted by Nightprowlkitty)
The big economic news is all over the place-lately the truly dire unemployment figures which have administration officials suddenly hemming and hawing instead of bragging about "green shoots."
But the unfolding depression is making its mark in a thousand pinpricks of pain as well. A newspaper that will flesh this point out a bit just rose to the top of one of the piles here at Casa FotM. It's an issue from last month of The Millbrook Independent--a six page weekly whose masthead proclaims "Serving Millbrook and Stanfordville and the Greater Millbrook Region" in Dutchess County, New York.
Along with coverage of wetlands regulations and high school math scores were two articles that illuminated unexpected aspects of the crunch.
One, on the front page, plugged a new "state of the art" storage facility opening in a former bowling alley in Mabbetsville. It struck me as perhaps an unfortunate business to be starting in this climate, but the owner had a quote which led me to reconsider: "With the huge advent of home offices, people now need to store what was once in that room."
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Wed Dec 24, 2008 at 19:43:38 PST
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 Burning the Midnight Oil is the evolution of the Midnight Oil series that evolved on Daily Kos earlier in the year.
Burning the Midnight Oil is a place for me to compose diaries that normally end up crossposted hither and yon, normally including Docudharma. It also has an eclectic RSS sidebar of some interesting blogs, but there are more interesting examples elsewhere on the Intertubes.
It also has a regular series of "New Oil" posts of links encountered on my way around the blogosphere, which then becomes "Burning Fires" as the next lantern is opened up to get its New Oil.
Since there's only been one visitor to the Midnight Oil that I am aware of, I thought as a Christmas pressie, I'd share the New Oil for the last two months.
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Sat Oct 18, 2008 at 07:44:32 PDT
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 Ben Ray Lujan is running for Congress in New Mexico's diverse third district.
He is young and progressive. He supports universal health care, single payer or otherwise. He hopes to transform northern New Mexico's national laboratories into alternative energy research facilities. And, as the grandson of a farmer and sheepherder, he overflows with ideas about sustainable agriculture.
He is expected to win.
More about El Norte, New Mexico's third Congressional District, and her favored son after the jump.
(Art by native Norteño artist and health care advocate, Roger Montoya. Photos by me.)
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Thu May 22, 2008 at 15:15:05 PDT
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Thursday, I Think Seriously, About Self Sustainability
Health.
No one wants to be sick...ill.
And yet we are going farther & farther from what would make us healthy.
Food.
Real food!
Not the agri-corp, perfectly formed, devoid of vitamins, shipped a million miles stuff, NO.
I'm talking about growing it yourself in your own yard.
Even if you are an apartment dweller....you can container garden a portion of your food.
At the very least find someone in your county that grows Heirloom veggies...Buy Local.
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