The North American Bioregional Congress is coming to Tennessee in 2009.  Its three hundred or so participants will arrive at The Farm, in Summertown, next September. They will spend a week in intensive interaction, and then journey back to their respective bioregions, inspired through communion at the Congress to ever more deeply reinhabit their home watersheds and bring their friends and neighbors back–or is it forward?–to Earth as well.

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I posted on this over at California Greening. I tried to cross post it here, but had a problem in that it did not save correctly. I periodically have that problem when I try to use cut and paste to build an entry.

If you wonder what it is all about, well, that was part of the reason for the title. It is all about what you might do on Earth Day, especially if the Democrats has scheduled a primary in your state as they have in Pennsylvania.

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Greens versus Green-washed: Mesplay on Bali mtg.

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change meeting in Bali is drawing to a close.

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The following is not my writing.  It came from Lorna Salzman. Since it very clearly represents what I have come to believe about the issues of Climate Change and the effects that continued inaction by our government... from Bush to Pelosi... I have her permission to post it here.

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I have just put up a new entry at California Greening. I won't copy it all here. You may not want to know about how great it is going in Santa Barbara or that the California Energy Commission has just opened the door to the future.

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I've been considering the ideas of Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger ever since Wes Rolley posted a couple of long blog entries about them. I agree with Wes, but one thing bothers me: the tendency of Nordhaus and Shellenberger to ridicule the giants of environmentalism for flipping the Establishment ideology of humans conquering nature.

I have been pondering this and wondering: What's so bad about a little eco-mythology?

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I have become increasingly convinced that there are limits to the effectiveness of protest as a tactic to achieve anything. When members of the EcoAction Committee (GP US) were given the chance to review a national press release on Global Warming, I objected to the fact that the only "acts" by Greens that were mentioned were participation in high profile protests. I could just see someone reacting with an upward roll of the eyeballs and a Reaganesque "There you go again."

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I have become increasingly convinced that there are limits to the effectiveness of protest as a tactic to achieve anything. When members of the EcoAction Committee (GP US) were given the chance to review a national press release on Global Warming, I objected to the fact that the only "acts" by Greens that were mentioned were participation in high profile protests. I could just see someone reacting with an upward roll of the eyeballs and a Reaganesque "There you go again."

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I have a new post a e pluribus media that calls attention to the differences between even socalled progressive Democrats (like Obama) and the Green Party when it comes to telling the truth about Global Warming. That audience is mostly non-green. Here is is for a GP audience.

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I just mande an update at California Greening about the wildfires. Actually, it was more a comparison of the fly in, express your condolences comments from most canidates and a quick citation of what one of our presedential hopefuls, Kent Mesplay was doing. Deeds, not words.

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The SEC is famous for it's football.  That is war every Saturday.  But now the real war is over water.  Atlanta area has a real problem as Lake Lanier is going dry very fast.  Athens, GA has even less available.

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It is easy to find out something regarding the wildfires in Southern California right now.  You can't view a newscast without hearing something.  Often, they focuse on the personal stories of those who are experiencing loss from the fire, or fighting heroically against it.  With that sort of coverage, there is much that will be missed.

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Those who are interested in the water wars in California have a wonderful resource, the blog Aquafornia. It is from there that I found the opinion piece from today's Atlanta Journal Constitution about the water problems in that state. Actually according to Martin Savidge on NBC's Nightly News, the Atlanta area has a severe problem right now with no sign of helpful rains in the immediate future.

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Some believe that "truth" is only what they read by a big-name journalist in The New York Times. Very well. Now comes a gushing piece by, of all people, the "liberal" hawk, Thomas Friedman of the New York Times about "green" projects in inner-city Oakland, California:

"The Green-Collar Solution" by Thomas Friedman, New York Times, October 17, 2007.

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This whole country is about to be embroiled is major political fighs over water.  This segment is intended to be a statement of a Green policy regarding water rights, water use and the environmental impacts of the choices me make.  Perhaps it can beome the basis of a forward thinking platform statement.