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United States Society for Ecological Economics: Congratulations to Annie Leonard for 2013 Herman Daly Award

Some videos with Annie Leonard:

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Annie Leonard: The Story of Stuff - Conversations

The Story of Change by Annie Leonard

She explains the new campaign in this piece in Yes!

The Story of Change

From the Story of Stuff people... Story of Change.

Annie Leonard at the Economics of Happiness Conference

Annie Leonard: moving from consumer to citizen


The Story of Stuff

Items of Interest, 17 April 2012

Thomas Fleming, The Decline of the American Empire

Christopher Blum, Man, Proud Man (A review of Domenico Losurdo's Liberalism: A Counter-History)

Mike Church, Restoring Republicanism as the Proper Form of American Governance

Bar Refaeli Unloads on Handsy Airport Screener -- You MUST Be a Lesbian

'Heretics': The Crisis Of American Christianity
Ross Douthat's Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics
(Religion News, Christianity Today)
He'll be on C-Span.

Joel Salatin on Life: Participate Viscerally
Joel Salatin responds to New York Times’ ‘Myth of Sustainable Meat’

Jailing Americans for Profit: The Rise of the Prison Industrial Complex

Health Care in the Age of Decline

PJB, Bibi's Dilemma -- and Barack's

First Solar's Loan Guarantees: Money Laundering For Obama Cronies

The Rise of the Killer Drones: How America Goes to War in Secret

Kelley Vlahos, Forget Katniss, We Need Montag

Daniel Larison, Would Romney’s Foreign Policy Be Significantly Different?

The Passion of Cesar Chavez

Economics:
Commentary: The world is finite, isn't it? by Tadeusz Patzek (EB)
The Trouble with Money by Chris Martenson
Relocalization:
Small scale farmers organise the International Peasant Day of Struggle
Getting Our Land Back (EB)
How we can bring the world out of the mess in which it finds itself by Tuhi-Ao Bailey (EB)
Limits to Growth – of stuff, value, and GDP by Brian Czech (EB)
David Holmgren: The reverse of globalization by Karen Rybold-Chin (EB)


Clothesline art, laundry activism, cash savings by Lindsay Curren (EB)

Connecting with community through storytelling by Mary Logan (EB)
Storytellers like Robert M. Peters...

Education:
Patrick Deneen, Against Great Books

Sophia Institute Press Becomes Publishing Division of Two Leading Catholic Colleges

It's the first I've heard of Holy Spirit College; I knew Sophia Institute Press had joined with Thomas More last year.

Catholic:
A Guy's Take on Modesty--From a Beach Trip
Father Spitzer: Modern-day Renaissance man
Recognition finally for a warrior priest's heroics
Epiclesis in Eucharistic Prayer I



NLM: The Resurrection in Medieval Art

Gregorios Stathis Byzantine Church Music

Orthodox:
Paschal Encyclical of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew 2012
Paschal Message of His Holiness KIRILL Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia

В діаспорі святкували український Великдень (Відео)

Feminism and Courtship/Misandry:
The Curse of Cohabitation
Shacking Up vs. Tying the Knot

The Pay Gap is a Lie



Feminism in Academic History?
Deviant Women in Courtly and Popular Medieval Castilian Poetry

‘Stronger than men and braver than knights’: women and the pilgrimages to Jerusalem and Rome in the later middle ages

Diet and Health
MDA: Why Fast? Part 6: Choosing a Method


Music:


Carolina Chocolate Drops "Lights In The Valley"


Anonymous 4: Celebrating 25 Years of Championing Music
Performing at Stanford tomorrow.

Kickstarter: The Porchligh Sessions (documentary) - FB




US Army:
Army tightens rules on hair, tattoos, makeup

MACP 12APR2012 PART 1

Part 2

Misc:
How to Look Like You're Special Forces
Your Mancave Needs More Beard

Items of Interest, 16 April 2012

The Sexual Revolution and the Will to Disbelieve
Uncanny Tales of the Moral Imagination

The Downside of Cohabitating Before Marriage

Patrick Deneen, At Home in a World Made Strange

In Pursuit of Happiness and Good Government

Ron Paul: Professor Obama Gets an F

The Celtic Mind (on Adam Smith and Edmund Burke)

Legal Atrocities by Chase Madar

Mark Mitchell, Gender Matters

A review of Jack Donovan's latest (mp3)

JHK on race relations: A Kid with Skittles
Derbyshire, Weissberg, And Dog-Whistling: Conservatism Inc's Uneasy Balancing Act

Norway mass-murder suspect admits to killing 77, claims self-defense.


Dave Walker Guest hosting CNBC’s Squawk Box

The Occupy Movement’s Vacuous Critique of Inequality by Carson Holloway
OWS Critique: Grasping for Straws?
Inequality of persons may be a fact of life, but inequality of wealth can be mitigated, instead of allowing the wealthy to amass more wealth at the expense of those who do not have economic freedom. Mr. Holloway seems to be more of a good Republican than anything else.

Economics:
Nothing Grows Forever
How San Francisco Can Lead the Sharing Economy
Voice of an Innovator: Sustainability Makes Sense

Relocalization:
The Economics of Happiness Conference and The Rise of The Localization Movement

In Transition 2.0 - a story of resilience and hope in extraordinary times DVD

Karen De Coster, “Ingredients” Documentary on Local Food Systems - official site

The Big Lunch, a one-day get-together for neighbors

Permaculture:
The Permaculture Revolution Takes Root in Cities
Open Source Permaculture – help to build the most comprehensive free resource for Permaculture education (indiegogo)

Catholic:
Vatican Hoping to Make SSPX Announcement Early Next Week
The Catholic Bride
Traditional Catholicism Is Winning

Orthodox:
Orthodox Christians take steps toward unity
Iconography of the Bright Resurrection of Christ.
Orthodox Easter - in pictures
Ethiopian Orthodox Easter
Capella Romana: For Orthodox Easter, Music That Faces East
Gillibrand: Blessing of House by Orthodox Priest
Trusting God Rather Than Seeking Miracles

Diet and Health:
Karen De Coster, Benefits of the Paleo-Primal Lifestyle and Great Health

Paleo, Low Carb and Gluten Free Chain Restaurants: eating out while traveling

What’s Your Walk Score? by Tom Vanderbilt
The company that puts a number on walkability.

(Part 2: Sidewalk Science)

Jimmy Moore’s n=1 Experiments: ‘Safe Starch’ Sweet Potato

Music:


SFCV: Musica Poetica: The Baroque Before Bach

Waylon Jennings: 'Goin' Down Rockin' by Joe Leydon

Sleepy Man Banjo Boys - Blackjack


Earl Scruggs Tributes Archived at WSM Online

Ashley Campbell Hits the Scene (MS)

Ava Aston


AVALANCHE AND EARTHQUAKE – Michael Ruppert and the Lifeboat Hour

Jane Austen:
Lizzie Bennet Diaries: Monday Multimedia: Modern Stuff Edition(too Uhmerican)

ECD:
HWS Learns English Country Dance
Playford Ball_2012_Ricki and Donn in two-hand turn



Misc:


How one mathematician’s angry blog post led to 9,000 scientists starting a revolution

Ohio journalist trains with Ottawa County Special Response Team: “SWAT training is adrenaline rush” (video).

Modern-Day Battle Axe

Items of Interest, 20 February 2012

State Capitalism by Yves Pernet

Andrew Bacevich, Scoring the Global War on Terror

Know Your Gnostics By Gene Callahan
Eric Voegelin diagnosed the neoconservatives' disease.

Daniel Larison, Ghosts of Empire

Oz Conservative: The Orthosphere - a new blog

PAM MARTENS, Occupy the SEC Pitches An Extreme Makeover of Wall Street

Creator of "The Story of Stuff" shows what's at stake with commons assets
Jay Walljasper, On the Commons (EB)

Relocalization:
The Ooooby Local Economic Model by Pete Russell (EB)

Ideas to Reduce Your Trash Waste by 80%

Via EB:

The Entropy of Capitalism & Urban Ag: Interview with Robert Biel
Luke Miller Callahan, The Socio Capitalist, GroAction

The Entropy of Capitalism & Urban Ag: Interview with Robert Biel from GroAction on Vimeo.

Film review: The Forgotten Space
Kalvin Henely, Slant Magazine

The simpler way: a practical action plan for living more on less
Samuel Alexander, Simon Ussher and Ted Trainer, Simplicity Institute

Catholic:
Interview with Prior of Monastère Saint-Benoît, Diocese of Fréjus-Toulon by Shawn Tribe
There Never Was a ‘Catholic Moment’

Feminism and Misandry:
A Man Wants a Wife, Not a “Co-Worker”
At The Intersection of Racialism and Misandry

Diet and Health:
A roundup at Free the Animal includes a link to an audio file with Robert Lustig.

Moving Naturally? The 10 MovNat Principles©
MovNat Trainer Certification
Some local workshops coming up in March.

Mass Culture:
Elmore Leonard's Raylan -
People who get on marshal's bad side mess with wrong guy
By Sharon Galligar Chance

Apparently the first episode of the latest season of Survivor puts sex differences on display.

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Items of Interest, 29 October 2011

Visited Sunset State Beach today - fun with the nieces and nephews. It's been so long since I was there... didn't have time to finish the citadel on the mountain (or Mordor)...

Neither Revolution Nor Reform: A New Strategy for the Left
By Gar Alperovitz

The economic crisis has also produced widespread interest in the Bank of North Dakota, a highly successful state-owned bank founded in 1919 when the state was governed by legislators belonging to the left-populist Nonpartisan League. Over the past fourteen years, the bank has returned $340 million in profits to the state and has broad support in the business community as well as among progressive activists. Legislative proposals to establish banks patterned in whole or in part on the North Dakota model have been put forward by activists and legislators in Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Montana, Illinois, Louisiana, New York, Maryland, Virginia, Maine, and Massachusetts. In Oregon, with strong support from a coalition of farmers, small-business owners, and community bankers, and backed by State Treasurer Ted Wheeler, a variation on the theme, “a virtual state bank” (that is, one that has no storefronts but channels state-backed capital to support other banks) is likely to be formed in the near future. How far the various strategies may develop is likely to depend on the intensity of future financial crises, the degree of social and economic pain and political anger in general, and the capacity of a new politics to focus citizen anger in support of major institutional reconstruction and democratization.

A first step towards restoring a local economy?

Lew Rockwell on OWS: The Evil 1% - critical of those who have concentrated political power but not of those who have concentrated economic power.

Pay at the top: to each according to results? to social contribution? ... or to systemic privilege? by Jeremy Fox (EB)

Re: corporations and personhood - Jefferson Was Right.

Paul Gottfried, Is Herman Cain “Black” Enough?

Fabius Maximus, Attritionist Letter #9: the hidden reason behind DoD’s organization (it makes sense once you understand)

Jimmy Moore, More ‘Safe Starches’ Stuff And Why I’ve Decided NOT To Test Them On Myself and 25-Year Old Documentary ‘The Sugar Trap’ Still Rings True Today
Paul Jaminet’s Response To The Critics Of His ‘Safe Starches’ Concept
Is There Any Such Thing As ‘Safe Starches’ On A Low-Carb Diet?


James G. Bruen, Jr. reviews G. J. Meyer's The Tudors: The Complete Story of England’s Most Notorious Dynasty.

Meetup.com originated as a response to 9/11

An e-mail sent by meetup.com:

Fellow Meetuppers,

I don't write to our whole community often, but this week is
special because it's the 10th anniversary of 9/11 and many
people don't know that Meetup is a 9/11 baby.

Let me tell you the Meetup story. I was living a couple miles
from the Twin Towers, and I was the kind of person who thought
local community doesn't matter much if we've got the internet
and tv. The only time I thought about my neighbors was when I
hoped they wouldn't bother me.

When the towers fell, I found myself talking to more neighbors
in the days after 9/11 than ever before. People said hello to
neighbors (next-door and across the city) who they'd normally
ignore. People were looking after each other, helping each
other, and meeting up with each other. You know, being
neighborly.

A lot of people were thinking that maybe 9/11 could bring
people together in a lasting way. So the idea for Meetup was
born: Could we use the internet to get off the internet -- and
grow local communities?

We didn't know if it would work. Most people thought it was a
crazy idea -- especially because terrorism is designed to make
people distrust one another.

A small team came together, and we launched Meetup 9 months
after 9/11.

Today, almost 10 years and 10 million Meetuppers later, it's
working. Every day, thousands of Meetups happen. Moms Meetups,
Small Business Meetups, Fitness Meetups... a wild variety of
100,000 Meetup Groups with not much in common -- except one
thing.

Every Meetup starts with people simply saying hello to
neighbors. And what often happens next is still amazing to me.
They grow businesses and bands together, they teach and
motivate each other, they babysit each other's kids and find
other ways to work together. They have fun and find solace
together. They make friends and form powerful community. It's
powerful stuff.

It's a wonderful revolution in local community, and it's thanks
to everyone who shows up.

Meetups aren't about 9/11, but they may not be happening if it
weren't for 9/11.

9/11 didn't make us too scared to go outside or talk to
strangers. 9/11 didn't rip us apart. No, we're building new
community together!!!!

The towers fell, but we rise up. And we're just getting started
with these Meetups.

Scott Heiferman (on behalf of 80 people at Meetup HQ)
Co-Founder & CEO, Meetup
New York City
September 2011

A multiplication of friendships not quite approaching the level of intentional communities--what is the state of American civic friendship?

The Story of Cosmetics

Story of Stuff

I don't think I've posted this before -- The Story of Electronics.

The Story of Citizens United

Via Yes!: The Story of Citizens United
Annie Leonard’s new film asks: Why have corporations gotten so powerful? And what can we do about it?



The Story of Citizens United

The Story of Electronics

Another Story of Stuff short.

Austin Bramwell, Gregory Clark Slips Down the Memory Hole Already

First came Gregory Clark’s blockbuster, A Farewell to Alms, which offered a novel theory why the Industrial Revolution happened in England. (Short answer: superior breeding, in the words of the Cato Institute’s Jason Kuznicki.) Then came Clark’s fellow economic historian, Joel Mokyr, with his own magisterial history of the Industrial Revolution, The Enlightened Economy. Trevor Butterworth reviews it for the Wall Street Journal today here. This stuff is hot hot hot!

For good reason. The Industrial Revolution may be the singular event in the history of our species – or any species for that matter. Until 200 years ago, you either struggled to get enough to survive or worried about getting killed for it if you succeeded. Now, thanks to the material abundance produced by the Industrial Revolution, humans are free to think on loftier things. (You know, Eat, Pray, Love.) How it happened is one of the most important riddles the social sciences can solve.

What of the availability of cheap high-energy resources being a necessary condition of the Industrial Revolution? (I believe that this is the position that John Michael Greer takes, that without such energy, the technical innovation that took place during the Industrial Revolution would not have happened and spread.)

If manufacturers could make their factories fully automated, would there be enough of a popular backlash to prevent them from doing so?

Who controls the capital? And for what do they use it?

Annie Leonard interviews

Elle interview with Annie Leonard, creator of The Story of Stuff and author of the companion book.



It's About Community: An Interview with Annie Leonard of The Story of Stuff
Meet the Controversial Woman Behind "The Story of Stuff"

Colbert:

The Colbert Report	Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
Annie Leonard
www.colbertnation.com
Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Fox News

Via this link. In the combox "Anonymous" recommends this "rebuttal":



This seems to be a defense of corporate power and not-so-free "free market economics."

I saw that one of the local B&N stores was selling the book at 50% off.