Friday, October 28, 2011

Items of Interest, 28 October 2011

Rorate Caeli: Editorial note: Assisi Ignored

Politics:
John C.Calhoun: Nullification, Secession, and the Constitution by Marco Bassani

Lee Trepanier, If Music Be Food For Citizenship
"One of purposes of education, perhaps its primary one, is the cultivation of intellectual and moral excellence of citizens who, in turn, will promote an improved political regime. In other words, the regime exists for the education of its citizens instead of education existing for the sake of the regime."

The regime is the ordering of the members of a community to the common good. So in that sense it is for the sake of those members, but the end of the regime should not be understood as the many private goods of the individuals.

Relocalization:
Bay Area Equity & Resilience Convening Promo - November 11

Bay Localize

The Economics of Happiness Conference
Berkeley, California, March 23rd, 24th & 25th, 2012

Thomas Storck, Decentralism and Subsidiarity: Applications to Society and Culture

A new book: Local Dollars, Local Sense

Ten Ways to Turn From Consumer to Producer

Farming:
Groundbreaking Opportunity: The Local Farms, Food, and Jobs Act

Quail Hollow Farm
Farm-to-Fork Dinner Fiasco By Laura Bledsoe
Southern Nevada Health Inspector Mary Oakes under orders from Supervisor Susan LeBay a pool inspector in 2005 visits Quail Hollow Farm on night of Farm To Fork Dinner October 21, 2011.

ARiver of Waste


Environmentalism:
Chip Ward, Occupy Earth

Energy:
Are we reaching “Limits to Growth”? by Gail Tverberg (EB)

Amory Lovins On Creating A Prosperous Economy Without Oil, Coal, Or Nuclear by Ariel Schwartz

Counterpunch:
Ralph Nader, Quo Vaids, OWS?
Paul Craig Roberts, Living in a Delusional World
Linh Dinh, A Gathering of Tribes

Diet:
WAPF: Experts to Challenge Dietary Myths about Fats, Salt, Plant-Based Diets
MDA: The Doctor Told Me He Could Not Believe It

Clothing:
TAD - Shag Master Hoodie
Gear Junkie: Softshell Jackets Buyers Guide 2011
Early This Morning in Colonial Williamsburg: Hats
Friday Video: Silent Screen Actresses Model Flapper Fashions, 1928

Music:
Peter Phillips - A new Credo...by Josquin
Miranda Lambert: Breaking the Country Music Mold

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