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SPRAWLING TO OBESITY
THE SUBURBIA EFFECT
KunstlerCast — Jul 2009
In May 2009, the American Academy of Pediatrics confirmed that the design of US communities (i.e. car-dependent suburbia) negatively affects the health of children (i.e. contributes to obesity). James Howard Kunstler explores the relationship between suburban sprawl and the declining health of Americans.
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GoldRadio.fm
Something Rotten This Way Comes — 29 Jul 2009 — Economic analyst Bob Moriarty sees HYPERinflation ahead for dollar-denominated countries and assets; he expects the stock market to crack up big-time this fall; and he feels positive that the US dollar is going to fail as the global reserve currency. Unfortunately, we at Grinning Planet agree with him on all counts.
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Max Keiser Radio
Neo-Feudalism — 29 Jul 2009 — Another great conversation between Max and Stacy. This one includes the brilliant metaphor that feudalism has reemerged in the following manner: The Wall Street and London banks are royalty, ruling over everything; the national governments are barons, enforcing the will of the royals; and the rest of us are (or soon will be) "debt serfs," living in relative penury and desperation.
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Free Speech Radio News
Headline News — 31 Jul 2009 — Stories include... Deaths in Afghanistan have increased 24% according to UN ~~ New investigation implicates Karl Rove in firing of federal prosecutors ~~ Funding For Yucca Mountain appears to be dead
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Taxpayers Fund Lavish Executive Compensation Packages — 31 Jul 2009 — A new report from the New York Attorney General shows just how much of the money sent to bailed-out banks went into bonuses to top executives.
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Two Beers With Steve
Inflation or Deflation — 28 Jul 2009 — Chris Martenson, who did the marvelous Crash Course series, gives his take on whether we're headed for deflation or inflation, and what each scenario would mean for our personal economics.
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Jim Hightower
Selected Hightower commentaries for 27-31 Jul 2009...
Small Shifts in the Direction of Environmental Policy
...OR... ANYTHING is an improvement over 2001-2009
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Building Neighborliness with Free Fruit
...OR... urban fruit foraging
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Should Charity Hospitals Be Charitable?
...OR... money talks, patients walk
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Why Support Corporations That Don't Support Us?
...OR... Honeywell no longer sweet on America
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Living On Earth
Cheyenne May Yield to Coal — 31 Jul 2009 — After holding out as a no-coal oasis amid mines and power plants for years, the Cheyenne Nation in eastern Montana is considering digging up its rich reserves.
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Green Brown Lawn — 31 Jul 2009 — Manicured grass requires a lot of water and, often, chemicals to keep it green. Now, some homeowners are undoing their lawns and making the new green brown.
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Cracking the Hard Rock Mining Law — 24 Jul 2009 — More than a century later, the hard rock mining law of 1872 is still in effect, and mining companies can still dig up uranium, gold, and other minerals on public lands without paying royalties and without cleaning up. A new effort is being made to take on this problem.
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Dandy Dandelions — 24 Jul 2009 — Dandelions are often dismissed as a lowly weed, but the flower is an engineering marvel, and it has some interesting food and medicinal properties.
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Related GP article: Natural Dandelion Removal
Guns and Butter
Eyewitness Iran — 29 Jul 2009 — Reporter Reese Erlich gives a first-hand account of what has been going on in Iran since the election and resulting turmoil. Erlich is the author of The Iran Agenda: The Real Story of US Policy and the Middle East Crisis.
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One Radio Network
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Sharp Market Downturn Coming in September — 24 Jul — Gerald Celente gives his take on the economy, including... some numbers that show we're already in a depression; the Goldman Gang and the rest of the banking mafia; and how the founding fathers warned us about the central bankers taking over the country. Celente is predicting a sharp market downturn in September.
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MEET THE FED...
THE FINANCIAL DEATH STAR
RUN BY THE GLOBAL ELITES
GoldRadio.fm — 22 Jul 2009
A good short discussion of how the Federal Reserve is coming into public consciousness as a super-secret private banking organization that in the past year has been funneling trillions of taxpayer dollars to Goldman Sachs and other big banks/investment firms.
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Related stuff:
Rubino book: The Collapse of the Dollar and How to Profit from It
YouTube video: Marc Faber: More Helicopters?
Rep. Ron Paul's "Audit the Fed" page
GP article: Causes of the Financial Crisis
Free Speech Radio News
Headline News — 23 Jul 2009 — Stories include... Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki visits US ahead of Kurdish elections ~~ Georgia tries to secure water rights to pull Atlanta through drought ~~ Kyrgyzstan opposition leader drops out before national polls close, claims election fraud
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Health Care Industry Heavily Influencing Lawmaking Efforts — 23 Jul 2009 2009 — Two stories about how health industry lobbyists are getting prime access at The White House and on Capitol Hill
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Community Activists Respond to Foreclosure Crisis in Hard-Hit Detroit — 22 Jul 2009 — In Detroit, where some homes are currently on sale for prices similar to a used car, community activists and some government officials are responding to the crisis with new solutions.
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Federal Agency Withheld Information on Hands-Free Cell Phone Risks — 21 Jul 2009 — It turns out that the safety issue related to cell phone use while driving is not whether your hands are on the wheel but whether your brain is paying attention to the conversation instead of the road. So why did the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration suppress the study results?
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Food Chain Radio
#643: Government Safe Food — 18 Jul 2009 — The latest bill in the US House of Representatives to "fix" food safety has lots and lots of new proposed regulations, many of them vague and open to (mis)interpretation by agribusiness-friendly bureaucrats. Whether intentional or not, this bill may be the death blow that forces our remaining small, local farmers out of business, leaving us with nothing but corporate-produced industrial food.
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#640: Not By Bread Alone — 27 Jun 2009 — When the USSR when kaput, Russia attempted to switch cold-turkey to capitalism. The disastrous results affected many aspects of everyday life, including the food system. Russians relied on informal social networks and urbann gardens for survival. In the US, the potential for a breakdown in the centralized food system is much greater than you think. How would we cope? Related GP article: Food Security
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PBS News Hour
News Wrap — 23 Jul 2009 — Top stories.
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High-Profile Profiling? — 23 Jul 2009 — In the wake of the unwarranted arrest of Harvard University Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. at his own home, Ray Suarez and guests discuss the bigger issues at play.
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Twitter: Harmless Fad, or Web Revolution? — 22 Jul 2009 — In three short years, Twitter has become one of the web's most heavily used features. But is the micro-blog simply a fad, or a technological game-changer?
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California Strikes Deal to Close Billion Budget Gap — 21 Jul 2009 — Lawmakers in California agreed on a plan to close the state's remaining budget gap, ending weeks of stalemate that left the state's chief accountant having to issue IOUs to creditors.
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Jim Hightower
Instead of People Robbing Banks, Banks Are Robbing People — 23 Jul 2009 — Most of the robberies—which add up to tens of billions of dollars a year that bankers snatch from us—are pulled off with concealed weapons that have hair triggers and fire multiple rounds. The weapons are called "fees."
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Max Keiser Radio
Makebelieve Things Like Leprechuans, Fairies, and Financial Markets — 21 Jul 2009 — Another radio blogcast from Mad Max Keiser and his savvy sidekick Stacy, as they wiggle, wobble, and weave their way through the unfolding economic hyper-reality. Wonderfully sarcastic and informative.
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Financial Sense News Hour
Energy Obesity — 18 Jul 2009 — An interview with Peter Tertzakian, author of The End of Energy Obesity: Breaking Today's Energy Addiction for a Prosperous and Secure Tomorrow. Tertzakian focuses on the most practical options that provide the highest leverage for resolving our energy problems and reveals how evolving habits, lifestyles, mind-sets, and innovations—that might seem improbable now—will help curb our insatiable energy appetite.
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Corbett Report
Paul Craig Roberts on Iranian Elections — 26 Jun 2009 — Former assistant Secretary of State Paul Craig Roberts exposes the untruths being put forth by the Western media about the recent Iranian elections and ongoing tensions.
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THE PARASITE CLASS AND THE SPECULATIVE ECONOMY
C-Realm Podcast — 15 Jul 2009
KMO opens the show by reading a passage from Douglas Rushkoff's book
Life Inc., which includes the assertion that assets, commodities, and derivatives compose a speculative marketplace that provides a mechanism for the parasite class (investors) to increase the value of their money merely by capitalizing on (or manipulating) scarcity. Ellen Brown, author of
Web of Debt, follows up on this theme, discussing the deep level of malfeasance that characterizes the financial crisis and its supposed solutions.
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Democracy Now
Sotamayor, Goldman Sachs, and the Monroe Doctrine — 15 Jul 2009 — After headlines, segments include... Myth and reality on Sotamayor's views on race ~~ Matt Taibbi recounts his recent Rolling Stone article, which argues that Goldman Sachs is the king of market manipulation ~~ US lobbyists with Clinton ties have been hired to defend the Honduran coup regime
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Jim Hightower
Selected Hightower commentaries for 13-17 Jul 2009...
Service fees now total 53 percent of big banks' income
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Hoosiers discover the hidden costs of privatization
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Proposed "TRADE" act aims to roll back WTO, NAFTA
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Wells Fargo bank is a runaway stagecoach of economic devastation
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The interminable price of our wars
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Free Speech Radio News
Headline News — 17 Jul 2009 — Stories include... Protests restart in Iran ~~ Deadly bombs damage two hotels in Indonesia ~~ Planned Honduras mediation talks uncertain ~~ Obama administration overturns controversial logging plan in Oregon
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Politicians Wrangle Over Funds for Unneeded War Planes — 17 Jul 2009 — Obama and the Pentagon say they don't need the F-22 and some other military hardware, but lawmakers with defense contractors in their districts want to preserve the funds.
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Nicaraguans Celebrate Sandinista Revolution — 17 Jul 2009 — In Nicaragua, people are celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution. The Sandinistas successfully overthrew a bloody dictatorship, battled US interference (remember Iran-Contra?), and in the end, implemented land reform for over a million people and reduced illiteracy from 50% to 12%.
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US and Insurgents Clash In Pakistan — 17 Jul 2009 — In Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region today, a US drone attack killed at least four alleged militants. Pakistani government officials publicly have condemned such strikes as a violation of the country's sovereignty. In the Khyber region, militants blew up NATO tanks, killing at least one civilian. The violence continues during the first phase of the government program to return displaced people to their homes.
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Living On Earth
Full Show — 17 Jul 2009 — Segments include... Ethanol-driven push for more genetically-modified corn could contaminate the US food supply ~~ Transportation policy and the last hurrah for Happy Motoring ~~ An interview with Chris Mooney, author of the new book Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future
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KunstlerCast
#71: Doomers — 16 Jul 2009 — Kunstler summarizes the concept of a "doomer" and discusses the work of a number of doomer authors, including Dmitri Orlov, John Michael Greer, and James Lovelock . While Kunstler does think the human system will be severely pruned, he believes that resurrection and redemption are great themes in the human story and that civilization has a few more cycles to go.
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Reality Report
Collapse Dynamics — 13 Jul 2009 — Noah Raford discusses "Collapse Dynamics: Phase Transitions in Complex Social Systems," describing how complex social systems become inflexible, leading to their collapse, and what strategies individuals aware of collapse might use to cope.
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Max Keiser Radio
The "Peasants Per Billionaire" Ratio — 15 Jul 2009 —Topics include... The emerging "work for free" model as a way of furthering the aristocracy ~~ Goldman Sachs and the "peasants per billionaire" ratio ~~ China and Japan move away from their dollar reserves ~~ the coming financial war.
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Media Minutes
Cyber-Politics — 17 Jul 2009 — Nominees to the FCC and Supreme Court face tough questions about the internet and First Amendment.
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Broken Record — 17 Jul 2009 — President Obama promised to bring transparency to the White House, but one opaque Bush Administration practice has continued unabated: off-the-record briefings where not even attendees' identities are made known to the public.
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Covering Big Food — 17 Jul 2009 — Robert Kenner, director of the forthcoming movie Food, Inc., found out that food-industry insiders rarely dish dirt and farmers who do talk suffer consequences. Kenner says the investigative process was positively Orwellian.
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Bill Moyers Journal
No Green Peace for Obama — 17 Jul 2009 — Some environmental activists are disappointed in Obama's progress on climate change and other green initiatives (or lack thereof) ~~ Robert Wright discusses his new book, The Evolution of God, which examines how the idea of God has changed through history.
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53:37
GoldRadio.fm
Kevin Kerr Interview — 15 Jul 2009 — Topics include the US dollar's slide and the prospects for alternative global reserve currency; the coming mismatch between oil supply and demand; doubts about this year's grain harvest.
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FLASHING LIGHTS ON THE CONSOLE
C-Realm Podcast #160 — Jul 2009
A discussion between host KMO, Richard Heinberg, and Albert Bates about peak oil, peak coal, and general obliviousness among most people to the danger signs ahead. Heinberg now says it's too late to avert the consequences of Peak Oil; we should now focus on preparing for them. Bates says he's optimistic about civilization, except that the facts keep getting in the way. Richard Heinberg's just-out book is
Blackout: Coal, Climate, and the Last Energy Crisis. Albert Bates is author of
The Post-Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook.
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Free Speech Radio News
Headline News — 09 Jul 2009 — Stories include... Final day of the G8 meetings; climate change still top issue ~~ US drone attacks in Pakistan kill nearly 60 ~~ Environmental group sues to protect arctic from US pesticides
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156 Dead Following Ethnic Violence in China — 10 Jul 2009 — Ethnic violence has left at least 156 people dead and more than 1,000 injured in China's Northwest Xinjiang autonomous region this week. The Chinese government blamed "outside forces" and "terrorist groups" but analysts say the violence stems from a series of unaddressed grievances among ethnic groups.
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Congress Reviews CIA Record on Information Disclosure — 10 Jul 2009 — A showdown is looming between congress, the president, and the CIA. Several months after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi first accused the CIA of misleading her about torture practices in Iraq, new revelations are causing skeptics to take another look at how the agency communicates with Congress.
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Honduras Crisis Updates — 10 Jul 2009 — Is the recent military coup against Honduran president Manuel Zelaya a plot by right-wing elites? Or did he illegally attempt to extend his time in power? Congress is weighing the evidence. ~~ In a related story, while negotiations continue in Honduras over Zelaya's return, the new government has threatened to freeze bank accounts of Zelaya supporters.
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Californ-i-o-u — 10 Jul 2009 — John Rubino discusses the IOU mess in California, money-printing vs. gold-price manipulation, and the disingenuousness of Treasury Secretary Geithner—is he completely dishonest or merely incompetent? Rubino is co-author of The Collapse of the Dollar and How to Profit from It.
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Living On Earth
Full Show — 10 Jul 2009 — Segments include... What's in your bottled water? ~~ Yahoo's plans to cut their CO2 emissions in half ~~ G8 evasive on CO2 goals ~~ Green building comes to your neighborhood
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Explorations
Scary Fish Story — 07 Jul 2009 — A discussion about how much more plentiful sea life used to be, the devastating impact of modern fishing technology, the inefficiencies of how we use today's massive fish catch, and the impact of land-based pollution on the oceans. The interview is with Callum Roberts, author of The Unnatural History of the Sea.
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Max Keiser Radio
Lords of the Ponzi Universe — 08 Jul 2009 — Max and Stacy talk about the ongoing massive thievery being perpetrated by Goldman-Sachs, the lords of the Ponzi Universe; plummeting employment levels; and a new "super-national" currency.
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Jim Hightower
Selected recent Hightower commentaries...
Madoff's in jail but weak regulation and Wall Street excesses continue
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US food safety laws fingered as accomplice in E. coli's poisonous rampage
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Bankers are (still) behaving badly
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On The Media
Look Who's Coming to Dinner — 10 Jul 2009 — The Washington Post, far from being the liberal rag claimed by the right-wing noise machine, is a highly connected tool of those in power, regardless of party. How connected? So much so that they were planning to offer a $25,000-a-plate dinner so lobbyists could come chat up administration officials and Post employees.
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The Silent Treatment — 10 Jul 2009 — A discussion of new media, old media, news suppression, and the struggle for editorial control, using the kidnapping of New York Times reporter David Rhode as an example.
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BECOMING BATMAN
Here's a fun summer detour into a totally non-newsy topic: Whether a committed individual could undertake a training regimen that would turn him into a real-life Batman—that is, with strength, agility, martial arts skills, etc, all honed to the extraordinary degree necessary to fight crime at the superhero level. The interview is with scientist Paul Zehr, author of Becoming Batman: The Possibility of a Superhero. Interview and MP3 from CBC's "Quirks and Quarks".
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Free Speech Radio News
US Military Launches Operations in Afghanistan's Helmand Province — 02 Jul 2009 — The US has launched a new military operation against Taliban militants, with some 4,000 Marines landing in Afghanistan's Helmand province under the cover of darkness early Thursday. The goal is to re-establish the Afghanistan government's control over areas of Helmand which are dominated by the Taliban.
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US Job Losses Increase in June — 02 Jun 2009 — The Department of Labor reports that the per-month number of jobs lost in the US increased in June. Thursday's figures dimmed recent optimism that arose from slowing job loss throughout the spring.
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Commentary: Michael Jackson, Master Entertainer — 02 Jul 2009 — From Mumia Abu-Jamal
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GoldRadio.fm/Howe Street
Monetary Base Expansion Troubling — 30 Jun 2009 — Analyst Mike Larson says Helicopter Ben isn't kidding around—the Fed is creating money at a very fast paste, suggesting that inflation is in the future for dollar-based countries.
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EVERYTHING NUCLEAR
This 42-minute film reviews some of the lesser-known historical foibles of nuclear power generation and addresses some of the standard nuclear-industry myths and lies. Watch nuclear energy myths/facts video.
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FOUR ACRES AND INDEPENDENCE — A SELF-SUFFICIENT FARMSTEAD
This tour of a small homestead provides insight into clearing land; dealing with drainage, streams, and ponds; small-farm animal issues; cultivating mushroom logs; container gardening; food preservation, including a cool food dehydrator; putting free or already-available materials to good use. Excellent! Watch homesteading video.
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ENVIRONMENTAL ANIMATED SHORT FILMS
A selection of the best environmental animated short films from recent one-minute film contests held by Friends of the Earth. Watch environmental animated shorts.
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LITTLE GREEN MAN / THE PETRO PEOPLE
Even before the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, there are some pretty interesting observations that can be made about we, the people of the petroleum era. Funny stuff from Mark Fiore. Watch funny oil video/animation.
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GRAHAM NASH –
“PRISON SONG”
And here's a song to sing
For every man inside;
If he can hear you sing,
It's an open door.
There's not a rich man there
Who couldn't pay his way
And buy the freedom that's a
High price for the poor.
A classic from Graham Nash. Hear/see "Prison Song" music video with lyrics.
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FUNNY VIDEOS ABOUT DIETING
There's no need to be starved for humor—feast on these four funny diet videos.
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