Context: I wrote a draft of this back in the summer after attending a house party thrown by a neighbor to support a candidate for city council.
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Recently, a good friend sent me a link to a blog that’s all about sustainability. It’s interesting, engaging, well written, well researched, nicely illustrated, even cute. […]

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I’ve been too politically discouraged lately to read much nonfiction, but last night I picked up Susan Hawthorne’s Wild Politics: Feminism, Globalisation, and Bio/Diversity and started glancing through it. Like all the best books, her arguments are too complex to excerpt well, but here’s part of her discussion of the meanings of “wild” […]

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Remember how I was complaining about the backyard a few weeks ago?
Turns out, after discussions with E and C, that those weeds back there are lamb’s quarters.

According to Wikipedia:
Lamb’s quarters may be eaten as a vegetable, either steamed in its entirety, or the leaves are cooked like spinach as a leaf vegetable. Each plant […]

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“December. Mahlandia, Australia.
Here in Australia global warming has got so hot that we have ignited. In the last three weeks over 2 million acres of eucalyptus forest have gone up in smoke in the State of Victoria. It is summer here. And what a summer! The hottest and driest ever.
Having no dam water means we […]

Filed under: environment, feminism as politics, land dyke odyssey by Amy's Brain Today

Last week I went to see “Our Daily Bread.” This German film about modern food production methods has no soundtrack; there is no emotional appeal through music, and no attempt to influence the viewer’s opinion by scripted narration. The sounds you hear are the sounds of the actions you are seeing. I […]

Filed under: animals, environment, feminism as politics, media/culture criticism by Amy's Brain Today

I’ll start off my post-declaration blog with a topic that’s probably fairly safe, as my ire about it was not sparked by anyone I know. The instigator in this case was a documentary I saw snatches of, a week or so back, on PBS. I don’t generally watch PBS (though my girlfriend inflicts […]

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I was rattling around the blogosphere late the other night and, in a post by Doppelganger, I came across this:
“The Spacebox is a self-contained studio residence made of high-quality composites. It is equipped with all the necessary facilities and complies with the requirements of the stringent Building Act of The Netherlands. The residential units are […]

Filed under: consumerism, environment, land dyke odyssey by Amy's Brain Today