The Organic Sister has a huge giveaway going on for all kinds of fun and crunchy stuff to promote her new project "Sustainable Baby Steps". I'm hoping to win the Eco Lunchbag Kit... it is super cute.
One of the items you can win is a starter kit from Glad Rags. These rock. I can't believe I ever used plastic pads, especially during the summer. Cloth is much much more comfortable. Check them out.
October 26, 2010
September 8, 2010
Resurrection
Pollinators On The Brain was abandoned a few years ago. It started out as a place to put things that were filling my head and which didn't fit on the blog for my farm. With one thing and another I never wrote much on here.
But recently I had a conversation that went something like this:
Christine: Why don't you start a blog?
So... Happy Birthday Christine! Your present, as you might have guessed, is the blog you requested. Of course others are welcome to read it too. Maybe you're right - maybe others will find it helpful.
And I'll take suggestions. Christine is obligated to feed me topics but anyone is welcome to tell me what they'd like to know.
But recently I had a conversation that went something like this:
Christine: Why don't you start a blog?
Me: Because I don't have anything to say.
Christine: I would dispute that!Me: OK, you tell me what topics I have things to say about and I'll elaborate upon them.
Christine: I'd love to have someone walk me through the basics of soil building, planting, garden planning, record keeping, preserving, basic food science...Me: But there are tons of blogs and books on those subjects! People have already said everything about those things.
Christine: But, it's not so much what you have to say as the way you say it. The way you bring it all together, connect things, and explain them.Me: You sound like my dad.
So... Happy Birthday Christine! Your present, as you might have guessed, is the blog you requested. Of course others are welcome to read it too. Maybe you're right - maybe others will find it helpful.
And I'll take suggestions. Christine is obligated to feed me topics but anyone is welcome to tell me what they'd like to know.
January 31, 2008
something someone sent me
Some stuff a friend of mine sent me that I want to look into, which I'm putting here so I don't forget where it is, again.
Our Daily Bread: a documentary
http://www.ourdailybread.at/ - see trailers
The Rhizome Collective: Radical Urban Sustainability in Austin
http://www.rhizomecollective.org/node/3
and their RUST Manual - http://www.rhizomecollective.org/rustmanual
NE Small Farm Institute - where some forest garden research is done (for the
plant species matrix)
http://www.smallfarm.org/homepage.htm
Nepal Permaculture Project - permaculture cooperative extension increases yields
http://msnepal.org/partners/jpp/
Paradigms: The Inertia of Language - the essay we talked about
by a professor from the School for Designing a Society
http://grace.evergreen.edu/~arunc/texts/brun/manni.pdf
A Post-Capitalist Politics
book - http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/G/gibson_postcapitalist.html
one author - http://www.geo.umass.edu/faculty/graham/
Toward a Feminist Politics of Place and Post-capitalism -
http://www.nd.edu/~econrep/bios/jkgg.html
Rethinking Communism conference -
http://www.nd.edu/~remarx/conferences/2006/rethinking-communism.html
Methodology of the Oppressed by Chela Sandoval
http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/S/sandoval_oppressed.html
"a hermeneutics of love in the postmodern world"
Perennial Kale
Brassica oleracea L. var. ramosa DC
best info: http://www.pfaf.org/database/plants.php?Brassica+oleracea+ramosa
http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?319631 - scroll down to see
other common names
http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Brassica_oleracea.html#ramosa
http://www.actahort.org/books/407/407_5.htm - includes following info:
"Perennial kale has probably been domesticated and distributed by the Romans.
Some relic populations are still being grown in various parts of western Europe
(Ireland, Scotland, England, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Portugal), in
Ethiopia, in Brazil and Haiti up to the present."
Blackwood Land Institute resources page
http://www.blackwoodland.org/resources.htm
Sedition Books - Houston bookstore/library/garden/collective
http://houston.indymedia.org/news/2007/04/57691.php
Radical Encuentro - biannual Texas meetings, awesome!!
http://radicalencuentro.org/
Rising Tide North America: Confronting the root causes of climate change
http://risingtidenorthamerica.org/
anarchist, anti-racist, pretty awesome
Reclaim Power: voices from the camp for climate action, 2006
http://www.cinerebelde.org/site.php3?id_article=352 - I have this DVD (borrow or
copies)
Interview with someone from Rising Tide
UTMB Natural Step "green" building
http://www.media.rice.edu/media/NewsBot.asp?MODE=VIEW&ID=8736&SnID=2
http://www.media.rice.edu/media/NewsBot.asp?MODE=VIEW&ID=9183&SnID=2
http://www.eere.energy.gov/buildings/info/health/design.html - at the bottom of
the page about retrofitting
US Social Forum
http://www.ussf2007.org/
No Sustainability without Justice: A Feminist Critique of Environmental
Citizenship by Sherilyn MacGregor
excerpt from the abstract, I can email the twelve page essay if you're
interested more
"I discuss some of the central problems I see with environmental citizenship as
I see them. These problems include: a paradoxical coupling of labour- and
time-intensive green lifestyle changes with increased actie participation in
the public sphere; silence on questions of rights and social conditions that
make citizenship pratice possible; and a failure to acknowledge the ways in
which injuctions to make the green lifestyle changes (as expressions of good
green citizenship) dovetail into neoliberal efforts to download public services
to the domestic sphere."
The Diggers - dug up commons and planted corn in 1649-50 in England
basic - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diggers_%28True_Levellers%29
detailed - http://www.diggers.org/english_diggers.htm
Our Daily Bread: a documentary
http://www.ourdailybread.at/ - see trailers
The Rhizome Collective: Radical Urban Sustainability in Austin
http://www.rhizomecollective
and their RUST Manual - http://www.rhizomecollective
NE Small Farm Institute - where some forest garden research is done (for the
plant species matrix)
http://www.smallfarm.org
Nepal Permaculture Project - permaculture cooperative extension increases yields
http://msnepal.org/partners
Paradigms: The Inertia of Language - the essay we talked about
by a professor from the School for Designing a Society
http://grace.evergreen.edu/
A Post-Capitalist Politics
book - http://www.upress.umn.edu
one author - http://www.geo.umass.edu
Toward a Feminist Politics of Place and Post-capitalism -
http://www.nd.edu/~econrep
Rethinking Communism conference -
http://www.nd.edu/~remarx
Methodology of the Oppressed by Chela Sandoval
http://www.upress.umn.edu
"a hermeneutics of love in the postmodern world"
Perennial Kale
Brassica oleracea L. var. ramosa DC
best info: http://www.pfaf.org/database
http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi
other common names
http://www.plantnames.unimelb
http://www.actahort.org/books
"Perennial kale has probably been domesticated and distributed by the Romans.
Some relic populations are still being grown in various parts of western Europe
(Ireland, Scotland, England, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Portugal), in
Ethiopia, in Brazil and Haiti up to the present."
Blackwood Land Institute resources page
http://www.blackwoodland.org
Sedition Books - Houston bookstore/library/garden
http://houston.indymedia.org
Radical Encuentro - biannual Texas meetings, awesome!!
http://radicalencuentro.org/
Rising Tide North America: Confronting the root causes of climate change
http://risingtidenorthamerica
anarchist, anti-racist, pretty awesome
Reclaim Power: voices from the camp for climate action, 2006
http://www.cinerebelde.org
copies)
Interview with someone from Rising Tide
UTMB Natural Step "green" building
http://www.media.rice.edu
http://www.media.rice.edu
http://www.eere.energy.gov
the page about retrofitting
US Social Forum
http://www.ussf2007.org/
No Sustainability without Justice: A Feminist Critique of Environmental
Citizenship by Sherilyn MacGregor
excerpt from the abstract, I can email the twelve page essay if you're
interested more
"I discuss some of the central problems I see with environmental citizenship as
I see them. These problems include: a paradoxical coupling of labour- and
time-intensive green lifestyle changes with increased actie participation in
the public sphere; silence on questions of rights and social conditions that
make citizenship pratice possible; and a failure to acknowledge the ways in
which injuctions to make the green lifestyle changes (as expressions of good
green citizenship) dovetail into neoliberal efforts to download public services
to the domestic sphere."
The Diggers - dug up commons and planted corn in 1649-50 in England
basic - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
detailed - http://www.diggers.org/english
My Dog Just Ate a Ficus
My dog just at the ficus in my living room. That must have been where she was going! Not just the leaves but a significant amount of the trunk and stems as well. So now we know: sometimes a dog needs to munch a ficus.
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