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Deviant Art
Angels liesyou look nice with your suit
but i know what shame lies behind
come on
lets forget it
don´t talk shit to me
i thing i need to breath
i don´t want to listen
when you love me let it
can´t you understand it
it´s hart to believe what might happened
but it´s easy to believe in a book, right?
angels lies keep strong
you know you are wrong
she doesn´t know where she belong
but she need to go on
is all i need
it took the death of hope
now your gone
or is it an exercise to one
who can´t concentrate
the suffering is so loud....
still we keep hoping to fix all the regrets what lies behind our eyes
2000 years2000 years i waited
in my cage
but now i'm back
they won't stop me
i'm gonna ...
but i'm just doing it all to save of everyone of you
i will give freedom
but my pain won't go away
cause i have to let you here
everything will begin
the prophet said the east will be the empire where it all begin
where the innocence will ...
where the intolerance will ...
where the end of them will began
prometheus is one of you
this will be a brand new kind of war
this war will create happiness
and will and end the shame of Ki
he said
but one have to suffer that all get free and will see
its the last night
we have to say goodbye
just to get home
the old man layed down his book
i asked who will suffer
i asked i asked
come on speak with me
find the right question to get right answer
say it to me
say it
say it
that will be the morning star
Come with mei fly into space
and see a storm above me
come with me
you will be free
you will get the secrets of the sun
you will know how it is to be king
im already free
i dont want to hear your lies
i will become more than a king
now he is gone
and will come with his army
but i will win
he stay at a grade of golden dawn (burn)
he will lose (the heaven)
and i will be gone
come with me
you will be free
you will get the secrets of the sun
you will know how it is to be king
im already free
i dont want to hear your lies
i will become more than a king
live in the wrackage
still alive
promises wont arrive
i know what it´s like to feel the pain
and the leeves will sheen with yesterdays rain
and the knife will cut into the bone
you wont be alone.
Black paradisepain is black
love is red
and the rain fall again
ohhh... it burns
like ice from the sun
ohhh... what happen to men
ohhh... what happen to me
is it love who sells our soul free
is it hate who take us
to the darkness in our eyes
maybe that make us blind
ohhh... take my eye's that i can see
ohhh... take my life 'cause i don't wanna be
ohhh... what happened to my heart
i just feel hate
ohh.. why did they take me from paradise
we fought against the dragonwe fought against the dragon
we were at the edge of dawn
but we were just silent secret-keepers
when time goes along
and you are just waiting to here this song
we fall for what we stood
they call our childrens bastards
we gave them ... .
and now we are the demons, and now we are the bastards
the white light is colored in red
and you are just laying in your fucking bed
when time goes along
and you are just waiting to here this song
revenge will not satisfy us
I´m just a prayer in the dust
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Very beautiful Cadillac Fleetwood Series 75 Sedan of 1957! V8 Sound, Warm up
Hier ein wunderschöner fast fertiggestellter Cadillac Fleetwood von 1957 in der Chauffeursvariante. Hinten im Fond, mit Klimanlage im Dach für den Chauffeur und Radio sowie Uhr um ihn herum. Die weit zu öffnenden Türen kennzeichnen diesse besondere Bauform der Karosserie. Auch der schöne Schwung der Formgebung sowie die üppige Ausstattung an Chrom lassen das Fahrzeug in einem ganz besonderen Licht darstehen. Viel Freude beim Schauen wünscht euch euer Andrees-Kfz-Team aus Wardenburg!
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Job Title: Pacific Islands Marine Debris
Regional Coordinator
Job Location: Honolulu, Hawaii
Freestone Environmental Services, Inc. (www.gofreestone.com) a multi-disciplinary consulting firm, is seeking to hire a Pacific Islands Marine Debris Regional Coordinator for the Office of Response and Restoration (ORR). This individual will be located in Honolulu, Hawaii and work with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Marine Debris Program (MDP / http://marinedebris.noaa.gov/), which has headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland.
ORR (http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/) is a program office that responds to threats in order to protect and restore coastal resources. To do this ORR provides interdisciplinary scientific response to releases of oil, chemicals, and contaminants, protects and restores NOAA trust resources, and promotes the protection and restoration of coral ecosystems and minimizes the impacts of marine debris.
Core Responsibilities:
- Oversee and/or provide support to marine debris related projects, activities, and actions in the Pacific Islands.
- Participate in MDP meetings, workshops and media events related to marine debris efforts in the region.
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- Self-motivated, energetic, strategic thinker.
- Experience working on and leading interdisciplinary teams.
- Experience working in the Pacific Islands or with partners in the region is preferred.
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Environmental Scientist
NOAA's Office of Response and Restoration, Assessment & Restoration Division
Location: Seattle, WA
Freestone Environmental Services, Inc. (www.gofreestone.com) a multi-disciplinary consulting firm, is seeking to hire an Environmental Scientist to provide support to NOAA's Office of Response and Restoration, Assessment & Restoration Division (ARD).
The Environmental Scientist will provide support to the NOAA Assessment & Restoration Division Pacific Northwest (PNW)/Great Lakes Branch, which is based in Seattle, WA, and has additional offices in Anchorage, AK, Chicago, IL, and Ann Arbor, MI. The candidate designs and conducts Natural Resource Damage Assessments (NRDA) for waste sites, with a significant focus on the Hanford Nuclear Site in eastern Washington. The candidate participates with co-trustees to plan appropriate injury assessment and restoration for natural resource injuries and resolve liability, and supports the delivery of NOAA products and services to the public. The candidate fosters cooperation and coordination within and outside of National Ocean Service (NOS) to achieve agency missions, goals, and objectives, including those of the NOAA Restoration Center (RC), Damage Assessment, Remediation, and Restoration Program (DARRP), and Office of Response and Restoration (OR&R).
Responsibilities of the incumbent will include working with interdisciplinary and interagency groups to evaluate ecological injuries and recovery trajectories after hazardous materials releases – one being the Hanford NRDA, which includes developing and conducting studies to determine the appropriate type and scale of restoration to compensate the public for natural resource injuries.
Core Responsibilities:
• Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA): Addresses waste sites in the PNW region of the U.S.; follows the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), and NRDA regulations to determine natural resource injuries and appropriate scale of restoration; leads or contributes to injury assessment approaches, restoration planning, implementation, and monitoring, and development of case strategy using principles of ecology and strong science; provides technical support and coordination to Department of Energy and the Hanford Natural Resource Trustees; takes appropriate action to integrate remediation and restoration activities during the NRDA process; contributes to settlements that address natural resource injuries/liability with a multi-disciplinary team of individuals, including but not limited to biologists, chemists, restoration specialists, economists, and/or attorneys.
• Support Delivery of NOAA Products and Services: Integrates with existing geospatial and data management capabilities within ARD and RC to meet existing and future program goals and objectives; contributes to new approaches and applications to support emerging ARD, RC, DARRP, and OR&R spatial needs. Examples of DARRP initiatives include, but are not limited to: Environmental Response Management Application (ERMA), integration of spatial data into Habitat Equivalency Analysis (HEA), and visualization of spatial data to evaluate habitat recovery trajectories.
Required Qualifications:
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• Strong verbal and writing skills;
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• Self-motivated, energetic, strategic thinker.
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Avoca Palms Resort Apartments, Central Coast
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- 33 smoke-free apartments
- Outdoor pool
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- Copacabana Beach (2.1 mi / 3.4 km)
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- Barbeque grills
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We need a global energy revolution. In developed nations we are wasting massive quantities of energy providing heat and light to our homes and businesses while one and a half billion people have no access to electricity at all. The existing central-power-station model is based on old technology that spews carbon, energy, and money straight up the chimney.
Energy Revolution shows us how we can change all of this. Telling stories from around the world of the change that's already happening and drawing on two decades of his own unique experience, Howard Johns demonstrates how we can develop our own renewable-energy projects to provide local energy and create a new fleet of businesses.
He shows us how communities can build local energy solutions—renewable-power stations that will be a new form of building society where we come together to develop, finance, and construct the infrastructure that we and future generations so desperately need.
Howard Johns explains how to design, set up, and fund community energy systems, citing examples from countries that already have cut the amount of energy they use and supply their needs from renewable energy. These new systems will create new jobs and businesses, reduce energy imports, and create new local-investment models.
This handbook contains the map we need to change the system from the bottom up and make the next great leap forward to achieving clean, affordable energy. It covers everything needed to structure your community power company—the technology, site assessment, legal and business planning, fundraising and financial modeling, and putting people at the heart of your strategy. It's time to take control, re-localize, reduce costs and carbon emissions, and join the energy revolution.
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Runaway inequality is now America's most critical economic fact of life. In 1970, the ratio of pay between the top 100 CEOs and the average worker was 45 to 1. Today it is a shocking 829 to one! During that time a new economic philosophy set in that cut taxes, deregulated finance, and trimmed social spending. Those policies set in motion a process that greatly expanded the power of financial interests to accelerate inequality. But how exactly does that happen?
Using easy-to-understand charts and graphs, Runaway Inequality explains the process by which corporation after corporation falls victim to systematic wealth extraction by banks, private equity firms, and hedge funds. It reveals how financial strip-mining puts enormous downward pressure on jobs, wages, benefits, and working conditions, while boosting the incomes of financial elites.
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Two Percent Solutions for the Planet profiles fifty innovative practices that soak up carbon dioxide in soils, reduce energy use, sustainably intensify food production, and increase water quality. The "two percent" refers to: the amount of new carbon in the soil needed to reap a wide variety of ecological and economic benefits; the percentage of the nation's population who are farmers and ranchers; and the low financial cost (in terms of GDP) needed to get this work done.
As White explained in Grass, Soil, Hope, a highly efficient carbon cycle captures, stores, releases, and recaptures biochemical energy, mitigating climate change, increasing water storage capacities in soil, and making green plants grow. Best of all, we don't have to invent anything new—a wide variety of innovative ideas and methods that put carbon back into the soil have been field-tested and proven to be practical and profitable. They're mostly low-tech, too, relying on natural resources such as sunlight, green plants, animals, compost, beavers, creeks, and more.
In Two Percent Solutions for the Planet, White expands what he calls the "regenerative toolbox," to include holistic grazing, edible forests, biochar, weed-eating livestock, food co-ops, keyline plowing, restoration agriculture, bioenergy, aquaponics, animal power, Farm Hack, bees, bears, wildlife corridors, rainwater harvesting, native seeds, and various other projects from across the United States, as well as in Canada, Europe, and Australia. These short, engaging success stories will help readers connect the dots between diverse, exciting, and pragmatic practices, and inspire them to dig deeper into each individual story and concept, energized by the news that solutions abound.
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Permaculture is more than just the latest buzzword; it offers positive solutions for many of the environmental and social challenges confronting us. And nowhere are those remedies more needed and desired than in our cities. The Permaculture City provides a new way of thinking about urban living, with practical examples for creating abundant food, energy security, close-knit communities, local and meaningful livelihoods, and sustainable policies in our cities and towns. The same nature-based approach that works so beautifully for growing food—connecting the pieces of the landscape together in harmonious ways—applies perfectly to many of our other needs. Toby Hemenway, one of the leading practitioners and teachers of permaculture design, illuminates a new way forward through examples of edge-pushing innovations, along with a deeply holistic conceptual framework for our cities, towns, and suburbs.
The Permaculture City begins in the garden but takes what we have learned there and applies it to a much broader range of human experience; we're not just gardening plants but people, neighborhoods, and even cultures. Hemenway lays out how permaculture design can help towndwellers solve the challenges of meeting our needs for food, water, shelter, energy, community, and livelihood in sustainable, resilient ways. Readers will find new information on designing the urban home garden and strategies for gardening in community, rethinking our water and energy systems, learning the difference between a "job" and a "livelihood," and the importance of placemaking and an empowered community.
This important book documents the rise of a new sophistication, depth, and diversity in the approaches and thinking of permaculture designers and practitioners. Understanding nature can do more than improve how we grow, make, or consume things; it can also teach us how to cooperate, make decisions, and arrive at good solutions.
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For more than 10,000 years, grains have been the staples of Western civilization. The stored energy of grain allowed our ancestors to shift from nomadic hunting and gathering and build settled communities—even great cities. Though most bread now comes from factory bakeries, the symbolism of wheat and bread—amber waves of grain, the staff of life—still carries great meaning.
Today, bread and beer are once again building community as a new band of farmers, bakers, millers, and maltsters work to reinvent local grain systems. The New Bread Basket tells their stories and reveals the village that stands behind every loaf and every pint.
While eating locally grown crops like heirloom tomatoes has become almost a cliché, grains are late in arriving to local tables, because growing them requires a lot of land and equipment. Milling, malting, and marketing take both tools and cooperation. The New Bread Basket reveals the bones of that cooperation, profiling the seed breeders, agronomists, and grassroots food activists who are collaborating with farmers, millers, bakers, and other local producers.
Take Andrea and Christian Stanley, a couple who taught themselves the craft of malting and opened the first malthouse in New England in one hundred years. Outside Ithaca, New York, bread from a farmer-miller-baker partnership has become an emblem in the battle against shale gas fracking. And in the Pacific Northwest, people are shifting grain markets from commodity exports to regional feed, food, and alcohol production. Such pioneering grain projects give consumers an alternative to industrial bread and beer, and return their production to a scale that respects people, local communities, and the health of the environment.
Many Americans today avoid gluten and carbohydrates. Yet, our shared history with grains—from the village baker to Wonder Bread—suggests that modern changes in farming and processing could be the real reason that grains have become suspect in popular nutrition. The people profiled in The New Bread Basket are returning to traditional methods like long sourdough fermentations that might address the dietary ills attributed to wheat. Their work and lives make our foundational crops visible, and vital, again.
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"Society does not generally expect its farmers to be visionaries." Perhaps not, but longtime Maine farmer and homesteader Will Bonsall does possess a unique clarity of vision that extends all the way from the finer points of soil fertility and seed saving to exploring how we can transform civilization and make our world a better, more resilient place.
In Will Bonsall's Essential Guide to Radical, Self-Reliant Gardening, Bonsall maintains that to achieve real wealth we first need to understand the economy of the land, to realize that things that might make sense economically don't always make sense ecologically, and vice versa. The marketplace distorts our values, and our modern dependence on petroleum in particular presents a serious barrier to creating a truly sustainable agriculture.
For him the solution is, first and foremost, greater self-reliance, especially in the areas of food and energy. By avoiding any off-farm inputs (fertilizers, minerals, and animal manures), Bonsall has learned how to practice a purely veganic, or plant-based, agriculture—not from a strictly moralistic or philosophical perspective, but because it makes good business sense: spend less instead of making more.
What this means in practical terms is that Bonsall draws upon the fertility of on-farm plant materials: compost, green manures, perennial grasses, and forest products like leaves and ramial wood chips. And he grows and harvests a diversity of crops from both cultivated and perennial plants: vegetables, grains, pulses, oilseeds, fruits and nuts—even uncommon but useful permaculture plants like groundnut (Apios).
In a friendly, almost conversational way, Bonsall imparts a wealth of knowledge drawn from his more than forty years of farming experience.
"My goal," he writes, "is not to feed the world, but to feed myself and let others feed themselves. If we all did that, it might be a good beginning."
Paperback $34.95
With practical examples of alternative building, renewable energy, holistic forestry, no-till gardening, hospitality management, community outreach, and more
The Community-Scale Permaculture Farm describes not only the history of the D Acres project, but its evolving principles and practices that are rooted in the land, its inhabitants, and the joy inherent in collective empowerment.
For almost twenty years, D Acres of New Hampshire has challenged and expanded the common definition of a farm. As an educational center that researches, applies, and teaches skills of sustainable living and small-scale organic farming, D Acres serves more than just a single function to its community. By turns it is a hostel for travelers to northern New England, a training center for everything from metal- and woodworking to cob building and seasonal cooking, a gathering place for music, poetry, joke-telling, and potluck meals, and much more.
While this book provides a wide spectrum of practical information on the physical systems designed into a community-scale homestead, Trought also reviews the economics and organizational particulars that D Acres has experimented with over the years.
The D Acres model envisions a way to devise a sustainable future by building a localized economy that provides more than seasonal produce, a handful of eggs, and green appliances. With the goal of perennial viability for humanity within their ecosystem, D Acres is attempting an approach to sustainability that encompasses practical, spiritual, and ethical components. In short: They are trying to create a rural community ecology that evolves in perpetuity.
From working with oxen to working with a board of directors, no other book contains such a wealth of innovative ideas and ways to make your farm or homestead not only more sustainable, but more inclusive of, and beneficial to, the larger community. Readers will find information on such subjects as:
Emphasizing collaboration, cooperation, and mutualism, this book promises to inspire a new generation of growers, builders, educators, artists, and dreamers who are seeking new and practical ways to address today's problems on a community scale.
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Sacred Earth Celebrations is the revised and updated version of Glennie Kindred's bestselling, classic book, Sacred Celebrations. It is an uplifting and inspiring source book for everyone seeking to celebrate and honor the changing rhythms and seasons of the Earth and her cycles. Uplifting and inspiring, it explores the eight Celtic festivals, how they were celebrated and understood in the past, the underlying changing energy of the Earth, and the ways we may use this energy to create meaningful celebrations for today to deepen our connection to the Earth and our fellow human beings.
Glennie offers a vibrant, contemporary approach and encourages us, whether celebrating on our own or with family and friends, to follow our own inspired interpretations of each festival. She helps us touch the sacred, share and participate in the power of nature, express our feelings, and find ways to focus on spiritual regeneration and healing.
Sacred Earth Celebrations deepens our understanding of the five elements, the laws of manifestation, the rhythms of the Moon, Earth energies and sacred landscape, inner journeying, and meditation. It explores ways to create sacred space both inside and outside, celebrations for children, crafts, the use of song and dance, garden and land projects, building a sweat lodge and labyrinths, and many other creative activities to help us connect to the moment, to the Earth, and to each other.
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The new threshold for green building is not just low energy, it's net-zero energy. In The New Net Zero, sustainable architect Bill Maclay charts the path for designers and builders interested in exploring green design's new frontier net-zero-energy structures that produce as much energy as they consume and are carbon neutral.
In a nation where traditional buildings use roughly 40 percent of the total fossil energy, the interest in net-zero building is growing enormously–among both designers interested in addressing climate change and consumers interested in energy efficiency and long-term savings. Maclay, an award-winning net-zero designer whose buildings have achieved high-performance goals at affordable costs, makes the case for a net-zero future; explains net-zero building metrics, integrated design practices, and renewable energy options; and shares his lessons learned on net-zero teambuilding.
Designers and builders will find a wealth of state-of-the-art information on such considerations as air, water, and vapor barriers; embodied energy; residential and commercial net-zero standards; monitoring and commissioning; insulation options; costs; and more.
The comprehensive overview is accompanied by several case studies, which include institutional buildings, commercial projects, and residences. Both new-building and renovation projects are covered in detail.
The New Net Zero is geared toward professionals exploring net-zero design, but also suitable for nonprofessionals seeking ideas and strategies on net-zero options that are beautiful and renewably powered.
Hardcover $90.00
The rapid spread of hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") has temporarily boosted US natural gas and oil production . . . and sparked a massive environmental backlash in communities across the country. The fossil-fuel industry is trying to sell fracking as the biggest energy development of the century, with slick promises of American energy independence and benefits to local economies. Snake Oil casts a critical eye on the oil-industry hype that has hijacked America's energy conversation. This is the first book to look at fracking from both economic and environmental perspectives, informed by the most thorough analysis of shale gas and oil drilling data ever undertaken. Is fracking the miracle cure-all to our energy ills, or a costly distraction from the necessary work of reducing our fossil-fuel dependence?
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As we dig, drill, and excavate to unearth the planet's mineral bounty, the resources we exploit from ores, veins, seams, and wells are gradually becoming exhausted. Mineral treasures that took millions, or even billions, of years to form are now being squandered in just centuries–or sometimes just decades.
Will there come a time when we actually run out of minerals? Debates already soar over how we are going to obtain energy without oil, coal, and gas. But what about the other mineral losses we face? Without metals, and semiconductors, how are we going to keep our industrial system running? Without mineral fertilizers and fuels, how are we going to produce the food we need?
Ugo Bardi delivers a sweeping history of the mining industry, starting with its humble beginning when our early ancestors started digging underground to find the stones they needed for their tools. He traces the links between mineral riches and empires, wars, and civilizations, and shows how mining in its various forms came to be one of the largest global industries. He also illustrates how the gigantic mining machine is now starting to show signs of difficulties. The easy mineral resources, the least expensive to extract and process, have been mostly exploited and depleted. There are plenty of minerals left to extract, but at higher costs and with increasing difficulties.
The effects of depletion take different forms and one may be the economic crisis that is gripping the world system. And depletion is not the only problem. Mining has a dark side–pollution–that takes many forms and delivers many consequences, including climate change.
The world we have been accustomed to, so far, was based on cheap mineral resources and on the ability of the ecosystem to absorb pollution without generating damage to human beings. Both conditions are rapidly disappearing. Having thoroughly plundered planet Earth, we are entering a new world.
Bardi draws upon the world's leading minerals experts to offer a compelling glimpse into that new world ahead.
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The stat sheet on hemp sounds almost too good to be true: its fibers are among the planet's strongest, its seed oil the most nutritious, and its potential as an energy source vast and untapped. Its one downside? For nearly a century, it's been illegal to grow industrial cannabis in the United States–even though Betsy Ross wove the nation's first flag out of hemp fabric, Thomas Jefferson composed the Declaration of Independence on it, and colonists could pay their taxes with it. But as the prohibition on hemp's psychoactive cousin winds down, one of humanity's longest-utilized plants is about to be reincorporated into the American economy. Get ready for the newest billion-dollar industry.
In Hemp Bound:Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Next Agricultural Revolution, bestselling author Doug Fine embarks on a humorous yet rigorous journey to meet the men and women who are testing, researching, and pioneering hemp's applications for the twenty-first century. From Denver, where Fine hitches a ride in a hemp-powered limo; to Asheville, North Carolina, where carbon-negative hempcrete-insulated houses are sparking a mini housing boom; to Manitoba where he raps his knuckles on the hood of a hemp tractor; and finally to the fields of east Colorado, where practical farmers are looking toward hemp to restore their agricultural economy—Fine learns how eminently possible it is for this misunderstood plant to help us end dependence on fossil fuels, heal farm soils damaged after a century of growing monocultures, and bring even more taxable revenue into the economy than its smokable relative.
Fine's journey will not only leave you wondering why we ever stopped cultivating this miracle crop, it will fire you up to sow a field of it for yourself, for the nation's economy, and for the planet.
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Beyond You and Me is the first volume in the Four Keys to Sustainable Communities series and is a practical anthology for anyone seeking to rebuild existing fragmented villages and communities, establish new group enterprises and ecovillages, and heal the wounds of conflict and social division. It is for those seeking to live cooperatively and in peace with fellow human beings and the Earth.
Since the beginning of human history, we have lived in communities. That is, however, until the mid-twentieth century, when cheap fossil-fuel energy has enabled many of us in industrialized countries to live more socially dispersed and isolated lives. But now, escalating climate change, peak oil, and the need to radically reduce our carbon consumption dictate that this unsustainable way of life cannot continue. We must relearn the art of community building and conflict resolution.
Beyond You and Me offers skills in communication, conflict resolution, leadership, facilitation, and consensus decision making, and an inspiring perspective on solving global problems. Written by an international group of social and ecological pioneers, it includes the voices of Marshall B. Rosenberg, Wangaari Maathai, Starhawk, Azriel Cohen, Hildur Jackson, and Helena Norberg-Hodge.
The Four Keys represent the four dimensions of sustainable design—the Worldview, the Social, the Ecological, and the Economic. This series is endorsed by UNESCO and is an official contribution to the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development. The other books of the series are Gaian Economics, Designing Ecological Habitats, and The Song of the Earth. The Four Keys to Sustainable Communities series was completed in 2012 and is now available in the U.S. for the first time.
Waste is something we all make every day but often pay little attention to. That's changing, and model programs around the globe show the many different ways a community can strive for, and achieve, zero-waste status.
Scientist-turned-activist Paul Connett, a leading international figure in decades-long battles to fight pollution, has championed efforts to curtail overconsumption and keep industrial toxins out of our air and drinking water and bodies. But he's best known around the world for leading efforts to help communities deal with their waste in sustainable ways—in other words, to eliminate and reuse waste rather than burn it or stow it away in landfills.
In The Zero Waste Solution, Connett profiles the most successful zero-waste initiatives around the world, showing activists, planners, and entrepreneurs how to re-envision their community's waste-handling process—by consuming less, turning organic waste into compost, recycling, reusing other waste, demanding nonwasteful product design, and creating jobs and bringing community members together in the process. The book also exposes the greenwashing behind renewed efforts to promote waste incinerators as safe, nontoxic energy suppliers, and gives detailed information on how communities can battle incineration projects that, even at their best, emit dangerous particles into the atmosphere, many of which remain unregulated or poorly regulated.
An important toolkit for anyone interested in creating sustainable communities, generating secure local jobs, and keeping toxic alternatives at bay.
Paperback $24.95
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The Sugarmaker's Companion is the first guide of its kind addressing the small- and large-scale syrup producer seeking to make a profitable business from maple, birch, and walnut sap. This comprehensive work incorporates valuable information on ecological forest management, value-added products, and the most up-to-date techniques on sap collection and processing. It is, most importantly, a guide to an integrated sugaring operation, interconnected to the whole-farm system, woodland, and community. Farrell documents the untapped potential of American forests and shows how sugaring can turn a substantial profit for farmers while providing tremendous enjoyment and satisfaction.
Michael Farrell, sugarmaker and director of the Uihlein Forest at Cornell University, offers information on setting up and maintaining a viable sugaring business by incorporating the wisdom of traditional sugarmaking with the value of modern technology (such as reverse-osmosis machines and vacuum tubing). He gives a balanced view of the industry while offering a realistic picture of how modern technology can be beneficial, from both an economic and an environmental perspective. Within these pages, readers will find if syrup production is right for them (and on what scale), determine how to find trees for tapping, learn the essentials of sap collection, the art and science of sugarmaking, and how to build community through syrup production.
There are many more unique aspects to this book that set it apart from anything else on the market, including:
• A focus on maple as a local, sustainably produced and healthy alternative to corn syrup and other highly processed and artificial sweeteners;
• The health benefits of sap and syrup in North America and throughout the world;
• Attention to the questions of organic certification, sugarhouse registration, and the new international grading system;
• Enhancing diversity in the sugarbush and interplanting understory crops for value-added products (ginseng, goldenseal, and mushrooms, specifically);
• An economic analysis of utilizing maple trees for syrup or sawtimber production and the market opportunities for taphole maple lumber;
• The value of sap as a healthful and profitable energy drink;
• Detailed analyses on the economics of buying and selling sap;
• Lots of great information on marketing to create a profitable business model (based on scale, interest, and access), and more. . . .
Applicable for a wide range of climates and regions, this book is sure to change the conversation around syrup production and prove invaluable for both home-scale and commercial sugarmakers alike.
Paperback $39.95 $29.96
Oil and coal have built our civilization, created our wealth, and enriched the lives of billions. Yet, their rising costs to our security, economy, health, and environment now outweigh their benefits. Moreover, that long-awaited energy tipping point—where alternatives work better than oil and coal and compete purely on cost—is no longer decades in the future. It is here and now. And it is the fulcrum of economic transformation.
A global clean-energy race has emerged with astounding speed. The ability to operate without fossil fuels will define winners and losers in business—and among nations.
In Reinventing Fire, Amory Lovins and Rocky Mountain Institute offer a new vision to revitalize business models, end-run Washington gridlock, and win the clean-energy race—not forced by public policy but led by business for enduring profit. This groundbreaking roadmap reveals market-based solutions across the transportation, building, industry, and electricity sectors. It highlights pathways and competitive strategies for a 158%-bigger 2050 U.S. economy that needs no oil, no coal, no nuclear energy, one-third less natural gas, and no new inventions.
This transition would cost $5 trillion less than business-as-usual—without counting fossil fuels' huge hidden costs. It requires no new federal taxes, subsidies, mandates, or laws. The policy innovations needed to unlock and speed it need no Act of Congress.
Whether you care most about profits and jobs, national security, health, or environmental stewardship, Reinventing Fire charts a pragmatic course that makes sense and makes money. With clarity and mastery, Lovins and RMI point out the astounding opportunities for enterprise to create the new energy era.
Drawing praise President Bill Clinton, former National Security Advisor Robert McFarlane, and a host of others, Reinventing Fire has piqued the interest of world leaders, business leaders, and political strategists.
The paperback will carry a new preface detailing the response from China and beyond.
If you want to introduce alternative power supplies around the home and garden or even live totally off-grid in your boat, caravan, or yurt and need a practical introduction to solar power and 12-volt supplies, here is an essential guide to the subject.
Not only will it save you money, it will show you how to run your lights, laptop, DVDs, and music, and even your tools and household products, from a simple 12-volt system. Be in control of more of your home's own energy supply, develop a low-impact way of living, and be prepared for power outages in the future!
Do It Yourself 12 Volt Solar Power begins with a lesson on how electricity works and the main components of a DIY solar system. The author uses clear diagrams and terms. There is, of course, more technical information as the book progresses, but don't worry, this no-nonsense guide provides a useful, back-to-basics approach for the layperson.
This is a reference book that will help you troubleshoot and get the best value for money from what you can find hidden in the back of the garage. It is also quirky and humorous and shows you how to make a sun-following system using just a bicycle wheel, a pallet, and the motor from a CD player!
Paperback $14.95
The award-winning Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 2nd Edition: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life and Landscape, is the first book in a three-volume guide that teaches you how to conceptualize, design, and implement sustainable water-harvesting systems for your home, landscape, and community. The lessons in this volume will enable you to assess your on-site resources, give you a diverse array of strategies to maximize their potential, and empower you with guiding principles to create an integrated, multi-functional water-harvesting plan specific to your site and needs.
This revised and expanded second edition increases potential for on-site harvests with more integrated tools and strategies for solar design, a primer on your water/energy/carbon connections, descriptions of water/erosion flow patterns and their water-harvesting response, and updated illustrations to show you how to do it all.
Volume 1 helps bring your site to life, reduce your cost of living, endow you with skills of self-reliance, and create living air conditioners of vegetation, growing beauty, food, and wildlife habitat. Stories of people who are successfully welcoming rain into their life and landscape will encourage you to do the same!
With greater public awareness of the need for energy independence, the issue of how we can make our existing homes more resource efficient is becoming ever more critical. Residential buildings make up a large fraction of our energy needs, largely due to heating and air-conditioning. So it's no longer enough to simply do the small stuff, like switching to compact fluorescent bulbs, or turning down the thermostat at night.
In The Greened-House Effect, author Jeff Wilson brings his twenty-five years of construction experience and knowledge of home building to bear on making our current houses cleaner, greener, and healthier. Think of a deep-energy retrofit (DER) as a "home makeover" - one that represents a significant investment, but that saves money from the get-go by capturing the energy you "drop on the ground" every month, every year, through inefficiency, poor design, or simply living in a typical older home.
Using his own family's DER of their 1942 home as a prime example, Wilson weaves a readable narrative at a practical, hammer-and-nail level. He presents the solutions to our building and energy problems, making them seem possible for average homeowners and small contractors by offering the right set of information, skills, and materials.
More technical information is presented in sidebars and graphs, and numerous color photos illustrate the process, including:
Wilson's building experience, along with his lifelong passion for energy issues, all come together to form an inspirational, can-do approach to making our neighborhood, our community, our nation, and our world a better place - one home at a time.
Paperback $29.95
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Droves of people have turned to local food as a way to retreat from our broken industrial food system. From rural outposts to city streets, they are sowing, growing, selling, and eating food produced close to home—and they are crying out for agricultural reform. All this has made "local food" into everything from a movement buzzword to the newest darling of food trendsters.
But now it's time to take the conversation to the next level. That's exactly what Philip Ackerman-Leist does in Rebuilding the Foodshed, in which he refocuses the local-food lens on the broad issue of rebuilding regional food systems that can replace the destructive aspects of industrial agriculture, meet food demands affordably and sustainably, and be resilient enough to endure potentially rough times ahead.
Changing our foodscapes raises a host of questions. How far away is local? How do you decide the size and geography of a regional foodshed? How do you tackle tough issues that plague food systems large and small—issues like inefficient transportation, high energy demands, and rampant food waste? How do you grow what you need with minimum environmental impact? And how do you create a foodshed that's resilient enough if fuel grows scarce, weather gets more severe, and traditional supply chains are hampered?
Showcasing some of the most promising, replicable models for growing, processing, and distributing sustainably grown food, this book points the reader toward the next stages of the food revolution. It also covers the full landscape of the burgeoning local-food movement, from rural to suburban to urban, and from backyard gardens to large-scale food enterprises.
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King's Court Health and Sports ClubRead MoreThe humidity is high within King's Court Health and Sports Club's sauna, nearing 100% as hot stones send steam up to the ceiling. The high temperatures and moist air help exercisers sweat out toxins, and it can aid workouts by speeding muscle recovery. And that's all without even leaving the men's or women's locker room. Outside of these private areas, a full weight room and other workout facilities unfurl a panoply of exercising options. Racquetball and basketball courts host friendly competitions, while an indoor track gives runners a safe place to train for their next race or bout of sleepwalking. Meanwhile, the onsite nursery keeps track of little ones, so adults have enough time to get a solid workout in. King's personal trainers can accelerate workout results, while group fitness classes burn fat in supportive environments. Depending on the day and time, instructors lead high-energy sessions of Zumba, belly dancing, kickboxing, or other group classes.525 Riverside Ave.Lyndhurst, NJ US
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Garden State YogaRead MoreSeth Weisberg and Alison McCue, cofounders of Garden State Yoga, strive to foster growth and community for both students and teachers of yoga. Along with their fellow instructors, they teach yoga classes inside two distinct studios. Their heated studio offers hot power Vinyasa classes, inspired by the Baron Baptiste style, that detoxify bodies, build strength, reduce stress, and encourage self-awareness. The other studio hosts Vinyasa, Zumba, restorative yoga, and yin yoga classes at normal temperatures. When they aren't striking peaceful poses on their home turf, instructors offer corporate yoga at retail businesses such as Barnes & Noble and Whole Foods. Seth and Alison also pass along their knowledge during regular teacher-training courses for yogis who want to earn their certification through Yoga Alliance.71 Washington StBloomfield, NJ US
NJ Fitness FactoryRead MoreLike any factory, NJ Fitness Factory demands hard work. Unlike other factories, though, the fitness studio features the supportive and encouraging words of co-owners Marc Ronches and Russ Teitsma. Their voices can be heard during one-on-one personal training sessions as well as small group training sessions.365 Broad StBloomfield, NJ US
TNT Fitness StudioRead MoreThere are only a few certainties in life, two of them being the sun rising every morning and the folks at TNT Fitness Studio opening their doors when it does. The steadfast exercise facility invites the public to work out or cleverly disguise a sweating problem seven days a week, hosting group fitness classes that range from dance-based Zumba to martial-arts infused Pilates and yoga sessions. Teachers also conduct classes geared toward kids aged 6–12, including yoga and hip-hop dance.135 Main StreetBelleville, NJ US


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28 years of experience
28 years of experience
Stonelake Office Park
10900 Stonelake Blvd
Suite 250
Austin, TX 78759 Phone number & directions
10900 Stonelake Blvd
Suite 250
Austin, TX 78759 Phone number & directions
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A few years ago, I graduated from Irmo High School in Columbia, South Carolina. Over the past few years, Irmo has been no stranger to controversy. In 1998, they cancelled a concert by the Indigo Girls due to the duo's homosexuality. During my senior year, they tried to block the formation of a Gay-Straight Alliance [Read More...]
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Custom "Freddy Krueger" Foamposite by GourmetKickz
Themed after the famous cult classic "A Nightmare on Elm Street" and the lead villain Freddy Krueger, these foamposite customs are one of the sickest to get cooked in the GourmetKickz Kitchen. Every part of the white foamposite base has been customized. This shoe was created keeping in mind both the original Nike SB Dunk and the key elements that refer to Freddy Krueger. The upper is painted to resemble the bloody tan upper of the famous Dunk SB. The 4 rear ridge troughs of the foamposite reveal Freddy's charred flesh as if the foam upper was cut away to reveal this imagery. The tongue mesh is painted dirty green while the lining is black. The heel and center tongue strip are painted vintage brown. The tongue embroidery, heel Penny logo, pull tabs, and insoles are painted to resemble Freddy's iconic sweater. The lacestay is painted antique silver, referencing Freddy's blades. The soles are blacked out and a removable tongue shroud with modified GourmetKickz logo is included.
All sales are final. No refunds or order cancellations. No exceptions.
Wait time for this custom sneaker is 6 to 8 months possibly longer.


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Our pick of the dishes and drinks at this weekend's event
Cornwall Street's Michelin star venue will close on August 2 for a refit
Birmingham, as ever, is spoiling us with some wonderful events this week
Feast your eyes on these scrumptious local alternatives to Nando's, McDonalds, Pizza Hut and others
Glynn Purnell is right on restaurant chains - but independents will only flourish if Brummies are prepared to search for the city's hidden charms, says Mary Griffin
Celebrity chef Glynn Purnell says restaurant chains are forcing independents out of business
Glynn Purnell's first award winning eatery Jessica's in Edgbaston has been transformed into apartments
Who to see, where to wander, what to try
Celebrity chef Glynn Purnell to take part in city talk after becoming the star of 'Mr Birmingham'
Good Food Show and Welsh National Opera make for a varied week
Visitors will be greeted by perhaps the largest indoor screen in the city and an "immersive tunnel" entrance, surrounded by LEDs
With Father's Day on June 21, there are plenty of great places in Birmingham for a swanky Sunday lunch
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Birmingham's first three-day Foodies Festival opens
Foodies Festival, Jack Dee and The Fall and Rise of Little Voice are also must-sees
We take a look at all the details of the Foodies Festival coming to Cannon Hill Park
This is huge news for the city's food and shopping scene. Glynn Purnell on the new venue, food and shopping (ahem)
Find out more about how the city's buzzing financial district is getting better and better
Harvey Nichols is in talks with Glynn Purnell over a new venture at its store set to relaunch in July
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Giles Coren sparks war of words with Glynn Purnell after condemning Brum's 'posh' eateries as 'not my kind of thing at all'
Bar Opus offers foodie treats for office workers in the Colmore business district of Birmingham
Six delicious gift ideas for the foodie in your life
Mary Griffin samples the new pop-up kitchen that's causing a stir on the city's food scene
BBC Good Food Show comes to the NEC this weekend - November 27 to 30. Here are our top picks for the four-day event.
Cure Leukaemia event sees former Villa, Blues and Wolves players put on aprons to cook a five-course meal
New prestige for Brum as Waterside restaurant Loves and Michelin-starred Purnell's make Sunday Times list with five other Midlands venues
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Vintage Winter Postcard
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This Vintage Winter Postcard from Stampendous would make a lovely Christmas greeting to your friends and family. The beautiful winter scene acts as a reminder of the beauty of the season, and for vintage lovers, this is a lovely card to add to your collection. I think it would look beautiful sitting on a mantel or hanging inbetween the branches of a Christmas tree.
- Cling Snowy Postcard
- Ultra Fine Crystal Snow Glitter
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- Jumbo Perfectly Clear Handle
- Cling Snowy Postcard
- White and Patterned card stock
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- Dark Brown Memento Ink by Tsukineko
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- Copic Markers
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Stamp postcard image once on white card stock (A2 tentfold), and once on white card stock cut to size.
Cover smaller image with adhesive sheet and Ultra Fine Crystal Snow Glitter.
Ink and Distress other image in browns with markers.
Cut carefully around holly using craft knife and cutting mat.
Color Ultra fine glitter image and cut off to oval frame.
Slide glittered oval behind holly on kraft layer and glue firmly
- Adhere folded card to Patterned paper with dimensional foam adhesive.
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Please join the Guilford College Center for Continuing Education (CCE) for the new student orientation on Monday, May 18, 2015, 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. This event is for new and readmitted students only. Please plan to stay for the entire time. Please dress comfortably and according to the forecast before arriving at orientation. Locations for orientation and the technology training sessions are TBD. Once you register, the locations will be emailed to you once we are closer to the events.