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Here is a link to an article on Alternet about boycotting the Koch Brother's products. Some of the products on the list are:

Angel Soft toilet paper

Brawny paper towels

Dixie plates, bowls, napkins and cups

Mardi Gras napkins and towels

Just to let folks know, I offer a variety of informtion management, administrative, support services to small businesses.  What do you need help with?

"In the end, I am confident that we're going to be able to leave the Gulf Coast in better shape than it was before." President Obama Optimism is all well and good but this smacks of arrogance or denial. "WE" are not going to be able to leave the Gulf Coast in better shape, if we're lucky we can clean up the mess. Nature will do the rest. Regardless, we will lose species and habitat and jobs. Families will most likely lose everything as jobs disappear. And this is not going to happen overnight.

According to an piece aired today on NPR Morning Edition there are organs in the body that have receptor's for the chemicals in cannabis. Seems a clear indication we should be taking medical marijuana seriously. Full article here

Looking for someone to do a workshop that trains people to build their own solar hot water heaters has made me wonder what happened to The Whole Earth Catalogue? But after reading Whole Earth Discipline I wonder what happened to Stewart Brand. I feel that I gave the book a fair shake. Kept an open mind until the end. But I remain unconvinced.

Dozens of organizations around the country are working together to create and promote the first ever Common Good Bank. Common good banks will be a new kind of community savings bank, designed expressly for economic justice, sustainability and strong local economies, independent of the dollar. Once the first common good bank exists, any community anywhere can start one in a matter of days, using cell phone and internet technology, with no red tape and no need for a bank building.

The Slow Money Alliance aims to encourage 1 million people to put 1% of their assets into local food production. There is a book, Inquiries into the nature of Slow Money by Woody Tasch. The subtitle is "investing as if food, farms and fertility mattered." The book is available from Chelsea Green Press.  The book poses the question, "What if you had to invest 50 percent of your assets within 50 miles of where you live?"

Applications are now being taken for plots at the Wendell Community Gardens next to the new town offices. Applications are available at the library and The Wendell Country Store. For more information call Katie 978-544-2306 or email wendellcomgardens@hughes.net.