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Despite the proofing process with The Fourth River, to my horror, five borrowed phrases were printed without attribution. I am making this announcement publicly because I cannot bear the thought that my poem is out there without credit where it is due. * Originally published in The Fourth River, Issue 8 (Autumn 2011). The borrowed phrases (italics) and credits didn't make it to print.*

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I was warned: there is virtually no time to write in the Spring and Summer on a farm.Still, I am an archivist by nature, so at least I documented the process of planting the warm-season native grasses with pictures. Establishing these grasses is expensive and elaborate; that is especially daunting for someone like me, who thought grass was grass until just under a year ago. They say that during

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It took two days to build. It didn't cost a dime.I am trying to listen to real farmers. So here's one lesson I can recite, but have yet to learn (and the story of how I am obstinately trying to defy it). Real farmers know better than to try to force an early Spring. Around here, they say mid-May is the time to plant. (Of course, it depends on what you're planting, but...) I have not

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We moved to our Indiana plot next door to my parents in October of 2010. I imagined I would keep an in-depth blog, but the experience has been far too overwhelming to document on a day-to-day basis.When Grandpa Burrous (left, teaching me to plant corn) passed away last May, the occasion served as a catalyst to get up and move near family. I dreamed of living near my parents, but we would have had

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The following are highlights from David Streitfeld's Aug 22 New York Times article "Real Estate’s Gold Rush Seems Gone for Good," aka:Housing Fades as a Means to Build Wealth, Analysts SayNone of it is "me" talking--my only footprint is in the passages I selected. Real Estate’s Gold Rush Seems Gone for Good - NYTimes.com - Annotated But many real

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It's been on my mind. It's in the air.Here are highlights from Alex Pang's "Tinkering to the Future." (I found it via Boing Boing.) Vodafone | receiver » Blog Archive » Tinkering to the future Alex Soojung-Kim Pang Tinkering is about seizing the moment: it is about ad-hoc learning, getting things done, innovation and novelty, all in a highly social, networked

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The following highlights are taken from the New York Times article by Matthew B. Crawford, with excerpts from his book, “Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work,” published by Penguin Press.I've meant to edit this--process it, analyze it--for a year now, and I know now I won't have the time. I still think it's worth publishing the highlights, if only to draw people to his

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Chronicling the garden experiments with our new camera: From greenzona: Beans, melons, and peppers! The greenzona compost is full of surprises. These mushrooms just showed up. (We had some unexpected, unidentified sprouts in our worm bin as well.)Delicious basil!Moving indoors: Here's the hydroponic garden at 11-12 weeks. It was fun to watch the tomatoes turn in four days. We've had it nearly

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One corner of our greenzona garden was planted from seed. Now we've got bean and melons!This is happy basil corner! We've used our basil several times now.Finally, the hydroponic garden at 10 1/2 weeks. Jalapenos and cherry tomatoes!

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Greenzona is a local business dedicated to building sustainable gardens in urban and suburban environments. TJ, Don, KrisIt’s a small operation, true to its vision—their business unfolds organically, by word of mouth, mostly. They even do apartments, and when our neighbors told us about their own garden, I had to watch them install it. It was so cool that my husband and I are now the

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Obamanomics - Redefining Capitalism After the Fall - NYTimes.com This piece from the Times partly addresses Obama's pragmatism and questions whether he'll be able to achieve his broader goals, but in these excerpts, I've emphasized the goals themselves. Mr. Obama has begun to sketch a vision of where he would like to drive the economy once this crisis is past. His goals include

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As President Obama announced substantial, permanent increases in funding for science and a renewed commitment to science education, he reminded us of the connections between science and our form of government--referring to "this experiment we call America." Here are some highlights: Link: Science April 27, 2009 Our progress as a nation –- and our values as a nation –-

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Behavioral economics never ceases to fascinate. Some selections from a Seed magazine piece on how people might trick themselves into more climate-friendly behavior:(from Seed via BoingBoing) The Last Experiment § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM If human beings were the perfectly rational creatures imagined by classical economists, we would have done something about climate

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from Harry Lewis: Not Your Father's Censorship - ChronicleReview.com tags: censorship, privacy Now, with almost everything digitized, new communication technologies have led to a global proliferation of censorship agents, methods, and rationales. Ironically for the American pioneers who expected the Internet to foster unprecedented information freedom, its rapid and

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Follow this link to listen to Jane Lubcheco's interview on Science Friday. She's got it together. NOAA Head Jane Lubchenco On Ocean Policy : NPR tags: ocean, climate change, green What is on the horizon for the U.S. role in ocean management? Jane Lubchenco, newly-confirmed administrator of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), discusses her

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Highlights from The New York Times piece on swapping batteries stations for electric cars. It's one solution to the problem of recharging electric car batteries, which can take long time. This could really work. The Green Issue - Batteries Not Included - NYTimes.com tags: nytimes.com, green Agassi never regarded himself as a particularly ardent environmentalist. But

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We need a more informed public when it comes to science, no question.We need journalists to properly present scientific facts in context, without lending undeserved "equal weight" to unscientific or even anti-scientific sentiment. Again, no question.But we will never have a public that thinks critically if we try to protect them from ideas we don't think they're ready to parse. I like how Bob

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These are quotations from the following link: Bowman Global Change spearheads efforts to establish unified climate change language Bowman agrees with the National Research Council that scientific understanding of climate change has outstripped society's capacity to use the knowledge. Bowman says the solution is to adapt scientific communication to make the science behind

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Though this was in the January '09 issue of The New Yorker, I keep referring to it in conversations about health care. More people need to see this. Our revised health care system will necessarily be built on existing platforms. We won't be starting from scratch. But Gawande describes how health care was revised in other countries, making it easy to see what's possible here in our own.

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Steven Chu gets rock star statusby Tona Kunz"Ok, so Steven Chu didn't get his picture on the cover of Rolling Stone... but he did get picked as one of the magazine's "100 people who are changing America" in the March 18 online issue."from symmetry breaking, the symmetry magazine blogPosted using ShareThis

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The following quotations are passages I highlighted in this article using diigo: On The Media: Transcript of "Blogging the Stimulus" (March 27, 2009) Steve Coll is a fearless journalist, going deep into territory that many deem impenetrable. I refer, of course, to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, a.k.a. the stimulus bill. He’s reading every page of

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The following quotations are passages I highlighted in this article using diigo: On The Media: Transcript of "The Infinite Shelf" (March 27, 2009) Interview with Robert Darnton, director of the Harvard University Library In 2004, Google began digitizing the collections of major libraries for a service it calls Google Book Search. Soon after, the

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The following quotations are passages I highlighted in this article using diigo: The Buoyancy of Depression Entertainment - ChronicleReview.com tags: chronicle.com It's as though Americans don't just fear a clearing of the economic slate but may actually be courting one. Polls leading up to the 2008 election showed that a majority of Americans

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This weekend, a friend loaned me her copy of The Green Collar Economy, by Van Jones. She told me he had just been picked up by the Obama administration.Once I started reading, it dawned on me that he was the same guy who had been profiled in The New Yorker not long ago.Now, I've been reading a lot of optimistic books and articles that suggest we "turn crisis into opportunity," a phrase I used a

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Garret Keizer's "Shine, Perishing Republicans" takes its time getting to the point, but it's well worth it:"These two imperatives, that of self-reliance and social responsibility, of the Republican heart and the Democratic heart in their purest forms, are the crux of any sustainable community."Harper's Magazine, April 2009

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The following quotations are passages I highlighted in this article using diigo: Op-Ed Columnist - The Inflection Is Near? - NYTimes.com tags: nytimes, friedman Let’s today step out of the normal boundaries of analysis of our economic crisis and ask a radical question: What if the crisis of 2008 represents something much more fundamental than a deep recession? What if it’

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The following quotations are passages I highlighted in this article using diigo: Digital Domain - When Everyone’s a Friend, Is Anything Private? - NYTimes.com tags: nytimes.com, social networking FACEBOOK has a chief privacy officer, but I doubt that the position will exist 10 years from now. That’s not because Facebook is hell-bent on stripping away privacy protections,

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o 1-acre lot in the midst of a neighborhood in the Santa Fe foothillso Santa Fe green building firm Solarsmitho 3,000-square-foot home

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"Many eyes" is amazing data visualization software. This is one way of viewing my book collection from goodreads.com! The bubble size represents the number of pages from any given author.

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This site will include links to my writing, my podcasts, and educational materials.

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