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I dig DUG

Denver Urban Gardens, that is.  DUG is a 23 year old nonprofit organization that works to create and maintain community gardens in the Denver Metro Area.  In addition, they have a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm at Delaney Farm in Aurora.  For those unfamiliar with the concept of CSA’s; they are farms that sell shares to [...]

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Aire Acondicionado de Mexico

A friend of mine had a term for the experience of cruising down a road at 65 miles per hour with all four windows down so the wind would rush in and suck the sweat right off your body - “Mexican air-conditioning” is what he called it.  So I couldn’t resist applying his jargon to [...]

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Keg Beer

God, Krishna, Buddha and Allah all are kind to the animals of the world. Sin and sorrow originate in the humans of the earth. The Ruler, Creator and Keeper of the overlying universal mystery did not put anything bad into the plan of the earth, yet from somewhere, someone, some power, there comes psychological and [...]

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Concern Trolls Spotted off the Coast of Massachusetts

For those unfamiliar with blogging vernacular, I’d like to introduce a common phrase: concern trolling.  Trolling is the act of posting inflammatory rhetoric with the intention of causing trouble and rabble-rousing, rather than to futher dialogue or maintain civil discourse.  A troll is one who engages in the practice of trolling.  Concern Trolling is an [...]

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Lightening Up for the Environment

When talking about environmental issues, a solemn, funereal atmosphere often colors the argument, and we are enticed to look at something as simple as recycling as a matter of life and death. Whatever happened to doing things for the sheer pleasure of doing them? It’s not always environmental issues that are treated like this. [...]

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How Green is Corporate America?

Is Starbucks as green as the billions of dollars they gross every year? Some big businesses are proclaiming a better bond with the environment; but how far are those green dollars going? Is green the new way to make a greenback, or is a conscious growing in the box chains of America? Starbucks is buying [...]

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