Hobbitsy trickses to make me feel more human today. Though there are many options on the non human humanoid scale that I *do* enjoy… I have very earthbound tasks at hand. #foodoo #scifisaturation #potterheadhangover #somuchdoctorwho (Taken with instagram)
i am moving. leaving. go on, get gone. i am purging things. storing some @ my parents’. setting up a small bedroom there. then taking a car’s worth of a life with me somewhere else.
i need a place to forge a spine for myself. these are my demands.
-walk. bike. every day. -practice. play mandolin. and uke for singing. -sing. -eat clean. -drive less. -more trees.
that’s it for now. there’s more for the future. for now, just less. more in my skin, more focus, more clarity, trust myself, survive my self.
OCA political director Alexis Baden-Mayer prepared the following notes for a talk she gave at the Occupy G8 People’s Summit, critiquing the New Alliance:
Contrary to the talking points of President Obama and the other leaders of the G8 nations, the problem of feeding the world isn’t about the need to produce more food, it’s about stopping the way wealthy countries are subsidizing their richest farmers, grabbing up the best land in Africa, speculating on food commodities in their financial markets, wasting food, diverting crop production to livestock feed and biofuels, and ratcheting up the costs of farming by encouraging the use of expensive and unsustainable GMO seeds, pesticides and fertilizers.
The world already produces more than 1 1/2 times enough food to feed everyone on the planet. That’s enough to feed 10 billion people, the population peak we expect by 2050.
70 percent of this food is produced by 3 billion small-scale food producers worldwide.
Nevertheless, 1 billion people on the planet are chronically hungry, and 70% are farmers.
