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http://www.netcredit.blogspot.com

I have written about 4 years of posts on ways to help folks understand/restore or build your credit. If you are considering the long term effects of maintaining debt, the sooner you understand the cost of poor credit on all your accounts the sooner you can benefit from a little work pulling up your FICO scores. The better your credit, the lower your rates and the sooner you can pay off your debt and free up your capital for better things...! (All these pointers are free information I've gleaned… Continue

Added by Susan Templeton on August 25, 2009 at 4:30pm — No Comments

A Response to “Small World” by Andrew Potter

A Response to “Small World” by Andrew Potter, published in the 8/12/09 issue of Cascadia Weekly

By David MacLeod (letter published in 8/19/09 issue of Cascadia Weekly

Andrew Potter’s book “The Rebel Sell,” which was an attempt to demonstrate that all counter-culture movements… Continue

Added by David MacLeod on August 20, 2009 at 9:48pm — 2 Comments

A world day of climate action- Oct 24th, 2009

Thanks to Bill McKibben

Bill reports after his organizing trip around the world. -Lynnette

Dear Friends,

I'm back home with my family for a few days, after the third long organizing trip of the past few months.

In a way, this trip was the most extraordinary, because it took me to places where you wouldn't necessarily expect climate organizing to be going full force. But it is--people everywhere are figuring out that 350 is the most important number on… Continue

Added by Lynnette Allen on August 13, 2009 at 3:31pm — No Comments

Announcing Whatcom Progressive Grassroots Network - WPGN

Receiving a notice from the MoveOn team, I was able to sign up and "become a fan" and post WPGN's info on Maria Cantwell's Facebook "wall". You can view it in "photos" by hovering over the Whatcom Progressive Grassroots Network jpg. I encourage you to contact her this way with your message.

It says:

Hello Maria, I'm on the webteam of the Whatcom Progressive Grassroots Network. The WPGN brings together politically active groups and individuals from all over Whatcom County to facilitate… Continue

Added by Lynnette Allen on July 21, 2009 at 10:54pm — No Comments

GREAT article in Orion Magazine

I love this article, very well written. I printed a few copies out to pass out to people when asked about Transition...here's a short excerpt:

“MISTAKEN, APPALLING, AND DANGEROUS” is how the Transition Initiative has been described, which is the kind of criticism you covet, knowing that the speaker is an oil industry professional and author of The Myth of the Oil Crisis. Others have criticized it for being insufficiently confrontational. There are also criticisms from within: a… Continue

Added by Kate Clark on July 1, 2009 at 10:10pm — 4 Comments

URBAN WETLANDS MANAGEMENT

Join us on Tuesday June 9th 6-10 for the Roving Garden Garthering in the Cornwall Park Neighborhood. We'll be meeting in the back yard of the neighbors at the corner of Peabody & Victor St.

The Peabody Street Neighborhood Garden is growing.

With the collaboration of all our neighbors we are managing our urban wetland together.

We'll be planting and building garden beds, showing how runoff can adversly affect plants in urban settings, and what you can do about it.

Contact… Continue

Added by Forest Garden on June 8, 2009 at 10:38am — No Comments

A New Way Forward

I am so inspired by A New Way Forward and the video on their site, -"It's Time To Break Up The Banks". Great interviews, after the excellent initial presentation.

I so appreciate Dianne Foster's organizing the streetcorner forum at the Federal building here in Bellingham June 10th at 4PM. I'm helping to get the word out about it.

I hope we follow up on what Spokane did, writing up a community bill of rights and working to get it passed here in Bellingham. I believe We The People can… Continue

Added by Lynnette Allen on June 3, 2009 at 2:07pm — 3 Comments

Post Carbon Books Sale

Through June 4th, all books are 40 to 65% off at Post Carbon Books! Some great prices on some great books, so check it out.

All purchases through Post Carbon Books support the nonprofit educational and practical work of Post Carbon Institute. The store intends, through its range of products and informational links, to reflect the values and aims of Post Carbon Institute in helping raise awareness about the impacts of Peak Oil and Climate… Continue

Added by David MacLeod on May 31, 2009 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Putting Derrick Jensen's ideas into perspective

How does Julia Butterfly Hill respond to Derrick's ideas?

How does Rob Hopkins respond to them?

How do Janaia and Robyn of Peak Moment respond to them?

Watching the video clips and the full video of his talk Friday in Bellingham helped me think, feel and process what I heard at his talk. For me it has become a process--a 2nd take, a third take and it goes on.

Here are the links:

Video clips on… Continue

Added by Lynnette Allen on May 18, 2009 at 2:27pm — 9 Comments

After open house gathering on May 8

There was sure a lot of interesting threads of conversation started at that meeting. As someone who came for the first time, I was impressed.

Of many questions and topics which came up, I remember someone commenting that he thought there needed to be more motivation for people to make changes than just peek oil. Well, here is another motivation. Health. I think about this a lot using the bicycle as my means of transportation. Even if one person's action is just a drop in the bucket… Continue

Added by Robert Ashworth on May 14, 2009 at 2:50am — 1 Comment

"Enough Already". Rick Dubrow's Cascadia Weekly “On The Level” Column; Submitted to the Weekly on 1-11-09

Our economy and environment appear to be rumbling down the same train tracks these days. Poised, hopefully, to prove the adage that one must usually break down before you can break through. It would surely be easier and less painful to break through by simply using logic, science or the wisdom of one’s elders to achieve necessary change, but reality appears to require pain in order to achieve gain. And the greater the urgency for change, the more intense must be the pain in order to climb the… Continue

Added by Rick Dubrow on May 10, 2009 at 10:22pm — 1 Comment

"Garbage In, Garbage Out". Rick Dubrow's “On The Level” Column; Cascadia Weekly; Submitted to the Weekly 11-28-08

A computer can only do what it’s programmed to do and is only as good as the instructions it’s given, right? You’ve seen this truth time and again. If there’s a logical error in software the result will probably be either a wrong answer or a system crash.

What about you and me? Do we function like a computer? Given that culture is the dominant software downloaded into our incredible cerebrum, how aligned are the programmed, cultural instructions with the health of our natural… Continue

Added by Rick Dubrow on May 10, 2009 at 10:19pm — 1 Comment

"Anonymous Resistance", Rick Dubrow's “On The Level” Column; Cascadia Weekly; Submitted to the Weekly 5-3-09

All too often it can prove edgy to speak one’s mind. Your values surface to the tip of your tongue but you hold tight for fear that you’ll expose a part of yourself at odds with your coworkers; at odds with your spouse, church or employer.

Let’s focus on an unintended consequence of our complex industrial system: the steady loss of life. Be it the loss of bio-diversity, the creation of toxic waste, aggravating global warming…… each of us contributes to this tragic drama. Many of us… Continue

Added by Rick Dubrow on May 10, 2009 at 10:14pm — No Comments

Rick Dubrow's May 2009 Whatcom Watch article entitled "Spinning 'round and 'round"

Our laundry list of environmental concerns is staggering, driving an aware mind to spin ‘round and ’round. Said spinning feels like two separate wheels……..the menu of concerns drives one wheel while the menu of solutions drives the other.

Stuck in the middle between two wheels, like a bicyclist.

The wheel out front has spokes named global warming; bio-accumulative toxins; peak oil; nuclear waste; over-population….. I won’t depress you by naming the same number of problems… Continue

Added by Rick Dubrow on May 10, 2009 at 10:09pm — No Comments

On Choosing - A Hyperlocavore Responds to Catastrophe

This is a guest post by Liz McLellan, of hyperlocavore.com. Reprinted by permission.

“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has

genius, power and magic in it!”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Please note: a discussion with the community at

The Oil Drum is ongoing in their Campfire… Continue

Added by David MacLeod on May 3, 2009 at 9:00pm — No Comments

Special Event: 'The New Narrative: Local Voices for a Global Future'

This event s also happening in Bellingham:

Global Oneness Project: The New Narrative Tuesday, May 12 Only!

150 minutes • 2009 • Various • Unrated

THE NEW NARRATIVE

Local Voices for a Global Future

Pickford Cinema

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

6–9 PM

My Compassionate Action Network

Jon Ramer has invited you to the event 'The New Narrative: Local Voices for a Global Future' on My Compassionate Action Network!

Oneness in… Continue

Added by Doug Banner on May 2, 2009 at 2:00pm — 3 Comments

Action Alert FYI

ACTION ALERT

PUBLIC PROCESS AND THE BELLINGHAM WATERFRONT

On Monday, April 20, in a poorly publicized mid-day meeting, the Bellingham City Council and the Port of Bellingham Commission voted to accept a framework plan for the Bellingham waterfront that details the basis for a new street grid configuration and assumptions for the waterfront master plan. It also assumes the destruction of numerous historic buildings on the site. This was done with very short notice, in a… Continue

Added by Doug Banner on April 24, 2009 at 10:04am — 1 Comment

My Favorites

My favorites:

Book of the week: The Answer, by John Assaraf and Murray Smith

Person: Bill Moyers...be sure to see Bill Moyer's Journal, PBS, interviewing William K. Black

Healing Tool: EFT -Emotional Freedom Technique, works for me, EFT World Summit

Video of the week: The Kitchen Garden with Geoff Lawton...be sure to see the clip,

300 Year Old Food Forest System in Viet Nam.

Online Radio Show… Continue

Added by Lynnette Allen on April 22, 2009 at 9:31am — No Comments

Rob Hopkins, Permaculture, and Transition

I'll be giving a short talk at the "Introduction to Nature Awareness and Permaculture" workshop this Saturday, discussing the relationship between Permaculture and Transition Initiatives. So I'm in the process of looking at items on the web that relate, and thought I'd just share here a mish-mash of excerpts I came across that I found interesting.

By the way...there's still one remaining open spot at this… Continue

Added by David MacLeod on April 16, 2009 at 10:39pm — No Comments

Story of Activism in Bellingham--Event being held on April 30th

Hello everyone.

My name is Jenna Shankman and this past summer I went to New Mexico and India to explore my different talents and perspectives about the world through a program called SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE, a program for youth aged 16-22 that focuses on leadership, current, issues and development of the whole person. This experience helped me become especially passionate about environmental issues and the present human impact/cultural relationship with the planet.… Continue

Added by Jenna Shankman on April 15, 2009 at 2:59pm — 1 Comment