Democracy Now has been doing some excellent coverage of the republican convention as well as the protests surrounding the republican convention — this is the news as it should be reported!!!
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Green Living
Look what I just discovered: Green Fusion!
Guess where I’m going this weekend!?!
Fungus: At the Root of It
From the BioOrganics, Inc. newsletter:
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What Do These Plants Want, Anyhow?
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It bears repeating. Providing mycorrhizal fungi spores to plants is NOT giving them something “extra.” It is NOT a miracle-plant-food-sort-of-thingy. It is NOT some sort of mystical additive.
Simply put, a plant without mycorrhizae on its root system is not equipped to uptake the necessary nutrients to flourish. You can fiddle with “soil chemistry” as much as you wish, and you may have some short-term success, but if the plant has evolved a dependence on soil fungi over millions of years, that plant will not achieve its full genetic potential without the fungi.
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Reclaiming
Since I seem to be on a holy roller, here’s another little goup y’all might want to check out called Reclaiming.
Chris, it’s like the feminist wicca stuff I do, only boys get to come, too. Yay!
Starhawk started it and she’s got this great book called The Fifth Sacred Thing. It’s like a thought experiment in how to implement non-violent action against all odds. I love her vision . . .