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Tom Kruzen's facebook group: Not made in China- My children and grandchildren, all of my tools, my nursery and plants, etc.

I'm starting a new facebook group, "Not made in China: My children and grandchildren, all of my tools, my nursery, plants, and my wood stoves", to help create awareness in the unaware and reinforce the awareness in others that we Americans need to begin making things here . We need to vote with our dollars here. I grow my own vegetables. When I cannot, I buy them from local farmers. I grow all the North American Native Plants from seed I collect here or in other parts of the United States. I order recycled pots or have local potters make them.

Totalitarian Democracy

This article was published for Tom Kruzen.

Published on Truthout (http://www.truth-out.org)
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Totalitarian Democracy

Richard Lichtman | Friday 18 March 2011

What follows is clearly not a thoroughly articulated perspective, but a call to others to present their own understanding of the situation we face.

Local and Organic Food Specials in Fayetteville

In honor of the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, over 20 local restaurants and bars in Fayetteville are offering organic items and Local Specials during the week of April 17-24! See the full menu at : http://ozarkslowfood.org/ed40.htm

Seed Swaps to promote agricultural biodiversity conservation

Seed Swaps

2nd ANNUAL OZARK SEED SWAP TO PRESERVE
AND DISTRIBUTE TRADITIONAL SEED VARIETIES

Supreme Court to Hear Case on Public’s Ability to Participate in National Forest Decisions and Challenge Unlawful Regulations

For Immediate Release, September 29, 2008

Contacts:

Matt Kenna, Western Environmental Law Center, kenna@westernlaw.org (970) 385-6941
Jim Bensman, Heartwood, jbensman1@charter.net (618) 463-0714
Marc Fink, Center for Biological Diversity, mfink@biologicaldiversity.org (218) 525-3884

Supreme Court to Hear Case on Public’s Ability to Participate in National Forest Decisions and Challenge Unlawful Regulations

Arkansas Public Service Commission

Does It Do Any Good To Complain?

The answer is Yes! Complaints are an important part of the Arkansas Public Service Commission's (APSC's) regulatory duties. They help us monitor utility compliance with our rules. Over 50,000 questions and complaints are handled each year by our Consumer Services Office.
What Complaints Can The APSC Handle?

The APSC has the authority to investigate utility service, safety, billing, and rates. We handle complaints about service outages, connection and suspension of service, billing problems, payment arrangements, and disputed charges.

Shady Point II Coal Plant

This is a brief introduction to a new coal burning power plant proposed for eastern Oklahoma. Shady Point II: (It is "Shady" that's the Point). Shady Point and Panama are two small towns in Oklahoma about 20 miles south of I-40 near Arkansas.  They are home to a 330 megawatt coal burning power plant owned by AES (Shady Point I).  AES is seeking permits to build an additional plant in the same location (Shady Point II).  The additional plant would be 630 megawatts. 
 

Reducing Herbicide Use in the Ozarks

Electric utilities throughout the Ozarks are presently using a combination of herbicides to kill the native plants, trees, and shrubs that grow beneath the power lines throughout our region. Thousands of miles of Right of Ways (ROW’s) are being sprayed, causing harm to a wide range of species. Chemical residues from herbicides wash into area creeks, ponds, springs, wells, and groundwater.

Ozark Prose

Full Moon Flood

Continuous Lightening
Keeps me Attentive
Waters Rise
Quickly - Swiftly
Changing the Course
of Land and Life
I Submerge Myself
In the Full Sap Moon
Rescue Daffodils
Pull the Boat up to Higher Ground
Loose Attachment to Items
Carried Downstream
To Another Collector

The Wind Changes
and Suddenly
I am Stunned
by the Glinting Rays of Sun
on the Reckless Water

Marla Bird 2008

Bats Perish, and No One Knows Why

Bats Perish, and No One Knows Why

By TINA KELLEY
Published: March 25, 2008

Al Hicks was standing outside an old mine in the Adirondacks, the largest bat hibernaculum, or winter resting place, in New York State.

It was broad daylight in the middle of winter, and bats flew out of the mine about one a minute. Some had fallen to the ground where they flailed around on the snow like tiny wind-broken umbrellas, using the thumbs at the top joint of their wings to gain their balance.