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Nobody ever asked any questions of the battered refugee as she was warmly welcomed into the travelling caravan of misfits and artists. In a few days time Gillian and her loyal comrades were able to safely deliver Cedar to the ocean. Once on the coast, the beavers arranged to ferry her by sea to the outskirts of the sanctuary, deftly navigating through the dangerous rocks and crashing waves to the refuge of the Point Montara Lighthouse.
In the last couple of days I have come across quite a number of very powerful, funny and thought-provoking graphics about a variety of important issues. Often complicated difficult concepts can be conveyed more succinctly and effectively with a strong image and just a few well chosen words; such is the strength of well executed graphic design. Some of these visual images deal with everything from sustainable transportation and social control, to starvation and the impending death of capitalism.
I just moved back to Miami a month ago, and I’m already up to my elbows in awesome goings-on in the organic, local, sustainable community. Most exciting in early October is the Earth Learning’s “2nd Greater Everglades Community Food Summit,” which actually starts September 29 (Today! Go and attend!) and ends on October 5th.
The growing movement toward local and sustainable urban farming is exciting enough, but quite a few locavores have progressed (or should I say reverted?) to urban foraging, gathering up edible plant life in parks, in their neighbors’ yards, or wherever it may grow with the help of website “Neighborhood Fruit.”
