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Community Groups Contribute to End Local Hunger by Caitlin Grimmer
Washoe County, the City of Reno and the City of Sparks will be relying upon the Reno-Sparks Gospel Mission and other organizations to provide evening meals to the homeless after it cuts its meal program in July. The City of Reno and Washoe County will be cutting the meal program in order to save almost $259,000 for the next fiscal year. Rick Redding, the executive director of the Reno-Sparks Gospel Mission, has stepped forward to assume control … Read entire article »
Filed under: Featured, Food, Misc., Positive News
HOW I GOT STARTED PAINTING by Sharon Kay Baker
About 10 or 12 years ago, my husband and I were coming home from a drive up Mt. Lemmon, when suddenly he said to me, “You’d be a great painter!” I was dumbfounded. “Why on earth would you think that?” I asked. “It’s the way you respond to nature…to colors…to light and shadows.” As I recall, I simply snorted and changed the subject. Before hubby and I met, he had been an occasional painter and he still had a whole … Read entire article »
Filed under: Art/Music/Poetry/etc.
Finding Real Wealth: From a Consumer Culture to Social Well-Being
Imagine a way of life that’s culturally richer but materially leaner. In this emerging lifestyle, there is less stress, insecurity, pollution, doubt and debt, but more vacation time, more solid connections with nature and more participation in the arts, amateur sports and politics. There is greater reliance on human energy — fueled by complex carbohydrates — and less reliance on ancient sunlight stored as pollution-filled fossil fuel. Fewer fluorescent hours in the supermarket, more sunny … Read entire article »
Filed under: Misc., Nature, Positive News, Spirtuality
Top 5 Benefits/Drawbacks of Being a Musician
To most of us being a musician seems like a very romantic idea indeed. When we think of musicians often glamorous visions of screaming fans, flashing lights, orchestras playing in perfect harmony, rockstars with mad sex appeal, and lavish lifestyles come to mind. But what are the true advantages and disadvantages of living day to day as a practicing musician? In this article we will discuss the various benefits and drawbacks of … Read entire article »
Filed under: Art/Music/Poetry/etc.
Contagious Love Experiment by Josh Stieber and Conor Curran
Let me start at the begining… I was in middle school when I saw 9/11 on the news. I saw the hole in the Pentagon firsthand. For months afterwards, I’d wake up early before school to watch the news and better understand the situation. I understood that there were people out there who wanted to destroy my country and hated my religion. My religion (church, religious school) promoted war and I made a deal with God … Read entire article »
Filed under: Featured, Positive News, Spirtuality
“Cosmic Math” by Greg Allen Morgoglione with Alice the Canine Messiah
Cosmic Math: the fallacy of trying to be positive in a negative world The Universe multiplies via division, Gregory. Cosmic math has to do with division and multiplication. Alice brought this up a couple of months ago. I’ve been meaning to post it, and lately it has come surging to the forefront in my discussions with a friend whose story I will begin to tell in 2010. This is important Gregory, for many humans have the … Read entire article »
Filed under: Spirtuality
Because you are gorgeous!!! by Franka De Mille
In modern life there are few examples of ‘solidarity’ in the everyday. We all lead such separate lives and society is set up to make us fight for survival on a daily basis. So we get too busy or pre-occupied with our own lives to notice, or have time for, those around us. However there seems to be a wonderful opportunity to create a kind of Cyber-solidarity with those we meet online. Gone … Read entire article »
Filed under: Art/Music/Poetry/etc.
Jamie Oliver Should Be Our Kids’ New Hero
Recently my husband posted a video, about what Jamie is doing, onto a social network. It caught my eye and I watched the few minutes the Huffington Post had on their website. Then I watched his TED talk. If you haven’t seen a TED talk, I suggest you do. They are amazing to say the least. He has a new show on ABC that Ryan Seacrest set up for him called “Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution”, which airs … Read entire article »
Filed under: Food
Within DNA Lives Our Yearning by Toni Elizabeth Sar’h Petrinovich PhD
Within DNA Lives Our Yearning By Toni Elizabeth Sar’h Petrinovich PhD Deep within the heart of every person alive is a feeling that we often call yearning. In the New Oxford American dictionary, yearning is defined as “having an intense feeling of loss or lack and longing for something”. It is derived from a Germanic base meaning “eager”. So what are we feeling a lack of? For what is our longing? What is … Read entire article »
Filed under: Featured, Nature, Spirtuality
Building a wood-fired oven out of earth by Scott Alexander
Ideally you would want to build a stem wall to raise your oven to about waist high. Your base bricks should sit on an insulation layer to reduce the heat loss out of the bottom of you oven. Insulation is air pockets. Think of heat as moving molecules. As the molecules get more excited, they move faster, creating more friction which produces heat. The closer your molecules are, the easier it is for them to … Read entire article »
Filed under: Natural Building
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