Alternative America

Buy a share in a local farm and get produce once a week for the duration of the local growing season. Here are some Massachusetts CSA farms (with a longer list here: http://www.boston.com/food)


Allandale Farm
Brookline

617-524-1531


Dragonfly Farms
Pepperell

978-433-3906

Fine Print's Art for Conservation program has been supporting photographers' conservation efforts for the past 20 years. By focusing on providing financial and printing resources to photographers and organizations who are pursuing grassroots environmental causes, Art for Conservation has become an essential ally of those who believe no conservation cause is to big - or too small - to take on.

Art for Conservation
1306 Blue Spruce Drive Unit E
Fort Collins CO 80524-2067

800-777-1141
970-416-6352(FAX)
http://www.artforconservation.org
info@artforconservation.org

Labels: art conservation artists environment ecology photography

From the front page of Committee Caller:

Committee Caller is a site that allows one person to target an entire congressional committee over the phone. The web application utilizes the open source Asterisk PBX system to connect you to every senator or house member on a particular committee. No more digging around the 'net entering zip-codes to retrieve phone numbers of representatives. Committee Caller automates the tedium of finding and dialing your favorite politicians.

From the front page of The Sunlight Foundation:

The Sunlight Foundation was founded in January 2006 with the goal of using the revolutionary power of the Internet and new information technology to enable citizens to learn more about what Congress and their elected representatives are doing, and thus help reduce corruption, ensure greater transparency and accountability by government, and foster public trust in the vital institutions of democracy. We are unique in that technology and the power of the Internet are at the core of every one of our efforts.

Today, in light of another year rife with corruption, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) released a new report on the Top Ten Ethics Scandals of 2007. It is available in its entirety at www.citizensforethics.org.

No new enforcement mechanisms for congressional ethics;

Ted Stevens still sitting on Senate Appropriations;

Senate Ethics Committee looking into Sen. Craig, but not Sen. Vitter;

Millions of missing White House emails still unaccounted for;

Rep. Murtha’s abuse of the earmarking process remains unchecked;

Lurita Doan remains chief of GSA despite illegal conduct;

White House covering up its role in the firings of the U.S. Attorneys;

No Child Left Behind funds directed to Bush fundraisers who provide inadequate reading materials for kids;

Court decision regarding search of Jefferson’s office limits ability of DOJ to investigate other corrupt lawmakers; and

FEMA knowingly let Katrina victims live in hazardous trailers

The recent, and ongoing, but now under control, California wildfires demonstrate the need for Americans to help Americans. The NETWORK FOR GOOD provides a way for people to help with contributions of money, goods, and services.

From the NETWORK FOR GOOD site:

"We are the largest nonprofit charitable giving site online. On our site, you can research and donate to more than one million U.S. charities in one place and you can also search more than 40,000 volunteer opportunities. Do Good. Feel Good. TM"

Donors Choose is a simple way to provide students in need with resources that our public schools often lack. At this not-for-profit web site, teachers submit project proposals for materials or experiences their students need to learn. These ideas become classroom reality when concerned individuals, whom we call Citizen Philanthropists, choose projects to fund.

DonorsChoose.org
347 West 36th S Suite 503
New York NY 10018

212-239-3615
212-239-3619(FAX)
national@donorschoose.org

National Day of Climate Action on November 3rd.

Will you be driving to the event, bicycling, or walking?

Crooks & Liars is co-sponsoring 10 Questions, a way for the public to ask questions of Presidential candidates from both parties. Present your question in the form of a video and have it voted on by the public. The winning questions will be presented to the candidates for consideration. The candidates then answer your question. You get to decide if they actually answered your question.

The GREEN FOR ALL campaign was started by an Oakland black environmentalist named Van Jones. Unfortunately I learned about it from a Wednesday, October 17, 2007, Thomas L Friedman column in the New York Times. Just that mention is enough to doom it to failure. But maybe not. Mr Jones has started a union training program to teach local people how to install solar panels and weatherize buildings. He is collaborating with Majora Carter of Sustainable South Bronx to train 30,000 young people a year in green trades. One can only hope that the Friedman imprimatur doesn't doom both enterprises.

Labels: "african-american environmentalist", "green collar", "green economy", "green jobs", "New York Times", "october 17, "thomas l friedman", 2007", economy jobs, environmentalism