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 -- Quote of the Day --  "Charisma is not so much getting people to like you as getting people to like themselves when you're around." ~ Robert Brault  -- Positive News --  Kudos to 3 amazing cities within the US (Asheville, NC, Talent, OR, and Carrboro, NC ) who have  joined a program known as " Bee City, USA " http://ejus.tc/1t63f9Q To join this program, communities must create and instigate policies that help protect and restore bee colonies . Some of these policies might include promoting native bee-friendly plants to create habitat and food for them. Other policies might look at encouraging eco-friendly farming, organic gardens, creation of green space and installing specially designed gardens in public spaces from parks to school yards.  Creating these spaces is not enough - there must be education as well. Therefore cities will need to pla...

-- Quote of the Day --  “Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.”  ~ Horace -- Fostering Biodiversity In The City --  Window boxes, vertical gardens, hanging baskets, balcony gardens, roof top gardens, back yard habitat, city garden baskets – boxes – and green spaces, community gardens… all of these and more are becoming more and more common across the planet.  People are now aware that even the smallest of green space has a positive impact on the planet. From releasing moisture that cools the air, cleaning air pollution, reducing dust and noise issues, providing shade, producing food and habitat for people and creatures of all sizes from butterflies and bats to the tiniest ant.  Choose to grow more in a wide array of flowering times, food production, shapes and sizes of plants using whatever space you have available to you is a wa...

-- Quote of the Day --  “I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words;  they ought all to be distilled into actions,  which bring results.”  ~ Florence Nightingale -- Green Cities --  *Source: Miracle-Kids.net Surabaya, one of the major cities in Indonesia with a population of over 3 million, is being transformed from a city surrounded by garbage into a beautiful green city.  They are doing this through the local green group - Pusdakota - who has introduced a way for utilizing ordinary bacteria in a container to break down organic waste in just a couple of days.  Citizens call this their “magical bucket”,  because it generates compost the people are encouraged to fertilize trees and plants in the city parks, streets, and gardens.  Find Dave and Lillian Brummet, excerpts from their books, their radio program, blog, and more at: http://brummet.ca * Support the Brummets b...

-- Quote of the Day -- "People are anxious to improve their circumstances,  but are unwilling to improve themselves;  they therefore remain bound."  ~ James Allen    -- Conscious Discussions Talk Radio --   Sign up via itunes for the Conscious Discussions Radio show: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id262138144   Frank Domenico Cipriani - columnist, volunteer, author,  and educator - was Ocean County, (New Jersey, USA) Volunteer of the Year in 2009. His Walkabout program annually involves 250 miles of walkabout trips for 11-17 year olds that spanned all twenty-one counties of New Jersey (all on foot) and resulted in the planting of over 3,000 trees. We’ll also touch on his passions for The Gatherer Institute and their work to involve youth in community involvement and resource management Join us live (10-11 AM Pacific) and drop in the chat room - or access the archive of...