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in brighter news
I met with a librarian downtown to see about joining her for a special project involving their graphic narrative collection. Come January, I will be helping her assemble even more of their collection into a new sub-collection of graphic works - everything from Snoopy strips to Maus, Dark Knight, and Clan Apis. Every text is being checked by hand to ( Read more... ) -
Social business
Social business - it's what I'm into lately. Support Homeboy Industries, where "nothing stops a bullet like a job" here in LA by logging in with your facebook account and getting them closer to a $1 donation from Ford by watching a video or following them on Twitter:http -
economics, psychology, charity
So, I got into a discussion with Reichart about the fallacy of there not being enough work in the world, of jobs being limited and easily eliminated. We ended up at the point of lack of working capital being one of the huge limiting factors to useful work being done ( Read more... ) -
holiday giving
My focus lately is microfinance. My favorite resources right now are Kiva.org and Matt Damon's Water.org. Both groups focus on providing local communities with desired capital and education to make SUSTAINABLE improvements to the communities, often employing local support network/peer pressure models to make sure there is a great deal of recipient ( Read more... ) -
more honey
So, in addition to the cut comb you saw yesterday, our crush/strain yielded a 5lb bottle of honey (plus a dribble beyond that), enough wax for 6 votives, and 3 quarts of honey water from the cappings rendering process. This honey water absolutely requires cutting before drinking - the concentration it currently has could probably have been used for ( Read more... ) -
BEES!!!
Today we harvested our first crop of honey. We wound up with 37 trays of cut comb and about 5-lb of extracted honey, plus a couple pounds of beeswax - the extracted honey/wax are still straining/rendering right now. I am RIDICULOUSLY excited about this! I feel almost silly about how excited I am about it, despite every beekeeper I know saying for ( Read more... ) -
memory lane
I've been babysitting a 1yo lately. Our "quiet time" interludes are usually a Sesame Street clip or two off their website. I miss John John so much - I wish they had a tag for him so I didn't have to search by keyword. I'll have to see if they'll let me make my own playlist... -
I'm famous!
Well, not really, but I'm closer than before ( Read more... ) -
Help the bees with our highways!
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011
You can help bees and other pollinators by signing on to Group Letter (and shown BELOW) supporting the Highways BEE Act(Highways Bettering the Economy and Environment Act), ( Read more... )
