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Videos From VentingMedia

Rep. Dave Camp's staff speaks to both sides of the Healthcare issue very differently - watch.

Health Care Rally
Traverse City, MI - 8.25.09

A video about building a wood-fired pottery Kiln

Watch Dave Barrons speaking on Climate Change at the Leelanau Democratic Party meeting on April 15, 2009

Peace Walk, March 21, 2009
Peace Walk 09

watch it here.

Community Area Web Sites

TraversePeaceAlerts.org

TraverseAreaProgressives.org

VentingMedia.com

NEAHTAWANTA CENTER
z Mission Statement

The Neahtawanta Center is a place of gathering and a community of kindred spirits, created to serve people and institutions interested in working toward a sustainable and just society. As a place of gathering, we provide an environment in which people can enjoy, seek wholeness and uncover their own spirituality. As a community, we seek the common good in all we do and believe that the earth and all living beings which inhabit it are fundamentally good.

We believe that the earth can be transformed from a place where excessive suffering is allowed to exist, to a place where harmony, peace and balance is accessible to all. We are committed to bringing about this transformation through partnership with those in our broader community, with a focus on communication, hospitality, education and service.

We dedicate ourselves to living a life of congruence and caring so that we might serve as a model to all those whose lives we touch.

Past News Events
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Of note from the net

Published on Thursday, January 28, 2010 by BBC News
Economic Growth 'Cannot Continue'
Continuing global economic growth "is not possible" if nations are to tackle climate change, a report by an environmental think-tank has warned. (download the report)

Democracy in America Is a Useful Fiction
by Chris Hedges
Corporate forces, long before the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, carried out a coup d'état in slow motion. The coup is over. We lost. The ruling is one more judicial effort to streamline mechanisms for corporate control. It exposes the myth of a functioning democracy and the triumph of corporate power. But it does not significantly alter the political landscape. The corporate state is firmly cemented in place.

Climate Forum Update Premieres on Up North Media Community TV
Traverse City, Michigan (December 16, 2009) - The Up North Media Center takes Northwest Lower Michigan to Copenhagen for the largest international political conference ever held in Denmark.

TC350 • Open Sapce • 10.24.09 • Thanks to all who participated

The first number is 390, our current level of parts/million of CO2 in the atmosphere. The factory on the left is spewing CO2 molecules that are circulating over the 390 number and being absorbed by the trees on the right. As the CO2 molecules slow, the number changes to 370. As the CO2 molecules slow even more, the number changes to 350.

Here's the behind the scene look at the making of TC350 at the Open Space...

And check out what happen else where on the planet . . .

Dave Barrons speaking at the TC350 event

Resilience Thinking: an article for the latest 'Resurgence', by Rob Hopkins
The latest edition of Resurgence is timed to coincide with the Copenhagen talks, and looks at resilience as a key aspect of the climate change debates. Here is the article I wrote for it. Resilience Thinking.
Why 'resilience thinking' is a crucial missing piece of the climate-change jigsaw and why resilience is a more useful concept than sustainability: by Rob Hopkins. Resilience; "the capacity of a system to absorb disturbance and reorganise while undergoing change, so as to retain essentially the same function, structure, identity and feedbacks

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