While it is no surprise to those of us at EcoSurvival Village that oil shock has occured, the rapidity with which the finger-pointing social decline has already begun has caught us off guard. It proves a hypothesis which some have been promoting lately: change is going to arrive at a much faster pace than [...]

Here is a good article I found on Common Dreams on what we need to do about global warming. It’s written by James Hansen, the director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and published by The Nation.
Read it here: Why We Can’t Wait

There is a beeping as the ramp slides out, then the doors open. He rolls himself in. His legs are covered with a blanket. His dull blondish hair is in a ponytail and he’s got layers of clothing. Behind him is a younger man, no more than five feet six, no hair visible under his billed cap, with red marks on his face shaped like tiny cigars. He’s wearing a flannel shirt and pants torn at the knee.

Urgent Action Needed
The US Postal Service is about to raise the rate for small magazines and publications. The new rates, proposed by Time Warner, will raise the cost for little publications by 30%. This is coming up fast (April 23rd), so please act today!
Read this article by Robert McChesney: Common Dreams Article
Send a [...]

Here is the context. It’s early in the 21st century in a slightly larger than midsized city. A pleasant city as they go in these times. We’re a middle-aged couple, low-income, low-need, intellectuals. Around us the world is changing, rapidly becoming hostile to human life, but as yet we are seeing only the merest edge [...]

Portland, Oregon
As I approached Terry Schrunk Plaza in downtown Portland, I was unsure of what I would encounter at the Global Warming Rally, which was one of 1300 actions around the country sponsored by a group call Step it Up. I suspected it would be one more lame event of the kind which the mainstream [...]

The Habit of Rainy Nights Press is putting out a call for manuscripts. We are looking at one or two projects for 2008. If you have a full-length book of literary-quality fiction, creative non-fiction, or social / cultural criticism, we may be interested in reviewing it.
We are a very small press with volunteer editors. [...]

Website: 18 months and a leg

Some of the best writing is coming out of New Orleans. If you are bored by restaurant reviews and hipster patter, go to this blog and be shaken out of your comfort zone.

Website: Face It Oregon

what: rally in downtown Portland
when: 1-3 pm saturday, april 14
where: terry schrunk plaza, sw 3rd and madison, portland
why: because we are the solution
Over the past six months a veritable avalanche of information and publicity has brought the issue of global warming to the forefront of public awareness and discourse in the United [...]