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Transition Studio [wowcrowd]

great article on BPA dangers in home canning!

this is something I haven't thought about, it makes sense and from now on we will go BPA free on our lids!

http://www.grist.org/article/2010-07-09-ask-umbra-on-the-dangers-of-bpa-in-canning-lids-and-canned-food

from David Orr's book, Earth in Mind

"year-by-year, the number of people with first hand experience in the land dwindles. Rural populations continue to shift into cities...In the wake of this lose personal and local knowledge, the knowledge on which a country must ultimately stand, has come something hard to define but I think sinister and unsettling."
[pp 10]

The Dangers of Traditional Education...
1 - formal education will cause students to worry about how to make a living before they knew who they are

2 - it will render students narrow technicians who are morally sterile

3 - it will deaden their sense of wonder for the created world

[this is not to blame education alone, but in conjunction with our culture, it is part of a greater decline...]
[pp 24-25]

T | S is so proud of our board members!!!! They are all over the media!

board member meghan williamson is all over the news!!!

http://www.whsv.com/home/headlines/104051959.html

http://augustafreepress.com/2010/09/28/business-conference-to-highlight-local-success-stories/
...

http://www.newsleader.com/article/20100930/NEWS01/9300326/Small-business-advocates-to-explore-Staunton-as-part-of-conference


http://augustafreepress.com/2010/09/21/the-sweet-sound-of-small-business/

http://www.whsv.com/home/headlines/104051959.htmlhttp://augustafreepress.com/2010/09/28/business-con


our beautiful secretary Ally Bowersock with the Mayor of Roanoke, and gaining national recognition:

http://www.informz.net/acsm/archives/archive_990241.html



our amazingly talented microloan - economic development - community-based business guru Meghan Williamson:

http://augustafreepress.com/2010/04/14/fund-fosters-growth-of-small-business-in-staunton/



last but not least our incredible Vice-Chair/Historian and resident permaculturist Adam Campbell:

http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=46436&CHID=2

4.16.07 join us in remembrance...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Tech_massacre


and a touching quote borrowed from Corey...
"We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly We are brave enough to bend to cry ... And sad enough to know we must laugh again"

inspirational quotes

"Perhaps the first step toward regaining possession of our souls will be to repossess and re-plan the whole landscape." - Lewis Mumford 1968

"The complexity of our present trouble suggests as never before that we need to change our present concept of education. Education is not properly an industry, and its proper use is not to serve industries, either by job-training or by industry-subsidized research. It's proper use is to enable citizens to live lives that are economically, politically, socially, and culturally responsible. This cannot be done by gathering or "accessing" what we now call "information" - which is to say facts without context and therefore without priority. A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means putting first things first." — Wendell Berry

“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.”
-Rachel Carson, Silent Spring 1956


“The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”
-Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past, 1923

forging an emotional bond

"We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well - for we will not fight to save what we do not love." -S.J. Gould