I think I have discovered how to spend my fall. I have signed up as a volunteer with Common Ground Collective. Of course I plan on keeping up with my website work and in fact just signed on another client yesterday.

If you haven't seen Greg Palast's film about New Orleans "Big Easy to Big Empty - The Untold Story of the Drowning of New Orleans" You can visit the Greg Palast Website for more details. It is showing right now on LinkTV if you have satellite dish.

After seeing it, you will see why there is so much work left to do in the gulf coast.

I am leaving Americus, I have freed myself of all my belongings down here and leave with a lightness I haven't experienced in a while. I don't know what is next for me, but I look forward to it with gratitude.

If you haven't already, do your part to join One.org in ending global poverty. I was invited last year to serve Fair Trade coffee at the Coldplay concert in Atlanta and these are the folks who invited us. I was very impressed to read that their newsletter is going out to over 2 million readers. This is amazing for an organization that hasn't been around for very long.

Reading Grist for the Mill by Ram Dass. It has been a while since I read Ram Dass, and as I was reading it aloud to a good friend (the best way to read a book in my opinion), I really have been learning a lot. I encourage anyone reading this to check it out:

Here's another great technology to watch.



Check out Dennis Klein's website hytechapps.com

Last weekend we saw "Who Killed the Electric Car" at the Tivoli in Kansas City. If this movie is showing near you, go see it, it is important to know this chapter in our history so that it is not repeated!

So, I have discovered that posting to a blog continues to fall upon the back burner. As I don't want to give up altogether, I am going to sart to use this blog to share information that I find useful.

To start, my interest in a vehicle powered by vegetable oil continues to grow. Here is a good video piece that shows the how and why of converting a vehicle.



The only fear I have about what was shared is that if we encourage growing crops for vegetable oil to run cars, we must be careful it doesn't become a new source of revenue for the big agro-businesses.