Labor Day and the Cycle of Change in the Garden

Labor Day and the Cycle of Change in the Garden

Posted: 05 Sep 2015 08:49 AM PDT

By Susan Taylor 

Traditionally Labor Day weekend is the harbinger of fall in much of our nation. The eastern states put away their garden furniture, barbeques, and lawn mowers and locate storm windows and heavier jackets. Here in the sunny southern California clime, we expect at least another six weeks of warm weather, beach parties and more clear, warm days and nights. In San Diego, most would agree that the August heat was epic for people and gardens alike and maybe summer has just begun! I am a fickle home gardener and confess I gave up on my whole tomato crop, picked as many as I could and ripped the rest out.   [Read more...]

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Humankind Has Halved the Number of Trees on the Planet

Posted: 05 Sep 2015 08:48 AM PDT

Trees 'store huge amounts of carbon, are essential for the cycling of nutrients, for water and air quality, and for countless human services'. By Andrea Germanos / Common DreamsThe good news: there are over 3 trillion trees covering the Earth—that's far higher than the 4 billion estimated just two years ago, a team of international researchers has found. But here's the bad news: there were far more trees—46 percent more—before human civilization got hold, with an estimated 15 billion trees being lost own each year, with just 5 billion replanted.   [Read more...]

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War should always be our last resort.

Dear Friend,

War should always be our last resort.

Diplomacy. Vigorous, muscular diplomacy, like that embodied in the Iran nuclear negotiations, must be what we try first. Always.

There's a terrible cost to waging war—both human and economic. That cost—and why I support the Iran deal—is the subject of my latest video. 

Please watch and share "The Cost of War" now: 

America will soon have a generation raised entirely during wartime with no end in sight.

It's just common sense: If diplomacy with Iran is an option—and it is—we must use it.

For the sake of our children. For peace in the world. 

Thanks for all you do.

–Robert Reich 

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In 12 days the Fed could take your job away from you ...(or.....

Robert Reich via Facebook.com

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In 12 days the Fed could take your job away from you (or prevent you from getting a raise or cause your wage to drop, or your savings to shrivel). Why? Because several of its members think unemployment so low and the chance of inflation so high that they have to raise interest rates and slow the economy.

This is absurd. The percentage of the American population that’s working is more than three percentage points lower than it was before the Great Recession, suggesting we’re 3 to 4 million jobs below where we should be if the economy were healthy. This isn’t because of aging boomers. Even the employment rate of prime-age workers (ages 25-54) is down nearly the same percentage. That’s because millions of working-age people have given up looking for jobs because they can’t find any. But they’re no longer counted as being employed so the Fed doesn’t see them.

And inflation? What inflation? The Fed is officially committed to maintaining an average inflation rate of 2%. But inflation has averaged less than 1.5% over the past seven years and was just 1.3% over the past year.

The Fed’s inflation hawks are out of their minds, and their determination to raise interest rates when the Fed meets September 16 is lunacy. Please add your name to stopping them, by clicking here:http://bit.ly/DontRaiseRates.

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Bernie Sanders Rips Donald Trump While Calling Out The Bigoted Billionaire’s Racism

Bernie Sanders Rips Donald Trump While Calling Out The Bigoted Billionaire’s Racism Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) ripped Donald Trump at a Latino roundtable in Iowa. Sanders stood up to the Republican bully by calling out Trump's racism.     Read more »

Friday Fox Follies – Fox Lies Matter!!! If Fox "News" has not been trying to foment a Race War, it's doing a pretty good imitation. The negative way it portrays Black folk, as opposed to the respect with which it gives White folk, has been a cornerstone of the station since it went on the air.     Read more » Key Democratic Congressman Skewers Benghazi Committee Says Time To Shut It Down Congressman Adam Schiff wrote a blistering op-ed in The New York Times, calling for the Select Committee to be disbanded.     Read more » Bernie Sanders Rips Donald Trump While Calling Out The Bigoted Billionaire’s Racism Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) ripped Donald Trump at a Latino roundtable in Iowa. Sanders stood up to the Republican bully by calling out Trump's racism.     Read more » MSNBC Blows Hillary Clinton Exclusive Interview By Obsessing Over Her Emails Hillary Clinton has only granted three national interviews since launching her presidential campaign, MSNBC got the latest one and completely wasted it by obsessing over Clinton's emails.     Read more » A Win for Love and Marriage Equality in Rowan County as Kim Davis Goes to Jail Deputy clerk Brian did his job on Friday morning, and Rowan County Kentucky began issuing its first marriage     Read more » Obama Blows Republicans Out Of The Water With Fastest Job Growth Pace Since Clinton President Obama is blowing his Republicans critics away by setting the fastest job growth pace since Bill Clinton was president in 2000.     Read more » Evangelical Death Threats Against Planned Parenthood Are On The Rise If history is any indication, law enforcement had better take the increase in death threats against abortion providers very seriously     Read more » New Book Accuses Hillary Clinton of Waging a War on Women Two authors who hate women, one of whom has said he wants her to die, are hardly people you'd trust to point fingers at Hillary Clinton     Read more »

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