WAR IS A RACKET

Major General Smedley Butler wrote the book, War is a Racket, in 1935. The short version I bought is 99 cents for an Amazon Kindle version. 

This book struck me as disturbingly true and I almost stopped reading. Fortunately, I read to the end--it's only a couple hundred pages--where the Major General offered ways to end war. 

Thought-provoking. Read it if you have the courage...

MANIPULATING CHAOS

Interesting article in Fusion that talks about how decades of planting manipulative information targeting older white men has led to the chaos in current U.S. politics.

HOW DO YOU GROW YOUR FOOD?

This article in Permaculture News gives a brief outline of a variety of growing systems to provide food. In addition to growing vegetables in the ground, this article suggests other methods of cultivating food such as using pots, aquaculture, wicking beds, bee hives, raising chickens and/or quail, and more!

OIL CHANGE AND A MANICURE

An all-female oil change business in Philadelphia allows you to have your hair and nails done while you wait for the oil in your car to be changed. What a fun idea!

I LOVED MY GRANDMOTHER. BUT SHE WAS A NAZI.

A thought-provoking article from the New York Times. 

CO-CREATING HEAVEN ON EARTH

"At present, we know how to create Hell on Earth. What would it be like to create the opposite — Heaven on Earth? What do we need to do right now to start?" 

Read more about co-creating Heaven on Earth from Martin Rutte, the founder of Heaven on Earth.

URBAN FARMS AS PRESCHOOLS?

Here's some dirt to wiggle your toes in: 

At the Architecture Workshop in Rome (AWR International Ideas Competition), a group of architects from Italy and the Netherlands took first place with their proposal for a preschool on an urban farm. The challenge centered around designing a nursery school model for London. This CityLab includes farm animals such as cows and chickens as well as greenhouses and ground-planted rows of vegetables. 

(A hat tip to Geoff Lawton and the Permaculture Research Institute for the heads-up on this article.)