GEOFF LAWTON'S FRIDAY FIVE

Since I am a big fan of Geoff Lawton and his Friday Five posts highlighting positive things in the world, this link will get you to that blog.

COAL MUSEUM TO BE POWERED BY SOLAR

Yep, you heard that right. Kentucky's Coal Mining Museum at the Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College is installing 80 rooftop solar panels to cut down on energy costs.

(Again, thanks to Geoff Lawton's Friday Five for the tip to this link.)

STOP YOUR WHINING!

Here's an article from The Guardian on taking a 21-day challenge to not complain during those three weeks. Are you up to it?

I'm going to, gulp, give it a try...or perhaps I'm not ready for this yet!

(Thanks to Geoff's Lawton's Friday Five for steering me to this link.)

A VISION FOR HEAVEN ON EARTH

Do you have a vision for Heaven on Earth? Perhaps it's something like what is described in this post from Martin Rutte.

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!