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Scanning the horizon from the hill atop Woodlawn Plantation in Fairfax County, Michael Babin can picture his agrarian ideal. A produce garden…

I've signed up for the Climate Ride in May, a 300 mile bicycle ride to raise awareness and funding for climate change solutions.  However, I need to raise $2400 by then, so I would greatly appreciate anyone who can drop a few dollars my way via my fundraising page.

In addition, I've started a blog to chronicle the effort, as well…

Mike Barrett keeps his bees in a hive that sits on the rooftop of his two-story row house in Astoria.

By KRISTINA SHEVORY

Published: New York Times, December 8, 2010

MIKE BARRETT does not have much of a yard at his two-story row house in Astoria, Queens. But that fact has not kept him from his new hobby of beekeeping — he put the hive on his…

As we pursue our definitive yet 'uneven' growth of identifying our aspirations, clarifying our various missions and learning to trust 'who we all are'; let us determine never to miss having our voice at the g-fest again. We've missed a golden opportunity simply because as in my case, the assumption that it would happen, that someone would make sure of it and all I had to do was to select my hours at the booth and be done! Then spin around table to table...now I'll have to pay at the…

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"We were land-based agrarian people from Africa. We were uprooted from Africa, and we spent 200 years developing our culture as black Americans. And then we left the South. We uprooted ourselves and

attempted to transplant this culture to the pavements of the industrialized North. And it was a transplant that did not take. I think if we had stayed in the South, we would have been a stronger people. And because the connection between the South of the 20's, 30's and 40's has been…