Coalition for Positive Change

all via pink couch, it may be overwhelming at first, work your way through it…

Laura Stevenson and the Cans – Untitled
Dragonzord – Alameda
Laura Stevenson and the Cans – Amphibian
Hop Along – Coney Island Song
Laura Stevenson – Nervous Rex
Heathers – Margie
Hop Along – Workers
Letters to the Moon – what we were
Ava Luna – Pass the Barbary
Hop Along – Second Name
Heathers – Bloodpact
Hop Along – Bruno is Orange
Wild Moccasins – Wild Fruit
Heathers – Waiter
Letters to the Moon – Shoplifter

this happened in Point Arena, CA while collecting seawater.

I would like to go ahead and thank everything and everyone for the last few months. It has been great. Rivers, Mountains, Trees, Bees, Trucks, Laughs, Gardens, Nights, Parties, Ukiah nights, Days, Quiet, Solar Power, Heady Ladies, Team Power, Love, Acceptance, Struggle, Triumph, Birds, reptiles, workshops, friendship, porches, roads, heads, hands, hearts, roadtrips, Making fun, if i forgot anything, please remind me!

Here is a slideshow of all my pictures from the last few months:

Here is a slideshow of everything I saw at the Oregon Country Fair in early July 2010:

Take a closer look
Stay away from light
Wave of mutilation
who can forget Tuvan Throat singing?
New Evidence For Ancient Life On Mars
1977 Star Wars Computer Graphics
Terrafon plays the earth as an instrument
The 1979 Iranian Revolution in Pictures
Two Sunken Japanese Submarines Found Off Hawaii
Accommodate the Tweenbots!
Did you ever think of this: 9

First run of lifeboxes have been produced! This is one Paul Stamets gave me when i saw him at the Green Festival in San Francisco. Its quite simple yet quite amazing! They used an eco friendly cardboard producer , soy ink, and cold press glue to produce these Tree seed and mycorrhiza (fungi) infused shipping boxes/planters. Once you get the goods you were shipped out of the box, the instructions state to rip it up, soak it in non chlorinated water, then freeze it to “stratify” the tree seeds to induce germination. If you have a cold winter season coming you can skip that step and bury it before the ground reaches 40 degrees Fahrenheit. you can then piece up the cardboard and use small planters or bury about 1/4 of an inch in the ground, trees should start sprouting in 2-12 months after the cold. Paul Stamets hopes to collect the GPS coordinates of their new home, and asks lifebox users to email their coordinates, your name, and the Lot # listed on the underside of the Life Box™. The full run of production should be available via standard shipping through Fungi Perfecti and a growing about of retailers in early 2010.

via Fungi.com
via lifeboxcompany.com

Time has been moving quickly this summer, workshops at the Solar Living Institute, Trips to local communities, Downtime with friends. Intern living is ripe now. Warm summer days, cool rivers, brisk evenings. Waking up under the sunrise of each new day. The Milky way is involved in my life more than ever. Ukiah draws me in with its ambiguous mysteries.

wandering around Central California with extraordinariness Phil Allen.

And that, I think, was the handle – that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of old and evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look west, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark – that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.

-Hunter S. Thompson