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Your Community Spirit 2006-10-06

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April 15, 2018
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Human beings want to be happy! Happenings include the WDBX Fall Membership Drive; music and performance at the Big Muddy IMC; the National Solar Homes Tour comes to Southern Illinois; Southern Illinois Renaissance Faire; Shawnee Trash Bash clean-up in the Shawnee on Indigenous People’s Day weekend; and the Neighborhood Co-op Grocery’s Harvest Picnic. News includes a border fence plan that could wreak havoc on the environment; the U.S. population hits 300 million; and the US forgives some Guatemalan debt in exchange for rainforest protection.

Your Community Spirit 2006-09-29

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Treesong babbles while Aur travels. Happenings include the Free Film Friday at the Big Muddy IMC; Shawnee Trash Bash clean-up in the Shawnee on Indigenous People’s Day weekend; AIDS benefit drag show at Upside Downtown; local and national efforts to oppose Mountaintop Removal continue; and the Southern Illinois Renaissance Faire. News includes new sightings of ivory-billed woodpecker in Florida; aspen trees dying mysteriously in the western US; and a judge sides with caribou to ban snowmobiles from caribou recovery zone in Idaho. Music includes Playing with Fire Celtic CD and a song called Paradise played in honor of the Mountaintop Removal issue.

Your Community Spirit 2006-09-22

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Happenings include a free trip around the sun; Car Free Day; the new moon; Heartland Bioneers coming up in October; Free Film Friday at the Big Muddy IMC; Treesong’s Earth Conscious Revolution book signing at Rosetta Stone Bookstore; In Focus on WSIU TV features local community leaders discussing Civil Rights era; Green Belt Movement speaker comes to Illinois; benefit concert for the Pan American Conservation Association at Hangar 9; and Eyes on the Prize, a local community outreach campaign related to the Civil Rights movement. News includes California suing carmakers over pollution; Supreme Court puts roadless rule back into action; EPA isn’t conducting enviro justice reviews; Big Business acting to fight climate change; Brits ask Exxon to stop lying about the science of climate change; researcher proposes spewing sulphur dioxide into the stratosphere to keep global warming at bay; and Aur and Treesong review other headlines in the news this week.

Your Community Spirit 2006-09-15

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April 15, 2018
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Aur and Treesong return triumphantly to Carbondale to join forces for another episode of Your Community Spirit. Happenings include Treesong’s completion of his next book, Earth Conscious Revolution; Free Film Friday at the Big Muddy IMC; and Sheila Simon’s bicycle tour. News includes a review of stories that transpired while Aur and Treesong were away; Proposition 87 in California proposes to tax oil and fund renewables; illness still lingers untreated following 9/11 air pollution; Google philantropists plan to build hybrid car; Big Muddy IMC has their own coffee now at the Neighborhood Co-op Grocery; rising ocean temps cause anthropogenic warming; Helsinki meeting offers lots of talk and little action on climate change; Portland’s real estate database goes green; BMW will put 100 hydrogen vehicles on the road in 2007; Treesong still wants a Tesla Roadster; and Aur and Treesong share other headlines of note.

Your Community Spirit 2006-09-01

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Aur returns to interview Green Party gubernatorial candidate Rich Whitney; Treesong departs to attend the Earth Activist Training. Happenings include Free Film Friday at the Big Muddy IMC; the Eyes Wide Open exhibit at the Town Square Pavillion; and critters and plants making adjustments in preparation for the coming of Fall. News includes Rich Whitney’s official approval to appear on the state ballot after Democrat challenges to the ballot petitions were soundly defeated. Music include the tunes of local band RognboB.

Your Community Spirit 2006-08-18

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Happenings include Free Film Friday at the Big Muddy IMC; Peace Vigil at the Town Square Pavillion; Farmer’s Market in Carbondale; ‘Eyes Wide Open’ Art Exhibit at the Town Square Pavillion; and Community Peace Forum at the Unitarian Fellowship. News includes melting ice in Greenland; potential hemp legalization in California; new marine reserves in California; genetically modified grass loose in the wild; and global warming causing worse weather.

Your Community Spirit 2006-08-11

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Aur is out on solar adventures. Happenings include Free Film Friday at the Big Muddy IMC at 214 N. Washington in C’dale; Local Solar segment on In Focus tonight at 9 pm on WSIU TV; and the Farmer’s Market on Saturday from 8 to 12 in Carbondale. News includes Pat Robertson’s acknowledgement of global warming; polls show declining support for Bush’s enviro policies; enviros save trees by cutting them; and investment booms in green industries.

Your Community Spirit 2006-08-04

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Happenings include Free Film Friday at the Big Muddy IMC; Peace Vigil on Saturday at noon at the Town Square Pavillion in C’dale; and a Peace Potluck on Sunday at 5 pm at Church of the Good Shepherd. News includes a heat wave shutting down nuke plants in Europe; Blair and Arnie fighting climate change; British indulge in “global warming porn”; Bill Clinton fighting climate change; land conservation and development in Florida; electric vehicles on the rise; and Weird Al tells us it’s “All About The Pentiums.”

Your Community Spirit 2006-07-28

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Happenings include Treesong’s Permaculture Fundraiser tonight at the Big Muddy IMC; Peace Coalition vigils every Saturday at noon at the Town Square Pavillion; and the Farmer’s Market every Saturday morning. News includes “clean coal”; electric cars; more electric cars; Amazon drought; boycott of ecocidal soy farms in the Amazon; GM cotton doesn’t cut long-term pesticide use; and continued global warming news.

Your Community Spirit 2006-07-21

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Featuring an interview with Nick Cooper, producer of the Soma Documentary showing this Saturday at 7 pm at the Big Muddy IMC (214 N. Washington in Carbondale). Due to the interview, this was our main happening of the day. News includes native fruits for the birds; a heat wave; edible lawns; more about the heat wave; a Smoke-Free Carbondale petition; frivolous Democrat challenges to Green ballot petitions; and headlines about declining US fuel economy, destructive soy products, lazy people saving the planet, Google attacking global warming, Big Brother keeping states from setting tougher toxic rules, and a delawning movement.