Stephanie sez: “I read voraciously about history and political theory, and once I understood that capitalism is based on exploitation, I became its enemy.”

Read the full interview here

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Poem: “haiku presence"

A blast from my somewhat recent past:

The Greenest Poem Ever

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Bonus post:

Vegan goes mainstream? (interview)

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Another of my photos:

Tattoo

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Poem: “haiku comrade"

A blast from my somewhat recent past:

Living Low Tech

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Expendable Helga from Down Under visits Astoria:

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Poem: “haiku clarification"

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Bonus Post:

Interview with Work With Passion author, Nancy Anderson

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Poem: “haiku answers"

A blast from my somewhat recent past:

High Noon for Planet Earth

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Another of my photos:

Subway studying

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Poem: “cowardly lyin’"

Perhaps the most brilliant aspect of creating community is the limitless forms in which this process appears. Consider Michelle Tea, a writer and literary arts organizer whose works often explores topics that too often go misunderstood: queer culture, feminism, race, class, prostitution, etc. Michelle reaches out to the misfits and the outcasts, helping them recognize that it’s the mainstream culture that needs an extreme makeover.

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Another of my photos:

Sign of summer

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Poem: “automatic haiku (3)"

You may be familiar with Australian singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Xavier Rudd through festivals all around the globe, like the Bonnaroo Music Festival, Ottawa Bluesfest, The Great Escape, Bumbershoot, and Austin City Limits. If you’re a Planet Green reader, you may also know him as the most recent recipient of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society Rock the Boat Award.

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Another my photos:

Dove in flight

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Poem: “haiku challenge"

In his book, Climate Wars: The Fight for Survival as the World Overheats, author Gwynne Dyer presents a series of scenarios that could potentially play out (soon) as climate change advances, e.g. several million dying in cyclones and floods in Bangladesh, the US building a mined fence to stop “climate refugees” from the South, tens of millions of Chinese dead in droughts…and then things get truly catastrophic.

Such so-called “gloom and doom” is often greeted with either denial or mockery but staring dead-on into the reality we’ve all helped create is the first step in the following outline for personal, intellectual, and global self-defense.

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Another of my photos:

Truth in advertising...

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Poem: “haiku lesson"

Two blasts from my somewhat recent past:

5 ways to look at a tree

5 ways to look at a river

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Poem: “haiku forecast"

(Imagine your own words and/or images here)

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Poem: “head case haiku"