oh, and give my love to dan choi too. he wore the handcuffs, and it wasn’t even ‘his issue’

very well put!

friends, with your permission i’m going to sign off a couple of minutes early here. i’m supposed to speak by skype to powershift australia–1000 young people gathered in sydney for climate action.

thanks enormously for all the good questions. and again, thanks to scarecrow john and to jane for putting on the handcuffs

our foreign friends are rightly mystified. they’re used to thinking of americans as rational, common-sense, can-do types–they may not always like what we do, but they know we’ve amassed our power using the tools that science provided. so they snicker (the chinese especially) at how in our middle age as a country we seem willing to delude ourselves, tell ourselves fairytales

no levitating–but maybe we can liberate the barack obama they seem to have locked in the basement directly after the 2008 election.

too true, i fear

kathryn–does that ever scare you? like, what if we really are the one and only living planet? it would make it especially tragic to be blowing it as badly as we are

the nytimes has done a great job. brad johnson at center for american progress. desmogblog. kate sheppard at mother jones. rolling stone. the christian century. sojourners. tomdispatch

yeah, that’s the problem. i understood the impulse to do health care first (even if ti didnt’; work out so well) but this a relaly time limtied problem

hopefully will be there thursday evening, before a panel with the great wendell berry on civil disobedience, which i think is at cambridge forum. i think the occupy plans are fluid, though, and i wouldn’t presume to speak for anyone at the encmapment. mainly jsut eager to see what they;re up to

i’m not too worried about it dissipating. yes, it will eventually need to move indoors, but these ideas are now lodged in the bloodstream of the body politic. i think it’s going to have huge effect

btw, apologies for all the typos. i’m a little worn out, and it seems to be affecting my fingers

i always try to remember that it’s conservation first, supply second. sometimes it’s ahrd, becuase you can’t take a picture of a retrofitted house the way you can of a new wind turbine.

that’s great news. i really loved that evening in bellingham. people seemed so ready to do the right thing, and without anger or fear, just resolve built on love of place and community

i thought it was pretty great. he doesn’t;’ get the respect he deserves in this country; overseas it’s a different story. people understand he’s a truth-teller

those testimonies are amazingly powerful. people listen if you’re willing to go get arrested about something

yep, and there’s a lot to learn about how to do it. ows is a fascinating laboratory, and already throwing off great inventions–for isntance, the human microphone. must be experienced to be believed!

i jsut thought there was a need for a basic easy-to-use info source–anmd i confess, i really like having all the primary documents close to hand for my own use.

you’ll get used to wood before long–heats you when you split and when you burn it

was in totnes, uk to give a talk at the hq of transition last week–as always, so good to see rob hopkins and crew. and as usual, we agreed: you need to be taking action in local communities, and you also need to be working on natl/global politics. because if we let the climate keep warming, it won’t matter how good your local organic food system is. check out the wrecked farms in vermont in the wake of this year’s flooding!

that’s why so many transition towns also involved in 350.org!

fascinating! i hope someone does figure out who is behind those endless newspaper comments. there can’t be that many bored misanthropes sitting around all day spouting the same party line