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  Lisa Taylor August 18, 2009 at 7:59pm

  Hi Charly,
  You mentioned a while back that I could stop by and check out your worm operation - can I still take you up on that sometime? Also, I'm teaching a worm class tomorrow and was wondering if I can refer people to you for starter worms (for sale, trade, etc).
  Thanks!
  Lisa
  480-620-6053
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  Jane Doyle May 13, 2009 at 1:05pm

  Hi Charles, I feel stupid, I can't find or remember where I commented to Eva, haven't heard back from her, but I'll be happy to share some seeds with you. I know you have quite a bit of ground to cover, though; I don't have enough to cover all the (5000 sq ft?) but I can at least give you a couple of cups. I am in the 43rd Avenue and Greenway area; how would you like to work out the logistics? Do you have that other compost place sorta on the way from my place to yours? Have you gotten compost there and what do you think? If I was going to go there, I could just drop the seeds off at your house. But I'm a Ken Singh person and I want to make sure this other compost is worthwhile, lol.
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  Michael and Lylah Ledner May 12, 2009 at 1:18pm

  Thanks Charles for the scoop on your shade cloth and your how to's. My hubs really appreciates that. he had a question: "I'm looking for shade cover as well as protection from the birds, to cover 4 garden boxes 4ft by 20ft. I'd like to use pvc pipe but wondered what would be the most cost efficient material to use for the covering. What would you suggest? ...and where do I purchase it? - thanks!" - Michael
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  Janet May 7, 2009 at 4:24pm

  I'll be out of town until the week of May 18th. I could bring you at least two dozen eggs. I will be back in touch.
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  Janet May 7, 2009 at 8:23am

  Hello,
  
  Would you like to trade red worms for fresh backyard chicken eggs? I need one pound or 1,000 red worms to start my indoor bin.
  
  Janet
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  Andrew Martin Schreiber April 29, 2009 at 8:43am

  Charly,
  
  Sorry to melt your backbone! didnt mean it all that much. I did not mean to say that we cannot have rights. RIghts are a human social invention. and abstract concept. like a mortgage being paid with bank notes that , or Like chimpanzees picking flees off one another. What I was trying to get across was that in nature, there are not rights. and I feel it is my duty to get right with nature. So I have to question anything that doesn't align itself with nature and forces of the non-human world. rights are one of them.
  
  What I do see in nature is action and reaction; or Consequences. So to day that one should not rob a person because it sets a negative precedent for the community, then I have no problem with the public ostracizing the thief, or the glutton, or the rapist, or the murderer. because the consequences of such actions are detrimental to survival of the species.
  
  What I fear is that there are lines of politicians waiting give people their abstract 'rights', so long as citizen's legitimatize the governments monopoly on the use of force; at home and abroad, in order to secure these rights. This is a dangerous game, as people demand their 'right' to 'security' 'economic progression' 'equality of outcome' etc. they can easily loose other, more fundamental 'rights' like that of expressing oneself without being incarcerated and tortured. or the right to organically grow food close to home. or to organize for the betterment and strengthening of community at the local and state level. AS opposed to centralizing power at the federal level.
  
  good morning,
  cheers,
  Schreiber
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  Windlord April 28, 2009 at 6:21pm

  Thanks for the invite, Charles. That sounds interesting. Since it is a bit of a drive, and I would only want to go when you're there for sure (as there is no way you would want a newbie like me rooting around in your garden alone :-), would you feel comfortable providing some contact info (a cell perhaps) so I can check in w/ you? If you like privacy, you could leave it in the email section in the upper right of each MYPAGE. I think this is only able to be viewed by the page occupant, and perhaps admin. Thanks again
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  Andrew Martin Schreiber April 28, 2009 at 8:57am

  Charly,
  
  you can call me Andrew, or Schreiber. I am glad to hear you understand the importance and power of local government action. It seems to me that creating an example of what thoughtful planning by qualified people who have a vested interest in the community is the only way to make a meaningful difference in Urban environments like Phoenix.
  
  I am not familiar with "The Right To the City" by David Harvey. But I just read an abstract about it. I cant say I disagree all that much with what it said. But I am weary of any sort of rights debate. I feel it is misleading to tag things like a useful urban environment as a right, per se. especialy inallienable rights. I am trying to get all of my philosophy from nature. nature doesn't have rights. Just look at all the exstinct and endangered species, and just look at what hurricanes and the like do to our cities. We have been living in a realitively prosperous and stable time in the states (geological, environmentally, socially, and politically). That doesn't mean to me that there is any right to have large population centers at all.
  
  A right implies a certain ethical basis which may not be shared by all those in a certain place. To say that one has a right to private property, is to ethically imply that he has a right to fruits of labor. and that they are the sole owners of those fruits. What Harvey is saying is that the right to private property (and other rights) and the preservation of wealth, is trumping the 'inalienable rights' of people to live in a healthy and socially just environment. that open up a another can or worms with the meaning and implementation of 'justice'.
  
  anyways, what I believe is, if we want a healthy community, and a just society , it is ours for the taking. Moreover, it is our duty, our Dharma, to make it happen. now rights need not be discussed. In order to survive we have to operate, on all levels, in cooperation and harmony with natural systems. otherwise we are doomed to fail. Nature doesn't seem to care WHY you do the things you do, just that they work within the given framework framework. We have had success slapping nature in the face for a few centuries, but that is not to say it is rightfully ours. By any means.
  Having a million people in the phoenix desert is like slapping nature in the face.
  
  as for what an intentional community is, It is sort of the equivalent of a commune thirty years ago. But i don't know what the hell a commune is. My community is a group of people coming together with a similar intention. To work for a unified goal. Ours happens to be researching and educating people on community scale (energy, food, water, social) technology.
  
  And by the way, my web page is not MY webpage. It is a data base of Vedic (ancient Indian) scripture. If you are interested the web page for the community of which I am a part. it is:
  www.windward.org
  check out the notes section link in the center of the page for our continuous twenty year long blog of technological development.
  
  Peace, and keep up the good work,
  Schreiber
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  TERRI LARSEN February 17, 2009 at 11:42pm

  Hey Charles, just wanted to see if you got the reply I made to your post, I put some links for you for activism sites to protest our financial situation. I am with you, I wish there were enough people like us that are ticked off enough to get out there and protest it, but the majority of us are sheep, and won't do it. So, the blogs are the best way until we can become more active.
  
  Maybe you, Dan, I, and the rest of the like minded people should start a movement or somethin'.....