ecocity banned from f’ing google adsense

well they did it!

I guess I’ll just have to focus on writing things that matter to people and less to robots.  We’ll see how that goes!  I know that there are a bunch of real people out there that are interested in sharing what they are doing in terms of small projects that help make their home towns into ecocities one step at a time, so I will be shaping this site into a place that helps make it possible to track progress and share “the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat” with others in pusuit of sustainability.

So how did ecocity get banned?  Presumably by not blacklisting people who were known to be clicking the google ads here way more than google was happy to know about.. After all, google knows all.  and if you fuck with google, you get dropped..   so, I’m going to continue to build this site into the most it can be, and if google lets me back, I’ll post their ads.   But maybe its just better not to have the urchiins and “who’se on your site and what are they thinking” George Orwell predictionatronics built into the site anyhow.

So, I’m going to try and keep this place clean by remove all of the bots that track the color of underwear you have on, number of stockings in your sock drawer, etc..  But I will add things that can make me a little $ to keep the presses rolling.   I’ll be up in BC, Canada for the first time ever later this month, and as we all know, that’s where the most bad ass shit goes on in the sustainability front.

Let me know what you think.

peaceout

Greg Willson

Turmeric Spice

I was taken aback when I grew Tumeric near Hanalei. It was always the strongest plant in the heb garden. I had always thought of it as a yellow powder, but now its was a huge colorful plant with lobular holes in the leaf sections. Powerful to grow this plant yourself. Many natural foods stores can supply you with a fresh root cutting from Tumeric. These root cuttings can be grown in your home, greenhouse, or outside depending upon your climate.

Turmeric is a many faceted healing plant with a long tradition of usage in the east. Turmeric (Curcuma longa) will help your skin to remain healthy, impove the digestibility of your meals, and now there is mounting evidence that it can be an important part of a cancer fighting healing foods diet.

• Therapeutic uses of Turmeric: Anemia, cancer, diabetes, digestion, food poisoning, gallstones, indigestion, IBS, parasites, poor circulation, staph infections, and wounds. souce: Turmeric.co.in

Turmeric.co.in contains helpful information about how to form your own remedies for the above ailments from turmeric.

Ayurveda for you points out that chemically, turmeric contains 20 molecules that are anti-biotic, 14 that are known cancer preventatives, 12 that are anti-tumor, 12 are anti-inflammatory and there are at least 10 different anti-oxidants.

Ayurvedic science describes Turmeric as tridoshic in that it is “pungent and warming pacifying Kapha and Vata. It is also bitter and astringent and so it pacifies the Pitta dosha.” This could account for new findings suggesting that Turmeric “helps prevent obesity and improve blood sugar control”, as suggested by keepthedoctoaway.co.uk

For more information on Turmeric and its healing, medicial, culinary, and traditional uses, check out the wikipedia page on Turmeric

Salmon aquaculture waste contaminates marine food chains

Indstrialized Salmonid Aquaculture can exist as an industry by discharging raw waste untreated directly to ocean, and ignoring marine biodiversity loss, contaminated marine food chain, and coastal dead zones.

Salmon aquaculture is only viable economically as long as companies can discharge waste untreated directly to the ocean. While the cost is externalized to the industry, there is a steep price to pay – polluted water, loss of marine biodiversity, coastal dead zones, and a contaminated marine food chain.

Agro-alimentaire avec des clients sur le marché mondial; cette compagnie est capable de faire compétition aux entreprises chiliennes faiblement réglementées qui offrent de bas salaires, ainsi qu’aux gigantesques producteurs de la Norvège et de la Grande-Bretagne.

Sandro Klopp

Sandro Kopp, German painter, friend of OScar winner Tilda Swinton, who was in the movie “Michael Clayton”.

These images speak of a sensitive human approach to color and subjectivity. I enjoy Sandro Klopp’s paintings quite a bit for what is shared be each subject through his technique.

scarecrow bandits

The crows are more afraid of your scarecrow if it makes noise with bells and things and moves around or swings in the wind.   Don’t be shy about changing the clothes or hat that your scarecrow wears.  Ecocity has been informed that there was a band robbery that has something to do with scarecrow bandits, but it might be best for you to simply get two pieces of wood and hammer or screw them together as a tall cross, and but a coat on it, out there near your corn field.  If you don’t has a corn field, please consider going out there and planting some because its tasty and enjoyable to watch grow.

Image: maggieross.info

StoryNorth Texas police arrest possible ‘Scarecrow Bandits’ Houston Chronicle
- Jun 02, 2008 Dubbed the “Scarecrow Bandits” for the loose shirts and floppy hats worn during the robberies, the gunmen usually worked in teams of five or six.

Normal Adolescent Behavior - a misnomer

It seems apparent that people are not like plants that grow in expected prescribed manners.  Even astrology has 12 signs and 12 houses that are governed by the movement of 10 planets against 2 horizons and the north and south nodes..

Youth evolution and leadership is crucial in these times. We all must realize that a sustainable relationship to local resources will provide us all with security and peace in times of scarcity and conflict.  By returning to our core principals, we can make this life better for one another.  The following link may be relevant to “normal adolecent behavior” and the inherent oxymoronic nature of the phrase itself.  I’m not sure what Havoc 2 is.

Sustainabilit starts with a worm box and a vision!

Normal Adolescent Behavior - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

wendy williams tv show

Apparently there will be a new movie covering media censorship from the megagiant “Clear Channel” is coming out, ‘Queen of Media,’ which is based on the New York Times bestselling book about Wendy Williams’ life.  Robin Givens will be playing Wendy. [1]

To compliment the movie, it looks like Fox is teaming up with the real thing and letting Wendy Williams have her own show to use in stirring up controversy and pissing off rappers.[2] [3]

In Will Smith’s track Mr Niceguy, he mentions Williams by singing:

Wendy Williams, you don’t know me,

I’m not your punching bag, you won’t blow me… up.

Girl better leave me alone,

Before I buy your radio station and send ya home…”

nth crane collapse

Thursday night May 29th 2008, a crane crash at e91st and 1st ave NYC.  Two people are confirmed dead as a result of Thursday’s crane crash at e91st and 1st ave NYC. [1] NJ.com has a descriptive photo page for further research into building damage, and planning how to avoid this kind of self inflicted urban disaster. [2]

This follows the March 15th disaster when Mayor Bloomburg said the accident was one of the worst the city has had.  So,  is this unusual for  NYC?  I’m collecting data on crane disasters around NYC to see what kind of timeline can be developed on this page.  If you have any info to offer, please post it here, or link to something you have online, and I’ll do a timeline of sorts on this ecocity page.

Stay safe out there!

comcast webmail hacked : ecocity responds with free accounts

In a general message of empathy for people using Comcast who had their accounts compromised by hackers who left the following message:

Ecocity.com is offering 1000 free email to the first 1000 people who request accounts. If you were affected by the Comcast webmail security breach, I hope that you get your email messages back! If you would simply like a free email account, that’s cool too. Anyone on the web who would like a free ecocity.com blogging or email account that will not be used for spamming purposes, or any other communication actions that may violate the principles of the International Decaration of Human Rights. may have one.

Ecocity, by being a smaller service, with a limited number of users, and operating purely as an educational network dedicated to increasing awareness of how we can all (even comcast users) become players in the sustainability movement, ecocity.com may be a better place to get your email than Comcast, via Comcast webmail.

To sign up for ecocity.com webmail, use the following form to have a free blogging account activated, and make a post stating that you would like a free email account, and I will create a new email address that you can log in via the following interface. If you are interested in having webmail that is hosted in canada on hostpapa, you can optionall have a free fanjajamii email by stating your preference in the first posting on your new ecocity blog account.

Thanks for checking out ecocity.com I am excited about starting to see the site grow, and will continue to build information that pertains to the core issues of making our cities and lives more ecologically sustainable with production, transportation, and disposal pollution, locally made solutions to age old problems are available, we simply need to work together and share what we know! Life can be lived in better balance with nature than than what we experience today.

Sydney Pollock dies of stomach cancer

Surrounded by his friends and family, he died of stomach cancer on May 26 in his home in Pacific Palisades.  He was born July 1, 1934 in Lafayette, Indiana and his career started in the 1960s, directing episodes of TV series including Alfred Hitchcock Presents.  Rest in peace Sydney, you’ve made the world a better place.

Sydney Pollock’s filmography from wikipedia is below ( you can contribute an edit if you are signed in to wikipedia ). He was responsible for Six Oscar nominations, and chart topping films: The Way We Were, Out of Africa (Oscars Award Winner) and Tootsie. Other popular fims from Sydney include The Firm,  They Shoot Horses Don’t They?, Three Days of the Condor, Absence of Malice, Sabrina.

Sydney Pollack was an Oscar and Academy Award-winning American film director, producer and actor. Here are some quotes to help us remember his keen wit and unparalleled vision:

...cinema is "the most vivid and valuable record of who we were and what
we were, and what we thought and what we believed. And it continues to be
that." 

“From my point of view I work just as hard, I care
just as much, if the films fail it doesn’t make me suddenly disown
them, it just doesn’t.”

“I don’t know about liberal bias, but people of a
liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts
than people of a conservative mentality.”

Filmography

[edit] Director

• The Slender Thread (1965) director
• This Property Is Condemned (1966) director
• The Scalphunters‘ (1968) director
• The Swimmer (1968) co-director
• Castle Keep (1969) director
• They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1969) director
• Jeremiah Johnson (1972) director
• The Way We Were (1973) director
• Three Days of the Condor (1975) director
• The Yakuza (1975) director/producer
• Bobby Deerfield (1977) director/producer
• The Electric Horseman (1979) director/actor
• Absence of Malice (1981) director/producer
• Tootsie (1982) director/producer/actor
• Out of Africa (1985) director/producer
• Havana (1990) director/co-producer
• The Firm (1993) director/producer
• Sabrina (1995) director/producer
• Random Hearts (1999) director/actor
• Sketches of Frank Gehry (2005) director
• The Interpreter (2005) director, executive producer, and actor

[edit] Producer

• The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989) executive producer
• Presumed Innocent (1990) producer
• Sense and Sensibility (1995) executive producer
• Sliding Doors (1998) producer
• The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) executive producer
• Iris (2001) executive producer
• The Quiet American (2002) executive producer
• Cold Mountain (2003) producer
• Breaking and Entering (2006) producer
• Michael Clayton (2007) producer
• Recount (2008) executive producer

[edit] Appearances in film and television

• War Hunt (1962) actor
• Tootsie (1982) actor
• Husbands and Wives (1992) actor
• A Civil Action (1998) actor
• Eyes Wide Shut (1999) actor
• Will & Grace (2000) actor
• King of the Hill (2000) as Grant Trimble
• Changing Lanes (2002) actor
• One Six Right (2005) as himself
• The Interpreter (2005) actor
• Avenue Montaigne (2006)
• The Sopranos (2007) actor
• Michael Clayton (2007) actor
• Entourage (2007) as himself
• Made of Honor (2008) actor

For more info about Sydney Pollack’s life, imdb site bio page, Rotten Tomatoes Celebrity Profile