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 31 Dec 2006 @ 00:43
New German community models car-free living
By Isabelle de Pommereau | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor /// [link]
posted by Bb Astrid
FREIBURG, GERMANY – It's pickup time at the Vauban kindergarten here at the edge of the Black Forest, but there's not a single minivan waiting for the kids. Instead, a convoy of helmet-donning moms - bicycle trailers in tow - pedal up to the entrance.
Welcome to Germany's best-known environmentally friendly neighborhood and a successful experiment in green urban living. The Vauban development - 2,000 new homes on a former military base 10 minutes by bike from the heart of Freiburg - has put into practice many ideas that were once dismissed as eco-fantasy but which are now moving to the center of public policy. More >
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26 Dec 2006 @ 19:40
"The Christmas Truce -
When Men Said No To War"
12-22-6
[link]
posted by Bb Astrid
On Christmas Day, 1914, in the first year of World War I, German, British, and French soldiers disobeyed their superiors and fraternized with "the enemy" along two-thirds of the Western Front. German troops held Christmas trees up out of the trenches with signs, "Merry Christmas." "You no shoot, we no shoot." Thousands of troops streamed across a no-man's land strewn with rotting corpses. They sang Christmas carols, exchanged photographs of loved ones back home, shared rations, played football, even roasted some pigs. Soldiers embraced men they had been trying to kill a few short hours before. They agreed to warn each other if the top brass forced them to fire their weapons, and to aim high. More >
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18 Dec 2006 @ 19:02
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Let's do it!
May 2007 be a year of Divine Transformation,( like shedding old skin; it just happens -and we don't even notice it; that is how natural and gentle it is!...) -at least in the same pace and rate as the Armageddon = "transformation through forced/violent destruction".
The Choice between these two methods is in our hands.... and we do have the Power to choose!
w/Love Bb Astrid More >
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15 Dec 2006 @ 13:22
Yo
Hm been havin some trouble with my solar watch this last
year... like its not gettin enough juice
now with the winter soltice coming it even stops working some days...
well enough whining
everybody on the floor
and give me 10 pushups and 20 squats
more or less...
health and heart withstanding...
I did mine...
A good and just "reason"....
For the JOY of it...
Joy is a good and just reason....
some say anyway
yay team.... More >
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14 Dec 2006 @ 19:27
Holiday season to one & all of my friends on NCN, whichever form of Celebration each one chooses; Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanza; all goes well with me.... I just luuuuv party, I guess! ... ; )
And of course, goes without saying, that I wish ALL Humankind -and Mother Earth, Herself, a Happy New Year.
May 2007 bring out more light in/from each of us , so that we can be/come ever more aligned with Life!
BIIIG Hugs to you all, each & everyone!
w/Love/Bb Astrid
I don't know how to put in pics here... If I did, I would choose a nice Celebration pic. So, to compensate for that, I ask you all to imagine any Celebration pic you'd like! : ) More >
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