Creekside at Hetch Hetchy

Creekside at Hetch Hetchy

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Daily Bread and a Communal Table

http://www.painquotidien.com/

That's a great idea for a restaurant- good tasting, organic breads with simple ingredients combined with communal tables so you meet people. Someone should open one up on California Avenue next to a smoothie shop. That'd be a perfect combination.

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Vegan Athletes Accel

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=keri/080616&lpos=spotlight&lid=tab6pos2

Even a 246 lbs. Hall of Fame tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs thinks you can play at the highest levels with a vegan diet.

Monday, June 16, 2008

Gandhi: All Men are Brothers (Autobiographical Reflections)

"'Earn thy bread by the sweat of thy brow' says the Bible. Sacrifices may be of many kinds. One of them may well be bread labour. If all laboured for their bread and no more, then there would be enough food and enough leisure for all."

"Indeed at the root of this doctrine of equal distribution must lie that of trusteeship of the wealthy for superfluous wealth possessed by them. For according to the doctrine they may not possess a rupee more than their neighbours. How is this to be brought about? Nonviolently? Or should the wealthy be dispossessed of their possessions? To do this we would naturally have to resort to violence. This violent action cannot benefit the society. Society will be the poorer, for it will lose the gifts of a man who knows how to accumulate wealth. Therefore the nonviolent way is evidently superior. The rich man will be left in possession of his wealth, of which he will use what he reasonably requires for his personal needs and will act as a trustee for the remainder to be used for the society. In this argument honesty on the part of the trustee is assumed."

Friday, May 30, 2008

Saturday, May 17, 2008

Do you think human beings can affect the courtship dance of a bird in the deep woods of some remote part of our planet?

Watch the section from 1:45 until 3:00 or so. This bird does some pretty amazing sound imitations. You'll be surprised at what it can do- I promise. That's an amazing creature.