Published by admin on 14 Jul 2009
There are photos and a field report at the Art Collaboratives artSpace@16 blog detailing the entire competition that took place on July 11th.
More photos will be coming on the site soon. In the meantime, some people have put their photos online on Facebook and others on Flickr.
There will be a list of the winners and their artworks here soon.
Published by admin on 14 Jul 2009
Hyperlocavore is a free yard sharing community website for people who love locally grown food and want to make arrangements with other to share resources — time, space, tools, or skills. The website is a resource for anyone who wants to reach out to their community and connect locally to create local sustainable foods for each other.
Published by youthact on 28 Jun 2009
Neighborhood Fruit is a service for people to find and share fruit online. Developed out of a final project at Presidio School of Management, the site was created to make local, urban crops available and shared with the community and neighbors. If you are interested, go and sign up for an account on their site.
If you live in Massachusetts, the Department of Agricultural Resources has a list of all farmers’ markets in Massachusetts. They are listed by county, and contains hours of operation and locations. Check your own state website to see if this information is available.
Published by admin on 02 Jun 2009
Below is an excerpt from Steve Pavlina’s blog on personal development about coming of age youths and their relationship with their parents. It is an article worth reading.
A common complaint I hear from teens is that they’re being raised by parents who aren’t as smart as they are. Suffice it to say there are a lot of people in the world who just aren’t very bright, and there’s no IQ test required to raise kids.
did not suffer from that particular problem myself since my parents are both pretty bright intellectually. But I can still relate to the challenge of being raised by people with values that differ from your own.
I’ve also had some friends who were raised by — how can I say this tactfully? — intellectually challenged parents.
Some parents simply make some very dumb decisions and not just with respect to parenting. Some make dumb career choices and bad financial decisions. Some make poor health choices. Some are socially inept. And some are spiritually bankrupt. When parents make bad choices, their children are stuck going along for the ride.
In many cases, by the time the child is a teenager, they’re starting to realize that Mom and/or Dad are a few bits short of a byte. Then the kid is left wondering, “How the heck am I supposed to deal with these people?”
This situation can create a lot of conflict and stress during the teenage years. The teen is still dependent on the parents, but the parents aren’t doing a very good job as parents… or as human beings for that matter.
What do you do if you find yourself in such a position? How do you prevent dumb parents from making a mess of your life while you’re still dependent on them?
Read the rest of the article at Steve Pavlina’s site.
