To SlobosVeganGal... The trailer to that documentary is something that should be flashed all over our television screens JUST AS MUCH IF NOT MORE than 'Twilight'. It just hurts in the deepest part of my soul to see the way God's creatures are treated. Thank you for sharing...

And on the subject of permaculture, VERY COOL! I will definitely be checking into that!!

To SlobosVeganGal, tried to watch it. but i just don't have the stomach for that. i had to turn it off. it is just horrifying

Thank you, Alicia, for your post on permaculture. For those of you in the LA area, EarthFlow Design Works is also offering its annual spring permaculture certification course beginning this weekend, April 3 & 4 in LA- taught by Larry Santoyo. see http://earthflow.com/LAPDC_spring10.php for more info. wishing you all things good, green and growing! Kathryn Ellen earthflow.com

alicia,I had mentioned this in another link but ,just in case ,I'm sending you it here again. it's called the real food campain, which support's a future of healthy soil's food and people. it is on the same scale as organic gardening ,but one step further ,to establish nutrient dense crop's and create a new standard for food quality,providing workshop's and support to farmer's ,little people like me who grow there own and the community.my co-op has a workshop in conneticut  and we work out of a farm in glastonbury right now ,it teaches you about the soil, what is missing from it how to test ,evaluate and be kind to the land! great program!! here's the web-www.realfoodcampain.org   check it out !

Thanks Alicia, for promoting such great ideas. I came across your talk at Kepler's Books on The Kind Diet on fora.tv and was really impressed that you're taking this on. I'm more of a "flirt" right now, slowly working towards veganism.

I'm a poop engineering (technically, a wastewater engineer) focused on recycled water systems, such as graywater and rainwater, for residences. Californians use more than half of their water for landscape, especially lawns. I'm working with many organizations here, in San Luis Obispo, to convert lawns to food-producing gardens. It felt that World Water Day left too quietly, wishing that it made more of an impact.

Since it's hard to convince most homwowners to reuse their water -- right now it's cheap enough to waste rather than install any kind of system to reuse it -- I'm trying to advocate also adding a garden in place of a lawn or landscaping. With the reused graywater feeding the fruit trees and vegetables, so much is better: less lawn pesticide flwoing into the storm drains and creeks, reusing clean drinking water twice, healthy food grown very locally, happy time spent outdoors tending your garden...all permaculture ideas and more.

Dear Alicia Silverstone, I am asking for your support in our goal to preserve the Stony Brook Southampton campus, currently the only college on Long Island whose sole mission is environmental sustainability. Due to state budget cuts, the president of Stony Brook University has announced his plan to close most of the Southampton campus. Word of the closure came from a local news report before Dr. Stanley had informed students and staff of his decision. Students and local politicians have proposed to raise the $6.7 million that SBU would save from the campus’ closure, Dr. Stanley remains firm in his decision. The closure will move all of the programs besides marine science and graduate creative writing to the main campus. Dormitories and all but two academic buildings will be shuttered, as well as the newly renovated and LEED-certified library. These proposed cuts come after taxpayers have provided $78 million to re-open and renovate the Southampton Campus under SBU. The campus currently enrolls 525 full-time, part-time, and graduate students and planned to accept at least 200 students in the fall. Employment, local economic stimulation, and most recently, the joint language reclamation initiative of the university with the Shinnecock Nation will suffer. Our current efforts to reverse this decision include a rally upon Dr. Stanley’s arrival to meet with our campus; letter writing campaign to local, state, and federal politicians and NPO's and NGO's; online and paper petitions; and a planned march to the Stony Brook main campus. Any support from your organization would be greatly appreciated. For further information, communication and collaboration we have set up a fan page on Facebook: Save Stony Brook University-Southampton Campus Twitter: SaveSouthampton Online Petition: http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/savesbs Sincerely, Gabrielle Andersen on behalf SBU-Southampton Campus.

NYC WorldWide Bake Sale For Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, help spread the word!
Look for a WorldWide Vegan Bake Sale in your area, or start one of your own! Check out veganbakesale dot org.

For all of you who took Larry's Permaulture course, or have an interested in Permaculture, there will be the 2nd annual Permaculture Convergence happening April 29-May 1 in Malibu with Larry Santoyo of EarthFlow Design, Penny Livingston (featured in the video above) and many more great workshops, games, storytelling and more.

Learn more at www.socalconvergence.org