Thank-you to everyone who came out to the July Meet-up! Stay tuned for details of a few possible events the came out of the meet-up! Here are the notes we took: (click on them for full sized ! )

Hello everyone. Our June meet-up was a great success! Nearly 40 people attending, and we had some great discussions. Please take a look at some of the ideas from this event:

This Huffington Post column, by Prevention Institute’s Larry Cohen, explains how the Gulf oil spill connects to common goals – including food, transportation, and the built environment. The BP Gulf Oil spill makes one thing clear: our health and the planet’s health are inextricably linked. Poisoned sea life, oil-drowned coastlines, sickening toxins in the air—it’s [...]

There is a very important talk on TED that we wanted to share with you. It is by an ecologist named Jeremy Jackson on “How we wrecked the ocean”. In this bracing talk, coral reef ecologist Jeremy Jackson lays out the shocking state of the ocean today: overfished, overheated, polluted, with indicators that things will get [...]

Stay tuned for a report-back from our monthly “grounding” meetings.