1. Come to a volunteer meeting in Fayetteville (details at: www.socialsustenance.org) on Monday September 22 or email info (at) social sustenance dot org and tell us you want to help.

You know about Green Jobs Now, right? If you want to help, but you just don't much time, there is one quick thing you can do.

Send this message to your friends. If you maintain an email list or a Facebook/MySpace group, even better!

Feel free to modify this message with a personal touch.

Issue 9 of the 350PPM newsletter is out. This is a great newsletter maintained by my friend and colleague, Robert McAfee. Robert serves as climate scientist for Arkansas' Global Warming Commission.

You can download it here, or you can go to the website for the newsletter: http://www.go350ppm.org.

What's 350ppm?

Watch this video from 350.org, then visit their website (http://www.350.org) to find out.

I received this email from wecansolveit.org. The alerts from the we campaign are always well-timed.

On September the 27, we will show leaders everywhere that we're ready to build a green economy that lifts people out of poverty. Watch this short video and join us on September 27.

We had a banner-making party the other night, and I wanted to show everyone our results. These are going to give us a real presence, and we still have about 30 more hand signs to make.

Check it out.

Click to visit a great 3P resource L. Hunter Lovins, one of the most famous sustainability proponents in the United States, was recently interviewed by the Sustainability Industries Journal. SIJ caught up with her to find out what she had been doing since leaving the Rocky Mountain Institute in 2002. It sounds to me like she has been pretty busy, what with founding and managing Natural Capitlism Solutions.

In the interview, she introduces a concept which is slightly different from what we are used to, and one which I have had trouble articulating in the past. She talks about the integrated bottom line as a solution to the problems with triple bottom line reporting. If you have ever tried to account for your organizations social and environmental responsibility, you have probably noticed that doing the right thing often seems to reduce your profits. The integrated bottom line is a reporting concept that solves this conceptual dilemma.

Taken from http://www.conversationweek.org/top-ten-questions/

Top 10 Questions for 2008… Plus One!

Fifteen hundred people in 39 countries participated in suggesting and selecting the following ten questions as the most important ones in the world today. These are our concerns expressed not as demands but as the questions we must all consider at every level of life to meet the challenges of our times.

Conversation Week 2008 gives us a chance to talk with friends, neighbors and strangers about one or more of these questions – and discover answers that can re-direct our lives and work, while knowing that sincere people on the other side of the planet are doing the same.

There are almost no scientists debating whether or not humans are causing disruptive climate patterns any more, but the Heartland Institute (aka The Greenwasher) is sponsoring a "scientific" conference right now in New York City. They're calling it the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change. Justice of the Peace Doug Reed is attending to learn more about "the issue" as Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe considers a moratorium on new coal plant constuction.

Now, why is JP/physics teacher Doug Reed so unconvinced about climate change? He is a physics teacher?! It makes me wonder why Arkansas consistently comes in low in national education rankings. Contrast our public official's statement with this one from California:

"You can't have a science curriculum that is relevant and current if it doesn't deal with the science behind climate change."