Action
Say No to More Offshore Drilling

The BP Oil disaster is a terrible environmental tragedy and a wake up call to all of us that we need to get America off oil and onto clean energy. There is no safe way to drill our coasts. We need to end all new offshore drilling proposals now and let the administration know that we want to steer our energy (literally and figuratively) in another direction. Take action here

 

Recycle your #5 plastics in Recycline's Gimme 5 program and support a movement to increase local recycling of these products

Many common food containers--yogurt cups, sour cream containers, hummus tubs and ketchup bottles--(#5 plastic)--are frequently not accepted in city-wide recycling programs and end up in the trash. Recycline has set up their own recycling program to transform your used, clean #5 plastic products into toothbrushes, razors, tableware and food storage products. Send your #5 plastics to someplace more useful/less harmful than the landfill and help convince local recyclers of the value of taking #5 plastics back in more communities across the country. For more information click here

News

(02/11/10) Listen below for my segment on MPR's Art Hounds about Joanna Rawson's wonderful new book Unrest (Graywolf Press):

 

(09/03/09) For an alternative 'classroom' and resource site for writers, visit the Integrative Writing Institute here

(1/20/09) YES WE DID! NOW WE CAN!

(4/25/08) Sign Senator Barbara Boxer's Petition and tell President Bush to Fight Global Warming here

(04/15/08) A wonderful new documentary about Walt Whitman on PBS. Click here

(12/07/07) An insightful short film about the real costs of a consumer driven culture. Click here

(10/15/07) Shop smart. Save forests. Click here

(08/15/07) Fascinating, terrfiying photography: here

(08/01/07) Meanwhile, send your old computer somewhere more useful/less harmful than the local dump. Click here

(1/07/07) There's a new poetry feature at Konundrum Literary Engine called "Translations," which asks two poets to exchange work and create interpretations of each other's poems. Click here to see the latest installment.