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Sweetwater 420 Festival, an Earth day celebration
Earth Day…Posh! EVERYDAY is EARTH DAY folks! Jump on the green bus everyone let’s recycle on one day in April! Can you sense the sarcasm? That is how I view some of the Earth Day proceedings that I hear about over the internet via social media. It just seems hollow to me. That was my thinking before I got on the bus (literally) and connected with committed environmental folk at the Sweetwater 420 Festival held this past weekend in Chandler Park. If you live in Atlanta, go ahead and put 420 fest on your calender as a “must go” for next year! I took my daughter to the festival and…
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Poverty: It's blog action day 2008!
Caution! Ramble in progress! What do I know about poverty? Very little actually. I’ve been very blessed in this life. I know Bono from U2, Bob Geldof and all the others that organized LIVE Aid. Live Aid was a multi-venue rock music concert held on July 13, 1985. It was a wonderful awareness campaign that actually worked! Thanks to those that worked hard in that organization and the paths and doors that have opened since then for Africa. (it’s still only a drop in the bucket.) Farm Aid came on the scene a bit after that if I remember. We are just now beginning to understand the importance of small…
