Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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What it's all about:

[It was, always and forever, about connectedness. It was about how we are all 
in this together. It was about resisting the status quo and fighting 
tyrannical corporate/political power and it was about opening your 
consciousness and seeing new possibilities of how we can all live with 
something resembling actual respect for the planet, for alternative cultures, 
for each other. You know, all that typical hippie crap no one believes in 
anymore. Right?]


-Mark Nagel
Everett, Wa


Full article at: 
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/archive/2007/05/02/notes050207.DTL&nl=fix


The Hippies Were Right!
Green homes? Organic food? Nature is good? Time to give the ol' tie-dyers 
some respect

By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist


[Excerpt:]

Here's a suggestion, from one of my more astute ex-hippie readers: Instead of 
issuing carbon credits so industrial polluters can clear their collective 
corporate conscience, maybe, to help offset all the savage damage they've 
done to the soul of the planet all these years, these commercial cretins 
should instead buy some karma credits from the former hippies themselves. You 
know, from those who've been working for the health of the planet, quite 
thanklessly, for the past 50 years and who have, as a result, built up quite 
a storehouse of good karma. You think?

[...]

You might also just as easily claim that much of the nation's reluctant turn 
toward environmental health has little to do with the hippies per se, that 
it's taking the threat of global meltdown combined with the notion of really, 
really expensive ski tickets to slap the nation's incredibly obese ass into 
gear and force consumers to begin to wake up to the savage gluttony and 
wastefulness of American culture as everyone starts wondering, oh my God, 
what's going to happen to swimming pools and NASCAR and free shipping from 
Amazon? Of course, without the '60s groundwork, without all the radical ideas 
and seeds of change planted nearly five decades ago, what we'd be turning to 
in our time of need would be a great deal more hopeless indeed.