permaculture

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>]

> Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 15:05:03 -0800
> Reply-To: Sustainable Agriculture Network Discussion Group
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> From: Jane Sooby <jane@OFRF.ORG>
> Subject: Bush proposes to ax ATTRA!

> Greetings:
> We're well past the last straw by now; however, I am discovering a
> renewed capability of having my mind blown by the caprices of
> politics. No doubt everyone will receive organizing e-mails etc. on
> this issue, and the other egregious cuts in important sust/organic
> programs proposed in the Bush budget. Aargh, I'm getting a lump in my
> throat! How could anyone even think to X out ATTRA???
>
> From a press release by Teresa Opheim, Executive Director, Midwest
> Sustainable Agriculture Working Group and National Coordinator,
> Sustainable Ag Coalition:
>
> "The Presidentís budget proposes eliminating the highly-rated and
> effective Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas or ATTRA
> program. Currently funded at $2.5 million, the program is the major
> source of sustainable and organic agriculture production and marketing
> information for farmers, extension agents, and other agricultural
> professionals. The proposed budget also would scale back funding for
> the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program by
> 22 percent to $13 million. The proposal would also reduce the research
> and extension program to help farmers transition to organic
> agriculture by 74 percent to just $500,000."
>
> I encourage everyone to visit the MSAWG website at_ www.msawg.org
> _to find out what you can do about this, and to do everything you can
> to get involved in this year's presidential election so that we get
> someone in that office who is friendlier to farmers and to the
> environment.
>
> I personally am participating in voter registration and
> get-out-the-vote activities, and encourage everyone who can to
> consider taking similar action so that we can have a real election
> this time.
>
> Peace,

> Jane Sooby
> technical program coordinator
> Organic Farming Research Foundation
>
> P.O. Box 440
> Santa Cruz, CA  95061
> 831-426-6606
> 831-426-6670 fax
> 831-336-2392 home
> www.ofrf.org
> jane@ofrf.org
>
> Perhaps you're a wholly reasonable person, with the potential to
> become an irrational fool? Perhaps you're a team player, with a
> potentially argumentative loner lurking about inside you? Or perhaps
> you're a dreamer, within whom lives a potentially disillusioned
> grouse, simply waiting to take flight on the wings of bitterness?
> E.L. Kersten, Ph.D.
> _http://www.despair.com/indem.html_


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