week 80 : 15 Dec 2005

Agriculture

Dancing Rabbit: an ecovillage in the hills and prairies of northeast Missouri

Intentional Community: an inclusive term for ecovillages, cohousing, residential land trusts, communes, student co-ops, urban housing cooperatives and other related projects and dreams

Red Earth Farms: developing sustainable systems, technologies, and cultural practices

Sand Hill Farm: an egalitarian intentional community in rural Missouri

 Attorney General

Congressional Quarterly: updated daily, oddly enough

 Commerce

Affluenza (1997): the made-for-television PBS Program that was banned by the FCRP! (alternate site: Affluenza: on the Epidemic of Overconsumption)

Buy Nothing Day: where the goal is to buy .. uh .. nothing

The Media Foundation d/b/a Adbusters

first, the unCola, and now, the uncommercial

GPI: Genuine Progress Index: inherently biased indicator, compared to GNP, GDP, GXP

Mall Madness: a board game by Milton Bradley whose goal is to turn "Little Susie" into a raging psychopath!

 Defense

Emprex: maker of USB Flash Drives, among other toys

 Education

New Road Map Foundation: non-profit org, whose goal is a 9-step program for "personal financial transformation"

Your Money Or Your Life: "a world of nine-step program resources for changing the way you earn, spend and save money"

 Energy

Windchill Temperature Index: according to the National Weather Service

 Health and Human Services

Simple Living Magazine

The Simple Living Network

 Homeland Security

SOA Watch: group whose goal is to close the School of the Americas (aka the US Torture Academy)

Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation: aka WHINSEC @ Fort Benning, Georgia. Formerly "School of the Americas"

 Housing and Urban Development

Focus on the Family features Satanist Neo-Fascist James Dobson

 Interior

Lee & Matt Casbeer: mural painters from Fredericksburg, Texas

 Labor

Filing a Charge of Employment Discrimination

 State

Channel One: classroom television, filling your child's head with commercials

 Transportation

Nancy's Specialty Foods: quiche entrées at your nearby grocery

 Treasury

JPG Magazine: The Quarterly of Brave New Photography

 Veterans Affairs

The Story Guy: aka Phillip Dickerson