Don't Waste Food!

Looks like food waste is the next biggest global warming issue America has to deal with next. In one day the US dumps enough food in the garbage to over fill the Pasadena Rose Bowl. The sad part is, all the wasted resources to grow, process & package all that stuff. Let's start looking at it... America!

Dry farming wine grapes

Do not let another grove get cut for wine... It's just not right!

It should be illegal to irrigate any new wine grapes in California... for now on! New drought legislation is in the works? Let's do it!

We must all strongly believe in the values of dry-farming — that is to say growing wine grapes without the use of any irrigation. (They are so strongly convinced of this in France that irrigating is simply illegal.) Here in west Sonoma county we get plenty of water from October thru May, even in drought years.

The beauty of working with old, non-irrigated vines is that their roots go down deep (50, 60 feet or more) through many layers of soils, sub-soils, and various strata of rock. It is generally believed that the roots' penetration of these many different layers is part of what brings greater complexity and depth of flavors to the resulting fruit.

Why do the roots go so deep? In order to seek water and nutrients. If you irrigate the vines and give them water that's easy to drink at the surface, the plant is essentially infantilized — with its roots spreading out horizontally just below the surface rather than searching for all the goodies down below. Ultimately, like most of winegrowing/winemaking, the best results often stem from simply letting nature take its course.

Visit and try... dry farmed wines at Scott Paul Winery    http://www.scottpaul.com

US Department of Peace

Vacate all overseas military bases and fill them with DOP volunteers. Like the Peace Corps... the department of peace corp people will be the youth from the american pool of eighteen to twenty-one year olds, as a mandatory service to the country. A great way to travel for free. And learn how to build, help the hungry feed themselves and provide human kindness & care... not money.

Know the truth about your politician

Want to know why they vote the way they do? Go to MapLight.org for fun charts and lots of facts about your representative in Washington.

Also, you might want to check out... Contribution data that is provided by the
Center for Responsive Politics.

Community Clean Water Institute

Go see "An Inconvenient Truth"- A documentary movie about climate change featuring Al Gore, who travels across America describing the threat of global warming and how to address it.

Community Clean Water Institute, the Climate Protection Campaign, the Sierra Club, and Solar Sebastopol all agree with this film. these businesses are where you can learn more about what we are doing locally to reduce green house gas emissions and take action, including endorsing Sonoma's community target for greenhouse gas emissions reduction of 25% below 1990 levels by 2015. For more information, check www.climatecrisis.net.

On another topic... Job search programs are on the rise and jobs to be had need employment seeking tools. Make one today!