ALDI to Have All Reusable, Recyclable, or Compostable Packaging by 2025

"By 2020, ALDI says 100 percent of their consumable packaging will include a How2Recycle label, which is a labeling method that lets people know how to recycle the item. By 2020, ALDI also plans to make private-label product packaging that’s easier for customers to reuse."

https://theheartysoul.com/aldi-to-have-all-reusable-recyclable-or-compostable-packaging-by-2025/

Long Live Microbiomes!

"Not only is transforming agriculture to regenerative practices a likely win for our health—and for nature more broadly—it can also be a key climate solution. As we’ve written previously, humanity can sequester carbon and improve nutrition through the regenerative farming of land and sea. This approach can be applied at all scales, including Climate Victory Gardens in yards, local parks, terraces and rooftops."

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/long-live-microbiomes/

Getting the word out

The Garden was representing as the food vendor at the Richmond Drag Story Hour today. We got to witness Monarch Butterflies emerge from their chrysalis and enjoyed time meeting more like-minded folks.

One Big Way that Fungus Can Help

What is Sacred?

"All places and all beings of the earth are sacred. It is dangerous to designate some places sacred when all are sacred. Such compromises imply that there is a hierarchy of value, with some places and some living beings not as important as others. No part of the earth is expendable; the earth is a whole that cannot be fragmented, as it has been by the destroyers’ mentality of the industrial age. The greedy destroyers of life and bringers of suffering demand that sacred land be sacrificed so that a few designated sacred places may survive; but once any part is deemed expendable, others can easily be redefined to fit the category of expendable. As Ruth Rudner points out in her article “Sacred Land,” what spiritual replenishment is possible if one must travel through ghastly fumes and ravaged lands to reach the little island or ocean or mountain that has been preserved by the label sacred land?"

– Derrick Jensen, Endgame 1

Come meet us!

For those that are interested, we will be the food vendor at the very first Richmond Drag Story Hour this coming Saturday. Here is the Facebook event: https://facebook.com/events/338878473719998
Come out and chat, we love meeting new faces.

We are Part of the Earth

"The earth has Fates all her own. The earth has purpose. And we can only partially know what that purpose is. So I want to reverse our understanding and usage of that word, just like we need to reverse the notion of who is doing environmental work, or any of the other work on this planet. We think we’re doing it all. But the animals are doing the real work of holding it all together, and keeping us on our path. As are the plants. It’s as if we think the stars and sun and moon and the earth itself aren’t doing any work. It’s as if we think that all of nature is unintelligent except for us. Well, the earth has intelligence and purpose and fates all her own. And those are really the primary fates.

"This calls upon us to have tremendous responsibility: it is our responsibility to participate in those Fates. We’re part of the earth. It is up to us to be in alignment with those purposes, not to go against them, nor to sit back and pretend. You have to give back. You have to participate in those fates, because they are your Fates as well."

– Jane Caputi

Rummage Sale!

GSSC Inc. is holding a rummage sale at 2116 Lansill Rd. Lexington, KY.

The rummage sale will take place Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 14 & 15 from 8:00am to 4:00pm (or so).

Proceeds will help support Garden Source Spiritual Center Inc., including our goal to obtain and maintain a property for meetings and festivals in the KY region.

Hope to see you there!

A garbage man saved 25,000 books and turned them into a library.

"Books are usually left separate from the rest of the rubbish, and if they're in good condition, Gutiérrez picks them up and takes them home.

"Though Gutiérrez's collection started with a single book (Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina"), today the total number of recovered reads has grown to roughly 25,000 at last count"

https://www.upworthy.com/a-garbage-man-saved-25000-books-and-turned-them-into-a-library-the-pictures-are-amazing

Can We Survive Extreme Heat?

"As the mercury rises, people die. The homeless cook to death on hot sidewalks. Older folks, their bodies unable to cope with the metabolic stress of extreme heat, suffer heart attacks and strokes. Hikers collapse from dehydration."

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/climate-crisis-goodell-survive-extreme-heat-875198/

Why Sunflowers Turn To Follow The Sun

"The researchers found that the plant's turning is actually a result of different sides of the stem elongating at different times of day."

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/08/05/488891151/the-mystery-of-why-sunflowers-turn-to-follow-the-sun-solved

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Find us on other platforms!

Our outreach to help the homeless community: https://homelesshookers.wordpress.com/

More info about what we're doing in our meetings and events: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/GardenSourceSC/info

http://www.gardensourcesc.org/
www.instagram.com/gardensourcespiritualcenterinc/
twitter.com/garden_source

Our Community Outreach has a new website!

Homeless Hookers has migrated to WordPress.  Please look to homelesshookers.wordpress.com to see our reports, patterns, and pictures.  This will also include a blog style page to make easier periodic updates.

In the meantime, if you have any yarn or homemade items to donate, please contact barbara.uu@gmail.com.

Mahalo!

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