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Summer 2009 Edition - Sample Stories
Humor
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Peace
 Butterfly Art for the Sky
 Two sisters Celebrate Africa - A Tale of Two Sisters
 Indigenous Indigenous People Organize on Climate
 Jasmine Jasmine the Greyhound - a Mother to All
 Media Media Activism from a Planetarian Perspective
 Kindness Students Find They Can't Kick Kindness
 Students You are Brilliant and the Earth is Hiring!
More Stories from this Edition
1001 Inventions
What do coffee beans, windmills, surgical scalpels, arches and observatories all have in common?
A Day for Park(ing)
by Margaret Keating
On September 18, 2009, in cities around the world, lawn chairs, benches, trees, and people will temporarily fill metered parking spaces normally occupied by cars. This date marks the annual global event known as PARK(ing) Day, started in 2005 by a San Francisco art collective called Rebar.
Food Abundance from Food Waste
by Ilonka Wloch
NOVATO, CA - Every week they provide food for as many as 1,500 households in Marin County, They don't charge for the food. Nor do they get paid themselves. Who are these people and why do they do this?
Giving with No Strings Attached!
by Ruth Robertson
Know someone with a high IQ? You probably know it is just as important to have a good EQ, also known as Emotional intelligence Quotient. But have you heard of CQ?
Harnessing the Genius of Life: Biomimicry
by Jennifer Rego
Imagine living in a house that self regulates temperature within one degree between summer and winter without a furnace or air conditioning, spraying your roof with a non-toxic substance that "self-assembles" into solar panels, using sticky notes without glue, and driving your car without fear of colliding with another.

In the natural world, it's already been done.
The Rebel Clown Army Needs You!  
 by John Hamilton
Most cultures have stories about tricksters, who use clever play and humor to confront power and change the world.  In our time, we have such real-life tricksters as Dario Fo, the Italian playwright/clown whose playful political satire got him a Nobel Prize, as well as banned  from the US.