Stan Ovshinsky: A Hero Swindled

Stan Ovshinsky in 1960 founded Energy Conversion Laboratory, who later founded Energy Conversion Devices and Ovonics Battery Company. His distinct goal was to make fossil fuel obsolete. Some years later,...
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Value Added Food

Like most of us in the local community, we have access to raw materials and tools.  In what way can you take your tools and your talents and add value to raw materials? In this post, I ask the question:...
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Jon Stewart’s Epiphany

"The IRS shifts the burden of proof from the tinfoil behatted to the government by targeting the Tea Party and other conservative groups." Apparently Mr. Stewart seems to now be leading the consciousness of...
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Rabbit Meat, Protein on the Cheap

In our society today, we are so disconnected from our food.  We don't grow it.  We don't know people who grow it.  Maybe we go to a farmers market, but we don't really know the farmers.  The Local Voluntary...
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Upcoming Meetups

We are still working out our strategy for improving and building local, independent and autonomous economies all across the world. Until we get our strategy better mapped out, we will be sponsoring twice wee...
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Adam Kokesh March

It's a little later than I normally post these things but http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/05/08/d_c_open_carry_march_adam_kokesh_asks_protesters_to_carry_loaded_rifles.html It seems to me that...
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Free Web Hosting For Activists

We are now offering basic web hosting for free to those in the Local Voluntary community who are working tirelessly to fix this broken world, NOW. In order to qualify, your activism will need to align with s...