Daily Archives: 12/18/2011

(Community Matters) Surge of Lobbying Fuels Keystone XL Pipeline Project – OpenSecrets Blog | OpenSecrets

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio): “This [approving Keystone] is the right thing to do, the American people support it.”

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(Community Matters) back to Sydney yesterday afternoon, to the same hotel but 6th floor rather than 32nd.

6th floor view

dinner last night with Alan Waite at Ripples in Chowder Bay, after champagne on Balmoral Beach with Rose & Charlie. We’re off to Tasmania today

(Community Matters) on Sunday, Steven and I flew to Brisbane (in Queensland), then drove down to the most northern part of New South Wales to The Channon. Our friend Theron Beaudreau is interning at the Permaculture Research Institute of Australia; we wanted to know more about this hyper-sustainable form of agricultural production. Theron and Steven serve on the board of Wheatsville Coop.

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(Community Matters) a friend sent me the link to this article: Rebooting Philanthropy in Silicon Valley, with a note that we should spend more time thinking about this in Austin.

My response:

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