MooPig Community Chest Department :: "A Community Garden"

Folks, we need Planet Saver Tactics...
Mixed Martial Articles by Pat Darnell  |  Dec 13, 2014  |  Bryan TX

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In 1979 a magazine called Mother Earth News published extensively about self-sufficiency on a five acre plot. It was my mantra. But five acres in those days in Chicago ... well, even back then that would have cost about $900,000 just for the land, and that is very conservative.

Any type of wetland conservation idea is needed now. We over-build into our natural water ways, until we start to experience floods and mud-slides. Architecture that is designed to augment the natural ways of things on planet earth should be "built" as designed. Community gardens would be included in the land development master plans. If it were not for "bottom-line" developers, we might have such places in our communities.

Most good ideas that would make the earth a less hostile environment are "deep six'd" in the final financial analysis, land has to be paid for. Watershed imbalance today is confounding communities all over the world.

The article we include today says to invite all people who are interested in community gardening, is the first step to:

10 Steps to Starting a Community Garden | American Community Garden Association: "The following steps are adapted from the American Community Garden Association’s guidelines for launching a successful community garden in your neighborhood."
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https://communitygarden.org/resources/10-steps-to-starting-a-community-garden/
file:///D:/mendemo/dcd/001/001-008-01.htm
http://www.designrulz.com/architecture/2011/12/8-suggestions-for-spectacular-roof-gardens/

Organizations Helping Out

Don't be a Drive-By Rubber-necker
by Pat Darnell | Jan 13, 2013 | Bryan TX

If you can send the word out that yesterday was the three year anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti, it is appreciated.  Maybe folks who were able to donate in 2010 will ask the right questions of the leadership in Haiti and in the USA. MooPig has published numerous articles on Haiti disaster, and that is its contribution. We were shocked to realize there is still almost a 100,000 people living in squalor, in tent cities in Port au Prince, after three years.

Below you will find web sites of organizations that provide relief for disasters all over the world.

SOURCE   ::  Supporting Haiti – How a Bionic Beauty can help…:

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Each of the following organizations have fund raising efforts in place to earmark donations for Haitian relief. The main page of their websites provides details.

• Haiti Relief Fund www.haitirelieffund.org
• Haiti Action www.haitiaction.net
• Lamp for Haiti www.lampforhaiti.org
• Habitat for Humanity www.habitat.org 
• UNICEF www.unicef.org 
• Red Cross www.redcross.org 
• Salvation Army www.salvationarmy.org 
• AmeriCares www.americcares.org
• Doctors Without Borders www.doctorswithoutborders.org
• Mercy Corps www.mercycorps.org
• Oxfam www.oxfam.org
• Worldvision www.worldvision.org

Example: [Slideshow from Jan 2010]
Paul McMaster, a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) surgeon, describes what he and his team have seen and done since they arrived in Port-au-Prince to bring emergency medical care to earthquake survivors on January 15. (doctors without borders. JANUARY 20, 2010. HERE)








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http://www.haitirelieffund.org/
http://www.haitiaction.net/
http://www.americares.org/
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/aboutus/
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/photogallery/gallery.cfm?id=4180
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/news/article.cfm?id=4190&cat=video
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/news/article.cfm?id=4188&cat=voice-from-the-field
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/news/allcontent.cfm?id=208

New View on Life

by Vinnie Visconti

Today I went to church after a few months and everyone was so happy to see me. Pastor James Mercado came up to me and gave me the biggest hug ever as if I were his son and just came home to visit.

During service, Mike Zilli, who is the ministry leader for the Younger Adult group and Shane Kelbel gave me their numbers and invited me to meet up with them somewhere near my house to join them for a BBQ on Thursday to eat and gather with the other younger adults to share some experiences of mine and just bring everything out in the open within a smaller group of people.

This will give me a chance to meet new people an confide in some real good, down to earth people that I will be able to talk to about life situations on a daily basis.

As of today with the sermon that the Pastor gave about our Fathers put me in the right direction to start looking at things at a whole different perspective. He said that fathers aren't perfect but they are here for listening to our problems and advising how to grow from our mistakes because they have been in our position at one point in their life.

He also mentioned that sometimes you just feel like you want to spit in your father's face because of some of the things that you may go through, which I felt was my case....then he advised quickly after he said it that he would not advise to spit otherwise it would cause more problems with the father son relationship.

So just stick it out and work through the problems and God will help with your problems if you confide and talk to him about it.

I will continue the update on my progress with this new small group that I will be getting involved in.