Article about a new book called "How to Live Well Without Owning a Car" :

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/25609661/?GT1=43001

I just finished reading an amazing and powerful book called "The Worst Hard Time" by Timothy Egan. It's a book about the dust bowl and the Great Depression. I'm sure the title and the meager description I just gave sound rather boring and dry, but don't be fooled!  This is a non-fiction book that reads like fiction. Once I started reading it, I couldn't put it down.

If you're like me, probably the only thing you know about the dust bowl is "Grapes of Wrath" and a couple Woody Guthrie songs. You probably heard that overfarming caused the dust bowl. That is true, but it's only a small part of the story.

The Jung Center, Houston presents:

The Culture of Make Believe
featuring a conference call with  author and activist
Derrick Jensen
 Thursdays, 7:30 - 9 pm
Jun 5 - Jul 10
$70 ($60 Jung Center members)
Limit: 15 In this class we will discuss the critical issues of our age - the shadows of consumption and exploitation undergirding modern industrial civilization.  Derrick Jensen's enlightening tour-de-force, The Culture of Make Believe, examines the cultural and psychological roots of racism, slavery, colonialism, the indigenous holocaust, and modernity's compulsion for environmental destruction.  His writing is said to break your heart, then heal it.  His page-turning prose, provocative arguments, and compassionate solutions for an ecopsychology of sustainable living will drive our discussion and thinking.  In the final week, we will have a conference call with the author to pose our questions, comments, and concern for the future.

Note *** Please read up to page 83 before the first meeting.               
 http://www.mitchfinn.com/Classes.htmlfor official reservations, see:
http://www.junghouston.org/courses/summer/finn.htm

The Jung Center, Houston presents:

The Culture of Make Believe
featuring a conference call with  author and activist
Derrick Jensen
 Thursdays, 7:30 - 9 pm
Jun 5 - Jul 10
$70 ($60 Jung Center members)
Limit: 15 In this class we will discuss the critical issues of our age - the shadows of consumption and exploitation undergirding modern industrial civilization.  Derrick Jensen's enlightening tour-de-force, The Culture of Make Believe, examines the cultural and psychological roots of racism, slavery, colonialism, the indigenous holocaust, and modernity's compulsion for environmental destruction.  His writing is said to break your heart, then heal it.  His page-turning prose, provocative arguments, and compassionate solutions for an ecopsychology of sustainable living will drive our discussion and thinking.  In the final week, we will have a conference call with the author to pose our questions, comments, and concern for the future.

Note *** Please read up to page 83 before the first meeting.               
 http://www.mitchfinn.com/Classes.htmlfor official reservations, see:
http://www.junghouston.org/courses/summer/finn.htm

The Jung Center, Houston presents:

The Culture of Make Believe
featuring a conference call with  author and activist
Derrick Jensen
 Thursdays, 7:30 - 9 pm
Jun 5 - Jul 10
$70 ($60 Jung Center members)
Limit: 15 In this class we will discuss the critical issues of our age - the shadows of consumption and exploitation undergirding modern industrial civilization.  Derrick Jensen's enlightening tour-de-force, The Culture of Make Believe, examines the cultural and psychological roots of racism, slavery, colonialism, the indigenous holocaust, and modernity's compulsion for environmental destruction.  His writing is said to break your heart, then heal it.  His page-turning prose, provocative arguments, and compassionate solutions for an ecopsychology of sustainable living will drive our discussion and thinking.  In the final week, we will have a conference call with the author to pose our questions, comments, and concern for the future.

Note *** Please read up to page 83 before the first meeting.               
 http://www.mitchfinn.com/Classes.htmlfor official reservations, see:
http://www.junghouston.org/courses/summer/finn.htm

The Jung Center, Houston presents:

The Culture of Make Believe
featuring a conference call with  author and activist
Derrick Jensen
 Thursdays, 7:30 - 9 pm
Jun 5 - Jul 10
$70 ($60 Jung Center members)
Limit: 15 In this class we will discuss the critical issues of our age - the shadows of consumption and exploitation undergirding modern industrial civilization.  Derrick Jensen's enlightening tour-de-force, The Culture of Make Believe, examines the cultural and psychological roots of racism, slavery, colonialism, the indigenous holocaust, and modernity's compulsion for environmental destruction.  His writing is said to break your heart, then heal it.  His page-turning prose, provocative arguments, and compassionate solutions for an ecopsychology of sustainable living will drive our discussion and thinking.  In the final week, we will have a conference call with the author to pose our questions, comments, and concern for the future.

Note *** Please read up to page 83 before the first meeting.               
 http://www.mitchfinn.com/Classes.htmlfor official reservations, see:
http://www.junghouston.org/courses/summer/finn.htm

The Jung Center, Houston presents:

The Culture of Make Believe
featuring a conference call with  author and activist
Derrick Jensen
 Thursdays, 7:30 - 9 pm
Jun 5 - Jul 10
$70 ($60 Jung Center members)
Limit: 15 In this class we will discuss the critical issues of our age - the shadows of consumption and exploitation undergirding modern industrial civilization.  Derrick Jensen's enlightening tour-de-force, The Culture of Make Believe, examines the cultural and psychological roots of racism, slavery, colonialism, the indigenous holocaust, and modernity's compulsion for environmental destruction.  His writing is said to break your heart, then heal it.  His page-turning prose, provocative arguments, and compassionate solutions for an ecopsychology of sustainable living will drive our discussion and thinking.  In the final week, we will have a conference call with the author to pose our questions, comments, and concern for the future.

Note *** Please read up to page 83 before the first meeting.               
 http://www.mitchfinn.com/Classes.htmlfor official reservations, see:
http://www.junghouston.org/courses/summer/finn.htm

A book I came across that might be interesting. Havent read it yet, but it seems promising. Sounds similar to Susan Blackmores "meme machine". Read the review on the first link I posted:

http://mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?id=2062&type=book&cn=91

Hi everyone,

I was just wondering if anyone's read "The Population Fix:Breaking America's Addiction to Population Growth" by Ed Hartman. It sounds interesting but I don't want to waste my time finding out if its a bunch of B.S.

I just read about Leroy smith and the world as it existed in the early days of the last century on the Olympic Peninsula.  This book, “Pioneers of the Olympic Peninsula,”  was a meandering tale of how life was life for the early folks on the peninsula – with most of the action taking place between 1895 and 1920 during the author’s youth and young adulthood.  I purchased this book because I am a firm believer that we cannot know where we are going until we know where we’ve been and I was interested in learning more about this area of my home state that has so entranced me, and taken my heart.