Monthly Archives: March 2022

Homebuyer Trainings from Partners for Better Housing

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We just wanted to make you aware of some vaouable homebuyer preparedness trainings taking place this year! If interested, register here and or share with those who may be interested. Food will be provided at each. 1.   Homebuyer 101 (sorry this one happened already): Saturday, February 26th, 2022 from 12 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. at 115 S. Willow Avenue, Fayetteville, AR 72701 2.   Down payment & Closing cost assistance (ADFA Homebuyer programs): Tuesday, March 29th, 2022 from 12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. (Webinar & in person/Location TBD) 3.   Habitat for Humanity orientation and other homeownership programs and resources: Tuesday, April 5th, 2022 at 5:30 p.m. and Saturday, April 30th, 2022 @ 10 […]

IPCC report underscores Urgent need to ramp up Drawdown Solutions

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IPCC report underscores Urgent need to ramp up Drawdown Solutions https://drawdown.org/solutionsEarlier this week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a sobering report sharing the latest knowledge on climate change impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability. In the report’s own words, “The science is clear. Any further delay in concerted global action will miss a brief and rapidly closing window to secure a liveable future.”  With severe impacts already underway, it’s critical we work NOW to minimize future harm and avoid change that exceeds our ability to adapt. What to do? Take a look at Project Drawdown’s 80-plus climate solutions; identify which you can […]

RUSSIA NEWSLETTER #12, March 5, 2022

 in Dick's Newsletters 2022

OMNI RUSSIA NEWSLETTER #12,March 5, 2022 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/03/russia-ukraine-newsletteranthology-12.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology Omnicenter.org/donate/    No one has asked why equal time is not given to official US history and positions, perhaps because the explanation is obvious.  The US possesses, as part of its military power (greater than the next six countries combined), probably the most powerful propaganda system in all history.  A single citizen who reports contrary opinions might be guilty of whistling in the dark but is not guilty of violating the protocols of news reporting under the First Amendment of the […]

WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #63, March 2, 2022

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 OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #63, March 2, 2022 Glenn Petersen.  War and the Arc of Human ExperienceTodd Miller, Build Bridges, Not Walls https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/03/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-63-march-2.html GLENN PETERSEN. War and the Arc of Human Experience. Rowman and Littlefield, 2021. Glenn Petersen flew seventy combat missions in Vietnam when he was nineteen, launching from an aircraft carrier in the Tonkin Gulf. He’d sought out the weighty responsibilities and hazardous work. But why? What did the cultural architecture of the society he grew up in have to do with the way he went to war? In this book he looks at the war from an […]