guide

• Respect science
• Respect nature
• Respect each other

climate

In the face of an absolutely unprecedented emergency [i.e. climate change] society has no choice but to take dramatic action to avert a collapse of civilization.  Either we will change our ways and build an entirely new kind of global society, or they will be changed for us.

- James Hansen, et al.

• EarthBeat: National Catholic Reporter
• Climate Fwd: The New York Times
• Climate & Environment: The Los Angeles Times

polio

• NIH - Post-Polio Syndrome Fact Sheet
• Post-Polio Health International

quotes

"to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often."

- John Henry Newman

"To love another person is to see the face of God."

- Jean Valjean, "Les Misérables."

"Justice is what love looks like in public, just like tenderness is what love feels like in private."

- Maya Angelou

"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived. But, if faced with courage, need not be lived again."

- Cornel West

"We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings."

- Ursula K. Le Guin

"Authoritarian societies are inherently corrupt, and corrupt societies are inherently unstable. Rule of thieves brings collapse, eventually, because they can't stop stealing."

- anonymous