Have you seen Sen. Inhofe's latest about the UN and IPCC's "Climate Hoax"? He thinks scientists are just after grant money and clean energy doesn't create jobs. Only if he could get his hands dirty and see the side effects! Let's put him on the job drilling for natural gas!

This is an awesome project. I wish there was something like this when I was young but I lived in the dark ages (hee hee). It really motivates me to be taking & posting more pics and eventually videos. Your story really comes alive because people get to know you are personalities in the videos. I'm also going to forward this story to my friend Val who is working with a group of young teens filming a series of 1 minute videos letting youth tell their stories of Kibera Slums in Nairobi (Larges slum in the world and not a very nice place to grow up). It may not be as high tech but I know your energy will inspire and infect her group with new ideas on how to work together and express themselves.

i have a empty lot next to my business and have a letter to use this lot from the owner.i have planted some sage and a banana tree and would like to start a community garden for all to benifit from. How should i start? Hashim Amla ------------------- water war of pakistan can be ended?

thanks rachel... the used-to-be-youth in our collective wish they had a program like GGs when they were younger too! but we give thanks that working as an inter-generational team means we all get to learn and grow from each other... so even if we started later in the game, we all bring something dynamic and powerful to the mix; we definitely encourage everyone (who can) to use media tools to highlight their stories... almost all of the teens come into the program with little, to no, experience with digital video... and, yet, create some amazing work despite many personal challenges... so we can identify with our peers in Nairobi; we have discovered that sometimes, just having a camera/marker/mic/pencil/reflector in our hands encourages us to see our world with new eyes... along with our role in creating our futures! empowerment is infectious... and media-making comes in all shapes and sizes... so we are sending some positive energy to our comrades, and hope to share work soon!

peace hashim... where to start is a challenging question... we just got off a 2-hour conference call for a statewide prisoner justice conference we have been helping to organize for the last 6 months... and it feels like we are no closer to answering this question as the conference fast approaches than we were in september; what we are realizing is that community organizing is a circular phenomenon... based on our experience, if you want a community garden, then you gotta engage the community in the planning, design, construction, and operation of the project... but the community feedback may differ from the initial goal... which requires more input and relationship building... which oftentimes brings us back "full circle" to where to start? preserving, protecting, and prioritizing green spaces is so crucial to our futures... and the healthy futures of our communities... we salute your efforts to enrich your area, and wish you all the best with engaging your neighbors on next steps... it is not easy, but well worth the time and energy! keep us posted... in the meantime, here is a link to a video we made about similar moves locally: Ithaca's Peoples Garden Project, http://blip.tv/file/2098312