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Located Asheville, North Carolina USA
Tags Politics, GLBTQ News, Environment News, International News, Progressive, Living, Liberal, Left, Green
A World Of Progress is an online magazine for the Progressive Human. Progressive news and commentary on politics, the environment, GLBTQ issues, living, historical context of the days news plus international coverage.
Latest Blog Posts
- Sausage, apple and sweet potato casserole (first cooking post on BlogAsheville) on Nov 25, 2009 in Local
BlogAsheville admin Jen Saylor invited me to post a recipe from my foodie blog, the occasion to post being that I'm using some key local ingredients. The sweet potatoes and the collards are from our CSA box that we get from Flying Cloud Farm in Fairv...
- All-local family Thansgiving, Appalachian Style on Nov 25, 2009 in Local
From Phillip Gibson of the Swannanoa Journal, a special holiday cross-post about his family's all-local Thanksgiving meal for 18. All food was produced within a 200 mile radius of Gibson's home in Candler.A meal prepared with local ingredients is not...
- Obama’s plan for Afghanistan full of military bravado, empty of substance on Nov 25, 2009 in International Afghanistan American appeasement Foreign Aid humanitarian islam Israel Laura King media Military Muslims Netanyahu Obama Palestine Taliban War of Misinformation West
If you need an example of a weak, ineffectual and failing president, just look at Obama’s handling of foreign policy, from the Israeli-Palestinian issue to his solution in Afghanistan. If Obama isn’t appeasing the Israeli right abroad, he’s try...
- The green news pipeline on Nov 25, 2009 in Local
News from around the region lands in the Xpress inbox via various routes each week, from old-fashioned e-mail to TweetDeck (a handy tool for tracking all those 142-character tweets) to a message from a BlackBerry-toting concerned citizen. Here are a...
- All-local family Thanksgiving, Appalachian Style on Nov 25, 2009 in Local
From Phillip Gibson of the Swannanoa Journal, a special holiday cross-post about his family's all-local Thanksgiving meal for 18. All food was produced within a 200 mile radius of Gibson's home in Candler.A meal prepared with local ingredients is not...
- Why I Fight For Our Right To Marry on Nov 25, 2009 in Feature bigotry Cost of Being Gay Discrimination Fundamentalism Gay Marriage Gay Youth Suicide GLBT Health maine Marriage Equality
I admit that I’m still reeling from the voters’ setting aside of equal marriage rights for Maine citizens exactly as California voters did in 2008. Maine even blocked the implementation of equal rights until citizens had an opportunity to vote o...
- Oceans Absorb Less Carbon Dioxide as Marine Systems Change on Nov 24, 2009 in Environment
The oceans are by far the largest carbon sink in the world. Some 93 percent of carbon dioxide is stored in algae, vegetation, and coral under the sea. But oceans are not able to absorb all of the carbon dioxide released from the burning of fossil fu...
