Last night we celebrated the Winter Solstice in Berkeley.  Old friends and newer gathered together to invoke, dance, sing, and burn the boughs of last year’s celebrations in a brilliant conflagration.  I hope the Yule Fire’s enthusiastic flames will prove an omen for the coming year, as the meager and fitful fire of last year…

An exciting discovery has taken place at the Sandia National Labs in New Mexico.  A way has been found, using solar energy, to turn CO2 into fuel.  It will not be on the market soon as greater efficiency is needed.  Nor can it take CO2 out of the atmosphere.  But it can be applied to…

As many West Coast Pagans know, Pantheacon is the largest Pagan gathering in the West, happening February 12-15, over Presidents’ day weekend in San Jose.  I’ve gone for years, seeing old friends, listening to great music, attending cool workshops, and generally having a good time. Of late I’ve been doing workshops of my own there,…

UPDATE 12/21 – below Like many people I’ve been torn both ways by the health care bill that Corporate America’s representatives in the Senate and White House are trying to give us.  If passed it would definitely help some people who are currently uninsured.  Definitely.  And that is not nothing. But the precedent it establishes…

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