Dear nancy,
Good Morning !
Oh MY god! I was going to take the
week off and just do a little
Thanksgiving week edition of the
newsletter and use the updated Dallas
AAR Holidays webpage and then I started
to ask around for suggestions and ideas
and WOW!
This is an amazing collection of
progressive, alternative holiday ideas
that will help you be more eco- friendly
and help you fight the corporatization
of the holidays - you will save money
and spend money wisely! Thanks to
everyone for their suggestions!
If you know others who might like
this edition sent to them - go here:
http://www.dallasairamerica.org
and enter their email address in the box
and I'll send out an additional mailing
of this special edition later in the
week!
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone - we
need sponsors! We really need them!!
Please consider a $100 sustaining
sponsorship!
Thanks, Nancy Cunningham
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Have yourself a merry little eco-friendly ,
non-corporate Christmas ! |
Dallas Air America collects and
updates these links every year , in an
effort to provide it's members with
alternatives to traditional, polluting or
conspicuous consumptive/corporate
holiday spending, decorating and eating etc
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Our wepage can be found here :
http://www.dallasairamerica.org/xmas/xmas.htm
You can send your favorites suggestions to
nancy
Green Decorating
Christmas trees ( eco)
Christmas Cards
Eco wrapping
Buying green / buying blue / spending your
money wisely / buy nothing / buy local
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Buying green
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Buying Blue
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Spend your money wisely ( gifts or
donations )
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Donate
to your favorite charity as a gift
-always
check out your charities
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Buy NOTHING
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Buy Local
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Texas
Christmas tree farms
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Farmer
Markets
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Homemade
cheese- Downtown Dallas
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Herbs and
flowers- Rockwall
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Handspun
yarn- Southlake
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Fresh Brown
Eggs - Mansfield
More ideas:
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Burgundy
Pasture Beef - (817)866-2247.
BurgundyPastureBeef.com
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Full Quiver Farms Farmstead Cheeses -
(available at Whole Foods and Central
Market) (903)498-3884
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Mozzarella Company - (214) 741-4072. www.mozzco.com.
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Reboboth
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www.Rehobothranch.com
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Truth
Hill Farm - 17593 County Rd. 618,
Farmersville, Texas. (214)491-9441.
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Windy Meadows Farm
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www.windymeadowschicken.com.
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Veldhuizen Family Cheese - (254)968-3098
-www.veldhuizencheese.com.
Dublin, Tx.
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Drake's Heritage Turkey's
(254)897-4974. P.O. Box 1338, Glen
Rose, Tx. 76043
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Vances Pure Honey (972)365-3658
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Gene's Greens - 6105 Remington Parkway,
Colleyville, Tx. 76032. (817) 301-3521
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Deborah's Goat Cheese - (817)821-0975.
300 McNaughton Lane, Ft. Worth 76114.
www.deborahsfarm.com
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Chateau de Fromage - (214)744-0605. 3107
Commerce St., Dallas, Tx. 75201
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Greenfield Field Family Farm -
(903)896-2094. Edgewood , Tx.
Green Shopping local
Articles about green ( eco ) Christmas (
holidays )
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1st Annual Deck the Halls Indie Shopping |
Forget the fruitcake, cupcake. We´re
doing the holidays Texas style!! Sunday,
December 2nd, 2007
11am-7pm
Sons of Hermann Hall 3414 Elm Street,
Dallas TX, 75226
Deck the Halls´ goal is to promote
local, independently owned businesses
while encouraging the general public to
support the Little Guy or Gal.
Designed to help further awareness of
independent businesses through a
collective exhibit and sale as well as a
grassroots markting campaign, Deck the
Halls aims to provide local merchants
with an affordable and lucrative outlet
to boost their sales during the holiday
season. Unique,
original and one-of-a-kind are the
buzzwords projecting Deck the Halls´
atmosphere. Deck the Halls will be a
yearly event with the intention of
growing in both number or vendors and
event attendance annually.
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Start off the
holidays on a good foot- take the
Handmade Pledge! By promising to
only buy handmade goods this holiday
season, you are not only going to
get lots of hugs and kisses from the
recipient, you will also support the
indie community. Handmade Holidays
are the way to go!
You don't know where to buy handmade
goods, you say? Start out with these
local shows:
***Hipsters
Handmade Holiday Bazaar***
at the Dallas Market Hall on Dec.
1st with love bands, crafts, and
demos.
www.urbanstreetbazaar.com
*Deck
the Halls-
being thrown by Armhole and the
Texas Tarts, you can't miss this
party at the Sons of Hermann Hall on
Sun., December 2nd. contact
jacky@texastarts.com
for info.
*Winter
Art Fair-
December 8th at the Alex Sanger
Elementary School at 8410 San
Leandro Dr. Dallas, 75228 call
(972)749-7600 for more info.
*of course, you will always find a
treasure at the
Deep Ellum Sellums
which occur every second Saturday of
the month on Elm Street in Deep
Ellum from 8:30-11:30p.m. and you
can always make your own creations,
as well! You don't know how to
start? Take a class at
Make Studio
at 313 N. Bishop Ave. and impress
your loved ones! Julie will teach
you everything from sewing and
silkscreening to jewelrymaking and
fused glass! contact us at
dallascraftmafia@yahoo.com for
more info.
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Codepink supports Buy Nothing Day! |
Friday, November 23: Buy Nothing Day
Codepink
http://www.codepink4peace.org
On the busiest shopping day of the
year, organize a trip to the mall to
hand out anti-war flyers with the
"Don't Buy Bush's War" message. You
can also ask parents not to buy war
toys.
Idea: Northwest Indiana CODEPINK has
been organizing mall walks. The
group's coordinator, Nina, says, "We
wear our Out of Iraq T-shirts, put
the kids in strollers and walk
around the local mall. This has been
very effective in contacting new
people. We don't actively leaflet,
but have flyers for those who ask
about our organization."
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Consider a Boycott of Holiday
Shopping
By Susan Feiner, Women's eNews
Female shoppers, beware.
It's November and that means that
Black Friday -- the day after
Thanksgiving, the biggest shopping
day of the year -- is lurking at the
end of the month, raising the risk
of a post-holiday debt hangover.
Twenty-three percent of Americans
will not pay off their holiday debt
until March or later, equaling $14.6
billion in interest-accruing debt,
according to a Consumer Reports 2006
survey. Over one-quarter of
Americans use credit cards most
often when holiday shopping,
contributing to the $63.6 billion
charged on credit cards throughout
the shopping season.
Since as much as 75 percent of
retailers' profits accrue during the
holiday season, Black Friday
represents the point in time when
retailers' account books shift from
red (debt) to black (profit).
But black fades into red when we
switch our standpoint to the
consumer's perspective.
Read on
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Last minute shopping online shopping ideas |
From Daily Candy - Luckily, there's a
way to shop and remain good to the
earth: Habitude, a Dallas-based line of
casual clothing that relies on
ecofriendly materials.
The collection's made of organic cotton,
organic wool, hemp, and natural rubber
elastic; pieces range from long-sleeve
tees to V-neck tops to flattering
empire dresses - all in highly wearable
solids.They just might become a lifelong
routine. After all, some Habitudes are
hard to break.
Available online at
thegreenloop.com.
To see styles, go to
habitude.org.
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From NOW- SHOP FOR THE HOLIDAYS WITH NOW
From t-shirts to totebags, buttons to
bumper stickers...NOW's online store has
great gift ideas for your favorite
feminists. Our products make unique
presents, and they send a message, too!
Shop NOW
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From Utne -
EarthMoment.com
, a new online shopping portal designed
to fight climate change through carbon
offsets. Developed jointly by the
publishers of UTNE Reader and online
loyalty specialist Moment Marketing
Inc., EarthMoment.com provides consumers
with millions of competitively priced
products from top retailers while
dedicating half of its commission-based
revenues to certified carbon offsets,
one of the most effective ways to fight
climate change.
At
EarthMoment.com,
shoppers have access to more than 15
million products and services from over
a thousand leading merchants including
Apple, Barnes and Noble, Blockbuster,
Circuit City, GNC, Kohls, Macy's, Office
Depot, Sharper Image, Wal-Mart, and
many, many more. While other companies
that put money toward "environmental
funds" do so by tacking on fees to
consumer purchases,
EarthMoment.com
contributes 50% of its commissions from
vendors to carbon offsets - at no
additional charge to the consumer.
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Forget the fruitcake- gift basket from
Shakespeare Dallas |
Holiday
Gift Baskets for $95*
Sweets grown common lose their dear
delight -Shakespeare
In other words, scrap the fruitcake and
buy a SD Gift Basket instead!
SD HOLIDAY
BASKETS INCLUDE: 2007-2008 Membership
for Two (includes unlimited free
admission, early admission, and
preferred seating for all Shakespeare in
the Park performances... and more!)
Script copies of the 2008 Shakespeare in
the Park plays Othello, All's Well That
Ends Well, The Merchant of Venice AND
a Shakespeare Dallas T-shirt
Click here to order via e-mail or call
us at 214.559.2778 ext
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Support the troops, NO- REALLY ! |
 There
are the groups listed on the United
States Defense Department page : America
Supports You.
I prefer
to stick with the long time non- profit
veteran's organizations such as : VFW,
USO and the Fisher House- also i woudl
recommend programs such as the Veteran's
for Peace phone card program. ( see
below) These are support groups
recommended by
Stars and
stripes
Defense Department program showcases
America's support for its servicemembers.
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Credo and Veteran's for Peace are helping to
oraganize VA Hospital visits ! |
*The VA hospital visits will take place
on December 21. If you'd like to be the
leader, here's what we're asking you to
do:
- Call your local hospital (we'll
provide the address & phone number) to
schedule the visit
- Organize your fellow volunteers by
confirming their participation via email
or phone and telling them where and when
to meet you - Confirm your address with
us so that we can send you the box of
phone cards to take to the hospital
This year, we have updated our volunteer
website so that you can be listed as the
local leader and will have access to all
of the volunteers' names & contact info
-- you won't have to go through us to
get it. And you'll receive email updates
whenever someone new signs up to attend
your visit.
This new functionality will make it much
easier for you to be in touch with your
fellow
 volunteers,
and it will also allow you to update the
details of the visit yourself if you
need to change the date or time of the
visit.
For more information on how to be a
leader or if you'd just to donate a
card
HERE
Veterans for Peace secure donation
site.
Nicole Batdorf Field Activism Producer /
Working Assets / CREDO Mobile
415/369-2144
*www.credoaction.com*
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What would Jesus Buy ? |
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What
Would Jesus Buy? follows Reverend Billy
and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir
as they go on a cross-country mission to
save Christmas from the Shopocalypse: the
end of mankind from consumerism,
over-consumption and the fires of eternal
debt!
From producer Morgan
Spurlock (SUPER SIZE ME) and director Rob
VanAlkemade comes a serious docu-comedy
about the commercialization of Christmas.
Bill Talen (aka Reverend Billy) was a lost
idealist who hitchhiked to New York City
only to find that Times Square was becoming
a mall. Spurred on by the loss of his
neighborhood and inspired by the sidewalk
preachers around him, Bill bought a collar
to match his white caterer's jacket,
bleached his hair and became the Reverend
Billy of the Church of Stop Shopping. Since
1999, Reverend Billy has gone from being a
lone preacher with a portable pulpit
preaching on subways, to the leader of a
congregation and a movement whose numbers
are well into the thousands.
Through retail
interventions, corporate exorcisms, and some
good old-fashioned preaching, Reverend Billy
reminds us that we have lost the true
meaning of Christmas. What Would Jesus
Buy? is a journey into the heart of
America - from exorcising the demons at the
Wal-Mart headquarters to taking over the
center stage at the Mall of America and then
ultimately heading to the Promised
Land, Disneyland.
Will we be led like
Sheeple to the Christmas slaughter, or will
we find a new way to give a gift this
Christmas? What Would Jesus Buy?
may just be the divine intervention we've
all been searching for.
The Shopocalypse
is upon us -Who will be $aved?
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Park Cities/Central Dallas Dems
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Listen
to the
Errington Thompson Show 9am EST
Air America - Asheville, NC
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One Laptop per child - 8 days left! |
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One learning child. One connected child.
One laptop at a time.
The mission of One Laptop Per Child
(OLPC) is to empower the children of
developing countries to learn by
providing one connected laptop to every
school-age child. In order to accomplish
our goal, we need people who believe in
what we're doing and want to help make
education for the world's children a
priority, not a privilege. Between
November 12 and November 26, OLPC is
offering a Give One Get One program in
the United States and Canada. During
this time, you can donate the
revolutionary XO laptop to a child in a
developing nation, and also receive one
for the child in your life in
recognition of your contribution.
$399 for two computers!
http://www.laptopgiving.org/
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Gobble , Gobble - read about
eating locally |
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Books about eating locally
"Omnivore's Dilemma" - Michael
Pollan
"Animal, Vegetable, Miracle-A Year
of Food Life" - Barbara Kingsolver
"Why Grassfed is Best" - Jo Robinson
"Diet for a Small Planet" - Francis
Moore Lappe
"Plenty" - Alisa Smith
"What to Eat" - Marion Nestle
"The World Without Us" - Alan
Weisman
"The Art of Commonplace: The
Agrarian Essay's" - Wendell Berry
"The Way We Eat-Why Our Food Choices
Matter" - Peter Singer
"The Case for Animal Rights" - Tom
Regan
"Fast Food Nation" - Eric Schlosser
"Four Season Harvest" - Eliot
Coleman
"Thieves in High Places" - Jim
Hightower
"The Machine in the Garden" - Leo
Marx
"Family Friendly Farming" - Joel
Salatin
"Home Grown: The Case for Local
Food in a Global Market" - Brian
Halweil
** NOTE "U.S. consumers
will pay 11 percent more
for the traditional Thanksgiving
meal this year,
due in part to higher energy
costs,
the American Farm Bureau
Federation said
on Thursday."
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