SustainYou

I can’t go to this because I am going to the Harriet Island Earth Day celebration. Which I encourage everyone to go to, too. But if you insist on staying in Minneapolis for earth day, here’s another event I got a flier about:

Climate Crisis Coalition of the Twin Cities Film Screenings and Discussion

Sunday, April 22nd

11:00 am The Science of Global Warming, a PBS documentary that explains Earth’s climate system and how it works

1:00 pm Global Warming: Bush’s Climate of Fear, a BBC documentary on the US Government’s suppression of climate science.

3:00 pm The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil, an inspiring documentary on how we can wean our society off of fossil fuels.

Location: Acadia Cafe Theatre
1931 Nicollet Ave, Minneapolis

I get a lot of emails from U.S.Pirg about petitions and calling senators to support environmental legislation, but this Photographic Petition looks particularly fun so maybe it could be a Coop/Sustain You community activity at the potluck tomorrow! Here’s the email:

“You’ve done a lot of things to communicate with your elected officials in the past: written emails, signed petitions, even made phone calls. But global warming is such a crucial and urgent issue, I think it calls for a special action.
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I haven’t even had time to read it all yet, but there’s an intriguing city pages article, “You Are Where You Eat,” with really funny pictures. Are you a byerly’s babe, a Cub Foods Consumer, or a Whole Foods, Whole Paycheck Hipster?

Whole Foods is very close to my house so I’ve been known to drop many a food stamp there (ironically, food stamps actually gives me the illusion that I don’t have to worry as much about buying slightly more expensive food that I actually like to eat, which can be both good and bad). This article makes me reconsider that a bit though. Perhaps next time I’m looking for some good produce I’ll hop south to Mississippi Market and check their prices for a change of pace.

Anyway the article is worth checking out just to look at the funny pictures of typical shoppers at various grocery chains.

Chai Tea

Makes 2 servings

1 1/2 c water
1 inch stick cinnamon
8 cardamon pods
8 whole cloves
2/3 c milk
6 tsp sugar (or to taste)
3 tsp loose black tea

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Grab a bowl, go outside and find some nice fresh clean snow that hasn’t been shoveled or peed on or anything.

Scoop it up and take it inside. immediately drizzle with real maple syrup and consume! It won’t warm you up but it’s very refreshing after working up a sweat shoveling that foot of snow out of your driveway!

Did anyone do this when they were a kid? I can’t remember what exactly we called it.