Sophie Griotto — VOYAGE ONIRIQUE

Talentueuse Artiste illustratrice Française : SOPHIE GRIOTTO  est née en 1975 à Alès. Elle étudie les Arts appliqués à Nîmes puis à Toulouse avant de rejoindre Paris où elle travaille pour une grande agence de publicité. 19 more words

Sophie Griotto — VOYAGE ONIRIQUE

Resilient eco-community survives hurricane Ian

Darcy Hitchcock

As Hurricane Ian showed, where and what we build matters. Fort Meyers got hammered by hurricane Charley 18 years ago and it took years to recover. Now it’s happened again. Fort Meyers Beach looks like a giant beast with claws raked the entire community into the sea.

But just a little inland Babcock Ranch was built with resilience in mind.

“We have proof of the case now because [the hurricane] came right over us,” Nancy Chorpenning, a 68-year-old Babcock Ranch resident, told CNN. “We have water, electricity, internet — and we may be the only people in Southwest Florida who are that fortunate.”

Well, maybe not internet. I wasn’t able to get onto their website for several days but it’s back online now.

It’s become a refuge for displaced people from nearby communities. Some of Chorpenning’s friends, people who lived on Sanibel Island, will be renting there.

“They’re going to…

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Review: Imago, Last of Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis Trilogy — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

This series just gets better and better!  This third book in the series was amazing!! Slight Spoiler Warning Once again, both Octavia Butler and Toni Morrison are *even now, still* writers whose works should receive vastly more attention… Imago is the next book, after Adulthood Rights,  in the Xenogenesis series  by Octavia E. […]

Review: Imago, Last of Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis Trilogy — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

♫ Being With You ♫ (Redux) — Filosofa’s Word

Some nights, there is a song I particularly want to play, and other nights I’m at a loss.  I was just cruisin’ through my archives tonight, not having the stamina to post a new song, and this one seemed like a pretty good choice!  So, let’s love us some Smokey Robinson tonight! Robinson wrote this […]

♫ Being With You ♫ (Redux) — Filosofa’s Word

Good People Doing Good Things — Team Rubicon Again! And Yet AGAIN! — Filosofa’s Word

In October 2017 in another ‘good people post I wrote about Team Rubicon, a group of veterans started by Jake Wood, in 2010, initially in response to the devastating earthquake that had hit Haiti, leaving hundreds of thousands dead and at least that many more homeless.    Wood convinced a former classmate and a few […]

Good People Doing Good Things — Team Rubicon Again! And Yet AGAIN! — Filosofa’s Word

Streetart – Zësar Bahamonte @ Scherpenheuvel-Zichem, Belgium — Barbara Picci

Zësar Bahamonte @ Scherpenheuvel-Zichem, Belgium Location: Scherpenheuvel-Zichem, Belgium Artist: Zësar Bahamonte Address: Houwaartstraat 303 Photo Credits: Mjose USEFUL LINKS: Zësar Bahamonte in this blog | Website | Instagram | Facebook fan page

Streetart – Zësar Bahamonte @ Scherpenheuvel-Zichem, Belgium — Barbara Picci

Streetart – Kaff-eine @ Melbourne, Australia — Barbara Picci

Kaff-eine @ Melbourne, Australia Location: Melbourne, Australia Artists: Kaff-eine For: Frontier Wars A project by: Flash Forward Melbourne Address: 540 Little Bourke St. Photo Credits: Ninja USEFUL LINKS: Kaff-eine in this blog | Website | Instagram | Facebook fan page

Streetart – Kaff-eine @ Melbourne, Australia — Barbara Picci