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Black. Brown. Green. is a web portal of resources and information that integrate people of color and our needs and issues with the movement for environmental sustainability. It's also a place for people of color to learn about green living and develop an understanding of how issues of social justice and environmental sustainability are interlinked not only in the political world, but in our daily lives. Black. Brown. Green. is solution oriented. We hope to spread the understanding that all things are connected and that we are stronger when working together than we are when we are tearing each other apart.

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The BBG Philosophy partners the 12 principles of Permaculture with the 6 principles and 6 steps of Nonviolent Social Change to create an outline for living the best lives we can and creating the healthiest future for our world. We don't reinvent the wheel. We build connections between cooperating wheels to create smooth-running, interconnected, powerful gears. To this end, we don't re-write or re-create. We pair and partner to bolster communities, combine goals and strengthen our culture as a whole.

The 12 partnered principles are:
1. Observe and Interact + Gather Information.
2. Catch and Store Energy + Educate Others.
3. Obtain a Yield + Choose Loving Solutions, Not Hateful Ones.
4. Apply Self-Regulation and Accept Feedback + Remain Committed.
5. Use and Value Renewable Resources and Services + Peacefully Negotiate.
6. Produce No Waste + The Entire Universe Embraces and Deserves Justice.
7. Design from Patterns to Details +Take Action Peacefully.
8. Integrate Rather Than Segregate + Defeat Injustice, Not People.
9. Use Small and Slow Solutions + Reconcile.
10. Use and Value Diversity + Seek Friendship and Understanding Among Those Who are Different from You.
11. Use Edges And Value The Marginal + Suffering Can Educate and Transform People and Societies.
12. Creatively Use And Respond To Change +This Is A Way Of Life For Courageous People.

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Moon

Cultural Etiquette

Started by Moon Aug 20.

Ananda Kiamsha Madelyn Leeke

New Green Discovery - LIFE is LIVING

Started by Ananda Kiamsha Madelyn Leeke Apr 23.

Ananda Kiamsha Madelyn Leeke

How are you planning to celebrate Earth Day on 4.22.09?

Started by Ananda Kiamsha Madelyn Leeke Apr 10.

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Moon

Black Africans in Asian Countries Impacted by Tsunami

I'm re-posting this here because the Journalist lays down some true nuggets on the impact and presence of Black people in Asia - like in Malaysia where there indigenous people are referred to as "original man."

Black Africans in Asian Countries Impacted by Tsunami

San Francisco Bayview, News Report, Runoko Rashidi, Posted: Jan 20, 2005 Review it on NewsTrust

All of the countries in Asia impacted by the recent tsumani have Black populations. Sadly, far too many people, including… Continue

Posted by Moon on August 21, 2009 at 3:00am

Moon

Cultural Etiquette

This is an interesting essay article I came across this morning while researching Intentional Communities and eco villages for people of color. It was in an issue of "Communities: Journal of Cooperative Living".



Cultural Etiquette: A Guide for the Well-Intentioned
by Amoja Three Rivers
[photo]

R ACISM AND THE RACIAL STEREOTYPES it spawns are so subtly interwoven into the fabric of Western society that very often, even those with the best of intentions will display bad cultural manners. This… Continue

Posted by Moon on August 20, 2009 at 3:44pm

Ananda Kiamsha Madelyn Leeke

Tune into 5/31 episode of Go Green Sangha Radio@7pm EST. Gloria Ware: A Mother Who Uses Her Gifts to Promote Green Living.


Photo of Green Living Lady/Blogger Gloria Ware


Happy Last Day of May!

Tonight I have the honor of interviewing Gloria Ware, a dynamic green living lady, on the 12th episode of Go Green Sangha Radio at 7pm EST. Click here to hear the show:… Continue

Posted by Ananda Kiamsha Madelyn Leeke on May 31, 2009 at 2:17pm

Ananda Kiamsha Madelyn Leeke

More Great News About My New Book - A Green Living Creative Woman's Poetic Memoir - Sneak Preview of Book Cover Summary



That Which Awakens Me: Kreative Grooviness (2005)
(Painting appears on front cover of book)
Copyright 2009 by Madelyn C. Leeke





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Posted by Ananda Kiamsha Madelyn Leeke on May 31, 2009 at 2:00pm

Ananda Kiamsha Madelyn Leeke

Go Green Sangha Radio Pays Tribute to D.C. Green Living Leader Ken Yamaguchi-Clark


Green Living Leader Ken Yamaguchi-Clark (standing in the middle)


PRLog (Press Release)
http://www.prlog.orContinue

Posted by Ananda Kiamsha Madelyn Leeke on April 10, 2009 at 12:56pm

Malcolm X
"Tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today."

Dr. David Suzuki
"What permaculturists are doing is the most important activity
that any group is doing on the planet."- Dr. David Suzuki

Mohandas Gandhi

"There is no hope for the aching world except through
the narrow and straight path of non-violence."
 
 

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