WISE WOMEN MEDIA FOR 10/26/12--Returning Guest, Journalist and Photographer Julie Dermansky on TAR SANDS DIRECT ACTIONS

FROM JULIE:

Greetings,

After spending some time in East Texas, I have some stories, video clips and photos to share about the battle environmental activists and landowners are waging against the Keystone XL pipeline.

Here is a link to my blog: http://juliedermansky.blogspot.com/2012/10/fight-against-keystone-pipeline-in-east.html

A link to NRDC's Onearth blog: http://www.onearth.org/article/keystone-xl-texas-landowners-arrests

and my story on the Atlantic wire: http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/10/meet-the-treehouse-dwelling-protesters-of-the-keystone-pipeline/263878/

Back home, all is not well on the Gulf, the Coast Guard and BP acknowledged the oil above the site of the Macando well is BP oil. "Drill baby drill" still seems to be the predominate way here. Final approval for the Keystone XL pipeline, though delayed until after the election, seems like a foregone conclusion since construction of the southern portion has been fast-tracked. Too bad no one knows how to clean up a tar sands spill. So much about the keystone XL pipeline doesn't seem right to me yet both political parties are ultimately for it. 

Regards,

Julie

Julie Dermansky

www.jsdart.com

SO MUCH to talk about! Julie returns to talk about what she has seen and documented at the TAR SANDS ACTIONS. Don't miss this show and feel free to call in with questions or join us in the chat room!

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WISE WOMEN MEDIA for 10/19/12-Darlene Sharples, Food Storage, Canning and Jarring Expert!

Learn ALL ABOUT Food Storage, Canning and Jarring from the EXPERT and one who has made this topic a life-long passion. This is a show that you want to hear and definitely LEARN from. Be sure to join us in the chat or call in to the show, let's make this interactive! 

My name is Darlene Sharples, and I basically started what’s become a life-long passion for canning about 40 years ago at the age of 16 – when I was still in high school. We made some jam in Home Economics, and I really enjoyed it. My Grandma, who raised me, did canning – and I always wanted to learn so I bought my first canning guide in 1977 and started teaching myself. 

From there, I bought my first pressure canner. I did more water-bath canning of pickles, jams, jellies and relishes than meals back then, but gradually got more into the pressure canning as my kids grew. I made more meals in jars because it was great to take a jar to work with me for my lunch. I got into dehydrating in the early 80's mainly for dehydrating beef jerky and fruits. I really got more into Prepping due to less income when my marriage ended, and my husband and I divorced about 12 years ago and prices were getting higher and higher in the stores – and more and more additives were being put in commercially-prepared food. 

I wanted good, healthy food in which I knew the ingredients. Buying in bulk, then canning and dehydrating was a  way I could save money, waste less food from things going bad in the refrigerator and almost always have healthy food available. Even if I was out of money, I had that back-up. If there was a power outage, I would not be devastated by losing a freezer full of food, because I would always have shelf-stable foods on hand. 

What began as an interest 40+ years ago, became a hobby, then an avocation – and finally my passion. I am now a member of several On-line Prepping groups and a part-owner of a food preservation group called, “Food Preservation – Drying, Canning And More,” where I and others are there to answer any questions folks may have in order that they may learn to do food preservation properly and safely. 

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FoodPreservationDryingCanningAndMore/ 

Currently, I’m also writing a cook-book on Pressure-Canning. Right now there are the guidelines issued by the National Center for Home Food Preservation online website, several canning guides (Ball Blue Book Guide to Preservation or the Canadian version Bernardin Book of  Food Preservation) and these are the rules and regulations that everyone follows and the basic instructions are included with Ball, Certo, Bernardin and various other supplies manufacturers. However, there is no one comprehensive source for Pressure-Canning recipes for actual, full meals – not just soup with meat & veggies, or chicken in broth. After a life-time of canning I am making this my ‘legacy’ project in the hopes that more people will come to realise that there is merit and better food-safety and CERTAINLY better nutrition in preparing your own foods.

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Wise Women Media for 10/12/12-SPECIAL GUEST, VISIONARY ARTIST MERYL ANN BUTLER ON CREATIVITY AND JOY!

Meryl Ann Butler is an artist, author, educator and OpEeNews Senior Editor who has been actively engaged in utilizing the arts as stepping-stones toward joy-filled wellbeing for over 25 years. She studied art with Harold Ransom Stevenson in Sea Cliff, NY for seven years before opening her own art school. Stevenson had been a student of Norman Rockwell. 

Her art in a wide variety of media can be seen on her YouTube video, "Visionary Artist Meryl Ann Butler on Creativity and Joy" at  

A NYC native, her response to 9-11 was to pen an invitation to healing through creativity, entitled, "90-Minute Quilts: 15+ Projects You Can Stitch in an Afternoon" (Krause 2006), which is a bestseller in the craft field. The sequel, MORE 90-Minute Quilts: 20+ Quick and Easy Projects With Triangles and Squares was released in April, 2011. Her popular video, How to Stitch a Quilt in 90 Minutes with Meryl Ann Butler can be seen at  

She has been active in a number of international, arts-related projects as a citizen diplomat, and was arts advisor to Baltimore's CIUSSR (Center for Improving US-Soviet Relations), 1987-89. She made two trips to the former USSR in 1987 and 1988 to speak to artists, craftpersons and fashion designers on the topic of utilizing the arts as a tool for global wellbeing. She created the historical "First US-Soviet Children's Peace Quilt Exchange Project" in 1987-88, which was the first time a reciprocal quilt was given to the US from the former USSR. 

Her artwork is in collections across the globe. 

Meryl Ann is a founding member of The Labyrinth Society and has been building labyrinths since 1992. 

She has written over 130 articles for OpEdNews since 2004. 

Archived articles www.opednews.com/author/author1820.html 

http://www.merylannbutler.com

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