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My Blog: Intro - Bio - Mission - Thank you
By: waynephillips2008

Parrish and I started the internet radio show to reach out to people who really have something of vital importance to say about issues of the day that directly and indirectly effect each and every one of us. Parrish and myself are polar opposites in many ways but we do share a love for people from all walks of life with wide ranging opinions and experiences. We want to help people overcome obstacles and road blocks that would otherwise hinder them from reaching their full potential and at the same time increase our own knowledge of what is going on out there in this complex world we call reality.

"Wayne and Parrish Live" is something we've both wanted to do for a long time. Sure we've both done our separate gigs but together we present a two fold cord that cannot be easily broken. We look at things from different angles and perspectives. We analyze them from and out of different experiences. And that is what makes it work.

I am honored to be working with Parrish not only in radio but also in the many television productions we are working on now and in the future. Parrish is a talented director and film maker and together we will present a strong force in radio talk.

I would like to thank all of you who helped make the show possible and ask for your continuing support as we move toward the new year.

Published On: 2/17/2008

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Harvest News Blog: Get your DREAM GREEN JOB...
By: Green.colonies.com

Get your GREEN DREAM JOB

This is not another generic “How to Write the Resume for Success” or “Sell Yourself” self-help article. I am simply going to let you in on a happenin’ Grassroots networking opportunity that has likely already sprouted up in your neck of the woods. It will have you spreading the GOOD GREEN WORD about the authenticity and the inevitable effectiveness of this unique Social gathering.

ENTER: Greendrinks / VENUE: Your local pub, Yoga Studio, or even Art Museum / SPOTLIGHT: Eco-Activists, Professionals, Students, and “HIP-pies”; such as- Green Building Consultants and Design Firms, Organic Farmers, Owners of Eco-conscious PR firms and Fair Trade Chocolate Companies, Bio-Diesel Retailers and Solar Power Engineers, students of Sustainable Economics and Urban Planning….. Your chance to get face-to-face and celebrate with people who you want to work for –or probably will work with- in the near future!

One Tuesday a Month, 6-ish p.m.: Beer and Wine are free-flowing, smiles light up the room, the food table is loaded w/ local goodies, name tags speak “open door”, and you have one mission….Drink, Eat, Shake hands, and Share your ECO-Passion with other GREENDRINKERS.

Last Tuesday I strolled into Evo, a Surf/ Skate/ Snowboard Retailer and Gallery in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle. As one of the hosts of the Seattle Greendrinks that month, Evo opened up its Warehouse-size shop to about 500 Green Industry Players and wanna-be eco-activists—potentially, like yourself. Everyone there wants to connect to others that are just as excited about the Green Revolution! Thus, you’re bound to enter into the inner circles of Eco-Blissdom and fall ‘in love’ with the vibe of the social Eco-scene. Greendrinks has what it takes to keep people coming back for more- and telling their friends who have the same interest in Green about it! So, the party grows and the Dream Green job network explodes with opportunity!

Now go Network and connect with those who share your interest in re-constructing the Conventional business models to reflect this era of Green. Green is the place to be and you want a part of it not JUST because it is thriving, but because, DEEP DOWN, you know the Green Industry is making this world a better place to live for you today and for your kids in the future.—It’s only Natural to wanna be a part of that!

Start a Greendrinks in your town, city, or country….visit: http://greendrinks.org or if you’re in Seattle find a Greendrinks celebration at: www.seattlegreendrinks.org Tell Gabriel that Maggie sent ya! CHEERS!
ARTICLE SOURCE : http://green.colonies.com/Green.colonies.com/blog/editpost.aspx?blogid=941769

Interest-based Social Networking is the way you captivate the hearts and minds of your future employers, Green Industry mates, friends and neighbors. I have been to GREENDRINKS- SEATTLE four times now and I have witnessed its exponential growth and been a beneficiary of its authenticity. Authenticity is a blend of confidence, truth, influence, leadership, passion and cannot be faked. Greendrinks arose from peoples’ authentic call to others in their community for a revolution in the way we carry out our day to day activities- from the morning cup ‘o joe , to the afternoon business lunch, ending in the last bulb switched off. It all starts with caring and then sharing and this is where the job opportunity appears and my lesson is taught. –Bless, Maggie

Maggie Hoback is the leader and inspiration for the Green Living interest-based online social networking community at Colonies.com. Similar to the Greendrinks social network, yet Green.colonies.com has with a 24hrs a day meeting space, ECO- newsfeeds, membership profiling capacity, photo sharing, and more! Her interest in Green Living took off while pursuing her degree in Agribusiness. With studies focusing on Sustainable Development, Fair Trade, and Organic Agriculture, Maggie found a passion in publicizing the importance of creating a sustainable future for all lives on earth. By creating a Community space for Eco-conscious individuals and organizations to harvest their own and shared knowledge and experiences so that we become more efficient Stewards of the Earth. Join at: www.green.colonies.com , part of the Colonies.com Network. People.Passion.Purpose.

Published On: 5/15/2007

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My Journal: Green business in Nicaragua....
By: cabezadecocodrilo

So glad to see that there is a green colony now!! :)
Here in Nicaragua with so much of the coastal land in foreign hands and the prospects of rampant construction just around the corner it has never been a better time to influence the
way things are to be done. At www.nicageeks.com we are in a prime position to do that as part of our business involves the process of selling and marketing wind and solar powered systems with the future goal of positioning ourselves as the green consultants to the local land developers and homebuilders. There is so much to do in this country to help shape its future for its people and its environment. I am excited to be a part of that and feel optimistic about the possibilities that lie before me down here!

Published On: 5/12/2007

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Harvest News Blog: "Farm of the Future"- ABC World News Special on Aquaculture By: Green.colonies.com
Published On: 5/6/2007 Add/View Comments (1)

Harvest News Blog: Youth against Global Warming makes Nationwide News! By: Green.colonies.com
Our future may look brighter AND GREENER when you witness this National Newscast on the inspiring initiative kids today are taking on their own FREE time.... Click below to see the video! http://video.msn.com/v/us/msnbc.htm?g=95fba99d-48e8-436b-8a74-0d0fc7e0c979&f=00&fg=copy Published On: 4/26/2007 Add/View Comments (1)

Harvest News Blog: Welcome to the Green Revolution
By: Green.colonies.com

LIVE GREEN!

If you read magazines, watch TV, surf, cook, shop....breathe......you have heard about being "GREEN".

The pages within Green.Colonies.com are meant to DIG UP the DIRT on issues involving Natural Resource Conservation, Reliable Agriculture systems, Energy Alternatives, Urban Sprawl, and of course the no longer debatable causes of Global Warming.

TRUTH: Your actions affect the earth and its inhabitants with each footprint you lay down on this planet?

TRUTH: Living Green makes your tread lighter- your ecological footprint smaller - thus the resources we depend upon daily may be conserved and made to sustain future generations!

So...if your 'down', 'hip', or 'keen' to be ECO-generous to your nieces and nephews, grandchildren, or your own kids....Take a minute to join the Green Community inside Colonies.com. Make a profile for yourself, your family or your organization, and begin sharing with others about the ECO-actions you are taking.

These pages EXIST to provide us with tools to build a BETTER FUTURE for our lives on this planet.

Summon your inner ECO-CONSCIOUSNESS by reading the "GREEN TIPS of The Day" or try adding your own "Green Footprint Blog post" to INSPIRE and motivate others to join in on the 'Green Revolution'.

You will find out just how POWERFUL Community can be as you come together on a common ground with a similiar passion in you to LIVE BETTER, more WHOLE lives.

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Published On: 4/25/2007

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Harvest News Blog: HILLTRIP-- Whistler B.C.s CORE ECO-organization knows how to PARTY....!
By: Green.colonies.com

(Excerpts from Hilltrip)

Hilltrip is dedicated to improve the sustainability of our mountain environment and lifestyle.

A barometer of global climate change, Mountain ecosystems are highly sensitive to changes in temperature. Many climatologists believe that mountains provide an early glimpse of what may come to pass in lowland environments.

What does Sustainability mean?
At its most basic level, sustainable means "meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."

EARTH DAY is HERE...read more about all their ROCKIN' EVENTS at http://www.hilltrip.com/index.html . There will be a lot of prizes and even MORE GOOD KARMA!!!!!!!!!

Published On: 4/18/2007

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Harvest News Blog: WELCOME to GREEN!
By: Green.colonies.com

WELCOME to GREEN!

LIVE GREEN!

If you read magazines, watch TV, surf, cook, shop....breathe......you have heard about being "GREEN".

TRUTH: Your actions affect the earth and its inhabitants with each footprint you lay down on this planet?

TRUTH: Living Green makes your tread lighter- your ecological footprint smaller - thus the resources we depend upon daily may be conserved and made to sustain future generations!

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Published On: 4/13/2007

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My Journal: Stupid is a 4 letter word.
By: BushyV1

so today i see the following things said and chat and the disgust it caused in my was unmeasureable.

shredder_chika: hey pc i have a pretty big bump on my head from wen i fell off my chair
shredder_chika: lol
PCSNOW: i am sooo bored right now that i am typing really fast and cannot stop

Does the stupidity of these 2 people, who i assume are from either canada or america, where you can get some of the best educations in the world FOR FREE(minus tax bullshi*t), really show the loss of sense society is going through? Do people feel that because they are on a computer connected to the internet that they think nobody can touch them as long as they hide behind their screen name and privacy laws? How f*cking retarded are we going to get but someone steps up and say "Duurrr somethings wrong here" well no f*cking shi*t sherlock, maybe we should have thought that when we put a second bush in office. Or maybe when the oil companies aremaking obscene amounts of profit on gasoline by charging 3 bucks a gallon. So many of the people across the internet today are the future of the world, and this is what they sound like when hiding behind a computer screen? If im running a buisness one day and every email i get is written "w!Th w0Rd$ L!k3 tHI$", heads are going to roll, and then i get sued for poor buisness practice because politics say oh well your discriminating them because they do soemthing different. NO f*ck heads im discriminating them because theyre DUR MORONS. Jesus christ people, pull your heads out of your asses already so i can stick my foot up there.

Published On: 9/9/2006

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My Blog: werrrrrrrd. the family.
By: NoGoodTrying

Grow More Potby Jello Biafra
From I Blow Minds for a Living, recorded at Slim's, San Francisco, Nov 21, 1990

Does anybody out there know that for the first time in American history the U.S. Army was used in a war operation against the American people? Right near here, up in Humboldt County about 200 miles north of San Francisco right near a town called Shelter Cove, get this: three- to four-hundred American G.I.s dressed with automatic rifles and fully armed for battle, fanned out on maneuvers through the woods, backed up by a dozen Blackhawk attack helicopters. The mountain people up there were frightened out of their wits! They thought there was a war going on, especially the ones that had soldiers kicking in the doors to their cabins and putting guns to their heads in front of their children.

Why!? Who was the enemy in this war? Not the communists! Not Saddam Hussein! Not Earth First! or even the spotted owl. No! The enemy they called out the army to put down, secretly, so few people outside of Humboldt would get alarmed as possible, it wasn't even a person or an army or a terrorist group! It was a plant, the marijuana plant.

And they actually did manage to find a few for the G.I.s to pull up, and then they had to fly in more from the government stash so the pile would look big enough when they lit the bonfire for the network TV news cameras, so that they could say "Yes! Another triumph in the Drug War!"

Drug War. War. The American army sent to war against the American people. And we're supposed to feel relieved and secure and protected. Protected from what?!

A lot of people with more guts than I'll ever have risked their life and limb all last summer at the Earth First! Redwood Summer Action up in Humboldt County. They were chaining themselves to redwoods that were three times wider than they were, 800 years old, they were spread-eagled, as the saws buzzed right over their heads. They stood in the dirt as the bulldozers charged them and stopped right at their toes. Or people waved clubs at them, charged them with logging trucks, shotguns, you name it. All to try to save some of the last unspoiled virgin forest we have left anywhere in this country from being chopped down and turned into toilet paper, TV Guides and the Weekly World News.

On the other side the loggers saying "What about our jobs!? What about our families!? What about our lives?! You needed wood and cardboard to make those protest signs!"

We need fuel! We need paper! It's almost gone! Where are we gonna get more? The answer, for centuries, has been right under our nose: grow more pot!

If we're serious about saving the earth, saving the ozone and our freedom to go about saving the earth and the ozone, we should start by paying all those dirt-poor coca farmers in South America and out-of-work loggers in Fortuna and Eureka, and Midwest family farmers and rust-belt families too, to all get together and grow more pot!

Why? Get ready for this...! There's a book out called The Emperor Wears No Clothes. The author's name is Jack Herer. It's published by Queen of Clubs, and I think there's ads for it in High Times, or NORML, the National Organization for Reform of Marijuana Laws, could direct you to a copy I'm sure, and in this book, among other places, it is written that before the 20th century, the marijuana plant provided almost all the world's paper, all the world's clothing and textiles, and almost all the world's rope.

According to none other than the U.S. Department of Agriculture you can make four times as much paper from one acre of hemp plants as you can from an acre of trees. And instead of chopping down all the redwoods in Humboldt County and turning Northern California, Oregon and Washington and Appalachia into the Sahara Desert, if you do it with hemp plants, you can just grow another crop a few months later and make more paper! At one-quarter the cost of making paper from wood pulp and only one-fifth the pollution. The ancient Romans knew this and grew it, Henry VIII made each farmer in old England grow their share, because they knew if you want the strongest natural fiber there is, you all have gotta do your part for the King and grow more pot!

And we did, too! Guess what Levi jeans were originally made out of? And guess what American flags used to be made out of? And guess what the early drafts of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution were written on? And if that's too un-Christian for you, guess what they made Guttenberg and King James Bibles out of? Guess what you can use to power a car? You can get at least four times as much cellulose to make gasohol or methanol from hemp stems as you can from a corn stalk. Which along with solar energy would be a great way to avoid dying for oil in Saudi Arabia.

In the 1920s and 1930s most American cars and farm machinery had the option of running on gas or on methanol; most racing cars still do run on methanol. And George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew cannabis on their plantations and smoked it, too!

In the 1760s in the American colonies you could even be jailed for not growing pot! Because that was part of the key to becoming economically independent from Britain. Hemp was legal tender in the Americas, a substitute for money, from 1630 clear up to the early 1800s. And hemp seeds are a great source of protein, better than soybeans, and it's cheaper than soybeans, too. Or so says the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Marijuana is legal for medical use in 34 states used to treat glaucoma and pain caused by cancer, and you can digest more protein from a hemp seed than a soybean seed. It's even shown some signs at being able to combat herpes. And, guess what kind of a parachute Mr. Drug War Junta-Man himself George Bush used when he bailed out of that bomber in World War II?

Hemp was illegal by then, but farmers were briefly ordered to grow it again in this country for the war effort and all, and the U.S. Army had their own stash all along in the colonies in the Philippines.

So, how did everything get turned around so damn bad? Doesn't it strike you as a little dumb that we burn oil and choke ourselves and chop down all our trees and ruin innocent people's lives by branding them criminals and throwing them in jails, or sending them off to drug camps, or taking all their property and selling it before they're brought to trial? In the process, making crack and heroin cheaper and easier to get than pot? Why do we do this when we don't have to?

Meanwhile the Police Chief of L.A., Darryl Gates gets front page approval for telling a U.S. Senate committee that pot smokers should be shot on sight. Because smoking pot is treason because, after all, it's illegal.

Why was marijuana cracked down on? And why was it done so violently? Well ... Ready?!

In 1936 Popular Mechanics magazine hailed the invention of a new machine to process hemp, predicting that marijuana/hemp would once again become the world's largest cash crop. This did not at all sit well with people like Hearst Paper Manufacturing or Kimberly-Clark or other cutthroat multinationals who happen to have large timber holdings. It didn't sit to well with tobacco barons for obvious reasons, and it sure as hell didn't sit too well with old buddies DuPont. Hemp processing uses only one-fifth the chemicals need to process wood pulp, and DuPont had just patented a new wood pulp sulfide process, and DuPont's patented plastic fibers had just passed up hemp as the No. 2 fiber, next to cotton, and they wanted to keep it that way!

And the last thing the big drug companies wanted was to lose their share of the ever lucrative disease industry market, to more affordable medicine made from marijuana or other natural ingredients because, check this out, you can't own and make money off a patent for medicine in this country, unless the medicine has chemicals in it. If it's all natural ingredients, you can't patent it. Maybe that's why we don't have access to a cure for cancer or AIDS, or why the health food store I go to keeps getting harassed by federal authorities for selling herbal medicines.

Meanwhile, guess who owns Congress? So marijuana was outlawed in 1937 and they fanned the racism fires playing the racism card just like they do when they want to crack down on rock-and-roll or rap or hip hop or something like that. They said that smoking marijuana might cause you to fall under the influence of listening to jazz! I believe that it was even said on the floor of Congress that marijuana had to be banned because smoking it might make a black man look at a white woman twice. And let's not forget that U.S. Treasury Department funded documentary film, called, "Reefer Madness!" So marijuana was outlawed as devil weed in 1937. Only 53 years ago it was legal. Need I say more, on why our beloved fearless leaders go out of their way to censor our access to information so damn much? Can you imagine the mass outrage if this kind of stuff ever really got out? And people knew that this big drug problem that they keep reading about and hearing about is being caused by the government themselves? And people knew how easily each one of us individually could turn our ecological and human crisis around without resorting to Nazi bullshi*t like oil wars and drug wars by just saying no! to George Bush.

And if people knew that the very companies that provide us with such crucial conveniences as Kleenex, paper towels and junk mail, have systematically and brutally rearranged every single one of our lives so that we are literally wiping our ass with out own future?

And it doesn't have to be this way! I mean, I'll tell you, I do feel kind of funny saying all this because I used to be a pothead and I hate smoking the stuff, and the whole low-energy stoner Deadhead vibe that comes with it. But, you don't need to smoke pot to realize that the real drug problem in this country is not the drugs. And we can help solve drug problems, crime problems, environmental problems - even our racial problems if we say no to George Bush and get together and grow more pot!

Published On: 8/5/2006

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My Blog: First Picture
By: Snowgoon77

So for the last couple weeks I have been just slightly worried about the future. What kind of "poop" I have gotten myself into. Needless to say, the better half was not making it any easier. She is so concerned, and rightlfully so, that the outcome will be similar to our last attempt at this whole thing called "Parenthood". So things are progressing, past the first month and Friday was our first trip to the Dr. since we found out. No matter how scared you are, and how prepaired or ill prepaired you may be, the first sight will bring you humbly to your knees. I got that first look and here is the first picture.

Published On: 6/25/2006

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My Blog: Canned Heat
By: heart_core

						
						
						
								
										
I used to worry about the future
But then I threw my caution to the wind
I had no reason to be care free
No no no, until I took a trip to the other side of town
Yeah yeah yeah, you know I heard that boogie rhythm
Hey - I had no choice but to get down down down down

Dance, nothing left for me to do but dance
All these bad times I'm going through just dance
Got canned heat in my heels tonight, baby

I feel the thunder, see the lightning
I know this anger's heaven sent
So I've got to hang out all my hang-ups
Because of the boogie I feel so hell bent, hey hey
It's just an instant gut reaction, that I got
I know I never ever felt like this before
I don't know what to do
But then that's nothing new
Stuck between hell and high water
I need a cure to make it through

Hey dance 
nothing left for me to do but dance
All these bad times I'm going through just dance
Hey got canned heat in my heels tonight baby
You know know know I'm gonna dance yeah
All the nasty things that people say dance 
yeah but I'm gonna make it anywaydance 
yeah got canned heat up my heels tonight baby
You know I've got canned heat up my heels

Only the wind can blow the answer
And she cries to me when I'm asleep
She says you know that you can go much faster
I know that peoples' talk can be so cheap
I got this voodoo child inveined on me
I'm gonna use my power to ascend
You know I got these running heels to use
Sometimes there's no way I lose
I was born to rock and built to last
You've can't see my feet cause they move so fast

Dance yeah, hey nothing left for me to do but dance
All these bad times I'm going through just dance, hey
Got canned heat in my heels tonight baby

Hey I've got to dance yeah
All the nasty things that people say dance 
yeah, but I'm gonna make it anyway dance 
yeah, got canned heat up my heels tonight baby

You know this boogie is for real, 
got so much canned heat in my heels yeah
Gonna dance, gonna dance my blues away tonight
You know I'm gonna dance my blues away
You know this boogie is for real, 
got so much canned heat in my heels yeah
Gonna dance, gonna dance my blues away tonight

Dance, come on got canned heat in my heels tonight
Oh oh oh oh, canned heat in my heels tonight
Oh oh oh oh, canned heat in my heels tonight baby
Got so much

You know, you know this boogie is for real
Got so much canned heat in my heels
Gonna dance, gonna dance my blues away tonight
Whooooo
You know, you know this boogie, this boogie is for real
Got so much canned heat, canned heat in my heels
You know I'm gonna dance my blues away tonight

Published On: 2/3/2006

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