Synergy: The 7th Annual Sustainable Living Conference kick's off tomorrow, May 19th, at The Evergreen State College. Some of Monday highlights include:

• Native Story Telling Kickoff with Pauline Hillaire of the Lummi Nation.
  10:00 AM - Lecture Hall Rotunda
• Thurston County Environmental Health Workshops
  11:00 AM - Hazards on the Homefront
  1:00 PM - Toxins in Personal Care
  Lecture Hall Rotunda
• Dan Daniels, Director of Olympia Waste ReSources
  3:00 PM - D1105
  Cullen Stephenson, Deputy Director of Puget Sound Partnership
  4:00 PM - D1105

All Synergy events are FREE of charge and open to the public, all are encouraged to attend. A full schedule for the weeklong event as well as bio's and event descriptions can be found at:

http://www.evergreen.edu/synergy

This is not really a local story, but I think it could have local implications. I recently came across this website Moblogic.tv. Don't take this post the wrong way, I am not posting to drive hits to another site. I think they covered the Sean Bell story from a very interesting angle that no other media source has. I urge you to watch both parts of this. Also we have been talking a lot lately about non violent protest, and this was the model example of just that.

Part 1

Part 2

Interesting read from one of the show's producers can be found here: http://www.moblogic.tv/blog/2008/05/11/safe-havens-for-crackpots/

I was reading the news tonight and one thing really stood out to me, thought should share a graph I made 

make of this what you choose, but I think one thing is very clear and it starts with a D.