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Come Sit Down Here Beside Me Said The Spider To The Fly

@TheOrganicView 21 Comments Agriculture, Bees, Environment, Featured Guests, GMO, Herbicides, Pesticides, Sustainability, Trends, Whispers

In 1959 the people of Boulder, Colorado approved the “Blue Line”, a city charter amendment that restricted city water service to altitudes below 5,750 feet. This was intended to protect the city’s foothills backdrop from development. Eight years later Boulder voters approved a sales tax dedicated to the purchase of open space land and it wasn’t long after that Boulder County voters did the same.

Through this and subsequent sales tax votes, thousands of acres of publicly owned open space land have been purchased by the County, of which about 20,000 acres are agricultural. The issue of how county agricultural land should be managed drew the public spotlight in 2009 when 6 farmers with leases on county land asked for the ok to plant Roundup Ready sugar beets.

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Author, Jon Soeder: Fingers In The Light

June Stoyer 10 Comments Animals, Environment, Featured Guests, Featured Guests, Health, Inspiration, Wildlife

It is a fact that many people prefer animals over other human beings. With animals, there is no such thing as racism, bullying, or any kind of a popularity contest. However, human beings can really do unspeakable things to one another just for sheer amusement. It is sad that our innate need to control can wind up inflicting so much cruelty, pain and suffering. In life, there are many lessons to be learned. Sometimes you learn them from the things done to you and sometimes from the things you do to others.

Granted, while we may be different as individuals each of us has some kind of a natural instinct or “spark” that is immutable and guides us. What exactly does this mean and where did it come from? Are we really alone or is it just that because we cannot see, hear or touch something, we need proof? This perhaps, is a matter of faith and also a matter of our own reality. In this segment of The Organic View Radio Show, host, June Stoyer will speak to award winning author and famed animal communicator, Jon Soeder about his latest inspirational book which is about his own life of enlightenment.

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