<-----Check out a glimpse into what 'The Mending News' is all about.  Woven in are some of the stories we've covered from 2011-2012.  Stay tuned to our kickstarter!

The Mending News covers the launch of S.O.S. Juice, a monthly food sovereignty and nutrition initiative offered to the youth in Oakland by United Roots and Earth Amplified. Ashel Seasunz, who's initial vision it was to create the event, and Luta, a Sogorea Te Warrior, share on the importance of food as medicine, as well as how it us up to us as communitie to uplift each other by creating our own initiatives in order to find pathways to health. You can learn more about S.O.S. juice by visiting www.earthamplified.com.

<------------Mending News checks in with John Trudell who shares on the multi-faceted solutions hemp can bring forth to climate change and the economy.

Brennan Blazer Bird, UC Davis Alum and former Domes Resident, manifests a community zero waste construction project at the Domes. This Bottle Brick Bench contains portable landfill devices, otherwise known as bottles that have beens stuffed with trash, earth bags, and cob.------->------->

"Stephen wanted to present possible solutions and in 1997 founded the Punta Mona Center for Sustainability and Education, www.puntamona.org. In 2003, Stephen founded the Sustainable Solutions Caravan, a nonprofit organization promoting sustainable living by driving several buses running on recycled vegetable oil from San Francisco, California to Costa Rica. This led to the co-founding of the Conscious Goods Alliance. The "Veggie Bus" travels the country as an eco showroom featuring coconut floors, bamboo paneling, natural latex cushions covered in hemp, recycled paper countertops, an alcohol fueled stove and solar panels providing electricity.

In 2005 Stephen co-founded Kopali Organics, a company which sources and develops sustainable, organic products from small farm cooperatives around the world"

<---Shawn King, an natural building expert finds a way to use his cob oven to create 'BIOCHAR' a carbon negative solution. Tune in to find out more about it!

------>Skyler Blakeslee, 2010-2011 Experimental College Gardens Director, and Sandrine, EC Gardens member, highlight the benefits of community gardening and share their experiences.------->

<-----------Mending News checking in with Maurisha Auerback, permaculture maven, at Energy Park of Oregon Country Fair. She hosts the seed swap, and speaks on the importance of saving seeds in these emerging times of peak oil and climate change.<---------

--->Mending News checking in with Kipchoge of the Ginger Ninjas. As musicians with messages of sustainability, they opted to take their talk to the next level and tour on bicycles. Their sound system is self-sufficient as they've engineered bike powered speakers! Dream on dreamers...believe and make it be!----->

<--Brennan Blazer Bird, past domes resident and UC Davis Alumni, conducts a cob bottle bench building project at the Domes.<--------

----->Grandman Agnes Baker Pilgrim of the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers speaks at the 2011 Oregon Country Fair. She shares her wisdom, and also responds to a question on 2012.----->