Happy Birthday Toughie

On this day five years ago the Toughie frog, who has kind of become our mascot, breathed his last breath.

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In the book The Sun Is Also a Star the author beautifully paraphrases Carl Sagan’s famous quite: “if you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe” with the following words:

“If you want to make an apple pie from nothing at all, you have to start with the Big Bang and expanding universes, neutrons, ions, atoms, black holes, suns, moons, ocean tides, the Milky Way, Earth, evolution, dinosaurs, extinction- level events, platypuses, Homo erectus, Cro- Magnon man, etc. You have to start at the beginning. You must invent fire. You need water and fertile soil and seeds. You need cows and people to milk them and more people to churn that milk into butter. You need wheat and sugar cane and apple trees. You need chemistry and biology. For a really good apple pie, you need the arts. For an apple pie that can last for generations, you need the printing press and the Industrial Revolution and maybe even a poem.To make a thing as simple as an apple pie, you have to create the whole wide world.”

~Nicola Yoon

For an efficient, collaborative economy in solidarity with fighting extinction.

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Extinction Mix 01

Despite all of our accomplishments, we owe our existence to a six inch layer of top soil and the fact that it rains.