David Eggleton's blog

If you use the SCI site, have registered and wish to participate in any of the groups, it's a good idea to create a profile, if only to provide a way (an e-mail address, specifically) for others to communicate with you alone, directly.

In October, two people have requested membership in Woburn Local and are in limbo, so to speak, because I, the group founder, cannot contact them to inquire about their understanding and interests.  Out of respect for them, I won't even mention their site names, but I sure hope they see this.  read more »

I know only two of you.  I don't know if more than two of you are acquainted with me or each other.  Let's change that.  Please make time soon to introduce yourself to all in the group, via a blog entry, I suppose.  Include a description of what information and/or concerns motivated you to join this group.<!--break--><!--break-->If you come to Boston GreenFest this weekend, look for me among the exhibitors.  My business name is Applied Ecologics.<!--break--><!--break-->I would like to get together as a group sometime in October.  read more »

A few weeks ago, I invited you all to a timely discussion under a title that might have been catchy, but did not mention the well-known pain it addressed. I think that title was a poor choice. Here's a second try.

For the heating season to come, fuel purchases commence soon, if they haven't begun already. Before long, prices probably will be nearly double, if not double, last season's prices. Of course, this is in addition to the higher prices we're paying to fuel our vehicles and buy nearly everything.  read more »

With gasoline priced over $4.00 a gallon and heating oil approaching $5.00 a gallon, many of us are making adjustments. We are reacting to these unfamiliar realities and their many effects, which are anything but static.  read more »

In 1986, under the title Of Liberty and Community, syndicated commentator Ellen Goodman observed that “For many of us, liberty isn't just the freedom from repressive authority, but from any authority. Independence isn't a declaration, but a centrifugal force. We often choose isolation, even loneliness...”. That is even more evident now.

The SCI initiative Woburn Arts and Culture Today represents a striving in the opposite direction. It is here and now, a non-commercial and non-competitive alternative to the usual from another place, from another time, for your consumption. It promises to enrich us by expanding access to physical space dedicated to, and assorted capabilities for, our own expressions and celebrations of who and what we are in this place, at this time. This is a valuable consciousness and practice to have and develop!  read more »