If you live in the US, you have either already received or are about to receive your cut of President Bush’s economic stimulus. The stimulus ranges from $600 upward depending on your income and dependents. The idea behind it is to promote overall spending and hopefully limit the looming recession. The goal will most likely be negated if people pay debt, spend the money overseas, save the money or do anything else but spend the money to buy stuff right here in the good old USA.

So I found this site, How I Spent My Stimulus, where folks share how they spent their cuts. It’s very interesting when all is said and done where most of the piece of the pie will actually have gone. This one , of course, caught my eye.

Urban Farming is an international non profit based in Detroit, Michigan that is bent on eliminating hunger and ensuring that everyone eats healthy by planting food in unused city land and empty spaces and giving it to those that need it. What an excellent idea for a time when people are struggling with foreclosures, loosing their jobs and gas prices are soaring. These farms are unfenced and anybody can come by and harvest and take home what they need.

Check out the Urban Farming Trailer from the Urban Farming web site and read how these Farms take root on NPR.

What would happen to the planet if we were to suddenly disappear? How long do you think it will take your house to degenerate when you are gone?

The World Without Us by Alan Weisman delves into these and many other human environmental implications. Certainly rouses a call for us to respect the ecosystem and stop our destructive ways.