Jim Tolbert
My blogs
- Chihuahuan Desert Events
- elpasonaturally
- Elect Jim Tolbert for El Paso City Council, District 2
- Newman Park Blog
Blogs I follow
- TomDispatch
- THE WESTERNER
- Alpine Daily Planet
- American Indian College Fund
- aneyefortexas
- ANSON MILLS | El Paso Surveyor
- Bobby Byrd
- Bonnie's Baking Book
- Both Sides / No Sides: A Zen Community
- Bullet Proof Gardening
- Change.org's Sustainable Food Blog
- Cinco Puntos Press THE EL PASO ARCHIVE
- Clusterfuck Nation
- DownWithTyranny!
- el paso daily photo blog by chacal
- El Paso Development News
- elpasonaturally
- elpasospeak
- emsomme | The World of Wine! To a sommelier…
- Eunomia
- Franklin Mountains Wilderness Coalition Newsletter
- Gary Nabhan
- It's A Dry Heat
- Kent Portney's "Our Green Cities" Blog
- La Greenga
- La Vida Locavore - Front Page
- Marler Blog
- Max Powers
- Nature's Nurture
- No Border Wall
- Notes from District 2
- On the Road with Lisa D., Rediscovering America
- Refuse the Juice
- Southern New Mexico Explorer
- Strong Towns Blog
- The Field Lab
- The Good Life Lab
- The Huffington Post
- The Law Office of David E. Coombs
- The Rag Blog
- The Wandering Naturalist | Field Biology, Wilderness, Conservation
| Location | El Paso, The Frontera |
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| Introduction | My focus is “things local”. It is on the local level that deep values are shared across political lines. It is loyalty not just to family but to place, neighbor and community. It is not "place" in the abstract. It is a real place such as my hometown of El Paso, Texas along the frontera in the Chihuahuan Desert beneath the Franklins, near the Hueco, Sacramento and Organ mountains, along the Rio Grande . . . It is this deep sense of belonging to a place and a people that feeds my interests in and viewpoints on things local: farms, neighborhoods, hiking trails, farmers markets, indigenous food, native plants . . . |