Your Community Spirit 2006-10-06

Human beings want to be happy! Happenings include the WDBX Fall Membership Drive; music and performance at the Big Muddy IMC; the National Solar Homes Tour comes to Southern Illinois; Southern Illinois Renaissance Faire; Shawnee Trash Bash clean-up in the Shawnee on Indigenous People’s Day weekend; and the Neighborhood Co-op Grocery’s Harvest Picnic. News includes a border fence plan that could wreak havoc on the environment; the U.S. population hits 300 million; and the US forgives some Guatemalan debt in exchange for rainforest protection.