Author: Daniela

  • Rural Folk Poetry of Afghanistan

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    Poetry magazine is devoting its entire June issue to Journalist Eliza Griswold and London Filmaker Seamus Murphy’s project which portrays “Afghan life through the prism of oral folk poems…” For 10 years, journalist Eliza Griswold reported from Afghanistan and Pakistan for publications like The New York Times and The New Yorker. But she was frustrated that…

  • Enlighten Me

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    From a section called The Legends Behind the Folklore of Wine in wine-searcher, this extract from “The Curious World of Wine” by Richard Vine (no kidding), emeritus professor of enology at Purdue University enlightens us on how vinous folklore still makes up some of our every day clichés… To Your Health! Surviving wisdom indicates that a toast…

  • “Road Not Taken” Means Different Things to Different People

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    Road Not Taken is poetry is motion, quite literally. Developed by Spry Fox, Road Not Taken is a puzzle game about life and loss, that features randomly generated levels and permadeath. Similar to games like Shiren the Wanderer, players move along a grid attempting to traverse forest after forest as the game’s story unfolds. Invoking the famous poem by Robert…

  • Whisky and Poetry Salon

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    It doesn’t get better than this! In November 2012, Kim Ohanneson & Karolyn Kiisel of Literary Libations, and Johnnie “theScot” Mundell, “ambassador” for Morrison-Bowmore Scotch, inaugurated the Whisky & Poetry Salon at the B Black Penthouse in DTLA (downtown Los Angeles). Our goal has been to trade guests “whisky for their words”, to create an intimate literary and poetic…

  • Gorge of the Rings: eat your way through a Trilogy marathon

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    Originally posted on The Middle-Earth Foodie: Have you wrung all the fun you can out of your marathon viewings of Lord of the Rings Trilogy?  The Middle-earth Foodie is here to tell you that you have definitely NOT — not yet!   So prepare your guest list and fire up the stove for a “Gorge of the Rings” party — a marathon…

  • Smoking Naga Sadhu

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    Originally posted on Joshi Daniel Photography: Smoking Sadhu | Kumbh Mela | Haridwar, Uttarakhand, India Read more: Kumbh Mela | Sadhu

  • Hope for the world – one town at a time.

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    Pangasinan town issues ordinance for organic farming INGAYEN, Pangasinan—The agriculture town of Pozorrubio has taken steps toward promoting and developing organic farming, starting with the passage of an ordinance that mandates the local government to provide funds for the venture. The Pozorrubio town council has submitted the ordinance, titled “An ordinance institutionalizing, promoting and developing organic farming in Pozorrubio,”…

  • Education and Sustainability

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    The Guardian asks “Is sustainability a key part of education on it’s Environment blog: “The UK has been ahead with the sustainability school agenda, but I’m worried that they’re now stripping back the work that we’ve spent 10 years developing with the schools,” says Anna Birney from Forum for the Future, a non-profit group promoting…

  • The Conservation Fund And Its Branches

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    The Conservation Fund has been working with communities, government and business partners to save millions of acres of land and water across the United States.   In the nearly 30 years of their existence, they’ve protected 7 million acres of land and water in all 50 states. In 2001 they founded the Natural Capital Investment…

  • No oversight of GM foods by FDA

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    Karma Allen of CNBC points out that if you want to know if a product is genetically modified – don’t ask the FDA: Last year $2.4 billion worth of products were sold with a label saying they do not contain ingredients from genetically modified organisms, but the claim wasn’t backed by any government regulatory agency.…