Author: Daniela

  • 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.…

  • GMO and Monsanto Roundup: Glyphosate Weedkiller in our Food and Water?

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    This article by Colin Todhunter, in Global Research, is so alarming, I’m posting it in its entirety.  It encapsulates everything that is wrong with GM crops – from their impact on the environment to the lack of independent research to the pressure this industry exerts on governments and the scientific community. “Historians may look back…

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  • The Poetry Quilt

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    Meyrem Hussain brings us a poignant article about  “hundreds of scraps of materials and thousands of painstaking stitches… brought together in a six-month labour of love.” Women attending the Stuart Low Trust have just completed their ‘poetry quilt’ – a riot of colour with the compositions of 15 budding poets. The poems include a tale of…

  • Future Earth established to discover why the global environment is changing

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    Global sustainability research programme Future Earth has announced its inaugural science committee, with Institute of Development Studies Professorial Fellow Melissa Leach serving as vice chair.   Future Earth was launched in June 2012, at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). The 18-member science committee – the first Future Earth governance body to be appointed – will…