Author: Daniela

  • Top Thirteen Reasons to Avoid GMO Foods

    Dr. Chandra’s article in today’s The Canadian clearly lays out what GMO foods are , why they are not safe for consumption and what the implications are for the environment: Genetically modified food or GMO is the food stuff prepared from genetically altered organisms, generally from modified crops by altering the DNA by means of…

  • Monday Prayer

    Please Accept My Condo Her cell phone cut my deepest sympathies short. The fault of a patchy connection, she guessed, when she showed me days later and we laughed off our faces at my truncated text. I didn’t know her adequately to ask who she’d lost; we were barely close enough to suffer a telecommunicational…

  • Morocco’s Fes Festival: Music, mysticism and meaning

    Get ready for flamenco guitar, social consciousness and Sufi mystics. The world’s most spiritual music fest kicks off this week. By CNN Travel staff 3 June, 2013 Uzbekistan’s Yuldusz Turdevia Ensemble performed at the 2012 Fes Festival in Morocco. The official goal of Morocco’s annual Fes Festival (June 7-15) “is to harness the arts and spirituality in the…

  • Merging of Science and Spirituality

    In an article in The New India Express, Swahilya Shambhavi reflects on the merging of science and spirituality: Though the borders of science are closely merging into spirituality when it comes to subjects such as quantum physics, which tells us that each time someone observes this universe, the whole pattern changes. That is what Vedanta…

  • Sustainable Fashion Design Competition – Ecochic Design Award

    Sustainable fashion design competition Ecochic Design Award 2013 kicked off in Shanghai on May 24. In its fourth cycle this year, the competition is expanding its search for creative design talentsfrom eight countries and regions to “further ignite positive change” in what’s believed to be oneof the world’s most polluting industries. “Sustainability in the fashion industry is an over-discussed but under-actioned issue,” saysChristina Dean, CEO and founder of the NGO Redress, Hong Kong, the initiator of thecompetition. Founded in 2007, Redress is an organization with a mission to promote environmental sustainability in the fashion industry by reducing textile waste, pollution, water and energy consumption. In 2010, the organization launched the award in Hong Kong and later expanded it into Chinese mainland with growing popularity. “Not enough focus is being put on reducing waste. We must crack the industry’s problem of excessive waste production and lost economic value,” Dean says. Statistics from World Bank showed that 17 to 20 percent of industrial water pollution comes from textile dyeing and treatment. A single pair of jeans, for example, could cost about 3,000 liters of water for growing the cottons needed, washing the jeans and the manufacturing. Dean says she expects the competition to educate and enable emerging designers and students to minimize wastage and utilize textile wastes in their competition outfits, and hopefully, future works. Designers are challenged to use sustainable design techniques – zero-waste, up-cycling and reconstruction.

  • Quote For The Day

    Originally posted on The Dish: “Looking at Western societies I think that if we have religion, we shall have to have religion without God, because belief in a personal God is becoming increasingly impossible for many people. It’s a difficult question actually to know what believing in a personal God is. I know that I…

  • Sunday Prayer

    At First, It is True, I Thought There Were Only Peaches & Wild Grapes To my delight I have found myself Born Into a garden Of many fruits. At first it is true, I thought There were only Peaches & wild grapes. That watermelon Lush, refreshing Completed my range. But now, Child, I can tell…

  • Art and Science Unite at Stanford

    By Angela Hayes, Peninsula Press An excerpt from this article is below. Read the full story on the Peninsula Press. Once emphatically separated from each other, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) and art are connecting in exciting and enlightening ways. Stanford University, known for its strong science and engineering programs, is part of this trend. An increasing number of…

  • Community Ownership at top of Organic Farms’ Agenda

    News of community buy-outs in Scotland has become more common in recent years, as land from Assynt to Eigg and Knoydart to Gigha and South Uist has been taken into local ownership with the help of the Scottish Government in a bid to give control of the land to the people who live on it.…

  • Become a WWOOFer and Travel The World For Next to Nothing

    WWOOF — an acronym for Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms — offers you a way to travel the world for next to nothing. (Normally, you pay only to get there.) At the organization’s website, you can search the database of organic farms around the world to see who’s looking for someone to help out. WWOOF hosts are those…