Author: Daniela
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Community Supported Agriculture
If you haven’t done so already, you might want to consider joining a CSA if you want to have fresh produce from a local farm this spring and summer. Here are the basics: a farmer offers a certain number of “shares” to the public. Typically the share consists of a box of vegetables, but other…
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About Dot Earth
ABOUT DOT EARTH By 2050 or so, the human population is expected to reach nine billion, essentially adding two Chinas to the number of people alive today. Those billions will be seeking food, water and other resources on a planet where, scientists say, humans are already shaping climate and the web of life. In Dot…
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Antibiotic Resistance – another reason to reduce meat consumption (if you needed one)
One of the hundreds of reasons to choose homeopathy over allopathic medical options… the dangerous rise in antibiotic resistant bugs. Antibiotic resistance is one of the world’s most pressing public health threats. Did you know you may unknowingly be choosing antibiotic-laden foods to put in your shopping cart and into your family’s mouths?”Though persistent organic pollutants…
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Saving Normal – Another Point of View
Andrew Sullivan at “The Dish” also shared Allen Francis’ dissatisfaction with the new psychiatric manual DSM-5. Francis’ main point: About half of Americans already qualify for a mental disorder at some point in their lives and the rates keep skyrocketing, especially among kids. In the past 20 years, the prevalence of autism has increased, childhood bipolar has multiplied…
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Roger Doiron – A Subversive Plot: How to Grow a Revolution In Your Own Back Yard
Roger Doiron is founding director of Kitchen Gardeners International, a network of people taking a hands-on approach to re-localizing the global food supply. Doiron is an advocate for new policies, technologies, investments, and fresh thinking about the role of gardens. His successful petition to replant a kitchen garden at the White House attracted broad international…
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Biggest Bag of Wind in Oklahoma
We try to stay away from politics — but just couldn’t pass this one up….Enjoy! TORNADO ONLY THE THIRD BIGGEST BAG OF WIND IN OKLAHOMA THIS WEEK by GARY LEGUM Spackle-brained dick weasel Sen. James Inhofe is bad at so many, many things. He does not understand legally defined standards of treatment for prisoners of war. He thinks…
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Heist: Who Stole the American Dream?
HEIST: Who Stole the American Dream? traces the worldwide economic collapse to a 1971 secret memo entitled Attack on American Free Enterprise System. Written over 40 years ago by the future Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell, at the behest of the US Chamber of Commerce, the 6-page memo, a free-market utopian treatise, called for a…
The Village Market 