Author: Daniela

  • Incredible Footage of Birth of Oklahoma Tornado

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    Click for Red Cross Statement on the Moore tornado People who wish to make a donation to support the Red Cross response can visit redcross.org, dial 1-800-REDCROSS or text REDCROSS to 90999 to make a $10 donation. Related articles How You Can Help Victims of the Oklahoma Tornadoes (wnep.com) Red Cross open shelter for Oklahoma tornado…

  • Cleveland’s Evergreen Cooperative focuses on economic inclusion and building a local economy from the ground up

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    The Evergreen Cooperative Initiative has been designed to cause an economic breakthrough in Cleveland. Rather than a trickle down strategy, it focuses on economic inclusion and building a local economy from the ground up; rather than offering public subsidy to induce corporations to bring what are often low-wage jobs into the city, the Evergreen strategy…

  • Gar Alperovitz suggests what the next economic system might look like.

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    In What Then Must We Do?, Gar Alperovitz speaks directly to the reader about where we find ourselves in history, why the time is right for a new-economy movement to coalesce, what it means to build a new system to replace the crumbling one, and how we might begin. He also suggests what the  next system might look…

  • This Week’s Rant

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    It is our intention to keep the tone of this blog generally positive. We want to focus on solutions rather than problems.  However, on occasion we all need to vent.  Hence, our new feature “This Weeks Rant. ”  We’ve started with Chris Hedges’ post “Rise Up or Die” due to its relentlessly depressing tone  and…

  • Organizing Principles

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    In his article “The Down to Earth Economy” in the Winter issue of yes! magazine, David Korten maintains that, “extreme individualism, greed and violence are pathological and a sign of physical, developmental, cultural and/or institutional system failure.”  He contrasts the organizing principles of Wall Street with those of nature and concludes that we must “restructure…

  • Robert Bly and Poetry

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    Related articles New Books on the Shelf (senzingzen.com) 2013 Poetry Month – Solitude Late at Night in the Woods (senzingzen.com) In the Month of May, Poem by Robert Bly (silverbirchpress.wordpress.com) Robert Bly: By the Book (3quarksdaily.com)

  • Sunday Prayer

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    From a Letter by Roger Ebert Paul Cox wrote me that in his Arles days, van Gogh called himself “a simple worshiper of the external Buddha.” Paul told me that in those days, Vincent wrote: Looking at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots representing towns and…

  • Inside Climate News Wins Pulitzer Prize

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    This year’s national Pulitzer Prize went to an unlikely recipient: “InsideClimate News reporters Elizabeth McGowan, Lisa Song and David Hasemyer are the winners of this year’s Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. The trio took top honors in the category for their work on “The Dilbit Disaster: Inside the Biggest Oil Spill You’ve Never Heard Of,” a…

  • Former Pro-GMO Scientist Speaks Out on the Dangers of Genetically Modified Food

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    May 6, 2013 by THIERRY VRAIN I retired 10 years ago after a long career as a research scientist for Agriculture Canada. When I was on the payroll, I was the designated scientist of my institute to address public groups and reassure them that genetically engineered crops and foods were safe. There is, however, a…

  • Stunning Entries for National Geographic’s 2013 Traveler Photo Contest

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    Photographers can enter their favorite travel memories in any of four categories including travel portraits, outdoor scenes, sense of place and spontaneous moments. Hanging About: A two year old mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) of the Sabinyo family, plays in the bamboo forest of Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda. In 1981, this population fell to 240…