Author: Daniela
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Indian Bio-Diversity Board to Open up 110 Seed Banks in States of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana
News like this gives me great hope that we are wising up and moving away from mono-cultures and industrial farming. HYDERABAD: To preserve indigenous seed varieties and also promote organic farming, the state bio-diversity board will soon open over 110 seed banks across the two states. With the requisite budgets sanctioned for this pilot project,…
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Cooling Off With Compost
Originally posted on The Dish: A simple farming technique could help mitigate the effects of climate change on crops: The technique in question is called “no-till farming,” and it simply involves leaving the debris from previous crops on the surface of the fields rather than plowing the fields and exposing the soil underneath. Observations of test agricultural fields indicate that…
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Green Jello and Fry Sauce: Utah’s Food Folklore
What is “Utah food?” Many Utah natives grew up eating Jell-O, fry sauce, deep-fried scones, and “funeral” potatoes. BYU folklorist and English professor Eric Eliason is studying these food traditions and what they say about people and cultures. Utah festivals and fairs celebrate these traditions and offer authentic Utah foods all in one place, often…
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Word Vibrations
Tejinder Narang relates a story that exemplifies the “sublime intimacy of spirituality and science.” Mystic Mirdad entered the stable and spoke kindly to a sick cow. A disciple asked him how could a cow understand what he said. Mirdad replied, what matters is the “vibrations of words”, not the words. The cow soon responded in…
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Dingoes and Dogs in Indigenous culture
This is a re-post of a piece first published by the Animal Management in Rural and Remote Indigenous Communities (AMRRIC) who do some excellent work with dogs and people throughout the country. It was originally published in February 2013 here. There are many dog dreaming sites located around the Australian continent and each has its own…
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Anniston Alabama vs. Monsanto
This is old news, but I hadn’t heard about it until I read an article where the Anniston, Alabama case against Monsanto was alluded to. I looked it up and found this informative piece by Maryam Henien at the HoneyColony blog: From the ’40s to ’70s, Monsanto knowingly dumped millions of pounds of the now-banned…
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Yashika Graham – 100,00 Poets for Change
Yashika Graham reads her poem Conscience at the Poetry Society of Jamaica.
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Dis-Honest Tea
Honest Tea is owned by Coca-Cola. And Coca-Cola spent $3.2 million to defeat GMO labeling laws in California and Washington State, some of that money illegally laundered through the Grocery Manufacturers Association (that anti-consumer group that has spent millions defeating GMO labeling laws, that has a bill in Congress to preempt state labeling laws, and has filed suit against…
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