Author: Daniela
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Whole Earth Summit: An online conference to inspire and create a more resilient world
EPIC EVENT ALERT [Free & Online]: 42 extraordinary visionaries, including Vandana Shiva, Bill McKibben, Charles Eisenstein, Joel Salatin, the founders of the Small Planet Fund, Living Building Challenge, Transition Town, Pachamama Alliance, Bioneers, Appropedia, Kid’s Right to Know, Wise Women Tradition, and many others are joining together to share valuable insights around food, water, the commons, ecological…
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Solar Power Used to Support Milk Cooperatives
The Times of India notes how solar power comes to the rescue of milk cooperatives in Bangalore: As many as 522 milk cooperatives in the state are using solar power to run electronic weighing and testing machines, all thanks to an initiative by the SELCO Foundation Co-founded by Magsaysay Award winner Harish Hande, the foundation…
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Principal Six Co-operative Trade Movement
I call on cooperatives as a sales representative for several fair trade companies. I came across P6 for the first time this February so I found this article in the La Cross Tribune intriguing. The Principle Six (P6) Co-operative Trade Movement is an initiative created by cooperatives that promotes small farmers/producers, cooperative businesses and local…
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Thoughts At Twilight
Originally posted on The Dish: Roger Angell, age 93, pens a lovely essay about growing old: A few notes about age is my aim here, but a little more about loss is inevitable. “Most of the people my age is dead. You could look it up” was the way Casey Stengel put it. He was…
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Brother Ali – Mourning in America
This is the title track to my new album, Mourning in America and Dreaming in Color. The first half of the album highlights and critiques the dire situation in which we live. The second half outlines the tremendous opportunity we have to re-imagine and reform our society. This song is an observation and a critique…
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Change Someone’s Life
In 2011, the homeless poet’s life forever changed when he met a woman named Shalla Monteiro. Monteiro created a Facebook page so the world could experience Sobrinho’s poems. To date, Sobrinho’s page has almost 40,000 fans — but one proved to be more important than the others: Sobrinho’s brother. In the video above, made early…
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In Honor of Malcolm X
Malcolm X died on February 21, 1965. This poem is Margaret Walker’s tribute to him. For Malcolm X BY MARGARET WALKER All you violated ones with gentle hearts; You violent dreamers whose cries shout heartbreak; Whose voices echo clamors of our cool capers, And whose black faces have hollowed pits for eyes. All you gambling sons…
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My Potato Project; The Importance of “Organic”
A child’s experiment turns into a lesson on the toxins in our food supply.
The Village Market 