Author: Daniela

  • Photo of the Day

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    Zoe, the White Zebra, has blue eyes and golden stripes.

  • UN Report Calls For Radical, Democratic Food System

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    By Jacob Chamberlain The current global food system needs to be “radically” and “democratically” changed in order to alleviate global hunger and serve human rights over the profits of major agribusiness corporations, according to a report released Monday by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food. “At the local, national and international levels, the policy…

  • Antibiotics Promote Weight Gain in Animals and Humans

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    By Pagan Kennedy – reposted from the New York Times: IF you walk into a farm-supply store today, you’re likely to find a bag of antibiotic powder that claims to boost the growth of poultry and livestock. That’s because decades of agricultural research has shown that antibiotics seem to flip a switch in young animals’…

  • Whole Earth Summit: An online conference to inspire and create a more resilient world

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    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…

  • Solar Power Used to Support Milk Cooperatives

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    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…

  • Principal Six Co-operative Trade Movement

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    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

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    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…

  • Brother Ali – Mourning in America

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    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…

  • Change Someone’s Life

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    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…