Author: Daniela
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Earth Reaches Perihelion on January 4th
On Jan. 4 at 8:00 a.m. EST (12:00 GMT), Earth reached its perihelion for 2014. The perihelion of a planet’s orbit occurs when the planet is at its least distance from its star during a particular orbital cycle. The perihelion date varies between Jan. 1 and Jan. 5, while the aphelion date varies between July 2 and…
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“We are not protesters, we’re protectors”
This Fall Winona LaDuke and folks from Honor the Earth, along with the Horse Spirit Society, Owe Aku and the White Earth Land Recovery Project led a horseback ride from the Headwaters of the Mississippi along the proposed route of a new oil pipeline that would cross the White Earth reservation. It was the third of…
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Photo of the Day
Photographer Alexey Kljatov captures the delicate intricacies of snowflakes: “When I started to shoot snowflakes five years ago, I couldn’t imagine how different and unusual they looked. With the naked eye we usually see only big crystals, 5 mm and bigger, and most of them just one type, stellar dendrites. But [the] most unusual and interesting crystals…
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The Befana Regatta On The Grand Canal
VENICE, ITALY – JANUARY 06: Rowers dressed in costume race along the Grand Canal for the “Befana” Regatta on January 6, 2014 in Venice, Italy. In Italian folklore, Befana is an old woman who delivers gifts to children throughout Italy on the feast of the Epiphany on January 6 in a similar way to Saint…
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Sustainable, People-Centered Agriculture Lies in Agroecology
In keeping with the general theme of a new “gift” economy, Colin Tudge and Graham Harvey’s article in the Ecologist focuses on “a sustainable, people-centered agriculture.” …we are launching our ‘Manifesto for a new agriculture’ at the Oxford Real Farming Conference 2014. A key theme is ‘agroecology’ – farming that takes its lead from nature. It conceives…
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Live Video Event with Charles Eisenstein: The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible
Wednesday, January 15th, 5pm PST (view other time zones) Can individual acts of courage and kindness change a culture’s guiding narrative of a doomed planetary crisis? Join visionary Charles Eisenstein in a conversation about a radically different understanding of cause and effect, sounding a clarion call to surrender our old worldview of separation, so that we…
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It’s This Cold Today
How cold is it in Wisconsin today? Cold enough to turn boiling water into snow.
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Photographing Spirituality
James Estrin, co-founder of the The New York Times Lens blog will be exhibiting a collection of his work documenting human spirituality at the 92nd Street Y on Lexington Avenue in Manhattan. Michael Winerip, who is familiar with Esterin’s work notes: Having worked many, many 12-hour days with him, I can say firsthand that James Estrin’s photos definitely don’t…
The Village Market 