Author: Daniela
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Sacred Buffalo People,Pete Catches 37th generation Medicine man of the Lakota
The bison, or buffalo, was revered in Plains Indian culture. Here, Lakota elder Pete Catches, Sr. tells a traditional story: how the bison and the Lakota came to be related. This is a clip from the documentary, Sacred Buffalo People. Learn more at: www.redeyevideo.org
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Profiteers Prosecuted in Malaysia
What a quaint idea – prosecuting profiteers! In the United States we would celebrate these guys as shrewd businessmen. Complain Against Traders Profiteering From KR1M Goods Being Investigated RAUB, Dec 31 (Bernama) — The Pahang Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism Office (PPDNKK) is investigating a complaint that unscrupulous traders have been profiteering from Kedai Rakyat…
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A Large Corporate Low Wage Service Sector Makes For a Town Without a Soul
The Emeryville Tattler blog post, A Large Corporate Low Wage Service Sector Makes For a Town Without a Soul, delves into the debate about how to best develop the town. The Tattler calls for a new paradigm – one that moves away from the “flawed auto-centric model” with “lots of shopping malls and drive-in drive-out lofts (formally condos,…
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Dickensian Christmas Village – A Model for Today’s Cities?
Jeff Turrentine reminisces about his love of scale-model Dickensian Christmas villages and how their inherent sustainability can serve as a model for today’s urban planners. There’s a reason, I think, that human beings—wherever they happen to live—dream about disappearing into the inviting setting of an urban village, be it real and historic or fake and kitschy. In the…
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Ohio Coops Worth 3.7 Billion
Farming co-ops aggregate and market farm products, supply members with the fertilizer and other things they need in order to farm, and provide financial services. Local farming co-ops reach into bigger towns, too, by marketing meat, grain, fruits, vegetables, fiber — and even rock salt — produced by or for member farmers to processors, retailers…
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Eco-Wrapping Paper Grows Vegetables
Andri Antoniades introduces Eden’s Paper – a gift wrap that grows organic vegetables. There are plenty of sustainable options for wrapping your presents this holiday season, but none are quite as delicious as the type that grows organic vegetables. Designed by U.K.-based creative agency BEAF, the colorful wrap is made from 100 percent recycled paper and decorated…
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Could Science Bring Dinosaurs Back to Life?
The Telegraph investigates the theoretical possibility of bringing dinosaurs back to life They bestrode the earth millions of years ago before dying out, but dinosaurs could theoretically be brought back to life, according to an Oxford biochemist. Dr Alison Woollard said it would be theoretically possible to recreate ancient animals, through the DNA of birds. By…
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