Author: Daniela

  • Festival of Navratri Dedicated to Goddess Durga

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    In the BoldSky Blog, Sanchita Chowdry educates readers about the festival of Navratri and the Goddess Durga: The festival of Navratri is dedicated to the nine forms of Goddess Durga known as the Navadurga. Devi Durga is the form of Shakti or the Infinite Power. It is believed that She manifested Herself into nine divine…

  • Sunday Prayer

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    THIRD HEAVEN Because the spirit, too, knows loneliness disasters happen in the universe and someone like myself, smallest of men, finds grace, a nimbus on the wall at noon. After the hurricane, I drove back home from hiding out safely inside a church. I saw downed oaks squashed across roof on roof or telephone wires;…

  • Meet Deborah Szekely, a 91-Year-Old Wellness Warrior

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    Reposted from The Atlantic The nonagenarian just started her “project for the next decade.” EMMA GREEN Organic food may be a fad of the 21st century, but Deborah Szekely, 91, has been organic farming since 1930. In her nine decades of life, she has run for Congress, managed a federal agency, and served as a…

  • Farmer to Farmer Program Spearheading Agroecology Efforts in Nicaragua

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    Carmen Herrera writes about a program in Nicaragua which “encourages an appreciation of local knowledge to reestablish food sovereignty. ” In an area carved into small farms known as minifundios, where each lot measures 0.75 to 1.5 Ha (1.8 to 3.7 acres), participants in the project called Farmer to Farmer (Campesino a Campesino) are spearheading…

  • New Chinese President Looking to Religion to Fill Moral Void

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    Corruption has become so bad in China, the new president is now looking to religion to potentially fill the moral void. The predictions of His Holiness the Dalai Lama that the new Chinese President, Xi Jinping, might come forward with humane reforms in dealing with Tibet appear to be coming true. The Central Tibetan Administration reported…

  • Get Ready for Co-op Week

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    Donna Balkan of the Canadian Cooperative Association encourages “Canadian Co-operators to get ready for Co-op Week.” October 13-19 is Co-op Week in Canada, a time for co-op members and employees to highlight the contributions of co-operatives to Canadian society and to promote the co-operative business model to the broader community.  The week is timed to…

  • As Societies Urbanize Food Importation Increases

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    This is a phenomenon I’m finding in article after article all over the world.  As societies urbanize, they become more and more dependent on food imports.  In his piece “Do You Remember How Real Organic Food Looks and Tastes Like?” Vladimir Stoiljkovic documents how many Serbian villages are now populated mainly by the elderly as young…

  • Civilizing the economy takes a look at cooperatives

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    Discussion centres around proactive model Published: Tuesday, October 1, 2013 6:22 PM PDT For anyone who has ever thought about joining or forming a cooperative, a film screening and discussion of the subject will be of interest.Tom Shandel is a filmmaker, producer, writer and cooperative advocate who has been invited to Powell River on Thursday, October…

  • Native tribes’ traditional knowledge can help US adapt to climate change

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    New England’s Native tribes, whose sustainable ways of farming, forestry, hunting and land and water management were devastated by European colonists four centuries ago, can help modern America adapt to climate change. That’s the conclusion of more than 50 researchers at Dartmouth and elsewhere in a special issue of the journal Climatic Change. It is the…

  • Celebrate Cooperatives this October

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    The Wisconsin Ag Connection encourages Americans to celebrate cooperatives this month: Wisconsin kicks off Cooperative Month in October, there is new evidence that people prefer to do business with cooperatives over investor-owned businesses. That’s according to Cooperative Network, which commissioned a survey through the St. Norbert College Strategic Research Institute that shows 47 percent of consumers…