Author: Daniela

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Saturday’s Poem

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Lips Long Since Returned to Forest Mulch The Maya wrote their concept of zero as a resting oval with small curved lines, one on top two at the bottom, coming together in points at either end. Three shorter lines rise within like eyelashes or tiny sails. The glyph is a leaf, a seed, an eye…

Food, fatherhood, & fear: Documentary wades into GMO debate with honest emotions

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Farmers Appealing “Pre-Emptive” Monsanto Lawsuit to Supreme Court

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The Wisconsin Agconnection blog announces that the group of farmers who challenged Monsanto’s patents on genetically-modified seeds is appealing their case to the U.S. Supreme Court after a lower court ruled against them in June. The Maine-based Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association has been joined in their case by a group of 73 organic…

Photo of the Day

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A young warrior of the Samburu Tribe in Kenya in his striking traditional clothing. Strong, proud, confident, fierce, stoic. He was absolutely exquisite. tierneyfarrell.com Location: South Horr, Kenya Category: Travel Portraits – National Geographic

Spirituality for Sale

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Geoff Olson takes on the heavily commodified New Age scene in his piece, Spirituality for sale in the New Age of ‘me,’ in the Vancouver Courier. From the late ’30s to the early ’60s, a clutch of gurus and gadflies blew into the Bay area with the foundational texts of the human potential movement. The most notable included the…

Cuba – World Leader in Sustainable, Organic Farming

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in Earth Community

This is Part one of Marcella Pedersen’s five part series on her trip to Cuba. As someone who is interested in all kinds of farming, Pedersen made it a priority to visit Cuba’s organic sustainable farms. In this article she provides a little history on how and why organic farms were established and what makes Cuba…

Gates Foundation Invests in Monsanto Cont’d.

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Here’s a revealing comment by Szophee in the thread to the Gates Foundation article: Let’s see who’s behind this push for a new ‘Green revolution’ in Africa: The whole project is being led by the US and UK governments (and paid for by their taxpayers), along with the rest of the G8. USAid is playing its…

Aquaponics Association 2013 Conference

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