Author: Daniela

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Reposted from Community Alliance for Global Justice: Farmers and civil society organizations around the world are outraged by the recent discovery of further connections between the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and agribusiness titan Monsanto. Last week, a financial website published the Gates Foundation’s investment portfolio, including 500,000 shares of Monsanto stock with an estimated…

VEGGIE cooperative established to mitigate effects of BP oil spill on Vietnamese community in New Orleans

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in Earth Community, New Economy

VEGGI Farmer’s Cooperative is comprised of local farmers and fisherfolk dedicated to providing the highest quality local produce and seafood to the Greater New Orleans area and beyond. VEGGI Farmers Cooperative was established following the effects of the BP oil spill on the Vietnamese community in New Orleans. With many community members losing their jobs…

The Benefits of Slowing Things Down

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in New Economy

In his article in USA Today, Dan D’Ambrosio talks about the concept of “slow money.” He ties it to an emerging movement centered on slowing things down. The Slow Movement now includes Slow Cities and Slow Travel among other attempts to slow things down, each run independently, said Beth Meredith of Create the Good Life!,…

Bloody Mary and La Llorona: Folklore of Miami’s Homeless Children

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in Earth Community

An article titled “Myths Over Miami” published, by Linda Edwards, in the June 1997 issue of the Miami New Times lay dormant for years until it was posted Tuesday in the “Today I Learned” section on Reddit. It went viral immediatly. The article chronicles a folklore constructed by children living on the streets and in homeless shelters in Miami,…

Parenting Expands Spiritual Practice

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg discusses how motherhood has impacted her religious practices and expanded her spritual expression in The New York Times: When I was a rabbinical student and then a new rabbi, I wrote and spoke often about the importance of regular spiritual practice. Fixed discipline, I said, could hold you in your attempts to…

Lord Ganesha Synonymous With Beginning of Any Work

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On the boldsky blog, Sanchita Chowdhury explains why Lord Ganesha is worshiped before beginning any task: According to the yogic perspective, anything we do has to fall under one of the two categories: material or spiritual. It is believed that Lord Ganesha rules the ‘muladhara chakra’ of our body. ‘Muladhara’ is the interface between the material…

Nanos Valoritis on Literature and Poetry

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Here’s a poem of his — “Endless Crucifixion” — from the late-20th century. Nanos Valaoritis (b. 1921) is a widely acknowledged Greek poet, novelist, essayist and translator. After completing his studies in Athens, London and Sorbonne, he moved to London in 1944, where he translated modernist Greek poets from the 1930’s and contributed regularly to avant-guard literary…

Titi Monkeys Use Sentence-Like Order

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Titi monkey-talk has just been deciphered, with researchers now comparing the communication of these small primates to those of humans. The study, published in the latest issue of Biology Letters, notes that titi alarm calls specify the type of predator, such as caracara (predatory bird) or oncilla (mammalian hunter). The calls also mention where the…

Ocean fish acquire more mercury at depth

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Reposted from Science Codex: Mercury—a common industrial toxin—is carried through the atmosphere before settling on the ocean and entering the marine food web. Now, exciting new research from the University of Michigan and the University of Hawai’i at Manoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) combines biogeochemistry and direct marine ecology observations…

Campaign for Local Power

Sep 4, 2013

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