Author: Daniela

  • Cuba – World Leader in Sustainable, Organic Farming

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    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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    Join us at our third annual, spectacular aquaponic celebration—three days of aquaponics education and inspiration!   Friday… We kick off the weekend with tours of local, featured farms, gardens and integrated urban agriculture sites. Sit back and enjoy the ride on chartered buses chauffeuring conference attendees from our venue to farms, systems and gardens on…

  • GATES FOUNDATION INVESTS IN MONSANTO: Both will profit at expense of small-scale African farmers

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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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    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 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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    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…