Author: Daniela

  • Link Between Sustainability and Environmentalism Fairly Recent

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    The link between sustainability and environmentalism is actually fairly recent: Before 1980, sustainability was an uncommon variant of sustainable, as in “capable of being upheld,” and it could be used in any context. But in 1980 that all changed when the International Union for the Conservation of Nature published the World Conservation Strategy, including an entire section called “Towards…

  • Organizations Urge USDA to Improve Oversight of GM Trials

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    The Environmental Leader reports on efforts by more than 150 organizations to urge the US Department of Agriculture to improve its oversight of experimental trials of gentically engineerd crops: Organic food manufacturer Amy’s Kitchen, Farm Aid, Clif Bar & Company, The Urban Farm, Organic Seed Alliance and the Center for Food Safety are among more…

  • Environmental Groups Sue to Stop Planting of GM Crops in Wildlife Refuges

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    Several on-line sites have posted information about a lawsuit filed by environmental groups to stop the planting of genetically modified crops in wildlife refuges: Environmental groups have filed a lawsuit seeking to force the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to stop planting genetically modified crops in wildlife refuges in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, and Missouri. The…

  • Historian Free to Exhibit Kurdish Folklore

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    Shvan Goran spotlights the opening of folklore and cultural exhibitions taking place in Duhok’s local museum through the efforts of historian Rafa’at Rajab in the Kurdish Globe: In the centre of Duhok, a city which is stepping towards modern life, there is an old fashioned building where hundreds of ancient antiques and artefacts have been kept…

  • How To Approach Mortality

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    Originally posted on The Dish: by Jessie Roberts In an interview, philosopher and Immortality author Stephen Cave discusses ways to manage a fear of death: Thinking less about yourself, more about other people and other causes, so your own death doesn’t seem as important to you, because these other causes and people will live on.…

  • At The Center Of The End Of The World

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    Originally posted on The Dish: by Matt Sitman Rob Goodman takes stock of what he terms “apocalyptic narcissism”: We flatter ourselves when we imagine a world incapable of lasting without us in it—a world that, having ceased to exist, cannot forget us, discard us, or pave over our graves. Even if the earth no longer…

  • Happy Labor Day Weekend

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  • The Obesity Era

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    This is an exceedingly long but intriguing article by David Berry reposted from aeon: Years ago, after a plane trip spent reading Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Notes from the Underground and Weight Watchers magazine, Woody Allen melded the two experiences into a single essay. ‘I am fat,’ it began. ‘I am disgustingly fat. I am the fattest human I know. I have…

  • Photo of the Day – in Honor of International Women’s Day

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  • Sunday’s Poem

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    Noshi Gillani Is a poet from Pakistan who writes in Urdu. Noshi Gillani was born in Pakistan in 1964. Her fifth collection of poems: Ay Meeray Shureek-E-Risal-E-Jaan, Hum Tera Intezaar Kurtay Rahey (O My Beloved, I Kept Waiting for You) was published in Pakistan in 2008. Can Someone Bring Me My Entire Being? My arms, my eyes, my face? I am a…