Author: Daniela
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Janmashtami Holds Special Place Among All Hindu Festivals
Sanchita Chowdhur posts about the special place Janmashtami holds among all Hindu festivals: Janmashtami or the birthday of Lord Krishna has a huge spiritual significance in Hinduism. As the legend goes, Lord Krishna was born in the darkness of night, inside a cell of a jail where His parents were locked up by his cruel…
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Is extremism in defense of GM food a vice?
By Nathanael Johnson: Grist When a study came out in 2012 associating gruesomely lumpy rats with genetically modified food, critics trashed it so thoroughly that a group of researchers and advocates called foul. This went beyond legitimate scientific critique, they wrote. It was evidence that “those with a vested interest attempt to sow unreasonable doubt around inconvenient results.”More recently, a…
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Traditional Forms of Cooperation Basis for Modern Cooperatives in Sudan
In a recent editorial, the Sudan Vision supports using traditional forms of cooperation in their country as the basis for forming modern cooperatives: The cooperatives have been developed in a local context to solve problems that beset ordinary people, based on the traditional mutual work in the specific local environment. Cooperatives movement has its deep-rooted…
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Agroecology Best Way to Fundamentally Transform Agriculture
Doug Gurian-Sherman posts an excellent article on his blog The Equation about the promise agroecology holds to fundamentally transform agriculture to make it more resilient to climate change, respond to new pests, conserve scarce resources like water and phosphorus, reduce environmental impacts, and establish food sovereignty. …we must make a serious effort to develop ecologically-sound agriculture systems that address…
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The White Man Who Marched On Washington
Originally posted on The Dish: by Matt Sitman Michael Kazin revisits a neglected episode in the Civil Rights movements: The 1963 March on Washington featured just one prominent white speaker. “We will not solve education or housing or public accommodations, as long as millions of Negroes are treated as second-class economic citizens and denied jobs,”…
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Anis Mojgani performs Shake the Dust at HEAVY AND LIGHT.
Anis Mojgani, the two-time National Slam Poetry Champion, stole the show reminding everyone of the power of words and the value in their stories. Here, he performs “Shake the Dust.”
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UAE Firm To Create Green Farm in Ghana
Caline Malek at The National reports on Nahtam, a socially responsible company that is planning to set up a sustainable organic farming system in Ghana. Nahtam will acquire 4,000 acres of land in the capital city of Accra, which will produce food while offsetting carbon production. “Carbon footprint is a global issue and the simplest…
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