Author: Daniela

  • Shift Change Trailer

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    Shift Change is a new documentary (to have its world premiere on October 18, 2012, in Oakland, CA) that highlights worker-owned enterprises in North America and in Mondragon, Spain.  The film couldn’t be more timely, as 2012 has been declared by the U.N. as the “International Year of the Cooperative.” Take a look at the preview and please…

  • Anti-GMO Movement Flourishing

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    Lots of news today on the anti-GMO front. NASDAQ notes that the right-to-choose movement is gaining strength and may be negatively impacting Big Food Stocks: Companies like Monsanto — the dominant producer of most genetically modified corn, soybean, and cotton seeds — see its revenues tied to extreme weather conditions that affect crop yields, not…

  • Writer sought to gather Dumfries and Galloway folklore

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    From BBC News, South Sotland: A writer is being sought to gather and retell folklore, myths, legends and tales about Dumfries and Galloway. The initiative is being organised by the Wigtown Book Festival with funding from Fresh Start for the Arts. It has been loosely inspired by John Mactaggart’s work of 1876, the Scottish Gallovidian…

  • Is Moral Masochism At The Heart of Religion?

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    A friend once encouraged me to read the writings of St. John of the Cross, a Spanish mystic and Roman Catholic Saint, as a way to gain spiritual insight. At the time, I rather callously dismissed the book and St. John’s teachings.  What put me off completely was a passage in which St. John abjectly…

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  • Animal Skyways

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    Originally posted on The Dish: Canada’s most-travelled highway tears through the country’s oldest national park, imperiling both humans and wildlife. But park administrators came up with an inspired solution: They look, for the most part, like typical pedestrian infrastructure: elliptical or boxy concrete culverts under the highway high enough for a human to pass through, or…

  • Organic Groceries Delivered to Your Door

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    Ever thought about trying Green PolkaDot Box, the national door-to-door discount distribution service for organic and non-GMO foods, but just weren’t ready to commit to a full membership? Now’s your chance to take Green PolkaDot Box for a spin. For a limited time, Green PolkaDot Box is offering a $10 Trial Membership. To take advantage of…

  • People of Color In the Middle Ages Not an Anachronism

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    I ran across the blog Medieval POC while reading an article at the Oxford University Press. The focus of the blog is to “showcase works of art from European history that feature People of Color” and to “address common misconceptions that People of Color did not exist in Europe before the Enlightenment”. Here’s a recent post: The all-white…

  • Power generated from community solar facilities spans more than half of all customers in Colorado

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    A staff reporter at The Boulder iJournal gives details about a new power purchase agreement between community-owned solar developer Clean Energy Collective and the Yampa Valley Electric Association.  The Association intends to purchase up to a 500 kilowatts of renewable energy from the Cooperative, a community owned solar company based in northern Colorado: Yampa Valley Electric Association ,…

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