Author: Daniela
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Art Excites The Whole Brain
For those of us whose appreciation for art is simply a personal asthetic, a kind of “aha this speaks to me,” Arthur Shimamura’s article in the Oxford University Press may shed some light on how our brains experience it: …over the past two decades, neuroimaging research has advanced our understanding of the biological bases of many…
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Lake Warriors-In Urban India
Originally posted on CHENNAI YOUTH TIMEZ: Lake Warriors-In Urban India When the City of Thousand Lakes is destroyed in the name of development and just one hundred and eighty lakes remain, citizens such as Usha Rajagopalan and Arbind Gupta take it upon themselves to start a revolution.Usha and her neighbours are restoring lake Puttenahalli in…
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Bill Moyers Interview with Richard Wolff
Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he taught economics from 1973 to 2008. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University, New York City. He also teaches classes regularly at the Brecht Forum in Manhattan. If you want to learn more about…
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Evolutionary Reconstruction of the American Economy
I remember commenting to a co-worker, a few years back, that our company’s projected growth of 15% year over year was an inflated and impossible target. The “growth” the firm was touting wasn’t coming from increased sales but from cuts. In order to show profitability, service staff was reduced, billing was centralized in states with…
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Western-Style Diet Makes Mexicans Sick
In Civil Eats, Judy Bankman writes about the nutritional transition that Mexico has made from a healthy natural foods diet to a “western style” diet of high protein, high sugar and highly processed food. On a visit to southern Mexico in 2008, I was shocked to see Coca-Cola billboards dotting rural highways, and roadside tiendas selling bottles of…
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Cooperatives Cont’d. – The Emilia Romagna Cooperatives in Italy
If you are interested in an alternative econonic model to the traditional corporate capitalism practiced in the US, you’ll find this presentation informative and uplifting. It highlights the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy which is one of the richest in Europe. Emilia-Romagna is also one of the most cooperative regions in the world. Nearly two out…
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GritTV Cooperative Series: Beyond Care Childcare Cooperative
http://blip.tv/grittv/a-co-op-seriesl-beyond-care-childcare-cooperative-6618562 Domestic workers, such as housekeepers, home care aides, and nannies help with the day-to-day upkeep of family life. According to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, 90% of home care health aides are women, 56% percent are women of color and 28% are foreign born having migrated from Latin America and the Caribbean. In…
The Village Market 