Author: Daniela

  • herbal folklore guide: call for collaborators

    Originally posted on the irresistible fleet of bicycles: Open call for drawings of medicinal plants! For a practical compendium for natural healing practices to be compiled in a printed and bound print publication including gardens, gardeners, healing practitioners, and a wide-range of do-it-yourself guides (beer brewing, salve-crafting, tea and oil infusion, tinctures compresses). Plant drawings…

  • Spirituality May Bring Better Health

    Dr. Roy Sessions observes that, in his experience, “people with strong faith in the Deity and an associated afterlife generally are able to go through the cancer experience more easily than those who do not possess such beliefs.”  He goes on to note: According to a February 2009 feature article in Time magazine that was…

  • Critical organic apple and pear challenges addressed by TOC research

    I thought this information was important to pass along for those who might be affected or are interested in learning more about the project: The Organic Center (TOC) is launching a project this Summer to prevent a potential catastrophe looming over organic apple and pear production in the US. They are working to provide the…

  • Sea Pact Launched to Advance Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture

    Worldfishing and Aquaculture highlights Sea Pact, a coalition formed by six North American seafood suppliers to advance environmentally sustainable fisheries  and aquaculture practices. The six companies – Albion Fisheries, Fortune Fish & Gourmet, Ipswich Shellfish Group, Santa Monica Seafood, Seacore Seafood and Seattle Fish Co. – are striving to… provide the building blocks of a…

  • Women Still a Minority on Corporate Boards

    According to Bill Roth at the TriplePundit site, “While women account for over 50 percent of college graduates and they dominate economic power in our economy with $8 trillion of annual buying power, they still account for less than 15 percent of S&P 500 boards of directors. Three percent of Fortune 1000 companies have no women…

  • Playing the long game for GM crops in Europe

    Originally posted on Science on the Land: Is Europe a no-go zone for GM crops? Those are genetically modified crops, also called genetically engineered (GE) crops or biotech crops. Whether we’re a no-go zone for GM depends on whether you look at the short game or the long game. We mostly don’t grow GM crops…

  • Path to tranquility

    Originally posted on Joshi Daniel Photography: Buddhist monk | McLeod Ganj, Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh, India

  • Haiku-Writing Suspected Killer Hunted by Japanese Police

    The Telegraph reports on a  poetry-writing suspected killer who is being hunted by Japanese police after the bodies of five people were found in a tiny mountain village. The chief suspect is a 63-year-old villager at whose home police found a “haiku” poem stuck to the window. The haiku is a traditional Japanese form, a…

  • NASA releases Saturn-Earth ‘photobomb’ pic

    The US space agency has released a rare photo of the Earth and moon taken from the vantage point of the outer solar system, with Saturn’s rings in the shot. The color images were taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft at a distance of nearly 1.4 billion kilometers away, NASA said. After calling on Earthlings to wave at Cassini for…

  • At least one government agency is serious about climate change.  In this month’s Mother Jones, Dana Liebelson and Chris Mooney write about a scientific study funded by the CIA to investigate whether humans could use geoengineering to alter Earth’s environment and stop climate change: The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) will run the 21-month project, which is the…