Author: Daniela

  • Carbon Cycle Regulated by Tropical Ecosystems

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    RedOrbit reports on a new study by the National Academy of Sciences that links rising temperatures to the release of carbon dioxide from tropical ecosystems: Rising temperatures, influenced by natural events such as El Nino, have a corresponding increase in the release of carbon dioxide from tropical forest ecosystems, according to a new study out…

  • Strange Fruit – A Terrifying Work of Art

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    I posted this short documentary as a way of putting the death of Trayvon Martin into context.  Many Americans either don’t know or have forgotten the horror of this episode in our history.  And, whether you agree with the verdict or not, Trayvon Martin’s is one more in a long string of unpunished murders of black men…

  • Trayvon Martin and American Justice Cont’d.

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    The night of the Trayvon Martin verdict, debates ensued all over the country. At a house down south, someone recorded it. It adds a lot of clarity.  

  • National Cooperative Bank completes $30 million loan to housing co-op founded in 1927 by Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union

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    National Cooperative Bank (NCB), a leading financial services company dedicated to providing banking products to cooperatives nationwide, just completed a $30 million loan for Amalgamated Houses in the Bronx, New York. The country’s oldest limited equity cooperative secured the loan to refinance approximately $8.5 million of existing debt and $19.6 million to bolster its reserves and undertake…

  • Freedom On The Farm

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    Originally posted on The Dish: Academic Anne Buchanan relates the daily routine of her sister Jennifer, a dairy farmer in Vermont: Farmers have an old saying: ‘I’ll keep farming until the money runs out.’ Working a small farm makes for a hardscrabble life — no time off and always something more to do, usually for…

  • Song For The Moon

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  • Henry VIII – Family Man?

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    The Oxford University Press asks, “was Henry VIII a “family man” so to speak?” The notion seems vaguely ridiculous; by 1547, the philandering English monarch had laid claim to six wives, two of which he had executed, including the infamously-beheaded Anne Boleyn. However, King Henry’s children were perhaps among his most prized possessions, comprising the…

  • Join the Global Citizen Festival

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    Global Citizen Festival Saturday, September 28th, 2013 Central Park, Great Lawn New York City A world without extreme poverty is only going to be become a reality if we – as Global Citizens – create and commit to a new global partnership that involves us, charities, companies and governments around the world. The 2013 Global…

  • The Tides of Manaunaun – Henry Cowell

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    “The Tides of Manaunaun” (1912) from Three Irish Legends Story according to John Varian which prefaces Cowell’s score: “Manaunaun was the god of motion, and long before the creation, he sent forth tremendous tides, which swept to and fro through the universe, and rhythmically moved the particles and materials of which the gods were later…

  • First Saturday of July Named International Day of Cooperatives

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    ‘The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed that the International Day of Cooperatives [is] to be celebrated annually on the first Saturday of July,’ informed Sandeep Marwah President of World Peace Development And Research Foundation and Ambassador of International Human Rights Organization affiliated to United Nation and International Bar Association….The aim of this International Day is…