Author: Daniela

  • The Weaving Tradition Of The Yakan Village In Zamboanga

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    Weaving has always been a communal activity among the Yakan indigenous group from Zamboanga in Mindanao. Yakan women gather together to deftly weave the memories of their mothers and grandmothers into a handsome textile. Distinct for its vibrant colors and geometric patterns, interwoven in their fabrics are symbols of their village life and Islamic faith.…

  • Primatologist Jane Goodall Marks Her 90th Birthday With Stunning Images

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    90 Years | 90 Images | 90 Women To mark the occasion of her 90th birthday, Jane Goodall is collaborating with Vital Impacts and 90 influential women photographers in a campaign dedicated to “reimagining our relationships to the natural world.” There are currently 31 images for sale, as part of “The Nature of Hope: 90…

  • Fellow Travelers!

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    I will forever be grateful that I was introduced to the utility and beauty of hand crafted items early in life – from the symbols and motifs sewn onto the coarse linen fabric of Croatian traditional wear to the colorful kilim carpets that decorated the parquet floors in my grandmother’s living room. I treasure the…

  • The Cathedral Within

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    Bill Shore’s book The Cathedral Within affected me profoundly. It described…..”a new movement of citizens who are tapping the vast resources of the private sector to improve public life.” In 1999, when it was released, you felt like you had only two choices: to make money in the private sector or do good working in…

  • Fighting Terrorism With Jobs

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    In a Nigerian hotbed of terrorist activity, entrepreneur Kola Masha founded Babban Gona to bring jobs and stability to his home country. The north of Nigeria is the hotbed of terrorist activities owing to the operation of Boko Haram and other bandits. Also, the Niger Delta area is another hotbed for homegrown insurgents. There are…

  • Fairphone Focused on Sustainability

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    Kudos to Fairphone! With customers on average upgrading their phones every 2.7 years and less than 5% of materials available for reuse, phones create a monumental amount of e-waste. That’s the issue Fairphone is trying to tackle. The manufacturer is focused on sustainability, relying on fair-trade sourcing and fair labor practices, and using recycled materials in…

  • Food

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    Here are a couple of interesting blurbs about food you may want to share: Who knew? …new evidence suggests that if you eat enough spinach, it’s basically like taking steroids. It sounds crazy, but it’s backed by the results of a scientific study led by a team of researchers from the Institute of Pharmacy at Freie Universität…

  • Earn money every time a brand or platform uses your data

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    If you feel you should be paid for the use of your data, this article in Newsfile might be of interest to you: New York, New York–(Newsfile Corp. – July 21, 2020) – Killi Ltd. (TSXV: MYID), a global leader in consumer privacy, announces that its Founder and CEO, Neil Sweeney, was featured in Forbes magazine to discuss the…

  • Shop Fair Trade For All Your Cooking and Baking Needs

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    Fair Trade USA has a convenient list of companies that carry fair trade products for all your cooking and baking needs. Visit their site whenever you need to stock your pantry with staples like herbs, spices sugar and more.

  • A cooperative for the 21st Century

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    This post is focused on a segment of a more far ranging article in DieM25 regarding the platform economy and unionization in the European Union. We focus on how, in Germany, a group of food delivery riders set up the Kolyma2 collective that has been able to successfully operate on a local level with the…