Category: Earth Community

  • Live Video Event with Charles Eisenstein: The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible

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    Wednesday, January 15th, 5pm PST (view other time zones) Can individual acts of courage and kindness change a culture’s guiding narrative of a doomed planetary crisis? Join visionary Charles Eisenstein in a conversation about a radically different understanding of cause and effect, sounding a clarion call to surrender our old worldview of separation, so that we…

  • Photographing Spirituality

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    James Estrin, co-founder of the The New York Times Lens blog will be exhibiting a collection of his work documenting human spirituality at the 92nd Street Y on Lexington Avenue in Manhattan. Michael Winerip, who is familiar with Esterin’s work notes: Having worked many, many 12-hour days with him, I can say firsthand that James Estrin’s photos definitely don’t…

  • Tuarag Festival

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    The Irish Times Gallery section has a series of arresting photos from the Tuarag Festival held in the Libyan desert in late December.  You can view the whole series here. The Tuareg people are about 2 million nomadic people who live across the Sahara Desert, including in the North African countries of Mali, Niger, Libya,…

  • Earth Friendly Gardens

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    I stopped by my friends Fred and Deb’s house the other day and noticed they had their seed catalogs out with pages of heirloom plants already bookmarked. As early as it seems, within the next couple of months Fred will have his grow light going and his heat mats out warming spinach, kale and lettuce…

  • Organic Seed Banks Preserve Genetically Diverse Food Supply

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    Seed Activism In a recent study titled “Seed Freedom: A Global Citizens Report,” Shiva’s research showed the ways that genetic contamination is rapidly spreading and, specifically, how India has lost organic cotton seed varieties due to contamination by Bt Cotton. The report also points to other places, like Mexico, facing similar challenges. “Mexico, the historical…

  • Life Under the Ice

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    Science News‘ long piece on a study, conducted by Russian scientists at Lake Vostok, reveals evidence of a complex subglacial ecosystem: Lake Vostok is a behemoth, and not just by Antarctic standards. It is nearly as big as Lake Ontario and much deeper — estimated to be more than 900 meters in some places. By…

  • United Nations’ FAO Reaches Landmark Decision

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    This is great news! The Wall Street Journal’s Christopher Emsden announces a landmark decision reached by the  United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization: …The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization Tuesday reached a deal giving extended support to co-operatives, a growing force in the global economy. The FAO’s memorandum of understanding is with the International…

  • State Confers Award to Navara Eco Farm for Saving Rare Rice Variety

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    Mr. Narayanan Unny and his Navara Eco farm are featured in N.J. Prabu’s article in The Hindu. “Navara is a medicinal rice variety and its cultivation is almost extinct. Many reasons such as non-availability of pure seeds, low yield and high production cost are attributed for this. The speciality is that this is the only…

  • Islamabad Women’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IWCCI) Promotes Organic Farming

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    I’ve really come to admire the women of India and Pakistan.  Contrary to Western stereotypes, many Indian and Pakistani women are engaged and active in all spheres of society and are fighting for better standards of living for themselves and their communities.  In this Business Recorder article, Parvez Jabri spotlights the push toward organic farming…

  • Meteorites May be Responsible for Life on Earth

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    The Pentagon Post features an article by Ike Miller that delves into a fascinating hypothesis of how meteorites may have been responsible for life on earth: Scientists were surprised to find that a meteorite that landed in California in 2012 contained all the essential ingredients necessary for the evolution of life. The Meteorite that exploded…