Category: Earth Community

  • Stop Nestlé from Stealing

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    Nestlé is taking 265 million liters of fresh Canadian water every year to bottle and sell off around the world — and it does not pay a penny. At a time when water is in short supply around the world, it is outrageous that Nestlé can draw limitless amounts of our natural resources to sell…

  • Shut Up and Listen – Cont’d.

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    Peasant communities all over the world are beginning to realize that, although intensive agriculture might boost crop yields in the short term with seemingly little effort, in the long term it pollutes water sources and depletes the soil.  Many have decided to abandon intensive agriculture and revert to the traditional farming practices used by their ancestors for…

  • Fela Kuti

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    The musical style of Felá is called Afrobeat, a style he largely created, which is a complex fusion of Jazz, Funk, Ghanaian/Nigerian High-life, psychedelic rock, and traditional West African chants and rhythms. Afrobeat also borrows heavily from the native “tinker pan” African-style percussion that Kuti acquired while studying in Ghana with Hugh Masekela, under the uncanny Hedzoleh Soundz.[15] The importance of the…

  • Indian Farmers Learn From Past Mistakes

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    Tan Cheng Li writes about a growing number of farmers in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu who are returning to the old way of chemical-free cultivation of crops: YONG Weng Thing was amazed when he saw the field of spinach. Being a farmer himself, he knows good quality stuff when he sees it and…

  • Cuba – World Leader in Sustainable, Organic Farming

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    This is Part one of  Marcella Pedersen’s five part series on her trip to Cuba.  As someone who is interested in all kinds of farming, Pedersen made it a priority to visit Cuba’s organic sustainable farms.  In this article she provides a little history on how and why organic farms were established and what makes Cuba…

  • VEGGIE cooperative established to mitigate effects of BP oil spill on Vietnamese community in New Orleans

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    VEGGI Farmer’s Cooperative is comprised of local farmers and fisherfolk dedicated to providing the highest quality local produce and seafood to the Greater New Orleans area and beyond. VEGGI Farmers Cooperative was established following the effects of the BP oil spill on the Vietnamese community in New Orleans. With many community members losing their jobs…

  • Bloody Mary and La Llorona: Folklore of Miami’s Homeless Children

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    An article titled “Myths Over Miami” published, by Linda Edwards, in the June 1997 issue of the Miami New Times lay dormant for years until it was posted Tuesday in the “Today I Learned” section on Reddit.  It went viral immediatly. The article chronicles a folklore constructed by children living on the streets and in homeless shelters in Miami,…

  • Sundance Ceremony To Be Openly Celebrated in 2014

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    This post seems to have caused some concern about the 2014 Sundance Ceremony being televised.  Joe Morales Sundance Chief sent the following message: Hello, this is Joe Morales Sundance Chief and Grand Governing Council member of the American Indian Movement. “Openly” means without fear or shame. 2014 Sundance or any other AIM Sundance will not…

  • Mongolian Domog wins First Prize of World Championship of Folklore

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    “World Folk 2013” featured more than 100 performers from 24 countries. “Domog” (Legend) folk music group from Mongolia won the First Prize of the World Championship of Folklore. “Domog” (Legend) folk music ensemble consists of “Domog” folk music group, dancers, Mongolian throat singers and contortionists.  

  • Historian Free to Exhibit Kurdish Folklore

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    Shvan Goran spotlights the opening of folklore and cultural exhibitions taking place in Duhok’s local museum through the efforts of historian Rafa’at Rajab in the Kurdish Globe: In the centre of Duhok, a city which is stepping towards modern life, there is an old fashioned building where hundreds of ancient antiques and artefacts have been kept…