Category: Earth Community
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Organic Farming Cont’d.
Here’s one more story and then I’ll let it go for today. This piece from PR Web relates a discussion held by impact investor and advocate of sustainable agriculture, Philippe van den Bossche, on the benefits of Mzee Benson Kinyua’s organic farming practices. According to a July 25, 2013 article published on People’s Daily Online, entitled, “Feeding Kenya…
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Edible Landscape Saves $700 in Grocery Bills
Rosalind Creasy along with her writing partner, Cathy Wilkinson Barash decided to experiment with creating an edible landscape to see what kind of cost savings could be realized at the grocers. Their results are chronicled in an article in Mother Earth News. The Objective I took a 5-by-20-foot section of garden bed by my tiny lawn…
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New Economic System Needed and Growing
On the Popular Resistance blog, Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese insist that a new economic system is needed to create a democratized economy: People are realizing that they cannot make it in the current Wall Street dominated corporate capitalist economy. It is not designed for most people to make it. Rather it is designed for a small…
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Khadi – An Art That Gives Life
Khadi means handspun and handwoven cloth. In 1918 Mahatma Gandhi started his movement for Khadi as a relief program for the poor masses living in India’s villages. Spinning and weaving was elevated to an ideology for self-reliance and self-government. “Every village shall plant and harvest its own raw-materials for yarn, every woman and man shall…
The Village Market 