Category: Earth Community
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Sun’s Magnetic Field to Flip
The peak of the sun’s solar cycle, which runs about 11-years long, is about to hit. That means that the sun’s magnetic field is about to flip, completely reversing its field in about three to four months. This solar event only happens once during the 11-year cycle, and it signals what solar physicists call the…
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Global Shipping Lanes Being Developed in the Arctic
Thinning ice in the Arctic is making new shipping lanes possible. Olivier Dessibourg writes about a new breed of ice breaking vessels that can clear wider swathes of ice to boost the development of global shipping lanes in the Arctic. The article appeared in this month’s New Scientist on-line magazine. THE clank of hammers, the…
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Lake of Death With Folklore of Danger
Reposted from The New India Express By Joshua Foer and Dylan Thuras I could not speak. I became unconscious. I could not open my mouth because then I smelled something terrible… I heard my daughter snoring in a terrible way, very abnormal… When crossing to my daughter’s bed… I collapsed and fell… I wanted to speak,…
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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 