Category: Earth Community

  • Unravel Documentary

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    This is the final resting place of your cast-off clothing When people in the West throw their clothes away, their cast-offs often go on a journey east, across the oceans, to India’s industrial interior. From the Kutch District of western India to the northern city of Panipat, garment recyclers turn into yarn the huge bales…

  • What the Earth will look like in 250 million years

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    This originally appeared on Mail Online.

  • Balinese School Provides Organic Diet to Autistic Students

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    I wish I could follow this story over time.  I’d be interested to see what kind of impact feeding only organic food to children with autism and other diabilities has in the long run.  From the article, in TheJakartaPost, it appears there are many other factors, employed by the school, that contribute to the positive…

  • Honey Cooperatives Help Afghan Women

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    I ran across this inspiring article from the Deccan Chronical on how honey cooperatives are helping Afghan women, in a formerly Taliban region, take control of their lives. In the mountainous central province of Bamiyan, one of the country’s least developed but most liberal regions, beekeeping complements its only other commercial crop, potatoes, and gives rural…

  • ET Alert

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    If you are a fan of Extra Terrestrials, Science Alert  has an interesting article on the latest plan to contact the closest Earth-like exoplanet in our Solar system: Scientists are making preparations to send a transmission to Proxima b – the closest Earth-like exoplanet to our Solar System. The team is putting together a plan to build or…

  • Agroecology Popular in Latin World

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    I came across several good articles on agroecology this week.  First, Lois Ross at Rabble.ca feels we have a lot to learn from Cuba’s agroecological revolution.  After the collapse of the Soviet Union Cuba’s export market for sugar fell.  “It did not have the currency to import petroleum or petroleum-based fertilizers to continue cultivation of monocultures…

  • Co-ops Help Lift People Out of Poverty

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    Laura Flanders is a big proponent of co-operatives.  In her recent article in Yes! magazine, she demonstrates how Cooperative Home Care Associates, the nation’s largest cooperative lifts people out of poverty: When Arroyo convened a first-of-its-kind hearing on co-ops this February, New Yorkers packed not one but two hearing rooms at City Hall. Among the co-op…

  • Sunday Prayer

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    Chilly fall morning, the deck rimed with frost. Warm and serene at the kitchen table in the early hours of the day. Buddy’s outside, bright yellow ball closely guarded at his side, erect and alert, nose twitching – sniffing, sniffing something interesting in the air. The sky ribboned in pale blue, rose and the faintest…

  • Nobel laureates call for a revolutionary shift in how humans use resources

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    Reposted from theguardian.com, Deforestation is among a growing list of planetary ailments, the Nobel laureates warn. Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex Features   Eleven Nobel laureates will pool their clout to sound a warning, declaring that mankind is living beyond its means and darkening its future. At a conference in Hong Kong coinciding with the annual Nobel awards…

  • UN Praises Role of Cooperatives in Sustainable Development

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      United Nations officials are highlighting the role cooperative enterprises can play in economic development, social justice and environmental protection. In his message for International Day of Cooperatives, marked annually on 5 July, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that this year’s Day falls at a “critical time” with the UN working to reach the 2015 deadline for the…