Category: Earth Community

  • Covilli Brand Organics inaugurates health clinic for workers

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    Fair Trade makes a difference in the lives of workers.

  • Natural Dyes Save Lives

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    Conventional textile manufacturing is poisonous to its workers and to the land, but there are alternatives. A new crop of small businesses is investing in organic farming, natural dyes and a transparent supply chain that encourages shoppers to think about the effect of their purchases — and they’re selling their products online and in a…

  • Sikkim first fully organic state in India

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    Sikkim celebrates acheiving the status of the first fully organic state in India.  According to The Indian Express the plan was first proposed in 2003.  It took 13 years to convert 75,000 hectares (over 185,300 acres) to certified organic agricultural land.  It is also judged to be the cleanest state and best in education as well…

  • 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…