Category: Earth Community

  • Food For Change – A History of the Cooperative Movement in America

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    http://vimeo.com/76558337 Food For Change is a feature-length documentary film focusing on food co-ops as a force for dynamic social and economic change in American culture. The movie tells the story of the cooperative movement in the U.S. through interviews, rare archival footage, and commentary by the filmmaker and social historians. This is the first film…

  • Cartoon: Hungry Mungry

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    Reposted from Comics by Laura Clawson

  • Tattoos Represent Status, Spiritual Devotion Among Haida

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    The Leader Post delves into the age-old practice of tattooing by the Haida peoples: …the Haida practiced tattooing for generations before European contact. “The tattoo marks themselves were indicative of status, spiritual devotion and decoration,” the centre explains on its website. Individuals expressed their part in a social unit, a moiety, or a lineage through…

  • Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK): An Interview With Dr. Michael Hutchins

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    Reposted from National Geographic blog: Posted by Jordan Carlton Schaul of University of Alaska on January 11, 2014   Inuit man eating narwhal (NGS) The following interview is my 12th in a serieswith my esteemed colleague Dr. Michael Hutchins. Michael recently joined the American Bird Conservancy, as the organization’s National Bird Smart Wind Campaign Coordinator. The distinguished ecologist has agreed to answer my…

  • Japanese Cooperatives Play Role in Fukushima Cleanup

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    Reposted from foodtank: Cooperatives are the backbone for Japan’s rural economy through their presence in agriculture, fisheries, and even forestry. From rural to urban, farmer to consumer, and junior to elderly, cooperatives play a critical role throughout the Japanese economy. Since 1900, the Japan Agriculture Cooperative Group has been present in every village and nearly 100 percent…

  • Pesticide Residue Strengthens Case for Organic Farming

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    My Google Alerts is ablaze with articles about pesticide residue found on organic produce.  Paul Hanley’s level-headed piece in the Star Phoenix explains why this finding “drives home the importance of expanding pesticide-free organic farming practices.” Providing food free from chemical residues is just one goal of organic farming and perhaps not the most important.…

  • Sunday Prayer – Mast Qalandar!

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    Nicholas Schmidle relates his experience at the annual three-day festival marking the death of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar at Smithsonian.com.  Every year, a few hundred thousand Sufis converge in Seh- wan, a town in Pakistan’s southeastern Sindh province for the festival. In the desert swelter of southern Pakistan, the scent of rose­water mixed with a waft of…

  • In Memoriam: Carter Camp – An American Indian Warrior

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    Neeta Lind (navajo) posts a beautiful tribute to Carter Camp who walked on the afternoon of Dec. 27, 2013. Much has been written about Carter, but many have not heard of him. He was one of the original organizers of the American Indian Movement, a pan-Indian movement sparked in part by the civil rights movement of African…

  • Amiri Baraka – Another Great Artist Gone

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    Amiri Baraka, the militant man of letters and tireless agitator whose blues-based, fist-shaking poems, plays and criticism made him a provocative and groundbreaking force in American culture, has died. He was 79. Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note Lately, I’ve become accustomed to the way The ground opens up and envelopes me Each time…

  • Earth Reaches Perihelion on January 4th

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    On Jan. 4 at 8:00 a.m. EST (12:00 GMT), Earth reached its perihelion for 2014. The perihelion of a planet’s orbit occurs when the planet is at its least distance from its star during a particular orbital cycle. The perihelion date varies between Jan. 1 and Jan. 5, while the aphelion date varies between July 2 and…