Category: Earth Community
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Whole Earth Summit: An online conference to inspire and create a more resilient world
EPIC EVENT ALERT [Free & Online]: 42 extraordinary visionaries, including Vandana Shiva, Bill McKibben, Charles Eisenstein, Joel Salatin, the founders of the Small Planet Fund, Living Building Challenge, Transition Town, Pachamama Alliance, Bioneers, Appropedia, Kid’s Right to Know, Wise Women Tradition, and many others are joining together to share valuable insights around food, water, the commons, ecological…
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Brother Ali – Mourning in America
This is the title track to my new album, Mourning in America and Dreaming in Color. The first half of the album highlights and critiques the dire situation in which we live. The second half outlines the tremendous opportunity we have to re-imagine and reform our society. This song is an observation and a critique…
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Food For Change – A History of the Cooperative Movement in America
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…
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Tattoos Represent Status, Spiritual Devotion Among Haida
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…
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Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK): An Interview With Dr. Michael Hutchins
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…
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Japanese Cooperatives Play Role in Fukushima Cleanup
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…
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Pesticide Residue Strengthens Case for Organic Farming
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.…
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Sunday Prayer – Mast Qalandar!
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…
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