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Chhattisgarh state launches “Organic Farming Mission” in India
This is how government policy influences the market in a positive way. Imagine how much different our agricultural landscape would look in the US if we adopted the same practices on a large scale. RAIPUR: In a bid to boost organic farming in state, Chhattisgarh government, on Friday, launched an ‘organic farming mission’ in districts…
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Seed Grants Available for Co-ops
WBEX announces the availability of grants to anyone interested in forming or expanding a co-operative: The Ohio Cooperative Development Center (OCDC) at The Ohio State University South Centers is offering reimbursement seed grants to groups interested in exploring or growing a cooperative. Cooperatives are legal businesses that form when members of the group can do…
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Worker Cooperatives Spring Out of Occupy Movement
Reposted from Co-operative News: During Occupy Wall Street, protesters spent thousands of dollars printing pamphlets and posters to spread their message. Watching money flow into the corporate companies whose principles they protested, a small group of participants planned to start their own printing cooperative founded on the principles of equal responsibility, ownership and pay. Two…
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Farmers Appealing “Pre-Emptive” Monsanto Lawsuit to Supreme Court
The Wisconsin Agconnection blog announces that the group of farmers who challenged Monsanto’s patents on genetically-modified seeds is appealing their case to the U.S. Supreme Court after a lower court ruled against them in June. The Maine-based Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association has been joined in their case by a group of 73 organic…
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Photo of the Day
A young warrior of the Samburu Tribe in Kenya in his striking traditional clothing. Strong, proud, confident, fierce, stoic. He was absolutely exquisite. tierneyfarrell.com Location: South Horr, Kenya Category: Travel Portraits – National Geographic
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Spirituality for Sale
Geoff Olson takes on the heavily commodified New Age scene in his piece, Spirituality for sale in the New Age of ‘me,’ in the Vancouver Courier. From the late ’30s to the early ’60s, a clutch of gurus and gadflies blew into the Bay area with the foundational texts of the human potential movement. The most notable included the…
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Gates Foundation Invests in Monsanto Cont’d.
Here’s a revealing comment by Szophee in the thread to the Gates Foundation article: Let’s see who’s behind this push for a new ‘Green revolution’ in Africa: The whole project is being led by the US and UK governments (and paid for by their taxpayers), along with the rest of the G8. USAid is playing its…
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