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  • Aquaponics Association 2013 Conference

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    Join us at our third annual, spectacular aquaponic celebration—three days of aquaponics education and inspiration!   Friday… We kick off the weekend with tours of local, featured farms, gardens and integrated urban agriculture sites. Sit back and enjoy the ride on chartered buses chauffeuring conference attendees from our venue to farms, systems and gardens on…

  • GATES FOUNDATION INVESTS IN MONSANTO: Both will profit at expense of small-scale African farmers

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    Reposted from Community Alliance for Global Justice: Farmers and civil society organizations around the world are outraged by the recent discovery of further connections between the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and agribusiness titan Monsanto. Last week, a financial website published the Gates Foundation’s investment portfolio, including 500,000 shares of Monsanto stock with an estimated…

  • Parenting Expands Spiritual Practice

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    Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg discusses how motherhood has impacted her religious practices and expanded her spritual expression in The New York Times: When I was a rabbinical student and then a new rabbi, I wrote and spoke often about the importance of regular spiritual practice. Fixed discipline, I said, could hold you in your attempts to…

  • Lord Ganesha Synonymous With Beginning of Any Work

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    On the boldsky blog, Sanchita Chowdhury explains why Lord Ganesha is worshiped before beginning any task: According to the yogic perspective, anything we do has to fall under one of the two categories: material or spiritual. It is believed that Lord Ganesha rules the ‘muladhara chakra’ of our body. ‘Muladhara’ is the interface between the material…

  • Nanos Valoritis on Literature and Poetry

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    Here’s a poem of his — “Endless Crucifixion” — from the late-20th century. Nanos Valaoritis (b. 1921) is a widely acknowledged Greek poet, novelist, essayist and translator. After completing his studies in Athens, London and Sorbonne, he moved to London in 1944, where he translated modernist Greek poets from the 1930’s and contributed regularly to avant-guard literary…

  • Titi Monkeys Use Sentence-Like Order

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    Titi monkey-talk has just been deciphered, with researchers now comparing the communication of these small primates to those of humans. The study, published in the latest issue of Biology Letters, notes that titi alarm calls specify the type of predator, such as caracara (predatory bird) or oncilla (mammalian hunter). The calls also mention where the…

  • Ocean fish acquire more mercury at depth

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    Reposted from Science Codex: Mercury—a common industrial toxin—is carried through the atmosphere before settling on the ocean and entering the marine food web. Now, exciting new research from the University of Michigan and the University of Hawai’i at Manoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) combines biogeochemistry and direct marine ecology observations…

  • Campaign for Local Power

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    For more information on how you can help this amazing nonprofit win, you could go here. And you might want toLike New Era Colorado on Facebook if you want to see their ongoing progress. UPDATE (9/3/2013, 12 p.m. ET): New Era Colorado Executive Director Stephen Fenberg just emailed me to say: “The response from everyone across the country…

  • Poem for a Wednesday

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    “For Women Who Are Difficult to Love” – written and performed by Warsan Shire You are a horse running alone and he tries to tame you compares you to an impossible highway to a burning house says you are blinding him that he could never leave you forget you want anything but you you dizzy…

  • GMO Genewashing

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    Reposted from Dr. Frank Lipman’s Blog: By Andrea Donsky  You may be familiar with the term “greenwashing” –- a term describing the deceptive practice companies use to purposely give off the impression that their products or policies are environmentally friendly, when in fact they aren’t. Greenwashing was first coined in 1986 by an environmentalist named…