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Organic Groceries Delivered to Your Door
Ever thought about trying Green PolkaDot Box, the national door-to-door discount distribution service for organic and non-GMO foods, but just weren’t ready to commit to a full membership? Now’s your chance to take Green PolkaDot Box for a spin. For a limited time, Green PolkaDot Box is offering a $10 Trial Membership. To take advantage of…
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People of Color In the Middle Ages Not an Anachronism
I ran across the blog Medieval POC while reading an article at the Oxford University Press. The focus of the blog is to “showcase works of art from European history that feature People of Color” and to “address common misconceptions that People of Color did not exist in Europe before the Enlightenment”. Here’s a recent post: The all-white…
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Power generated from community solar facilities spans more than half of all customers in Colorado
A staff reporter at The Boulder iJournal gives details about a new power purchase agreement between community-owned solar developer Clean Energy Collective and the Yampa Valley Electric Association. The Association intends to purchase up to a 500 kilowatts of renewable energy from the Cooperative, a community owned solar company based in northern Colorado: Yampa Valley Electric Association ,…
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Wednesday’s Poem
A mum’s poem: Where Daisy Chains Lie Through the thronged streets. Applause rippled in waves As they strode along High St, Road and Avenue, Remembering other roads As familiar now as these. Wishtan, Nad e Ali Musa Qul’ah In whose parched soil, Strands of daisy chains Lay buried under the dirt To trip the unwary…
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Link Between Food Web and Green House Gas Emissions Found in Ocean
Earthsky blog reports on a study that uncovers one of the “first and best examples of a direct link between a food web and the dynamics that control greenhouse gas emissions from the ocean.” Results of the study, which was funded primarily by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Federal Ministry of Education and…
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Agrochemical Companies and their stockholders the only ones who need genetically engineered crops
In the opinion section of Pambazuka News, Ali Masmadi Jehu Appiah, a Chairperson for Food Sovereignty Ghana, asserts, “The only people who need genetically engineered crops are the foreign seed and agrochemical companies and their stockholders.” He provides a compelling argument for why Ghana should reject genetically engineered Bt cotton: After several years of apparent short-term success in…
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No Sacred Cows
Originally posted on The Dish: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjRA1s5CVbs In a long essay on the ethics of eating animals, Namit Arora explains the intellectual and cultural backdrop to the West’s comparative indifference and even cruelty to the creatures we raise for food: What might have arrested this decline in the fortunes of farm animals are big cultural ideas,…
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Marketing Co-op Seen as Last Defense Against Free Trade
Why do governments sign these trade agreements that negatively impact their local producers? This article by Jimmy Laking, in the Phillipine Baguia Midland Courier, underscores the need to strengthen farmers marketing cooperatives to cope with the onslaught of vegetable products from China, that will flood the market, when the ASEAN Free Trade Agreement comes into…
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Harvard Scientists Link Coffee Drinking to 45% Lower Suicide Risk
Of course – because drinking coffee makes you happy!!! Harvard scientists say their new study supports an association between drinking two to three cups of coffee daily and a 45% lower risk of suicide.
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