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  • Cowboy Poet – Who Knew?

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    Keith Ward performing an original poem at The Pizza Shop and Dry County Brewing Company’s Open Mic Night in Spruce Pine, NC on January 19th, 2013. Ward has been writing poetry since childhood, and he attended his first open mic poetry gathering in 2008.  Since then, Ward has continued writing and performing.  “My only connection…

  • In Search Of ManBearPig

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    Originally posted on The Dish: Al Gore seems to have an ally: Dr. Eugene McCarthy is a Ph.D. geneticist who has made a career out of studying hybridization in animals. He now curates a biological information website called Macroevolution.net where he has amassed an impressive body of evidence suggesting that human origins can be best explained by…

  • Rare Earth Mine

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    In Alaska, Rare Earth Discovery Pits Jobs Against Environment New America Media, News Feature, Steve Fisher HYDABURG, Alaska — James Bell, 50, sits carving the intricate details of an arm into a totem pole in his shop in this sleepy, coastal southeastern Alaska town. He wears glasses with a snap-on set of bifocals to better guide…

  • White Earth Reservation

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    Learning to Wildcraft: Foraging and Feasting on the White Earth Reservation BY: MARY ANNETTE PEMBER When I was a kid we described plants like burdock with its tenacious burrs and stinging nettles with its distinctive sting as “pickers.” At theWild Food Summit, however, they call these plants dinner. On the first night of the Wild…

  • Organic food more expensive because federal government uses your tax dollars to subsidize GMOs, junk food

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    One of the biggest complaints among ordinary families trying to eat healthy is that clean, organic food is simply too expensive, and thus out of reach for the average budget. But eating right does not have to break the bank, especially when you know what to look for and how to shop for it. Here…

  • Greens Announce $85 Million Plan to Allow Farmers to Sell Direct to Public

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    Exciting news from The Herald Sun in Australia.  Way to go Greens! THE Greens have announced an $85 million plan to allow farmers to bypass Australia’s major supermarkets and sell direct to the public. In Perth on Sunday, Greens leader Christine Milne said the $85 million in grants over four years would connect farmers and local…

  • Caring For God’s Creations

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    Originally posted on The Dish: Karen Swallow Prior hopes that animal welfare makes a comeback in Christian communites: Many Christians accept or ignore the wide-scale suffering of animals under the justification of scientific “progress” or cheap meat (as a meat-eater, I include myself here). This perspective, though, reflects the influence of a modernist worldview more…

  • Sunday Prayer

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    In honor of New Delhi’s recently held Bhakti poetry presentation, I am devoting this week’s Sunday Prayer to three legendary poets, Tulsidas, Surdas and Kabir Das: The great Bhakti movement swept through Central and Northern India during the 14-17th centuries.  It was initiated by a loosely associated group of teachers or sants. Ramananda, Ravids, Srimanta Sankardeva,…

  • Art Excites The Whole Brain

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    For those of us whose appreciation for art is simply a personal asthetic, a kind of “aha this speaks to me,” Arthur Shimamura’s article in the Oxford University Press may shed some light on how our brains experience it: …over the past two decades, neuroimaging research has advanced our understanding of the biological bases of many…

  • Lake Warriors-In Urban India

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    Originally posted on CHENNAI YOUTH TIMEZ: Lake Warriors-In Urban India When the City of Thousand Lakes is destroyed in the name of development and just one hundred and eighty lakes remain, citizens such as Usha Rajagopalan and Arbind Gupta take it upon themselves to start a revolution.Usha and her neighbours are restoring lake Puttenahalli in…