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For the month of July, GRITtv will spotlight a few cooperatives that are growing an alternative economy. This week they are airing Mark Dworkin and Melissa Young of the documentary Shift Change which explores existing cooperatives in the U.S. “Cooperatives in the United States have existed more or less under the radar. Taking many forms: worker cooperatives, housing…

Mermaids Could Be Real

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Amanda Shore highlights a two-hour Animal Planet special headlined, Mermaids: The Body Found. The show makes a pretty convincing case for the existence of human-like aquatic mammals they call mermaids. The first piece of evidence found is a sound “bloop” from an unknown species: Paul Robertson, a former employee of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric…

Sacramento’s farm-to-food bank serves 100% locally grown produce

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A number of food banks in California are working to deliver more fresh produce to their clients. The Sacramento Food Bank is a leader among them. They used to be “one of those standard food distribution centers where bags of processed foods, carbohydrate-laden government commodities and day-old breads and sweets were bagged and handed to…

Let It Blow

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Originally posted on The Dish: Robert T. Gonzalez praises the above short film, Bert Haanstra’s 1959 Oscar-winning documentary Glas, as the “perfect little ten minute vacation”: [W]hat caught my attention was how effectively it contrasts the meticulous, method-based craftsmanship of the glassblowers with the automated processes of the bottle-building machines. It’s an especially powerful comparison,…

How to Improve Your Life with “The Four-Way View Test”

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Stew Friedman shares his “Four-Way View Test” with readers in The Harvard Business Review: There’s an old saw that the urgent often wins over the important. But too much focus on things that aren’t important to you can have significant long-term impact on your career, your family, and your health. “The “Four-Way View Test,” adapted…

Baby Boomers Should Consider Selling Their Companies To Employees When They Retire

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In his Oped in the New York Times, Gar Alperovitz highlights a tremendous opportunity to create worker-owned businesses in the coming years: Over the next decade millions of business owners born during the baby boom will retire. Many, with no obvious succession strategy, will simply sell their companies, the backbone of Main Street economies across…

The Inner Lives Of Animals

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Originally posted on The Dish: Brandon Keim investigates the field of animal consciousness: The whale biologist Shane Gero is part of a research team that has conducted long-term sperm-whale studies off the island of Domenica in the Caribbean. These studies describe the dynamics of whale families in which children are, in a very real sense,…

Key summit set in genetically modified food label fight

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Published in The Hill by Ben Goad: Major players in the food industry have scheduled a crucial meeting for next week that could become a turning point in the regulatory battle over genetically modified foods. Challenges to the use of biotechnology have created an “unprecedented period of turmoil” for food producers, the Grocery Manufacturers Association…

Anaesthesia exposure and the developing brain

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By Vesna Jevtovic-Todorovic and Hugh Hemmings Rapidly mounting animal evidence clearly indicates that exposure to general anaesthesia during the early stages of brain development results in long-lasting behavioural impairments. These behavioural impairments manifest as reduced performance in tests of learning and memory know as cognitive deficits, lack of motivation, and problems with social interactions. Some worrisome similarities are apparent when emerging human…

GM Seafood to be Discussed at 2013 BioMarine Business Convention

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