Tag: Brazil

  • The Parintins Folklore Festival Is One of Brazil’s Liveliest and Most Extraordinary Events

    The Parintins Folklore Festival Is One of Brazil’s Liveliest and Most Extraordinary Events

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     Ed Cunningham of Time Out travels to the heart of the Amazon rainforest to attend the Parintins Folklore Festival, one of Brazil’s liveliest and most extraordinary events. Here’s his description of the event. It sounds AWESOME! Taking place on an island in the middle of the Amazon river, Parintins is accessible only by plane or…

  • The Transvida Cooperative

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    This article on the RioOnWatch site really caught my attention. It shows how even the poorest communities can benefit by forming a cooperative. Cooperativa Transvida Promotes Recycling and Environmental Awareness In 2011, then engaged in various projects through her church, Oliveira saw a group of residents picking through trash in the community in search of…

  • 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…

  • Greenpeace exhorts FDA to stop misleading the public

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    Greenpeace calls on the FDA to stop feeding the public propaganda about the safety of eating GM products: ‘The FDA should stop feeding the public with propaganda. They are not truthful in saying that GMOs are safe for consumption. There is no scientific proof that GMOs pose no danger to human health and the environment.…

  • Telecoupling – A Holistic Understanding of Sustainability

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    Michigan State University’s Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability highlights a recent study by  led by Jianguo “Jack” Liu, Michigan State University’s Rachel Carson Chair in Sustainability: In the new issue of Ecology and Society, Liu, director of MSU’s Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability (CSIS), and his colleagues lay the groundwork to understand how an action…