Tag: Kerala

  • State Confers Award to Navara Eco Farm for Saving Rare Rice Variety

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    Mr. Narayanan Unny and his Navara Eco farm are featured in N.J. Prabu’s article in The Hindu. “Navara is a medicinal rice variety and its cultivation is almost extinct. Many reasons such as non-availability of pure seeds, low yield and high production cost are attributed for this. The speciality is that this is the only…

  • Red Rain Might Provide Proof of Alien Life

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    I don’t usually put much stock in articles from The Huffington Post, but I found this one intriguing: A two-month rain storm in southern India may be the most compelling evidence yet that extraterrestrial lifeforms have visited Earth. Between July 25 and Sept. 23, 2012, the Indian state of Kerala was drenched by bizarre red-colored…

  • The Scam of Growth

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    Vandana Shiva | 19th Jun 2013 Bhutan: I am working with the government of Bhutan to help the country become the world’s first wholly organic country. I am also working to redefine the economic paradigm to focus on the happiness (gross national happiness) and well being of its people and the health of its environment, instead of…