Tag: United States

  • Torturing Animals with GMO Feed

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    Katherine Paul of The Organic Consumers Association asks, “what happens when animals are confined in cramped, filthy environments and force-fed monoculture diets of genetically modified corn and soy?” A lot can happen. Calves are born too weak to walk, with enlarged joints and limb deformities. Piglets experience rapidly deteriorating health, a “failure to thrive” so…

  • National Sustainability Policy Needed

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    A new report from the National Research Council points out that the “U.S. should establish a National Sustainability Policy and take additional steps to encourage federal agencies to collaborate on sustainability challenges that demand the expertise of many agencies, such as improving disaster resilience and managing ecosystems.” The inherent problem preventing this is the way…

  • Farm Workers Get Help To Be Their Own Boss

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    Kirk Siegler featured a piece on ALBA Organics on Morning Edition at NPR.  You can go here for the broadcast.  Although ALBA concedes that not everyone will make it, this still gives migrant farm workers an opportunity to become their own boss.  Here’s an excerpt from the story: Northern California’s Salinas Valley is often dubbed…

  • Evolutionary Reconstruction of the American Economy

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    I remember commenting to a co-worker, a few years back, that our company’s projected growth of 15% year over year was an inflated and impossible target.  The “growth” the firm was touting wasn’t coming from increased sales but from cuts.  In order to show profitability, service staff was reduced, billing was centralized in states with…

  • Western-Style Diet Makes Mexicans Sick

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    In Civil Eats, Judy Bankman writes about the nutritional transition that Mexico has made from a healthy natural foods diet to a “western style” diet of high protein, high sugar and highly processed food. On a visit to southern Mexico in 2008, I was shocked to see Coca-Cola billboards dotting rural highways, and roadside tiendas selling bottles of…

  • GritTV Cooperative Series: Beyond Care Childcare Cooperative

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    http://blip.tv/grittv/a-co-op-seriesl-beyond-care-childcare-cooperative-6618562 Domestic workers, such as housekeepers, home care aides, and nannies help with the day-to-day upkeep of family life. According to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, 90% of home care health aides are women, 56% percent are women of color and 28% are foreign born having migrated from Latin America and the Caribbean. In…

  • Critical organic apple and pear challenges addressed by TOC research

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    I thought this information was important to pass along for those who might be affected or are interested in learning more about the project: The Organic Center (TOC) is launching a project this Summer to prevent a potential catastrophe looming over organic apple and pear production in the US. They are working to provide the…

  • Trayvon Martin and American Justice Cont’d.

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    The night of the Trayvon Martin verdict, debates ensued all over the country. At a house down south, someone recorded it. It adds a lot of clarity.  

  • National Cooperative Bank completes $30 million loan to housing co-op founded in 1927 by Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union

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    National Cooperative Bank (NCB), a leading financial services company dedicated to providing banking products to cooperatives nationwide, just completed a $30 million loan for Amalgamated Houses in the Bronx, New York. The country’s oldest limited equity cooperative secured the loan to refinance approximately $8.5 million of existing debt and $19.6 million to bolster its reserves and undertake…

  • The Tides of Manaunaun – Henry Cowell

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    “The Tides of Manaunaun” (1912) from Three Irish Legends Story according to John Varian which prefaces Cowell’s score: “Manaunaun was the god of motion, and long before the creation, he sent forth tremendous tides, which swept to and fro through the universe, and rhythmically moved the particles and materials of which the gods were later…