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Occupy Wall Street: the Conscience of the Nation
December 19, 2011 04:12 -
Willie Nelson’s Long Time Bassist—Dan “Bee” Spears Dies
December 14, 2011 09:12 -
Barn Raising and Community Support Celebrated at Pete’s Greens
December 7, 2011 09:12 -
Building Worker Power for a Just and Sustainable Food System
December 4, 2011 13:12 -
Hacking the Food System In the Public Interest
November 30, 2011 10:11 -
Using Honeybees to Sniff Out Explosives
November 22, 2011 13:11 -
Farm To Fork and the Local Food Economy
November 16, 2011 19:11
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The Resilient Gardener, A Book Review
February 2, 2012 04:02 -
Announcing the Food Farmer Earth Collective
January 29, 2012 23:01 -
Alan Kapuler: Man of Science, Ideas, and Humanity part 4 (video)
January 24, 2012 04:01 -
Factory Farms: Animal Welfare, No Legal Protections 2 (video)
January 17, 2012 04:01 -
Factory Farms: Animal Welfare, No Legal Protections (video)
January 10, 2012 12:01 -
Farmer Don: Ode to a Small Family Farmer
January 9, 2012 04:01 -
Mother Nature’s Own Weapons of Mass Destruction
January 4, 2012 04:01
Posts Tagged ‘india’
Journey to Planet Earth: Plan B- Mobilizing to Save Civilization
Environmental scientist, Lester R. Brown, argues that climate change threatens civilization, he outlines his ideas in Plan B: Mobilizing to Save Civilization.
Vandana Shiva: The Future of Food-Part 3
“Ecology is permanent economy”— Sunderlal Bahuguna, environmental activist and active crusader in the Chipko Movement Dr. Vandana Shiva founded the Research for Science, Technology, and Ecology, (RFSTE) organization, inspired by her earlier involvement with the Chipko movement. In 1973, in a mountainous region in the Himalayas, women villagers, in heroic and desperate fashion, clung to [...]
Vandana Shiva: The Future of Food, part 2 (video)
Dr. Vandana Shiva expresses her strong views on hunger in the developing world, and the struggle of small farmers in her native India.
The Slow Food Revolution in India
November 22, 2010 Calcutta, India As the taste for fast food has increased over the years overseas, so has the waistband. “We never saw so many obese kids and adults before. In fact, obesity used to be associated with the Americans, known to be big eaters. Now we run into obese kids all the time [...]
Temporary Stay Against GM Introduction Granted to India’s “king of Vegetables”-the Aubergine
February 10, 2010 Jairam Ramesh, India’s minister for environment and forests, announced yesterday that India would impose a temporary moratorium on the introduction of a genetically modified Aubergine (eggplant). Bt Brinjal, would have been the first genetically modified food allowed for commercial cultivation in India. The Aubergine had been modified with a gene from the [...]
WWOOF: World-Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms, The Trailer (video)
WWOOF! The Movie” is about a collective of organizations WWOOF: World-Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms.
Vandana Shiva: The Future of Food-Part 1
“The world today is made, it is powered by science; and for any man to abdicate an interest in science is to walk with open eyes towards slavery.” —J. Bronowski, Science and Human Values What inspired Jacob Bronowski’s classic science book, Science and Human Values resulted from his visit to Nagasaki in 1945. After witnessing [...]