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Community Money for Community Food

Jordan Bober — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:52:33 +0000

Excellent and comprehensive look at how local currency can help build a local food economy in Vancouver, BC by Jordan Bober
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Literacy for Stupidification

hellaD — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:46:03 +0000

We need to encourage the development of the critical thinking that enables one to "read the world" critically and to understand the reasons and linkages behind the facts.
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The Failing Food System

hellaD — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:47:51 +0000

Nowadays the whole food system - from production to processing and distribution - is mainly controlled by transnational corporations. Since 2007 these companies such as Monsanto, DuPont, Bayer, Cargill, Sinochem, Nestlé (to name just a few) have seen increases in their profits.
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Join the Fight to Save Chinatown

NewsGrab — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:13:32 +0000

Around 64% of Chinatown residents are low-income; there are around 1,000 people in close to that many rooms. This community is vulnerable to the ripple effects of gentrification, especially considering that many of them are seniors.
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Nourishing the Planet: Empowering Women to Feed Communities

NewsGrab — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 07:10:15 +0000

Wonderful NGO Nourishing the Planet is empowering women to feed their communities by providing them with a goat or cow.
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Making Connections

hellaD — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 08:08:22 +0000

I was just reading a great interview with our local Ubuntu community’s ‘buzz’ generator, Randall Ross and The Agora National (I will post it later), and it got me thinking about making mistakes. We’ve all grown up in a world where mistakes are a big deal. In the world we live in now, you can [...]
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Dr Paul Farmer on Haiti

hellaD — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:28:22 +0000

Paul Farmer has worked in rural Haiti for more than twenty years. He is a doctor and anthropologist and has written several books on health inequalities. Known as Dokte Paul throughout Haiti, he has improved rural health by teaching basic health practices as the best preventive medicine. He has also worked in Russia, Chiapas and [...]
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