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Seedstock Seedbomb! from agorabora on Vimeo. Seedstock, is a community currency for Vancouver and the Lower Mainland. We believe that community currencies can improve the connectedness of communities, support local, independent businesses, encourage a more vibrant and diverse local economy while ge ...
Human Rights Watch Women and girls who work on farms in the United States face serious risk of sexual abuse and harassment. Many are unauthorized immigrants and fear of deportation keeps them from reporting abuses. In the current debate over the Violence Against Women Act, the US Congress is ...
Here's a link to a short 14 minute video about a little radio station in one of the most remote corners of the world, West Papua in Indonesia. Although the world's largest gold mine is located in West Papua the indigenous people are treated as second class citizens on their own land. This inspiri ...
In the latest newsletter from www.Nyeleni.org covers the issues of food speculation and rising food prices. Please view the full newsletter here. A short excerpt describing the current food crisis: Higher Food Prices but Poorer Farmers Nowadays the whole food system - from production to proces ...
The One-Straw Revolution is Masanobu Fukuoka's manifesto about natural food and farming. It is a collection of short essays that were translated from Japanese. Masanobu was trained as a scientist, but rejected modern agribusiness and centuries of agriculture lore. He perfected what he called the ...
I first broke ground in Vancouver BC, on June 7th, 2009. For me this was a very symbolic act. This was the day I finally got the stamp in my passport that said I was an official resident of Canada. Living in an apartment I didn't have a piece of ground of my own, but I had been scouting out th ...
After waiting for residency for more than a year, wondering how much longer I would be an illegitimate person was starting to wear on me. But, as they say, when the planets are in line everything falls into place. The full rose moon of June 7th, 2009 was such a day. I finally got my Canadian residen ...
There are as many ways to guerrilla garden as there are stars in the sky, and that is the best thing about it. The best way to do it is your way and to just get started. Many people love to make seed bombs and drop them as a group, other people love sneaking privately about the city -- planting plot ...
