Archive for February, 2010
Friday, February 12th, 2010
Meat Makes The Rich Ill And The Poor Hungry
Click here to check out the whole Viva! guide to meat-eating and global hunger by Jeremy RifkinWhen representatives meet at the World Food Summit they supposedly focus on how to get food into the mouths of nearly one billion people who are current…
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Thursday, February 11th, 2010
The Illusion We Control Our Own Decisions
Interesting Video
http://video.ted.com/talks/podcast/DanAriely_2008P.mp4
Filed under: Illusions 
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Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Winter Storm Update
Letter by Sikhi Mahiti das to Malati dd.
PAMHO AGTSP
I guess by now you have heard that we were dark in NV for 3 nights and 4 days. A snow storm passed through and dumped almost 2 feet of snow. Then, the temperature dropped to single digits causes many trees to break large branches or the […]
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Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Best Ways To Raise Your Good Cholesterol
By Dr. Paul Donohue
Dear Dr. Donohue — Can you give me information on how to raise my HDL level?
HDL (high-density lipoprotein) cholesterol — “good” cholesterol — removes cholesterol stuck to the walls of arteries and takes it to the liver for recycling or disposal. An HDL cholesterol reading of 40 mg/dL […]
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Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Food For Life Heads Into Center Of Haiti “Disaster Zone”
By Madhava Smullen on 7 Feb 2010 Image: ffl.org FFL volunteers distribute meals at the Dr. Dario Contreras Hospital in Santo Domingo. From ISKCON NewsWith the Haiti death toll reaching 200,000, Hare Krishna Food For Life Global has just joined…
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Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
Teaching Green, Beyond Recycling
Click here for the full article from the New York TimesJose Chirino, a 10th grader in Brooklyn with shoulder-length hair and a thin mustache, says flatly that his high school was his last choice. At the Growing Up Green Charter School, the day’s …
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
The Veggie Pride Parade Is Coming!
VEGGIE PRIDE PARADE 2010! in NEW YORK CITY!:SUNDAY, MAY 16, 2010 info@vivavegie.org….•….212-242-0011 http://www.veggieprideparade.org/Volunteer now!
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Monday, February 8th, 2010
Electric Out For 54 Hours
I published my last blog post while on standby power from my Uninterrupted Power Supply then goodbye computer for almost three business days due to the 15 inches (38 cm) of snow we received in a 24 hour period. Trees fall, power lines get tangled, fuses blow and viola! No juice.
Vidya got a little cabin […]
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Monday, February 8th, 2010
Living Near Green Lowers Anxiety, Depression
From our friend Madhava Ghosh’s blog “View From a New Vrindaban Ridge”“In all directions of Dvaraka City, wherever one would turn his eyes he would find green parks and gardens, each of them filled with trees and plants laden with fruits and flowers….
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Saturday, February 6th, 2010
52 Photos of a Poisonous, Abandoned Factory: Enter & Die
“Muhahaha and enter. This place in Warsaw, Poland, was once a fluorescent light factory. The plant was called many things but is known as “Polam” aka “Rosa Luxemburg.” Rosa was born in Poland in 1871, and was a philosopher, activist, and ideologist of the Polish and German worker’s movement. She was shot with a pistol […]
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Saturday, February 6th, 2010
Gaura Purnima Irganization Meeting This Sunday
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu KI JAYA!
Sunday, Feb. 28th, will be the appearance day of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Since this celebration is on a Sunday, we have an opportunity to organize an all day celebration. That requires the community devotees to participate in the organizing and running of the festival. Please step forward to help […]
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Saturday, February 6th, 2010
World’s Healthiest Food
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Published: January 2, 2010 in the New York Times TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras So what’s the most scrumptious, wholesome, exquisite, healthful, gratifying food in the world? It’s not ambrosia, and it’s not even …
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Saturday, February 6th, 2010
As The World Burns
Click here to read the full piece at Rolling StoneOur collective response to the emerging catastrophe verges on suicidal. World leaders have been talking about tackling climate change for nearly 20 years now — yet carbon emissions keep going up and u…
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Friday, February 5th, 2010
Armed Attack on New Vrindavana
By Mahamaya dasi as presented by Patita Pavana das Adhikary
NEW VRINDAVANA, June 1973. The growth of the Hare Krishna Movement into an accepted worldwide religion has been decorated with the sacrifices of many wonderful, brave devotees. This is the story of one such incident, described by a Vaishnavi author who was there. An armed motorcycle […]
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Friday, February 5th, 2010
Bhakta Ed Experiences Culture Shock
Guest post by Bhakta Ed.
The events of this post are actually set in time prior to my leaving Minnesota in the RV. I was so deeply traumatized by the things I am about to disclose to Gosh’s loyal readers, that I am only now able to “go public”. Let’s just dive in. Bad choice […]