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Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
Safe Water and a Toilet — Is That Too Much to Ask… for 2.5 Billion People?
From Matt Damon and Gary White at the Huffington PostBy the time you finish reading this paragraph, one more child will have died from something that’s been preventable for over a century. Nearly 40 percent of the world’s population is still unable to …
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Saturday, November 19th, 2011
A Gold Rush of Subsidies In Clean Energy Research
Jim Wilson/The New York TimesThe California Valley Solar Ranch under construction near Santa Margarita. Click here for the full article from the New York Times WASHINGTON — Halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco, on a former cattle ranch a…
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Thursday, November 17th, 2011
Voluntary Creative Simplicity
How we went from $42,000 to $6,500 andlived to tell about it!By L. Kevin & DonnaPhilippe-JohnsonAs a middle class American, it’s beendifficult for me to understand how we aresupposed to make a living when thereare so many things working against us….
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Sunday, November 13th, 2011
Taming Unruly Wind Power
Click here to read the full article from Matthew L. Wald at the New York Times For decades, electric companies have swung into emergency mode when demand soars on blistering hot days, appealing to households to use less power. But with…
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Friday, November 11th, 2011
New Vrindaban Organic Gardening Inspires Local Sustainability
By Madhava Smullen for ISKCON News on 5 Nov 2011Tapahpunja Dasa teaches students at the Small Farm Training Center garden in New VrindabanA New Vrindaban devotee’s efforts at organic gardening have inspired the general public, educational in…
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Thursday, November 10th, 2011
The Food and Farm Bill: Why New York City Cares
For organizations, clergy, and chefs: please consider signing on to the NYC Food and Farm Bill Principles and Why We Care document! Go tohttp://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/692712/Sign-on-to-NYC-Food-and-Farm-Bill-PrinciplesWe will have a sign-on opportunity…
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Monday, November 7th, 2011
New Farmers Find Their Footing
From Mark Bittman’s blog at the New York TimesNorthHaven, Me.WhenBrenna Chase was farming in Connecticut a few years back, new farmersweren’t always welcome by oldsters. The pie, she says, just wasn’tbig enough. “But now,” she said to me here, …
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Sunday, November 6th, 2011
Oil And Gas Had Help. Why Not Renewables?
From Robert Semple Jr at the Sunday Review of the New York TimesRECOMMENDTWITTERLINKEDINE-MAILPRINTREPRINTSSHAREThe bankruptcy of a single solar-panel company, Solyndra, has catapulted the question of federal energy policies into the news. It has also …
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Friday, November 4th, 2011
The Space of Faith
In the style of Mertonian homage, a simple meditation on thoughts, ideas, and realizations from our discussion of “Thoughts in Solitude” by Thomas Merton at our recent meeting of the Bhakti Center Book ClubWe find a great, if unhealthy, solace in simpl…
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Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
ISKCON Loses 26 2nd Avenue
From my good friend and fellow community member Yadunath DasDid you just experience the same sinking feeling in your heart upon reading this headline that I did upon writing it?A few months back, I wrote you all asking for monthly financial support to …
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Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
People-Powered
Click here for more from the New York Times Design MagazineCan’t get there from here? “Transport: A Survival Guide,” the summer 2011 issue ofColors, the magazine published by Benetton, asks us to imagine the day when the planet’s oil supply fin…
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Saturday, October 29th, 2011
Can Farming Make It In The Big City?
By Monika Vosough for Wall Street Journal Online on 15 Jul 2011Image: cwyjaguar.blogspot.comFrom ISKCON NewsEntrepreneurs are looking to urban farms and rooftop gardens as an alternative to traditional farms. While start-up costs are higher, these effo…
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Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
Climate Change And The End of Austraila
Click here to read the full article from Jeff Goodell from Rolling StoneIt’s near midnight, and I’m holed up in a rickety hotel in Proserpine, a whistle-stop town on the northeast coast of Australia. Yasi, a Category 5 hurricane with 200-mile-per-hour …
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Sunday, October 23rd, 2011
The Seeds of Deception
Click here to check out more from Jeffrey M. Smith and his his book “Seeds of Deception”International bestselling author Jeffrey M. Smith is the leading spokesperson on the health dangers of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). He documents how …
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Will Transform Our Society
A fascinating and hopeful piece from Jeremy Rifkin at the Huffington PostExcerpted from Jeremy Rifkin’s The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World, Palgrave Macmillan 2011.Energy regimes s…