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Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
A Battle In Mining Country Pits Coal Against Wind
Click here to read the full article from the “Beyond Fossil Fuels” series in the New York TimesROCK CREEK, W.Va. LORELEI SCARBRO’S husband, Kenneth, an underground coal miner for more than 30 years, is buried in a small family cemetery …
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Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
Latest ISCOWP News (Volume 20, Issue 2) Available Now
The latest ISCOWP News is now available online in PDF file.Check it out at this link:http://www.iscowp.org/uploads/NLVOLUMNE20_ISSUE%202.pdf
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Monday, August 30th, 2010
Move To Curb Factory Farms Gains Momentum
By ERIK ECKHOLM Published: August 11, 2010 in the New York Times var articleToolsShareData = {”url”:”http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/12\/us\/12farm.html”,”headline”:”Farmers Lean to Truce on Animals\u2019 Close Quarters”,”description”:”Ohio farm…
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Saturday, August 28th, 2010
Portugal Gives Itself A Clean-Energy Makeover
Click here to read the full article from the New York TimesStill, aggressive national policies to accelerate renewable energy use are succeeding in Portugal and some other countries, according to a recent report by IHS Emerging Energy Research of C…
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Thursday, August 26th, 2010
India Asks: Should Food Be A Right For The Poor?
Click here to read the full article from the New York TimesJHABUA, India — Inside the drab district hospital, where dogs patter down the corridors, sniffing for food, Ratan Bhuria’s children are curled together in the malnutrition ward, hovering …
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Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
The Food And Climate Connection
Click here to watch a very inspiring video on “The Food And Climate Connection” from WhyHunger.Click here to visit the WhyHunger Food Security Learning Center
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Sunday, August 22nd, 2010
Food And Faith: Agriculture As A Theological Act
From Kent Hayden at the Huffington PostWendell Berry has said that eating is an agricultural act. I have always suspected that agriculture is a theological act. The way we produce and consume something as basic as our food not only determines our ph…
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Friday, August 20th, 2010
Sponsor A Earthworm/Bookworm at ISCOWP!
Click here to head on over to the ISCOWP (International Society For Cow Protection) website for more details.There are two kinds of people that live on the ISCOWP farm: earthworms and bookworms. An earthworm does all the practical work on a farm and …
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Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
New York’s Solar Thermal Plans
Click here to read the full article from RenewableEnergyWorld.comBy unveiling a solar heating and cooling programme that could create 25,000 new green jobs, generate US$2.6 billion in revenue and see 2 GW of new solar thermal capacity installed in t…
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Monday, August 16th, 2010
Making Green Convenient
From our friends at the Institute for Sustainable LivingA convenient choice is most commonly defined as one which saves us time and effort. It could be argued that adopting environmentally friendly behaviours requires forgoing some convenience. Just…
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Sunday, August 15th, 2010
The First Church of Robotics
Click here to read this challenging op-ed piece from Jarod Lanier at the New York TimesWHEN we think of computers as inert, passive tools instead of people, we are rewarded with a clearer, less ideological view of what is going on — with the machin…
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Saturday, August 14th, 2010
New York Professionals Learn To Cook Up A Veggie Storm
By Madhava Smullen for ISKCON News on 31 Jul 2010 Divyambara`s cooking lesson For the busy New York City professional, it’s difficult to imagine finding the time to cook, never mind whipping up a healthy and delicious vegetarian meal. But r…
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Friday, August 13th, 2010
The Tale of Dorothy by Radhanath Swami
By Radhanath Swami We waited. And waited. It was a sweltering summer day in the Florida panhandle. The morning sun glared through the expansive windows of an airport departure gate. There, a young blond haired lady, neatly uniformed with a blue ves…
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Thursday, August 12th, 2010
At Look At Goura-Vrndavana Temple In Brazil
By Madhava Smullen on 31 Jul 2010from ISKCON News The new temple in Goura-Vrindavana Name: Goura-Vrindavana Farm Address: Rod. Rio-Santos BR 101, Km 558, Graúna - Paraty RJ CEP 23970-000 Phone: +55 24 9962 5262 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting …
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Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
Daring To Pose A Challenge To The Oil Culture
From Amy Harmon at the New York times, part of the “Voices From The Spill” series DULAC, La. — In this region so threatened by the BP oil spill, it has often seemed to residents that the only thing worse than losing tens of thousands …