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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 …
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Sunday, August 8th, 2010
What Are You Doing for Cow Protection?
By HH Sivarama SwamiKrsi goraksya vanijya. Krsi means ploughing or agriculture and goraksya, cow protection. These are the staples of society, this is what people live on. All living entities subsist on grains. So the ksatriyas may direct and instr…
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Sunday, August 8th, 2010
The Man Who Planted Trees
The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono For a human character to reveal truly exceptional qualities, one must have the good fortune to be able to observe its performance over many years. If this performance is devoid of all egoism, if its guiding …
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Friday, August 6th, 2010
Our Beaker Is Starting To Boil
From Nicholas D. Kristof in the New York Timesvar articleToolsShareData = {”url”:”http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/18\/opinion\/18kristof.html”,”headline”:”Our Beaker Is Starting to Boil”,”description”:”It\u2019s difficult to ignore photographic evi…
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Wednesday, August 4th, 2010
When Happy Cows Are Not Happy Cows
From author John Robbins at the Huffington PostThis past week, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill that will essentially prohibit, starting in 2015, any egg from being sold in the state that comes from caged hens. This bill becam…
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Monday, August 2nd, 2010
After Elevated Park’s Success, Other Cities Look Up
By KATE TAYLORPublished: July 14, 2010 in the New York Times Detroit is thinking big about an abandoned train station. Jersey City and Philadelphia have defunct railroad beds, and Chicago has old train tracks that don’t look like much now, but maybe…
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Saturday, July 31st, 2010
Project’s Fate May Predict The Future of Mining
By ERIK ECKHOLM Published: July 14, 2010 in the New York Times var articleToolsShareData = {”url”:”http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/15\/us\/15mining.html”,”headline”:”Project\u2019s Fate May Predict the Future of Mining”,”description”:”The Obama …
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Thursday, July 29th, 2010
A Humane Egg
Published: July 11, 201o in the Editorial section of the New York Times var articleToolsShareData = {”url”:”http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/12\/opinion\/12mon4.html”,”headline”:”A Humane Egg”,”description”:”There is no justification for the abusiv…
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Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Organic Food, Health, And The Burden of Proof
From Dr. David Katz at the Huffington Post Paradoxically, my long-standing interest in organic food has encompassed both ardent support and concerned opposition. My support fo…
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Sunday, July 25th, 2010
ISKCON’s 2nd Generation Go Green At French Mela
By Madhava Smullen for ISKCON News on 9 Jul 2010 The chateau of New Mayapur in France This August, 350 “Kulis,” or members of ISKCON’s second generation, from France, England, Italy, Spain, Germany and Belgium will converge on the rura…
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Friday, July 23rd, 2010
Veg And The City: My Beef With Locavores
Check out our friend Devadeva Mirel’s blog “Sabjimata” for her own take on this in her post “The Locavore’s Dilemma”From Victoria Moran at the Huffington Post The ally relationship can be an odd one. I remember my shock in thi…
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Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
Care For Cows Newsletter July 2010
The latest from our friends at the Care For Cows goshala in Vrndavana. Click here to read.Click here to go to the Care For Cows website.
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Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
The Eco-Caravan: Slovenian Pada-Yatra
By Ananta Das for ISKCON News on 8 Jul 2010 A few days ago, Slovenian devotees started their 9th annual pada-yatra festival called Eco-caravan 2010. The eleven-day program was inaugurated on Sunday by “reawakening” the pada-yatra deitie…
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Monday, July 19th, 2010
Solar Power Flight Aloft!
Pool photo by Denis Bailibouse Solar Impulse, piloted by André Borschberg, flew for 26 hours and reached a height of 28,543 feet, setting a record for the longest and highest flight ever made by a solar plane. By ALAN COWELL Published: Jul…