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Monthly Archives: November 2010
SustainACTIVITY: Haiti In:Sight Benefit
Ayiti Resurrect & Ayiti Cherie in association with Ubiquita Worldwide cordially invite you to HAITI IN:SIGHT – A SOULFUL BENEFIT FOR HEALING IN HAITI. as we approach the one year anniversary of the epic tragedy,we ask that you please support … Continue reading
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Tagged Community, Diaspora, Haiti, sustainable development
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Do try this at home: Paper Seed-starting Pots!
I used this as an easy hands-on activity with the 6th graders of M.S. 88 to get them started on seeding! The technique is so simple, once you do it, there’s no way to forget it. But for the window/home … Continue reading
Sustainability in education
Last week, I had the wonderful opportunity to conduct a workshop defining the concept of sustainability with a 6th Grade class in Brooklyn’s M.S. 88! I owe it the homeroom teacher, Mr. Torrey Maldonado who devised a dynamic curriculum for … Continue reading
Haiti Recovery… an NGO perspective
Reposted from TriplePundit.com: (Note, I’m expecting to collect a short series of responses on Haiti recovery from similar orgs. If your organization has stories to share on the recovery, I’d love to hear from you!) Despite the involvement of major … Continue reading
$1.15 Billion Pigford win. And?
I rarely rant on this blog, but here goes nothing… The $1.15Bill that’s coming down the pike from Congress in the Pigford class action settlement for Black and Native farmers might possibly reach less than half of 80,000 affected individuals … Continue reading
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Echoing Green supports Bio-Char
You might have caught one of my posts mentioning bio-char as an alternative to Genetically Modified crops as a solution for increasing crop yields in the soil-depleted regions of the Global “South”. I recently came across this video of a … Continue reading
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Veggie Chili: Don’t call it a come back!
So here’s another one of my favorite vegetarian recipes for this season, not in the least because it has convinced meat eaters that they they could really get with the “veggie thing”, ha! But veggie chili’s been here for years…so … Continue reading
SustainACTIVITY: Black Farmers & Urban Gardeners Conference
November 19-21rst will be the first annual conference to forge food, farming and policy solutions for the Black Community will convene at Brooklyn College in New York City, convening farmers, gardeners, activists, students and community leaders from across the nation.
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Tagged Community, Development, Diaspora, Environmental Justice, Farmers, Farming, Food, Green, Sustainable Business, Will Allen
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Inspired Protagonist vs. Brawny: Seventh Generation showdown
Reposted from TriplePundit.com: Brand competition in the Sustainability Era You might have heard a rumor that the weekend was invented by Ford, in order to spur economic growth in and around is factories. And that would be partially true. Ford … Continue reading
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Tagged Green, Recycling, social enterprise, Sustainable Business
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Majora Carter seeks “Hometown Security” in Net Impact Keynote
Reposted from TriplePundit.com: On Saturday, October 30, Net Impact closed out their 2010 conference on sustainable enterprise at the UMich Ross School of Business with keynote speaker Majora Carter, a dynamic green community development consultant whose work is revitalizing in … Continue reading
Roots in water... 