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Project Water Pipe

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The Millennium Villages Project tests out the theory that where there’s clean water, there’s an answer to extreme poverty.

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Grow Your Own

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“Serve your country food!” is the rallying cry of The Greenhorns, a nationwide community of young farmers who are changing the American landscape. [Trailer]

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Genetically Modified Movie

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The World According to Monsanto reveals how the agricultural company's merciless attempts to control the world's seed supply may be creating "the greatest threat to human rights of our time." [Trailer] (more)

Pomegranates for Peace

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Tribal elders and farmers in Afghanistan’s eastern provinces are replacing opium poppies with pomegranates as a lucrative, and peaceful, cash crop.

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Self-Organized Space

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BIL, an "open, self- organizing, emergent, arts, science, society and technology conference" will brew up new visions of community in Long Beach, CA Feb. 7 and 8. (more)

Middle East Peace Walk

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Walk About Love is organizing a three month trek across Israel to promote cross-cultural understanding and cooperation.

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Shaman's Stash

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Recent excavations of the Yanghai tombs near Turpan, China have unearthed a 2,700-year old shaman who was buried with 28 ounces of marijuana for use in the afterlife.

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Backing Black Mesa

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Hopi and Navajo elders are now petitioning the government to stop invasive and environ- mentally destructive coal mining on Black Mesa. Act today and help their cause.

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Free Food Frenzy

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In a sign of bad economic times, more than 40,000 people picked what was left of a Colorado farm’s fall harvest. (more)

Sovereignty in the City

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The upcoming documentary Edible City shows us that the next generation of farmers are changing our relationship with food one backyard at a time. [Trailer]

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Thankfully Conscious

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Join the Thanksgiving Local Food Challenge: a roundup of web resources for a more sustainable Thanksgiving dinner. (more)

Right to the Source

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At the Source Farm Ecovillage in St. Thomas, Jamaica, dome building provides innovative space for healing and sustainability.

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Disappearing Dialects

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Resurgence Magazine reports on the parallel decline of linguistic and biological diversity in the world.

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Psilocybin Sacrament

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In The Holy Mushroom, author Jan Irvin argues that Christianity was intentionally devised to disguise the activities of a secret mushroom cult, whose teachings were eventually forgotten.

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Mother of All Vinegars

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Hippocrates reminds us to keep the good bugs happy.

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The Fork Is Mightier than the Sword

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In her latest book, Yoga and Vegetarian- ism, yogini Sharon Gannon argues that "the fork can be a powerful weapon of mass-destruction or a tool to create peace on Earth."  Tonight, you can join the author at the book's NYC launch party.

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Incan Invitation

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The highest ranking elders of the Inca lineage are hosting an experiential retreat and blessing ceremony at San Jose State University from November 19-24.

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People of the Corn

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Biotechnology and corporate control of corn in Mexico and Central America isn't just threatening crops, but the Maya's relationship with one of their holiest sacraments.

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Playing with Food

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Guerilla artist Banksy offers a surreal look at the ethics of food and factory farming in his first NYC show.  (more)

Attention All Earthlings

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According to the documentary film Earthlings, "conquest mentality" is alive in our everyday lives in how we treat other species on the planet. (more)

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