Massachusetts to Implement Most Ambitious Food Waste Ban in U.S. We’ve mentioned that food waste is an expensive, environmental nightmare. Americans waste 40 percent of the food that’s produced each year to the tune of $165 billion. One state has figured out a way to make this stop — by making it a crime. Starting in October, Massachusetts’s biggest food wasters will no longer be able to send their unwanted food to the landfills, NPR reports. The ban, recently finalized by Gov. Deval Patrick, targets places that produce more than a ton of organic food waste per week, such as universities, hotels, grocery stores, sporting and entertainment venues and other manufacturers.
Instead of simply dumping leftovers, they have the choice to donate the usable food or to send the unwanted food to composting facilities, to plants that can turn scraps into biogas or to farms to use as livestock feed. MORE: A Few Supplies From the Hardware Store Can Turn Leftovers Into Clean Fuel NPR notes that it’s the “most ambitious commercial food waste ban in the U.S.” Source: NPR. 3 Ways to Overcome Fear Immediately. If there is one thing that holds millions of people back each day from growing as an individual, achieving high levels of success and becoming the best version of themselves, fear is definitely at the top of the list.
High achievers, regardless of occupation, understand that taking risks and massive action is a vital part in getting from where you are to where you want to go. And that goes for in life -- and in business. But often these risks are met with fear, which can cause people to question their ambitions and prevent them from taking action. One thing I want you to understand is that fear is absolutely normal. Even the best experience fear from time to time. The key is to not let fear hold you back and prevent you from taking action and go after what you want in life. Here are three ways to overcome fear immediately. 1. Related: Don't Let Perfect Cripple You. 2. 3. Related: How to Deal With the Fear of Being Unqualified Everything that you want in life is past your comfort zone. Once You Look At These 7 Satellite Photos, You Will Discover A Very Uncomfortable Truth. Large Dams Just Aren’t Worth the Cost - NYTimes.com. Photo THAYER SCUDDER, the world’s leading authority on the impact of dams on poor people, has changed his mind about dams.
A frequent consultant on large dam projects, Mr. Scudder held out hope through most of his 58-year career that the poverty relief delivered by a properly constructed and managed dam would outweigh the social and environmental damage it caused. Now, at age 84, he has concluded that large dams not only aren’t worth their cost, but that many currently under construction “will have disastrous environmental and socio-economic consequences,” as he wrote in a recent email. Mr. Scudder, an emeritus anthropology professor at the California Institute of Technology, describes his disillusionment with dams as gradual. He was a dam proponent when he began his first research project in 1956, documenting the impact of forced resettlement on 57,000 Tonga people in the Gwembe Valley of present-day Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Mr. Part of what moved Mr. The World's Most Dangerous Borders. Read an account of India's new Berlin Wall with Bangladesh here. Far removed from the pie-in-the-sky talk of a borderless planet, the real world boasts hundreds of national borders -- many of them contested and some of them deadly. While the root cause of each conflict is distinct -- and some of them may be frozen in time, waiting for a spark -- the world's most dangerous borders share one trait in common: You don't want to be stuck there. STRDEL/AFP/Getty Images Length: 1,350 miles Why it's so dangerous: Dozens have been killed by bombings and more than 113,000 displaced in Sudan's border state of Southern Kordofan since the beginning of June. Background: By the time Sudan's 22-year civil war ended in 2005, more than 1.5 million people had died, according to the BBC.
Today: This April, Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir stated that he would not recognize the independence of Southern Sudan if its government claimed the Abyei region, which is part of Southern Kordofan.
Life on the Edge: 7 of the World's Most Fascinating Border Towns. We believe a great deal can be learned by investigating the edge cases of the world. Border towns -- cities built on or divided by borders -- are places where political and cultural geography is stretched to its limits. In a border town, abstractions are made physical. Residents of border towns can look over a river, across a street, or through a fence and see their foreign neighbors. The powerful influence of law and culture is made visible when towns across a river from one another develop to completely different levels of prosperity. Questions about security and freedom change when you must pass through a checkpoint, daily, to visit your neighbors. The importance of national sovereignty feels different when your enemy sits on the other side of a wall. Border Town is a multi-participant collaborative design studio based in Toronto, Ontario. These are some of our favorite sites: Maps: Lea Albaugh; text: Emily Horne and Tim Maly.
About - Soil Stories. About Jennifer Jacqueline is a documentary storyteller currently splitting her time between Halifax, NS and Durham, NC. Her approach to documentary narratives is rooted n community engagement and expressions of the ineffable. This process is centered in experimentation with concept, technique and material. Her creative productions and collaborations explore in-depth intersections and estrangements between individuals, communities and the natural world.
In addition to her documentary work, Jennifer enjoys teaching community-based photography and animation skills workshops. This includes working with the non-profit organization VisionWorkshops on numerous projects. Currently, she is the Lab Manager for the PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge at the Franklin Humanities Institute. Chronicle of Higher Education blogsite: CV and References available upon request Contact Info: jennifer.stratton@duke.edu.
The Future of Food Crew. Deborah Koons Garcia sets sights on soil - SFGate. "Action! " says filmmaker Deborah Koons Garcia, staring at a patch of dark soil. Cameraman John Chater sharpens his lens over the earth of the Land Institute in Salina, Kan. "Nothing's happening," he replies. "There is, there is! There's so much happening. " Koons Garcia, 63, is enthusiastically recounting the exchange at a screening of her film "Symphony of the Soil. " While she admits few filmmakers would be foolhardy enough to make a movie about dirt, Koons Garcia's zeal for earth and organics makes her a fitting maestro for her latest project. Known as the widow of Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia and for her 2004 documentary opposing genetically modified organisms, "The Future of Food," Koons Garcia has evolved from passionate filmmaker to steadfast environmentalist.
The 103-minute documentary marks the next chapter of her career: re-envisioning soil as an essential yet underappreciated resource that sustains many forms of life, including the crops that feed us. Vanishing resource. Lily Films. 10 Urban Agriculture Projects Growing Roots in San Diego, California.
Jyotirlingas – Tools for Ultimate wellbeing - The Isha Blog. Jyotirlinga. Somnath Mallikarjunaswamy Mahakaleshwar Omkareshwar Vaidyanath Bhimashankar Rameshwaram Nageshwar Vishwanath Triambkeshwar Kedarnath Grishneshwar Location of 12 Jyotirlinga Temples. A Jyotirlinga or Jyotirling or Jyotirlingam (Sanskrit: ज्योतिर्लिङ्ग) is a devotional object representing the god Shiva. It is believed that Lord Shiva first manifested himself as a Jyotirlinga on the night of the Aridra Nakshatra, thus the special reverence for the Jyotirlinga.
Legend[edit] As per Shiva Mahapurana, once Brahma (the Hindu God of creation) and Vishnu (the Hindu God of Preservation) had an argument in terms of supremacy of creation.[1] To test them, Shiva pierced the three worlds as a huge endless pillar of light, the jyotirlinga. Sanskrit Sloka[edit] The following sloka (द्वादश ज्योतिर्लिंग स्तोत्रम् Dvādaśa Jyotirliṅga Stotram) describes the 12 Jyotirlingas: Twelve Jyotirlingas[edit] The names and the locations of 12 other Jyotirlingas are mentioned in the Shiva Purana (Śatarudra Saṁhitā, Ch.42/2-4). How To Brainwash A Nation. This amazing interview was done back in 1985 with a former KGB agent who was trained in subversion techniques. He explains the 4 basic steps to socially engineering entire generations into thinking and behaving the way those in power want them to.
It’s shocking because our nation has been transformed in the exact same way, and followed the exact same steps. Yuri Bezmenov We are in Stage 3 Part 1 Part 2 Below is the full video Titled “Yuri Bezmenov: Deception Was My Job” Eddie (2645 Posts) Eddie L. is the founder and owner of WorldTruth.TV. Ancient India's 5 Words for Love (And Why Knowing Them Can Heighten Your Happiness) by Richard Schiffman.
For the sages of ancient India, sex and romance were just the first few steps in a more expansive process of learning to love. posted Aug 13, 2014 Hinduism has a beautiful myth about the origins of love. In the beginning, there was a superbeing called Purusha. This being was without desire, craving, fear, or indeed the impulse to do anything at all—since the universe was already perfect and complete. As humans, we too are seeking unity, and love is the word we use for that search.
Then the creator Brahma took out his divine sword and split Purusha in two. Sky became separate from earth, darkness from light, life from death, male from female. As humans, we too are seeking unity, and love is the word we use for that search. These days we tend to focus on the romantic and sexual elements of the process. A visitor from another planet might think that we earthlings—and Americans in particular—were obsessed with chasing love.
So how do we keep the life-giving flame of love alive? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Can Men Be Friends With Women They're Attracted To? - Civilians in Abandoned McDonald’s Seize Control of Wandering Space Satellite. Their mission control console is a refurbished flat screen and some parts found on eBay. Yes, this is really happening. By Jack Smith IV 8/08 2:38pm Share this: The McMoon’s team outside of mission control. (Photo via Google) For the first time in history, an independent crew is taking control of a NASA satellite and running a crowdfunded mission. “If I could come up with another absurd detail, I would,” Keith Cowing, the project’s team lead, told Betabeat. The ISEE-3 is a disco-era satellite that used to measure space weather like solar wind and radiation, but went out of commission decades ago.
Mr. The satellite’s battery has been dead for over 20 years, but it had solar panels to power 98 percent of the satellite’s full capabilities. Since the satellite went offline, the team had retired, the documentation was lost and the equipment was outdated. Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico. But the satellite had been built for longevity with very simple technology. “What’s so hard about that?” Undo.