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About Catherine Mansell Carstens

Catherine Mansell Carstens is the author of Las Nuevas Finanzas en México (Editorial Milenio/ IMEF / ITAM, 1992) and Las Finanzas Populares en México (Editorial Milenio / CEMLA / ITAM, 1995). The former, which was a best-seller in Mexico, has been adopted in several Mexican universities as a textbook on international finance. The latter, which is the result of path-breaking research into how low-income Mexicans use credit, savings, and payments services, has been widely influential in Mexican microenterprise policy circles.
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(Clockwise from top left) Adam Kennedy, Kirsten Bradley, Michael Hewins, Ashar Fox, Nick Ritar) Milkwood is a permaculture enterprise based near Mudgee, NSW Australia. Founded in 2007 by Kirsten Bradley and Nick Ritar with the intention to develop a small farm from scratch that would also be a working, kick-ass permaculture system, Milkwood is now bigger than just our little family. http://milkwoodpermaculture.com.au/about-us

Miguel Leon-Portilla — TWAS ROLAC

http://athena.abc.org.br:8080/twasrolac.org/members/social-and-economic-sciences/miguel-leon-portilla Mexico Category Area Country E-mail Fellow
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Miguel León-Portilla | Honorary Degrees | CSU

Professor Miguel León-Portilla is the foremost scholar on the language and culture of the Nahua people, also known as Aztecs, who had a well-established and distinguished civilization in Mexico long before the Spanish arrived in the early 16th century. With probing intelligence, lifelong perseverance, political savvy and humanistic compassion, Dr. León-Portilla has brought "visions of the vanquished" to the forefront of scholarly consideration and public interest, resulting in a nascent understanding of the rich and vibrant culture of indigenous Mexican people from a perspective that amplifies and respects their voices.
Miguel León-Portilla (born in Mexico City , February 22, 1926) is a Mexican anthropologist and historian, and a prime authority on Nahuatl thought and literature. He wrote a doctoral thesis on Nahua philosophy under the tutelage of Fr. Ángel María Garibay K. , another notable researcher and translator of primary Nahuatl source documents whose publications in the 1930s and 1940s first brought Nahuatl literature to widespread public attention. Continuing with Garibay's work, León-Portilla established his renown through translating, interpreting and publishing several recompilations of Nahuatl works.

Miguel León-Portilla

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Nezahualcoyotl ( Classical Nahuatl : Nezahualcoyōtl , pronounced [nesawaɬˈkojoːtɬ] , meaning "Coyote in fast" or "Coyote who Fasts") [ 1 ] (April 28, 1402 – June 4, 1472) was a philosopher, warrior, architect, poet and ruler ( tlatoani ) of the city-state of Texcoco in pre-Columbian Mexico . Unlike other high-profile Mexican figures from the century preceding the Spanish Conquest , Nezahualcoyotl was not an Aztec ; his people were the Acolhua , another Nahuan people settled in the eastern part of the Valley of Mexico , settling on the eastern side of Lake Texcoco . He is best remembered for his poetry, but according to accounts by his descendants and biographers, Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxochitl and Juan Bautista de Pomar , he had an experience of an "Unknown, Unknowable Lord of Everywhere" to whom he built an entirely empty temple in which no blood sacrifices of any kind were allowed — not even those of animals.

Nezahualcoyotl

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Huitzilihuitl [wit͡si'liʔwit͡ɬ] ( Nahuatl language ; English: Hummingbird Feather ) (d. ca. 1417) was the second tlatoani of Tenochtitlan , governing from 1396 to 1417, [ 1 ] (or 1390 to 1410 according to other sources). [ 2 ] [ edit ] Biography [ edit ] Family and childhood Huitzilíhuitl was born in Tenochtitlan, and was the son of Acamapichtli , first tlatoani of the Mexica , and Queen Tezcatlan Miyahuatzin , and had a half-brother Itzcoatl . His maternal grandfather was Acacitli .

Huitzilihuitl

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Jayavarman VII ( Khmer : ជ័យវរ្ម័នទី៧ , 1125–1218) was a king (reigned c.1181-1218) of the Khmer Empire in present day Siem Reap , Cambodia . He was the son of King Dharanindravarman II (r. 1150-1160) and Queen Sri Jayarajacudamani . He married Jayarajadevi and then, after her death, married her sister Indradevi. The two women are commonly thought to have been a great inspiration to him, particularly in his unusual devotion to Buddhism , as only one prior Khmer king was a Buddhist.

Jayavarman VII

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The Khmer Empire , now known as Cambodia , was perhaps the most powerful empire in Southeast Asia . The empire, which grew out of the former kingdom of Chenla , at times ruled over and/or vassalized parts of modern-day Laos , Thailand , and southern Vietnam . [ 1 ] During the formation of the empire, the Khmer had close cultural, political and trade relations with Java , [ 2 ] and later with the Srivijaya empire that lay beyond Khmer's southern border. Its greatest legacy is Angkor , in present-day Cambodia , which was the site of the capital city during the empire's zenith. Angkor bears testimony to the Khmer empire's immense power and wealth, as well as the variety of belief systems that it patronised over time.

Khmer Empire

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Ta Prohm ( Khmer : ប្រាសាទតាព្រហ្ម ) is the modern name of a temple at Angkor , Siem Reap Province , Cambodia , built in the Bayon style largely in the late 12th and early 13th centuries and originally called Rajavihara (in Khmer : រាជវិហារ). Located approximately one kilometre east of Angkor Thom and on the southern edge of the East Baray , it was founded by the Khmer King Jayavarman VII as a Mahayana Buddhist monastery and university. Unlike most Angkorian temples, Ta Prohm has been left in much the same condition in which it was found: the photogenic and atmospheric combination of trees growing out of the ruins and the jungle surroundings have made it one of Angkor's most popular temples with visitors.UNESCO inscribed Ta Prohm on the World Heritage List in 1992. Today, it is one of the most visited complexes in Cambodia’s Angkor region.

Ta Prohm

¡AIRE PURO! Cuántas veces hemos repetido esta frase al alejarnos de la ciudad… Es indiscutible que la calidad ambiental del aire en el campo es mayor que en la ciudad. Los malos hábitos y el estilo de vida de la ciudad han provocado que el aire esté cada vez más contaminado y ello está produciendo un sinfín de problemas, como el aumento de enfermedades (p.e.: respiratorias), efecto invernadero, etc. Por el simple hecho de vivir más cerca y depender de una manera más directa del medio natural que los rodea , los habitantes de los pueblos tienden a realizar una mayor reflexión sobre la repercusión de los impactos producidos por la obtención de las materias primas, la producción y eliminación de residuos, o los vertidos y emisiones realizadas por la industria y medios de transporte, que además siempre van ligados a un consumo excesivo.

Idea: Azoteas Vivas | Ideas4all

Nuevo negocio: huertos en las azoteas

El concurso Big Bang Challenge ya tiene un ganador. De las 352 ideas presentadas bajo el requisito de  negocios para mejorar el planeta  ha sido seleccionado el proyecto Azoteas Vivas , ideado por Laura Barragues, licenciada en Ciencias Ambientales, y Felipe Blanco y Judith Bilbao, ambos ingenieros Químicos y del Medio Ambiente. Azoteas Vivas busca dar uso a un espacio habitualmente desaprovechado en los entornos urbanos: las azoteas, creando un espacio vivo con la instalación de huertos urbanos. Sus responsables destacaron como ventajas claras de la idea las mejoras ambientales, creación de nuevos espacios de recreo y nuevas formas de agricultura, creación de nuevos puestos de trabajo , adaptación de cada instalación a las necesidades de cada edificio, educación infantil en sostenibilidad y medioambiente. Originalidad e innovación que les han hecho merecedores del premio de 18.000 euros.
Ahora, durante el mes de enero , se hace más pesado el cuidado de los jardines y los huertos debido a las bajas temperaturas, las lluvias, la nieve, y el viento . No apetece estar fuera y además ya se ha perdido el colorido de meses pasados. Sin embargo, para recuperarlo cuando llegue de nuevo la primavera, este es el mejor momento para realizar las operaciones de mantenimiento necesarias de cara a tenerlo otra vez como nuevo. Es el mes de acondicionamiento del terreno y de la elección de las plantas nuevas que querremos tener, ya que en poco más de dos meses estará de vuelta la época de floración de la mayoría de plantas. Sin embargo, no quiere decir que haya que renunciar a tener un jardín agradable en estas fechas, ya que hay muchas especies que se adaptan muy bien al invierno. Para plantar en el jardín

Plantas de invierno

Conserva

Ha llegado el momento de preparar las conservas con los excedentes del huerto para poder utilizarlas durante los meses venideros en los que ya no habrá en el huerto hortalizas de verano frescas . Siempre se pueden comprar en el mercado porque ahora están disponibles todo el año, pero desde que tengo huerto excepto contadas excepciones suelo consumir lo que éste produce, es decir hortalizas y verduras de temporada, lo mismo que si he de comprar algo. si necesito por ejemplo tomate o pimiento fuera de temporada lo utilizo de la conserva propia, es cuestión de acostumbrarse a consumir los productos frescos en su ciclo habitual. Pero si los productos frescos no son lo mismo en su temporada que fuera de ella, las conservas caseras tampoco saben igual que las comerciales y tienen el aliciente de haberlas preparado nostros mismos. Este año la conserva la he hecho de tomate frito y de tomate natural triturado, otras de pimientos al natural, asados y en vinagre y también membrillo.