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It’s a special moment when you end the installation of water, open valves and water comes out wherever you want, clean and fresh, without effort or pumps, only by gravity’s force.
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Horizon Organic Milk: Is it All Just Lies? | Wise Bread
Under the advice of several colleagues and readers, I decided to pick up a copy of The Omnivore's Dilemma. Fascinating read to say the least, and one thing that cropped up was the term 'organic' and how the word has become perverted and practically raped by the agricultural industry. Not surprising when you consider it's now a $15 billion a year business. That's a lot of money…which means power…which means corruption. (See also: Deciding Which Produce to Buy Organic - The Dirty Dozen )
If you've always wanted a bakfiets but couldn't afford it. Then look no further. Buy a Nimble Cargo Scooter, which is easily a fourth of the cost of a good bakfiets or long bike. Besides their great name, Kangaroo Bikes has got cargo-cycling with kids as perfectly configured as it can get. Also props to Leif Hagerup and Lars Malmborg for a stunning design and beautifully engineered solution to elegance. The Kangaroo Bike is a family bike designed to be attractive, functional and aerodynamic.
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Induk KUD from Indonesia became an Associate Member of the ICA on 26 October 2011. Induk KUD was founded on 12 November 1979 and is national federation of rural co-operatives. They have three overseas representative offices.
NCGA | Putting it all together for food co-ops
Check out the entries in the third annual My Co-op Rocks Video + Photo Contest at MyCoopRocks.coop and join us on Facebook. StrongerTogether.coop is a place for people to gather on their food journey. It's a place to find out more about what's in your food, where it comes from, where you can find great food, how to prepare it, and a whole lot more. It's also a place for consumers to talk with others about food topics they're exploring, are passionate about, or even want to get involved in. Check it out at www.strongertogether.coop or join us on Facebook or Twitter @strongrtogethr
Global Living Project - Home
The Global Living Project (GLP) is a non-profit organization dedicated to assisting individuals, campuses, non-profit organizations and municipalities in their quest toward sustainability. For individuals we offer speaking events , workshops , Jim Merkel’s book, Radical Simplicity , and a DVD, Radically Simple . For campuses, institutions and municipalities we offer lectures , sustainable living experiences, sustainability assessments, consulting and a fantastic college text, Radical Simplicity . We seek to collaborate with other non-profit organizations on projects that aim to democratically distribute ecological footprints, eradicate poverty and war, increase social justice, compassion, peace and wilderness and decrease inequity, stress and human populations.
Turtle Lake Refuge - Durango, CO - Home
Mission Statement We manifest this goal through promoting and practicing sustainable practices. Examples of our work include growing, harvesting and preparing local, wild and living food for the community, educating about the great values of the wild edible abundance available in our area, providing local micro-greens for the public schools. restaurants and stores, biking or driving on alternative fuel when possible, utilizing solar dehydrators, using a bicycle powered blender and wheatgrass juicer and educating about organic land stewardship practices.The best organic food is what's grown closest to you . Use our website to find farmers' markets, family farms, and other sources of sustainably grown food in your area, where you can buy produce, grass-fed meats, and many other goodies.
Local Harvest / Farmers Markets / Family Farms / CSA / Organic Food
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Root Simple: Urban Homesteading
Our super lawyer, Corynne McSherry, Intellectual Property Director of the EFF, has a blog post up on the EFF site: Riding the Fences of the “Urban Homestead”: Trademark Complaints and Misinformation Lead to Improper Takedowns summarizing the situation and the important issues at hand--issues that affect all of us. That post also has links to a letter she sent to the Dervaes Institute on our behalf. This has been such a big flap I suspect most of our readers know this by now, but for those of you who haven't heard the news, the Dervaes Institute (the operators of the popular website, Path to Freedom) have trademarked the terms urban homestead and urban homesteading , and in the last week or so, have started to enforce their trademarks. Follow this link to Boing Boing for a concise summary of what's been going on. (ETA 2/23: This t wo part article at Agrariana seems currently to be the most complete summary available.
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