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- Servings of shoyu ramen at the Chuka Soba Inoue stand, Tokyo: NYTimes Travel slideshow, photo 2 of 14
- Taller Intensivo de Agricultua Orgánica con el Metodo Biointensivo, Todos los sábados de septiembre y octubre 2009, Yolteotl, Tepoztlán, Mexico
- Miracle Juice for Flu Recovery and Prevention
- Taller: Cultivo de Hongos Caseros, sábado 16 de enero 2010, 10-15pm, Real Under, Col. Roma, Mexico DF
- Sala Interactiva R3: Reduce, Reutiliza, Recicla Abrirán Exposiciones Permanentes en Universum, Coyoacán, Mexico DF
- Casa de los Amigos Presenta Serie de Reduce Reutiliza Recicla, 1-10 de Junio, 2010, Col. Tabacalera, México DF
- Rinde frutos el rescate de un espacio muerto en la barranca de San Borja: La Jornada
Monthly Archives: February 2009
“Yellow Is the New Green:” NYTimes
In an op-ed piece in yesterdays NYTimes, Rose George, author of “The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters,” explores the ecology of human waste.
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Tagged China, cities, dumping, ecology, England, farming, fertilizers, nitrogen, sanitation, sewers, Sweden, toilets, waste, waste treatment
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New Look at School Recess
The best way to improve children’s performance in the classroom may be to take them out of it. See full NYTimes article here.
Taller Comunitario: Compostas Caseras, 4 de mar, México DF
Miércoles 4 de marzo, 16:30 a 18:00hrs Taller Comunitario: “Empezando tu Huerto Casero: Compostas Caseras” Aprende diferentes técnicas para transformar desechos orgánicos en abonos naturales. Temas incluyen: la ciencia de la descomposición, contenedores apropiados, recetas para elaborar composta, soluciones a … Continue reading
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Tagged agricultura urbana, composta, FLO, Mexico DF, organoponia, Roma, Romita, Sembradores Urbanos, taller
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“Don’t Believe in Love”
Dedicated to dear friends.
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Tagged belief, Dido, friends, love, music, rock, song dedication, video
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Putting Together a Hamburger, a Neighborhood and Hip-Hop:NYTimes
“Hollis is our Motown, our Nashville, our Beale Street,” said Orville Hall, 42, the owner of the restaurant, and a childhood friend of the members of Run-DMC, which happens to be the best-represented rap group in the burger joint — … Continue reading
When Subject and Material Are Time Itself
Art takes total commitment, but few artists maintain it around the clock. An exception is the Taiwanese-born performance artist Tehching Hsieh (pronounced dur-ching shay), specifically, the five, grueling one-year pieces he executed, mostly in New York, from 1978 to 1986. … Continue reading
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Tagged art, experimentation, New York, performance art, Taiwan, time
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Homeowners Mount Resistance Against Crisis, Evictions
“Homeowners fight back against evictions”, read the International Herald Tribune article here.
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Tagged civil disobedience, crisis, economy, evictions, fight back, homeowners, housing crisis, resistence
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Crisis on All Sides: The Obama Housing Plan
NPR’s Planet Money podcast, Friday, February 20th edition, Hear: The Obama Plan.
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Tagged economy, financing, homes, houses, housing crisis, NPR, Planet Money, President Obama, spending, stimulus bill, Twitter
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Rethinking Limits to the Breakfast Imagination
NYTimes Bittman blog, reinventing the first meal of the day. He challenges the US culture of dedication to sweet (or sometimes savory) breakfast limitations.
New York City Worm Apartments: Urban Composting
Fun article about worms and urban composting, in yesterdays NYTimes.
Local Foods at Roots of Reviving School Lunch Programs
Give life back to public school cafeterias, and do it simply by connecting them with locally grown foods. NYTimes Op-Ed Contributors: No Lunch Left Behind by ALICE WATERS and KATRINA HERON, February 19, 2009.
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Tagged diet, eating, economy, food, health, op-ed, school luches, stimulus bill
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Farmers Growing the City: Massachusets, USA
Nuestra Raices on City Farmer, Holyoke, Massachusets, USA
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Tagged City Farmer, Massachusets, Nuestra Raices, Puerto Rico, United States, Urban Agriculture, urban farms
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‘Til We Get There
M-1 of Dead Prez, Stori James & K’Naan performing “Til We Get There”, 2005
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Tagged Dead Prez, hip hop, K'Naan, M-1, music, Somalia, Stori James, struggle, United States, video
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“In Downturn, a Growth Opportunity?:” NYTimes
The demand for Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is rising in the New York area– Are these changes in reaction to troubling economic speculation, one that is permeating the global level?
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Tagged agriculture, Conneticut, CSA, economy, farming, food security, growth, local food, New Jersey, New York, opportunity
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Fotos de Trabajo en la Azotea; sábado 14 de febrero
Fotos de sábado, 14 de febrero, dia de mantamiento del huerto y trabajo anti-plaga, en Azotea en Doctores, Mexico DF Plantula de amaranto y de jitomate: la siembra fue 24 de enero, y han crecido con mucho sol y mucho … Continue reading
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Tagged acelga, agricultura urbana, amaranto, azotea verde, brocoli, control de plaga, FLO, fotos, hoja, huerto, invernadero, jitomate, kale, lechuga, melon, Mexico DF, minador, organoponia, plaga, plantula, siembra, sol, trabajo, Urban Agriculture, urban gardens, zanahoria
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G7 Agrees to Support Stimulus Bill
As the New York Times reported today, Timothy F. Geithner spent Friday and Saturday speaking at a Group of 7 meeting (meeting of “First-world” global economic superpowers and their finance ministers, in Italy, promoting the new Obama led US bill … Continue reading
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Tagged crisis, debt relief, economy, G7, jobs, money, Obama team, stimulus bill, Treasury Secretary, unemployment
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Wanted: Satisfying Multi-Stimulus
Analysis and criticism on the stimulus bill, from several pieces in the NYTimes, conclude that the stimulus bill could have done much more. Obama and the Democrat majority passed what was mostly a tax bill, one that is to tax … Continue reading
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Tagged creative stimulus, crisis, economic stimulus, economy, exports, government, lawmakers, money, stimulus bill, taxes, trade, Unites States, urban gardens, Washington DC
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Valentines Day in Gaza 2009
Israel Opens the Gaza Border for 25,000 Carnations, Bound for Europe
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Tagged export, flowers, Gaza, Israel, Palestine, trade, Valentines Day
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Saturday-Afternoon Spinning
Nortec Collective presents: Bostich+Fussible “TijuanaSound Machine”
Debt relief in tax adjustments: NYTimes Stimulus Bill Coverage
The tax stimulus, the first of Obama team stimulus bills: Lawmakers move quickly to pass economic stimulus. The Obama team and a Democrat majority congress rush through their first project. Auto giant General Motors gets a big fat boost. Then … Continue reading
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Tagged accountability, bailout, crisis, economy, money, NYTimes, President Obma, stimulus bill, United States
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