May 2012
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Very Interesting →
Bhutan: The Namgay family of Shingkhey Village Food expenditure for one week: 224.93 ngultrum or $5.03. This feeds a family of 11! Remarkable.
Meet the The Manzo family of Sicily. Their weekly expenditure is 214.36 Euros or $260.11. Note the copious amount of bread.
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Landshare Canada - connecting growers to people... →
I’ve reposted this a few times now… I think its a superb idea so I’ll prob keep throwing it up from time to time. Need land to grow food? Got land for someone else to work? JOIN!!!
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Vancouver Rally in Solidarity with Quebec Students →
For over three months now, students in Quebec have been on the streets, fighting for the right to education and now for the right to assemble and the right to free speech. What started off as an action against tuition increases, has come to include environmental and labor concerns, and drawn out thousands in solidarity. This Tuesday there will be over hundreds of thousands of people on the street...
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The Perks of Being Gainfully Unemployed by Shannon... →
Gainful unemployment doesn’t make for a glamorously high income. But when partnered with the skills of radical homemaking—growing one’s food, home cooking, making gifts and household goods rather than buying them; cooperating with friends, family, and neighbors to get work done or care for loved ones, learning how to manage finances in a local life-serving economy, making rather than buying...
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Seedstock - Vancouver Currency Crowdfunding--... →
Seedstock – community supported currency
What if there were a way for communities to create their own currencies, ones that truly serve them?
Co-operative currencies that, instead of dividing people, could actually help communities heal by reconnecting with themselves? Introducing Seedstock, a new currency for Vancouver and the Lower Mainland that will reconnect our communities with the people,...
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Photo gallery: ‘Freegans’ scavenging through... →
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URBAN ROOTS is the next documentary from Tree Media. Produced by Leila Conners (The 11th Hour) and Mathew Schmid and directed by Mark MacInnis, the film follows the urban farming phenomenon in Detroit. Urban Roots is a timely, moving and inspiring film that speaks to a nation grappling with collapsed industrial towns and the need to forge a sustainable and prosperous future.
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WHITE CROW FARM - Farming Film Festival →
Please take a second to vote for this film that is part of the Farming Film Festival! Featuring Madrone Timothy Fenton of White Crow Farm. IF they WIN, THE FARM GETS $2000! Don’t need to sign up to any thing to vote, just one click!
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