Victory Gardens
In the past few years, more individuals are raising their own backyard vegetables. A resurgence in gardening bring to mind the victory gardens of World War I and World War II all over again – when the government was urging Americans to get busy growing food in any backyard. The effort was seen as a way to support the military, [...]
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I Heart Cleveland: Little Miss Cleveland
Yesterday I attended artist Sarah Paul’s lecture “I Heart Cleveland: The Strategic Seduction of a City” at the Guilford House at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) campus. Before the lecture began, Paul invited the audience to take a Little Miss Cleveland calendar, a calendar she has made with 12 images of Little Miss Cleveland, the beauty queen from Cleveland that [...]
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Stretch Your Paycheck at the We are the 99 Percent Event
On November 17th Stretch Your Paycheck was at the We are the 99% Event – Day of Action event in downtown Cleveland. Across the country – over 20,000 people turned out in towns and cities across the country. In Cleveland – we started out in Public Square, and then marched together to the Court House. The new Stretching My Paycheck [...]
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Food Rules: the Illustrated Expanded Edition
I finally got it. I ordered the new expanded edition of Michael Pollan’s book Food Rules which has illustrations by artist Maira Kalman and expanded food rules. The book came in the mail yesterday. I admit – I did not buy the first Food Rules book, since it seemed like a quick read – and I felt that I followed [...]
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Ecology, Ethics, and Interdependence: Biking to Work can Improve Health
The Mind & Life Institute is a non-profit organization that seeks to understand the human mind and the benefits of contemplative practices through an integrated mode of knowing that combines first person knowledge from the world’s contemplative traditions with methods and findings from contemporary scientific inquiry. The institute organizes Mind and Life Dialogues with the Dalai Lama, publications with report [...]
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