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Peñon de los Banos, a women-owned farm cooperative

Jay Kimball — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:50:25 +0000

Peñon de los Banos, is a women-owned sustainable organic farm cooperative, a short ride from the mountain town of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. My wife and I are part of a field trip, organized by The Center for Global Justice, visiting the Campo, to learn more about their work. Residents of this small dairy [...]

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Climate Change and Food Security: Rethinking Vulnerability

Heidi Bruce — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 22:23:10 +0000

Landing at Puerto Vallarta International Airport in Mexico’s western state of Jalisco felt risky and appropriate: it was October 11th, the same day that hurricane Jova was expected to make landfall. The threatening category 3 storm was just off the coast as I was beginning my research assistant position on “Indigenous food security adaptation and [...]

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Innovation 2.0: Open-Source Urban Agriculture

Jay Kimball — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 06:47:37 +0000

In an uplifting TED video, Britta Riley, founder of R&D-I-Y (Research & Develop It Yourself), talks about how a global network of interested citizens developed a simple window farming design that allows urban dwellers to grow food in their apartment windows. Using open-source collaboration methods, and sharing a common interest in growing fresh food in [...]

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Earth – Fragile Beauty

Jay Kimball — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:56:27 +0000

Check out this stunning time-lapse video of the planet, recorded by the crew of the International Space Station as they orbited earth. Michael König edited video from the Crew Earth Observations team taken onboard the International Space Station. Note the chain lightning and magical Aurora Borealis playing across the paper thin atmosphere. The images are [...]

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