Happy Birthday, Anna J. Cooper, & Learning Languages to Dream of Libraries — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

Dr. Anna J. Cooper was a strong advocate for education, especially in Washington, DC, and one of the first Black women to earn a PhD.  August 10th is her birthday, and as she fought to make the dreams of Black students possible, we must fight to make all of our collective dreams possible […]

Happy Birthday, Anna J. Cooper, & Learning Languages to Dream of Libraries — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

Shape the land for drought

Darcy Hitchcock

Ancient practices for shaping the land are being rediscovered to manage drought. Now that we have large tractors, we like to level the ground, but nature prefers divots and lumps.

In Kenya, the villagers agreed to leave their land fallow, land which was virtually barren anyway from drought and overgrazing. JustDiggIt helped them dig crescent shaped holes called bunds in the land to capture rain. Watch what happened.

Greener.Land has itemized practices for different purposes. You can employ these in your backyard as well at a landscape scale to revegetate pastures or wild lands.

Screenshot showing some of the 20 practices.
https://www.greener.land/?swoof=1

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Veggie Pot Pie

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What’s Cooking in Gail’s Kitchen? Enjoyable Eats: Veggie Pot Pie! Do you like to make pie dough? What if it’s not flaky? Are you okay with that? How do you keep the bottom crust from being soggy? Is it necessary to have a top crust? All very good questions, I assure you. Forget them for now and come with me into the land of phyllo dough where tissue-thin layers of unleavened dough are brushed with melted butter creating a crispy golden crunch. Expert bakers took the time and skill to make our lives easier by rolling and stretching the dough multiple times so we don’t have to. The result is a product as close as our neighborhood grocer. With pre-made phyllo dough as your starting point, anyone can be a gourmet chef. No dough-making required.

VEGGIE POT PIE

Ingredients:

7-ounce box antioxidant blend frozen vegetables, thawed

1 cup pearl onions

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Beans: The Healthy Art of Legumes — Dawn Pisturino’s Blog

“Beans, beans, the musical art,The more you eat, the more you fart.” We’ve all laughed at that childhood rhyme, not understanding just how healthy beans are for our bodies (farting included.) If you regularly eat aduki beans, black beans, black-eyed peas, garbanzo beans, great northerns, kidney beans, lentils, lima beans, mung beans, navy beans, peanuts, […]

Beans: The Healthy Art of Legumes — Dawn Pisturino’s Blog

♫ Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) ♫ (Redux)

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I typically save the music posts for last thing before going to bed, which is why sometimes there isn’t one … either I’m too tired or too down to care.  But, most often they help me transition from the dark world of politics and relax me enough to sleep (sometimes, anyway).  I cannot remember how I happened on this one earlier today, but I did and I bookmarked it for ‘later’.  Well, now it’s ‘later’.

This is a song written and performed by the British new wave music duo Eurythmics. The song is the title track of their album of the same name and was released as the fourth and final single from the album in early 1983. The song became their breakthrough hit, establishing the duo worldwide. Its music video helped to propel the song to number 2 on the UK Singles Chart and number 1 on the U.S…

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Deforestazione vs. Popoli Indigeni – II « Quello che i bianchi chiamano ‘la protezione della Natura’ siamo infatti noi, il popolo della foresta,…

Le piste di atterraggio illegali portano oro tossico nelle terre indigene Yanomami in Brasile « Siamo amici della foresta perché sappiamo che gli …

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Carbon commodification in the Peruvian Amazon: The Kichwa People’s Struggle Against Territorial and Climate Destruction! — Global Justice Ecology …

Carbon commodification in the Peruvian Amazon: The Kichwa People’s Struggle Against Territorial and Climate Destruction Radical Ecological Democracy …

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