While story, learning from others in their languages, and continuous educational updating all connect vitally to our democracy, voting is the most visible. Voting in this upcoming midterm is especially crucial. Click to learn more about how to help the voting process in CO, and then, This letter may also be useful once adapted, “The […]

Democracy: Voting in Colorado — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

If you would like to hear Barbara talk about her book and more, tune in to Radio Jamaica tomorrow (Sunday, September 11) at 1:30 p.m. on Gerry McDaniel’s show “Palav,” where she will be special guest. A young, middle-class Jamaican woman, tired of the limitations of island life, arrives in London, England, to seek her […]

Growing Out: Black Hair and Black Pride in the Swinging Sixties, by Barbara Blake Hannah — Petchary’s Blog

In southwest Ohio, thousands of acres of former farmland have been plowed under to “plant” new communities of single family housing, as well as mini-malls, now emptying mega-malls and the paving over what used to be dirt or gravel roads over the past 50 years. The result: we have many thousands of cars being driven 30-75 miles by one person driving to and from work everyday and more and more food has to be shipped in from hundreds and thousands of miles rather than a dozen or so miles daily to local markets.

Is it time now to think about how we might encourage new farms in older suburbs and the construction of good multi-family neighborhoods to improve local nutrition, environment, society? Rethinking metropolitan areas makes more sense to me than to export farming to low income nations that also results in the destruction of old forest ecologies, so we can then import food by ship and planes…

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Environmentalists worry this could just be the beginning of the Mennonite invasion in Peru. Satellite images show land clearing for another settlement, also in Loreto, a vast Amazon region the size of Germany. A 2021 study in the Journal of Land Use Science says Mennonites have 200 settlements across seven countries in Latin America and collectively occupy more land than the Netherlands.

Peru lost a record 2,032 sq km of Amazon to deforestation in 2020, a figure almost four times the 548 sq km it lost in 2019, according to its environment ministry.

Source: The Mennonites being accused of deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon | Peru | The Guardian

The Dutch city of Haarlem is set to become the first in the world to ban advertisements for most meat because of its impact on climate change, officials have said.

The city of 160,000 people near Amsterdam has agreed to outlaw ads for intensively farmed meat on public places like buses, shelters and screens from 2024.

The move was approved by the city council in November, but went unnoticed until last week when a councillor announced he had officially notified advertising agencies.

“It will be the first city in the Netherlands – and in fact Europe and indeed the world – to ban ‘bad’ meat ads in public places,” Ziggy Klazes, councillor for the GroenLinks (Green-Left) party who drafted the motion, told AFP.

Source: Dutch city to ban meat ads in world first claim

Source: How 19th Century Scientists Predicted Global Warming – JSTOR Daily