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The Hidden World of Fast Fashion! – Do You REALLY need that? — Rehabilitating Earth — Barbara Crane Navarro

By Toryn Whitehead The fashion industry is responsible for 10% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as well as consuming more energy than the aviation and shipping industry combined. If we want to limit global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, in line with the goal of the Paris Agreement on climate change, we must […] […]

The Hidden World of Fast Fashion! – Do You REALLY need that? — Rehabilitating Earth — Barbara Crane Navarro

Fast Fashion: Convenience at a Cost! — Waste not, $pend not… — Barbara Crane Navarro

Please help put “Fast Fashion” OUT OF FASHION! (discarded clothes in a landfill in Chile) IT’S NOT A “DEAL” IF YOU DON’T REALLY NEED IT! photo: Karolina Grabowska PLEASE STOP POLLUTING THE EARTH FOR FUN AND DISTRACTION! Please note that this post is not intended to shame anyone who buys or wears fast fashion. I […]

Fast Fashion: Convenience at a Cost! — Waste not, $pend not… — Barbara Crane Navarro

Jamaican Jewish Cemeteries Preservation Fund launches its database

Petchary's Blog

The Jamaican Jewish Cemeteries Preservation Fund (JJCPF) launched its database of Jewish burial grounds in Jamaica today. Volunteers conducted extensive cataloguing of the sites across the island between 2008 and 2017. They recorded 33 burial locations including synagogue-purchased cemeteries, family burial grounds, those that were sold and no longer exist, and plot markers which were part of an interment ground that is now on residential property.

Volunteers recording in Lacovia Jewish cemetery. (Photo: JJCPF)

I was fortunate enough to meet up with the volunteers during some of their annual trips, and wrote about it.I felt quite inspired by the Jewish volunteers’ dedication and their sheer enjoyment of the work, which was nevertheless quite taxing. They were mostly from New York (some with Jamaican heritage) and other parts of the United States, as well as from Jamaica. It was a fascinating experience for me, personally.

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Do Better: 3nd draft comment hanger, Chapters 2, 3, and 4

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

For those interested in helping to begin this project, I have finally finished the third draft of DoBetter, formerly known as BabyAcres, or Baby Floors, and am out of spoons. So, I am requesting volunteers to help with the work of providing feedback for this book, and preparing to send it out into the world, as yours, Intrepid Volunteers.

I’m still posting the rough draft sections on Wednesdays as a reminder and rallying point, until someone offers to build a site or portal for the set of communities to be built around this project. I offer Do Better as a starting point for guidelines over the next 70 years, with the understanding that the project must be shaped by those who come after me. Thus Do Better, while written by my hand, must be released into other hands to continue the journey. I prepare…

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Voter Fraud: Members of Trump-Loving Community Nabbed for Voting Twice – Rolling Stone

Authorities have arrested and charged three residents of a Florida retirement community for allegedly casting more than one ballot in the 2020 election, multiple outlets reported on Tuesday. Joan Halstead, Jay Ketcik, and John Rider all face a third-degree felony charge for their votes, which could land them in prison for up to five years.

It’s unknown which candidate they favored, but Halstead and Ketcik are both registered Republicans, The Orlando Sentinel reported (Rider does not have a register party affiliation). The retirement community where the trio lived, The Villages, is also a well-known MAGA hub, and pro-Trump material has reportedly appeared on Facebook pages appearing to belong to Ketcik, Halstead, and Rider.

Source: Voter Fraud: Members of Trump-Loving Community Nabbed for Voting Twice – Rolling Stone