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What is palm oil? — EDUINDEX NEWS

Industrialized Palm Oil Plantations raised by tearing up natural tropical forests and ecologies.

Barbara Crane Navarro

Palm oil is an edible oil taken from the fruit of oil palms, from palm trees grown in the tropics. The crop provides a higher yield at a lower cost compared to other vegetable oils. This oil is used for cooking in developing countries, but also in beauty products, detergents, and biofuel. WWF says that[…]

What is palm oil? — EDUINDEX NEWS

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Bald-headed Uacari Cacajao calvus — Palm Oil Detectives

Barbara Crane Navarro

Red bald headed uakari (Cacajao calvus ucayalii) in tree carrying baby, Rio Yavari, Amazonia, Peru

Bald-headed Uacari Cacajao calvus Vulnerable Brazil, Peru, Colombia With their long shaggy coats and striking bright red faces, Bald-headed Uacaris are true icons of the Amazon rainforest and are found in Brazil, Peru and Colombia. When an Uacari has a bright red face this indicates good health, a pale face indicates a sickly physical state.[…]

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Wondering Wednesdays, Baby Acres, Chapter 2: Phase I, part 2

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

This post starts the rough draft of Chapter 2, section II. of my non-fiction WiP, Baby Acres.

This section of chapter 2 has another 1000 words, (hopefully currently practicable words).

And once again, by way of disclaimer, the overall goal is now to explain why we need both equ. + justice, & why in 4 phases. This chapter will transition to a chapter (2-5) for each phase, showing what Phases I-IV could look like as part of a possible roadmap for a fully inclusive society for all of us. This vision is laid out in the hope that All HumanKind will eventually have each person’s basic needs met, without taking anything from anyone, and without violence, intimidation, nor coercion of any kind.

Chapter Two:

( Chapter 2’s section I was last week…)

Chapter 2, section II. :

Chapter 2: section II. What Phase I looks like, near and by the…

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Iraq Reclaims 17,000 Looted Artifacts, Its Biggest-Ever Repatriation – The New York Times (Me: the Museum of the Bible did not honor the ‘you shall not steal’ rule.)

The institution that held about 12,000 of the items was the Museum of the Bible, a four-year-old Washington museum founded and funded by the Christian evangelical family that owns the Hobby Lobby craft store chain. The addition of artifacts from ancient Mesopotamia was intended to provide context for Old Testament events.

Jamaica Update, August 3, 2021: Andrew pleas for peace, Elaine flies down the track, and everyone must get vaxxed

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These are tense times. While most of Jamaica has been glued to the Olympics track events – obviously, our forte – the number of COVID-19 cases has been accumulating rapidly. New cases are now in three digits daily, and so are hospital admissions. It is alarming, but what’s happening in Tokyo has provided a welcome distraction. The amazing Elaine Thompson-Herah just let loose in the 100 and 200 meters, arms and legs flying in all directions, and sticking out her tongue as she crossed the finish line today. (My husband thinks she has too many tatoos!)

Elaine Thompson-Herah won her second gold medal in the 200 meters sprint earlier today, followed by Christine Mboma of Namibia and Gabrielle Thomas of the United States. (Photo: Reuters / Pawel Kopczynski)

I don’t personally buy into all the clichés surrounding the Olympics: that the games represent “hope for the world,” that they bring…

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Good People Doing Good Things — Inspiring Youths

Filosofa's Word

First, I must apologize for reprising a ‘good people’ post from 2018.  I try not to do this with the good people posts, and typically I have no need to, for there are so many good people out there doing their part to make this world a little bit better.  But tonight, I got a late start, and then found some problems with the subject I had earlier chosen to write about, so it was back to the drawing board.  But … I am out of energy tonight and cannot manage much more, so I hope these young people will warm your heart enough that you can forgive my laziness!


Campbell Remess

Meet Campbell Remess, age 13. Campbell, nicknamed Bumble by his little sister, lives with his family in Hobart, Tasmania.  (Tasmania, for those who might have thought it was only the fictional home of the Tasmanian Devil, is an…

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Hear the Earth’s Cry

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If no one will say, let it be me

Let me replant a tree

Let me protect a bee

Let me go plastic free

Let it be me

Our earth will be too hot one day

If Global warming continues we’ll have a high price to pay

Where will we go when we want to run away

Life will be better for us if we change what we are doing today

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If no one will say, let it be me

A destroyed future is what we will see

When we could decide to change what we are doing now

Maybe we could turn things around somehow

If we could simply wake up now

We can change the things we are doing somehow

Earth is the only home we can be sure of, everyother planet out there have uncertainties

Should we only be…

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CDC issues eviction moratorium extension after Democratic outcry | TheHill

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday issued a moratorium on evictions targeting areas of the country with high levels of COVID-19 transmission, extending an eviction ban for much of the nation just days after a blanket moratorium had expired.

The CDC order applies to counties experiencing significant levels of virus spread, defined by the agency as 50 to 100 cases per 100,000 people. A congressional source said the order will likely apply to roughly 90 percent of the renter population in the U.S.

The order will expire on Oct. 3. It was issued after days of back-and-forth between the White House and congressional Democrats over who was responsible for extending the moratorium while scores of Americans faced uncertainty about potential removal from their homes.

Source: CDC issues eviction moratorium extension after Democratic outcry | TheHill

Florida becomes epicenter of COVID-19 surge | TheHill

On Tuesday, Florida hit 11,515 hospitalizations due to COVID-19, marking the third straight day that the state has broken its record. About 2,400 patients are now in intensive care. At the same time, there’s concern among experts that the Sunshine State is still weeks away from hitting its peak. The state now accounts for roughly 1 in 5 new cases nationally.

Source: Florida becomes epicenter of COVID-19 surge | TheHill