Ice Road, Barrow, Alaska (USA)
A delightful and interesting garden of the north- way north- the tundra itself – Barrow, Alaska (USA) was graciously shared with us by Jessica Damiano, of Garden Detective (blog.) The catchy tag line of this blog? “A garden blog by Jessica Damiano that gets to the root of things.” (literal LOL)
I learned all about Anne Brygger from Barrow, Alaska, her blog, Tundra Garden, and it was a lot of fun. Thanks!
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In Ontario (Canada), Ways of Knowing is bridging Aboriginal and Western qualifications as of last month. Brock University joined together with the Northern Nishnawbe Education Council in Sioux Lookout to make it happen.
The new program aims to deliver teacher education to 24 Native communities throughout Sioux Lookout District. The Bachelor of Education Program, which includes Indigenous knowledge and a land-based curriculum, embraces a “Two Worlds” pedagogy that reflects both Anishnawbek and mainstream ways of knowing.
The really cool thing was that the land mass area is so large that the teachers enrolled in this accreditation program will have to fly in to meet together to meet the requirements of the program!
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172,567 people ask you to be friends of the earth.
How? Promote strong climate law. It is being promoted in the U.K. with Friends of the Earth spear-heading the effort, and they say it’s working.
How?
This promotion caught my eye because of their use of web media – you can upload your own video or animation! Some of the clips will also be chosen to appear in a short film produced by Friends of the Earth. Way cool!
What does Friends of the Earth say about themselves?
Friends of the Earth wants a healthy planet and a good life for everyone on it. In fact, we believe you don’t get one without the other. We are trusted and determined and have been making life better for people and the planet since 1971.
I run a small free loan charity. The idea is to loan small (and very small) sums of money and allow repayment to be made over time without any interest. The charity derives it name from our first son who unfortunately died after only one day of life in 2002.
This micro-loan concept isn’t original to me, obviously. Today, The Tyee (like the tyee salmon for which the online magazine is named) reported the Big Power of Small Loans.
Microloans are based on character, not collateral, and the principal is to allow people, often women, with few assets or a poor credit history to access small loans for self-employment projects.
A fun, do-good activity came through my email box today- helping me send out some free rice (literally!)
WARNING: This game may make you smarter. It may improve your speaking, writing, thinking, grades, job performance.
Note: No trees were killed in the sending of this message, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
The three “R’s” of ecology (Recycle – Reduce – Reuse) all get together in this home project that I found in today’s news featured in The Star online (Malaysia). The article has you take the classifieds (or any newspaper section!), fold, weave and “sew” the sides with string, and what do you have? A basket just the right size to for you to put in – what else?- your newspaper!
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There’s little on the web about Quercegen Pharma, based in Newton, MA, however yesterday, Appalachian State University (Boone, NC) announced reception of a $1.027 million grant by Quercegen Pharma to continue their research of the health benefits of quercetin. If you are in the Boone, NC area: to participate in the study, e-mail asuresearch@appstate.edu
This is the largest one-year research grant awarded to the university and will involve the largest number of test subjects—1,000 participants over the next year.
Vegetarians and vegans can face the fourth Thursday of November with thanksgiving. This year there is a bumper crop of ideas and products to bring us all together to the table.
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Mine? #43. See where your state ranks.
It looks like the biggest variable among the 18 different categories of health is decisions made by individuals to promote health and prevent disease.
The health of the nation press video press release:
Are you tonedeaf? Does it matter? [Well, it does to these people.] Music therapy is beneficial to health, if you are an active (musical) or passive (nonmusical) participant, according to a Los Angeles Times article today. It goes on to say not all studies on music therapy are clear, but brain studies show that the “ancient” part of the human brain that governs basic drives such as hunger, thirst and sex also ‘lights up’ to music.
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