Cargill Salt Pond Development a Bad Idea for San Francisco Bay
This post originally appeared in Project Groundswell On a recent trip to Coyote Hills, a park on the east side of the San Francisco Bay, with a class of kindergarteners, we … Continue reading
New Laws Pose Potential Threat to Food Activists
This post originally appeared in Project Groundswell In a recent New York Times article titled, “Animals, Cruelty and Videotape”, author Jennifer Mascia describes “Ag-gag” laws making it illegal to film inside … Continue reading
Alimentary Tracts: Appetites, Aversions, and the Postcolonial
This review originally appeared in Elevate Difference By Parama Roy Duke University Press The introduction to Alimentary Tracts begins with a Salman Rushdie quote about peppercorns and includes the phrase “symbolic anthropophagy.” Similarly … Continue reading
Confronting Global Gender Justice: Women’s Lives, Human Rights
This review originally appeared in Elevate Difference Edited by Tamara Harvey, Paula Ruth Gilbert,Debra Bergoffen, Connie L. McNeely Routledge Confronting Global Gender Justice provides the reader a refreshing survey, albeit difficult to digest at times, … Continue reading
EcoTuesday’s Sustainable Network Celebrates Four Years
This post originally appeared in Project Groundswell Clad in a green dress, Blobel, EcoTuesday’s Silicon Valley Ambassador enthusiastically welcomed each participant to the first event of the year held at SimplyBe Salon & … Continue reading
Tales from the Yoga Studio
By Rain Mitchell Plume This review originally appeared in Elevate Difference Tales from the Yoga Studio is, in many ways, the typical story of White women who discover Eastern philosophy (in this case, … Continue reading
Accepting Difference: India’s Nomadic Van Gujjar Community
This post originally appeared in Project Groundswell “I can’t stay in one place for a long time, that’s why I work with nomads,” Praveen Kaushal Manto says smiling as he stands, … Continue reading
Ancient Wisdom from Women Farmers in Mandakini Valley
The following are two profiles of women farmers from the Mandakini Valley in the Garhwal Himalayas, India. “Everything comes from the earth. We sow one, and thousands come.” – Ganeshi Devi, Bhattwari … Continue reading
Vimala Bahuguna: Life-long Activist against Tehri Dam
Based on an Interview with Vimala Bahuguna: Life-long Activist against Tehri Dam Bija Vidyapeeth, Dehradun, Uttarkhand 3, December 2010 When the contractors shut the gates of the dam to flood Tehri … Continue reading
Of Gender and Farming: India’s Mandakini Valley
This post originally appeared in Project Groundswell “What was her village before she was married?” I asked. “kyu? [Why?]” I heard a voice from the kitchen question in return. I thought it … Continue reading
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