Thanks to the mass media we are all aware of the Nobel Prize, awarded every year in six categories: chemistry, physics, medicine, economics, literature, and peace. 89% go to candidates from the ‘global North’ (North America and Europe) and 95% go to men. The first four categories recognize individual technological innovation and the latter two [...]
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I was reading about the Canadian seal hunt because I heard on the radio yesterday that they now have a rule that the baby seal must actually be dead before it is skinned. (Although there is no one to enforce the rule.) Apparently skinning them alive happens rather often — time is money, you know.
But [...]
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Permaculture: applied ecology. A set of design principles that direct your decisions and actions toward producing a more permanent (sustainable) culture.
When I come across a new subject one of the first questions I ask myself is: “Is this something I can get behind?”
In other words, will spending time and energy on it repay me with [...]
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