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Working with the Root

By Bernard Pollack on June 1, 2010 in Africa, Ghana, Photos, West Africa

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This is the first in a five-part series of my visit with the Ecumenical Association for Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development and the projects they support in southern Ghana. Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing...

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Ups and Downs of Solo Travel

By Sherry Ott on May 31, 2010 in Asia, Lodging, Photos, Sri Lanka

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After 26 days traveling with my father in Nepal, we parted at the Delhi airport. I found myself choking back tears as I gave him a hug and we parted. Why was I, a person...

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Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk Gets Santa Cruz Moving

By Ray Lewis on May 31, 2010 in California, Louisiana, New Orleans, North America, Photos, USA

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The Santa Cruz Blues Festival is one of the Bay Area's Memorial Day weekend traditions, and Saturday's opening-day concert was a perfect introduction to the season, with a warm sun, cloudless sky, and happy dancing...

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What Exactly is Ñamarín?

By Brian Horstman on May 30, 2010 in Ecuador, Photos, South America

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The name baffles the tongue, upon reading it for the first time.  And once you figure out how to say it, you might ask yourself, just what is Ñamarín? To call it a village might not...

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When Your World Gets All Shook Up

By Genny Ross-Barons on May 30, 2010 in Central America, Honduras, Photos

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May 28, 2009, at 2:30 AM, I was jarred awake by my husband, Dave trying to pull me from our bed. As I tried to grasp what he was doing, I became aware of the...

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Osterreich: Wien und Hallstatt

By Susie Hughes on May 30, 2010 in Austria, Europe, Photos, Vienna

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For you non-German speakers (erm, like me) that's "Austria: Vienna and Hallstatt." The Broseph and I arrived in Vienna last Tuesday after a pretty easy journey from New York, despite almost missing our flight! After...

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While the rest of the world slept…..

By Paolo Pontoniere on May 30, 2010 in California, Europe, Events, Italy, North America, Photos, San Francisco/Bay Area, USA

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The year…probably 2011, the location… the Atlantic Basin. Marine life?…completely gone. In 2010, while the rest of the world slept, BP and the US destroyed our oceans. If it hadn’t been enough dealing with the Great...

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Taj Mahal LIVES the Blues

By Renee Blodgett on May 30, 2010 in California, Events, Louisiana, New Orleans, North America, Photos, USA

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Internationally recognized blues musician Taj Mahal (stage name for Henry Saint Clair Fredericks) played at the Santa Cruz Blues Festival this weekend. His stage name apparently came to him in a dream about Gandhi and...

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