The
river shown in photographs below is the Caristales, located near the town of
La Macarena in Columbia, South America. 
In
the night, a winter wind screams and howls
around the plywood and tar paper shack that is
their home near Wounded Knee.
CRAZY
COYOTE'S HIDES
Settling
a Center for Biological Diversity lawsuit, last week the
Environmental Protection Agency agreed to consider how
states can curb ocean acidification -- "global warming's
evil twin" -- under the Clean Water Act. Ocean acidification
happens when the ocean absorbs too much CO
Recent
research shows that the giant montane pitcher plant of
Borneo -- the largest carnivorous plant in the world -- is
designed to eat not small animals, but small-animal
droppings. Usually, pitcher plants use their elaborate
structures to entice and capture tiny creatures like
insects, which are ingested by the plants for their nitrogen
and phosphorus. Borneo's humongous Nepenthes raja has
long been reputed to prey on local rodents -- but after
finding tree-shrew excrement inside the plants, botanists
discovered that the plant is actually perfectly evolved to
be a tree-shrew toilet. We think this discovery
could've been made long ago -- heck, with their fluid-filled
bowls and jutting "lids," the plants even look like toilets.
The wonders of nature never cease to amaze.
The Manataka American Indian Council gives thanks to the indigenous farmers and wildcrafters of the Western Hemisphere for cultivating and preserving our food, fiber, medicinal herbs, and biodiversity for thousands of years. We also bow our heads to our contemporary farmers, gardeners, ranchers, farm workers, food workers, cooks, and holistic healers who are following the ancient Via Organica, the organic way. As we give thanks to our organic ancestors and contemporaries, let us renew our essential pledge as organic consumers and activists to protect and safeguard the global commons. Let us pledge to build a healthy organic future of peace, justice, sustainability, and participatory democracy. Let us promise one another today that we will rescue and re-stabilize our climate, clean up our air and water, rebuild our soils, and protect our precious biodiversity from the ravages of "profit-at-any-cost" corporations and indentured politicians and scientists.
75% Of the World's Food Resources
Seventy-five percent of the food of fiber we grow today was discovered and cultivated by the native farmers and hunter-gatherers of North, Central and South America. These indigenous varieties include corn, beans, peanuts, cotton, potatoes, tomatoes, chili peppers, avocadoes, blueberries, cranberries, stawberries, squashes, black walnuts, pecans, chocolate, tobacco, rubber, sunflowers, and medicinal herbs and plants. Today, every one of these varieties is threatened by Monsanto, Big Pharma, and industrial agriculture, among others, who are privatizing and patenting seeds and the gene pool, eroding biodiversity, degrading the soil and water, contaminating the food chain, and destabilizing the climate. READ MORE>>>
The Bird Whose Wings
Made the Wind
The
Pearl Of Letting Go
HANDCRAFTS
