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Recycled Minds

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recycled minds - rethink, respect, reform

Added on: Aug 22nd, 2008
Country: United States
Language: English

Author: recycledminds
Listed in: News & Media Activism
Tags: politics news food activism green indigenous

Recent Posts

10 Things (+1) to Reduce Incarceration

Posted on Sunday November 8th, 2009 at 11:33 in politics, education, food, poverty, u.s., drugwar

Always watchful for alternatives to the "out-of-sight, out-of-mind," "eye-for-an-eye" indifference toward the prison system and those trapped in it, I recently came across law professor Paul Butler's list of ten things the everyday person can do to r...
Book Review: The Wayfinders by Wade Davis

Posted on Tuesday November 3rd, 2009 at 13:10 in world, book review, green issues, anthropology, indigenous issues

The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World. Wade Davis. Toronto, ON: House of Anansi Press, 2009. 262pp. In a time when the topic of climate change continues to make headlines while remaining a hotly debated subject (Nguyen...
Yanomami Fighting Gold Miners

Posted on Friday October 30th, 2009 at 10:46 in video, globalization, green issues, latin america, anthropology, indigenous issues

It's all about the gold. There has been another invasion of Yanomami lands in the Brazilian Amazon, and this one is looking the same as the last. In the 1980s, there was a similar gold-rush to the Yanomami lands, and they took up arms to fight it. Th...
To Bee or Not to Bee: The Buzz on the Pollination Crisis

Posted on Wednesday October 28th, 2009 at 09:08 in science, news, green issues

If you're like us, you have probably listened with trepidation about the collapse of honeybee colonies -- a sad and mysterious tale with real consequences. Without bees, pollination gets out of whack, and so do crops and the rest of the ecosystem. Th...
Freedom can be Free: "The Economics of Indigenous Freedom"

Posted on Friday October 23rd, 2009 at 15:24 in u.s., anthropology, indigenous issues

A short article appearing on Guerrilla News Network caught my eye with its title, "The Economics of Indigenous Freedom," and, although it's over a month old, I decided to post it here to open up the conversation to our readers as well.In the article,...
The Simpsons and Stephen Hawking Take on the G20

Posted on Sunday October 18th, 2009 at 19:34 in video, globalization, activism, being human

We know the G20 meetings in Pittsburgh have already passed, but we just came across this video now, and we feel that it still holds an important message. Namely, as people who desire change, we must realize that change from the top rarely, if ever, w...