Wednesday, September 28, 2011
mothernaturenetwork:

What’s your slavery footprint?A new website helps consumers determine how much forced labor has been used to create specific products.

mothernaturenetwork:

What’s your slavery footprint?
A new website helps consumers determine how much forced labor has been used to create specific products.

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

urbanfoodproduction:

unrelated, related, depends on how you look at it. i think this is extremely related to urban farming, see for yourself…

Description:

In a scary and painfully frank interview a freaked out BBC interviewer is visibly shaken when market trader Alessio Rastani predicts that the “Market is Toast.” Apparently there is nothing Euro governments can do. 
Update:
The BBC featured a version of this clip on their website. It includes a few seconds missing from the beginning, but ends before the newsreader describes the situation as a “Nightmare!” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsDjTbP7TS0

Monday, September 26, 2011

The Alchemy of Money

(pt 1 of 6)

Monday, June 27, 2011
Money, which ever since it began to be regarded with respect, has caused the ruin of the true honour of things; we become alternately merchants and merchandise, and we ask, not what a thing truly is, but what it costs. Seneca, c. 4 BC – 65 AD (via heartmindspirit)
Thursday, June 2, 2011